The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-17
|23 u ELIGIBLE
FOR AWARD

RALEIGH, N O v. l6. - twenty
three volumes are eligible to be con-
sidered for this years Mayflower
Cur award, it was announced to-
day by DIR. c. c. Crittenden, secre-
tary of the State Literary and His
tori al association. The list includes
fic' ion, biography. history, poetry,
arr other types of literary produc-
Llon. The number is smaller than for
several years past, partly because
scientific and technical works have
now been excluded.
The award will be announced at
the final session of the State Liter
airy and Historical association in
Raleigh, Friday evening, Deem
Der 6. The award is made each year
by the Society of Mayflower Des-
cendants to the resident North Caro-
linian who, during the twelve months
ending August 81, shall have pub
lished the best original work.
The judges this year are DR.. c.
C. Pearson and DR.. H. B. Jones Of
Wake Forest college, Edwin Bjork-
man and. George w. Mccoy of
Asheville, and DR.. C. c. Crittenden,
secretary of the association, substi-
tuting for Struthers Burt, the pres
lident.
A complete list of t h e eligible
volumes is as follows: Charles Rob.
erts Anderson, Melville in the South
Seas. (Nel York: Columbia Univer-
sity Press.) Lottie Hale Bonner,
Colonial Bath. aurora: Privately
printed.) Katharine Newlin Burt, If
Lovely Must. philadelphia: Macrae
Smith Company David L. Cohn.
The Good Old Days. New York:
Simon and Schuster.) Elliott Cole
man, An American in Augustland.
| Chapel Hill: University Of N. C..
|Press.) Jonathan Daniels, A South
ern Discovers New England. New
York: The Macmillan Coz Josephus
Daniels, Tar Heel Editor. {Chapel
Hill: University of N. c. Press.)
William Marion Gibson, Aliens and
the Law. Chapel Hill. University of
N. C. Press.) Katharine Everett
Gilbert and Helmut Kuhn, A His
tory of Esthetics. (New York: The
Macmillan Company Paul Green,
The Enchanted Maze. (New York:
Samuel French.) Margaret Jarman
Hagood, Mothers of the South.
Chapel Hill: University of N. C..
Press.) Bernice Kelly Harris, Folk
Plays of Eastern Carolina. CHAPEL
Hill: University of N. C. Press.)
Robert Leroy Hilldrup, The Life and
Times of Edmund Pendleton. (Chapel
Hill: University of N. c. Press.)
William Henry Irving, John Gay:
Favorite of the Wits. Durham:
Duke University Press.) N. Y. Jar
rett, Smoky Mountains Lyrics and
Legends. privately Printed.) Jacob
Calvin Leonard, History of the
Southern Synod Evangelical and
Reformed Church. Lexington: Pri-
vately printed.) David A. Lockmil-
Ter, History of the North Carolina
State College. (Raleigh: Edwards
and Broughton Company o. b.
Michael, Yadkin College, 1856-1924.
Salisbury: Rowan Printing Com
|pany.) Augustus White Long, Son OF
Carolina. Durham: Duke Universe.
ty Press.) Carson McCullers, The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston:
|Houghton Mifflin co., Charles S.
Mangum, Jr., The Legal Status of
the Negro. University of N. C..
Press.) Joseph Carlye Sitterson.
The Secession Movement in North
Carolina. University of N. c. Press.)
J. H. Wolfe, Jeffersonian Democra.
cy in South Carolina. University
of N. C. Press.)
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Davis an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
.Il11ia lee at the Marion Sprunt