“The story, as a story, is closely interesting, and as a sermon on thrift it ought to be read by 100 per cent of the newlyweds in America and by an equal ratio of people above and below that date line in their careers.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 190w
DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.[[2]] Man from Ashaluna. *$1.75 (2c) Small
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Judson Dunlap comes home from France with the desire to paint pictures. As a doughboy in Paris he had seen real pictures and a latent interest in art had awakened. He buys a painting kit and starts in by himself alone in the Ashaluna hills, his home. But the results are queer and he knows it. So he takes the patents on the churn he has invented to New York, hoping to sell them and get money to learn painting. He also hopes to meet Mary Beverly, the girl he had rescued from the snowdrifts the winter before. He is immediately plunged into a game of high finance, for two rival concerns are after him for his water rights on the Ashaluna and are willing to juggle with his churn patents as part of the price. Jud plays them off one against the other, meets Mary again, learns to wear the right clothes and use the right forks and, altogether, doesn’t find time to learn painting.
“A cleverly conceived, well told novel. While there is nothing particularly striking in this book in any one place, it is a well made piece of fiction.”
+ N Y Times p20 D 5 ’20 320w
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. Guards came through, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 821
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