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Show BOOKMAN'S NOTES BY AURELIA BENNIOX Librarian, Sprague Branch Pnb lie Library, Susar House Ware, Milton Wassmer and others. Of course there are the ones we look for first, then after aft-er looking at and enjoying all the rest, try to ctacide with meager knowledge, which will Continued on page 4 tend to visit it several times more for I find with each visit. I ge: more pleasure from those paintings that have been collect-ed collect-ed from all over the United States some from some of the large art galleries. It is also very mucTi . of a pleasure to see pictures done by friends of Utah Lee Greene Richards, Lynn Kausett (a Sugar Su-gar Houseman, his brother Dean Michael Cannon and several of the art teachers at Irving; Rose Howard Salisbury, Mary Kinv ball, Veila Birrell, Florence What English author was born in India or. July IS, 1811? Which one of nls literary characters is most nearly like the author? For the answers to these questions, read the fa-cinating fa-cinating new book "The Showman Show-man of Vanity Fair" by Lionel Lion-el Stevenson. There you will read of this well-known author --.known for his literary writings but little known man. Also you will read most interesting comments com-ments about other well-known contemporaries in both England Eng-land and America. Paul Radin has written in one volume the first whole and complete story of the Indians in the Western Hemisphere. The first edition of the "Story of tlie American Indian" was published in 1927, but this lat- er edition includes a new chapter chap-ter including the later evidences evidenc-es unearthed in this hemisphere. hemis-phere. The book is beautifully' illustrated. "The Boy From Nebraska" is Ben Kuroki, who didn't know until he joined up for the World War, the meaning of prejudice. pre-judice. Then he was looked on. by those who didn't know him well, as a "yellow jap." But he came home afterward with the Distinguished Flying Cross and had proved to himself and others oth-ers that he had nothing to be ashamed of. In the army he had become "one of the boys" and had learned to laugh, on being "Honorable Son" for he knew that the boys had accepted him. I Ralph G. Martin has written this book about Kuroki in a I v e r y readable style which makes it hard to put the book down. Almost one out of ten people in America suffers from peptic ulcer condition. The "Cookbook for Ulcer Patients" by Walter Aurell contains recipes for dishes dish-es for ulcer patients to provide variety from mush and milk usually prescribed for them. Some very fine things have been said about one of the new authors, Herbert Krause, whose 1946 novel "The Threshers" is just now going into circulation here. His first book "Wind Without Rain" was heralded as a find and now seven years later comes this new one showing show-ing the maturing of the writing writ-ing of its author. "Divide the Heart" by R. E. Dane is a collection of short stories of France and the Basque Bas-que country. Do you want to know how things will be in 1997? Read "Doppelgangers" by H. F. Heard who tells of an episode of the fourth, the psychological revolution revo-lution of 1997. What is a dop-pelganger? dop-pelganger? Again read and see. T PETECTICE AND MYSTERY: "The Fifth' Dagger" Quick WESTERN: "Trail Dust", Loraax Every time I see the Art Exhibit Ex-hibit in Springville, I wonder at the courage and whatever else it takes for such a small community to put on such a splendid exhibit. And this year, at my recent visit, there, I was even more impressed by, it. I in- S. H. Library (Continued from page 2) be chosen for the permanent collection. The reason I feel that I may include this article in a "Book- man's Notes" column is, that this year, the Springville Art board has1 published the Permanent Per-manent Gallery Catalogue which includes information about the exhibit and the two Springville artists, Dallin and Hafen, who were instrumental in starting the movement. It also contains biographies of the artists and reproductions of some of the paintings. The catalogue cat-alogue is in addition to that of the current exhibit and is of permanent value. MEETINGS: Baby Clinic Tuesday, April 22. 9-12 A. M. |