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And speaking of family reading: no doubt you have found that a boo}: written for children but so well Written tha it is good literature. is also likely‘ to interest adults. For experiment try “Wind In the Willows." Then there are what Miss Evansu calls “luxury volumes.” One of these is Great Paintings," an expensive, large-paged book with many full page colour reproductions of famous pictures. (This would make the baSis for an illustrated talk at an Institute Meeting.) Another luxury book is 3 Folk Song Book, profusely illustrated, with words and mus1c and little historical sketches of folk songsâ€" ballads. work songs, marching songs, Christ- mas Carols, old hymns and Negro Spirituals. Expensive as these books are, the librarian will stock more copies if people Show that they want them and that they will use them. A number of Women's Institutes are making Good Reports from Institutes over the PmVinCe show that our women are interested in good films. especially good films for Young People: With this in mind we recommend the picture "Ivanhoe" which will reach our smaller cities and tOWns this winter. This is a dramatic, spectacular picture, packed with excitement and actionâ€"jousts, duels and battles with bows and arrows and horses and longswords. The producers have spared no pains to re- produce the life of the period, from baronial halls to battleâ€"axes and roast oxen, and to follow closely the events of Sir Walter Scott’s novelâ€"the adventures of the chivalrous Ivanhoe, played by Robert Taylor, the love story of Ivanhoe and the beautiful Rowena (Joan Fontaine), the noble part played by Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor), the trickery of Prince John (Guy Rolfe), the breathtaking tournaments featuring Ivanhoe and Bois Guilhert (George Sanders) and quieter scenes where human emotions and loyalties appear at their best, The film has been recommended to high school students to supplement their reading of Scott‘s classic romantic novel. At the Women’s Institute conventions this fall there was considerable discussion about films suitable for children. Since convention time the Children’s Film Library of Canada has issued its annual report with the encourâ€" aging news that the Motion Picture Industry has met the criticism regarding "violence" and “unsuitability” for children by increasing the output of family type films, now risen from five per cent to over twenty-eight per cent of their total production. Neighbourhood ex- hibitors have been influenced to book these But, as Mrs.lPurce11 pointed out at the Insti: tute conventions, when we get the manager re to order a good film for for family reading. Movies good use of the travelling libraries. Elizabeth branch in Algoma brought in th, , libraries for their community last year , course the travelling libraries are mit 51.,“ I organizations that have a county library w, its own travelling service. Where L, W, niunity library cannot afford all the rum specialized books it may call on the Travelhn Libraries for assistance. Farm Rad“, For“; make good use of travelling librarir-- m study of special subjects. In 1951 tlll row; . ordered thirtyâ€"two boxes of books, in they ordered eighty boxes. The remnmi, Institutes for the same years ordered in 1951‘ fortyâ€"six boxes; in 1952, twenty-thin. hurt: There is no charge for the use 0| - ling library except that you pay fly, charges when the books arrive; thlsi are; turned C.O.D. To order a library writ ‘ ' ling Libraries Branch, Commun - grammesâ€"206 Huron Street, Toroni Prmpm I,‘ . it n. V and , our children go to see this picture we might find it worth seeing oursc' there might be something we could u a little advance publicity. The Children‘s Film Library Comn issued a list of 150 top ranking film» for children. Following are a few of 1 . Henry Aldrichâ€"Boy Scout, Solar Neighbours to the North, Dog Crazy. ’i Ballerina, Boy Who Stopped Nias Pictures from Rhodesia, Stablemates berry Finn, The Yearling, Love L; Andy Hardy, Captain Courageous, Yi Edison, Date With Judy, Little Wom: lenge to Lassie, Stars in My Crowr of Flanders, Mother Carey’s Chick Sea Hawk, Penrod and Sam, Princr: . i Pauper, Poor Little Rich Girl, Rel 2i Sunnybrook Farm, Black Beauty, l1 a AL! « Lincoln, Scudda Hooâ€"Scudda Hay him? _7 of Rusty, Adventure in Silverado, inn «‘1 RUSUE Song of India, Palomino, Fa r133 Bachelor, Inside Newfoundland, Che" Ase 1“ Lassie, Community Sing, It’s Fun 1 Fuck Chasers, Famous Fish I’ve MD Canada, Rescue Mission, Red Pony, ' it: i» ', a Bengal Lancer. ' An increasing number of Instiiii s are buying projectors, borrowing films 7 n: thé National Film Board centre in the dis! .t. am Putting on their own neighbourhofl “Wit nights. The National Film Board ( JIOEU‘ lists around six hundred films and f1? strip with some most intriguing titles. Coy-’5 mat, he had from the National Film Board. 1 310“ Office, 4 University Ave., Toronto. *i’tttak't “Where no wood is, the fire fit")? out; where no tale-bearer is, the SW8 ceaseth.”â€"Old Proverb HOME AND mum!"