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Abstract Abstract World War II — A Survey of Recent Literature, Joseph S. Roucek BIOGRAPHY: The Hero in America by Dixon Wetter. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons. 530 pp. $3.50. The Soong Sisters by Emily Hahn. Illustrated. Doubleday Doran. 349 pp. $3.00. EDUCATION: Parental Income and College Opportunities by Helen Bertha Goetsch. Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City. 146 pp. $1.85. And Still the Waters Run by Angie Debo. Princeton University Press. 402 pp. $4.00. Planning the Community School by N. L. Engelhardt and N. L. Engelhardt, Jr. The American Book Company. 176 pp. $2.50. The Nineteen Forty Mental Measurements Yearbook by Oscar Kreisen Buros, editor, The Mental Measurements Yearbook, Highland Park, New Jersey. 674 pp. $6.00. The Junior College Movement by Carl E. Seashore. Henry Holt and Company- 156 pp. $1.75. The Teaching and Administration of High School Music by Peter W. Dykema and Karl W. Gehrkens, C. C. Birchard & Company, Boston. 614 pp. $4.00. The Universities in Transformation by Adolf Löwe. The Macmillan Company. 62 pp. $40. FICTION: Feast of Reason by Dorothy Walworth. Farrar and Rinehart. 320 pp. $2.50. Northern Winter by Gösta af Geijerstam, E. P. Dutton and Company. 178 Pp. $2-50. Spring Symphony by Eleanor Painter. Harper and Brothers. 362 pp. $2.50. The Longbow Murder by Victor Luhrs, W. W. Norton. 304 pp. $2.00. GENERAL LITERATURE: Garden Clubs and Spades by Laurence McKinney. Pictures by Helen E. Hokinson, E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. 64 pp. $1.00. The Gang's All Here by Harvey Smith. Princeton University Press. 325 pp. $2.50. Their Finest Hour. Edited by Allan A. Michie and Walter Graebner. Illustrated. Harcourt, Brace and Company. 226 pp. + xiv. $2.50. True Comics, published bi-monthly by the Parents Institute, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, 64 pp. 10c a copy. 60c a year. Published by George J. Hecht, edited by David T. Marke, with an editorial board of junior advisors including Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, and senior advisors including George H. Gallup, Gertrude Hartman, Arthur T. Jersild (Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University), David C. Knowlton (Professor of Education, Social Studies, New York University), Clara Savage Littledale (Editor of Parents' Magazine), David S. Muzzey (Emeritus Professor of History, Columbia University), and Hendrik Willem van Loon. HISTORY:The Kaw: heart Of A Nation by Floyd Benjamin Streeter. Illustrated. Farrar and Rinehart. 371 pp. $2.50. The Shaker Adventure: an Experiment in Contented Living by Marguerite Fellows Melcher. Princeton University Press. 319 pp. $3.00 Turkey by Emil Lengyel. Illustrated. Random House. 474 pp. $3.75. SCIENCE: The Principles of Electrochemistry by Duncan A. MacInnes, Reinhold Publishing Corp., 478 pp. $6.00. SOCIAL STUDIES: Faith for Living by Lewis Mumford. Harcourt, Brace and Company. 333 pp. $2.00. Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins. Reynal and Hitchcock. Illustrated. In collaboration with Lewis Galantiere. 339 pp. $3.00. We Have A Future by Norman Thomas. Princeton University Press. 236 pp. $2.50. TRAVEL: Hawaii, A Profile, with 87 Pictures; Porto Rico, A Profile with 87 Pictures; The Virgin Isles, A Profile, with 92 Pictures. By Merle Colby, Duell, Sloane and Pearce, New York. $1.00 each.