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CAUDs SaOi They t.U us- VWe Me .your Itu el- flou of tod oew béoksol 1928 and 19.35-or between tne twenty- ninth and thirty-ninth yeàrs of his life, the Period cduring which he became ail American writer. He says: "I wish. to empliasize : this is only a partial Pic- ture of my America. It is made up- mo)saic-like-around a central theme- of things and people, chiefly people. within my experience and observation during these last ten years in the United States that seeni interesting or signi- ficant to me personally as an individual and as an American, and lend themn- selves to telling at this tume. "In 1932 1 published a semi-autobio- «raplbical volume called Lauighing in the Jungle, in which I tried to put upon pa- nersorienf the. e1ements of 111V ela- àt the stands first. To understanci tmerca- as it was, as it is, as it may be-7we must have a true picturé of the actuat land on which we live. Behold: Our Land W: ýRussel Lord, gives such a: picture f rom early -geologic times to the present crîsis. This story of our soit begins. befo r e there was life on this planet. In dra- matic retrospect. we see how the land was formed, how, it. developed, and finally how it appeared to the settiers who first trod the virgin continent. We sec what they did in'a few decades to the product of niany ýthousand years; We trace the wavesý of westward migra- tioni in. termÉ of the land; we. corne down at Iast to the floods, the dùst stornis, the desperate efforts at Coli-' flot every day that ýperas forming in a cc Lit thzal nrivi1e ~is again, the cnlinary genlua et wh the - otel Moraine kitcghesl w She rettirnu t. us after a triusiphant v few monthe et Deerpath Inn, followint yew ber Siumer eason et The Moraine 's laut yeur. e rs Russell Lord, for many yearý asso- in, ciate editor of The Country Hoinc, rs, has served in the Soul Conservation an, service. 0f his first book, Mlen of fe, Earth, Mark Van Doren wrote: "Sel- vedom bas the American farmffer been )ooi, but also a nopelul mie. it is human, for the ultirnate fthe soil to which al else ie "human crop." n critTilol, discuss iinals. On. .5- zv Co, nhe Two-Volume fion of 47 Pays on. June 14. ~'~* L. raybor, of the ny, helped the; correct the p j 1Iinstrt flrst