Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1925, Page 44

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. 'APRIL 9, News and Notes of Art and Artists Important E:;hibitions in Washington—Works by‘A‘fld’ei‘s Zorn and Maurice Fromkes—Portraits and Scenes in Sil- houettes—Etchings and Flat Silver. BY LEILA MECHLIN. HERE ix so much of interest this week in the way of ex- hibitions th, know where to restrict reasonable bounds. At the Corcoran Gallery of Art there openod on last Thursday » notable special exhibi- tlons, eith which Is by itself an tvent of These are an exhibi- of paintings by Anders Zorn, the great modern master of Sweden, and a of paintings made in Spain of Spanish subjects by Maurice Fromkes, a cotemporary Amerlean Both of these collections are a tour of the principal mu- It merely happens that the: in Washington simultane That they should do so, how- interesting, for Sweden and the two countries where found in recent years the to begin or how comment tw collection arrived ously Bver Spair has is not a Span- four vears in Spat red the Spanish painted Spain as a Spaniard seeing them not viewpoint. but as mig same power of anding manifest- Swede, Anders n, for when he painted portraits of Ameri- cans it may be noted in this exhibi- tlon that he did not make them ot er than they were: he did not give them Swedish character. This is un- usua louga, for example, when he paints American women paints them as Spaniards Zorn undoubtedly and might Spanis paople have done, pative hatic u by the was considered “JACINTA AND HER FAMILY,” CHASED BY THE ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY OF BUFFALO, N. Y FOR ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION. THE PAINTING IS NOW ON VIEW AT THE COR(ZOB-\) t it is difficult to | within | works found in Spain that not only |was he invited to exhibit in the Na- tional Museum of Modern Art, an| honor never granted previously to an American, but one of his paintings, A Madonna of the Road,” was pur- | chased by the government for the) | permanent collection We are indebted to Miss Frances Kautz Read for the following inter- esting personal note concerning Baroness Maydeil and her art: “A reflection of the quaint por- traiture of & hundred years ago, sur- viving toddy in many /an ancestral gallery, Baroness Maydell brings to her work a living quality never be- fore found in black and white. Her art, like all others, cannot be sepa- rated from her history and environ- ment. ¥ore than any other it has been subjected to unigque Influence. “As @ young girl in the seclusion of one of the great landed estates, where the Winters were long And visitors a rare event, her talent ripened as talent only can where time is unlimited and the mind in peace. Even then she found expression in the stlhouette form, the relfc of a bygone age. So proneunced was her t that she wus sent away to profit instruction of such teachers Rosen in Riga and Ivan Bil- ibin i the Imperial Art School in St Petersburg faturing slowly in the serenity of Baltie rural life, gaining a con- summate finish in the best academies of Lurcpe, the art of Eveline von is above all rooted in the Itic soil and deep in the agonized heart of the Baltic people. To un- derstand her one must understand them “Like struggled against the ok ok ® UT (o return to Zorn, whose works occupy the the entire semi-circu- lar gallery and comprise not only portraits and figure studies, but Jand- | scapes and genre: Therc are 47 pie- tures in all in the little catalogue, the majority of which are oils, u few | water colors. Mrs. Zorn, the puinter's | widow, has lent the major portion of this collection, which however, supplemented ‘by loans from privats Amerfcan and Swedish collectors, |among whom mention may be made of Charles Deering, Thorsten Laurin, | Herman Lamm, Axel Jacobsen and | others. | “Zorn 15, was undoubtedly @ master painter, and though all of these pic tures may not show him at his best, it is a representative collection, and a | number of the canvases set forth may be reckoned ameng the masterpleces | of day. For instance. “The Toast,” lent by the Idun Club; the which occupies the place of honor on the semi-eircular wall; the portrait of Mme. Rikoff, to name only three. And how delight- ful are the interiors with figure: giving true glimpses o Swedish life- The Dance in Gopsmor’" and “Bread- the water colors, is that = entitled an amazing charac- all minorities who have through the centuries encroachments of allen races, the Balts have developed dis- tigetive national traits and a culture which hus served as a model for all of Eastern Europe. So pronounced is this racial quality that distant cousins resemble one another in a marked degree and understand without the need for words the same code of foyalty and love of simple things. “This origin and these influences explain the charm that lles In her portraits of children as well as her sensitive treatment of ‘age. Her art and her heart are [nseparably in- tertwined in the destiny of her peo- ple. She creates more beautifully because she creates for them. “Marriage in 1914 apparently ter- minated what promised to be a bril- liant career. Little did she realize under whaut cruel neceesity her talent and her educatfon would serve nor what depths of- understanding the years of viclssitude would bring to her fragile art “It was this need that gave her the courage to come alone and un- introduced to a strange country. Expatriated from her home, her heart aching for others like herself, she accomplished the feat of bringing to the notice of American art lovers her delicate and special gift. x ok k% AT the Arts Club, 2017 1 street, three exhibitions open today. The first is a group exhibition of small paintings by four Baltimore artists, Louise West, Margaret M. Law, Anne andlee and Mary W. Crummer. On the second floor, in the front room, will be seen oil paintings by Marguerite C. Munn, a member of the club and a regular exhibitor with the Society of Washington Artists and the Washington Watercolor Club, while in the Library will be e hibited sketches made in the streets of Baltimore, entered for the Balti- more Sun annual prize and selected from 230 making the original exhibi- tion. At the regular club dinner Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. L. M Leisenring will be hosts. On the evening of April 14 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Musgrave will welcome the guests, and on April 21 Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Burnside will hold the same position of honor. On Tuesday eve- ning, April 7, a memorial service for t self-portrait, making.” Among how charming “Grandmother,” next BY MAURICE FROMKES, PUR- GALLERY OF ART. ome of the s found to the tradi- a revolutionary in his day advanced—but today he belong to the old school, tic . and he is not yet long de- ceased. Only yesterday, seems was he among us, painting his virile portraits, producing his striking etchings with that brillian and dash which still bespeak a gallant spirit. But as compared to the Fromkes Zorn paintings seem and old style. > | K of today. None will deny s present triumph, but no thought to such mat- what the percen- will t < car wonder um ¢ tion an think of this work 2 Has Fr or nsitive al discrimination the \ting word way mkes said or the and merely T museums add omplishme to their per lections h bought painting Mr Fromkes. The Albright Gallery of Buffalo has bought his “Jacinta and Her Family,” and the Museum of the thode lIsland School of Design, at providence, has acquired his “Span- ish Mother,” both of which are in- luded i xhibition Viewed at the length of the of these pictures by Mr are found incompl draw too near. But wed undoubtedly lasquez and Mane to deliver his me in houl that laborious work paint ured cantiov slowly mane ve v this gallery Fromk close one must Mr. From n th n ha steps of \ great br i b mans because e can- if exam- until Ce show ined closely @ surface like enamel tainly Mr. Fromkes has set down what he saw that to the most casual observer it appears wi cat vividness. The figures that he has d are undoubtedly types, ex- cellent Spanish types. His landscap re in auite a different vein and are nore individualistic.. Some maller masterpieces of the ernists. Helen the February national Si how some painted Spain.” pl the people he pai the boy in the thes Ronda that plet Lridges, prese perhaps the catego: m, anes are All belong in works of the g the eat Comstock, in number an article in of the Inter udio, tells something of of these pictures were “In all his wanderings over she says, “Fromkes never em- professional mode; who came into his “ife that ted—the porter, the servant in the market. a shepherd boy hills, the friend of a friend were his subjects. ‘The Belle of is a shoemaker's daughter in sque town of gorges and the houses perch in- the top of smooth reach down to the Some of his subjects he found on the street and often he had great difficulty in persuading them to serve as models. This writer, moreover, the comment of a Spanish on Mr. Fromkes' color, a comment good that it is worth rep “He is a virtuoso of color, a most subtle Tuminist,” said this writer. “It would be easy tolook for precedents and to find an affilia- tion with Anglada if we wished, be- cause of our pride, that all his good points should bLe founded upon our own. He has, like Anglada, those delicious ‘empasts,’ delightful to look upon, malleable and brilliant,” which is very true. And he also comments upon the ‘“ceramic quality” of Mr. Fromkes' paintings quality sug- gestive of that found in the oriental porcelains. Such favor wh significantly on rock walls that black water.” quote ritic u have Mr. Fromkes' vears from now. | charming— | It was | Dr. Mitchell Carroll will be held, Mr. And then those splendid portrait Ola Clock Maker,” “Mora Peasant Girl"; and the joyous outdoor subjects, such as “In My Gondola,” besides which there are the nudes, beautiful- Iy painted, essentially realistic, but ‘ne\ er vulgar. terization there are studies, “The “King's Kari. of old age! Bush-Brown presiding. More and more the Arts Club is be- coming a local art center and a meeting place for those interested in a1l artistic activity, * ¥ k X A COLLECTION of porcelain stat- uettes by Mrs. George Oakley Totten, jr.. of this city is being ex- hibited in the Grand Central Galler- ies, New York, attracting much fa- vorable attention. When the col- lection was shown here in the Cor- coran Gallery a prominent New York sculptor saw it and was so impressed by the merit and unique charm of the work that he personally arranged for its display in New York. These statuettes were made by Mrs. Totten in Sweden, and though she has done quite a little clay mod- eling since she came to this country and became the wife of Maj. Tot- ten, the well known local architect, she has not continued the same kind of work here. Last summer Maj. and Mrs, Totten spent some time with Mr. Binns of the New York School of Clay Working and Ceramics and to a great extent mastered the mysteries of porcelain making. It is their hope later on to set up kilns and a little factory here in Washington, a con- summation greatly to be desired. There is a piquancy about' Mrs. Totten's statuettes which is delight- ful and which is not frequently found in the works of our own American artists. It is a precious gift and one which should be allowed to find free expression, in the atrium at the Corcoran allery, supplementing the exhibition in the hemicycle, is a small collection of etchings by Zorn, ‘mu by Ralph King of Cleveland and other well known collectors. Among | the great etchers of all time Zorn is | In the c invariably named, and generally the first three # * among * set | rcoran Gallery of this time, one which will un- | engage much attention and | sine admiration, con- sists of portraits and scenes in sil- houettes cut by Baroness Maydell, a |refugee from the Soviet regime, who | has taken up her residence in New York. She is said to have originated the group portrait in sithouette, and certainly she displays great skill and leverness in her rather complicated renditions. Among the works which are on eshibition Is & portrait in silhouette of an American family composing an orchestra, each playing some instrument, Among those whose portraits appear in this unigue ex- hibit are Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mme. Eleonore Duse and the Grand Duch- ess of Oldenbourg. There is a large group of the du Pont family and smaller ones of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. jr., as [well as an excellent little portrait | of Miss Katherine Dumbell and a group portrait of Mr. and*Mrs. Bush- Brown and their maid of all work. All are excellent characterizations. | PHE third fopih at Art at doubtedly call special exhibition the Ci forth * ok kK SMALL collection chiefly of flat silver for the table, by George Jensen, the Danish silversmith, a master craftsman, is now on view at Jane Bartlett's. Jensen is one of the foremost silversmiths of the world, | | | | the “PORTRAIT OF A BALTIC LADY,”» CONTAINED IN THE SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF PORTRAITS AND SCENES IN SILHOUETTES CUT BY BARONESS MAYDELL, AND ON VIEW AT THE COR- CORAN GALLERY. OF ART. “THE TOAST.” BY ANDERS ZORN. ON EXHIBITION AT THE COR- CORAN GALLERY OF ART. THE PAINTING IDUN CLUB FOR THE EXHIBITION IS LOANED BY THE and his works have found inclusion in the permanent collections of many of the museums of decorative art throughout Europe and America, His work has a beautiful finish, and his design is at the same time original and refined. * F ok % N the Smithsonian Building, under the auspices of the department of graphic arts of the United States Na- tional Museum, there is now to be seen an interesting collection of 76 etchings by Krnest Haskell, one of the most distinguished of our Ameri- can etchers. Mr. Haskell is a painter and writer as well s an etcher and lithograph, He was born in Weod- stock, Conn., July 20, 1376 He is a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers and was awarded & bronze medal at the Panama-Pacific exposi- tion in Sun Francisco in 1815 RKABLE symboli ing Ly George Inness, jr. N, A, entitled “The Only Hope” . was ex- hibited privately to the President and a few others in the boardroom of the Corcoran Gallery of Art this week This painting, which is over nine feet high and six feet wide, was by Mr. Inness last Summer moor and has past Winter in M Tarpon Springs, Fla primarily to bring peace on e it points to the only way end can be accomplished produced forth REM at Crags- n shown during the Inness’ studio at Its purpose. is that th 1t e most pictures objective form and as to set color, but News of CONDUCTED BY "N Women's City Club.—The junfor sec- tion, Miss Grace McVey, chalrma will be in charge of the tea to be given in the clubhouse this afternoon from 4:30 to 6 o'clock. Acting hostesses will be Miss Agnes Winn, Miss Estelle Allen, Miss Margaret Norton and Miss Louise Pattison. Miss Agnes Brown and Miss Inez Justice will preside at the tea tabl There will be a musical program by James Cox, who will play violin se- lections, and Chrstopher Renly, who will give piano numbers. A subscription dinner will be given by the business and professional women's _section Wednesday, 6:30 o'clock. The speakers, each having the general subject “The Attainment of Beauty” and talking from the angle of her particular interest or activity, will be Dr. Ada R. Thomas of the medical council of the Sibles Hospital, who will give the physi- clan's viewpoint; Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, director, Instructive Visi ing Nurse Society, will speak on “Health”; Mrs. Eva Dell Mevers will tell of the benefits of dxercise: Mis Ruth V. Pope, director of education for the Y. W. C. A, will speak on “Activities,” and Miss Elsie Sanders, senior teacher of physical training at Central High School, will have for her subject “Foundations for Beauty.” Miss Elsle Plerce, who broadcasts weekly over WRC on “Beauty and Personality,” will preside. Reserva- tions will be limited td 100. Miss Clara W. McQuown will speak on “The Problems of the Pacific” at the meeting of the current events section, to be held April 9 at 4:45 p.m. Mrs. Willlam E. Chamberlin will preside. The drama unit will hold an open meeting April 9 at 7:30 pm. Mre. Marlalyse Ross Manly, director, will speak on “Drama From the Aotor's Viewpoint.” The unit will present two - plays, “Whims,” by Lillian Graves, and “How the Story Grew,” by O. W. Gleason, April 16 at 8:15 p.m. Cards may be obtained at the clubhouse. Mrs. Gertrude Reed will preside at the book review meeting April 9 at 8 p.m. The entertainment give an Easter dance April 11 from 9 to 12 p.m. A group of 50 midship- men from the Naval Academy will be the guests of honor. Cards, in- cluding refreshments, may be obtain- ed at the clubhouse. A formal card party, with tables for bridge and five hundred, will be given under auspices of the enter- tainment committee April 14 at § p.m. The proceeds will benefit the clubhouse. Refreshments will be in- cluded. A cafe dansant will be given under auspices of the junior seetion April 15, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. A spe- cial orchestra will play, there will be cabaret features and novel innova- tions. Supper will be served at small tables surrounding the ballroom. The committee in charge consists of Miss Agnes Winn, Miss Louise Pattison, Miss Inez Justus, Miss Judith Bar- baux, Miss Estelle Allen, Miss Elaine Eppley, Miss Margaret Norton, Miss. Agnes Brown, Miss Adelaide Borah, Miss My T. Bigelow, Miss Grace Rohleder and Miss Phillis Robinson. Reservations may be made through the chafrman, Miss Grace McVey. A formal luncheon will be held April 18, at 1 p.m. An {llustrated talk, “A Trip Through the Clouds,” will be given by W. C. Barnes of the Bureau of Forestry, Department of Agriculture, April 20, 8:30 p.m. The program will be pre- sented by the entertainment com- mitee. committee will Collewe Women’s Club—Will _C. Barnes, chief of grazing of .the Unit ed States Forest Service, will be the guest of honor and speaker at the club tea tomorrow, 4 to § p.m., at the clubhouse, 1822 1 street, Mr. Barnes will give an illustrated talk on “The Flowers of the Forest’ The hostesseé at the tea will be Miss Margaret A. McMahon and the paint- | painted | rth and | was not | rather to visualize therefore essentially subtle In an explanatory statement which accompanies the picture the says: “T dreamed, Interpreter He led good 1o attained known, ture an idea. It is artis dreamed the by the hand city that was This city had never before cience, litera one through- But was a place viston of love” been “swallowed up in the desir wealth and selfish ends. rest and peace to be found? painting Mr. Inness the syr bolic city destroye remains is the miasn the river.” The ing past power the gazer rising . t grow in inten in its beauty and as 1 came, and me to a mighty look upo “a culture In wealth, in and art it out the world.” of unrest; the stood @ shows no human that ris whil in as sees the €lop the ruin aim the break- ing of another dawn. The sky is ra diant: a iittle white dove is seen de scending, and in the center of the n gradually one discerns the iself—the Light the the embodiment of the striking s this visua « great idea that two practical men, Trving T. Bush of {York and’ Edward W. Bok of arranged to in itutions she | Christ | Worla only | so b New Ph have through tly to country tour. the Clubs ANNIE BAN@ASTE members of the walking sectic the club, Mrs. Wil H. H will preside at the tea tuble, and w be assisted by Mrs. Willtam C Vieck and Miss t Zonta Clab.— meeting for will be held Tea Room. desiring nual the 1 at the Tuesday dinner are o'clock. The usual con will be dispense day, giving place to meeting. On March 28 federation of Zonta Clubs met ir Washington. The members of the local club were hostesses at a dinner to the delegates at Dodge Hotel. Delegates were asx follows Helen Taylor, Binghamtc g Helen Mallory. Elmira < York Ci of « Lotos Lanter: expegtod Tuesdiy with the lunct on that evening section B of the Con- Grace Hobokén, hington Sawyer Durand of Ithaca short stoties, presided and M Mrs. Ruth writer of The Susan met Tuesday rooms. Mag evening items of interest were considered connected with the rapid growth of the movement. Arrange- ments were completed for the unvell- ing of the life-size portrait of Miss Anthony ir? the parlors of the Shore- ham Hotel. Several tables were chosen for the luncheon on April following the convention of the old National Amer- fcan Woman Suffrage Association, in the Washington Hotel. The theater benefit of the President Theater Thursday evening was well attended All members and friends of the foun- dation wishing to occupy seats in the Susan B. Anthony box for the three remaining concerts in the Mayflower Hotel, given under the auspi the National Council of Women, should communicate with the treas- urer, Mrs. Alfred Anthony, Franklin 3613-, Many expressions of admiration and gratitude were heard in connection with the two handsome banners do- nated by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt to the foundation. These banners were carried in_some of the notable parades in New York and other places. They are in perfect condition and of great historical value. Among recent additions to member- ship announced are Mrs. William H. Herron, Mrs. Laura H. Scherer and Miss M. D. Wright. New headquar- ters in the Shoreham Hotel were opened on Thursday. The last ldc- ture in the Lenten series given by Mre. Nanette B. Paul, on the human side of the Bible, will be delivered in the Hotel Shoreham tomorrow eve- ning at 8 o'clock. Chevy Chase Woman's Club.—The executive board will meet Wednes- day at 1 p.m.. at the home of Mrs. J. H. Dellinger. Mrs. Dellinger will be assisted by Mrs. Offut and Miss Broass as hostesses at the luncheon, which precedes the business meeting. The nature section will meet at the home of Mrs. J. H. Dellinger, Friday, 2:30 p.m. Mr. Edwin C. Powell of the Department of Agriculture, will give an illustrated talk on “Bulbs for the Home." Mrs. G. W. Morey held a most in- teresting meeting of the civic section in the Chevy Chase Library, Friday, April 3. Mrs. G. S. Jamison gave a talk on “Our Relations With Russia. The parliamentary drill was conduct- ed by Mrs. Earl Chaffee. A program of all-American composers was given by the music section. The music section held a rehearsal in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Chevy Chase, Md.,, Wednes- day. AllL members of the section de- siring to sing in the Spring concert are urged to attend all rehearsals in April and Ma Mrs. Paul Sleman, chairman of the membership committee, will hold the (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) 9 1925—PART 1 Reviews of New Books These latter days have not infre- quently discovercd the historian going to school to the novelist. A promising sight it is, too. It may reasonably be assumed, however, that this s not an altogether free-will act on the part of the savant. For learning in each of its aspects has ever been partial to its trappings and impedimenta, more than a little in love as well with its reputation—of immemorial sanction— as a superior and exclusive caste But in these modern days democracy has come to town, and republicanism Moreover, the great material world has been drawn together in a close neighborhood of ready contacts”anc easy communication. These, working together, have clearly pl the devil with exclusions and castes, with every mandarinic implication whatsoever. These, working together, have served also to change the texture of govern- ment itself, lifting the averagle man— singly and in bulk—to an enormous and still growing influence in .the vital affairs of peop ¥ Such new and widely sponsibility implies an equally dif- fused genernl knowledge. It is at this point that the scholar—the scholar pure and simple—is called to a practical accounting. For, in the face of this growing democracy, all manner of useful learning is com- manded to come down out of the clouds. to emerge from the crypts where it has so long and so jealously hidden If. Among the wise men so summoned is more promptly responding than the writer of h tory. He knows, none hetter, that in this new world of liberty, where Tom d Dick and Harry free, under inalienable 7 to helmsmen's hands upon even the ship of state, it behooves some spawise mariner to hart the wide and unknown waters upon which they are so huoyantly setting out. This is the historian's pediate job. . Men, as men, have not changed in a million years. They'll >t change in another million. That ich, by and large, they have been loing in this long they cer- sin to be doly that My long futu under the yresent spread of Every- rise to social and political in- ases to be merely a philo- action of only academ time to set isive medium miy to the ground, t situa actual t by ual past, pointing diffused re- and spe nence, « ophi -oncers Ahst It is now aside feet set f ir-squar ecting the a no I the t his novel sadl discard his th down maybe- mighty his cu 1 the naked 'S behavio significant in* the years its quiet, tacular s well. Having | cerip what to do next @ prob quite outside familiar domain of eoilect- & and tabulat- fact concern- that one. A good is easy 1o be- historian in his the so successful just possibly in the the moment, “Oh ive it to s a answer o be not thought of even the thor- cholar is able, under that “Tell me a age-old and universal response has created medieval minstrel -and i Mother e, and Andersen, and James 1l the others, with a host he whole multitudinous through song and story dreams and winged the inarticulate man * * along with the nov- playwright, many of the turning to only adequate ect and general s the control- and prime objective of Drama, in its essence, is Its goal, to evoke living a4 women who act and react fundamental accord with the uni- laws of human nature. These men and women, to meet the imme- diate purpose of novelist and play- wright and the new writer of history, are circumseribed by particular situa- tion and defini oblem, upon which play the inevitable potencies of hered- ity and environment. Drama is the medium that gives bodil¥ resurrec- tion to the past. reseting the pag- antry of ancient peopies, spreading acle of all men in all time the r-ending stru wan existence. It does more e-embody the past—It identi- it with the present in every one its human implications. A guide, therefore—a monitor as well. Drama also the ignition spark of interest, giving light and glamour and conta- gion to theme. Without the flame of interest—nothing!—in any time or place or pursu h learning T fie ¥ f history but unspe this people ngh turns to st for help, int ¢ vhat'll 1 stor i do the gasy ure! Why had_he this himself? r ghly drie tit Celti is the whos bard minnesing rimm arrie t to come— that th and ed versa the spe interlaced gle of hu ran to novelist the new writer of history has one distinct advantage. is buttressed in ready made facts, to which is bound in full and compl allegiance. Whereas it is the task of the novelist to create flction in the similitude of fact. In other respects they hold equal chance for the honors of dra- matic power and appeal Kk % little group of this new sort of history writers. Their work illustrates capably the practical pur- pose of the subject embodied in a form admirably calculated to fulfill that purpose. Over the Here is a * ME HISTORY OF MAS TTS. By Samuel Eliot Boston: Houghton Mifflin THE MAR SACHUS Morison, Company- In the new hall of Representatives' in Massachusetts, over a door just opposite the Speaker's desk, there hangs a wooden codfish, which, by solemn . official announcement, is placed there as a “memorial of the importance of the vod fishery to the welfare of this commonwealth.” A fine touch of noblesse oblige, this, since the history of maritime Massa- chusetts is, in its chief substance, the story of the codfish and the clipper ship and the doughty seamen alopg the coast. That ig, 0o, the story set down here. One judges a thing—any- thing—not by the slow and laborious steps of jts development—judges it, rather, by’ its results and effects. One judges this book by its effect. Draw- ing away from it, one sees only a thrilling picture of wide and stormy waters and scudding white-winged clippers and long adventures into the unknown East—by way 6f the Pacific out from Boston, by way of the Vasco-da-Gama route out from Salem. And there are the long days in Ori- ental ports, gathering the home cargo of tea and silks and spices and queer carven things in ivory and jade. Then the home run, with stop at the Bar- badoes for the rum—rumbullion, the natives called it, since that word means a great tumult. And, home again, the unloading of the fragrant wwares and the taking on of the Midas-like cod for another adventure into the lands of golden merchandise. Somehow one forgets in this great adventure the toil and the danger and the generally bleak business of get- ting and preparing this source of wealth te the young colony. It s ail set down here, however. But it is the shining adventure of this period that thrills one. For it is a new aspect of New England history. It is romance whdte one has found hitherto only an uninviting, though very honorable, prose. A complete justification of one’s joy here is that this beautiful story of the clipper ship is as authen- tic and clearly historical as are the less glowing and more familiar facts of New England history. A HISTORY OF AMERICAN PRIVA- TEERS. By Edgar Stanton Maclay, A. M., author of “A History of the United States Navy,” etc. Illus- trated. York: D. Appleton & Co. It was not Saratoga, not Yorktown that struck the mortal blows to Brit- ish supremacy in America. It w: rather, the attack on English com- merce by way of our sea forces. Eng- 1&nd’'s supreme concern in both of her wars with the United States was cen- tered upon what was being done to her trade on the high seas; not what might be done on land to her troops. which were, in the main, mercenaries Mr. Maclay's story is the story of the American privateer In our two Wars with England. A free lance of a craft, the privateer, sailing here and there, striking its blow, then swiftly away to some other unsuspecting point of British Interest. Into the English Channel it*swept, up around the north of Scotland, into the Irish Sea, and out again to skirt the west coast of this island—striking, looting, destroying, sinking. Off in hot haste with the treasure to one or another of the wide-open ports of Spain or France, both gleeful over the surprise and. perturbation of the ancient en emy. A gigantic, & Gargantuan mo: quite, this privateer—sudden, unex- pected, malignant, persistent: a pestiferous thing, over whose de- predatfons solemn officlal resolu- tions arose to the effect ‘that “the number of privateers with which ‘our channels have been in fested, the audacity with which they have approached our coasts and the iccess with which their enterptise s been attended have proved in- jurious to our commerce, humbling to our pride and discredible to the direc- tors of the naval power of the British nation, whose flag till of late waved over every sea and triumphed over every rival; that there is reason to elieve that in the short space of less 24 months above 500 vessels been captured by that power maritime strength we have hitherto impolitic held in con- tempt.” Gorgeous! A deal of explanatory ssion gives us the origin of the privateer 1 its purpose. In its freedom lay the seed of its de e of organization demanded its inco poratior a part of the general naval establishment, where in another form it today performs its original function of destroying commerc the high seas in time of war. A part fell away into pure piracy Take away its lcense, and the priva- became a sea rover. Drop the ense overboard, and the lawful sea- n changed into a lawless marauder. That was what happened to Capt Kidd and many another. Another chapter of authentic history turned into a sea adventure that no invented could possibly surpass By New ve whose dise buccane WHALING, H Boardman Doubled Charles es York ge & Anoth story th chapter in the universal unter and the hunted In this case the biggest of all big game invites the potential Nimrod housed somewhere in the most of us. t the jungle, but the sea the locule of this adventure where one has a fighter's chance—not against a h at all: rather, against a warm- ded mammal that bears its young the rest of its family, those that staved on land instead of takiing to the’ sea, as did the leviathan in the formative ages of its development A story of whale hunting that covers centurfes of this industry and this sport; a story of the whale itself in fts tribes and familles, in its com- mercial appeal to man, in its decline and approaching extinction. And as you go a-whaling here vou have a multitude of adventures besides. Stresses of Arctic weather, the dan- gers of the pursuit, the perils of cap ture, the quarrels over divisions of the spoil, mutiny and chains, foodless days. nights of floundering in ice | seas—everything that goes with the hazardous business of gathering in wholebone and sperm oil is offered you here, as well as a simple and well organized body of fact pertain- ing to the whale an animal of definite place in the scheme of crea- tion. Again history and biology tak- ing on the smiling face of romance and adventure. SEAMEN ALL. By E. Keble Chatter- ton, author of “Sailing Ships and Their Story,” etc. Boston: Little, Brown & (o This author has no other design than to offer adventure for your en- tertainment. Vet this adventure is based upon facts of the sea. True accounts, these, about all sorts of seamen, about all kinds of ships, drawn from the past two and a half centuries of sea history. The period selected- is that when the sailing ship, that loveliest thing afloat, was at the height of its glory. And the stories stepping out from that period are of a quality to give point once more to the old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. Indeed, if the writer of pure fiction had offered many of these es to us they would have been re- jected immediately on the score, not of improbability, but of sheer impossi- bility. Good stories for the incor- rigible romancer to read; good ones for the inventor to study. For, after all, they are only the record of man's encounter with “that greatest thing God made”—the sea. DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS. By Irvin Anthony. Illustrated. Phil- adelphia: The Penn Publishing Co. Let me quote this man for a minute, otherwise you will not get the flavor of him as invitation to a real reading of these tales. gathered here and there and projected in no sense of formal exposition been growled grufly into my ears and unfolded” in precise scholarly phrase. Museum and waterfront have been equally kind. Everywhere busy men have halted and taled of the wonders of the deep. Bank presidents have given me an hour and shared their hobby. Directors of ports have turned from signing correspondence, shippers have hesitated before the insistent telephone to talk. Good men and true have swung about in their swivel chairs, looked out from their stately offices, and at the mention of a loved ship have unlocked their tongues and pictured her in the har- bor before their eyes. Private desk drawers have been opened and the treasures of the past lifted out, the proud relics of a youth that is dead”— enough to show the friendly commu- nicabllity of this man and the fervor of his pugsuit as well. And the stories that he has hunted out are of Vikings and Normans, of East Indian enter- prises, of West Indlan sailings, of pirate and maurauder and free- booter. And‘there are stories, besides, of our own ports—easy, ready-flowing stories of Boston and Salem, of New York and Philadelphia and San Fran- cisco, each steeped in its own par- ticular flavors and dipped in its own native dyes. There must be magic in the sea such as the dry land cannot evoke. For these sea books—ail of them— true to the letter each and all—are is luring and compelling things. And they do exemplify—all of them—the new attitude and mood of the his- torian in his contacts with the read- ing world. This material “has | THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. 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