The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-03-01

Hubert Footner, is truly delight
full book, filled with the varied and
colorful events that went to make
up the early history of the people
who settled along the banks of the
seven rivers which flow through this
part of our state. No region has had
a more vivid early history and Mr..
Footner does it full justice. From
these bays and inlets British plea
rooms preyed on American shipping
during the Revolution. Here was the
scene of the famous colonial struggle
between Maryland and Virginia,
over land claimed by both. Here
Puritans, Catholics, Methodists, Vir-
ginians and Marylander, negroes, and
whites, oyster fishermen, plantation
owners and townspeople settled and
toiled and fought.
The IncOrruptible, by Marjorie
Coryn, is an historical novel that
gives remarkable picture of man
given unlimited power, who abuses
it to attain a lifelong ideal. In Ro-
bespierre we find the historical par
allel of Hitler-a man who believes
that violence is legitimate weapon
to make others conform to the pat
tern he has worked out in his mind.
Here is a remarkable set of real
people-the physically fragile, but
violent, Robespierre, the aristo-
cratic, cynical Barras, the coldly
beautiful ST. Just and the faithful
friend of school days, Camille Des-
mullins. The author endows them
with flesh and blood vitality and
gives us dramatic and personal in
sight into this phase of the French
Revolution.
If you have enjoyed reading Pearl
Bucks books you will be interested
in reading Exile's Daughter, which
is biography of Pearl Buck, written
by Cornelia Spencer. 1t is an enter
tanning account and reads like an
adventure story--the story of little
girl who was born in America and
brought up in China. This little girl
became one of the most dynamic and
important personalities of our time,
not only because of her extra ordi-
nary books, but because of her deep
sympathy for, and understanding of,
oppressed people everywhere. The
book covers most fully those color
full years of growing up in China, the
interlude in an American college and
young womanhood passed in the
midst of Chinese bandit wars revo-
luton and swift change. When after
many years Pearl Buck came home
to stay, there were new adventures
and interests and the work of help
ing to bring about closer understand
ing between the East and the West.
And then came the great honor of
being awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature, the only woman ever to
receive it.
A mystery story that you don't
want to miss, is All Over But The
Shooting, by Richard Powell. Not
only is it thrilling account of a spy
hunt with Washington as the field
of operations, but it is wittily and
amusingly told, as we'll. Annabella
Blake, Arab" for short, determined
that she was going to uproot her
husband, Andy, from his desk job
in the Army Air Forces office if it
took dynamite to do it. She succeed
ed and the events that followed took
him to mysterious house in @
street from which seemingly innoc-
uous War Department workers dis
appeared into thin air, then to it's
barricaded cellar from which he es-
capped by pretending to be corpse.
He next turned up in a black mar
ket filling station from which he
didn't escape, and finally arrived at
the spies secret sending station on
the Jersey coast.
OTHERS and Filters, by Cornelia
Otis Skinner, is composed of sixteen
humorous sketches on various
aspects of the daily scene. They
range from children's parties to ar
ranging flowers, or the antics of ear,
nose and throat specialists. She says
What she wants to say and what she
wants to say is based on close OBJ
servation of the vagaries of human
beings, herself included. She has
happy capacity for throwing herself
Fundamentally into what she is
writing and it isn't so much what
she is writing about, as her manner
of writing about it, that makes these
sketches such hilarious reading.
In A Sense of Humus, Bertha Da-
mon depicts the pleasures of living