By Lucille Heffner
We feel in a braggadocio
mood. Yes, we want to boast
a bit about your library. It is
yours you know, but have you
been taking advantage of this
opportunity as often as you
should.^ Not only is it yours
but it belongs to your wife
or husband and each of your children. We know
that you do read stories in Reader’s Digest, The
Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies Ho?ne Journal
and pocket books that you buy and swap with
your friends—so why not enlarge your supply of
reading material by planning to make a spkial
trip to your library? You can browse around, ask
questions and make your selections.
We are bragging because your Ecusta Library
has books to interest you whatever your taste may
be. There is a world of western stories for you
and your young son; murder mysteries for you and
your oldest daughter; for your wife—novels, cook
books, home-making and needlecraft guides and
love stories—^plus biographies and many more
types for you. Current popular magazines are
available and may be checked out.
For your study and reference, the valuable EN
CYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA awaits your visit.
Comprehensive maps of the world are to be found
in the HAMMOND’S .NEW WORLD ATLAS
A WEBSTER’S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY
is of tremendous value.
Set a date, for instance next Tuesday or Thurs
day afternoon, to come to your Library and renew
your old book-friends and make new acquaint
ances. Remember that: "A great library contains
the diary of the human race. The great consulting
room of a wise man is a library.”
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Our first choice for this month was written by
the outstanding writer, Sholem Asch. Following
his other volumes — THE NAZARENE, THE
APOSTLE and Mary, Mr. Asch now portrays to us
—MOSES. We see Moses first as a young prince
of Pharoah’s court, rebelling under palace discip
line, aware of legends concerning his birth and
deeply curious about the Hebrew people who suf
fer the yoke of slavery. Breaking away to visit
them, and finding his family, he makes the fate
ful decision of casting his lot with Israel. We
watch Moses, fearful of his mission but subservient
to God’s will, growing in strength with one cru
cial test after another. It is a noHe story, superbly
told, as only Sholem Asch is capable of writing.
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BRIGHT FEATHER and WRITTEN ON THE
WIND by Robert Wilder have been two of the
most popular novels of our day. Robert Wilder is
truly a great story-teller as we are again assured
in his latest story, AND RIDE A TIGER. A bit
of the plot—Pike Yarnell, a Navy flyer, had drifted
on a raft for many days with Donald Beasley.
Could he have stopped Beasley’s suicide? Did he
help cause it? These were the questions that
haunted him as he visited Beasley’s home town in
Georgia where he had become a hero, and to top
this, fell in love with Beasley’s widow. Could he
tell her? What would happen? You will find the
answers in this fascinating tale—AND RIDE A
TIGER by Robert Wilder.
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Thomas B. Costain has written the second book
in the brilliant series which makes up the Pageant
Of England covering the reign of Henry III. It
follows THE CONQUERORS in chronological
sequence. You’ll meet Eleanor, his beautiful, hated
queen; Simon de Montfort, great statesman and
soldier; and the barons, knights, churchmen, schol
ars—the great and small people of England. Thom
as B. Costain, combining years of intensive re
search with his practiced skill of novel writing,
has proved once again that factual history can be
superb entertainment. This volume is THE MAG
NIFICENT CENTURY.
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KIDDIE KORNER
You have read several of the Black Stallion
stories by Walter Farley. Now there is a bright
new one—THE ISLAND STALLION’S FURY.
Would you like to read it?
We have several new books for you. They are:
MISS AMERICA by Janet Lambert; THE UN
LIKE TWIN STORIES and THE TREASURE
BOX MYSTERY by Jane Selkirk.
They are for you—when are you coming by for
them?