Books published by publisher Farrar and Rinehart, inc

Excerpt from the Preface: The whole story of the nation's anthem, in terms of historical significance and the courage of ordinary men, has never been told in any one place. Even in fragments, it has seldom been told accurately. In illuminating the birth scene of the anthem-the defense of Baltimore in 1814-history has thrown its highlight on the naval action and left Godly Wood in shadow. By "the rockets'; red glare, the bombs bursting in air"; you can see the brick-and-sod fort squatting on the end of Whetstone Point. But you cannot see the rockets'; red glare and the shrapnel bursting in the woods on North Point, just across the water; you cannot see militiamen, once soundly beaten, standing up again to the Invincibles who beat them. In illuminating the conclusion of our so-called Second War of Independence, history has thrown its highlight on the battle of New Orleans and has left this strangely similar and more important battle paradoxically misshapen and diminished. But the real paradox is that for a hundred and thirty years, without warrant of truth, history has managed to leave"The Star-Spangled Banne"; associated with defeat, futility and cowardice. Even in Maryland, where the anniversary of the land battle is a legal holiday, there exists a notion that the whole thing was a trifling incident, inglorious in action and insignificant in result. Baltimoreans, who yield to no one in their pride of birthplace, are inclined to be apologetic when a stranger asks them to explain the holiday. Few know the truth. This book is an attempt to place the birth of the national anthem in its actual setting of events. It is an attempt to describe those events exactly as they occurred, without the distortions and omissions, the braggings and the apologies, the half-truths and the carelessly perpetuated errors that have blurred them.

E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." So here it is-the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere. First published in 1939.

Tecumseh Fox has a sharp eye for solving murders—but this time he’s seeing double. Fox has been hired by the headstrong niece of a man charged in the shooting of wealthy financier Ridley Thorpe. The Problem is that there are two gorgeous suspects, two powerful motives, two hotheaded suitors, and two murder weapons. And to top it off, Ridley Thorpe, or someone claiming to be him, is not only alive and well but has an airtight alibit for the night of the shooting. Only one thing is certain: Fox doesn’t have long to put two and two together before the real killer strikes again.

**Lautaro is the juvenile prize winner in the 2nd Latin American Literary Prize Competition** In the 16th C. the Spanish conquerors invaded Chile. They came searching for the fabulous wealth which, according to legend, was hidden on the other side of the Andes in this long, narrow country which begins in a desert and ends almost at the bottom of the world. The conquerors defeated many tribes, resisted the storms of the cordillera and the loneliness of the desert, forded rivers and penetrated jungles, but were stopped almost at the edge of Arauco. The Araucanians were a small tribe of little culture, living beyond the Maule and Bio-Bio rivers. With superhuman courage, they blocked the Spaniards and ended their list of conquests. With naked bodies and armed only with spears and clubs, the Araucanians faced the cavalry and the weapons of Don Pedro de Valdivia. For 3 centuries the people of Arauco fought for their freedom. During the early part of the struggle, the Indians were led to victory by a chieftain now immortalized by legend as one of the great liberators of America. This popular hero was Lautaro, who achieved his first triumph when he was 20 years old, and reached the height of his power at the age of 22. With their deeds, he and other chiefs like Caupolican and Colo-Colo wrote a memorable chapter in the history of Chile.