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farewell

BY HARRY OTIS

...New Book from Pan-Graphic

Gay Episodes that shed new light on social customs of "Darkest Africa," written by one who has traveled from Casablanca to Cairo to Capetown, Harry Otis, author of The Keval and Other Gay Adven tures, does it again. In Canti's Farewell you'll go with him to the Berber Calamite Bazaars of Khartoum; to the Oasis Park in Casablanca; to Diems el Fna "Meeting Place of the Dead"), a central squace ja Marrakech, where young boys of delicate beauty, and lavish vitality bring high prices from Sultans and Shieks. Then on to Victoria Falls,

Durban and Eshowe, capiml of Zululand—all the while peeking into narrow streets, palm-shaded packs, jeweled palaces, to watch people who inhabit them seek life's simple pleasures without repression. Mr. Otis has a rare gift for meeting unusual men and women: Jansen, a Swedish, youth in Rome; Mama, a pompous Nebraska matron soaking up the sights in Madrid; Mercedes, a fabulous madam in Belen whore house catered to big names from the English-speaking world—these are here with many ochers. You'll meet Uncle Choeb la a flowing white Jomphoss; Lou and Drew, the Heavenly Twing, Viasu, the Fasluba, and dozens of others—all intensely human, and direct in their approach and understanding of life.

Through it all, Mr. Ods has injected warm humor and taken jibes & the faibles, repressions and frustrations which are so close home to as in this country. There is nothing to match his perception of huma drives and motivations regardless of the hemisphere he is visiting. While the work is fiction, the social and sexual customs described are noc. And while the episodes dwell in the realm of the "all beat,"

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don't think Comel's Farewell details isolated incidents only-carber it goes deep into the fabric of cultures where adult humans we possibly much more free of themselves than some of us may be in the "more civilized'' societies.

STANDARD FORMAT; Illustrated; Colorful Cover; Approximately 150 pages..

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CIVIL WAR

HEROINE

By Joseph Charles Salak

SPECIAL FOR SUBSCRIBERS

In December, Mattachine REVIEW will mail a special "Christmas Edition" to all subscribers. This issue will not appear on news. stands.

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There will be fiction and entertainment features in it, including two excellent stories taken from DER KREIS, senior European homophile magazine. The few stories which have been reprinted from this source in the past have merited highly enthusiastic reaction from readers.

SPECIAL FOR NEWSSTAND PURCHASERS: Send 50¢ (no stamps) for a copy of this issue which non-subscribers can obtain no other BOUND VOLUMES will, of course, contain this special number which completes the sixth year of the magazine.

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Ninety-nine years ago Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, was fired on by the Confederate troops. President Lincoln called for volunteers from the northern states. Among the thousands of patriots shocked by the sudden surrender of the fort was Jennie Hodgers a slim young Irish lass. She wanted to do her part but she was a woman and a pretty and shapely one at that. She toyed with the idea of becoming a man fully realizing that to do so called for action and sacrifice, adventure in the face of danger.

Finally reaching a decision, Jennie, slight of build and only five feet tall, appeared at the recruiting center. She was attired in a baggy pair of trousers, a loose fitting shirt and hair was cut short. Lips squeezed tight, pale faced and with trembling fingers, Jennie Hodgers entered her name on the muster roll as Albert D. J. Cashier. The country was in a state of emergency and though her slim figure and attractive looks may have drawn a second glance military induction was a mere formality.

In August of 1862 Jennie and 17 other young volunteers marched off to the Civil War from Belvidere, Illinois. And for the next three years her adventures took her over some 9,960 miles, most of them on foot.

With that Jennie became a man and successfully masqueraded as such for 49 years. Unsmiling she was almost mournfully proud of her uniform but she wore it with honor. As Private Cashier with the 95th Illinois Volunteer Infantry she saw action in many engagements of the Westem campaigns. She

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