On the following Four Pages - March's Best Book - For Each of Our Four Age-Groups

Sep 28, 2026

A Pro Parvulis Book Club editorial issue announces Reverend Paul Tanner’s acceptance as Board of Editors member and reprints a series of four American essays titled “Tenets for Reviewers.” It then presents curated book selections for different age groups, focusing on Eric Kelly’s The Land of the Polish People for younger children and describing a Marconi biography for older boys. Reviews emphasize Catholic cultural identity, history, and inspiring educational storytelling.

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From the Editor's Desk

Father Paul Tanner

“Enets for Reviewers"

On the following Four Pages

March's Best Book

For Each of Our Four Age-Groups

Selected for Group One

Selected for Group Two

Land of the Polish People Gwrent Land of the Polish PeopleMarconi Selectiow Rose of AmericaGolden Apples of the Sun PRO PARVULIS BOOK CLUB Empire State Building,New York,I,N.Y. # FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK FATHER PAUL TANNER Pro Parvulis Book Club takes pleasure in announcing that Reverend PaulTanner,National Director of the Youth Department of the National CatholicWelfare Council,has accepted a position on the Board of Editors.Father Tan-ner's work with youth is "To facilitate the exchange of information regardingthe philosophy.organization,program-content and methods of Catholic Youthwork."And we all know how important to church and state is such a work to-day.Father Tanner brings to Pro Parvulis a working consciousness of the needsof today's young people and of the import of all hat must be done for them.He is on the front line of the nation's most serious problem,its children. # “ENETSFORREVEWERS The series of four essays "Tenets for Reviewers"published in America inDecember,attracted such continuing,wide interest,it has become necessaryto reprint the series.It is now available in booklet form,paper-covered,fromThe America Press at ten cents a copy."Tenets for Reviewers"is the work,asyou may have heard,of Father Harold Gardiner,S.J.,Director of Pro Par- n f The To ub E.BOYSTH E. B oyd Smith is deod ad at the age of 83. . While my mind registered registheed teon ”Th icken orl”on“Rnson 0e" nd"Th u nAllwords my memory was busily at work.recalling pictures from "The Farm Book"”u 1+”:recolin bit from the picturebook texts tho ferithfuly om.panied the many full-page drawings.His watercolors were handled in sub-dued browns and pinks and faded,almost sere greens,after the manner ofWalter Crane and Ronwlandson, Rof the tiny, perfectly drawlandsonnimlseople on andsces,ws sketched with technic contro ofmnuo tho+beog t noe u EB Smth H ocked th ighpir.te istery eo,th drollery o Pdmexye hoV een icden in publiclibr sit, bobed in his ountr Book”whle fimetkd owyuiced An there i uiet,but continuin de fo theBoyd Smith editions of "Ivanhoe"and "Robinson Crusoe"which will probablygo on as long as there is appreciation for the serene quality of his art.Withschool of English book-illustration that has gioven children Leslie Brooke eanchldrs reondrne ond Rnolph Codecot ond Tenniel ond Cuickshank, AthurRkhom ngh Thomson,rich contrbtion extending thrghh Thomson, hef lg the 's cidren。k E.Boyd Smith,one of the last artists of his school passes.He belonged to the 21 The Polish Eagle # On the following Four PagesMarch's Best Book For Each of Our Four Age-Groups 3 ## Selected for Group One Younger Children THE LAND OF THE POLISH PEOPLE By ERIC KELLY As I was reading this new book of Eric Kelly's the significant words Chesterton wrote inThe End of the Armistice”kept coming between me and the pages;that,Standing whereit does...Poland is the only nation in the western sense,in which Ireland is a nation;or,for that matter,in wbich England is a nation.”I kept remembering Paderewski,lying instate in St.Patrick's Catbedral,in New York,a sultry July afternoon in 1941.The red,beau-tiful Polish flag draped his casket;itall Polish guards in horizon-blue,stood watch beside bim.In and out,in and out,of the cool,vaulted bouse of God,wbere only the bigh windows andthe Polish flag stained the vast,grey aisles with color,came men and women,grieving for theloss to the world,but also for the loss to a Christian sister nation.So I finally asked Sister M.Petronia Nowak,O.S.F.,a Graduate Student in the Library Science Department of TheCatbolic University of America,to review Mr.Kelly's book.Poland is a nation of such profoundand increasingly grave import to us today,tbat tbis unique book,though small,is profoundlyimportant too.Sister Petronia Nowak’s review follows.—M.K. TURNING the pages of this richly illustrated volume the reader is trans-ported to the ancient land of the Piasts and has visions of the fabulous tre

FAQs

What announcement does the “From the Editor's Desk” section make?

It announces that Reverend Paul Tanner, National Director of the Youth Department of the National Catholic Welfare Council, has accepted a position on the Board of Editors.

What is the “Tenets for Reviewers” section about?

It explains that four essays titled “Tenets for Reviewers” published in America have attracted continuing interest and are being reprinted in booklet form.

Which book is selected for Group One and what is its focus?

Group One features The Land of the Polish People by Eric Kelly, presented as a richly illustrated narrative that conveys Poland’s history, life, and culture with a Catholic perspective.

Sep 28, 2026

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