Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

(Dodd, Mead & Company will be In
terested to learn that its author,
Frederick Palmer, has recently teen
commissioned Lieutenant-C Colonel. AT
our entrance into the war Frederick
Palmer was given a commission as
Major and was appointed chief CEN
sor in France. He suilcl on the Bal
tic with General PershinG and his
$50 associates who were our first
| contribution toward the force OF
nearly two million men that were
abroad when hostilities ceased. Col
onel Palmer is still in France. 1t
was his long service and first haid
information that made America in
France SO vitally interesting.
Retail Credits and Collections" Is
| the title of a new book by Dwight T..
Beebe to be published imm mediately
| by Harper & Brothers, making the
! third volume in Harper's Retail Busi-
ness Series. The author has hefa
devoted himself entirely to one of the
most important factors of modern
business, treating first the place of
credits in retail business. He shows
that the extension of credit costs
money, even though it makes good
customers. He also gives examples
of how department stores. clothing
stores, hardware drug-stores
! and jewelry- stores collect, Having
I lectured extensively on credits and
collections and being assistant in
| business English at the n. Y. Univer-
| sity School of Commerce, Mr.. Beebe
/ has had access to all the most up-to-
date business methods and in Re
| a {
given only modern principles of his
subject.
Montague Glass, author of Worry
! ing Won't Win" and originator oil
| the famous, characters. Potash ant
Perlmutter, had an amusing story
told him concerning his book. At d
store out West an old lady went VI
to the clerk and asked for copy OF
"Why Worry" The clerk looked
over all the books in stock and re-
turned with a copy of Worrying
! Won't Win" I'VE haven't any such
book as why worry" he said. "But
l guess this is just as good and viii
suit your purpose" In Worrying
| Won't VIM" published by the Har,
| pers, the inimitable Potash and Perl
! mutter view the war and all Other
matters of the day from their prac.
tical, humorous standpoint. 1t Is
rumored that Mr.. Glass is busily a.
work on another novel which the
Harpers will publish later in the
year.
Daredevil is the name that wa:
applied early in the war to the dis
patch riders of the Motor Cycle
I Corps and. Captain A. p. Corcoran
who was one of them, tells about the
things they had to do and his owr
experiences in THE Daredevil of the
Army" which Zap. Dutton G. Co
are publishing this week. He entered
the service in August, 1914, and his
book narrates in picturesque style
and with many humorous touches al
the varied things. that happened Il
him until, many months later, hi
was invalided home after being Sc
riously wounded. He had many mar.
row escapes from death and thrill
ing adventures without number. FL,
and others were buried in a tunne
by the exxplosion of a German shell
and, because no one knew they were
there, came near dying before the!
were rescued. Again, wounded by
pieces of an exploding shell, he wa!
scalped by the barbed wire into
| which he fell Captain Corcorar
won his commission from the ranks
by carrying a dispatch safely through
after six other men had beer
killed in the attempt. His book i.
the first to tell the story of the dis
patch riders and also of the "buz
zers" or field telegraph operators
with whom he worked during par
of his service.
The following general reading mat
ter will be published for the month
of February by George H. DoraI
Company: Eating in Two or Thre,
Languages" by Irwin S. Cobb; Ter
Years Near the Germon Frontier
by DR.. Mauric Francis Egan; Amer
lean Labor and the War" by Samue
Gompers; Christopher" by Sil
Oliver Lodge; The Riddle of Nearer
Asia" by Basil Mathews; "Th,
American Hunting Dog" by Warner
II. Miller" and "The Book of Lin.
coln." by Mary Wright Davis.
A Valuable Haul
(From the Boston Transcript)