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THE PHILADELPHIA IIQVIREI 800K REVIEW, FEBRUARY t(, (94T 9 Adventures in Home-Building Paul Corey Portrays Modern Frontier Family showing the progress of the building at Five Acre Hill, are a definite asset. W. McF. ten an interesting adult book about his own successful house-building adventure. With so excellent a realistic theme it seems unfortunate that Corey felt it necessary to inject three melodramatic type villains into his picture; and particularly to reform two of them in the end in a completely unconvincing manner.

One villain the one that stays unreformed would have been quite enough, and the real complications growing out of the day-by-day adventures at Five Acre Hill are sufficient to hold the interest of modern young people, many of whom are tired of making ships' models and puppet shows and wanting to get their clever, eager fingers into real and constructive work. Aside from one sour note, however, this is a valuable and fascinating book. The illustrations by James FIVE ACRE HILL. By Paul Corey. William Morrow: New York.

273 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by WILMA MeFARLAND THE theme of Paul Corey's "Five Acre Hill" Is a timely one that will appeal not only to the high school group for which the book is intended but to many older readers as well. Any one of any age who has a yen to move to the country will follow with deep interest the story of the Woodward family Bob and Jane, and young Jon and Phyllis who, on a budget of $10.00 a week saved from their current expenses, build a small wooden emergency shack on their five-acre country plot and later a comfortable stone house There is also the business of terracing their garden, raising and canning their first crops and adjusting to permanent life in a country community. The exciting thing about this book is that it is a true picture, drawn from the experience of the author, who has already writ IN GERMANTOWN IT'S THE FRIGATE BOOK SHOP We Recommend "CREATION CONTINUES" by FRITZ KUNKEL Cwmantown Ave.

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J. Maloney: New York. 71 pp. $2.00. TONI FRISSELL, already well-known for her outdoor fashion pictures and her work as a wartime camera reporter for the Red Cross, has lately been winning new attention by her photographs of children in their natural playtime settings.

The "Happy Island" is, of course, Bermuda, and the attractive photographs have been set to a running narrative which tolls a story about children visiting the island. Houses that look like spun candy, long bicycle rides, swimming In water that is as "clear and bubbly as ginger ale," wearing seaweed mustaches and wigs of "mermaid hair" all make Bermuda play run. The pictures have been excellently reproduced to show full-scale tones from light to dark, and there Is no doubt ibout the enchanting spell they carry. a ro c-3 g-J (r-3 c-3 r-o ROMMANY LUCK. By Patricia Gordon.

Illustrated by Rafa-ello Busoni. Viking Press: New York. 206 pP. $2.00. GYPSY life was beset with hardship in the days of Queen Elizabeth.

Often the Rommany folk were hard put to keep out of the country's crowded jails. But there were freedom and adventure and the irresistible glamor of the open road as well, and in "Rommany Luck" Patricia Gordon has written a rous- ing good story of a Gypsy boy of that time. Orlando and his dog are fortunate enough to be away when danger threatens. When he returns from fishing, he finds, not the usual pattern which will enable him to follow his family, but the dreaded evil sign that means a Rommany is In great trouble. A friendly farmer and his wife befriend the frightened boy and help him get to town in disguise.

There he finds that a local landowner has had the "Egyptians" rounded up and thrown into prison, swearing he will hang them all for poaching. Orlando slips Into the prison and talks with his mother through a barred window, She gives him a ring of identification and sends him off to obtain the help of a nobleman who remembers his debt to the Gypsies. How Orlando gets that help at the feet of Queen Elizabeth herself constitutes the rest of an exciting and colorful story. Good reading for the 10-to-14 age group. ra tf-w r- -t RUMBLE OF A DISTANT DRUM.

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