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THOMAS JEFFERSON-Hendrik Willem Van Loon-Dodd, Mead ($2.50); The present generation, says Author Van Loon (Van Loon's Geography-TIME, Sept. 12, 1932; The Arts-TIME, Oct. 4, 1937), should have object lessons in the lives of "nice, comfortable, decent, human heroes with nobility in their souls." Thomas Jefferson is such a lesson-106 pages of amiable discourse. Only a general outline is given of Jefferson as statesman, and the book is likely to go down best with youth. Illustrations in color and line-plus-wash by the author...
...pure-bred or crossbred weighing at least 50 lb., between one and five years old, at least 20 inches tall at the shoulder, physically and temperamentally sound. Among the dogs already enlisted are Violinist Jascha Heifetz' great Dane, Information Pleaser Franklin P. Adams' collie, Author Hendrik Van Loon's Newfoundland...
Said Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon: "The names of wars, like war slogans and war songs, are not made, they are born. Something may happen at a moment's notice which will give us the name. Until then we can't create one artificially...
TIME'S account of the fall of Singapore, especially the paragraphs headed "Whose fault?" certainly makes Hendrik Willem van Loon out to be a prophet...
...Loon's Geography, published in 1932, he closes chapter XXXVI as follows...