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A rich and varied harvest of 4^ newly-published books ranging from perceptive analyses oi America in turmoil to a touching little novel about adolescents ai camp has been received by the Rappahannock Library from Eri< Sevareid as his second gift oi books to the Lois Finger Sevareit Memorial Fund.
The book about the young campers is Bless the Beasts ant Children by Glendon Swarthout The fictional locale is Box Canyo« Boys Camp, where the nail biters thumb suckers and teeth-grinder: “were the castaway offspring o: parents busy traveling, being divorced, remarrying and gar nering fortunes.” They were, ir short, rejects, until they found t leader to guide them toward theii own psychological salvation ir what the dust jacket describes as “a fantastic mission.” “ One of the new books which should be of widespread interest is Summerhill: For and Against, a freewheeling critique in which outstanding writers in education sociology and psychology evaluate the concepts of A. S. Neill’s revolutionary approach to education, first proclaimed a decade or so ago, when not a single bookseller in the country was willing to place an advance order for even one copy of his trail-blazing Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing. Today Neill’s book is required reading in 600 university courses, and interest in his school has become worldwide, although his methods and principles are still highly controversial. The range of critics swings in this book from
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