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Show ZANE GREY IS MOST POPULAR AUTHOR FORYANKS Tales of American Western Adventure Preferred by Watch on the Rhine COBLENZ, Feb. I Tale of venture ven-ture in tha American WmI are tha fa-rorila fa-rorila reading matter of tha American forces In Germany and Zane Orr la tha moat popular author. Strangely enough, Jullua Caesar runs a close second with the doughboys, dough-boys, who are very keen about translations trans-lations of Caesar's Gallic wars. This Is due to Caesar's activities In tha Rhine valley and the ruins of a bridge he built across the Rhine, which lifts Caeaar'a work out of the schoolbook claaa and makes -tt-sv- guidebook that carries the Americans back nearly 2000 years. Books which describe tha legends centering about the Rhine are also popular, especially with the soldiers who are musically Inclined and attend the Wagnerian performances given by the various German grand opera companies com-panies which play In Cologne. Coblens. Wiesbaden and the other cities near the Rhine frequented by soldiers on leave. . WANT ALL STORIES. All story magazines which specialise In adventures are more popular with the American soldiers than any other periodicals and the American Library association haa been unable to supply the demand for publications of this sort. With the assistance of the Toung Men'e Christian association, which sids in the distribution of resdlng material ma-terial In ths American area. Miss Ala Weyth, who Is In charge ot tne American Ameri-can Library aasoclation'a reading rooms, haa been able to make a general gen-eral poll of the reading taste of the army and flnda that foreign residence has not won the young American away from fiction laid in America, particularly particu-larly In the West. MANY BOOKS AVAILABLE. The American Library association has about S0.000 books available for Americana. FTench, Belgians and English En-glish residents of the occupied area and haa also circulated many books by mall to Americans living In 'other parts of Germany. Three hundred copies each of thirty-six American weekly and monthly publications, in addition to a large number of newspaper news-paper s, hava been taken by the organisation or-ganisation and circulated through the branch librariea at Andernach and Mayen, as well as through the American Ameri-can base hospital and the main library in Coblens. With the beginning of 121 the American Library associstion turned Its books over to the Y. M. C A. and Is no longer supporting the work. The main library In Coblens was formerly a German officers' club and is Ideally suited to library purposes. It has a great ballroom, which makea an excellent reading room and also haa sun parlors and large drawing rooms, with many windows. Many tifrmtniviive asked for the privilege of usingMhe library, but thia has been denied, as the army did not think It advisable. One German told the librarian he had lived' many years in America and 'should really be allowed to have books because he was an American "in principle." |