Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-26

This week Henderson is glad to
welcome the Bird Club of North Car
DINA for their annual meeting. In
honor of these visitors, a special eX-
hlbIt OF books on birds has been ar
ranged at the library. These books
Will be on display at the Country
club While the Bird club is in SEES
sion, and next week may be seen at
the library. In addition to the bird
books already in the library, several
new books have been added recently.
The Best Bird Stories l Know,
were selected by John Clair Minot
for their high literary quality and
for their sympathetic portrayal and
Interpretation of bird life at its best.
Strange Birds At the Zoo, is il
luStru.<d with eight beautiful colored
plates.
A Year with the Birds, by Alice
f. Ball, is illustrated by Robert Bruce
HouSfall, painter of backgrounds in
habitat groups of the American
Museum of Natural History, New
York City.
The Book of Bird Life, by Ar
thur Augustus Allen is practical COM
prehenS'vc, and informing and should
give impetus to the observation and
study OF the flying world. 1t deals
with the occurrence of birds in a
given locality, their relation to their
environment, their habits together
with the relations of birds to man
The authors first hand knowledge is
testified to by the marvellous photo
graphs, nearly three hundred in
number, illustrating every detail OF
every phase of the life of birds.
Several new biographerS have re-
Gently been received at the library
"A Son of Scotland" relates the car
ly life Of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, the
man who wrote "British Agent. The
book is enriched with references and
illusions from early Scottish his
tory to the present day ard per-
vaded with the authors tenderness
for Scottish country side.
In 'DebuSsy, Man and Artist
Oscar Thompson writes the first
American biography of the French
composer who died in 1918. 1t is d
work as useful as it is readable, and
valuable to laymen as we'll as artists.
In these days when British states
manship is being put to such d
crucial test, the biography of An
thony Eden, one Of the most inter-
eSting of modern British statesmen,
will prove interesting reading.
>Lafayette', by w. E. Woodward,
tells the life story Of the wealthy
young noble of France who at the
age of nineteen was a Encouragement
in the American army during our
Revolution and after he returned to
France played an important part in
the French Revolution.
Enchanting Jenny Lind" is the
biography Of the Swedish Night
ingale," cleaned from diaries, letters,
old newspaper reports and a host of
books. This book tells the story of
the great prima donna whom T. T..
Barnum guided in her triumphant
American concert tour.
In the third person, the Irish play
wright Sean O'Casey tells the story
OF his own early years in the slums
Of North Dublin. The biography is
entitled Il Knock at the, Door: Swift
Chances Back at Things That Made
Me"
Siegfried Sasson, author of
Memoirs of FoX-hunting Man,
has written mellow recollections of
an idyllic childhood in a country
house in Kent, of relations, COVER
neSSes and schoolmasters, of years at
preparatory schools and at Cambridge:
His book is called The Old Century
and Seven More Years"
"AStrophel, or the life and death
of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney"
takes the reader back three and a
half centuries to the Merrie England
of Queen Elizabeth. A soldier, a
statesman, a courtier in years when
that delicate profession was more
than dangerous, Sir Philip was one
Of the livelieSt, most engaging and
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