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more as a living companion than as a magazine,. ud «'Its as much abdY to me as my neighborhood chunfi," writes. one high school senior.. "Tîie AMERICAN BOY seems to understand a boy.s. problemns and -consideérs them i Uuch 'a Sympa- thetie an)d heiptui way. It gives advice and entertaining readimg on every sub- J'ect i which a young fellow is interested. It is particularly heipful i sports. 1 inade our school baskétball teamn becauge of pLayln tipsi; 1read. in THE AMERICAN, ritau LUJ very- Ws famous coach or p al,. track, tennis, port is covered ln ai ail sports ýcess to heipful a sports articles CAN BOY Mag- ie offers advice ýlayer. Football, h act eVery fiction and fact memory as one of those infreqiuent moments when historY was the stage manager of a great and soul-stirring tragedy.ý The $tory, of Lincoln's.death. contained ail the elements of draina, action, 'suspense, terror, mystery and sudden. death. Dramatlzlug Mur-dèr ThIe men invoived in it were as, strange a group of characters. as was ever assembied on history's stage- villains, clowns and murderers, al bent on taking a great man's life at the peak of bis career.- Curiously' enough, the assassination bas neyer been written for its.pureiy dramatic "illiiaz h T. lh. fMa ,n ,Who Killed . pub- tg to Teturn to the, peniten- *A domestie novel, one of many which relate to divorce and unfaith- fuiness, written by a woman, about a woman, and apparently for women, isiFrost Flower by Helen Hull. re- cently serialized under the titie Love Wlt haut Lau ghter. Rather thinin plot (Phyllis Coll- ings and ber, husband. Edwin,, have different moral:» backgrounds, and therefore different attitudes toward -sin. and forgiveness), Frost Flower is ciothed with life and reality by the author's .st r o n g character sketches and ber a bility to pile up that mass, of, detail in which every Woman becomnes invoived if she is a home-maker. nousehold Routine,ý While Phyllils passes through the internai eonflict of a great psycholog- ical crisis she miust. continue the entertaining gu ests, ordering flowers, planning menus, and shopping with ber young daughter, about to go> off to school. Like a juggler keeping five balis in the air simultaneously, she feels a sense of responsibility for the bar- mninous living together of the five strong personalities in ber famiy- an adolescent son, a fine oid xrand- The, some of the stiii surrounding the how the next1 A book to delighf thé whol. famiIyI unsiveaV case, and w years Lnpublisfeci, as ans for the pri award is asked, synopsis or a ontents, with ,ents in P-nylIis Uollg' life occurred many years before. 'er this gap and to explain wby ids herseif, in the forties, in a ament caused by old indiscre- 1 le r?