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Show BOOKMAN'S NOTES BY AURELIA BENNIOX HAPPY NEW YEAR! "Out On a Limb" is the autobiography autobi-ography of Louise Baker, author of the very amusing book "Party Line.'' The new book is stimulating stim-ulating for Louise Baker through an accident, lost a leg. The way she mastered her handicap han-dicap and her cheerfulness and her ability to influence people for good, make the book exciting excit-ing and entertaining. C. - E. Ayres in his "Divine Right of Capital" says "we can preserve private property, remedy rem-edy the excesses of capitalism without losing our traditional civil liberties through complete socialism." The publisher, H. W. Wilson, who provides so many Jibrary aids, has recently published a book on one of the pertinent subjects being discussed now In the fie'd f social welfare. . It is "Free Medical Care," compiled by Clarence A. Peters and adds to a long list of the reference shelf a great assistance to debaters. de-baters. You have all heard and used the expression "what you don't know won't hurt you." J. A. Rudolph, M.D., and Howard N. Rose think that at least from a medical standpoint, the old adage is wrong. Their book "What You Don't Know May Hurt You," gives some very realistic re-alistic facts to prove their contention. con-tention. Finally we have for .circulation .circula-tion "the report to the public on the full meaning of the atomic bomb," a collection of articles on the subject by eminent scientists sci-entists and The Fuondation of American Scientists. The book is entitled "One World or None." George Tabori, in the novel "Companions! of the Left Hand." has described a small Italian town and what Farkas, a Viennese Vien-nese playwright foUnd there in 1943, after the beginning of the World War II. "Dusty" is a novel about the Australian sheep dog by that name and of his master Tam Scott. It reminds me of London's Lon-don's "Call of the Wild." It is serious dog literature with plot, suspense and climax. WESTERNS "Pilgrim's Pistols," Worth. MYSTERY "Dangerous Legacy," Coxe. "The Miracle of the Bells" by Janney is just now the most popular of the new books at our branch. However "The Robe" by Lloyd Douglas, "The Yearling" Year-ling" by Rawlings, "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights," toy the Brontes are always in circulation. cir-culation. Maurine Whipple's "Giant Joshua" and "This Is the Place;" and Fishers "Children of God" are also very popular. |