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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 19, 1925—PART 2. The Passing of a Big Figure in the Art World—Rzilway Posters | On Exhibition—Washington Artists Represented In New York Exhibition. lakes, hill towns and the Riviera— that fend color and decoration to the little railroad stations as one passes from place {o place. Such ‘use of posters Is distincsly legitimate and it atters in the art world this| L0IT® Ll §¢" fn this the »United past week. The news came 88| giyias woul follow foreign example. 8 Breat shock, for though Mr. Sargent |y, ot lure on_American -travelers was within about a year of 70, he was | 1 ' 104 Je Om U ing ;S0 physically and mentally | ¢, them in simplified, artistic poster strong that it seemed impossivle to | to (NP 1N SIMPRACE, BEUSEe Boter| gantzation: there t believe he could die—and course | 4y arica is so rich? | Among the members are Miss Gabr he cannot o long as his work lasts. |* mhese posters have been furnished |elle de V. Clements, Mrs. Bush:Bromwn But his career has ended: no more will | (e Library Bureau of Railway. Eco- [ Mr. and Mrs. Gameron Burnaide. mhan that gifted hand produce and the|jomics by the représentatives of the | Comins and Arthur I Musgrave chapter is closed. The world is the| aflroads in the séveral European e - richer for his having lived, the poorer | countries - as an - interhational cour- because of his death | tesy John Singer it was preemf-| 3 RS R o frodt melar on i ASHINGTON “artists are gener- | assoolation, wt fact that he. was born in Florence and ously represented in the hun- | headquarters in the Octagon, in this lived most of his life abroad he was | dredth annual exhibition of the Na- |city, Wil hold' its fifty-cighth annual typleally American, embodying in his| tional Academy of Deslgn now in |convention in New York this week, work those qualities which we' not gress in the Fine Arts Galleries, Ahr)n 20 to 24. 1In connection with only like to think of, but are assurec ty-seventh street, New | this convention a great international 5 do R A meron . Burnside shows | exposition of architecture znd the al- by foreigners are representative ot | lied arts is to be held in the Grand ri . s ra- Clifr,”” Mrs. Bush-Bi . d American character. He was cours. i dien s | Central Palace. This, it is understood, Beous, str virile and impetuous, will be on: he most notable exhi- Suronsy e Comins shows his port il tieing, (Revians he Cercied the s An Tndlan Mother.” Jer country. On the evening of April 23 1y Mr. Sargent was Jittle known, wave | WOrth won, it will be remembered, one | & reception will'be given to the visit- by his fow chosen ntimates. He was | of the much-coveted Hullgarten prizes | ing delegates by. the National Acade- hls few chosen intimates. He was |- 1 painting entitled *Helon:" | my of Design. At the luncheon on nat given to public speakl o | besides there ave those who, though | following day there will be ad not pase and he would not be lionized. | besides there are those Who, thous! ses by a sculptor, a mural painter He painted because he loved to paint aftsman of distinction. That e nte i " il | have in the past lived and p and a ¢ ) ;‘\y'd ‘)‘4-*‘:\“ m«dlm -‘}’,,.l :’\f,;fl] ]):: 'S x‘f here, such as Everett Warner | evening there will be a reception and . ] E-| showd”d: ixbascape, VIR | concert in the Metropolitan Museum portrait in the UMMzi shows him with | {200 A lan e hor Bl e poro) of ATEHwIERY orchestin Tttt finely modeled head, dark hair and | fuliet Thomp ett” and a por- | the direction of David Mannes, and at black beard, essentially a manly look- | (2ut O " FRTE HEEOt, B B B 1930 o k the Institute's gold medal ing man—an aristocrat. He was de-| S8 010 TG O AN e entitled | of honor awill be awarded with due scended from the Sargents of Mussa-|ppe’young Dianas™; Hobart and |ceremony. The 1924 medal will be chusetts, men and women of iintellec- | (ot TOUE PRI e ing ed to Sir Edwin Landseer Lut tual attainment and strong convietion. | (teEIL SO L0 BT e British architect, and the 1 ‘Whomsoever rgent painted he | . .0 "wpcross the Valley,” the lat- | medal to the late:Bertram Grosvenor Save wn v of distinction, but in-|ierexhibiting a painting entitled | Goodhue, in memory % i variably he set forth his own - Felicie Waldo e preation of personality, o s s “Water-worn and woe to] H _ % 4 | Howell shows two pictures, “South - the man or woman who in his esti-| Stect, Manhattan,” and “ONl Glass™ | [HERE is & movement on foot, mation felishort.i Fergent's port sponsored by the X Painters. to were not alw bring to this city one of the traveling 3 TLralts | \woijjiam Baxter Closson a s complimentary, but | igye work entitled “Out of the Gath 1 | exhibitions sent out by the Painters and ' Association, to which in no instunce did they fail to give [ aric WOPK SOt o Bittin a reading of characte is s thel o Cyo was aw i the first pri essence of great portrait paint-|in ¢he Society of Washington Artist nd Central Galleries, in He was a rapid workman, | ocent exhibition, is represented here rk. Miss Ada Rainey, the art illlant technician. I factal brush | o7, 0 intin; 1 “On Leave in |critic, originated the plan and has lald the paint on just as it was to|.gg» 4 historical costume study. - |conducted the negotiations. stay, with absolute directness and as-| “bpig exhibition continues only until | The Painters and Sculptors’ Ass surance. ¥ | April 24 and should not be confused |tion -of the Grand Central Galle in manner o | with the centennial retrospective ex- | New -York, represents a tangible ef- of his paintings | Academi- | fort on the part of artists and laymen ment of fin | cians will assemble and show first |to create a market for American art. in effect, { here in Washington next Fall, open- [ The galleries, which are on the. top ful in mid-October and_continuing until | floor of the Grand Central Station, are Mrs, the latter part of November, before | probably the finest showrooms for art &go in omne of being seen in New York and other |in this count: and the exhibitions exhibitions cities. This great exhibition will rep- | which the association has sent to At Reviewing Sargent’s works, what & | regent American art in its full devel- | lanta, Ga., and Aurora, 111, have been wealth of accomplishment there is How many exhibitions in the past 25 vears have owed their chief dis- tinction to one of his paintings? Every one will remember “The Three Sisters,” shown he and in_ Phila- | deiphia; the large group painting of | “The Doctors,” done for Johns Hop- kins University and permanently placed therein; his portraits of the late John Hay and of Gen. Leonard Books Fresh From the Presses——New Publications Received by : the Public Library—The Gibbs Brothers zad Their Literary Output. BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. Ixraundwork Only a clear purpose PARADISE. By Cosmo Hamilton,|And & strong will, working together, author of “The Blindness of Vir.|€able one to resist the temptation (i . : of discursive wanderings into this an et DoMtonEBLS, Brown /Rl Sxtitiag AN or strigic. > Tb. 8| come. aran ot BY LEILA MECHLIN. 2 death of Sargent, which oc in London on April 15, as overshadowed ull other tion next season. This new society is the result of the exhibition held re- cently under the auspices of the local Chamber of Commerce in the new Auditorium, and part of its purpose is to ‘co-operate with the municipal and school authorities in assisting with the decoration of the local public is quite an informal or- there is no president, but the st te rial gain—project and sustain if muance of the North. The turer” himself is one Cha against man in “adven story t} Institute of Arch! the national architectu; which owns and has its ’[‘HI-I American urpose tects, Critch Washington: I YANKEE TALE OF ROME; Historical Poem. By D aser. | n: Christopher House. that provides the only means of in- terpreting the character of Tony. His is the blood of primitive times and warring men. Therefore, in the mod- ern aspect of London society, Tony is a ne'er-do-well, a waster, lovable and engaging, but of no earthly account. Then the world war.. Here Tony is a hero, as he deserves to be. In his native element, you see. The war over, and Tony, like thousands of others, has neither incentive nor op- portunity for fair endeavor. Had it not been for the special providence which it is the good novelist's busi- ness to produce at the right moment, Tony would have settled back into the hopeless waster. This providence acts in the form of an island in the Pacific, “‘Paradise,” and it is here, umong the primitive islanders, that the Hon. Anthony Stirling-Fortescue 1y S finds himself in his proper character THE JOHN SINGER SARGENT PORTRAIT OF CHARLES W . lof leader and benefactor. A very i N TR beautiful love story goes along with the other cdncerns of the Hon. Tony a story whose appeal s to the fine chivalry of the fellow, to the high dealings of the real man that he is with those to whom he owes both allegiance and protection. SOUNDINGS. By A. Hamilton Gibbs, author of “Gun Fodder.” Boston:| Little, Brown & Co. NDER “Soundings” lies the big implication that motherhood is the supreme urge of all nature—of all plant life, of all animal life, including the human animal itself. That being true, {t follows that the female,| The Ge ete. B hing Hou THE BUSY WOMAN'S COOK BOOK; Or Cooking by the Clock Mabel Claire. X berg, Publisher, In POEMS. James Boston: The Str thor has hers successfully resisted|with the great company. NE easily envisages a friendly | such temptation. It is the straight- | defeats and. few triumphs mik literary rivalry among these| jine simplicity of this study of San|much the tales, which three English Gibbs brothers | Martin that gives to it its best value |fip, nto an st exclusive —Sir Philip Gl'dvhx, uale:rate-! and its highest service story. It is the appearance of war correspondent and nov-| _ i Macdonald herself that Jeads to. & elist; Cosmo Hamilton (Gibbs), success- b’l‘Ar(,ls)‘_.h E}; Alefa?)der’ Bl_:}rkl Hull'}"’ ?L,k,‘,‘,, '(,!r ),;’ ' :”,“1,, ul.v x‘ ful play writer and novelist, and A. af SENe Grest Desine ote. In-| 5 o e S et W dos Hamllton Gibbs, whose --Gun’ Fodder" dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill| Founs bretender und the Macdor depicts war as it is, now himself out Compan: | remains of. the.gréed of méncef their with ‘a first novel. There is u de-|"THE Stacey of Alexander BIack's | {roqcne eIt fi ' Tie i tice cided family literary resemblance new novel is too human, too fluid, | of his jamong these brothers. All three are |to stand as 4 type. Yet, despite this 1looking at life along some one of its|lack of exact accommodation to rule,|and setti significant aspects, and from the|Stacey does stand for an enormous | standpoint of the present in Its offect|number of the young men of the upon & not too distant future. There-|moment. These are the army of op- fore, all deal with themes that have | timistic, buoyant fellows who, with | BQOKS RECEIVED. scope beyond the limits of any single | neither native aptitude nor special | ‘= | story or any single point of view. All|training, step out into the highly or-| PRACTICAL GRAPHIC FIGURES; are still entangled to a certain degree | ganized and complex present hopeful| The Technical Side of Drawing in the effects and implications of the|and expectant. It's a pathetic busi for Cartoons and Fashions. world war, The realism of all three |ness, that of these unequipped young-| . Lutz. Illustr ¥t {is mitigated by the fact that none of | sters trying to make headway in a New ‘ them chooses to write from-the slum | world so highly organized and equipped | Sons. stratum of life. Each works with an|as is the one of today. As one fol- easy hand that lifts the story into an|lows this particular Stacey, chasing atmosphere of sophistication. one rainbow opportunity after an- “Paradise” for its basic support |other, he is at the same time follow-| ¥ goes back to the sclentist’s theory of |ing dozens like him picked out from| lshing the “throw-back.” It is the embodi-|imong his own acquaintances OUR BASIC TRUTH ment of this theory in the person of | The whole haphazard business of | Al D> author the Hon. Anthony Stirling-Fortescue |life, its accidental and incidental char- etc. F acter, comes out hefe strikingly in the hing House career of one young man. Not alone L in the way of trying to make a living | COLLEGE: Or China does Stacey demonstrate his unreadi- t Tity ness, but in all the other common | author « relations of every-day existence do rk in the Wor he emphasize his lack of prepared- The Christopher P ness. In matters of the heart no one expects youth to be anything but stone blind, and Stacey quite lives up to the rule in this respect. So futile business projects and futile love af- fairs chase one another around here in a realism that takes Stacey com- | pletely outside the covers of a book | and identifies him with the youth- ful street mob of which he is D clearty a part. A true story in| its projection of the fact that the| anr OF human is very helpless in the tide |’ PURE With an Intro of circumstance around him. True Moore. also In the implication that little is being done to help the human in his dilemma. As to writing, no- body else is doing it just as Alex-| cal Criticism of Literature ander Black is. A pure economist F. Calvertc t The Each word has a real job and does | it. No padding, no fine writing for | filling—only a boy in his imme- | diate whirligig: a boy delivered alive | in words that set off high aims against futile achievement. Real life, this novel, lifted out of a literal Grub Street by the buoyant beliefs and | SCIENCE AND hopes of youth. the Morse Le THE CHASTE DIANA. By E. Bar. J. Arthur author of “The Divine| €t etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. { THE RELIGION OF A SCEPTIC. STREAK of luck for lovers of | owper Pow New fiction is that with the ki Dodd, Me & duction York: F THE NEWER SPIRIT; A Sociol A hefine-| hibition which the National , for instance, his beauti- full-léngth portrait of the late Henry White, shown some vears the Cor sallery’s er Washington becomes an art mar ket the sooner it will be reckoned among the great art centers, there- fore, whatever tends to this end is desirable. of Elkton, Ind. The $25 prize offered by the Atlanta Convention and Tour- ists’ Bureau for a work in sculpture went to Miss Irene Charlesworth Johnson of Nashville for a sketch for a fountain. & 5 xx ‘HE Southern States Art Associa- il g tion has been holding its nnnual‘THH exhibitions at the Arts Club meeting and exhibition at the Biit- change today. A collection of more H-tel, Atlanta, Ga. The first{ paintings in gouache by Eleanor Park | award of $100 for a Southern land-| Custis takes the place of the paint- scape went to Willlam P. Silva for-|ings by a group of Baltimore woman merly of this city, now of Carmel-by-|artists which has occupied for the the-Sea, Calif., for his painting, “Gray | past fortnight the room on the first Moss ‘and Azaleas.” The prize of|floor, while upstairs water colors by $100 offered by the Atlanta Art As-|Felix Mahony will replace the exhi- socfation for a portrait or figure went Liveright RELIGION: Being By bition of ofl along Wood, of President Roosevelt and | President Wilson, of Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher and newspaper man; of John D. Rocketeller, of send, now Mrs. Peter ( Two exhibitions of Sarg: have been held in this co in Boston a considerable number of | years ago, another in New York | last Autumn. Both were arranged | through his co-operation But Sargent was not painter of portrait T allery owns his rming The Oyster Gatherers.” This and his picture of the Luxembourg gardens, exhibited in one of the Corcoran Gal- lery’s biennial exhibitions and mow owned by one of the othe ‘we) painted when Mr. Sargent w in the early 20s. In recent years | he has painted much out of doors and | in w style, sometimes in i i sometimes in water colors always with great skill and charm and | with marked individuality. One could never mistake o Surgent paint- ing for the work of any one else, and vet his work was essentially tradi| tional. He the inheritor, as well | as the follower, of the great masters of the past. Miss Town- | elet Gerry. | nt's works untry, one merely a| Corcoran picture, | Library Bureau of Railw: A | * | »nomics | announces an exhib; tising posters of foreign held in room 1030, Transpor Building, Seventeenth and H s from April 20 to 25.| This exhibition will include the work of prominent artists, such as Maurice Griffenhagen, Sir William Orpen, Sir | David Murray, Frank Brangwyn and | Adrien Stokes, all members of the| Royal Academy of London. It will| show posters made for and displayed the railroads of France, Great ain, Ttaly, the Netherlands, Nor- way, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada, as well as Australia, New Zealand, Manchuria and Argentina. on of adve: lways made for & und electr ded. These the under- | railways will be in invariab set forth the attractions of the London suburbs and are peculiarly attractive in themselves. The Italian posters are particularly colorful and no one who has traveled in that country can fail to recall with pleasurable sensations the attractive posters showing allur-| ing views of Italian scenery—the used by *+ “THE OYSTER GATHERERS,” A PAINTING BY JOHN SINGER SARGENT, WHICH IS INCLUDED IN THI THE SIR JOSHUA RE FAMOUS W. A, NOLDS PORTRAIT OF MRS, PRADO, IN THE CLARK COLLECTION. heimer painting April 19 National ¢ serving it week rienced flowers ing and reference “Manual of and for the libra RIS-B276. Cloud, K. Cox, E. H. opment during the past hundred yea: In the British section the posters|and may be anticipated with great in- terest. N come mural small but enthusiastic g pose o encouragement and meetings have already been held and plans are being made for an exhibi- % EW arti into painters f which very The plan is here in the Mayflower Hotel. zanization has existence here in er this will p had a part hibitions durin at the C formed—et oup, the pur- is mutual Several primar; benefit. made than at held in any ot New York, but PERMANENT, COLLECTION, successful from the amount of interest aroused and sales made. mains to be seen ular coran Galle hibitions a lar; Plants. Lay, C. D. to hold the exhibition . Wheth- ove feasible of not re- Washington has rich feast of ex- & the past season, and biennial ex- ger record of sales fs any similar exhibition her city, not excluding it is true that the soon- Lomas, C. Or87g. Garden. the M. Gardening Amateurs. books phases of planting. Dboolk fieid of gardening Gardening” inexperienced gardener Stout’s “Gardening” (RIA-St78g) will be found useful. The most recent accessions to the of books on gar- dening and various phases of agricul- ture are listed below. M. A R. RIS-L336g. Ortloff, H. S. Steele, Fletcher. RI-St33. Roses for All Ameri- RISE-T358r. Thomas, G. C. can Climates. Townsend, R. T., ed. The Book of Gardens ahd Gardening. RI-T667. 0 a painting by of Nasl entitled g The §25 prize offered by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce for a minia- ture was awarded to S. Corinne Jamar has been designated as arden week. By way of ob- Public calls attention collection of garden material adapted to help both experienced and inexpe- are handi pace and time. The collection is useful to growers of both and vegetables bulletins of the Department of Agri- culture, magazines devoted to garden- on all gardener capped by lack of s ry's collection Gardening. Barron, Leonard, ed. Flower Growing. P. Practical Flower RIS-C625p. Rhododendrons for RISE-C838r. Felt, E. P. Manual of Tree and Shrub Insects. RIT-F34m. Hottes, A. C. Little Book of Climbing RIS-HT798c. rden Book for Au- tumn and Winter. Garden Whimseys. A Garden Bluebook of Annuals and Biennials. Design in the Little CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART'S A good general covering the (RI-B153m), paintings by guerite C. Munn, and water colors by Walter Rich of Portland, Me., of birds and fish made with illustrative intent, will be found in the library, where the sketches made in the streets of Balti- more have lately been shown. Miss Mar- Warner, A. RIS-W243 Wilder, Mrs. L. B. Adventures in My and Rock Garden. RI W645. Wilson, Mrs. Millar, Mrs. J. A. In RIS-W6961, Wright, R. L. Practical Book of Out- door Flowers. RIS-W934p. and Ferguson, Florida Gardens. Agriculture. Atkeson, M. M. The Woman on the Farm. RGA-At5w. App, Frank, and Woodward, C. R. The Farmer and His Farm. RGBA-Ap4. Bear, . E. Soil Management. RGF- B38s. Benjamin, E. W. Marketing Poultry Products. RKV-B434m. Berry, J. B. Teaching Agriculture. RGA-B457t. Bizzell, W. B. Rural Texas. B5b. Brockwell, David. RKTD-B783. Currier, E. L., and others. counting. RGBU-C47f. Edwards, J. L. Mink Farming. RKZ- Edom. Edwards, J. L. RKZ-Ed9mu. English, Douglas. kind. RKA-En3. Flock, H. Revised Breeders and Cockers’ Guide. RKV-F§53. Galpin, C. J. Rural Social Problems. RGC-G136rs. Gowen, J. W. Milk Secretion. RNA- GT4m. Haberlein, E. F. The Trainer. RKTD-H11. Harper, M. W. Animal Husbandry. RK-H237. House, C. A. Canaries. 1923. Hs1. Humphrey, Zephine. ties. RGC-H88m. Hutcheson, T. B., and Wolfe, T. K. The Production of Field Crops. RHH-H97p. Jean, F. C., and Weaver, J. E. Root Behavior and Crop Yield Under Irrigation. RGFM-J34. Judkins, H. F. The Principles of Dairying, Testing and Manufac- tures. RN-J91p. Legare, Robert. RKTD-L52. Leonard, J, L. RKAF-L55. Little, G. W. McMillen, Fever. RG877- The Police Dog. Farm Ac- Muskrat Farming. Friends of Man- Amateur RKU- Mountain Veri- The Coonhound. First Aid to Animals. Dog Book. RKTD-L72. Wheeler. The Farming RGB-M226f. Millet, Samuel. A Whaling Voyage. REKWE-M61. Nourse, H. A. Best Methods of Cull- ing. RKV-N857b. Nourse, H. A. Best Plans of Poultry Houses, RKVB-N85. I Robbins, E. B., and Ireland, J. C. Agriculture for High Schools. RG- R533, Robbins, E. B., and Ireland, J. C. Ele- mentary Agriculture for Southern Schools. RG-R533e. Savage, E. S., and Morrison, F. B. Feeds and Feeding Manual. 1923, RKAC-3a92. Spillman, W. J. Farm Management. RGBA-Spdf. Willard, R. E. Simple Farm Accounts, RGBU-W66. Wyckoff, E. L. and Sanitation. St S Politeness Rewarded. Correspondence of the Associated Press, LONDON, April 1.—Poljteness among shopgirls received a stimulant recently when it was announced that Miss Susan Plomer of Hornesy, who died some weeks ago, had willed an annuity of §450 to Miss Kate Wen- ham, an employe of an Oxford street department store, “in recognition of many courtesies received at her hands.” Miss Wenham had walted upon Miss Plomer in the store during the last ten years, but had no idea that her customer was We & Lk Successful Feeding RKV-W973, - e equally, if not to an even greater | degree than the male, is the ardent, | selective, insistent force in the per- petuation of life. This comprehen- sive idea includes the human family. If it be sound in theory, it stands in direct opposition to the tradition that has grown up around woman, If it be true—bfologically true—it 1s greater than tradition. 'And it is the struggle between this elemental truth and the untruths of the soclal organization that sets up false and cruel standards of_morality. It is this fundamental idea of na- ture’s own that takes Mr. Gibbs' story in hand. The situation is created in| part by the war. In other part it Tests on the thoughtful and indepen- dent character of the girl who is in-| volved in this tremendous life ques-| tion. Interesting to note that this is| @ girl who has been reared by her | father, at once a parent and the best | of friends. This expedient on the au- thor's part is perfectly justifiable in fact and more than warranted by the release from those inhibitions that overanxious and underwise mothers 50 often employ in the care of their daughters. There is here a frank and unashamed fronting upon life. There | s a directness of approach that women alone mever reach, At any rate, the girl makes her choice, just as o man would make his. No, the story proves nothing; can prove noth- ing.” It is, however, the considera- tion of & young girl's inner life in a mood and in a manner quite a world away from the usual sex story that so many young male writers nowadays feel themselves called upon to create for the enlightenment of a question- ing world. THE LIFE OF SAN Anna Schoellkopf. - Preface by Honorlo Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador to the United States, New York: Boni & Liveright. WWHEN you &o to Buenos Aires you willsee in the Plaza San Martin the figure of a man on norseback—Gen. San Martin himself, whom the artist, to meet the purpose in mind, has con- ceived as looking down upon the bat- tle of Chacabuco, one of the many momentous engagements led by this intrepid soldier and ardent patriot. The statue, like the plaza in which it stands, is a memorial to the serv- ice of San Martin in the cause of South American independence; a memorial, too, perhaps—on the other side of the shield—to the ingratitude and belated homage of a people that permitted San Martin to die in exile and poverty. L The ultimate ideal of modernism is a world-wide and permanent peace. The chlef support of this ideal is clearly a common knowledge of the history of all peoples. This includes a general and fair conception of what cach people has So far wrought as the foundation for its further ad- vance upon a strong and enlightened national life. For the Western hem- isphere it is specially important that their countries should know and un- derstand one another. But formal histories are bulky, difficult of access, exorbitant in demands upon the over- full time of the average man. When, however, this historic figure or that one can be evoked from the confusion of the national struggle and made to stand clear in its national influence and significance, such evocation gives to history is essence, its spirit, its broadly illuminating light. Such, in effect, is “The Life of San Martin” A slender book, but one of substantial content, cast in bold and inglusive lines. Its obvious aim is to set a living man before the reader—a man who placed his country ever be- fore himself, working for its inde- pendence in a spirit of practically complete self-effacement. With work to be done in the cause of South America, Gen. San Martin became a Wonder of ardor, of persistence, of in- genuity, of military foresight and competency. The task accomplished, this man retreated before the distri- Dbution of political rewards. Here the soldier, who knew himself unsuited to the conduct of civil affairs, wisely refusing places of civil control. “Not a man but & mission,” he has been called. Reading here, one cannot get away from the conviction that this is his truest designation. The vicissitous career of South America, its blend of situation and temperament, is appealing both in its basio history and in the brilliant Qolors that play upon this national MARTIN. By | majority of novelists straining nowa- | | occasions. Lord This and Her grace days to set down matters exactly as they are there are, nevertheless, a few who, unashamed, stand out for pure romance. These, in so far as they are able, piously live up to this declaration. Pure romance thrives best, oddly enough, in the past. It | THE BOY AND HIS FUTURE Nicholas R c 5 of industri tion for the New York: D. s IN A STRANGE LAND. mir G. Korolenko from the Russt needs the fair perspective, obvi- ously, to melt love into the features of | truth. It is, therefore, through the convineing vista of a couple of cen-| turfes or thereabout that we here | look in upon the English stage when | the “Beggar's Opera” was the vogue | and pretty Polly Peachum was capti- | vating all hearts and yielding to| none;: that is, to one alone. Around | the lady historic men and women | gather; around the theater historic | actors come and go. King Georg and Queen Caroline appear on state! That make ceremonial festivities | around the lovely actress, Lavinia | Fenton, the “Chaste Diana” of that | day. A new edition of the novel, in a brand-new dress, says something of the taste of readers for romantic tales of love and its fulfillment. THE WIFE-SHIP WOMAN. By Hugh Pendexter, author of ‘*Pay Gravel,” etc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mer- rill Company. ARLY American history gives | background to this romance. Along | the Atlantic coast were the English, | creating settlements and homes from | their sturdy immigrant stock. All| down the Mississippi were the French, establishing forts to link up Canada and the Gulf. Within this wide com- petitive scheme the settlement of Louisiana provides the immediate stage for the romance itself. A threat of Indian raid, a friendly act by one of the hated English, the ar- rival of the wife-ship, planned for consolation and contentment to the unhappy settlers; the action of the governor of the colony under theso| perplexities—these are the means by way of which develops through many a danger peculiar to that time and | that place the old romance of the | man and the woman. A sober story, | plainly told, to accord with the sim-| ple people and the rude life that in- folds the heart of the matter. The | feeling of the period and of the place and of the immediate project pene- trates the action itself, giving one a very satisfying picture of what might | easily have taken place just as this | author has represented it to have done. THE LOVE OF MONSIEUR. George Gibbs, author of House of Mohun,” ete. D. Appleton & Co. THAT was a gay time in Englind, that time of Charles the Second.| And in the person of this Monsieur Mornay are concentrated the gayety and the folly and the license of the laughing monarch’s reign. A gor- geous figure, Mornay—laces and silken hose and bright garters and buckled shoon, garments as ample and shin- ing as those of any lady of the land. But Mornay was no seventeenth cen- tury flapper. A reckless adventurer instead, whose blade was a sudden and slithering thing quite fearful to encounter; a man of parts, captain of a privateer as well as fine gentle- man of the king's court. And from first to last he is the busiest of men, whether the great emprise at hand be the winning of a lady's heart or freebooting on the Spanish Main. A really first-rate story of its kind; not one thrown together out of odds and ends of forgotten history; rather one built with way-wise hand out of a good knowledge of historic fact and a good sefzure of its spirit and a good discretion in its use. Against this, in a fine grasp of the human, Gibhs projects the dashing figure of Mon- sieur Mornay—good lover, prime ad- venturer, A GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER. By Marian Keith, author of “The Bells of St. Stephen’s,” etc. New York: George H. Doran Company. A STORY of the Hudson's Bay Company, a theme that has cap- tured many a writer to whom the schemes of big business stand as ro- By | ol New York: | definition of demo. boorg. New Richards Cc HUNTERS OF OCEAN DEPTH Francis Rolt-Whee HIPPY BUCHAN. New York THE RESURRECTION Sawyer Spivey. B What Is Democracy? BY DR. EDWIN A, ALDERWAN, President the University No word is so little under: “democracy v thinks d ously s own « think that demc wearing eve going to a dence of the still oth quality, n of intelligence still others tha tive of bourgeois spirit Democracy However, I am 1 here a valid def human faith. I perfect definitior through English di years back and fail dou on search aries for 300 find a good efin can of any sort are d that there are only ble. Alexander Har serted, in an imj once cglled d Talleyrand cs of blackguards in characteristic to be an “excu ment.” Strange to sa led by Mazzini given us the be is that order ir every man ( every woman i to make the knows that he has ti owe & great deal to t statement. It well) has most of hi |in the democratic ti during a long life ments when it tressing. Thomas Jefferson, never o far as I know, concretely defined it Luse he was too busy 1 but out of his philosophy I may dare to try to phrase his definition »u can trust men if you will train them” comes nearer to his thought -1 ny form of words 1 prit to Education aud demc terdependent forces. The failure of one means the failure of both. The most daring and spiritual enterprise ever undertaken by mankind is the undertaking of the American people, by public taxation, to give a meas- ure of education to every human be- ing born In the republic. Its splen- dor and daring derives from the fact that it is the assertion of democ- racy’s purpose to live and grow, and it the energy of democracy to carry forward so great a program should ever fall, either in its volume or its validity and directlon, there will be an end of the democratic er: (Copyright, 1025.) Corot’s Success Came Corot, the painter, was 60 years old before his paintings began to capture the American and European fancy and bring him real success. painted for 30 years be he sold a picture. Some of the largest amount involved in the exchange of paintin especially of landscapes, around Corot's works. The result way are in- Late. mance and to whom human daring in the face of wild nature itself is the best of adventures. Both of tl the clear enmity of that far region that many spurious Corots fond their way to the United States. ‘He was de- clared to be the first artist “to paint nature as she is and not as she oughy 1o be”