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A Wide Selection of Books for Christmas Gifts in All Sizes, Shapes and Subjects

THIS WHOLE ARTICLE is devoted to books which may safely be given for Christmas presents. For the most part they could be given to either men or women, but the selections lean not toward but away from the distaff side. A few children's books are also recommended.

1. BOOKS ON ART. Modern printing make possible excellent reproductions, and art books have been in the ascendant recently.

A Treasury of Art Masterpieces: FromRenaissance to the Present Day. Edited by Thomas Craven. Simon & Schuster, 1939. $10. A magnificent picture book.

Modern French Painters, by R. H. Wilenski. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. $7.50. Pictures and text.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, which is a new one volume edition issued by Reynal & Hitchcock for $5, to replace the former two volume edition. Revelations of one of the greatest geniuses of all time.

Modern Mexican Art, by Laurence E. Schmeckebier. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. $7.50. Contains 218 reproductions of the work of Rivera, Orozco, etc. The dust jacket reproduces one of the murals at Dartmouth.

Also notable are the Phaidon Press Art Books, which are issued here by the Oxford University Press in New York. The following titles and others, are available and are fine value for the money.

The Paintings of Michelangelo, with lao plates, at $3.

The Sculptures of Michelangelo, with 120 plates, at $3.

Rubens, with 232 reproductions (6 in color), at $2.50. Rodin, with 112 reproductions, at $3.

Masterpieces of European Paintings inAmerica, edited by Hans Tietze, with over 300 reproductions, at $5.

Modern American Painting, by Peyton Boswell Jr., with 86 color plates, published by Dodd, Mead & Co., at $5. Paul Sample, Resident Artist at Dartmouth, is represented with his Janitor's Holiday, now at the Metropolitan. The plates used are those of pictures featured by Life some months ago.

2. BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOG- RAPHY

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, by Carl Sandburg. 4 volumes boxed, and published by Harcourt, Brace at $20.

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, by Carl Sandburg. 2 volumes boxed, and now reissued by the same publisher at $4.75. This should be the most important biography of the year.

Shakespeare, by Mark Van Doren. Henry Holt & Co., $3.

Thoreau, by H. S. Canby. Houghton, Mifflin Co., $3.75. This is not an ideal biography of Thoreau but until Dr. Raymond Adams publishes his it will have to do.

Since Fifty: Men and Memories, by Sir William Rothenstein. The Macmillan Company, $5. Readers of Rothenstein's former two volume work of the same title will enjoy this book which covers the years 1922 to 1938.

J. Pierpont Morgan, by Herbert L. Satterlee. Macmillan, $3.75.

Land Below the Wind, by Agnes Newton Keith. Little, Brown & Co., $3. The story of an American woman's life in Borneo.

Autobiography, by A. A. Milne. E. P. Dutton & Co., $3.

The Young Melbourne, by Lord David Cecil. Bobbs, Merrill, $3. One of the outstanding biographies of the year.

My Life, by Havelock Ellis. Houghton, Mifflin, $3.75. The long awaited life story of one of the really civilized men of our time.

3. HISTORY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

The Heritage of America, edited by H. S. Commager and Allan Nevins. Little, Brown & Co., $4. America writes her own history. Henry Beston did something similar in his excellent American Memory, Farrar and Rinehart, 1937, at $3.50.

History of the Donner Party, by C. F. McGlashan. Stanford University Press, at $3. The terrifying tale of the Donner party snowbound in the High Sierras during the winter of 1846-1847.

The Cruise of the Raider "Wolf," by Roy Alexander. Yale University Press, at $2.75. What one famous German raider did in the last War told by one of her prisoners. I read this when it first came out in England and recommend it highly.

The March of Fascism, by Stephen Raushenbush, $3.

The Words That Won the War, by J. R. Mock and Cedric Larson. Princeton University Press, at $3.75. The story of American censorship.

The Rise of American Naval Power:1776-1918, by Harold and Margaret Sprout. Princeton University Press, at $3.75. Important book for any American interested in the American navy.

Step by Step: 1936-1939, by Winston Churchill. G. P. Putnam's Sons, $4. England's Man-of-the-Hour explains how England got into the war.

Iron Brew: A Century of American Ironand Steel, by Stewart Holbrook. Macmillan, $2.50. Does here for iron and steel what he did for lumber in Holy Old Mackinaw.

The Romance of the Clipper Ships, by Basil Lubbock. Macmillan, $4.

4. SCIENCE

The Medical Career, by Dr. Harvey Cushing. Little, Brown & Co., $2.50. The late Dr. Cushing once gave a lecture at Dartmouth on this subject. He knew what he was talking about. An excellent book for any young man planning to be a doctor.

Rutherford, by H. S. Eve. Macmillan for the Cambridge University Press, $5. The story of the man who won Nobel Prize by splitting the atom.

Cosmic Rays, by R. H. Millikan. Same Press, $2.50. Those alumni who heard Professor Hull's distinguished lecture on this a year ago last June may want to learn more concerning the Master Gunner and His cosmic rays.

The Philosophy of Physical Science, by Sir H. S. Eddington. Same Press, $2.50. It is becoming clearer every day that science wanders wild without some philosophy behind it. Mr. Eddington should be qualified to speak.

Atoms in Action, by G. R. Harrison. William Morrow, $3.50. An excellent book.

Science for the Citizen, by Lancelot Hogben. Knopf, $5. The citizen has to be pretty bright to get all this but it is well worth his effort.

Science Today and Tomorrow, by Waldemar Kaempffert. Viking Press, $2.50. Describes the latest scientific developments by Science Editor of the New York Times.

5. PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

The Decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler. Knopf. A new and cheap edition for $2.59.

The Life of Greece, by Will Durant. Simon and Schuster, $3.95. A readable tome which will not overtax the brain.

Freedom and Culture, by John Dewey. G. P. Putnam's Sons, $2. The Dean of American philosophy speaks in his eightieth year, and this most eminent son of the University of Vermont is worth listening to.

The Bible of the World, edited by Robert O. Ballou. Viking Press, $5, and $10 for gift edition in leather binding. Six hundred thousand words, thirteen hundred pages of the most significant portions of the holy books of Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, and Christianity. Man's beliefs, and a generous slice of the great literature of all races. An important book.

6. SPORT

Geese Fly High, by F. P. and F. L. Jaques. University of Minneapolis Press, $3. The authors, one an artist, and the other a writer, follow the ducks and geese down the Mississippi from Minnesota through the marshes of Arkansas to the alligator infested rivers of the Gulf Coast game preserves.

Good Maine Food, by Marjorie Mosser. Edited and with an Introduction by Kenneth Roberts. Doubleday, Doran & Co., $2.50. An encyclopaedia of ancient and modern New England food. Any book on food sponsored by Kenneth Roberts, who is no mean shakes of a cook himself, can be safely followed.

All Seasons Afield with Rod and Gun, by Raymond R. Camp. Whittlesey House, New York, $3.50. Places, methods, and equipment vital to the successful taking of the many fresh water and salt water game fish, the large and small game animals of the Eastern United States and Canada,

7. MISCELLANEOUS

Arabia Deserta, by C. M. Doughty. Random House. Two volumes for $15. The greatest travel book of the nineteenth century.

Poems of F. Garcia Lorca. Translated by Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili. Oxford University Press, $2. Poetry by the greatest of recent Spanish poets who fell during the recent Civil War.

Jazzmen, by Frederic Ramsey Jr., and C. E. Smith. Harcourt, Brace & Co., $2.75. New Orleans, Mississippi River boats, Chicago, and New York expressed in the modern idiom of jazz.

Cape Horn, by Felix Riesenberg. Dodd, Mead, $5. A grand book for those who love the sea.

Sun and Storm, by Unto Seppanen. Bobbs, Merrill, $2.50. A story of three generations with the background of Finland's struggle upward from serfdom to liberty.

The Day Before, by H. M. Tomlinson. G. P. Putnam's Sons, $2.50.

Flowering Earth, by D. C. Peattie. Same, $2.50.

Also I recommend Farrar and Rinehart's Rivers of America Series, the latest of which is Julian Dana's Sacramento:River of Gold. I intend to buy all of this series as well as all of the excellent W.P.A. Guides of the 48 states, Alaska, Puerto Rico, etc., which are coming out every month or so. I now have 17 of them.

Have space for only three children's books, all of which are good: Padre Porko, by Robert Davis (reviewed in this issue), Ben and Me by Robert Lawson, Little, Brown & Co., $1.50 (story of Amos the mouse who helped Ben Franklin), and BoyWith a Pack, E. Shenton, Harcourt Brace, $2. A story of the 1837 road from New Hampshire to the Ohio country.

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