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Show New Books at S. H. Library The following books were added add-ed to the shelves of the Sprague Branch library Monday, according accord-ing to Miss Aurelia Bennion, librarian: li-brarian: Anya Seton, the author of the popular "Dragonwyck," says of her new book "The Turquoise," "All the characters are fictional except pel-haps Fey. One summer sum-mer day, the year before she died, Mary Austin and I drove from Santa Fe to my father's ranch. As we left Mary's beautiful beau-tiful home on' the Camino del Monte Sol, we both looked at the guardian peak behind it. The little mountain held for her a mystical significance. We talked talk-ed of that, and then she said, quite casually, 'Once there lived a woman on that slope of At-ayla At-ayla . . .' There was little more, a few sentences mentioning New York and strange contrast, only the hint of a forgotten legend. "I, too, forgot it, during my later visits to Santa Fe. "The one day that rhythmical sentence came back, 'Once there lived a woman on the slope' of I Atalya . . .' I went again to Santa Fe to find the story. I did not find it in the museum or his-I his-I torical libraries or town reports, no trace of it in the memory of the 'Anglos.' "But at last, in a crumbling adobe near the chapel of San Miguel, I found an old Spanish-American, Spanish-American, and he remembered a little. 'It must be, Senora, that you mean "La Santa." It was so long ago. I was young then.' So here is the story." Adamson: "Eddie Rickenback-er." Rickenback-er." Both: "God Made the Country." Coun-try." Thomas: . "Texas Talbert." (Western.) Faith Baldwin: "No Private Heaven." Chidester: "The Young Year." O'Donnell: "Those Other People." Peo-ple." Jones: "Skinny Angel." Punshon: "Secrets Can't Be Kept." (Mystery).. |
