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AVALUCHD EROES AREACAIN HONDRED Venezuelan Charge and Mme. Yanes Entertain Nota- ble Company. As a homage to the patriots of the victory of Ayacucho, the charge d'affiaires of Venezuela and Mme. Yanez, gave a dinner last night inf the small ballroom of the New Wil- lard Hotel, which was attended by many American and foreign diplo- mats and others. Dr. Yanez proposed The first wa “A few days ago at a brilliant moclal affair we gatnered +9 celebrate in the centenaiy of Ayacucho the in- dependence of Peru. Today it Is Venezuela's turn to render her hom- age to the great battle, for in Ayacu- cho culminated the glory of Bolivar 2ad the greatness of Sucre, her two most illustrious sons. This tribute from two grateful countries does not restrict the significance of Ayacucho, for on that heroic day Colomblans and Argentines shed their blood also And it may be sald that the Ninth of December was the great day of Span- ish America, for in the capitulation f Ayacucho, the mother country, touched by the magnanimity of Sucre, recognized forever the independence of her colon Z Great Historlenl Event. “At the end of 100 American continents developed to bro slgnificance of the great historical event. The honorable Secretary of te and the illustrious press of the United ates have rendered ucho on this hundredth annive which bear witness to timents of this great natlon and prove that not only the interests but &lso the glories of America are to Americans. Now, when representatives of other nations ©of the ecarth join of America in this commemorati uch au full histor: ani it permits men of different the world to thrill with nder, in to liberty. ng th toast: To two toasts. vears, more the ors &, for parts of the same Bolivar and Permit me, sentiments, the libera- then, int to prop: tors.” The second toast wa “I wish to express to you now my gratitude for the honor of your pres- ence and further, to invite you, in the name of President Gomez of Vene- zuela, to join in a toast to the hon- orable President of the United States and to the honorable chiefs of State of the other countries, worthily represented here Secretray of State Charles Hughes, responding, said: “It gratifying to have the opportunity to join in this commemoration of the victory of Avacucho and t y tribute to| tha illustrious who thus| achieved the f mph in the cause of liberty in this hemisphere. | We had the vilege of celebrating with the Amt lor of Peru this declsive upon her soil, but we detrac from Peru's share in th. t event when e recog ns to the most dlst hed sons of Venezuela whose inflexible purposes and heroic sacrifices made secure the freedom and i lence not only of the country of their birth, but of all the veanles of Siv merica. We cele- brate the yacucho; we to all e cause. There was crifice and a common nory of this avor and aspiratic nce of an | ur 1 bind the republics this hemisphere in the fruitful labors of pea “Permit me to give you the toast of the President of Ven Notable The guests were and Mrs. Hughes: Great Britain, Sir Esme How bassador of Peru, Dr Velarde; Secretary of Navy vie { Roman empress TORQUEMADA: And the Spanish In- quisition; A History. By Rafael Sabatini, author of “The Life of | Cesare 'Borgia” etc. Boston: | Houghton, Mifiin Company. HE story of Frey Tomas de 4 Torquemada”—Rafael Sa- batini himself talting—"is the history of .the estab- lishment of the modern inquisition. It is not so. much the history of a man as of an abstract genius presiding over a gigantic and cruel engine of its own perfecting. Of this engine we may examine for ourselves today the details of the complex machinery. Through the records that survive we may observe its cold, smooth action and trace in his the awful intelligence of Its architect. But of that architect him- self we are permitted to catch no more than an occasional and fleeting glimpse. T1i is only in the rarest and briefest moments that he stands clearly before us as a man of flesh and blood. “Untouched 5y worldly ambitions, he seems at once superhuman and less than human. Dauntless amid execrations. unmoved by plaudits, sublimely drsdainful of temporal weal, in nothing is he so admirable as in the unfaltering self-abnegation with which he devotes himself to the service of God: in nothing so terrible and tragically deplorable as in the actual service that he renders.” In history, as in romance, Rafael Sabatini responds only to high and dramatic moments. The story of the inquisition, the story of Tomas de Torquemada, its presiding genlus, would be one of the storles out of the thousands depicting that terrible inhumanity of the human to which Sabatini would bring the ardor of his undeniable artistry. A great story he tells here. A great picture of a period he paints. A drama of fanaticlsm stands here disclosed in all of its bitter contradictions as it serves the gentlest Mamw on earth through the unspeakable cruelties of persecution. History alive and walk- Ing before you, this—cruel as man is, bitter as life is. PICARO. By Charles Nordhoff. New York: Harper & Bro: A delightful fellow, t1 « Picaro— modern, manly, a business success. Sounds, thus far, as if this were go- ing to be a prose story, mavbe realism. But it isn’t, for the author has worked out a very alluring ro- mance with, back of it, first, a rancho of Spanish flavors in southern Cali- fornia, and, then, back of it France and war time. Both picturesque in essence, these settings, as Mr. Nord- hoff has projected and sustained them. Out of the ranch life with an old father, a younger brother and a little ward of the family, there comes Picaro’s renunciation in favor of the younger, and lesser, brother. This renunciation is not spoiled by odors of duty and piety. Rather does it savor of magnanimity and the open hand of friendship applied to one’s own family. The setting of France gives rise to tremendous ardors of activity, to the stresses of war time, to strange friendshlps for Picaro, to a small voyaging out into something that looks like romance but proves to be fllusion. Then there is the meeting in France of the two brothers, Picaro and that lesser one pathetic now out of the rewards of his own daredevil heroisms Oh, a lovely story, that, in these amazing days, is as likely to be a true story as is the most unromantic of thos: realistic chronicles that nowadays pass as the only truth of fiction, the only medium worth the honest novelist's consideration. Nonsense! Read this romance for your pleasur- i Read the other kind for your penances. MESSALINA. Py Vivian Crockett. New York: Boni & Liveright. When all other superlative epithets fall short for the branding of that certain order of wantons who posses: other powers of lure than mere har- lotry — who possess Intelligence, beauty, grace, sympathy, divination and fellowship—then the name “Mes- salina” steps out as the name of su- preme reproach, of blasting designa- tion. This Is the contribution of a to the vituperative resources of our language. Our his Wilbur; Minister of Norway, Bryn and Miss B inister of Uru-} guay and M Minister of | Bulgaria_and retoff; Mi ister of Guatemala and Mme. Latour: Minister of Colgn Mme. Olaya; Minister of Panama and | Mme. Alfaro; Minister of the Serbs, | Croats and Slovenes, Dr. Ante Tresl Pavichich; Minister of Costa Rica, Senor Don el Oreamuno; Min- ister of E: and Mme. Piip: Minister Mme. Yousry < ry Pasha; Min- ister of the Dominican Republic and Mme. Ariza; Minister of Ecuador and | Mme. Ochoa Ortiz: Minister of Greece ind_Mme. Simopoulos; John Van A.| MacMurray, Assistant Secretary of State; Charles Cheney Hyde, solicitor of the Department of State; Chief of | the Division of stern European Affairs of the Department of State and Mrs. Young; Acting Chief of the| Iiastern Division of the Department of State and Mrs. Lockhart: Dom Samuel de Sousa Leao Gracie, Charge d'Affaires ad Interim of Bra- zil; Mr. Isaburo Yosh @’Affaires ad interim of d'Affaires ad interim of China, Yung Kwai and Miss Yung Kwaf; Mr. B. Mohazzeb-ed-Dowleh Kazemi Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Per. sia; Mr. Luang Sundara Vachana, Charge d'Affaires ad interim of Siam; Dr. Javier Paz Campero, Charge @’Affaires ad interim of Bolivia; Miss Elisa Yanez; Dr. Esteban Gil Borges, zeting director general of the Pan- American Union; Monsignor Thomas. Chief of the Division of Western Eu- ropean Affairs of the Department of State and Mrs. Castle; Chief of the Division of Political and Economic Information of the Department of State and Mrs. Gilbert: Chief of the Division of Accounts of the Depart- ment of State and Mrs. McNelir; Chiet of the Foreign Service Administra- tion Herbert C. Hengstler; Chief of the Division of Indexes and Archives f the Department of State and Mi almon: Counselor of the Pan-Ameri. ean Union and Mrs. Adams: Mr. and Mrs, Ira Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Beadle and Miss Beadle, Dr. and Mrs. B. J. Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. L. Schreiner, Juan Mendoza and Parra Marquez. BRITISH BOAT CAPTURED WITH 150 CASES OF RUM Officer in Charge and Member of Crew Held—Hold Seizure Mistake. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., December Sweetin, in charge of the motor boat Empress, seized this morn- ing 26 miles off Miami by a Coast Guard patrol boat, was held on $1.000 bail this afternoon by United States Commissiones C. L. Knowles. George Toberts, a member of the crew, was held on §500 ball. Sweetin clalmed his arrest was a mistake as he had clearance papers from Bimini to Matanzas, Cuba. Chief Boatswains Mate Larson, in charge of the patrol boat, sald that the iimpress was bound toward Miami without clearance papers for an American port. One hundred and fifty cases of liquor were seized on the Impress. Confiscated liquor valued at $20,000 has been stored in local warehnuses here. The liquor was selzed in Key West during recent raide T+ was consigned to prohibition asuie uere by ey West authorities. {ing her up to us. tories tell us that Messalina, the w of Claudius, was put to death by the emperor himself because of her abom- nably unvirtuous life. Not worth repeating, this story, it would seem. Vivian Crockett has done much more than to revamp old scandals. an unworthy business, truly. But he has done more, for he has painted the vortrait of a period—a vicious period, of a certainty, this Roman first cen- tury. But it is all here—its states- men, its famous men, its infamous ones, its soldiery, its pomp and cir- cumstance, its gorgeous pageantry its pugan outlook, its unbridled joy of life. All here in broad strokes and deep shadows, in high lights and sumptuous colors. At the center of the picture is Messallna—unspeak- able to us, who insists on taking his- toric characters out of their time and place to set them down beside our expurgated views of life, beside our straight lines of behavior. What Mr. Crockett has tried to do is to take us back to Messalina, instead of bring- And a very re- markable picture of a period he has That | made. It has value, too, aside from its clear literary excellence. Tt makes for a better understanding of our own day, a truer interpretation of it, a finer appreciation of ourselves and our time. Documents from Juvenal, Tacitus, Suetonius, Gibbon, stand sponsor for the truth of Mr. Crock- ett’s pleture, but he himself and alone is responsible for the artistry of the victure. BED ROCK. By Jack Bethea. Bos- ton: Houghton, Miflin Company. Rather natural, if not in any sense laudable, that Warren Blackford, zlerk in a great coal business, should marry the daughter of the coal baron himself, since he could, and since he had only to look around him to see laws and in-laws promoted in the business regardless of anything they were able to contribute to it. The flaw in this move came when, under great stress, the boy owned up to his father-in-law the truth of his sordid intent. This incident starts the story and loads it with the hatred of the g1rl herself and the viclous determi- nation of her father to do for this pre- sumptuous son-in-law. The story it- self gets ahead with Warren Black- ford managing one of the baron's most difficult mines, where the men are discontented and out of hand, and where the wrathful father piles trou- ble upon trouble for the breaking of the young manager. Of course, you know the outcome—else there would have been no story—should have been no story. The boy makes good and as a part of this comes to see that he had been a fool and a little of a scamp In his initial effort toward suc- cess. For the girl is all right, as she proves when she, too, begins to realize the stuff of wheh the fellow is made. It is a fine fight. You'll take a hand- finally and glory in it. It is a good story, too. You'll enjoy it. A§ IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING. By Arthur Train, author of “Tutt and Mr. Tutt” etc. New York: The MacMillan' Company. This-is the story of a New York lawyer who betook himself to Lon- don “for a week” to push leisurely Englishmen into the next step of a great enterprise which was being held up to its great detriment by the slow processes of these London barristers. “To get a move on them” was the real intent of this hustling Néw Yorker. ~How his alloted Reviews of New Books the strenuous American himself fell into the lagging pace of the English business man, how hs also fell in love with an attractive English girl —these are the elements out of which Arthur Train draws the con- trast between the fevered existence of the American business rian and tranquil competency of the English- man. Sometimes humorous, always plausible and pointed, the little story is calculated to give one an hour of good enjoyment as well as a much longer time of wholesome reflection, provided the reader lives on this side of the water and is a part of the breathless business world of the United States. YOUTH WINS. By Murlel Hine, au- thor of “The Flight,” etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Back of this story is one of those common truths that all the world conspires to conceal. That is the truth of family antagonisms. They do exist, though everybody denies it. It is your mother. Of course, you love her. It is your sister, or your brother, or your father. Of course— maybe you do, but equally, maybe you do not. This is a true story, true in its basic thought, very capa. bly true in its development. It Is the story of a mother—vain, selfish, jealous. Yes, all of these. And a martinet to boot. A very truthful portrait of the mother who resorts to most ingenious and quite artful ways of keeping a daughter in the background while she disports her- self to the fore. Extreme? No, ex- cept as all art has to stress certain points In order to present them at all. A quite remarkable study of a not uncommon situation. A story in which the “happy ending” is the clear logic of the case since finally it is true that, for the time being, at least, “Youth Wine.” UNITY. By J. D. Berestord, author of “Love's Pilgrim,” etc. 'Indian- apolls: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. That's the girl's name, “Unity"—the name she gave herself since she was plagued by three or four other names that, to her, appeared not to express her nature in the least. Girls get chat way. The only fitness one fs able to discover in this new name is a complete unanimity on the part “week"” siretched into months, how' of its owner in the plin ‘of going through. the world inteat on her own vanities and desires. Three men, any one’of them better than the girl deserves, are the final count in her . The story her chastened, but not done. for, since one of these men is still alive, presumably standing in wait tor further progress of Unity along her self-appointed ways of life. One has the' feeling that the author in- tonded a finer heroine than he suc- ceeded in. putting over, since he leaves the matter with the senten- tious admonition, “Of those to whom Breat gifts have been given great deeds shall be demanded.” The girl hardly seems worth the fuss and trouble that she makes either for the men set up beside her or for the author who created her. WE THREE. By Olga and Estrid Ott. Translated from the Danish by Albert Van Sand. New York: Minton; Balch & Co. These "authors are mother -and daughter. The story itself develops by way of letters exchanged by a mother and daughter separated through the agency of a divorce that leaves the girl in the care of her father. The mother is a celebrated actress, and it {s from this point of view, from this angle of the profes- sional life, that she reaches back into the simpler life of the girl. Grad- ually out of this expedient of asso- clation there grows acquaintance, friendship and love. Eventually by way of it, 100, the father and mother are brought together again. Thought- ful letters, these, true, one thinks, to & situation that sources them, filled, also, with a deep and intel ligent understanding of life on one side, of an outreaching toward life on the other side. Finely intultive work bent to the development of an unusual story on an Increasingly usual theme. THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT. By Agatha Christle, author of “The Secret Adversary,” etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, Nothing can hold the modern young woman back from her chance to get out into the thick of things, no mat- ter how hitherto unheard of may be the means taken by her to meet this end. With Anne Beddingfeld, the heroine of this tale of murder and mystery, the outward road led along the way 'of the detection of crime. When all the supersleuths had thrown up their hands in acknowl- ONE-THIRD OFF 10,000 pairs that were edged defeat, it was Anne Bedding- feld who opened up the murder at the Mill House, thereby diverting sus- picion from a deeply suspected and persistently pursued young man of complete innocence, despite the signs of gullt that followed him about. Good enough, he turned out, this young man, to be the husband of Anne Beddingfeld, at last, though not until about half the world had been traversed by this indomitable young woman in her zeal not only to find the real criminal, but incidentally also to glve a clean bill of moral soundness to the unjustly suspected man. An intricate matter, this ro- mance of crime and its true unfold- ing at the hands of mere woman. Good for a let-down, hour of sheer entertainment along lines that make no special demands upon the reader. BOOKS RECEIVED. DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN AR~ TISTS—JAMES McNEILL WHIST- LER. Compltled by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart. Introduction by Joseph and Elizabeth Robbins Pennell. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. THE PARLIAMENT OF BIRDS; And Other Poems. By Elise Emmons. Boston: The Christopher Publish- ing House. DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN AR- TISTS—JOHN SINGER SARGENT. Compiled by Nathaniel Poussette- Dart. Introduction by Lee Wood- ward Zelgler. New York: Fred- erick A. Stokes Co. SOME ASPECTS OF MODERN POETRY. By Alfred Noyes. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF MOD- ERN LYRICS. Selected and ar- ranged by Laurence Binyon. New York: The MacMillan Co. SYMBOLISM OF THE THREE DE- GREES. By Oliver Day Street. Washington: The Masonic Service Assocfation of the United States. THE LISTENING CHILD; A Selection from the Stories of English Verse Made for the Youngest Readers and Hearers. By Lucy W. Thacher. Introduction by Thomas Went- worth Higginson. A new section of modern verse chosen by Mar- guerite Wilkinson. Illustrated by Nancy Barnhart. New York: The MacMillan Company. THE LOOMS OF ORCHILL; And Other Poems. By Louis H. Victory, Fel- low of Royal Soclety of Litera- ture. Boston: The Four Seas Co. THE NEXT STEP ON; A Play. By Walton Butterfield. Boston: The Four Seas Co. A VIOTIM OF REST; A Play in Two Acts. By Livingston Welch. Bos- ton: The Four Seas Co. CONVERSATIONS ON CONTEMPO- RARY DRAMA. By Clayton Ham- ilton, Member of the National jn- stitute of Arts and Letters. Mew York: The Macmillan Co. A NINETEENTH CENTURY CHILD- HOOD. By Mary MacCarthy. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. SOCIALISM; Oritical amd Constrme- tive. By J. Ramsay MacDonald, Indianapoils The Bobbs-Merrill Co. THE MODERN LIBRARY—PLAYS BY MOLIERE. Introduction by Waldo Frank. New York: Bonl & Liveright. THE MODERN LIBRARY—AN OUT- LINE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Edited by J. S, Van Teslaar, New York: Bonl & Liveright. SAILORS’ WIVES. By Warner ¥al ian, author of “Flaming Youth.” New York: Boni & Liveright. AFTER THE BALL; A Romance of Youth Today. By James Colwell. Illustrated. Tos Angeles: The Times-Mirror Press. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Classical Literature. with an H. 8. Hippocrates. Hippocrates, English translation by W, Jones. 2v. Y32-H7aj. Cicero, M. T. Speeches, with an Eng- lish translation by N. H. Watts. Y36-CTLw. Lucas, F. L. Euripides and His Influ- ence. Y32-E8.YL. Theocritus. 1dylls. Y32-T3.Eh. Thucydides. History of the Pelopon- nesian War. 4v. 1919-1923, Y32- Téa. Virgil. Aeneid. Y36-ASA.Ebi. Foreign Literatures. In the Original or in Translation. Blasco Ibanez, Vicente. La Reina Calafia. Y40F-B617r. Breton de los Herreros, Manuel. La Independencia. Y40D-B7581. Cheifetz, H. E. Luah Ha-doroth. Yiddish text. Y61-C414L Hamsun, Knut. In the Grip of Life. Y51D-HI187LE. Hamsun, Knut. Pan. HIs8p. Yiddish text. Hatfield, J. T, ed. German Lyrics and Ballads. Y47P-9H284g. Kurz, Harry. Lectures Pour Tous. X39R-K96. 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One Hundred Outdoor Theaters, A Magnificent Farce, That peopls of America will wa« not less than $100,000,000 in end oring to heat their homes thig Winte is the prediction of coal_experts Over 2/3 of Our Entire Stocks of WOMEN'S SHOES (average reduction) $10,%12.50 and $13-50, now Evening Slippers 10,000 pairs that were $5.95 to 38.50, now VERY new Style included—in Gold and Silver Brocades, Silver Kidskin, Suedes, Satins, Patents, Tans. Velvets—most any material you could pos-~ sibly imagine! And Plenty of ALL Sizes! In especially wide variety at our “City Club Shop™ Many newest, cades, most ex- quisitely fashioned $12.50 to evening modes in rare, imported bro- and some silver kidskin— 's7. of our $1350 yE1QUS! Simply figure your shoe needs for months and months to come! save over 33% — by “HAHN'S" tomorrow! Apd a host of SHORT LINES at reductions nothing short of M AR- Im- ported Paisley cloths and some Silver and Gold Brocades that were up to $13.50—now 50 $ “City Club Shop” 1318 G St. Then filling them at Cor. 7th & K Sts. 414 9th St. 1914-16 Pa. Ave. 233 Pa. Ave. SEE. In Baltimore—37 W. Lexington St.