Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 31 Jan 1930, p. 39

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January 31, 1930 WILMETTE LIFE 39 Librarian Quotes Bits From Books at Local Library quist~dores, mon~s, the dreamy, romantic, .unenerget1c peoples of Spait.. the roanng melange of forty-nine and finally the modern citizens wh~ are so distinctive that they bid fair to beIf vou like psychology or history, one come a subspecies of their own"ui the following three books from S. E. White in The Forty-Niners. which Miss Anne L. Whitmack, librarian, has selected sample sentences, Anne L. Whitmack Lists may interest you. All of these volumes Several Unusual Novels may be obtained at the Wilmette Pub"There are always some novels that lic library. "I de fine personality as the sum of stand head and shoulders above other the activities that can be discovered 11ovels fur the unusual characters by actual observation of behavior over c·eated, beautiful setting, or lovely a long enough time to give reliable in- and felicitous style," says 11iss Anne formation. In other '"'ords personality L. \Vhitmack, librarian at the Wilm~tte is but the end product of our habit sys- Public library. Miss Whitmack ti·ns tems. Our procedure in study per- the following titles of books to be sonality is the making and plotting of fc. und at the local library which, :-he a cross se~;:tion of the activity stream" says, are outstanding for one or more of these qualities: - Behaviorism by John B. \Vatson. Death Comes for the Archblshop·'The rastons experienced considert 'p ther. ~Iiss Cather has distilled the able trouble over this new-fashioned quintesse nce of the Southwest in this practice of glazing. It was so nove 1, book. and comparatively expensive a thing, )[arlo. Chapdelaine-Hernon. An examthat very often the windows were re- ple of purely modern literature in a purely classic ::;tyle. garded as the personal property of the Joanna God1len-Kaye-Smith. An intenant, and as such, removable at will. tensely real chara<.:ter of simple but \Vhen the Parson of Oxnede quarrelled heroic proportions. with his diocesan superior, he left the Bnt)leror of l~ortuga.IIla -Lagerlof. rectory, taking care to carry off with Touching story told with rare charm [lnd I him both the doors and windows of the simplicity. Jllss Therton Goes Out. The influence house. One of the Pastons' tenants on the lives of a very ordinary but exleft the window frames of his house tr<·mely English family of an old lady xt door, who, though unseen, symboarded up, and it was reported that n l.Jolizes for them the unattainable. the 'windows were hrqken and gone.' When Vatmond Cnme tn PontineAnother tenant refused to 'stop the Parker. The romance of the supposed ~('n of Napoleon in a Canadian \'illage. lyts,' as he only held the house on Curutuules' WUl'-Putnam. Five stories lease, and evidently was afraid that from Herodotus retold with humor .tnd after he had been to the expense of i:lsight. Wlllowf's-,Varner. Only lovers glazing his windows, Paston would of Lolly the unusual will <:are for thi~ tal·· of claim them for his own when the ten- an English spinster who beca.me a witch. Prt·rlous Dane-""ebb. A book of ant left. The law was uncertain in the vitality and color-cOJ11parable matter, and it was not until the time !'ple:ndid only to Hardy in its grim b auty and lo,·e of Henry VIII that the judges decided o[ the soil but gentler and more emothat glass casements were fixtures and tional. ::\Irs. Dallowa:r- 'Voolf. A day in the not movables"-The Pastons and Their life of a cold ambitious woman, a social England by H. S. Bennett. climber, who yet possess('s a certain "The dominant people of California <·lu;-;ive charm. Characterization very have been successively aborigines. con- good. 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