Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-26
New Books Added
At Perry Library

A large number of new books have
been added to the shelves of the H.
Leslie Perry Memorial Library. The
majority of these new titles will APP
peal especially to- men. Mystery and
detective stories together with West
ern stories and historical romances
and football stories make up the list
Two Rex Stout mystery stories fea-
turing Nero Wolfe are new titles for
the library. "Fer-De-Lance," or, meet
Nero Wolfe" introduces Nero Wolfe
the detective who never moves from
his desk yet solves the most inscrut-
able of mysteries. His "The Rubber
Band" is a swift moving story.
Agatha Christie is a favorite author
of mystery stories and her death in
the Air" will be welcomed. H. C.
Bailey's "Mr Fortune Objects" con-
tains six short mystery stories. Erie
Stanley Gardeners "The Case of the
Suffering Bishop is concerned with
a manslaughter charge. and whether
it could he prosecuted twenty-five
years after the event.
"T'he Corpse in the Green Paiamas"
and "The Corpse in the Coppice", are
two mystery stories by r. A: j. Wall
ing.
There have been a number of re-
quests for football stories. big Game"
by Francis Wallace, and Karl Tun-
bergs ''While the Crowd Cheers" are
for those interested in stories of the
game. 59U M.
Max Brand has written a number
of Western stories and two of his lat
est are now available;s s"South of Rio
Grande" and Happy Jack" "The
Proud Sheriff" is the last novel from
the pen of Eugene Rhodes, a cow
puncher who turned author
Other Western stories as B. M. Bow
er's "The Flying U. Strikes" "The
Smoky Years" by Alan LeMay and
Into the Sunset" by Jackson Gre
cory. 4
"Bugles Blow No More" by Clifford
Dowdy is Civil War story of the
Wades, an aristocratic Richmond ia
mily
Paul Green's play Johnny John
son" has as a subtitle "The Biography
of a Common Man in Three Acts"
A new book in "The Rivers of Amer
lea Series" is Walter Havighurst's
Upper Mississippi, A Wilderness
Saga"
Carl GARNER, the foremost writer of
American folklore has an interesting
+. collection of stories of the mytholog-
ical heroes of America such as John
Henry, Pecos Bill, and Paul Bunyan.
] He calls his book "The Hurricane's
Children"
winter in April by Robert Nathan
is a beautiful love story of today.
Katherine Brush's Don't Ever
Leave Me" is the story of Mrs. Billy
Cunningham and of how the women
hated and the men adored her.
Mrs. Roosevelt's plea for peace
This Troubled World" is now at the
! library.
The legend of "Old Popcastle" in
| Vance county has been written into a
| comedy-drama in one act bv Betty
Smith and Robert Finch of, the Uni
versity CT North Carolina and a copv
has been presented to the library. The
| title of this play is "Popcastle Inn"
| The last Nobel Prize for literature
was awarded to Roger Martin Du
Gard, a French novelist His hes
known work 1.-THE Thipaults" is a
story of middle class life in the sub-
urbs of Paris. Three volumes of this
work have been translated into Eng
fish and are available at the library.
Shadows Slant North" is nv a
North Carolinian, Mary Bledsoe. She
tells of the lives of the self-respecting
kindly, neighborly folk in the isolated
mountains of the state.