Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1925, Page 64

TH. NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Important Centennial Exhibition Draws 20,000 Persons to Cor- coran Gallery of Art Since the Opening—A Word About Miniatures—Exhibition at the Arts Club. BY LEILA MECHLIN. WENTY thousand persons visit- ed the Centennial Exhibition of the National Academy of Design within ten days of its opening in the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art. This is a record attend- ance and evidences genuine interest on the part of the local public. That the exhibition is of extraordinary im- portancé and rewarding interest is the consensus of opinion among those who have given it careful study. Not only does it contain a number of works of supreme merit and excep- tional value, such, for instance, as the Trayer painting, “Amor Caritas”; the Winslow Homer “Eight Bells* ‘and the Sargent portrait of Miss Werthel- mer, to name only a few, but it also sets forth representative works by a large number of well known Ameri- can artists It should be remembered, however, that this exhibition comprises solely works by artists who have held mem- bership in the National Academy of Design, and that in a few instances oven those who have been so elected are not represented, either through mischance or lack of ability to enter what seemed to them representative works. There are a few who are con- spicuous thus by their absence, but it is remarkable how comprehensive the catalogue is, how few are not of the goodly company. Gilbert Stuart, who died three years after the Academy was founded, was never an active member, for at the time only residents of New York were wdmitted. But because of his great for that reason alone is vepresented in this showing. His full- length portrait of Washington, gener- lent to this exhibition by Robert Pierrepont, is a_famous painting, iliar to many through engravings and other forms of reproduction. It 's essentially, however, of the official portr: type -—formal, stereotyped, king in virility and spiritual quai- ity—not Gilbert Stuart at his best, by any means. Across the wall from this famous another portrait of a less celebrated man by a suppose- less skillful painter, but in its masterpiece, a portrdit which would dare comparison with the best of the British school, with Raeburn, the master of them all as interpreter of personality, as a painter of quality. trait of Dr. William Potts John Nengle, also an ¢ member, who was painting Philadelphiu at the time the Aca: was formed. This picture is owned and lent by the University of Pennsylvania and is a superb work. Next to it hangs a charming por- of an elderly lady of the old 1, Mrs. Elizabeth Tucker salis- by Chester Harding, unother honorary member—a_painting which in merit and charm dares comparison with Chester Harding was one marvelous early painters who, without tradition, attained amaz- | ng results. He was the son of a tarmer and began by painting signs nd coaches. He took up portraiture nost asa trade and yet went further and dld better than the majority have one or can do today—how or why even the painters themselves cannot say. In color, in the matter of draw. ing, modeling, composition and, above all,'in interpretation of mentality and spiritual quality, this is a remakable k. With what real dignity and tinction the painter has portrayed his subject. Much the same may be said in favor of the portrait of Mrs. Charles Gould- ing by Charles L. Elliott, N. A., which belongs to the permanent coilection of the Natlonal Academy of Design. ‘What a remarkable portrayal of char- acter this portrait represents! How broadlv it is painted and vet how finely the detail is shown, textures rvendered and high lights and deepest shadows rightly placed! What intelli- gence one finds in the kindly eyes which look straight into the behold- er's own, and what firmness in the mounth and, withal, what motherli- ness in the face! * * LL of these portraits are hung in the semi-circular gallery, where, it one side, a_case of miniatures has heen placed. These are for the most rt portraits in little, done on ivory. Most interesting, perhaps. in connec- tion with this exhibition is the minia- ture of S. F. B. Morse, by himself, Morse, it will be remembered, was the first president of the National Aca- demy of Design, and he has pictured himself as a young man with palette in hand, in the act of painting, thus he has commemorated Morse the ar- tist, who might otherwise have been forgotten, perhaps, in Morse the in- ventor. Those who have read PORTRAIT OF MRS. ELIZABETH TER HARDING. H. N. A., IN THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY O “The | visiting with ‘it on its four-year cruise the Fiji Islands and the Ant- arctic Clrcle. Certainly he was a mini- ature painter of extraordinary gift. Rarely does one see minfatures of a more beautiful type and satistactory character than these. Unfortunately the subjects are no longer known: who the sitters were can only be conjec tured, but that they were very real people and delightful people ail will agree. Particularly Interesting is the portrait of a British officer in a red coat. We find here in this collection a miniature of C. G. Wright, National Academician and engraver, painted by Henry Inman; a portrait of Mrs. Charles Tyler Savage and one of Charles Tyler Savage, both by thaniel Rogers N. A., and both lent by the Worcester Art Museum— amazingly clever works. Here, too, is a minfature of Cadet Alfred Sully, by Thomas Sully, honorary member of the National Academy of Design, and one of Chancellor Kent of New York, by E. D. Marchant, A. lent by Miss Elizabeth White of Atlantic City, who has, it Is said, one of the finest collections of minfatures in this coun- try. Among the cotemporary painters, Willlam J. Baer and Laura Coombs Hills are both represented, the former by several characteristic examples, the latter by a single very charming miniature of Mrs. Kelton. Most inter- esting among those by Mr. Baer, perhaps, is that of Mrs. William M. Chase, the widow of the painter. %% % A T the Washington Arts Club du ing the past fortnight has been shown a very cha tion, deserving b little exhibi- | notice and com- | mendation, consis of paintings and |'sketches by Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Burnside apd a group of their students, The students’ work was shown on the first floor and made a brave showing, lending not only charm of color, but in air of distinction to these stately s, Especial mention because of {artistic worth and merit should be made of figure paintings by Genevieve | Meacham, a still life study by Lucia | B. Hollerith and water colors by Fred- | |erick Steinman Foltz There were | |also an interesting nocturne, “Lake | George,” by Sara Freeman Donahoo: | two delightful little drawings. both | | of houses in Annapolis, by A. F. D. and creditable and figure paintings by Evans Staley, Ella Slater, Agnes Trimble, Hilda Walten, Fry Fisher, | ! Marion Hastings, Olive Lyford, Mrs. | W. C. Houghton and H. Lawrence | | Davis. | | Mr. and Mrs. Burnside's paintings | were to be seen on the second floor, together with paintings by Theophilus | Parsons, whose style was somewhat | | stmilar.” Mr. Burnside is best known | |as a painter of figures and murals, | | but here appeared to excellent advan- | | tage as a painter of landscapes. Mrs. | Burnside (Lucille Hitt) showed chiefly figures broadly rendered in a some- what high key. A considerable amount of the work shown by Mr. and Mrs. Burnside and | their pupils was done last summer {at Lake George, where the Burnsides | Beauer, flower | | hibited on the first floor and makes torium of the Natural History Build- ing, Tenth and B streets northwest, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on Novem- ber 5, to which the public is invited. Mr. Plasse came to the United States four vears ago and painted portraits and exhibited in 35 cities. He Is, as are almost all of the members of this group, a member of La Soclete des Artistes Francals. He has lectured in the museums of Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland, in the Universities of Michigan and Towa; at Bryn Mawr, and at_the Technical High School of Springfleld, Mass.; in the art galleries in San Francisco and Chicago; at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and elsewhere. It is a great privilege to have him lecture here. xoE o HE Soclety of Washington Artists has lately announced its 35th |annual exhibition, to be held in the | Corcoran Gallery of Art from Decem- |ber 6 to January 3. This will com- prise works in oil and sculpture not | before publicly exhibited in Washing- ton. Entry cards may be obtained by applying to’ Mrs. Margaret S. Zim- mele, secretary, the Atamont. Works intended for the exhibition must be sent to Venable's Galleries, 1307 H street, on or before November SRR HE Arts Club of Washington, 2017 1 street, opened yesterds exhibi- tions of oil paintings by J. Perry Wil- son and Frederick ~William von Duyne, jr. These are placed on the first floor. On the second floor is to be seen an exhibition of stagecraft and industrial art applied to home decora. tion, by Capt. Victor Kerney, director of the Washington Guild Theater. Capt. Kerney also exhibits a scale working model of a theater. * ok ok % A TMOST overshadowed by the great retrospective and cotemporary exhibitlon at the Corcoran Gallery of Art is a very charming little exhibi- tion which deserves both notice and commendation, of paintings and sketches by Mr. and Mrs. Cafneron Burnside and a group of thelr stu- dents, set forth at the Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I street, last week and this. The students’ work is ex: brave showing. lending not only charm of color, but an air of distinction to the stately rooms in which it is hung Special mention should be made. be- cau: of artistic worth and promise, of figure paintings by Genevieve Meacham, of a still life by Lucia E. Hollerith and of water colors by Fred erick Stefnman Foltz. Sa ree man Donahoo shows, with other things, an interesting nocturne, “Lake | George.”" There are two beautiful little drawings, both of houses in Annapolis, by A. F. D. Bauer, and other creditable landscapes, flower and figure paintings by May Evans Staley, Ella Slater, Agnes Trimble, Hilda ‘Walten, Marfan Hastings, Fry Fisher, Mrs. W. C. Houghton and H. Lawrence Davis, respectively. BOOKS RECEIVED. conducted a summer school of paint | ing. | * % ok % | "THE well known miniature painter, | 1 Countess Korzybski. formerly Mi: | Edgerly, and her distinguished scien | tist’ husband are spending a_portion, if not all, of this Winter in Washing ton, Count and Countess Korzybski having taken a home temporarily at 1640 W street southeast, not far from {where E. C. Messer, for many vears dean of the Washington painters, lived. Among the Washingtonians | whom the countess has painted are the McLean children, Mrs. Joseph Leiter_with Joseph, Tom and Nancy; Mrs. Colville Barclay, Mrs. John Hays Hammond and her daughter, and Mr. {and Mrs. Brenckenridge Long with “Tiny,” to mention only a few. An exhibition of her miniatures, it will | be remembered, including those of | many distinguished foreigners, was | held in this city some vears ago, when, |as Miss Edgerly, the painter spent a | season here. | | | | | | 'ATHERINE CRITCHER spent the | | entire Summer near Taos, N. Mex., living, however, not in the artist col ony but 25 miles away in an Indian | settlement, where she could best ob-| tain Indlan subjects. She was repre- | sented in an exhibition held recently in the Art Museum at Santa Fe—by a group of Indian portraits described | as vivid in color and delineation. Miss Critcher and Miss Hill have re-opened their school at 1603 Connecticut ave- nue, and have assoclated with them this year Margaret L. Comegys and * % TUCKER SALISBURY. BY CHES- F DESIGN. Life and Letters of Samuel F. B. Morse,” edited. by his son. the late 1idward Linde Morse, and published some years ago, will be glad of the opportunity of seeing this miniature. is quite possible that this may have been painted while Morse was here in “Washington Six miniatures in this group are by Alfred Agate, at one time an associ- ate of the National Academy of De- Sign, and are lent by Miss Elizabeth du Hamel of this city. Mr. Agate was Miss du Hamel's mother’s first hus- band. He has also claim to distinc- tion #s an artist as having accom- panied the Wilkes expedition for the purpose of making illustrations, and Alma Bostick, who are conducting classes in interior decoration, costume | design and poster advertising. £ ox ok x N exhibition of aqu by 13 cotemporar; | will be held in the Smithson| | ing, division of graph vember 3 to December | cotemporary French | using acquatint by | called the sugar process. Their works | are printed in color. In connection with this exhibition George Plassg, one of the exhibitors, will give a lec- ture on aquatints in color, {llustrated with motion pictures, in the audi- atints in color| French artists n Build. No, 13 ists are all special method | i | POEMS. By Helen Thayer Hutcheson. | THE RED WEB. By | |® DANCERS IN THE WIND. By Al lan Updegraff. New York: Boni & Liveright. THE GOD OF FUNDAMENTALISM; and Other Studles. By Horace James Bridges, author of “Our! Fellow Shakespeare,” etc. Chi- cago: Pascal Covici. THE SPIRIT OF MUSIC; How to Find It and How to Share It. By Edward Dickinson. New York: | Charles Scribner’s Sons. Washing- | ton: Brentano's. ! IN OUR TIME. By Ernest Heming- way. New York: Bonl & Live- right. THE TOP O’ THE COLUMN. By Keith Preston, author of “Types of P!:m,“ etc. Chicago: Pascal Covicl. GAS—DRIVE IN; a Higher-Powered Comedy-Romance That Hits on Every Cylinder. By E. J. Rath, author of “The Nervous Wreck,” ete. New York: G. Howard Watt THE SOUL OF A FLOWER; and Other Poems. By Charles Fred- ;-r &k Ernst. Boston: The Strat- ord Co. CLING OF THE CLAY. By Milton Hayes. New York: Adelphi Co. M'SIEU ROBIN; Lyrics and Legends of Jean Baptiste and His Friends. By Wallace Bruce Amsbary, au- thor of “The Ballads of Bourbon- nafs.” Introduction by Lew Sarett. Tllustrated after drawings by Earl H. Reed. Chicago: The Rellly & Lee Co. SERMONS OF A CHEMIST. By Ed- win E. Slosson, Ph. D., LL.D., author of “Easy Lessons in Ein- stein,” etc. New York: Har- court, Brace & Co. THE PHANTOM PUBLIC. By Wal- ter Lippman. New York: Har- court, Brace & Co. REAL PUZZLES: A Handbook of the Enigmatic Art. By John Q. Boyer, Rufus T. Strohm and George H. Pryor. Decorations, cover and jacket deslgns by Jokn Q. Boyer. Published under the auspices and by the authority of the National Puzziers' League. Baltimore: The Nor Remington Co. THE WRITING OF FICTION. Ry Iidith Wharton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Washington: Bren- tano's. ‘Washington: R. Findlater. WHO'S WHO IN MUSIC EDUCA- TION. By Edwin N. C. Barnes, M. E. D.," author of “Lights and Shadows 'of Elghty Years,” eto. ‘Washington: Music Education. THE STORY OF TEXTILES: A Bird's-Eve View of the Histos of the Beginning and the Growti of the Industry of Which Mankind Is Clothed. ‘By Perry Walton. Boston: Walton Advertising and Printing Co. THE MASTER AND THE MODERN PIRIT. By Lewls . slr;?ng. = thor of “Freedom Through Right Thinking.” New York: Roland Publishing Co. ELEMENTS OF FIELD ARTIL- LERY. By Leslle Edwards Bab- cock, captain, Fleld Artillery, U. 8. A., assistant professor of mil- ience and tactics, Princeton University. Princeton: Princeton University Press. WHAT EVOLUTION IS. By George Howard Parker, professor of zo- ology and director of the Zoological Laboratory, Harvard University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. THE WHITE QUEEN: A Tale of the Youth of St. Louis, King of France. By Willlam Stearns Davis, author of “A Friend of Caesar,” ctc. New Y The Macmillan Co. EVERYMAN'S INSURANCE: A =" Necessity for Home, Protection. By Irazer Hood, Ph. D., Litt. D., pro- fessor of psychology in Davidson College. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Published by Mary Blair Coan. Chicagd: Northwest Publishing Co. UDE RURAL RHYMES. By Bob Adams. New York: The Macmil- lan Co. 5 | R E _SUNDAY STAR, WAS HINGTO! D. ¢, NOVEMBER T, IN EXHIBITION AT CORCORAN GALLERY - PORTRAIT OF MRS, LIOTT, N. A IN TH CORAN GALLERY OF ART. CHARLES GOULDING, BY CHARLES L. EL- £ CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION AT THE COR- A New “Father of His Country”’ Is Discovered Library of Congress Official Compiles and | Through Diaries| Publishes Four Volumes From the Papers of George Washington. BY ZELMA FRI VASTLY ington on wheels DMAY human Wash man wh personal the rston docu- diaries and letters in the pos session of the Library of Congress This is the impression of the assistant chlef of the manuscript division, John *. Fitzspatrick, under whose especial care these papers rest, and who has Just edited, at the beh. of the regents Mount Vernon, one of the most interesting groups of these papers, Washington's personal diaries. Mr. Fitzpatrick’s characterizations are derived from over a score of yea of famillarity with the manuscrip Since 1897 dates his service with the Library of Congress. In those davs the national colletion was still within the walls of the' Capitol itself. Mr. Fitzpatrick as a ary employe help. ed to move the works of the Nation library to their new home in the shadow of the dome. Not many years later he rose to the position he now occupies in one of the most import and fascinating of the Library d ment During the years of his services his interest has centered mainly about the papers of the first great American Mr. Fiztpatrick in_his own words is branded S Wa ngton enthu iast.” He savs it with a sparkle of complete satisfaction such a state of affairs. He adds in defense of himself, with a complimentary in- ference for the Father of Our Country, “You can't use the ‘Washington papers without becoming u Washing- ton enthusiast. It is impossible for a man to disguise himself in the papers he leaves. There his char- acter is perfectly plain.” Behind the austere statesman of the text books and popular fancy there lived, and still does live in the papers, a personality with endearing char- acteristics, a Washington with a droll, albeit grave, sense of humor, with a quiet, deep passion for farming, with a fine canny shrewdness, with seeing farther than the next day. * papers, ments ASHINGTON was austere, there is no doubt about that,” says Mr. Fitzpatrick. “But with all his dig- nity and coldness, he had very little egotism. He considered himself not George Washington, but the Fresident of the United States and the Comman- der of the Army. Washington was what his job was."” Once, for instance, he had to write a letter of reprimand to Gen. Gates, right after the victory of Saratoga Springs, when Gates thought he was the biggest thing in the world. Gates had stopped the ship ment of some arms to Valley Forge, | converting them to his own use. al though he did not really need them he only thought he did. Washington's aide wrote, in Washington's name, stating that Gates’ action “greatly em- barrassed and injured me.” Washing- ton crossed out the phrase and said instead, ‘“greatly embarrassed the service.” Washingtdhis life Mr. Fitzpatrick di vides into periods something after this fashion: From his boyhood through the French and Indian Wa which ig the period of his colonial sdrvice and his marrfage to Mrs. Custis; from his marriage to the Revo-| lution when he was a gentleman farmer and a member of the Virginia | House of Burgesses: the period of the Revolution, including the preparatory period of the Continental Congresses to which he was a delegate and by which he was appointed commander- in-chief of the American forces; the in- terim of five years after the close of the revolution in which Washington went back to the main business of his life, farming; and his eight years as President, and lastly the three vears of peaceful farming again, ending with his death “Washington was always a farmer,” explained Mr. Fitzpatrick; “it was the thing he loved. Whenever he saw a piece of good land he yearned toward it even though he could not acquire it. | good farm . Good land to him meant land. He owned and worked five large units around Mount Vernon. He had a large establishment of slaves to do! the manual labor for him. But he himself rode daily around every one of those farms to oversee the work." To one land purchase, Mr. Fitz- patrick thinks, there may have been a little sentiment attached. Washington bought the site of Fort Necessity, the spot on which took place his first bat- tle. But sentiment or no sentiment, it was good farm land, and it was for farm land that Washington used it. The papers reveal Washington as an indefatigable worker and as a physical giant. Otherwise he never could have stood the test to which he put himself. Mr. Fitzpatrick, making experiments with the papers, believe: that while in command of the Arm) Washington could bardly have had more than five hours sleep in any 24. Even then they were not regular hours, nor_were they necessarily con- secutive. He was a persistent worker, but a sportsman also, finding time to ride and to hunt. He made the rounds of his farms daily, whether he could gallop over on horseback, or whether he had to go on foot because the snow was too deep for the animal to plow tin god | a vision | | through ton kept |t During from four his official item of which him or not, w or correction : fe kept accur All this bhestdex th ctua the Army He found ecords during his tern office “There is practical le: cor cludes Mr. Fitzpatrick, “that the man never spared himself in his work and he eight strenuous years of the war probably had much to do with his | rather sudden collapse in the end | * ok ok o the war to Washing aides b vhether S broug then for dictated it to him Slgnature. his doi lirection ¢ \ALL of Washington's papers prac | £ tically are personal papers. The |new government of which he w President then had i lice for cial records. But Washington knew | the need and the value of records. He had experienced the ingratitude and the attacks of political opponents d ing his official life, when he could at least come to his own defe He did NOt SUppose these attacks fter his death. His defer posterity ful reports of eve ally happened And speaking of |Mr. Fitzpatrick told t uted to Jefferson, of Washington's rage over the utterances one’ Fre. neau, @ none too serupulous news. paper writer: Washington had not wanted to take the presidency. But he had felt it his duty. He w raged over the petty attacks him. Losing his temper ts & attacks, story, attrib. upon once, ing the presidency. has been every day since.” Mr. Fitzpatrick finds that Washing- ton was a devoted son to a not over gentle mother: she seems to have be- | come petulant with advancing and her temper was not always control. Perhaps her famous son in- herited her temper, but he knew how to keep it in leash Most people,” sauid Mr. Fitzpatrick, “think Washington had no sense of humor. I think he did. It is a vein of humorous satire somewhat like that of the early Mark Twain. He certainly saw the funny side of things His humorous comments are no differ- ent from the humor of others of his day. Washington was certainly not behind them.” A little ancedote describing an event on one of Washington's trips as a surveyor in the Blue Ridge Mountains and taken trom the diaries is proof | positive that the man who was later |to assume the leadership of a new country in the portentous times of its beginnings had a mental quirk ap. | preciative of the unexpected and the humorous even when it involved | physical discomfort to himself. Wash- ngton and his party having work. ed all day in the mountuins retired | for the night to a little log cabin they had found in the woo s |in it a bed of fir boughs. The men fell upon it with a sigh of relief. They ched with dismuy when It was denl. to them unmistakable & the bed wa completely infested with fleas. Washington de- xcribes the activities of the next dy in th manner: “We worked and we cleaned ourselves all morning of the | game we had catched the night be- And that, by God, s ‘that fore About the manuscripts themselves, and how they came into the possession of the Government, Mr. Fitzpatrick tells some interesting facts. The major part of the papers were purchased from the Washington family during the middle of the last century for fifty thousand dollars, appropriated by Congress for that purpose. This collection was kept in the State De- partment until the Roosevelt admin- istration, when it was transferred to the Library of Congress, but there are still some Washington papers re. tained in the State Department which that department considers to be a part of its departmental files. ‘“Judging from the prices auto- | graphs bring now, and not allowing for the fact that dumping so many jon the market would depress the {price. the fifty-thousand-doilar in- vesiment of the Government is now worth several millions,” said .\Ir. Fitz- patrick, thus checking the inferview- er's gasp of astonishmers at the orig- inal purchase price of the manu- scripts. They include, besides the diarfes, personal letters, rough drafts of letters Washington sent as com- mander of the Army or as President of the United States, with corrections written In, o that the whole process of the making of the letter can be seen. The papers are perfectly preserv- ed”, states Mr. ing that it is due as much fo the ex- cellence of the materials used, the | quality of the stock and of the ink, as it is to the careful attention they [ receive at the hands of the Library |attendants. “The stock is handmade {linen paper.” says Mr. Fitzpatrick, “which with care will last forever. he ink was also made at home in those days, and from a recipe to which modern record keepers in search of a lasting ink have returned, curfously enough. The writing it- self is perfectly distinct.” The four-volume work which makes its bow in the book stalls this month respondence, | en- | he | said, “Only once have I regretted tak- | Fitzpatrick, explain- | 1925—PART 2. REVIEWS OF AUTUMN BOOKS Interesting History of American People Leads Up to Civil War. Further Light Shed on Lincoln —Buc Produce New and Interesting IDA GILBERT MYERS. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMER- ICAN PEOPLE. By Robert Gran- ville Caldwell, Ph. D., professor of American history, the Rice Insti. tute. New York: G. P. Putnam'’s Sons. | Psalm, or the Gettysburg Address, | wrought in full upon the surface of @ dime or the span of a thumb nail. | | “John Macnab” suggests a feat of this sort. The impulse of this novel is that of prime adventure. Now, to the general mind, adyenture connotes roum and far outfapings, tempestuous EPTH of rootage and a corre- | sea reaches, miles of desert or plain, sponding amplitude in the|depth of jungle, height of mountain, spread of historic branches— | the frozen north,-something big to these are the qualities that|be encompassed, something deep to be impress one deeply in this|uncovered, something high to be history of the American peo-|brought low. Yet, right in face of ple, much as the same qualities appeal | this chief law of adventure, John to one in Green's “Short History of | Buchan makes use of a pocket hwnd- the English People.” Events, sourced | kerchief spread of the Scotch high- in well defined causes, are immediate- |lands for as pretty a piece of natural Iy impressive, where clutters of detail | outlawry as ever lured an incorrigl around points of times fuil to stir inter- | bly primitive modern gunman away est. Causes and origins, growths and |to the forests of Africa or to the slopes developments, consummations that, in |of the Himalayas. turn, become causes for new historic| Poaching, that tmmemorial protest sequences—these satisfy the mind. |of the poor against the rich, sets this And these are the material with which ( matter in motion. Three tired Lon- this writer of history deals. In this doners, worn almost to death with case, these causes are deep in the sofl | work and boredom, are the lawbreak- of America itself, de¢p in the varied |ers. Great men in town. Common origins of the people of America, deep | outlaws to Be hunted in this engage | han and Jeffery Stories. close to the edge of being made love to by the family friend. In that same momentous week Honor, the daughter, caps her ad vanced notions and independent be haviors by engaging herself to a penni- less advocate of human rights. One of the boys finds trouble in the courts by wuy of his fast motor cycle. The other boy has appendicitis and Aunt Sophy dies—an awful week. Yet, everybody has had ‘em more than once. Here it is projected so easily, in so quiet a humor, that it does not seem |2 calamity week at all. Rather like some famillar set of days to be met and made the best of. Reading, ons feels that a fine fellow like Tony Rexon—fine, despite his occaslonal errancies, all in the way of diffusing an agreeable atmosphere—would help these off weeks mightily. A delightful and lifelike week’s doings, that pre sent intelligent and charming people making the best of their own mistakes, which, as familles go, are not so seri ous after all. { THE HAPPY FAILURE. Solano, author of | | | By Solita in their gradual approach to one an-|ment. Such, the foundation of this other and in their ultimate growth |urgent to:do. To give a £porting tang to the collective outlook and the mna-|to the business these three, under the tional purpose. common, name of John Macnab. send The history Is that of American in-|qut chiallenges to the noble owners o dustry and economics and politics, the | 4¢er forest and salmon run Epec “hien story of these leavened with human |10 dat® ik E | they will do thus and so to the game feellngatandipassiony and redsonings | ;™ yege domains. A mighty local Not one of its great | = S 1 topics i a finislied topic here—because | XCitment {8 cet up over the braze it cannot 1 Instead each is held} 3 Al oEay o o as it is open in fact, walting for sponding measures of frustration are the inevitable ‘ehange that comes to|Planned. Well—one doesn't at_the Sl e LB i e % 0| minute recall any one b o Buc anything that is truly alive and con.| Tihute recall any one but John Buc- siderable. = For, instance, discovery, in | [4f -staiq business s prs 2 respect to America, did not begin with 1;“"0’:' r’r‘xk-e @ ’;l" n;;;‘;”" lfl“ o et o 4o o i ¢ office—who could play wi Colmpiitymon f’:'_’e"“l,'];‘,"‘w“l‘;"l{"“;‘,:“l'f such gusto and tang and merriment ing for another possible new lind to | the game of Lreaking the law. A emerge at the call of MacMillan or!g® SRaE b B g A | Amundsen or another So with every |50 JUIFh, OF & Bentlemans game as point of _‘nx;]]mrlarv\“"'d in J‘;f}?:rl‘ll“;{ | pose of this altogether enjovable com- EEE i SR clib ol acy e posite poacher, John Macna. open The story of this volume reaches up | AN OCTAVE. By Jeffers Jeffe: to the Civil War. Secure at every author of “The Burden,” etc. point, with the honesty of the invest | Boston: Little, Brown & Co {gator and the scientist, this chronicle g [ 6 America reads, nevertheless, ke 4 | % A N OCTAVE" is no more than the | story. So much to the good. that.| husiness of a certain family fo Not_every historlan can et himself |one week out of the year's run of 5 | read. no matter how deep his knowl- | weeks. It is likely that a family, or edie, Low sincere his intent. e almost any family, looked upon for beside learning, the gift of jany week with a truly divining eve e the t This writer that | would unfold story of really di At the reader is caught matic design and quality. Luckily 1 the statement that Americ had the reader. Jeffer Jeffery has di at least twice before good foresigh chelce here ¢ mbus at it bad “not man- Tony Rexon houset th discovered Then he wife and three as the theme tells of the Indian migration that peo- | of this domestic Sunday to Sunday |pled the Western Hemisphere, first| One of those familia eentrated long the Pacific borders, with, prob- | Weeks, this one, when everything hap- Jly, an Asfatic race that upon this| pens. Tony's publishing business hemisphere became the Mayas, the COMes to an acute crisis. Behavior Incas, the Aztecs, the pl Indians of | clearly unmarital on Tony part, | our own West and, finally, of the en. drifts into the open through Tony's | tire continent. And the Indians of our | instinctive desire to do a nice thing | America, “became like the forest and the lady in his own slightly theat- | the prairie and the frontier, the anvil | rical And in counterplay, just lon which were hammered out those | t0 maintain a proper domestic balance, qualities of hope and cheerful en.| Mrs. Tony, really quite innocently, durance which from the days of the takes on the role of female counter- ploneer we- like to believe tvpical of | Part to the philanderer, getting pret America.” He tells the story of the nd discovery that “did not stay discovered.” that of Leif the Good and Ei the Red up to. the North, the | former a Christian on missionary work intent the American epic goes on opening out to the complexity and the problems uand the hopes and the visions of the present, faced upon (. great future. Readers will seize {upon this big handling of history ! where the piecemeal records of wars {and territorial seizures and reprisals of other sorts leave them with sense of the incompleteness and inadequacy and inconsequence of the growih of | America. ) nsed be nth and his children but se Recent Library and reading will each Sunday accessions at of in the recon this P nended column ppear Language and Writing. E. W. Spoken How to Teach It Becker, E. O. Grammar. X40G-B3s. Briggs. T. H., and McKinney, Isabel Ways to Better English. ZB Bitive. Cattane X39 Coester, A 1917, X40C Danner, V., E 1916-18. Sauze, X39R-D45 Dubrule, Noelia h Com . X Modernas. Fallows, Samuel. ( ary of Synonvms, Frost, M caker, English X-B172s, and | ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE NA- | TIONAL CAPITAL. By Allen C Clark. Washington, D. C. 'HERE are in the National C: many points {nallenably a ated with the name and memory of Abraham Lincoln. Some of these are |well_known to the general public las the White House is known, the Lincoln Memorial and the statue in Lincoln Park and the one in Judiciary Square; as the old Ford Theater is known, and the house across from it where Abraham Lincoln died. To these famillar points Allen C. Clark of this city has through persistent industry supported by a deep interest searched out und set down here other ! spots within the Capital to which the rect English memory of Lincoln contributes the| XG-F9I8. substance of history and the spirit | Goldberger, IT. H. of National patriotism. l\"‘n}(‘n{‘;i tor One such place is the Soldiers’ Home, | ~_~ SR e Nere thsmirne IRy et iTs Summer | Greenbers, '('3;2 A ',,J"“-P‘m‘ French time. Another is Carroll row, where | o oUre. X AGSH8se, . Lincoln as a Congressman from 1lli- | !fi“ ',]F- \‘;;‘h"_fins ulemonty nois boarded. There is the plan, in | rench Qe - detail, of the Ford Theater and Chats on Feature Helene. Causons urn Peu. bital oci- = | A Spanish Grammar. Book of Debates. Ref. ZBEH-DZ De B.: ed Con es Gais. and Manser, H bosition and Pr 9-DS: ed | mplete Diction- X119, ecor. M. I Thr Cor- ctice. Intermediate Book Coming Citizens. of its | Harrington, H. F. stage where the tragedy was com.| Writing. ZA-23 |pleted. And the little toy shop on |Kron. Richard. German New York avenue where the President | 1901. X47T-Ko and his little son, “Tad,” liked to|lassalle, Beatriz. browse and lofter. And many another | _ €0S. X4OR-L338. place of like interest. To this careful | Mankiewicz, Frank, and Leuchs, rounding up of the Lincoln spots fn| A. H. German Review and ‘Washington Mr. Clark has added a | cise Book. M3162. T slight biographic sketch of Lincoln as | Maulsby, W etting the News vouth and Congressman and President ZCI-M4adbg. = and martyr. To this he has append- | McCullough, G. A.. and Birmingham, ed a brief outline of the trials follow-| A. V. Correcting Speech Defects ing the assassination of the President.| and Foreign Accent. XY-MI3s. A fair and good tribute is paid to the | McDaniel, C. F. Stenographer memory of Mrs. Lincoln who, out of Typist Civil Service Course. the vagaries of public opinion, secms 1918, ZF-Ml4ds, not to have had full justice done to|Morris. A. R. her very real qualities of womanhood. | Metrical Line. ZCQ-M834o. | A carefully chosen bibliography, used | Morris, G. D.. ed. Hasy French TFic- in part for the preparation of this| tion. X39R-MS3de. book and designed in other part for | O'London) John. 1s It Good English? the use of readers, is presented here,| X together with a list of the Lincoln | Perry, memorials within the city and the tion. story of their creation. Pitman, Isaac. Shorthand Re- porter. 3. ZF-P68Ts JOHN MACNAB. By John Buchan, | pitiaro, J. M., and Green, Alexander. author of “Greenmantle”, etc. Bos-| (yentos Contados, X4OR-BE89e. ton: Houghton, Mifflin Company. Rambaud, A. N. its de 1'His- 'HERE are certain works of art, toire de la Civilisation Francaise. curlous rather than beautiful, X39-R142. whose challenge lies in the crafts: | Treille, M. H., and G man's fine-hand skill. The Lord's| Francais. X39R-T7l4t. Prayer, say or the Twenty-third Daily Life. Cuentos Mitologi | i I [ 1 F. and v. chestration of the | M. Progressive Pa27p. 5 Composi- z ! Sir . M. Textes Uliman, B. L.. and Henry, N. E. ond Latin Book. X36R-Ulds, Wallace, J. A.. and O'Neill, J. M. Purposive Writing and Speaking. ZB-W156p. Wilkins, L. Sec- contains forty-two diaries, reprints or first_prints of all the Washington diaries in existence. Of these forty- . two, thirty-six are from the oviginal | Book. X40G-W635n. diaries in the possession of the library, | Wing, J. T. Wing English Language four others from originals in private | Method. Polish ed. X-W724. hands, the only two other diaries in | existefice being printed coples, of | which the originals are no longer in existence. The diaries cover the life- time of Washingtén from his six- teenth year to the very day before his_death, with some gaps. The editing and publishing of the diaries has been undertaken by the regents of Mount Vernon. It is this society of ladies which raised the | money to buy Mount Vernon, to put | it in repair and to keep it unce re- | stored, as it was when Washington lived there. The society was partic- 3 ¥ f ularly anxious to have the diaries the Great War. 1918. XZ-.J714p. publighed in preference to any other Johnson, G. I. Modern Literature of his papers because the former dealt | for Oral Interpretation. 1921. XZ- so closely with his life at Mount Ver- | _ J633m. non. | May. Noble. Tt has taken Mr. Fitzpatrick two | McHale, F. years or thereabouts to get the dia-| Prizes. ries ready for publication. In the quiet | Osgood, 5 of the manuscript room after closing | _ logues. XZ-Os3ds, time he has pored over the note-| Parker, M. M. Funny_ Monologues books, some of them older than the | and Poems. 1923, XZ-P22sf. Nation itself. He has brought to bear | Parker, M Jolly ™ Monologues. upon them the knowledge derived | 1921. from years of fascinating familiarity | Shoemaker's Best Selections with ~Washington papers, that he' Things from Best Authors. might make the text clear, 1914-1921. XZ-Sh782. ew First Spanish Recitations. Marian. City 82¢. Lil; Bowlan, XZ Cartbew, 1919. X7 Hare, W. B. XZ-H228b. Hare, W. B. Costume Monologues. 1923. XZ-228c. Hare, W Readings and Mono- logues Mode. 1921, H228r. Jones, E. D. Patriotic Pieces from Types. 1916. pseud. 244m. Bran' New Monologues. Monologues. a la Do Tel X2Z-Mdod. Pieces Thut Have Won 1917, XZ-M182p. Helen. ~Successful Mono- Best 7. gentleman's game, this one, but never | Hand Book of Spanish | axer- “The Uncertain Feast.” : G. P. Putnam's | ons O LY natural that the head of an | Pold and successful business, dating back certainly to grandfather if not | to_ great-grandfather, should look to his only son to carry on in an hon orable tradition and a substantial material achievement. A common place, tqo, nowadays, for the son to turn away in distaste from the family line of comme enterprise. uch is the foundatio of “The Happy Fallure, gh a fair story lengt one follows this rebel son of a great | businese house. In the fulfillment of this rebellion one leaves the youth | spade and hoe in hand, happily pot tering around a garden patch, absorb. led in cabbages and sweet peas. His | house én a makeshift of cottage and { cab His companion is a devoted | Birl, honest and uninteresting, at the moment a servant, her final status | hanging in & delicate and uncertain | balance toward wifehood. Behind the |boy is u wife. Also behind him are failures without number along the levels of his father's business and the expectations of the family for him A not uncommon theme, this, on what is called 100sing the better part Yet, this voung man not at ed that he has so chosen t the gardening, ind the girl, and the responsibilities He is a * Nowhere in th course does he take nd on ar Lovable enough, mless e ut not once n. Probably the writer intended Timothy Doan to be the frai brot d. *So compete a manner of projection, so clipped and isp and Incisive a st o hardly fail on the purpose and substance of a theme. Therefore, conceding that Timothy is & nice no-account fellow. one curbs his irritation over the hero of this tale while paying his dues to an author who can turn out such well sustained example of vague us, and good intent, and fut ons. New Yor dre ac iner, XZ-Shs? Kk, L. comp. Selection: | str: | H. Winning Monologues XZ-St83w. Literary History and Criticism. Arnold, wort] Brown, I. W46Sbr. Croce, Benedetto. FEuropean Litera- ture in the Nineteenth Century 2Y-C873e.E. { Farrar, J. C. ZY-F2431. Fausset, H. I. Studies in 1923 ZYP-F273s, Goode, C. T., and Shannon, E. Atlas of English Literature. ZY-6G61. Macpherson, H. D. marchais in New ZY3%A-B3sm Richards. 1. A Matthew zY T Essay on Words W 8934 H. G. Wells. ZYA The Literary Spotlight. Ideal An Ref. Editions of Beau York City. Ref. Principals of Literary ZY-R394 dward. Bernard Shaw Sutton, Some Contempo- rary Dramatists. ZYD-SuS7s. Doren, . C. James Branch Ca beii A-Cli2v. ‘Wit and Humor. K. W. Viewpoints in Mod- ern Drama. Ref. ZWYD-D849. Tandy, J. R. Crackerbox Philos American Humor and Y W.-T156. Mathews, William 1888, © YW-M423w D. B.. comp. dotes. YW-K77a. , Langford. Complete Limerick Book. YW-R23c. Helpful Books. A Ref. Roland Drury, F. Wit and Humor. Quotable Anec- | | Holden, J The Bookman's Glos XL-H713. A List of Music for and Pageants. ZWVV.HT74. . W. Notes on the German Ixhibit. 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