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News Notes Dr., P. W. Wolcott, for many years president of the library board of the Highland Park public library, called on the library staff recently. He was on his way from Denver to Jacksonâ€" ville, Florida. j The following items of interest were taken from the report of the librar‘ian at the regular monthly meeting on September 11: Next to fiction and literature, the fine arts, including gardening, music, painting, ete., followed by biography and travel were the subjects most sought for. Thursday, September 25, 1930 21053 books were borrowed for home use during the summer months of June, July, and August. 381 new library borrowers were registered during the. summer. Miss Ida M. Agruss of St. Louis began her work as the new children‘s librarian at the Highland Park pubâ€" lic library on September 1. Miss Agruss is a graduate of the St. Louis Library school and has for the past two years been a member of the staff of the St. Louis library. Every boy and girl in Highland Park is invited to visit the children‘s room on the second floor of the old city hall where Miss Agruss will help you to find your favorite book friends and also help you to make new ones. Watch for an announcement of the first story hour. > Miss Margaret Armstrong, for the past two years a member of the li« brary staff and for the past year in charge of cataloguing, leaves soon to enter the Library school at the University of Illinois where she has been accepted as a member of the fall class. Old and Rare Books Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, on his trip to England and the Continent, beâ€" came the possessor of one of the most valuable pieces of Americana ever brought to this country. Jt is, in brief, â€"a contemporary . manuscript written by a friend of Columbus, givâ€" ing an account of his voyages and disâ€" coveries in the New World, taken from the.lips of the great navigator himself. We have here first hand inâ€" formation that Columbus was once a bookseller, although the reference is acasual one. ‘This acquaintance of the discoverer of America writes: "There was a man in the land of Milan who was a merchant in books and. who traveled in Andalusia who was calledâ€" Christopher Columbus, a man of high genius, who was not a man of letters, but who was very shrewd in the art of the cosmography of the world, who followed what he had read from Ptolemy and other works regarding the world in which we navigate and walk." This presents a new view of the younger life of Columbus, concerning which general knowledge has been slight, The inâ€" ference is that Columbus was a periâ€" patetic bookseller, carrying his books with him, and seeking trade whereâ€" LIBRARY ver he might find it in that pleasant Spanish province. â€"The Publishers‘ Weekly. For the Defense "Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?" F Emersonâ€"Forbearance. American Naturalists, by H. C. Tracy â€"To substantiate his plea for recogâ€" nition of ‘our nature literature as ranking with the greatest in the world, the author has written a serâ€" ies of essays on American naturalâ€" ists of the past and present, ranging from: Audubon and Thoreau, through Burroughs and Buir, to Andrews and Becbe. In (Berkshire Fields, by W. P. Eatonâ€"The invariable charm of the wuthor is enhanced by the exquisite harmony of the illustrations by Walâ€" ter King Stone.. The book opens with a vigorous brief for the licensing of cats as a measure to save the birds, 2.000,000 of which are lost to their feline enemies each Sanctuary! Sanctuary! by D. L. Sharpâ€"In the great world war beâ€" tween man and nature man has won, und the game is disappearing from the forests and the fish from the sea. Only when a thoughtful man pauses to make sanctuary for the vanishing wildings, can some measure of perâ€" petuation for their race be assured. â€"Your Library, A Good Tool: A Book Wisely Read To the lawyer, the physcian, the preacher, the engineer, the manufacâ€" turer, the manager, the salesman, the fireman, the mason, the painter, to these and to the men of all other callings this truth applies: This is the day in which print is a tool ready for all men‘s hands; those who grasp it and use. it â€"do the most, do it the best; most wisely apply their talents, and if those talents permit, win thereâ€" by to greatness. Kapschul Gets Large County Road Contract Including this road there have been contracts let for $514,000 for county and state aid roads during the present construction period.. Up to this letâ€" ting approximately $211,000 in conâ€" tracts were let by the tounty. T W yeal D hington, D. 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