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FANNY BUTCHER BY fXmS 3 Santa Barbara, Cal. THIS SOMETIMES sun drenched, sometimes fog veiled city, bounded by sea and mountains, is rapidly becoming a think factory," according to Robert M. Hutchins, whom many of us remember with affection as chancellor of the University of Chicago, and whose books on education have been among the most challenging and controversial of his day. He now heads the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions here, and is chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, both of which are housed on the highest hilltop in Montecito, a part of Santa Barbara. There are municipal laws prohibiting manufacturing In town, but none barring research laboratories, and some of the most important industries in the country are establishing their thought factories here.

The University of California has a new branch campus at Goleta, a few miles outside town, and there are enough nationally known writers in the neighborhood to establish a school of writing." A LIVING VERY QUIETLY, on account of his poor health, is Donald Culross Peattie, famed nature writer his wife, Louise Redfield Peattie, writes novels. Not only does Peattie have tender memories of Chicago, where he was born and grew up, but older Chicagoans remember his parents with deep affection. His mother, Elia W. Peattie, who wrote novels and essays, was litarary editor of The Chicago Trib- rSr Kroch's Brentanos THE WORLDS LARGEST BOOKSTORE What actually happens In your children's classrooms? Norihwest coast Indian mask, late 19th century. From Indian Art in America." Magnificent Study of Aboriginal Art INDIAN ART IN AMERICA: The Arts and Crafts of the North American Indian, by Frederick J.

Dockstader (New York Graphic Society, 224 pages, $25). Reviewed by George I. Quimby This magnificent book is an excellent introduction to the Indian art of North America north of Mexico. The format is unusually attractive, and the page size, 10 by 11 Inches, permits the use of large and clear illustrations with accompanying explanations. In 180 black and white pictures and 70 color plates there is a pictorial record of some 2,000 years of American Indian art.

une for many years, and his father, Robert Burns Peattie, was a Tribune editorial writer. I remember Donald Peattie first as a boy, very knowledgeable and perfectly at home with the important grownups more so than I was at his parents' famous Sunday afternoons. One of his loveliest books was "A Prairie Grove," about a square mile just north and west of Chicago that had been settled by his wife's forebears. Peattie still Is listed as a roving editor on the masthead of the Reader's Digest, but he has not been able to do much roving lately. THE PEATTIES live on a quiet street named Glendessary lane after a big, old, early Santa Barbara house called Glendessary, which was the birthplace of Cameron' Rogers, who is the only authentic Barbareno, as he says those born in Santa Barbara are officially called I have met.

He has written many books, among them The Magnificent Idler," a life of Walt Whitman, which is almost a classic. He is working now on a life of his father, Robert Cameron Rogers, who wrote a little poem to his fiancee when they became engaged. It was titled The Rosary." It was meant only for the young woman's two starry eyes, but when Robert Rogers' close friend, Ethelbert Nevln, read it, he thought it would make a song. Rogers was flattered that Nevin wanted to put it to music and gave him the poem, keeping no rights in the words. Cameron Rogers told me that when he was waiting for Mrs.

Nevin in the Colony club in New York City one day, to have lunch with her, and saw her drive up in a Rolls Royce complete with uniformed chauffeur, he wished his father hadn't been so generous. CAMERON ROGERS once was the son-in-law of Irvin S. Cobb, and the late John P. Marquand was his cousin by marriage Marquand's first, to Christina Sedgwick of the famous literary Sedgwick family. Rogers says that the story that The Rosary was written by a Catholic priest who dared not acknowledge its authorship because it was too secular pops up even today.

The novel, The Rosary," by Florence L. Barclay, which was the best seller of 1909 and for a long time afterward, was thought to have been Inspired by the Rogers-Nevin song, which had been published 10 years before. More later about some other literary members of this think factory city for instance, Jay Monaghan, former Illinois state historian, who is at work on an Intriguing historical book about his adopted state's gold rush. v-' i czzzmmsi History Out of Balance THE ARCHITECTURE OF AMERICA: A Social and Cultural History, by John Burchard and Albert Bush-Brown (Atlantic-, Little, Brown, 595 pages, $15). Reviewed by Ruth Philbnick The title of this book suggests that it deals Impartially with all periods of American United States culture and architecture.

But one soon discovers that the) years 1600 to 1885 are dealt with in 192 pages and that 315 pages are devoted to the last 85 years. Even tho there has been a greater volume of building in those latter years, the imbalance does not seem justified. The authors emphasize the inequity by making evident their dislike and their lack of understanding of nearly every style of architecture before 1885, or, more to the point, before the first buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Naturally, opinions have a role in social commentary, and in this volume they add much to its readability. But the authors would win adherents to their opinions more easily if they had at least occasionally viewed architecture of the past thru the eyes and with the taste of its period.

As it is, they seem to have made their survey entirely from a 1960 viewpoint typical of that advanced in the architecture schools of today. In keeping with that viewpoint, the work of Wright, Gro-pius, van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier is discussed at length and with the suggestion that in their influence and achievements they overshadow all other architects. Unfortunately, the illustrations, of which there are 91, are not keyed to the text. Therefore, of the hundreds of buildings very few are depicted. As a whole, the book appeals as an all-out attempt to synthesize a wide variety of knowledge.

One cannot help but wonder, however, whether at the wrong points the views of John Burchard, the social scientist, were allowed to outweigh those of Albert Bush-Brown, the architectural historian. Ruth Philbrkk is an architectural historian on the staff of the University of Chicago. The Schools By Martin Mayer $495 Ci Martin May The pictorial record, for the most part, is a kind of catalog of fine 19th century ethnological specimens selected from the collections of the Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation in New York. There are also archeological objects including some 2,000 year old Hopewell ornaments from Chicago Natural History museum, as well as a few examples of contemporary painting by modern Indian artists of the western United States. A carping specialist might feel compelled to point out a few shortcomings such as instances of incorrect dates off a thousand years, color plates where the background color is so strong that it attracts more attention than the art object itself, and some disagreement with small parts of the text.

In the total pattern of the book, however, these particular objections do not seem of great importance. Frederick Dockstader's book is a reflection of the awakening interest in the art of primitive societies by connoisseurs of the civilized world, who first turned their attentions to Africa and the South seas and now are discovering aboriginal America. For anyone already interested in American Indian art or for anyone who wishes to be introduced to the subject, I highly recommend this beautiful new book. Writing in terms of those most closely involved teachers and students The Schools tells you what actually happens in American classrooms from kindergarten through high school. To get these facts, Martin Mayer visited public and private schools throughout the United States, including numerous schools in the Chicago area.

He reports on them in detail. In addition, because so much of the controversy in education deals with assertions of what European children do or do not do, he studied the schools of Britain, France, Denmark, Finland and Norway. The result is a book to be read with pleasure, a book that cuts through slogans and statistics to give you solid information about what your children do in their schools. And around these facts the author has placed his own interpretations and judgments. They are clearly marked as his own.

Your reactions are left to you. YOUR SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Get your copy of THE SCHOOLS at any store, order by telephone at DEarborn 2-7500, or use the handy coupon. If you are not completely satisfied, return the book within 7 days for an immediate refund. George Quimby is curator of North American and ethnology at Chicago Natural History museum. Spice for Platform Performances SPEAKER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMOR, by Jacob M.

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