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P OKUHOP LMUUAT C*EDS SaIam Say if with.à BOOK or a Iovety box of S.ýTATIONERY' ,7. us'.> and send as igi s, chivalry and the days of King Ar- thur mustý stili lurk in mnany a twentîeth century breast, for John Erskine's,,poppular interpretation of those times Is now superseded by T. H. White's The S wo rd in the Stone. A fantasy on King Arthurs boyhood and his. education by Mer- lyn, the magician, it bas been chosen a, book-of-the-mnonth. Al In ail, the new version amountÉ to a tempting literary hash of mod- ern dialogue and human ýps5rchology. medieval 'terminology, medieval his- tory.-,and-,a gnrus dash of imag- ination. Fer Cbildren Recmmended as a story book Hahn, 370 Walnut The aboyé handbook .will be of particular interest to stamp, collec- tors and philatellsts specializing in the early issues of United States stamps. It contains a complete Ist- of the fIrut LUnited States issue, narne- .ly that of 1847. Its editor, Mannel Hahn of Winnetka, says the book is the tirnt compilation of this informa- tion and was gathered from ivarlous sources in the last eight years. AusIt Editer Local ýresidents who assisted with thecopatn include Heyliger -de- Windt, Jr., formerly o! Wint, now of Boston; Arthur Van Vlls8lng- en of Lake, 'Bluff, and Ernest X,.: Jaeobs of Evanston. ffimore, one of lus ays:. you mnust stay and false Knight" jous't 1 t wrong?" "'I believe published by the' magazine, "Postal Markings," of which Mr. Hahn is also editor. The book contains a quantity of informa- tion about stampa of this period. WrMites tife neetown receiveci just as niany, Mr. Hahn says. The Winnetka post of- fice, according t0 the most reliabie information now at hand, the first i the North Shore area, was establish- ed about 1860. Ernest R. Jacnbs, in .rueut.eing thei ýpruJ,>.r.place tmiS man ieral was at least Fred- and who achleved bril- in his day as scadier eadds: "0f cours e, tthe illustra- c f the varius postal markings of greatest use to those o! us who our stamps on cover. The list- of the railroads and of the places ru se d these cancellations rever possible wiil be cf great ýand 1 like, too. the provision 1 o . 1 i, on, ,.Neven ,reas, .d by Harper 1*ul pair of 'Il ever hawli