LITTLE SAMMY CRICKET
by F. E Austin '95. Privately printed. Hanover N. H. 66 pages. 25 cents. 1937.
Out of the Austin Workshops in Hanover where ants and crickets live in palaces, dig mines, eat at tables, and live out their private lives between plates of glass, comes this little booklet for children, based on the author's studies of the careers of crickets. It follows the life of a cricket from the time he eschews the Stork basket and crawls out of an egg, to the time he sheds his exterior shell covering, which Mr. Austin calls "clothes," eats it and begins life anew. There isn't any "crickety" conversation in this book, but it runs along in purely narrative fashion. The cricket has some thrilling adventures in the course of his life, narrowly escaping disaster under a tractor, trying to leap to the moon, and escaping from a spider that saw him as a prospective dinner. The book contains much real information, is free of juvenile nonsense, and yet is much enlivened by the natural humor of the writer. Adopted in some schools, it has already gone into a second printing.
Health and Physical Education in theUnited States, a paper presented by Russell L. Durgin '15 representing the American Physical Education Association at the World Education Conference at Tokyo, Japan, has been published as a pamphlet of 15 pages.
Robert Davis '03 is the author of TheWit of Northern Vermont which has been reprinted from the December number of the Proceedings of the Vermont HistoricalSociety.
Night-Letters from Wallace Rusterholtz '31, a brochure of 13 poems has been published in a limited edition of 100 copies.
The first issue of New England Winter, edited by Harold B. Putnam Jr. '37 has just appeared. This little magazine contains an article Those Swiss Skiers by Dave Bradley '38, Jack Shea as I Knew Him by Lawrence Goldthwait '36, and a section Snow Flakes and Ice Chips by the editor.
The First Two Seasons at Awatovi by J. O. Brew '28 has been reprinted from the October issue of American Antiquity.
The December issue of Poetry contains a group of seven poems by Reuel Denney '32: The Laboratory Midnight, The Game,The Dance, The Sleeping Woman, TheIroquois, The Old Northwest, and McSorley's Bar.
The November-December number of Hill Trails contains a short story Sidetrack by Clifton Blake '24
College Skiing by Carl Shumway '13 appears in the January issue of Sports Illustrated.
The December 25th issue of the Saturday Evening Post contains an article by Marshall McClintock '26 entitled Memoirof a Useless Dog.
The November-December issue of the American Naturalist contains a paper by
Harold M. Kaplan '30 in collaboration with E. V. Enzmann and S. H. Hutner entitled Chemicals Attracting Drosophila.
Must the College Language Club be aBore? by George B. Watts '13, has been reprinted from the May issue of The Modern Language Journal.
Love, Action, Laughter, by Budd W. Schulberg '36 appears in die January 15th issue of Collier's.
From the press of Alfred B. Moorhouse, Boston, has appeared a book of 81 pages Skis and Andes by Eugene du Bois with contributing thoughts of the members of the United States Ski Team—Howard P. Chivers, Warren H. C. Chivers, Donald Fraser, Edgar H. Hunter Jr., John P. Litchfield, and Edward P. Wells. All of these members of the ski team with the exception of Fraser are Dartmouth undergraduates.
William B. Rotch '37 has a brief article Introducing the Dartmouth Mountaineerifig Club, Hanover, N. H., in the December number of Appalachia.
