Evening star., 1939-07-02
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IOf New Books
Places.

A book of photographs and de-
scriptions of Danish life brought out
to commemorate Denmarks partici-
patton in the New York Worlds
Fair. Attractive and informative.
NEW YORK CITY GUIDE. BY
the Federal Writers Project of
the Works Progress Administra-
ton. New York: Random House.
A detailed guide to the city with
a chapter devoted to the Worlds
Fair Maps and pictures.
WHAT TO SEE AND DO IN SCAN
DINAVIA. BY George w. Seaton
New York: Prentice Hall
A very useful guide to Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
and the North Cape Amply illus
trated with attractive photographs
MAINE SUMNER. By Edwin VAL
entine Mitchell New York:
Coward McCann.
Pleasant and readable guide to the
most northern State, its past and
present. Illustrated with neat pen
and ink drawings by Ruth Lepper.
Novels
WILLIAMS ROOM. BY Alice
Grant Rosman. New York: G. P.
Putnam's Sons.
Mrs. RoSman's usual novel-a
gentle, placid story about nice peo-
pie.
Mysteries.
THE GHOST ON THE BALCONY.
BY Dwight Marfield. New York:
F. P. Dutton Co.
Story begins with bell tolling in
Rancho toWer-With no one there
to toll it. Moves through drug rings,
newspaper romances and so on.
Pretty fair.
SPRING NARROWING. BY Phoebe
Atwood Taylor. New York: w.
w. Norton Co.
Another one of those New England
crimes which providentially keep
Miss Taylor's Asey Mayo busy. In
cludeS a complication of wild cats
and hurricanes. Pretty fair. too.
so MUCH BLOOD BY Bruno
Fischer. New York: The Grey
stone Press.
Murder in Greenwich Village.
PasSable
Yourself.
PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER
DEVELOPMENT BY J. D. Mes
sick. New York: Fleming Revell
A volume of counsel on how to de-
Velop that thing called personality
and the ways in which the develop
ment will in turn develop your char
acter If the weather isn't too hot.
you ought to get considerable ex-
panding done by the perusal
The Family.
LOVE, MARRIAGE AND PARENT
HOOD. BY Grace Sloan Overton
New York: Harper & Bros.
Advice on all these large subjects.
In the main quite sensible.
Health.
SLEEP AND RHEUMATISM. BY J..
l. Rodale Emmaus: Rodale Press
An elaboration of the theory that
you can get rheumatism. neuritis.
lumbago and other disagreable
things by sleeping in the wrong
position. You buy it at your own
risk.
Flowers.
BEGONIAS. BY Bessie Buxton
Boston: Hale Cushman & Flint.
A study of the plant--its history
its varieties and culture. Informa-
tive
Biography.
JAMES KENT. BY John Theodore
Horton. New York; D. Appleton
Century Co.
The life OF the man who was
chief justice and chancellor of New
York State in the early years of
the last century. Subtitled "a study
in conservatism and a publication
of the American Historical Associa-
ton
Pictures.
THE SECRET. BY Harold Burde-
kin. New York: E. P Dutton Co.
Brief texts illustrated by photo
graphs. Somewhat vapid.
PAINTINGS ON PARADE. BY
Donald jerks. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Co..
Very brief biographies of famous
painters with reproductions of their
paintings in halftone.
Education.
THE SATURDAY LETTERS. BY
Raymond E. Manchester. Cuya-
hoga Falls: F. w. Orth Co.
The weekly letters written for his
students by the dean of men at
Kent State University in Ohio. Ad-
vice on how to live in a modern
world without sacrificing some un-
modern principles. Useful.