Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1925, Page 64

THE BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE Corcoran Gallery of announces two interesting i-c- quisitions, both works in bronze; one, a turkey by John Singer Sargent; the other a head of J. Alden Weir by Olin Warner. The former uf these is a unique pos: smession. John Sargent, the painter, greatest of portrait painters of our day, produced only three known works 1n ‘sculpture—two crucifixes, one own. d in England, the other in this coun. try, and this turkey. What {nduced him to turn incidentally to this form of expression it is hard to say, but that when he did he fully commanded his medium is worthy of note. and gives indication that genius along these lines does not confine itself to a single form of expression. If we are not mistaken, there fs a strong similarity between this turkey which Sargent modeled and the turkey In bronze by the sculptor of the Renais sance which is today included among the exhibits in the National Gallery at Florence, the Bargello. Sargent was much in Italy and undoubiedly very famillar with this collection Perhaps it was this work which in spired his effort. Perhaps, on the other hand, it was only a faint recol lection fine old bronze held which. when the noble strutted before him, riment along these lines In any event, it is a fine turkey, cleverly modeled. decorative in effect, and doubtless the painter found im mense amusement in its creation Paul Bartlett, it will be remembered, now and then produced a bronze of an animal, an insect or a fish. Albert Laessle of Philadelphin has done notable works of this sort, works which because of their artistic merit and interesting manner of production wre held. in high em by sculptc d connofsseurs of art. Tt is Amusing thing te do and it requir great skill in execution. This sk tly, off-hand, was able Art A New York art dealer came acros this bronze the Sargent sale in London and bought ft To him it seemed a work of unique interest, and he dete i to place It. if possible, n the p nanent collection of some art museum. The Corcoran Gallery vas fortunate in its acquisitt Tm; head of J. Alden Weir by Olin Warner is similar to that included in the National Academy centennial exhibition, of ready favorable mention made in these columns he standpoint of the subject and that of the sculptor this is an important addition to the Corcoran Gallery's col- lection. 1. Alden Weir, as every one knows, was one of our most gifted American paint He is adm; represented in the centenn hition by the portr The Corcoran Gall manent collact voung girl it cotemporary 1o painter w ational Gal of Design's which ~ al has been Both frem of one a from o ttions w! living. The 18 fortunate in the posses: of a portrait by him of a young woman, A very typical and representative work. The Phillips Memorial Gallery wns several works by Weir—the irl Knitting,” painted during the r; one or more landscapes and a very beautiful bowl of pink roses. For a sh time Mr. Weir was president of the National Academy of Design, but his was a very retiring disposition: he Joved his work: he s a great teacher. but public office of any sort he found irksome. There is a marked kinship between the w Weir and that of Twachtma can Phillips written = pathetically is paintir Carnegic Pittsht voted one on of an interna. sional exhibition to his paintings while he was vet alive. He was a most sincere and gifted artist * ok % HE name of Oilln Warner the sculptor of this portrait bust, is perhaps less well known, though no less highly esteemed. by his confreres. Rorn in 1844, the son of an itinerant Methodist minister of Connecticut, he began his career as sculptor by e: hibiting at state fairs. He wa vears old hefore oppor forded to go ab and a half he wr he acquaintance of suc i'alguiere and Mercie. and f short isting Carpeaur. Returning he took a studio in v York Cf but success did not come immediately his way and for a time he was obliged to return to his father's farm. admitting failure. He was one of the five original members of the Society of American Artists, and in 1880 this bust of Weir was duaily his work won recog. riists as | past.” 1 There Is indeed an element of c beauty In this head of Weir ook ok "THE great centennial exhibition of the National Academy of Desizn, which has attracted so much attention and afforded so much pleasure in the Corcoran Gallery of Art for the past month, closes today. The gallery will be open this afterncon, thus affording a last opportunity to see this exhibi tlon. Tomorrow the gallery’s doors will be closed, the collection taken down and shipped to New York, wher is will be re-exhibited for the month of December in the Grand Central Gallerles, over the great ( nd Cen tral Raflroad Station, at 42nd &treet By the 1st of December, if not sooner, the permenent collection of the Cor coran Gallery of Art will be replaced and the galiery re-opencd During the month of December several important and interesting special _exhibitions will be set forth. From December o to 27 a collection |0f Washington. now ew York. | ofiitecent inaintings by Philip A. | Mrs. Margaretta Archambault shows Se Dasalo, Inte e Khoed portrait of President Coolldge, to ler Galleries, will be on K Which. obviously, the position of honor view. From December 6 to January Das been given | e s S st e In the galleries devoted to water ton Artists will hold its 35th annuxl €0lors and work in black and white, | exhibftion, and during the month of Mrs. Brannigan is again represented December a collec of etchings by by two admirable water | Emil ichs, etch and nor Parke ll“’\“\ ‘I)I’ ‘;“E‘ = e iatita v water colors, all of a PSR T esting order, Felicie Waldo | Hovell, formerly of Washinston, like- MMIANY inquiries bave been » wise has four exhibits, and Elizabeth concerning the significan Muhihofer of this city is represented the painting by E. A. Abbey. - Penance of Eleanor, Duchess + painting of dogwood mong t etche none Is better Ghester lent by ‘the Carne represented than John Taylor Arms, te of Plttsburgh to the centennial | formerly of Washington, now of Fair exhibition of the ational Academy fleld, « who shows five of his of Design, and given the position of honor in the semi-circular gallery. charming architectural themes. It is customary in these exhibitions This is an illustration of scene IV act 1I. part II of ng_ Henry VL™ to show groups of works by different artlsts rather than single examples by Shakespeare. VI, it wiil be and in this particular the present ex remembered. had hibition i no exception. Among the garet of France. The Duk wortant groups in the present show chester was the King's pr El dreamed a_dre: ay be made of those of 1 landscapes by Florenc e, “Henry end Dame Marzare 1 rich golden tone; a group of to me and on my head did dindem.” She was ambitious e Western scenes done in a modernistic manner by Birger Sand-| for herself and for her husband, and ibitlon carried her too far. Offend which the position of honor 2 an extremely clever group ing the Queen, she pluyed into the .. GlI; groups of flower paint hands of her husband's enemies and was charged with disloyalty, trled and Sears and Walter convicted. Because of her noble birth on; beach scenes by Fred Wag | figure studies representing The she was not put to death, but obliged | Seasons to do three-days' open penance and possibillties of photography and eme ploys it as a fine art he has had many notable sitters, but some of he\ best works are of slmple folk whom she has come across, in her travels. Her photographic portralts are not merely likenesses but interpretations of personality, of cl acter. * x shingtonians, or erst. ingtonians, are repre. in the annual joint exhibition of the Philadelph “olor Club ind the Penn: ociety of | Minlature Painters which opened on November 7 at the Pennsylvania Acad- emy of the Fine Arts with a private view and reception One e clally suited for the purpose, invariably devoted to minfatures, and herein thi: vear are | found works by Mrs. Nina Nash Cron and Eva Springer, both of this eity, | Lona Miller Keplinger of Bethesda Md, and Gladys Brannigan, formerly | sented ew York. ceived of "he Glou e Insti inor which kneeled is & by Pa ings by Jessie Willcox Smith; a virile fisherman series by Gifford Beal | Mr. i vistting “BRONZE TURKEY,” BY JOHN SINGER SARGENT. THE BRONZE | WAS PURCHASED AT THE SARGENT SALE IN LONDON, AND RECENTLY ACQUIRED BY THE CORCORAN GALLERY. banished to the Isle of Man. Abbel's painting depicts the street scene w as in Shakespeare it Is set down, Duchess of Glouchester enters in white sheet and a taper burning her hand, with Sir Jjohn Stanley, the | j; Sheriff and Officers.” Her husband |t} and serving men stand by “In mourn Ing cloaks.” Then comes her famous speech. bezinning: “Come you, my lord, to see my open shame? Now thou dost penance, too Here was. indeed, splendid material for the fllustrator; here a_scene full of dramatic significance, which Abbey instantly realized. He was, it will be remembered, a great student of Shake. speare, and much of his best work takes the form of Shakespearian illus two charming_figure studies, size, by Hilda Belcher and ver: ful ‘Santo Domingo scenes by W. E. Heitland IZmil J. Bistran was a new name | the catalogue and a real force in| exhibition, his works re.echoing. | through his own individuality, the works of Winslow Homer and sug- zesting kinship with those of George Bellows and Rockwell Kent. This_exhibition continues through December 13th and well rewards a | journey to Philadelphia * ok ok ok N(J TICE has just been received of bust large force. a in the ceremonious unveiling of the of Augustus Saint-Gaudens by SUNDAY STAR, NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Two Interesting Acquisitions of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Bronze Turkey Modeled by Jol’m Singer Sargent. Centennial Exhibition Closes Today. | Tom'and Nanc: | settlement, WASHINGTON, D. C. N THE CORCORAN EXHIBJTION S “THE DONK! THE C BUST OF THE ARTIS A PAIN ing this rotunda into a temple of the fine arts origniated with W. Francklyn Paris, architectural decorator and writer. Ugon his initiative eight busts already installed were presented to the university. He also took an active part in reviving the chair of litera ture of the art of design which the university had created ninety vears when it called to that chair F. B. Morse. founder of the Academy of Design nagan was a pupil of Au- gustus Saint-Gaudens. Another pupil, Frederick MacMonnies, is at present at work on a bust of Whistler, which is likewise to be placed in the Hall of Remembrance. A bust Henry K. Bush-Brown { his uncle, Henry K. Brown, the sculptor, is to be unveiled at this same time National John FI P Burnside’s paintings are to be seen on the second floor, with paintings by Theophilus whose style i3 somewhat similar. Mr. Burnside is best known as a painter of figures and murals, ! appears 1o excellent advan: Inter of landscapes. Mrs itt) shows chiefly adly rendered in a some. Key A considerable amount of the work shown, both by and Mrs. Burnside and their pu- done last Summer at Lake here the Burnsides conduct- ner school of painting. given last Sunday after- Arts Club in honogof the members of the National Academy of n and in honor of their hundredth anniversary, at which Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Burnside were hosts, proved a delightful occasion. Tha Burnside exhibition will con- tihue through October 3! PR HE well known miniature paiater, Countess Korzybski, formerly Miss Edgerly, is, with her sclentist husband, spending a portion if not all of this Winter in Washington, Count and Countess Korzybski having taken a home temporarily at 1640 W street southeast, not far from where E. C. Messer, for vears dean of the Wash- ington painters, long lived. Among the Washingtonians whom the count- ess has painted are the McLean chil- dren, Mrs. Joseph Leiter with Joseph, Mre. Colville Barclay, Mrs. John Hays Hammond and her daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Breckin- ridge Long with “Tiny,” to mention only a few. An exhibition of her miniatures, it will be remembered, in- cluding those of many distinguished foreigners, was held in this city some vears ago, when, as Miss Edgerly, the Ppainter spent « season here. * ok ok ¥ (CATHERINE CRITCHER spent the entire Summer near Taos, N. Mex., living, however, not with the artist colony, but 25 miles away in an Indian where she could best ob- tain Indian subjects. She and Clara Hill have reopened their school at 1608 Connecticut avenue and have associ- ated with them Margaret L. Comegys and Alma Bostick, adding classes in interior decoration, costume design and poster advertising. s x “THE PENANCE OF ELEANOR,” BY EDWIN A. ABBEY, LOANED TO THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION BY THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE. PITTSBURGH. nition and today he ranks with !he‘ tration. In his early days many of his first. 1le died all too soon as the result of a fall from a horse while riding in Central Park in 1896. Lorado Taft pays him high tribute in his “History of American Sculpture.” He says: “His almost Greek sensitiveness to form preserved him from the mis- takes of the overconscientious, or rather the ignorantly conscientious, sculptor who insists upon every detail With him eve touch was auto graphic, giving not the literal fact but ruth adapted to sculptural ends. | childr T present—beauty | cent work of Clara K. Sipprell, pic- | forme: Beauly was always of Hng and that surface charm which Bas marked adh great sculpture of the ~ | | | 3 John Flanagan in the rotunda of the | Library of the New York University on November 17. This is the bust which is now on view in the centen- nial exhibition of the National Acad- emy of Design. The ceremony at the | New York University will be part of the centennial celebration and will mark the formal acceptance by the National Academy of Design of the ntheon of artists created some five | vears u2go at the university. his Hall of Remembrance is not to be con | fused with the Hall of Fame. 'The | opens its doors only to| torial potographer of New York, ona | Americans having distinguished them- who has discovered fully the artistie' selves in the arts. The idea of turn- Shakespearian {llustrations were made for the magazines, Harper's in partic- ular, which now has discontinued original illustrations altogether, and, though a Philadelphian by birth, was closely assoclated with that group of men in New York who helped to make illustration what it was in America in the eighties and nineties. £ % k% AT the Washington Arts Club there | will open today an exhibition of portral nd the most re - Pupils Proletarians. In Moscow’s public schools at least 80 per cent of the muplls are children of the proletariat. Boys and girls in the young communist party, the pre- paratory course for membership in the adult communist party, number 50 pér cent of the puplls. Children of peas- ants and workmen are between 40 and 60 pey cent of the total and those of emploves or memibers of permissi- ble professions are between 20 and 40 per cent. The others are children ot employers or well-to-do persons. T1 E RAN GALLERY HAS JUST PURCHASED A BRONZE BY J. ALDEN WEIR, ing will appear in this column each Sunday Foreign Literature. rus, and Ramsey, Allan, comps. Told in the Coffee House. 1898. Y601-9Ad5 Auburtin, Victor. Pfauenfedern. 1921i. Y47F-Aulép. Buchan, John, comp. Muse. Y43P-9BS5. Chekhov, A. P. Letters on the Short Story. Y64-C415LE Chekhov, A. P. Works. (Russian text) Y54-C415 Espronceda, Jose de. Sancho Saldana. 1914. Y40F-Es876 Exodus (Anglo-Saxon poem). Exodus and Daniel. 1907. 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List of Manuscripts | Concerning American History Pre. | served in " Kuropean Libraries. | ZWr8s1-M43. iMlflifeld.(Ju;liu .‘;:omp. ‘The Folk Mu- sic of the Western Hemis 3 ! Ref. ZWVYSO-M4. phel:e Sweet, Mrs. M. M. The Italian Immi- grant and His Reading. ZSF-Sw3, Writing. Flint, L. N. The Conscience of the Newspaper. ZCJ-Fé46c. Hillebrand, H. N. Writing the One. Act Play. ZCD-H563w. Spencer, M. L. Editorial Writing. ZCJ-Spase. . Printing and Binding. Buck, M. S. Book Repair and Resto- ration. 1918. ZKV-BS5. Shane-Beever Company. Baltimore, Md. How Good Electrotypes Are Made. ZHF-Shis. A NOVEMBER 16, 1925—PART | M. O. B. The Way ot | fundzsde | share of current American fiction. A Two-Volume Biography of Aaron Burr Compiled From Rare and Hitherto Unpublished Sources—Fantastics of Chinese. A New Novel by the Author of “The 'Great Hungcr." IDA GILBERT MYERS. AARON BURR. A Blography plled from Rare and In Many Cases Unpublished Sources. By Samuel H. Wandell and JNeade Minnigerode. In_ two volumes Tllystrated. New York: G. P. Put- nam’s Sons. SERVICE has been rendered to history by this work of research and writing Jjointly conducted. The collaborators have presented the fullest and most authoritative account of the life of Aaron Burr that has ever heen produced. Mr. Wandell in his accumu- lation of materfal and Mr. Minni gerode in its presentation have been inspired by the desire to do justice to a man whose name is held in odium by the present generaton of Amer- icans. It {s perhaps inevitable that in pre- senting Aaron Burr's story a sym pathetic blographer—the collaboration must be viewed as a unit—should deal with critical frankness with Burr's two chief political antagonlsts —Alexander Hamilton and. Thomas Jefferson. ~ Yet it seems a pity that that frankness should go so far as to flay these American statesmen with partisan scalpels. Burr's full re habilitation is impossible. His bi ographers are themselves compelled to admit his faults of temper, of Jjudgment, of motive and of practices. They present a sorry figure, after all, especially the Burr of later years, the fugitive, the spendthrift, the unbal- anced promoter -of foolish schemes. the libertine. The best they can do for this Burr of later life is to hint at mental unbalance as excuse for his frailties and faults. The Burr of the earifer days, before the duel, Mr. Wandell and Mr. Minnigerode have presented attrac- tively "and convincingly. His keen. ness, his grace, his charm, his ardor, are vividly protrayed. In the matter of the duel there is a disposition to extenuate his conduct, to blame his antagonist mainly. Yet few will read this account with any changing of opinion regarding the needlessness of the meeting at Weehawken which de- stroyed the life of Alexander Hamil- ton and wrecked the career of the then Vice President of the United States, In regard to the “great conspiracy,” a decidedly better showing is made for Burr and sympathies are keenly aroused by the work of his present blographers, who absolve him of trea- sonable designs, though accusing him of folly and sweeping ambition beyond the range of the United States. The sinister figure of Wilkinson, secret agent of Spain, one time partner of Burr in the colonization scheme and Com- then his betrayer, is shown in revolt- ing detail. Burr himself appears as the victim of persecution, who though acquitted in law was pilloried in pub- lic condemnation and driven into exile for the saddest, most shameful period of his life. Such volumes as these have a dis- tinct value in their revelation of the grievous trials through which the American Government passed in the first decades of the great experiment in self-rule. Idols are marred, men- tal portraits of patriots are defaced, the sordidness of political life is re- vealed. But out of this comes a vision of the workings of that provi- dence which has attended the birth and the development of the American nation. Aaron Burr, soldier, lawyer, politician, statesman, second officer of the Government, outcast, defendant in court, fugitive and finaily pitiable figure of an impecunious adventurer is one of the most pathetic souvenirs of the struggle which made America. *x CHINESE FANTASTICS. By Thomas Steep. New York: The Century Company. A MAN waywise to China. Thomas Steep—so waywise that he refuses even an attempt at_interpretation, agreeing in full with Lafoadio Hearn in the theory that the longer he min- gled with the Oriental the less able he felt to interpret him. 8o, here in this book of “‘Chinese Fantastics” the au- thor contents himself with making little pictures, dozens of them, portray- ing certain aspects of Chinese life— the ways of the shop and the street, the manners of politeness, and the ways of rudeness, the place of the parents in the family, the means of intercourse between the Chinese and the rest of the worid, the look of the sireets and the special character- istic of this city and that province. Nothing ‘“‘fantastic”’ about any of these things to the Chinese himself. These are the old and heaven-born ways. It is everything outside his own formule of behavior that is un- accountable and fantastic. In clipped ‘words that are full of color Mr. Steep draws a hundred sketches—noon in the great centers—on the Whangpoo, the river of Shanghai, or on the Hong- kong waterfront, at Hankow, at Tient- sin. in Peking or otherwhere. But in any case each is a swarming motley of color and movement, curfously near and real. Looking on, for many a year looking on, this author agrees, this time, with Alice in Wonderland that the more one looks the “curiouser and curiouser” everything grows— reading from the back of the book to the front, foot.notes at the top of the page, taking off foot-gear instead of head-gear on entering & house. shaking their own hands instead of the hands of a friend. and so on in an endless “topsyturvydom" which ex- tends down Into their emotions and modes of thinking even. There are pictures here dealing with the Chin Two outstanding fea- tures mark them as a whole. One is the fund of interesting facts that the little book centains, the other is the plcturesque quality of this author himself, catching the form and flavor of these many appearances and pass- ing them on to reader. LI THE EMIGRANTS. By Johan Bojer, author of “The Great Hunger, etc. BY way of “The Emigrants” Johan Bojer makes clear claim to a por-' tion of that Middle West which, now- | adays, provides setting for so hr“].l n! substance “The Emigrants” is a plo- | neer story wherein a group of Nor-| wegian immigrants settle on the prairies of North Dakota, there de. veloping the stable quality of Amer- icanism which marks that section to- day. Sne wonders. a little, how this writer of Norway could draw so \‘lvldi a plcture of American life. The long miles of prairie, so unlike the moun tains and valleys of his own country; the crude modes of life-—sod cabins, oxen for plow and wagon, no store, no church, no school. A sprawling un- | peopled land in sharp contrast to the packed populations of Europe. How- ever, with the maln element here, with the 'Norwegian settler himself, the writer is at home with his own blood. It is out of this kinship that the essen- tial realism of the story grows. Here, as in all of Johan Bojer’'s work, econ- omy is the keynote. Economy in the choice of material, economy in the use of words. The effect is as simple and austere as that of a Puritan meet- ing house. Big human themes under such treatment bring to readers the deep satistactions that lie in all art, satistactions that often cannot be _ analyzed but that, nevertheless, serve the sense of beauty that all possess| ome measure | he Emigrants,” by Johan Bojer, | eglan, takes its place among fes of the Middle West by Garland and Sandburg and Anderson, by Sin clair Lewis and Zona Gale and Tark- ington and Theodore Dreiser. Mind you, asa writer about the Middle W does he have this place. Outside thi field he is a greater artist than some of these. * X ¥ x THE NAKED MAN. chinson, nuthor of “Sea Wrack etc. New York: The Century Com- pany. A MAN stripped to two primitive hungers—such is Vere Hutchir son's “Naked Man." A passion for the beauty of the sofl out of which #pring green growths and fair har vests, over which trees cast thelr shade and fleeced clouds brood, where rein and sun and wind take equal chance making open headway. But this man is shut in a coal mine every day In the year. So, his hunger for beauty is Ikely to lead strai=at on to starvation itself. Besidy. this secret ardor for the open and heautl ful world there hides another hunger —a child made of himself, perhaps to capture that which he has so hope- lessly missed. But the wife of this miner is a barien woman. older than himself—a good woman, but and barren. Such is the foundation of a story that never for a moment steps outside the metes and bounds estab lished by this basic situation. To be sure, for & moment the man steps out of th~ mins and settles on top of the ground. Amd the barren woman. 50 wise to the secret desires of her man, sets a trap for the appeasement of his second hunger and having done this she betakes herself away to ob- scurt But the open land is a trap and the woman who bore him a son is a more subtle trap and—well, on the ruth less matter goes without a turning to the right or left for some little easement of this man so starkly naked. so clearly damned. One actually writhes under this terrible novel through his urge to fmpose something ameliorating between this defenseless man and a writer so implacable in sincerity. A great novel that haunts one with its bitter frony. Great in its conception and equally great in its austere simplicity. Not many will like it because the most of us like to be smoothed and eased away from thinking about the truth of life or the truth of art. A few, however. will read this book more than once for the power of it and for the dark bea of it. A sister to 'the author of Winter Comes,” but a bigger sis than the other author is a brother, from the writing point of view * x % % THE POWER AND THE GLORY. By Gilbert Parker, author of “The Seats of the Mighty,” etc. Illustrated New York: Harper and Brothers. PLACE names weave a chain of his- tory across the United States. From these names we go back to ex plorer, trapper, settler, missionar: Indian tribe or place or custom. From these we go back to the names of the old home towns in the East and be. yond this across the sea to many European points of departure for the settlers of the New World. A map is a beguiling thread of history. Take, for single instance, the name of La Salle. "From Chicago west to the Mississippi and_all down this river to its source, the name recurs over and over again In country and town, in city street and hall and hotel. One grows curlous, anew, over this La Salle and indeed over many another whose name, ltke his, repeats itself over the land in lasting memorial. Gilbert Parker's new novel is a ro- mance of the great La Salle. Here history is turned to drama with La Salle as its chief figure. Here is the little court of New France, Fron tenac at its head, representing Louis XIV and bent to the further glorif cation of this monarch. Here are courtly scenes in the wilderness. En mitles, jealoustes, intrigues, like those at the great court at Versallles, are rife here. La Salle comes in for a share of opposition. But sustalned by the King and Frontenac, he goes out into the West exploring the Ne: World for the glory of France. Ad- venture, hardship, danger, the sudden ambush. the open attack. the slow gains fn the midst of great personal loss, and then the tragic death of La Salle. All this comes out here in the closs appeal that drama is able to give to history, when the drama is in the hand of a practiced story teller. A fine novel based on'an important period of history. In this day of re vival for the historic novel, *The Power and the Glory” steps out as a leader of special point for the Am- erican reader. Ay NEW JERSEY AND ITS BUILDERS. Complled by James O. Jones Com pany. Published by the New Jer- sey Biographical Association THE hundreds of men who from colonfal davs on to the present have made the State of New Jersey What it is in industry and wealth, in character and influence, come to. gether here in picture and blographic sketch. This Is a substantial and im pressive volume designed for general reference. Its place, therefore, is in the library, the newspaper office or other point easily accessible to the student or special investigator. There is here @ general sketch, touching the high and essential points of State history in both its local and national aspec Beyond this are accounts of the ex pansion of the State in various kinds of enterprise. And behind each of these stand the men upon whose abllity and combined effort the enter. prise originated and expanded. Manu- facturers, inventors, statesmen, politi clans, professional men, financiers and plaln good citizens meet here in com- mon honor of the high place of this commonwealth. A sketch of the coun. tles of the State and a special out look upon its greatest cities go along with the records of these many State makers. A highly useful volume to} those for whom it is designed. A deeply interesting one for those who, possibly without direct sand definite purpose. chance upon this pointed story of the man side of progress, whether it be the progress of the town or the State or the Nation or the world. 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