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Show ! COLLEGE PROFESSOR ! WRITES NEW SERIAL "PatternsofWolfpea" Lovely, Simple Story. 1 Harlan Hatcher has delved Into the conflict between a fine, native American culture and the rising tide of competitive industrialism for the theme of his remarkable novel, "Patterns of Wolfpen," which this paper has selected for Its newest serial story. He has taken for hi setting a secluded valley In the Kentucky Cumberlands, with Its almost al-most primitive peacefulness, and Imposed on paper a series of stirring events, Interpreting them through the mind of a lovely and Imaginative girl. Mr. Hatcher, who was born In Ohio, gained his knowledge of Wolf-i Wolf-i pen valley by going down Into that mountain country and working among the people. He came to know. Intimately, families of the type represented rep-resented by the Patterns of his novel. He has recorded them faithfully, faith-fully, realistically. He says of his education that It was "snatched at odd Intervals otit of the years I was getting an A. B, M. A. and Ph. D. at Ohio State university uni-versity and studying at the University Univers-ity of Chicago." He is at present Professor of English at Ohio State university, or, as he puts it, "taking unblushing advantage of the widespread wide-spread illusion that college students can and should be taught the sacred mysteries of English poetry." In giving further information about himself, he says his favorite outdoor sport is tennis, and indoors, avoiding bridge parties. Among his personal dislikes are coffee without cream and sugar, and digging In his wife's garden, and his idiosyncrasies Include never having seen or heard Amos V Andy or "Abie's Irish Rose." His favorite author Is Radph Waldo Emerson. Mr. Hatcher's only other novel Is "Tunnel Hill," published In 1931. He won the prize essay contest of the Saturday Review with "As a Man Thinketh" in 1930, and the same year wrote "The Reaction from Naturalistic Despair" for the English Eng-lish Journal. His first book was "The Versification of Robert Browning," Brown-ing," Issued in 1929. Dr. Preston Bradley, nationally known Chicago clergyman and radio commentator, says of "Patterns of Wolfpen" : "A novel of superlative artistry . . . beautifully written, exquisitely ex-quisitely etched . . . Harlan Hatcher has deserted paganism and brutality , . . has spoken a word of reality." We believe you will enjoy reading this story as it appears serially in this paper. . Don't miss a single Installment. |