Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-14
Varied Subjects OF
New Library Books

Books on a wide variety of subjects
are coming into the library these
bright fall days. Among the most IN
+eresting is reference book, the new
nWho's Who In America, 1889,
biographical dictionary of notable llv-
inc men and women of the United
States. It's editors say that the names
included are selected not as the
best but as an attempt to choose the
best-known men and women of the
country in all lines of useful and repu-
table achievements. About five hum
bred North Carolinians are included
in this volume. Tie youngest person
in the book is Miss Shirley Temple.
Gardeners will be interested in "Fhe
Gardeners Omnibus a large and va
RED book written by gardeners for
gardeners.
The Honorable William Polk in a
recent address to the Tuesday Club
said that the book he had enjoyed
most recently was "Out of Africa by
Isak Dinesen. Dorothy Garfield says
of the same book Classic is the ad
jective which comes again and again
to the mind of the reader: the feeling
for beauty, for pain, for effort, for
night and day, and animal-life wild
| and tame -. is poignant and search
| ing"
IF the administration" says a re-
| cent commentator, took a little more
trouble to educate public opinion it
would have to spend less time de-
nouncing propaganda" Forty Acres
and Steel Mules" by Herman Clarence
| Nixon, an Alabaman, has just been
published by the University of North
/ Carolina Press. It is an attempt to
interpret the rural South and the viii
lage South in the light of the newt
able trend of the times.
The author of Dorothy Thompson's
Political Guide" has emerged in the
last few years as the nations most
brilliant woman political writer. Mil
lions of readers follow her newspaper
columns regularly and see also con-
| tributes material to the leading ma
ticnal magazines. In private life she
is Mrs. Sinclair Lewis.
"The Heritage of Cotton" by M. D.
G. Crawford tells the complete story
of cotton, as dramatic as any human
biography, involving as it does the
civilization of two hemispheres
| d
! wilderness, the pre-Incas of Peru ard
the peoples of Asia were plucking the
white balls of cotton, weaving and
coloring them with consummation
,, skill into fabrics of great beauty.
In 1884, Charles Allen Smart, the
author of "R. F. D." inherited farm
near Chillicothe, Ohio and decided tc
try his hand at farming. The results
of his first three years experiment
are contained in this book, as well as
his philosophical studies of his wife
his neighbors, the live stock on the
farm and his study of the sociological
implication of the situations.
Let's Have A Good Time Tonight
an Omnibus of Party Games" has ar
rived just in time to be useful for Hal
lowe'en Parties. 1t is by Gloria God
dard and Clement Wood and has E
. thousand suggestions for having {
good time with the whole group
whether they are six or sixty.
Meal Planning and Table Service
: BY NJ Beth Bailey will be of Interest
to experienced or potential home-mak
: ers. It is unique In that it restricts
: its field to the planning of meals ir
the no-servant home
That leader of the best-seller lists
with Malice Toward Some" by Mar
: garet Halsey, has been added to the
! library shelves. The book is amusing
! and entertaining to read not only 70
its content, but for the manner il