Suggestions

February Hill, by Victoria Lincoln. This story, so far as I am concerned one of the striking novels of 1934, concerns a shanty Yankee family of Rhode Island. Minna, the grandmother, Vergil, and Dottie, you will remember for some time. This book has the essential ingredient in fiction of rich humor. Miss Lincoln can write.

Lost Horizon, by James Hilton. A well-designed yarn with the setting in a mythical Tibet. A rather bogus and sophomoric philosophy clogs the tale, but in spite of the Count Keyserling touch, you may go quietly mad over this as did the spontaneous and sentimental Alexander Woollcott, though I doubt it.

Omar Khayyam, by Harold Lamb. The author knows the East, and has here created in his imagination a fascinating life of this little known character. Natt Emerson says that it is "very, very good."

Lost Paradise, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin. A fine story of a boyhood on a Maine coast farm. Guaranteed to cause homesickness to anyone who grew up in the New England countryside. Written with a poetic charm most fitting to the subject.

Murder in Three Acts, by Agatha Christie. One of the best of Miss Christie's detective stories, which is meant to say a great deal. Recommended by Professor J. P. Richardson, who is Hanover's authority in detective yarnsHercule Poirot never better.

Science for a New World, planned and arranged by the late Sir Arthur Thomson. (Harpers.) A survey, written by experts, of the latest scientific knowledge on heredity, medicine, anthropology, psychology, sociology, science, theology, chemistry, modern physics, astronomy, logic, casuality in nature (by Max Planck), and philosophy. Easy reading, good print, and instructive.