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Show BOOKMAN'S NOTES BY A URELIA BENNIOX Libnn-inn, Spr.iKiie Br;in h Public Pub-lic Lilu iuy, Sugnr House If you could be in New York next Tuesday, you could attend the Author-Speaker luncheon in the Hotel Aster ballroom and hear Elliott Roosevelt talk on his new book "As He Saw It" about his father, Margery Sharp (Britannia Mews) and Rob Hope (So This Is Peace). Sprague Library Li-brary has only the one book, "liritannia Mews," by Margery Sharp. This luncheon on Oct. 22 is the beginning of the ninth scries. "The Egg and I," by Betty McDonald Mc-Donald continues to be popular tricia Breslin. "Jasper and the Watermelons." George Pall. FAIRY' TALES "Good Fairy Tales" (Irish Ones). Jo McMahon. READERS "Year-Round Fun," Gates and Riordan. "Bunny and the Garden," Gar-den," Lovell and Hecker. "Streets and Roads," Gray and Arbuthnot. FTCTIOX "A Little Maid of Monmouth," Mon-mouth," Alice Turner Curtis. "Logging Chance," M. H. Lasher. "Come, Jack!" Robert W. McCul-loch. McCul-loch. "Valient, Dog of the Tim-berline," Tim-berline," Jack O'Brien. NON-FICTION "They Were Little Once," Mabel Ma-bel Ansley Murphy. in the library as well as a best seller. Published in October, 1915, this hilarious book passed the one million mark in August, 10-lfi. If you figure five readers per book and a laugh a page, 1,3.15,000,000 laughs have shaken the nation in the last year. If 1 you want more interesting statistics sta-tistics about the book read page II Weekly Book Review for Oct. 13, 1946. To be released Monday Oct. 21: FICTION "Singing Waters," by Ann Bridge (author of Peking Picnic; Illyrian Spring, etc.) has now added to this interesting list a story of an American girl in Albania. It is one of the best sellers. "Homecoming," Alice Ross Colver tells of the Hoi brook family fam-ily and their reunion when the war ended a reunion with problem-solutions as in many homes nowadays. In "Thanks, Angel," Millburn. Nedra Lewis' father lost his money and Nedra had to go to work as a girl reporter on the newspaper which brought exciting ex-citing adventure and love into her life. Here is another nurse story: "Home Is the Heart," Newcomb is the story of a girl who was obliged to give up her dream of being a missionary nurse and instead became a supervisor in a hospital for crippled children. NOX-FICTIOX You can learn to draw by studying Edward L. Chase's "Intelligent "In-telligent Drawing" which is well illustrated. "Mastering Your Nerves," by Larry Freeman and Edith M. Stern is a scientific book that almost everyone in these hectic times needs. The authors help you to decide what type of person per-son you are, and what you can do to relieve that nervous tension. "Diary of a Kriegie," is a diary di-ary wMtten by Edward Beattie while a correspondent in Germany. Ger-many. Love, sea adventure: "Plowing "Plow-ing the Arctic," is certainly a thrilling account of a 10,000-miLe sea journey in an 80-ton schooner schoon-er across the top of the world. MYSTERY "Murder Menagerie," Jeremy Lane. "WESTERN "Hair-Trigger Hombre," Hamilton Ham-ilton Craig. "Breed of the Chaparral," by Drake C. Denver, The following books have recently re-cently been released in the chiK dren's room at Sprague Branch: EASY BOOKS "This Little Piggy," Phyllis Fraser. "Mother Goose," Phyllis Fraser. "Freddie the Firefly Who Couldn't Light Up," Pa- |