1929 The Bon Vivant's Companion or How to Mix Drinks by Jerry Thomas

HERBERT ASBURY was bom in Farmington, Missouri, of a long line of Methodist clergy men. Next to the ecclesiastical, the military element was probably strongest in his family: his father and five uncles served throughout the Civil War in the Confederate Army, and he himself went into the army as a private during the World War and was commis sioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry while in France. He was wounded and gassed at the Vesle front, and spent six months in hospitals. Mr. Asbury has done much newspaper work, beginning as an office devil in Farmington and con tinuing as a reporter in Quincy, Illinois, and Atlanta, Georgia. Since the war he has worked on The New York Tribune, The Sun, The Herald, and the Herald Tribune. Books by Herbert Asbury; UP FROM METHODISM (1926) A METHODIST SAINT (1927) THE UFE OF BISHOP ASBURY Illustrated. THE GANGS OF NEW YORK (1928) an informal history of the UNDERWORLD Illustrated.

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