The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

be admired only. One of the surprising things is that there are always more lovely quilts Just for display than there are for sale. Not much wonder. though‘ for after putting so much work and time on these lovely creations, who wants to part with them?" “A Summer Burning” On the first page of A Summer Burning. a new novel by Harry J. Boyle. we read: “As youngsters we accumulate deep down in our minds a kind of reservoir of semi- emotional garbage about the so-called rights and wrongs of living and behaving . . . It comes from our parents who are so well-mean- ing they pass it on as a legacy. They inherited it and feel they must give it to us as a moral shield against the evils of reality. “It becomes an activated curse to the ma- jority of men and women in North America at middle age or sooner. All this debris has been recorded on the memory side of our brains. It's the virus that comes up to plague all our actions. For the youth who goes straight from adolescence to Cloister it doesn‘t matter be_ cause of the immunity. It fouls up the active mind of those who live and work in the real world. because this unctoistered world is not a virgin one. It's an adulterous one. which. while worshipping purity, uses evil when it is oppor- tune and exists mainly in a confused state of justified sin." This is the theme of the book. In the story Joc Doyle grows up to his sixteenth summer in the shelter of a good family life on an Ontario farm. Then. through a welfare service. a tough boy from the slums of Toronto comes to spend the summer on the farm and Joe is Men who acted as models in in Fashion Show arranged by themselves as or feature of the program at Dromore Institutes Variety Concert and Annual At Home. 32 Second from left, Mrs, Agnes Leonard, charter of Grace Patterson Institute in Oxford North ninetieth birthday, at a dinner given in her hr her Institute. At left is her sister, Miss Grace P. for whom the branch was named. Others are 1‘ President, Mrs. Lorne Daniels and Mrs_ Alex suddenly exposed to “a world in which i- and liquor. sex. prostitution and Grim principal roles." We do not recommend this book for 1 at women‘s meetings as we recommend- Boyle's earlier books, Mostly in Chm Homebrew and Patches. It's not that l. book. But it might give mothers and fathers and others who care about “he pens to youth a revelation of some of [It an adolescent boy has to meet. some . battles he has to fight within himself an confusion because no one has ever helpc to see why certain things are right and - are wrong. Perhaps some readers will compare .-4 mar Burning with Salginer’s Catcher 1 Rye. A difference. as we see it, is it. Catcher in the Rye everyone the boy has with seems perverted in some way. 8W: fluence bent to destroy him. A Sunmwr‘ : ing has the compassion and warmth cl teristic of Harry Boyle’s work. There Doyle family‘s understanding tact in the forts to bring some happiness to the illâ€"st lad who is their guest, and their rapport their own boy. so that even though the give him little specific guidance. even I‘l'l he sometimes wins and sometimes loses I struggle to stand by his conscience, the ‘ leaves little doubt that he will grow in emotional maturity. . A Summer Burning is written with thC of a master story teller. Published by D“ day; price $4.95. Ills thlil wig. HOME AND COUi-tttt‘l’