Bradley beam., 1944-09-23
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JoE PRIVATE SAYS

1t was the famous English phy- sician Sir William Osler who said: "No man is really happy or safe without hobby, and it makes pre- cious little difference what the outside interest may be-botany beetles or butterflies, roses, tulips on irises-anything will do so long as he straddles a hobby and rides it hard"
 Are you stamp collector? |? Stamp collectors old and young will find in "The Stamp Collectors Round Table," edited by Foster w. Loso, feast of information re- presenting the wisdom and exper- fence of thirty-two experts in var ious branches of philately. It treats of the principles of collecting, the organization of a collection, stamps common and rare and special section devoted to covers and cancellations.
 Interested in model airplanes ? Then you'll enjoy looking at the Model Plane Annual, 1943, and Building Model War Planes, by Stieri. The former shows in pho tographs and text the detailed steps of building and flight; the latter contains a section of gener- al instructions and detailed draw ings of sixty airplane models re- presenting American, British, Jap anese and German aircraft. Or model ships? With the help of Ray J. Marran's Making Mod els of Famous Ships" any one can build water-line models of some of the most famous sailing ships of all time. The book is so organized that in the presentation of amaz- inglv workable methods of mak- ing ship models it also follows the absorbing history of sailing ships from ancient times to the present day.
 If you're the man who can't keep away from Toyland and cleo tric trains, come in and borrow "Model Railroad Engineering, by David Marshall. It denies, of course, that model railroading is a matter of building or operating toy trains. It looks into the history and character of railroading itself, it takes up engineering problems, rules of operation and principles of design. Model railroading is hob by which satisfies the intellect as well as mans hunger to make and to behold.
 Or are you a camera fan? In addition to several good books on general photography the Base Li- brary owns Hardness and Draper's 'Table Top Photography" Is is the intention of the authors to fur nish enough information to enable the beginner to do good table top on his first excursion into this fas- ci; ating branch of photography.
 How about art and all it's var ious branches as a horse to ride? There's "It's Fun To Draw" by Bogorad, Simple Sketching," by Doust, "How to Draw Cartoons Successfully" by Anderson and many others. If you'd like to en- ter your horse in the money you'll be especially interested in Car eers in Commercial Art" by Bieg- leisen, a brand new addition to the field of art has been neglected Library shelves. No branch in the sign and showcard printing, typo graphy, lettering, fashion design ing, animated cartooning, window display work are but few of the careers open. It's a practical and informative book.
 Sport fan? The Base Library has complete file of the Barnes Sport Library books which cover every sport played. A new, addi- tion on the reference shelf is Frank Menke's Encyclopedia of Sports" "Believe it or not Ripley" states that it can answer 100000 questions on sports, though MT. Menke is more modest and figur-
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