The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 50, July 1946 - April, 1947 Page: 273

                                
Texas Collection

Lake in Liberty County the twenty-second day of September, Nineteen
Hundred and Forty-six.
Olcutt Sanders, University YMCA, Austin 12, Texas, is writ-
ing a book, which he describes as follows:
The various chapters of my book will deal with the significance of the
Texas dance and its historical roots, the occasions for the dance (including
accounts of some of the more famous dances and balls in Texas history),
the preparations for a typical dance, the fiddler, the caller, the dancers
(what they wore, etc.), social relations (inviting a date, chaperones, etc.),
the commercial dance hall, the attitude of,the churches, the calls for as
many Texas square dance figures as possible (and how to do them),
the round dances (and how to do them), fiddle tunes (their lore and some
of the tune themselves). I shall appreciate help from readers of the
Quarterly-especially in gathering unpublished square dance calls and
anecdotes about fiddlers, callers, dancers, and dances. Pictures of fiddlers,
callers, and dancers would be most welcome.
No Texas bibliophile will henceforth want to be without the
recent Library of Congress publication entitled, Texas Centen-
nial Exhibition: Held at the Library of Congress, Washington,
D. C., December 15, 1945-April 15, 1946.          The publication
may be obtained from the superintendent of documents, Wash-
ington 25, D. C., at a price of thirty cents per copy.
Included in the bulletin's fifty-four pages are introductory
remarks by Luther H. Evans, Texas-born librarian of Con-
gress, and an address by Luther A. Johnson, former congress-
man from Texas. Pages 13-45 contain a catalog of 371 items
selected by the Library of Congress to be exhibited during their
celebration of the centenary of statehood. There are eleven
additional illustrations including the frontispiece, which is a
reproduction of the 1837 H. S. Tanner, Map of Texas, compiled
by Stephen F. Austin.
Under the title, The Free State of Menard: A History of the
County, a new Texas county history has been published by the
Menard News Press, Menard, Texas. The book was compiled
by N. H. Pierce, assisted by Nugent E. Brown. In its 215 pages
the authors have treated the Spanish background of Menard
County, the San Saba Mission, the Lost Bowie Mine, Fort
McKavett, Menardville and have given biographical sketches of
numerous pioneers. The price of the book is $5.00.

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