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HARDWICK 531 pages. Scribner...
...that what children need in books today is not "blobs and treacle but heroic nourishment, a sense of wonder, and pictures with enough texture and detail to be worth poring over again and again." He remembers "getting up at dawn, creeping into the room where N.C. Wyeth's Scribner's Classics were kept, and long before I could read, brooding over the pictures in Robinson Crusoe, The Boy 's King Arthur and Jules Verne's Michel Strogoff...
...WYETH: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals edited by Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen Jr. 335 pages. Crown. $29.95. More than a dozen of N.C. Wyeth-illustrated Scribner's Classics (The Yearling, Westward Ho, The Black Arrow, The Deerslayer, etc.) are still in print in hardback from $6 to $10. This year Scribner's is offering fancy paperback editions, at $3.95, all with original color, of Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped, Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur...
...last Wednesday's meeting, the Trustees also voted to appoint Harvey B. Scribner, chancellor of the New York City public school system, a tenured professor of Education...
...Scribner, allegedly booted out for his efforts to decentralize New York City's school system and to liberalize educational policy, will assume the position at UMass next fall...