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

two huge Scoharie barns combined into one massive structure, can fascinate the yiSitor by the hour with implements showing pioneer in- genuity. The steadily growing library is 'amas- sing reference data that will become priceless with the passing years. Valuable as these are in themselves they are only part of the real living museum of Upper Canada Village. the working and breathing community itself where the cabinet maker, the blacksmith, sawyer, spinners, weavers and others skilled in their crafts pursue their occu- pations at a pace and in surroundings redolent of the splendid ruggedness of pioneer days. That the Village is fast becoming a major tourist attraction is gratifying but incidental. Its importance as a national monument is al- ready established and will increase tremen- dously as the era it mirrors slides farther away into the past. Those who visit it in later generations will be pilgrims as well as tourists. It is inspiring also the establishment of other pioneer villages, although some, of course. pre- ceded it. and though less ambitious in scope are nevertheless treasure houses of history. In this connection highest praise is due the Wom- en‘s Institute historical committee which has done valuable service in preserving and re- searching local documents. The Institute, no less than the team of experts who created Upper Canada Village, are illuminating the future by keeping bright the light of the past. UNESCO Publications NESCO publications currently in print are listed in the Unesco Publications Check List (with supplement) June 1961, copies of which may be obtained free of charge from the Queen‘s Printer, Ottawa, or the Canadian National Commission for Unes- co, 140 Wellington Street, Ottawa 4. The Check List includes titles of books and pe- riodicals which may be obtained from the Queen‘s Printer, Ottawa. or from the Queen's Printer bookshops in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. All orders for books are payable in advance. Small brochures, listing books and pam- phlets in special fieldsâ€"education, libraries and Librarians, Press, Film, Radio, Television, So- cial Sciences, scientific and technical publica- tions and publications of general interestâ€"may also be obtained from the Queen’s Printer or the National Commission, free of charge. _The Canadian National Commission also distributes, free of charge, a booklet entitled "Opportunities for Service in Asia", a report of a tour made by Mr. Lewis Perinbam in the. summer of 1961 on behalf of Canadian University Service Overseas.-â€"Jane Banfield. 24 “Mostly in Clover” A Book Recommended for Institute Readings HEN THE ONTARIO Department of Agriculture gave leaders of .i.H Homemaking Clubs a trip to the Royal Winter Fair in November, a highlight or {he entertainment was a luncheon with Hurrt' i Boyle as guest speaker. Mr. Boyle’s «mot; "Mostly In Clover" had just come 0|: [he pressso this was the first audience to he,” readings from it. “Mostly In Clover" is a book of ska." .hcs. essays, reminiscences, all telling the sum. or the author’s childhood and growing-up .1” on an Ontario farm. It is a book of hli‘ inn and sympathy, colour and warmth. The .i hm- writes of country ways with amusemer- hut always with understanding and a no» gut very moving to readers who knew rur:‘ ,ln- tario a few decades ago and who love u Harry Boyle does. Following the cycle of the year, we r: i of winter battles to keep the farm house -. in, how the family got started reading i' is. Christmas in the country with skating t‘ «is and school concerts, neighbours rallyii to hunt for a lost child or to fight a barr re. the behaviour of farm animals let out to » "r: pasture, a little boy’s world in the back it. hired men and country characters, visits t al- atives, the blessing of grandparents. n- ig the parlor stove out to the woodsth i he spring and back again in the fall. Occasu iy there is a story of heartbreak or tragct of the sort known to every country communi: Since the book is a record of the am :5 youth it touches the normal experienct «.il adolescence, sometimes troubled but gov to remember, set as they are in a warm I. it life and a simple, friendly neighbourhond. iii paragraph on a farm boy‘s achievemer =n whistling is typical of both the content M the whimsical style of the book: “My first efforts in the direction of whc ":1 took place in the barn or barnyard wher i0 one was around. Nevertheless I had ~ ‘6 powerful critics. The hens cocked inquis re eyes at me. The grey goose waddling at ‘5‘ to the puddle beside the horse trough at” ‘I- doned her plans and went back down *1? laneway to the pond. The barn cats flet 30 the house and the bull snorted, rattling "5 chains as if being pursued by a demon.” “MOstly in Clover" would provide some “11‘ tertaining readings for Institute meetings‘ PM" lishers, Clarke Irwin and Co., Toronto: pm? $3.75. (Ethel Chapman.) c. HOME AND couNt‘RY