Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1925, Page 42

THE SUNDAY -STAR, -WASHINGTON, -D. 0., APRIL 26, AN ITALIAN RAILROAD POSTER. The Question of the Clark Collection, Since the Metropolitan Museum Has Declined It—Advertising Posters of Foreign Railroads—Exhibition of Etc.hinga. BY LEILA MECHLIN. permanent placement in Washington {room. oni the first floor. Eleanor Parke )W that the Metropolitan Mu.|will. in all probability, depend upon |Custis of this city, a member of the seum of Art has declined the | Whether or not a sgitable building to|club. is showing a delightful series of Clark ‘eoflection, it is for {he|be added as a wing o the present|paintings in souache—that is, opaque Corcoran Gallary of Art, in|Corcoran Gallery of Art can be Ppo-{wuter color on gray paper. These are this clty, to decide whether or | vided chiefly of outdeor themes found at t it can and will accept the munif-| B e (;!n[uceater.dfl‘o:nh::y Harbn_rrhund in ent/gift. Tt will be in many woy a | 7IWHE exhibition of advertising post. [&nd_around Washington. They are ides “]PnM 'm"v' Ive four| being held on the tenth floor of the ctl FUTG DI, ding ‘in desigh—charm & ,‘" o iy Wl by tovs.| Transpariation Building, Bevenyeenth|=oct Sod DASRE In dengh-—omime. onths in, which 13 areive @t 8 Q6Ck o naiE Wifsts annuticet doe AR M| (N6 NICHC IS St 48 Sond The declination 6f. the collectiof by t0 25, Will:-be. continydd nnkl-the ann | DTICE SECCHEEEs ComU PR HETES Je Metropolitari Museum of Art was|©f the month. owing to the very .gen-| ..., her technical skill and keen se: in fact, it w foregone | eral interest it has awakened. Itisa| ., .o" of 4rustic values, In these sion. The Metropolitan Museum | colorful and. exceedingly interesting| [ .o one recognizes instantly talent present nressed for space and, | SNOWIng. and one which could not pos- | %O UL CRCORTCRS, HERTE Sl “luable us are the exhbiits included | IP1Y fail to create a favorable impres- | §) “ 5 /0, ot tially profes. \ the Clark collection. they do not | 8ion. Fond) SN represent oithen mehogls| or. depart:| . The: Dvddhy MIIARA awni fedteisn | Sions] BRI L B8 L S bty Whith & Ahrosented at the | r#ilways have shown themselves ex-/ [0 St A resent time Tn-the. Creat hetropoil. | tremely ‘astute “in*securing’ the sarv-|floor is dislayed a group of water cal e |ors by Felix Mahony, also a member in collections, - Furthermore, it is the | ice8 of such artists as Sir William Or-| %0 010) " and a leader in local art olicy of the Metropolitan Museum to | ben. George Clausen. Cayley Robinson, |\ |00 S0 i ool ‘range its. exhibits chronologically | Maurice Griffenhagen and other Royal| Sircles. fhese ave vigorous color notes nd departmentally, In order to make | Academiclans to. design their posters|done out of doars With a full brus them of the utmost educational value, [for them. The London and ‘South-|8nd tPained perception and are of en: One of the conditions of gift of the | \Western Railway has followed iIn the|EaEIng ‘ierest. b . Clark collection is that it shall be heid | Same lead and can boast an admirable | In striking contrast, but equaily nd exhibited &s & unit and not dis-| Poster. “The Border Bridge,” by a no|noteworthy are the water colors b ‘m‘ distinguished artist than Frank | Walter Rich of Portland, Mé., of birds e, Lt and water fowls, displayed in the osition of the Corcoran Gal-| Lt o return to the London Midland | club's library. Mr. Rich 8 a_scientific very el extent would the|and Scottish section: The Orpen post- | llustrator and his work is done with e e [er s entitled, “The Night Mail,” and |the utmost precision, but it Is also s collection is rich in|8hows a fireman firing up an engine, | effective. When. some years ago. | the engineer silhouetted against the| These exhibitions continue through on Society of the Fine |light in the cab—a powerful and strik- | May 1 \ibition of tap.|ing work. Maurice Griffenhagen's * Xk % t in the .unnrm,mnér)huzlgn y; (’l;g?!::li‘;‘:;:nfl“;“"l ISTROVIC, the great Serbian ong the most important of [ lan seorge Clau o sculptor, is o ‘ashing: i e L | torial composition, “British Industries | (,, il \?,"‘.’i'f‘,'znwp.},‘-n:ia}.‘tm:r enator Clark. Those | —Coal,” evidencing the picturesque- | ¢ sicl™ "JPRI0 10 G0 & Porirelt of who have had the good fortune to visit | ness of toll, or, as Joseph Penn@llccall: | ;" Rodin. Meatrovic may be regarded the Clark home in New York will re-| ed it once, “the ‘wonder of work.” |, “Hete g ferqr @ TEN, T8 Toserded sumptucusness of the ex.|Caylev Robinson's compositions would |ty '[% (SRITE. TUropean seulptor, of side of the realm of paint-|all make excellent mural paintings,|y . i was held last Fall in the Brook- “THE LOVELY LAKE OF COMO,” inese porcelains, the rugs.|and are, in fact. not a little reminis- |, p “\fyceum, attracting very wide all of which are included | cént of the style of Puvis de Cha |16 ¢ ofable attention.. This collec: . vannes, the greatest mural painter of |4jon has been divided in two sections Washingtonians have had opportu- | our day in the g v ashingtonians ha ’ 3 i day. < since then and is res h S 51 e e R DO | o a6 extremely - engaging Heitish |Since then and 1€ at present totrink The even eepers going from one to the of our leading American mu seums and art associations. One sec of the pictures which ‘Senator Clark | posters got out by the Underground{ i bought. He lent to the Corcoran Gal-| Electric Railways of London are of a A Thrilling Novel of International Intrigue lery, it will be remembered. for a « comic character similar in vein to|{in " ANE SI8 AReaCioRE One aee- BY FRANCIS BEEDING derable period painting by Ab. | their now celebrated "\\'(;nd‘or-irnund"' bey, “The Trial of Queen Catherine.” [ map of London. Every little house is = 3 B s collection is particularly rich in | shown, the Serpentine appears as a|Gocy It Which there ls dulte a large Jandscapes by Corot. He has a few | real dragon, the busses roll to and fro, | (il "Doimaiian coasts having crossed | (Continued from Yesterday's tar very itiful works by the English|and all soris of funny little jests an-|oir continent and established fhem — o= mas and those of the still in unexpected places. The de-lceies on the coast of the Pacific—| I went to the window, and, pulling sche Mt it is a miscellz signer, McDonald Gill, is & real hu- |, Gq O eL, J00C ¢ il XA ortaits, Toukad, dartn 1k g the street. Two thoughts were up- THI Phillips Memorial Gallery has|permost in my mind, first, Beatrice, ey JiTchased for :‘x;fl:;enn;:x;enlhu;'l_lwm in an hour’s time, I hoped, would ction from ex: y rmen of the Hills,” by Maurice|and the mission which I had volun Fromkes. This is a delightful char-|tarily undertaken and from which I acter study, one of the most inter- ¥ could mot now in honor withdraw. esting of the works in the Fromkes | L e exhibition, and will ve admirably | I Was turning away from the win- to represent hoth Mr. Fromkes and his | dow, prepared to assist Rehmy to over school in the Phillips collection, which. { yige the objections of Gaston, when I by the way, recognizes nelther period nor school, but merely those principles | 2\ something in the street below that upon which all great art is founded. { (00K me in three strides to Rehms Mr. Fronikes eIIRIAC DAL '8 WOrE ou were right in blaming me just of art should give indication in its|Now." I cried. “I've spofled every. production of ntelleet, of spiritualthing by my carelessness. Fritz and quality and craftsmanship, and it is hreckermann are in the street be- his conviction that every great work |1OW.” or art must evidence all three of these | “\What!" they exclaimed, simulta- elements. It is his belief, further-|neously. _ more, that a work or art, no matter I saw them just now from the win- how studiously wrought, should not ‘:;":m _There are two or three men with show a trace of labor or struggle, and |/ - R it is true that this effect he invariably [ I went back to the window and saw accomplishes. His works give the im. |that Fritz and Schreckermann were pression of easy execution. He is a |CrOSSIng the street. x j strong and an originel painter Quick,” said Rehmy, “we mustn't So fascinated is Mr. Fromkes with |90 any account be found together Spain and Spanish subjects that he They would know at once that you proposes to return there this Fall and | Weré Thomas Preston. We must sep- take up his permanept residence in |arate immediatel g Madrid. His exhibition here has cre- [ ~VWait,” said Gaston to Rehmy. ated much interest and.called forth ' They will be suspicious in any high commendation. case if they find we have been PR T using the same hotel. and once it their suspicions are aroused NE hundred etchings by mem.|they will soon discover the real iden- bers of the Brooklyn Society of [ tity of our English friend. We must Etchers, a collection eirculated by |thfow them off the scent.” the American Federation of Arts, 15| “They have entered the hotel” I now on view in the Smithsonfan|announced from the window. ““We Building, set forth by the graphic|must do something at once.’ arts section of the National Museum.| “There is only one way out of it.” Included in this collection are etch- . “You are Karl von Em- ings by Frank W.'Benson, who is . you came to this hotel on one of the foremost of bur American |your arrival in Basel. On reaching painters; by Clifford Addams, a pupil | the station to depart vou suddenly of Whistler; Philip Littls, Lkewise |remembered that you had_left some where it will be shown in San Fran- (Copyright, 1925, by those who stand 'pre-eminent for|lo pick them up and, on your ar- NE CTE e chin nd for whose works, ihrou rival, you were assaulted by us, “ROUTE TO THE PYRENEES. A RAILROAD POSTER BY ROGER |$iching and for whose Works, through | o tnd hand and foot. and robbed of SOUBIC. shows held under these same aus-|the document. You will tell this 7 pices during the past two seasons, |Story to Fritz when he finds you, and Jection. The late Senator Clark was|morist. The maps now on view are of | have become familiar to Washington | Fritz will at once set his organiza- not one who purchased on the advice | the heart of London, and of Kensing: | print collectors and art lovers, such, | tion in pursuit of Rehmy and myself, of experts, nor had he the collector’s rdens, Peter Pan’s home. They [for instance, as John Taylor Arms, |leaving vou to go straight to Han- fnstinct. He bought what he liked|are delightful. McDonald Gill is the | George Elbert Burr, Ernest D. Rota, |Over unmolested. end what appealed to him person-|author of a map of fairyland. by|Will Simmons, J. W. Winkler and| ‘Then you leave the document with elly, and he bought nothing that did | means of which one can visit all of | Arthur W. Heintzelman. me,” T interpolated. g not have inherent beauty. It was|those places made famous by Grimm | Thirty-nine etchers in nll are rep- | “Of course” said Gaston. “We nothing to him if a work were rare or |and other well known chroniclers.|resented and the showing demon- |leave it with you and vou can take §f it filled a gap in his collection or [ There is in the same section of this|strates the possibility of variety im|it direct to Hanover, obtain the sig- represented a certain phase or other. | exhibition a delightful poster of the|the handling of this delightful ana|nature of Captain Z._and meet us To the contrary, the determining fac-|zoo, a wheel with animals in silhou- | most artistic medlum. The subjects |there. We will lead Fritz away on tor was whether it made appeal to|ette galloping in a circle. which are set forth have been found |a false trail, shake him off as soon him, swhether he found in that par-| The charm of all these posters isiin all parts not only of the United |a8 we conveniently can and join you ar painting or object esthetic ap-|that while they qualify for advertis-| States but of the world. There are|at Hanover.” way this particular col-|ing purposes, delivering their message [ landscapes, figures, architectural| “We must have a rendezvous at much more representative | forcibly and instantly, they also con-|themes, flowers, birds and heasts. It Hanover," sald Rehmy. “I suggest individual collector than al-|form to every requirement of art in|ls a charming collection, carefully|the Kropcke in the Theaterplatz. I A n collection which | the matter of composition, draftsman- | assembled, fully representative and [the best cafe in Hanover. Always|® could he named, and it is probably for | ship and color. The French and Bel-|amply evidencing the high standard [meet in a busy place to avold sus- this very reason, because he himself | giun posters likewise possess genuine |which our American etchers have at- | picion. Today's Wednesday. Fri- chose vorks. lovingly, admir-|artistic quality. The Italian posters,|tained. It will be on view for four|day any time after two in the after- ingly, a “herished them for their ihile perhaps falling a little short in|weeks. noon.’ own interest that he so eagerly de-|this particular, make amends through —_— _— Gaston had alrenda' :‘en lh: :ogemd Sired that they be kept together. their pictorial interest and colorful He returned as Rehmy finis Sueh a collection would enrich the |quality. We in America have much to Japan Hears s Radio. speaking, carrying a bottle and a Corcoran Gallery of Art and enlarge [learn in this particular, though be it | Correspondence of the Associated Press bundle of handkerchiefs and scarfs its scope. 1t has mot at present, how-| aid that some of the best of the Lon-| TOKIO, April 9.—Experts at the| Quick.” he said. “We must pre- ible space to accommodate [don commercial posters have been|new wireless plant under construc.|tend to chloroform you. sundant land on which to |done by a citizen of the United States | tion at Iwatsuki, about 25 miles from | Rehmy took a scarf and tied my bhas not sufficient funds |sojourning in England, McKnight | here, announce that for the past|¥rists and ankles, while Guaston h purpose. The question, there- | Kauffer. tnonih they have been recelving suc: [Pured a_ portion of the contents of will probably resolve itself into| At the Arts Club, 2017 T street, | cessfully short wave length messages |7 bottle on to a handkerchief. one of wavs and means. and whether |three very engaging exhibitions are |from North and South American ama.| ‘We kept little Adolf quiet with or not the Clark collection will findinow on view. In the reception!teurs and some from Europe, ll’A!l (E:t“o;"ofi‘:ndt RS ous knocking on the door. “That 1 be Fritz,” whispered Gaston. “We must be quick.” I lay down on the carpet. Rehmy thrust the document into my inner coat pocket, and Gaston laid the handkerchief over my nose. A sweet, sickly smell mounted to my nostrils, causing my head to swim. “It's all right,” whispered Gaston. “I've mixed it with water.” Diluted as it was, however, the chloroform was powerful enough, and 1 was already beginning to lose con- sclousness. In a mist, I saw Rehmy and Gaston rush for the door. Rehmy tore it open, and I dimly perceived Fritz and Sohreckermann on the other side, Without the slightest hesitation, Gaston struck Fritz a violent blow, and in a flash he and Rehmy were in the corridor outside and running down the stair: The next instant Schreckermann was bending over me. He tore the handkerchief from my face. «“W-What the devil's happened?” e cried. I could not answer immediately. ‘The chloroform had been almost too much for me and I lay gasping. By this time, Fritz had risen and charged into the room like an infuriated bull, blood dripping from his nose. “Water,” he barked to Schreck- ermann, who disappeared on the word, returning a moment later with a jug. Fritz deluged my head with its icy contents, and the treatment had the desired effect. My brain clured lnd I gasped in German: “Quick, major! After those two. painter and etcher, as well as Ly |of Your thifigs behind. You called] Little. Brown & Co.) “You blundering jackass,” he roar. ed. “What in heaven's name have | you done now?" “I couldn't help it,” I replied in a weak voice, raising muyself on my elbow. T went strai to the sta tion this evening after I left you, but remembered at the last moment that I had left some luggage here.” Luggage” roared Fritz. “What on earth were vou doing with lug gage in this hotel?” “1 took a room here on my arrival in Basel. 1 came along to pick it up and was suddenly assaulted by those two men. They doped me just before | you argived. You'll catch them if you're quick. 1 can't come with you I'm finished for the moment,” and 1| sank back with a groan “H-He's right.” said Schrecker mann, who had been untying my bonds. “'Quick. major, let's follow them. We must leave Von Em- merich. Fritz glared at me fiercely, and then turned and followed Schreckermann, who was already halfway out of the room “You'll hear of this from the Pro- fessor,” he flung back at me over his | shoulder; and on that he dissppeared through the door (Continued in Tomo: President Lewis to Speak. Dr. Willlam Mather ILewis, presi dent of George Washington Univer- sity, will speak on “Encouragement. Defore officers and teachers of the col- ored public schools next Wednesday, at 3 p.m., at Dunbar High School. All schoo} authorities of Divisions 10 to 13 have been notified, by the superin tendent's office, of the meeting. which will be similar to one held recently for teachers of the white divisions. New Books at the Public Library | |[su" muae seitiem ™ e, om0 Recent accessions at the Public| Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Art. American Federation of Arts. Art in Our Country, Handbook. Ref. W83-Am37. The Booklovers' Reading Club. Flor- ence in Art and Literature. 1901. W35F-B64. Buschor, Ernst. Greek Vase Painting. 1922, WKT-B96. Butler, H. C. Scotland’s Ruined Ab- beys. 1899. WGK-B! Butler, H. R Painter and Space. WPD-BY Chase, G. H. Greek and Roman Sculp- ture in American Collections. WJ127-C38 R Vision and Design. W- Fadv Havell, E. B. Handbook of Indian Art. 1920. W69-H Hind, C. L. Landscape Painting From Giotto to the Present Day. Vol. I. WPS-H583. Holmes, G. S. Lenox China. WKT- H731. Hubbard, E. H., ed. On Making and Collecting Etchings. 1923. WQT- Hs6o. , Jacobs, Michel. The Art of Colour. WPC-J152. Mathias, M. E. The Beginnings of Art in the Public Schools. WB- M424 Orpen, Sir William, ed. The Outline of Art. W11-Or780. Pach, Walter. The Masters of Modern Art. WIT-P1l. Rosenberg, Manuel. Practical Art. WM-R726p. Sherrill, C. H. Stained Glass Tours in Spain and Flanders. WKR-Sh57sp. Solomon, S. J. The Practice of Ol Painting. WPI-So4, Strzygowski, Josef. Origin of Chris- tian Church Art. 1923. WGK Vi E. J. Line; an Art Study. WM-Subbl. Tarbell, H. E. How to Chalk Talk. WMT-T17. ‘Woodcarying. 1821.° WK-W854. Artists and Their Work. Henri, Robert.. Robert Henri, comp. by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart. 1923. W10-H397. Holme, Geoffrey, ed. Masters of ‘Water-Color ~ 'Painting. 1022.23. Ref. WPH-H73m. Homer, Winslow. Winslow Homer, compiled by Nathaniel Pousette- Dart. W10-H753. uvfifli Felix. Raphael. 1922. W10- McSpadden, J. W. Famous Sculptors of America. W10-9M246f. Mills, J. S. Life and Letters of Sir Hubert Herkomer. W10-H425m. Painters and Sculptors’ Gallery Asso- ciation, New York. Exhibition of Works of John Singer Sargent. W10-Sa74p. 1925—-PART 2. Reviews of Spring Books Conan Doyle as a World Adventurer and as Explorer in Fleld of Splntualxstlc Research Revealed in His Own Volume of Reminiscences: IDA GILBERT MYERS. mands general curlosity and interest.| however. It is upon this foundatior MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES. :\'n‘dr.'s\‘l)“;rh.e“I;mel,hth;uu:hn:l these |that the inventive author rea \ o t|vears, » was the good adventure | fantastic ‘structure of devilish plar Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Boston:|or steady achievement in the writing [and kaleldoscopie action, iehere Little, Brown & Co. of fction. Then, the recent period of |secret codes and Sinfster appearances v o exploration in. the fleld of spiritual- [and sudden attacks and hairbread Dn";‘l‘:""\?fl:“r‘;"‘"“‘:';:::fl::"};mé:"’g; Istic research. ~All this you will read | escapes fall over one another in the fictlon merely amother way of say-|in’ “Memories &hd Adventures” a|ardor of each one to itself pe the ing Sherlock Holmes. Within this |Féminiscence whose plain and sober | Whole conspiracy. Oh, yes, to be large reading class there was, how- | MABNer appedrs. to be curiously at|sure—it comes out ail’ right for the ever, a smalier one, whose members |0dd8" Wwith the really’ spectacular |YOung man! He finds the lady, t00. had ' way of looking @ bit beyond |CHaracter of the adventures' them-| . e the passing satisfaction of the good |S61Ves. This seeming ‘odds" lies in|THE RAVENSCROFT AFFAIR. Bv novel. This lesser group, while iden- | the fact that Condan Doyle took these Guy Thorne.. New York: Fdward tifying these fwo up to a certain |f8r journeys not as the fighter, but| J. Clode point, nevertheless granted a wide [48 the surgeon.and healer instead. When we come upon Charlie Pen Doyle margin outside the yHolmes rose here he has jus out of ares of occupation. Yet, despite this | - An unforeseen effect of the creation | hin job as cinems orereror he- (e fairer minority recognition of the full|0f Sherlock Holmes was to let loose | management of the Orfental Picture Yterary gift of Conan Doyle, it is, in- | UPOn an unoffending world literally an | Palace in Oxford street. It is with disputably, upon the creation of [ATMY of imposters masquerading as|out question the movie complex # Sherlock Holmes that the good fame [the original Sherlock. Not so much, | quired by the business of Cha of this writer of romance rests. either, calculated imposters, these. | Penrose that accounts for his gubse Within more recent years still|Féeble imitations, rather. produced |quent career as another group of onlookers and stu- | Without the painstaking work and sin- | ventures so sensati dents has been trying to link up |Cére effort that so: clearly went into |so inconceivable Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock |the substance of their model. Prob- | Ravenscroft Aff Holmes, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, | #bl¥, too, without the mental acumen, | tween a night earnest investigator and ardent |{h® creative instinct, the dramatic|that old malady whose exterm apostle of spiritualism. And not so |feeling that sent into the making of | tion wilf be accredited to the skil far apart as on the surface they may |the original Holmes. One cannot in | treatment of good old Dr. Volstead appedr, these two Doyles, Both are, | fairness hold Conan Doyle responsible at heart, on the trail of mystery. |for the deluge of generally maudlin | COBWEB PALA(C One, 1o be aure, i the supreme|MYstery tales against which readers| Nugent. New York mystery of death in its possible|ar® trying to make headway. One| & Co. sequence of a continuing personal- | (AN Buggest, however, in behalf of ity. The other i3 the mystery of {himself and thousands of fellow suf- e human behavior in response to cer- | ferers here, that these writers study :‘n'd“;;'f:v“j_‘};‘f:«;}d‘* A etytesiin] tain abnormal stimull to the pursuit | the Bubject thoroughly before ven-|FTCACToity has the author stepped of ‘an unlawful end.’ It 1s neither [Uring so buoyantiy upon the buiness , JCIVRET, Ahe somewhat, overevider difficult nor absurd to conceive that |of Mmaking crimingls and then discov- | Youth of Ihe moment, on the one hand 3 : : -|and the oversimple vouthoftbe Pol the habit of mind acquired by Conan|¢/iDE them. Many, have written in > 74 . s Doyle in the development of his most | télligently on this theme. Poe hds and | /% et MO the famous literary character became, in |Many another. oy have wifiten N L nig ey aCbg o turn, the active agent of research un- |3dmirable stories of this kind. Poe. |mund Wugent has discovered a vouns derlving his ultimate belief in the | 288N, and Conan Doyle, himself, and | £l —sweel, sensible, modern. full « substance and significance of pirit- | DUpin. And there is life itselt—the |dreams and full of spirited actior uallsm. In both quests there is the|DeSt of all. ~ Anything to get the|lGo. There are such girlé, thousands apprehension and seizure of true|average detective fictionist out of the '“‘ em. And here is one in a book clues an distinct from u multitude of |ODviously disorgered purlieus of his| With the girl there is a boy—just a irrelevant details: there is, in both,{°Wn mind and out of 'his equally ln‘d We've seen him, too. ' Dire the following of these through many |OPVious disinclination for the hard |cleareved kindly—a man of a boy changing forms and growing com-|Work involved in this branch of stanchn of quality 5 M- |literary invention. is the mellowed atmosph plexities. Though so unequal in im- 3 Eiiw et asls this- acft | portance. both have been subjected | THE MURDER. CLUB. By Howel|place melting into the fab to the same intensive scrutiny, to Evans, author of “Crabtree House,” | tale of youth. And time goe the same elimination of futilities, to| etc. New York: G. P. Putnam’s|change and separation ar | the same inductive mode of reaching [ Sons. €0 s |the general conclusion through « A delightful story. Youth is i A capa | coherent seri » 7 “| A step out from the beaten path|handling does the auth | {pherent series of coptributing Par- | gives to this story, or stories, a_dis- | changes, to this separation i tinct touch of freshness. Something |finally, because these two, you see a0y like 30 crimes are brought together |real people, when a far-away mee here and before them are set a group | Comes again—there the two are of men who, In common, engage in the | the sam pa that before stoos solution of the mystery attending |Pily in the shadows of t de ir each. The author has seen fit to rep. |0ld Oxford beautiful story th resent “The Murder Club” as made | has kept u it the fragrance a up of responsible business men, and he has done this well enough to make < each one carry through in the qual | CHALL ities chosen to fit his special career. author of These men are banded together t Maid,” etc. help the authorities 1n following up | crimes, in apprehending criminals, in | reducing lawlessness. The reader is | let into the business along with the |\ania Dutch nthers. Indeed, he becomes a member | ye,der s of the Murder Club, so to speak, Par- | culiarly resistant loca taking in its activities of studying the oo ik nature of a crime, of weighing the va lidity of clues, of balancing evidence, of determining measures. And, all the = time, he is engaged in an interesting | o\ tlander. series of events—in good story. One |a man he present a > " ein | of the better sort, this. A story worth | pearance of ::‘n’! j::rnefiu%’;u u;:il"ulu)th‘eh;urne.:: taking up for an hour's entertain-|hauled and of surgery tonan Doyle transferred | 9ent. - quarreling wom hn the field of creative writing, em-| ANYTHING BUT THE TRUTH. By |ceed, finally, | bodying in our old friend Sherfock | ~Carolyn Wells, author of “The |break away Holmes that which he himself had| (lue” etc. Philadelphia: J. B.|Phere supporting gained from the study of an in Lippincott Co Where he teaches spir & 3 o break away Apising ('“mp’: * ok x The story itself provides a long cor- | young woma T ridor set for the last-minute entrance | her mate Then Conan Doyle became a world | ¢ the familiar figure of Fleming | Mrs. adventurer. ~Seven vears a-whaling gione, the inseparable friend of Caro- [to be a pr in the Arctic. Voyaging to West|jyy Wells, author of the mystery tale. (a radical in a mildly Africa. Traveling for further study | ynq with just one look Fleming Stone | be fails to. vegiste on the continent. To Africa again | ,ioks out the murderer of Austin El- | c: However, n for the Boer War. On the British| grigge, done to death at midday. expected, either of I front in the World War. Meanwhile, | jng on his front porch not a dozen|liance or any engagir there was a single sallv into Politics. | feat gway from the street. Despite |ever, with only the atmosphere of tf A single, and permanent, excursion. |ihe gpen.work character of the deed, inity to suppc - & also, into the domain of romance and | ji; golution had been a long and elgh Leinbach matrimony. The meeting of INNUM-|4.eqry husiness for the local sleuths, [all that could be required of him erable people of the sort that €OM" | po would have made hardly any |more than likely this is the e headway at all but for the zeal and|at in this novel. Better : good sense of Peter Thorne, a young |one ventures, than as the hope « It was back in university days that Conan Doyle found Sherlock Holmes Surgeon at that time in the Edin | burgh Infirmary was John Bell, to whom the young medical student be | came assistant. John Bell, in both | mind and body, was calculated to CAD- ture the imagination of the students around him. To Conan Dovle his chief was a marvel of efficiency and wkill. A wonder of clear and in clusive observation, of invuinerable deduction. No least thing concerning a patient was able to elude him And along with this special power - | went, also, that of relating each ob. | servation back to its particular origin {and forward to its logical effect. As young men do, Doyle set himself deliberately to the imitation of this | fine pattern. Then, naturally, he be- | gan to grow on his own account in Peter Thorne turns out to be the sol g : person of any considerable interest | Week Vacation Is Prize. |Thaver, A. H. Abbott H. Thaver,|to the reader, as he obviously was| comp. by N. Pousette-Dart. W10.{ with the author herself, since upon | T339. him has she expended her best ef-| V. C. A. Vacation Lodge, at Cherry William' Nicholson. 1923. Ref. Wio-|fort. ‘The other characters are nesli | dale, Va., and Kamp Kahlert on West N&2. gible. e heroine is a limp thing. | River, Gallowavs, Md.. begi Her jover is afraid of his mother. 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