Miss Susie Slagle's

Augusta Tucker was the best selling author of Miss Susie Slagle's, and The Man Miss Susie Loved. She wrote more than 300 newspaper and magazine feature articles, book reviews and opinion-editorials. She was a contributing writer to The Baltimore Sun and The Evening Sun.

• PrologueI. Supper at Miss Susie Slagle'sII. Famous Men were Once StudentsIII. A Fine AcquaintanceIV. A Baltimore Christmas EveV. First Year MedicineVI. Son of a Famous ManVII. Easter at Miss Susie Slagle'sVIII. First Hospital WorkIX. Forsaking All OthersX. Herald Angels SingXI. Life is FineXII. And so is DeathXIII. Out of Death Comes LifeXIV. Experiences of the Free QuarterXV. A Young Man's FancyXVI. Those Hidden Centers of Real LifeXVII. Fencing with DeathXVIII. The Summer of 1914XIX. Loved I Not Honor MoreXX. Not For a Year at LeastXXI. They've Posted the ListXXII. The lAst YearXXIV. The Little Elize Bed

New generations will enjoy discovering the Maryland Paperback Bookshelf reprint of this emotion-packed, best-selling novel about medical students at the famed Johns Hopkins Hospital before World War I and their years in Baltimore at the boarding house of the gentle Miss Susie Slagle. Maryland Magazine Originally published in 1939, Augusta Tucker's beloved novel of turn-of-the century Baltimore spent half a year on the national best-seller lists and became a major Hollywood motion picture produced by John Houseman. Augusta Tucker writes of Baltimore like a traveler enchanted with a strange land. New York Herald-Tribune