Putnam patriot., 1930-08-07
GIFT OF BOOKS TO
 POMFRET LIBRARY
Philip A. Means Donates Vol umes on Spanish And South
 American History
Other Books Placed on Shelves Since
 May

Mr. Philip A. Means has given the Pomfret Public Library an unusual collection of books relative to Span ish and South American history and literature Bindings of time-worn. glided leather and quaint illustrations invite the scholar to browse in their faintlv exotic. old-world setting, where a student of Spanish can find books that may be sought in vain in the libraries of much larger towns.
 Many are ef interest and import ance to our own history. Such are the Letters of Columbus; and the wonderful adventures of Cabeza de vaca in Florida and Texas, and of the early Spanish explorers of our own Southwest.
 The collection ranges from the great mediaeval epic poem of the Cid. to modern novels and plays of Spain and of our Spanish American neighbors. besides valuable reference books and quaint monographs of six teenth century personages.
 Those unable to read Spanish can find books in English which deal in- terestingly with Spain and various countries of South America. and they will enjoy looking at the photographs of Andean mountain scenery, and the reproductions in color of the famous paintings in the Prado museum at Madrid.
 The casual reader who wishes to know more of our Spanish fellow Americans and their background should find this collection interest ] ing, as well as the serious student, who can appreciate this opportunity to read important books that are often difficult to obtain. which the generous gift of Mir. Means has made available to the public in Pomfret Library.
 The following is a partial list of the books received at the library since May:
 Adult Fiction and Non-6etion
 Painted Minx. Chambers; Long Hunt. Boyd; Pistils in the Morning Chidsey; Mysterious Mir. Quinn Christie: Ship of Truth, Cooper; Miss Barrett's Elopement. Lenanton Early Candlelight, Lovelaee; Great Meadow. Roberts; Journeys End Sherriffs & Bartlett; Ella, Thomas All our Yesterdays, Tomlinson; Rogue Herries. Walpole; Young Man of Manhattan, Brush; Green Timber, Curwood; Exile. Deeping; Altar of Honour. Dell: Uncle Sam, Erskine Cimarron. Ferberi Down in the Val ley, Freeman; Ladybird, Hill; Golden Dawn. Kyne.
 Passion Flower, Norris; Rata Plan. Ogburn; Hedges, Payne; Way l Home. Richardson; The Door, Rine- hart: Pure Gold. Rolvaag; Woman of Andros. Wilder; Loyal Lover, Wid- demer. Gold Bullets. Booth; Perfect Murder Case, Bush; Card IS, Luther & Ford: Maltese Falcon, Hammett {; 1 Secret Service Man. Horler; The Black. Wallace; The Twister, Wal lace; Hidden City, Gibbs; The Song Bird. Cleugh; The Selbys, Green ing Price. Hull; Three Against the World. Kaye-Smith; The Saints, the Devil and the King, Mabie; Miss Vel by at Steen, Marshall; Margaret l Yorke. Norris; Fire of Youth, Ped Ter: High Fences, Richmond; Gallows Orchard. Spencer.
 Small Dark Man, Walsh; Very Good. Jeeves. Wodehouse; Hot Coun tries. Waugh; Adams Family, Adams l; Livingston, Campbell; Wooden Swords, Deval; Byron, Maurois; 1; Scandinavian Summer, Franck; Out law Years. Coates; Connecticut, as a Colony. as a State, vol, Morgan i; New Worlds to Conquer. Halliburt- on: Magic Spades, Magoffin & Davis i; Universe Around Us, Jeans; Witches Still Live. Kenyon; Antartic Adven- ture and Research, Taylor.
 Juvenile Fiction and Non-6etion
 Cherry Tree Children, Blaisdell; i; Twilight Town, Blaisdell; Mary Anne's Little Indian. Fox; Overall Boys, Grover; Sunbonnet Babies Primer. Grover; Adventures of Mario. Bonsels; Waul & Dyke, Inc, Eliot; Men who Found Out, Ellis, Jump. Glassman; Bing, Hawkes.; Star. Hooker; Watching Europe Grow. Parker; Linnet on the Thres- hold, Raymond; Bambi, Salten; Little Gray House, Taggart; Betsy Butter fly. Bailey; Tale of Freddy Firehy, Bailey: Tale of Pony Twinkleheels, Bailey; Tale of Reddy Woodpecker, Bailey: Tale Of Rusty Wren, Bailey; Adventures of Grandfather Frog, Burgess; Adventures of Buster Brown. Burgess; Adventures of Sam my Jay, Burgess.
 Little Pilgrim to Penn's Woods, Albert; Witch's Maiden, Tyrrell; When Was a Harvester, Yates; Reddy. Filter; Thirty Fathoms Deep, Eldsberg; When I was a Girl, Ferris; Moorland Mousie, Gorse; Pilot of Cloud Patrol. Crump; 0zma of 0z, Baum; Boy Allies with the Subma- rine D 32. Drake; Boy Allies with the Flying Squadron, Drake; Dr. DoolittIe's Garden, Lofting; Dr. Doo-