Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

BDR IVJB BDR IARJRUB VUX BDR CEBEAR VAR ARVSST PUR: BDRT VAR BPXVT. —DVAAKRB WRRHDRA JBPQR

[nikos1121]

You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.

The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).

Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days.  If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.

PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.

You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!

I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.

You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter. 

 HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.

[nikos1121]

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Alberta's Child]

Got it in about a minute. Common letter plus three names for author made the author’s name jump out.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

FRIENDSHIP IS THE SHADOW OF THE EVENING, WHICH INCREASES WITH THE SETTING SUN OF LIFE.--- JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:00.21 - Missed it by this much.

[cartan]

Super fast, except for the author…no idea who that is.

[grey_whiskers]

60-90 sec.

Most common letter, first word, first two words after the colon, off to the races.

[Magnum44]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

the author…no idea who that is.

Spoiler Alert!

Abraham Lincoln reputedly took the diminuative author aside when introduced to her and asked, rhetorically, "Is this the little lady who started this big war?" Her husband was a firebrand abolitionist and Protestant Minister. Anti-slavery settlers in Kansas called their rifles "Beecher's Bibles". There was a shooting war in Kansas (see Jayhawks and Bushwackers) going on before the Civil War over the issue of slavery.

She was the author of the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (See my graphic above.) Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Correction he was her brother, not her husband.

[xrmusn]

All of a sudden I feel tense!!!

Free beer tomorrow....

[cartan]

Thank you very much! I have read a lot about that novel but have not read it yet. Did not memorize the name of the author.

[Parley Baer]

I got the first word and after that it was off to the races. I recognized the author.

[Stars&StripesNE]