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A Selected List of Important Fall Books

KEEPING MENTALLY FIT

By Joseph Jastrow

This volume is written for the average man and woman. It strips the tenets of sound psychological theory to an understandable basis, expressing it in everyday terms and concrete concepts. $3.50 NET

ANTHROPOLOGY AND MODERN LIFE

By Franz Boas, Ph.D.

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In this volume the author, drawing on the experience, of a long and distinguished career, makes evident to us the value of a knowledge of anthropology--the science of the natural history of man and his culture--to an understanding of our modern life.   $3.00 NET

BENEATH TROPIC SEAS

By William Beebe

Through Mr. Beebe's sensitive perceptions and reactions the story of his Haitian expedition becomes more than scientific history. It becomes also writing of fantastic beauty, philosophy, fascinating travelogue and adventure into the deep-sea world whose dimensions are so strange and glamorous.   $3.50 NET

JOHN CAMERON'S ODYSSEY

Edited by Andrew Farrell

Thrilling wrecks, sudden death, storms, hungry months on a deserted island, cannibals, savage chiefs, heathen rites, drunkes traders, Spanish dons, rogues, murderous fights,--all crowd the pages of this true tale of the adventures of Captain John Cameron a salty sailor of the old clipper era.   $4.00 NET

THE HEART OF JOHN BURROUGH'S JOURNALS

Edited by Clara Barrus

Clara Barrus, the old naturalist's informally adopted daughter, who mothered him through his last lonely years, now weaves a memorial wreath from leaves of his Journals. The book is good, eminently readable, the true record of a long and many-colored life.   $3.00 NET

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