Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-28
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Louise Hasbrouck, the author of
Mexico from CorteS to Carranza
(Appleton), and other books for
young people, has recently become
the wife of Bruno Louis Zimm and
the couple will make their home at
Woodstock, New York. Woodstock
is the center of an ever increasing
colony of artists and writer's, a sort
of Catskill Greenwich Village and
fancy would suggest that the ro-
nance may have had it's inception
at one of the gay, informal little
"neighborhood" gatherings for
which the little town is famous.
However that may be, Louise Has
and has beer for more than a year,
the proud owner of the farm upon
which she expects to live. When
she first acquired the place, which
includes a fine apple grove, Miss
Hasbrouck said that battling with
the rattlesnakes, web caterpillars
and borers which infested the or
chard made life nearly as exciting
as it was in Mexico. She had spent
some months there in gathering first
hand material for her splendid little
history of our stormy neighbor.
Vivian Drake, the boyish author
of above the Battle" who visited
our shores last year resplendent in
the uniform of a captain of the
British Flying Force, is soon to re-
turn to the States in a tramp
steamer of which he is one of the
officers. Just how and where Mr..
Drake learned to navigate a ship Is
not clear-probably he utilized some
of the spare time which hung heavy
on his hands between his gradua-
ton from school and the end of the
war. For all that he did during
that time was to enlist in the Eng
llsh Aviation Corps, spend four years
at the front as a pilot and bomber,
came over here to teach in one of
the American Army flying schools
and write a book about his expert
ences in the air. 1t may be added
that Vivian Drake must now be all
of a quarter of century old though
a sight of his tall figure, blue eyes
and pink cheeks would hardly lead
one to credit him with more than
eighteen years of life.
e. Temple Thurston's novel, 1.-THE
World of Wonderful Reality" and
Josephine Daskam Bacon's Square
Peggy" have gone into new editions.
Grace Sartwell Mason has jLst
sold the moving picture rights in her
latest novel; "The Shadow of Rosalie
Ryrnes," for an unusually large sum.
She is to be congratulated not so
much upon the sale, though she re-
ceived Il sum not to be shifted at
even in these days of strikes and
famine prices, as upon the creation
of Il heroine with so much genuine
charm as was Rosalie, and a story
with so intriguing IL mystery as the
one which battles poor Lieutenant
Cromwell.
Arthur B. Reeve, scientist, GRIM
inologist and author of what is, per-
haps. the best known series of de-
tective stories now running, has at
last discovered an ancestor of his
famous Craig Kennedy" in Uncle
Abner. Mr.. Reeve writes. Melville
Davisson Posts Uncle Abner' has
kept me up nights. / admire the
rugged reasoning of the forceful
master of mystery in the old Vir-
ginia hill. country. His philosophy
of crime is cogent and correct and
so is his method of crime detection.
Uncle Abner' must have been the
ancestor of a score of our modern
Geductionist detectives" Although
Uncle Abner" does not reappear in
Mr.. Posts newest story. 'The Mys-
terry at Blue<Villa," which is soon to
be published by ID. Appleton and
Company, those qualities of keen ap-
pIehension. clear logic and deep un-
de Outstanding of the vagaries of the
human heart and mind which made
him so astute an unraveller of mys-
teries, are said to abound in the
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