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Show BOOKMAN'S NOTES Bv Aurelia Bcnnion the real background of the period. The book has been judged judg-ed the best of Mr. Williams' works and the most pretentious-"The pretentious-"The papers of the Bibliographical Biblio-graphical Society of America "Third quarter of 1947, contains . a very interesting article about the authorship of Longfellow's Evangeline. The authors Manning Man-ning Hawthorne and H. W. L. Dana have given the historic background of the subject was ' given to Longfellow by Nathan-ial Nathan-ial Hawthorne, the originator of the story. The two authors of the article, descendants of the two famous authors perhaps, be- . cause of their relationship have made a thorough study of the subject. Remember I mentioned Lock- . ridges new novel "RA1NTREE COUNTRY" selected as one of I the Book of the Month Club Books? A new angle has developed develop-ed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, you remember bought movie rights at a fabulous price?. M-G-M is so desirious of having the book read, that they are subsidizing the cost of the publication so that price per copy can be cut . from the necessary $5 to $3.75, the first time such a thing has Happened- . Theodore Dreiser fans will be interested to know that the third book of his trilogy which began with the "FINANCEER" (1914) has been published posthumously post-humously "called "THE STOIC." Mr Dreiser had not completed the book at his death but his wife has written an appendix which completes the story from notes he" had made. From the time of writing the first book (second-one if The Titan) Mr. Dreiser changed his mind considerably, con-siderably, joining the Communist Commun-ist party before his death. THE STOIC is not equal to the other two. , HOUSE DIVIDED. "Williams. MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, Chun Chan Yeh. ' . ' NEVER BY CHANCE, Tate. THIRST, Robinson. .WEST IN THE SADDLE, Keyne. PETTICOAT ' SURGEON, . Bertha Van Hoosen. BRINGING UP CHILDREN, Metcalf. TT GUIDE TO CAREER SUC- . ' CESS. Brooke. RICHER BY ASIA, Taylor. We of the Sprague Library Staff wish to extend our Christmas Greetings to all the people of Sugar House and to all readers of The Bulletin. Also we wish to invite everyone to visit the library to see our trees which we hope will add a little to the holiday spirit. And to those who are trying to choose books as gifts, we shall be hap-pv hap-pv to shew lists and descriptions of late books as well a new books to examine. We have a special Christmas edition of the New York Herald-Tribune. Speaking of, buying books, we were happy to meet Miss Kath-ryn Kath-ryn Kay on her visit to our library. lib-rary. It. will be a pleasure to have her in Sugar House and we wish her welcome and the best of luck. '' I had a real pleasure last Tuesday when I had the opportunity oppor-tunity of speaking before the Community Problem classes at Irving High School on the subject sub-ject of the library in the community, com-munity, -which was one of a series se-ries of such talks -by people from community activities- Miss Law reports that the members of her classes have asked for such information. in-formation. It was certainly a pleasure to meet these interesting interest-ing young people in their setting set-ting as well as over the library desk. In the news about books I see on one list that the recent tops: "MONEYMAN" (Costain) and PPJNCE OF FOXES (Shell-abarger) (Shell-abarger) have dropped down the list of fiction and that "HOUSE DIVIDED" by Ben Ames Williams Wil-liams heads it. If you will notice no-tice this book goes into circulation circula-tion here on Monday. "INSIDE U. S. A." (Gunther) still tops the non-fiction list, and "PEACE OF MIND" "Liebman) has dropped drop-ped to third-. Both are in .our library- HOUSE DIVIDED is the story oa southern family at the time of the Civil War. the plot concerns, con-cerns, itself with the lives - of the four members of the Currain family after they learned that their grandfather was 'also the grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. Lin-coln. Mr. Williams himself is a grandnephew of General Long-street Long-street which perhaps has interested inter-ested him in the subject of this book. He has spent many years in research and four years in the writing of the book. The characterizations are not too real but as usual the "plot is good, making an interesting, exciting story and his" settings are his. best. He has presented . in this novel more realistically than any other novelist, the actual ac-tual economic conditions, and |
