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...books which were the Eclectic Readers' precursors-the didactic Webster Blue Back Speller and the holy, fearsome New England Primer. He worked on his father's farm, did not go to school until he was 16. When Father McGuffey hacked a five-mile road through the forest to Youngstown, Ohio, Son William went there to study Latin with a clergyman. One day his devout mother knelt in her yard to pray that Son William might be educated for the ministry. Passing on horseback, Rev. Thomas Hughes heard her prayer, offered to take the lad free...
...FOREST GIANT-Adrien Le Corbeau; translated by T. E. Lawrence- Doubleday, Doran ($2). This little French classic, a philosophic monody on the 7,000-year life of a California sequoia, was translated in 1924 by the late great T. E. Lawrence, calling himself J. H. Ross, the name under which he first enlisted in the Royal Air Force. Illustrated by woodcuts...
...took a leaf from de Kruif's notebook, published a book on the Great Naturalists, from Aristotle to Fabre. Smart Publisher Schuster wrote the incoherently enthusiastic blurb himself, said he meant every word of it. Excerpt: "The sound of wings is in this book, the murmur of the forest, eons of time, undreamed by Moses, the wilderness itself, and continents arising from the sea. Here too are enchanted isles, luxuriant in tropical splendor, leaf-fringed legends, sylvan historians, cold pastorals, wild ecstasies, happy, happy boughs - not simply remembered melodies from Keats, but living realities in the open book...
Vacationing on his rented ranch in Colorado's Roosevelt National Forest, the Republican nominee had to attend to some campaign business in which his daughter could take no part. A stream of big & little Republican wigs, including Oregon's Representative William Ekwall, Wyoming's Senator Robert Carey and National Finance Committee Chairman William B. Bell of Manhattan, stopped in to shake his hand, talk shop, tell him how bright his prospects looked...
...humble stenographer in Hamid's office. She hates Kravnik. Her brother Primo, an ambitious young architect (temporarily unemployed), likes Kravnik. On the floor below them lives a mysterious Albanian. He hates Kravnik. And he has a really first-hand reason: as a baby he lived in the forest that was cut down in order that Kravnik might be. The Albanian is still just an untamed peasant at heart, but he has had a wonderful chemical training. In fact, he has discovered a new high explosive with which he plans to blow up Kravnik building by building. To the love...