Hanover Browsing
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS, father of a '31 man with the same name, has been one of the most generous donors of rare books in the history of Baker Library. He is a bookman with discriminating taste who reads the books he collects and I want to pass on to the readers of this column a list of ten of his favorite books, all of which would make excellent Christmas presents. They are:
Biography: Son of the Wilderness, a life
of John Muir, by Rennie Marsh Wolfe. Autobiography: William Allen White. Poetry: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Travel Narrative: Lovely is the Lee by Robert Gibbings.
Religious: The Roadmender by Michael Fairless.
Nature: The Lost Woods by Edwin Way Teale.
Social Study: Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy.
Books: Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley.
Art: The Art Spirit by Robert Henri. Fiction: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
I am tempted to match this with ten of my own choice:
Biography: Lafcadio Hearn by Vera McWilliams.
Autobiography: Far Away and Long Ago by W. H. Hudson. Poetry: Collected Poems by Robert Frost.
Travel Narrative: The Westward Crossings by Jeannette Mirsky. Religious: The Four Gospels. Nature: Island Years by F. Fraser Darling.
Social Study: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Books: The Anatomy of Bibliomania by Holbrook Jackson.
Art: The Notebooks of Leonardo daVinci.
Fiction: The Complete Tales of SherlockHolmes.
C. G. Milham '06 enthusiastically recommends three novels by Elswyth Thane (Mrs. William Beebe) with Williamsburg, Virginia, as the general background. These are: Dawn's Early Light, Yankee Stranger, and Ever After. I am glad to be able to pass on these recommendations to you. If you like historical novels I think these will please you.
Sub Rosa: The O. S. S. and AmericanEspionage by Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden '40. Reynal and Hitchcock, 1946.
Second Wind; The Autobiography of Carl Zuckmayer. Harrap, London, 1941. Men Without Guns by DeWitt Mackenzie. The story of Army medicine, with 118 illustrations in color by famous contemporary artists. The Blackiston Company, 1945.
Mentor Graham: The'Man Who TaughtLincoln by Kunigunde Duncan & D. F. Nickols. University of Chicago Press, 1944. Recommended to me by Donald Bartlett, Professor of Biography.
Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett. Oxford, 1946. "A man-eating tiger is a tiger that has been compelled, through stress of circumstances beyond its control, to adopt a diet alien to it."
Studio: Europe by John Groth. Vanguard, 1945. "Haste, hurry, and danger" characterize this very good book.
Fanfare For Elizabeth by Edith Sitwell. Macmillan, London. A most interesting account of the Virgin Queen.
Ladders To Fire by Anais Nin. Dutton, 1946. A most subtle study of the feminine mind praised by such people as Edmund Wilson, Kay Boyle, and William Carlos Williams. Not for lovers of "Little Orphan Annie."
