Evening star., 1934-10-23
200 Volumes Will Bring
Presidential Collection
Up to Date.
Choices Carefully Select.
ed by Jury of Critics
and authors.

at pm. by a committee representing
the American Booksellers Association,
which included some of Americas
best-known contemporary noveliSts
and prominent publishers.
The committee consisted Of Lieut..
Comdr. Edmund S. McCawley, U. S.
N, retired, president of the American
Booksellers Association; w. w. Nor
ton, president OF the Book Publishers
Association and director of the New
School for Social Research; Frederic
G.. Melcher editor of Publishers
Weekly; Frederick Lewis Allen, author
of ''Only Yesterday" and assistant
editor of Harper'S Magazine; Pearl
Buck, author of The Good Earth"
and Hervey Allen, author of An
thony Adverse"
Modernizes Library.
Four years ago, the executive man.
sion's library was in such a condition
that the association donated 500 books
to bring it up to date. The present
consignment replenishes and modern
ICES the existing supply. The new list
was selected by body of distinguished
judges reviewing publishers offerings
of the past four years.
Fifteen history books, II on travel
and adventure, "a of poetry. drama
and art, 9 on science, 8 on economics
and current events, 5 miscellaneous
titles, 81 novels, IL mystery stories and
% volumes for youngsters are found
on the list. Inclusion of volume in
the presentation is coming to be re-
garded as approximately the equiva-
lent of having a picture hung in the
British Royal Gallery or painting por-
traits of the whole American cabinet.
SuIlivan's History Included.
The volumes listed in the field oi
current events present sample OF the
catholicity of the collection.
There are a few volumes selected
from Our Times a latter-day history
written by that most ardent of pro-
Republican commentors, Mark Sulll
van. On the other side of the fence
rests THE New Dealers" an anony
nous tome concerning the perform
ances of President Roosevelt's owr
! school of Democrats. For the Chic
Executive of more than 100,OOO,OO'
people, the title "100000,000 Guines
Pjr7" also will no doubt prove pro
vocative. The book was penned b!
| Arthur Kallett and F. j. Schlink
John Chamberlain has supplied an
other titillating title in Farewell u
Reform"
/ For readers of marathon novels
Anthony Adverse" has been packe'
in the box with such adverse items a
Robert Nathan's brief fantasy, "On
More Spring" Phil Stong's earth
State Fair" and the macabre de
featist explorations of William Faux
ner and Erskine Caldwell, who sa
they have seen the Deep South slowl
rotting beneath hanging moss. Evelyl
SCOTS The Wave" is offered 70
those who can understand 1t, and sue
astutely whimsical and learned gentle
men as j. B. Priestly and A. P. Herber
of England, are represented each b
one Americana printed volume. T.
Stribling's The Forge Series,
three-volume affair which might we
last until the second term. presents
detailed view of the Southern scent
while Sinclair Lewis skips from hote
to hotel in Work of Art"
A Dictionary, Too.
The limited miscellaneous list note
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tionary, of which there are no douh
few copies already somewher
around the White House, and cheer
full work edited by F. P. Stieff, VIII
advises Eat, Drink and Be Merr
in Maryland"
Under biography, there appear sue
productions as the story of Clarenc
DarroW's life and the "Autobiograph
of a Bird Lover" by Frank M. Chap
man; H. F. Pringles Theodore Roose
velt," Alice Roosevelt's "Crowde
Hours" and the story of Newton L
Baker; America at War" by Frederic
Palmer. Virginia Woolf's item for do
and Browning devotees, Flush" Ger
trude STEMS Autobiography of Alic
B. Toklas." and Romola Nijinsky
study of Nijinsky, the dancer, al
others in the classification.
The poetry, drama and art sectio
consists chiefly of books anent Americ
and by Americans. Marc Connell.
Stephen and Rosemary Benet, Ludwi
Lewisohn, Edna St. Vincent Milla.
Archibald MacLeish, Eugene ONei
and John Livingston Loves are Q
the authors roster. So is George
kaufman, whose "Of Thee Sing
kidded the Government with som
very ungentle prods.
Books on Boats Included.
President Roosevelt's taste for boa'
and salt water seems to have receive
recognition from the judges. Alfred
Loomis' yachts Under Sail is class
fled under science. So is Alfred Star
ford's Men, Fish and Boats" "Ju'
Fishing" by Ray Berman; ME
Against the Sea" and "Mutiny on tt
Bounty" two fictional sea stories
Charles Nordhoff and James Norma
Hall, and similar titles crop u
throughout the symposium.
Historians honored number anon
them Claude Bowers, now Mr.. Roost
velt's Ambassador to Spain; Jam'
Truslow Adams, Stefan zweig an
George D. Lyman, who wrote Sag
of the Comstock Lode" a story OF
great silver producing mine.
| Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammet
G. K. Chesterton, E. Phillips Opper
helm, S. S. Van Dine and other cul
rent leaders in the composition
hair raisers will supply the mysteI
novels.
DIR. Beebe for Children.
Children's items, somewhat in cor
trast to stately treatises of the gem
of Sir James Jeans The Mysteriol
Universe" tell all about The Hanc
some Donkey" The Painted Pig an
the explorations of Dr.. William Beeb
E. S. McCawley, chairman OF II
jury, announced, I'VE found it,
fact, very difficult to agree" II
judges were Dorothy Garfield Fishe
Preston Bradley, John Chamberlai
Harry Hansen, Joseph Henry Jackso
! Virginia Kirkus. Frederic G. Melche