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By Lucille Heffner "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on pur pose to a life beyond life.” —Sir John Suckling The novel and the movie filmed from the book ALL THE KINGS MEN have tru ly become great works. The Literary Guild proudly pre sents as its July selection Robert Penn Warren’s WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME. The story is based on actual happenings in Kentucky in 1826. It is the story of a murder, a trial, of escape and ultimate justice. It is a story of ideals and search for truth, human passion and betrayal. Finally, it is a strong love story of two peo ple dedicated to their perverted sense of truth and justice. Based on the lives of Jereboam O. Beauchamp, Soloman P. Sharp, and other native Kentuckians, the novel becomes a tense drama retold in the inimitable style of Robert Penn Warren. * * * * For folksy humor we can always turn to the mountain people. That is just what Jesse Stuart has done in writing HIE TO THE HUNTERS— a bit of the plot . . . Sixteen-year-old Sparkie, a mountain boy, rescues Did Hargis, city boy, from two bullies and takes him to his mountain home where fox hunting, tobacco raising and trap set ting constitute the family life of the Sparks. Did learns to do all these things and life in the moun tains becomes very meaningful to him. Trouble begins when his father finds him, and his son refuses to return to the city. This is a charming Huckleberry-Fin-Tom Sawyer adventure set in the Kentucky hills where growing boys find that spit ting tobacco in the eyes of their enemy is more effective than fists. Jesse Stuart is well schooled with the folk and folkways of the Kentucky Mountains and has a facility for setting them down engagingly and amus ingly. You’ll thoroughly enjoy HIE TO THE HUNTERS by Jesse Stuart, author of THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE. If you want an intellectual jolt read WORLD IN COLLISION by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky. Here is a volume filled with events, stupendous, cataclysmic—terrestial and cosmic—which Dr. Velikovsky offers as bona fida history. No writer would dare offer such plausible products as fact without extensive study. Such happenings as the creation and disapearance of planets, an avalanche from heaven of fire, rocks and sand, spilling of oceans—many events which have received accep tance in sacred scriptures. This is not a wonder book! It is a serious presentation by a sincere scholar, with a deep philosophic significance underlying it. Many may disagree with Dr. Velik ovsky, nevertheless his theories are worthy of serious thought. * * * * For a good, exciting story to satisfy the avid seekers after romance intermingled with mystery, we suggest THE BRIDE OF NEWGATE by John Dickson Carr. This combination boasts cloak-and- dagger excitement of typical historical fiction and the neat and suspensful plot that we expect from top-notch writers in the mystery field. It concerns Dick Darwent, condemned to hang, and Caroline Ross, a socialite, who marries him on the eve of his hanging to satisfy a clause in her father’s will. Darwent, granted a last minute reprieve, leaves the gallows in a rage bent on revenging the woman who scornfully married him and the un known enemies who framed him. It isn’t fair to tell more of the plot but we highly recommend THE BRIDE OF NEWGATE. # * # # KIDDY CORNER We have a surprise for you! You asked and asked for the Bobbsey Twins Series so now we have on our shelves the first ten books which include THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEA SHORE, IN SCHOOL, IN THE COUNTRY, and the Bobbsey Twins ON A HOUSEBOAT. * * * * I’ll bet that you saw the movie CINDERELLA. Whether or not you did you will want to read or have Mom read from the new book CINDER ELLA with the same characters as in the movie. Ask Mom to bring to you CINDERELLA, BON GO, THE BIG BOOK OF COWBOYS or some other books from our children’s shelf.
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