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Books for Vacation
And You Can Take Them With You
By Elizabeth Dotson
A book to carry under your arm band and small son in a Japanese prison
down the garden path or to pack in Camp. Mrs. Keith’s first book was Land
your traveling bag is a welcome com ¿Below the Wind.
panion for any vacation. W ith the as Nearer Home
sistance of Miss Marcia Hill at the State B in ns , A rchie . Yew Rolling River. A
Library we’ve chosen a few candidates novel of life in the port town of Astoria
from the current literary crop for your 60 or 70 years ago. A number of differ
summer recreation.
ent stories, interlocked at intervals, are
Ann Chair Adventure
told.
C orbett , J im .’ Man Eating Leopard of C ase , V ictoria and R orert O. We
Rudraprayag. As good as any thriller is Called It Culture. A history of the
this account of a leopard hunt.
American institution known as Chau
I nnes , H ammond . Gale Warning. tauqua by two Oregon writers. The
Story of a ship that left Murmansk in movement reached its peak in 1924
1945 with a cargo of silver. The cap when an estimated 30 million people at
tain scuttled the ship and murdered his tended Chautauqua, meetings.
crew. This ‘is the story of the three who C orning , H. M. Willamette Landings,
escaped.
Ghost Towns of the River. Long a fea
S tewart , G. R. Fire. Fourteen day ture writer in the field of Oregon his
life of a forest fire in Ponderosa Na-*' tory, Mr. Corning spent some years'in
tional Forest in Northern California. the preparation of this, his first book-
Written with power and imagination. length historical study.
Will be enjoyed by readers of his earlier1
W inther , O. O. Great Northwest. A
book, Storm.
very readable new history of Oregon by
Wider Horizons
I a Pacific: Northwesterner who has stu
A rne , :S igrid . United Nations Primer. died, traveled and taught in Oregon
Very readable background material for and Washington.
understanding today’s news.
Once Over Lightly
D avis , M rs . H. I. (E.) World On My
C
hase , I lka . Free Admission. Smart,
Dporstep; a venture in international
sophisticated
commentary on the auth
living. Author is wife of Malcolm Da
vis, for many years connected with or’s Hollywood experiences, speaking
various peace organizations. Her remin tours and war work. Sequel to her au
iscences combine account of home life tobiographical Fast Imperfect.
in Geneva with personal observations J acobs , H erbert . We Chose the Coun
try. This "impractical guide to farm
on international affairs.
W hite , W. L. Lost Boundaries. Simply life” gives a joyful and humorous rec
written narrative of a New England ord of thé hardships, blunders and re
Negro family which had been "pass- wards of country life experienced by a
"city” family.
K eith , M rs . A. N. Three Came Back. L othrop , E leanor . Throw M e a Bone.
Author reports without bitterness on An archeologist’s wife writes an infor-
her years of interment with her hus mative, but hugely entertaining, ac-