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...BITTERS - A. Riposre - Farrar & Rinehart...
...Soon the Rinehart finances were in good shape; the Rineharts could afford to go abroad. Mrs. Rinehart could even afford such extravagances as buying "a sixteenth of a gold mine which never developed." When the War came she was sent abroad by the Literary Digest. She met notables: Foch, Queen Mary of England, King Albert of the Belgians. She went into the trenches, into No-Man's Land. She came back and wrote it up guardedly. When the U. S. went in, Dr. Rinehart and the two eldest boys enlisted; Mrs. Rinehart finally managed to be sent over...
When Editor Edward Bok retired in 1919, Mrs. Rinehart was offered the editorship of the Ladles' Home Journal, regretfully turned it down. But she went to Hollywood on a three-year contract. Still the family fortunes rose. They moved to a bigger house in Sewickley. They moved to Washington, D. C. They vacationed in the Cascades, in Mexico, in Egypt. The boys grew up, went to college (Harvard) and married. Now two of them are members of the firm of Farrar & Rinehart, have helped publish several of their mother's books...
Twice the Rineharts have lived in a haunted house. Stoutly asserting a disbelief in ghosts, Mrs. Rinehart gives unvarnished but spooky facts about bells ringing, furniture moving, queer sounds, queer sights...
...Rinehart does not tell all she knows. She never has. It seems to be on her conscience. She says: "I had at my fingertips a wealth of material which I would not use. I knew better than the average the weaknesses of mankind, the errors; I had seen human relations at their most naked, human emotions when the bars were down and the soul peered out, heroic, cowardly or defiant. Yet I could not write of these things. I did not want to recall them. To this moment realism is easy for me, much easier than other writing. ... I turned...