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ical than correct! Perhaps the new book shelf at the Base Library does have moments in which it re sembles Mother Hubbard's cup board-but did you ever stop to realize that the circulation of books is as necessary to the life of a library as the circulation of blood to the body? Without it we couldn't live! The fact that you can't find "A Tree Grows in Brook lyn," or "The Robe," or "The Ra- zor's Edge" or Strange Fruit" on the shelves doesn't mean that they are not in the library collection. They are, several copies of them, but they stay on the shelf no more than five minutes before they're out again. We play no favorites- next time you're in, stop at the desk and sign up for that best seller. We'll send you notice when the book is available.
 The card catalog in the Library lists all our books by author, title, and subject-don't tell your friends we're "dead' until you've looked in the catalog, not on the shelves, for the book. And if we don't have it? If it's in Hartford or Springfield, we'll get it for you through inter library loan.
 Each week new books come into the Library-we'll keep you posted through this column as to new ar- rivals. The rest is up to YOU.
 Have you read the new Literary Guild Selection, "Earth and High Heaven," by Gwethalyn Graham? t? It is a drama of human relation ships of two people in love who are confronted by the obstacle of intolerance. That the story ran in Golfers and has been presented to the hundreds of thousands of Lite rary Guild Members is tribute to Miss Graham's skill in handling such combustible theme with deftness and polish. Says Louis Bromfeld: "It is a wise and pro- found treatment of one of the great issues of this war-that of tolerance. I hope it has the uni versal reading it deserves"
 Barbara Klaw's story of a sol dier's wife has the rather unfor- tunate title of "Camp Follower" '" but both you and your wife will enjoy reading about her experi- ences which you too have shared. The heart-breaking task of finding a place to live where there are no places, dealing with complaining landladies and profteering trades men, making what sort of home you can with the limited resources allowed is done with simple and ef- fective honesty. The net effect is of gaiety and zest for life. Several chapters of this book appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.
 Another book with special ap- peal to members of the Armed Forces is "The Veteran Comes Back" by Willard Waller, World War veteran and associate Professor at Columbia University. This book deals with such concrete problems as the veterans marital relations brides and G.l. ba- bies-re-educating veterans, etc. It does not presume to give all the answers, but the author does hope that it will be a firebell in the night to wake up America now to the veteran problem before 1t de- scends upon us.
 Simeon Strunsky characteristic cally wrote to his publisher that his new book, "No Mean City," is intended to mix description and in- depreciation in creating a picture of the mass life of New York. For New Workers it will provide new insight into the life around them. For the city's visitors, to whom New York is a place of canyons