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Andrew Cassels Brown

1875–1941

Best known for the two Artemas books, this early 20th-century writer brought wit and a slantwise view to stories shaped by wartime experience. His small body of work suggests a taste for satire, character, and the strange ways people behave under pressure.

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Artemas—the second book

Artemas—the second book

by Andrew Cassels Brown

About the author

Andrew Cassels Brown (1875–1941) was a novelist whose surviving bibliography is small but distinctive. Public-domain library records and catalog entries consistently connect him with The Book of Artemas (1918), Artemas—the second book (1918), and the later novel Josselin Takes a Hand (1927).

The two Artemas books are the works most readily associated with him today. Modern library descriptions present them as wartime narratives with a humorous or satirical edge, mixing observation, anecdote, and an offbeat perspective on conflict rather than straightforward military history.

Little biographical detail is easy to confirm from the sources available here, so the man himself remains somewhat in the background. Even so, his books have endured through Project Gutenberg, library catalogs, and reprints, which speaks to the lasting curiosity of his voice and the unusual tone of his fiction.