Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1925, Page 60

The Treasure Island in a Sea of Volumes—The Books of Steven- son—Stories of Adventure, Tales of Animal Life and Splendid Books of Verses for Children. Loan Exhibition of Early American Portraits, Miniatures Silver Is Afliacfing Much Attention—The de Laszlo Portraits—Excellent Prints on View. IDA GILBERT MYERS. | doctrine. Here is Robert T'ulton, the [And in the way of getting them to- BY LEHLA MECHLIN. % | father of the steamboat, and De Witt |gether—the open and the boy—he is MEETING of the National LOVELY island, here, in the (jinion, under whose governship the|a waster hand. In his company mys- 3 ; i i MEBTI? 2 vast sea of Christmas books— | orie Candl joined up the Afl"nncilefles spread out to be nothing strange | : « i € & ¥ 5 Gallery of Art Commission a_treasure islund s leneth | coast with ihe Great Lak’:ss befm‘e’ut S Do) guidanco o lvt:)' i { brought to Washington last as great as 34 snug volumes | giironds had begun to do this. John [learns many a handy lesson—how to, ¥ 5 s - e i i ., Garl can make it. Asbroad and deep | jacob Astor und Cornelius Vander-|set up camp, how to equip it with a sy - S e e bis island as the personal genius sreat builders, both. are here | portable radio. und telephone and| ¥ . | Melchers and Edward W. of Robert Louis Stevenson would in-{; gtories that read like pure adven-|light. How to fashion fishing tackle field, eminent American painters, both cyitably cause it to be. A gay little though they are all but the 'und hoats, u diving tower. o water Gt whom visitedl the lcan exhibition of sfretch of verdure spread with @ pleas [ true’ records of men who helped #o |chute and’ no end of things, besides | early American portraits, miniatures dnt carpet of moss-green growths. | zreatly to build Amertca. Washing- | that lving outside of houses. right in and silver now on view under the aus- Were in various moods adventure | fon Irving belongs to these early days|the woods. maybe, requires. One of 3 i . pices of the National Gallery of Art in sathers out of the half-fanciful and | when authors were not then. as now, |'the best of books for those busiest & A 4 5 ] the National Museum, and they ex- wholly beautiful fmagination of the|thick as blackberrfes upon the bush.|of all creatin, the boy. § Lo e oy ¢ pressed great interest and admiration sfuthor. And, there, poems like chil-| And, there are others—ploneers, ad- Bodokok for the showing. dren play. dancing joyously under the | venturers, bullders—to all of Whom | THE JUNGLE MAN AND HIS ANI- Mr. Melchers charecterized the col- fees or over vonder do they sit quiet e are in deep personal debt. We | "'\ 1" “Srorfes by Carveth Wells, 5 e . lection of portraits as of exceptional ¥ the sew, like wise men musing. |ought to know them, you and T, and|. pictares by Tony Sarg. New York: s L d i merit and & remarkable display, 1Tere in the open of this happy island | right here's the chance given to us Duffield & Co. 3 5 3 ta coming almost entirely from Wash- dramas are set in the footsteps of by a man who writes in pictures so " ekl o Rk St 5 ington collections, private and public. ife itself. And up and down itslthat these men stand before us, just|**] WONDLR 1f un Llephant Can “How did they do it?" he said, over ength and breadth a jovous traveler|uhout as they must have stood and | Think?” So these stories set and over again, carefully examining makes his comprehending and sym oved before the men of their ownjout. The answer to this particular the works of the several painters rep- thetic way. But why talk about it?[time |‘question lies in the adventures, s resented, If the uchievements of these ivervbody knows and loves Robert * ow e { down here, of Caja and Kramat. twin carly American painters are remark- ouls Stevenson. Lverybody loves to AT ey < oF Dy | children of a mother elephant. Like ! able to thelr present-day confreres, read him. So. instead of other words T“(“b\\'uul}i\\'(' FOLKS® BODK OF DIS lall twins, they were able to stir up ot o e AL el iy et that have been safd many and many Ty ot M Oraeoartitwica a3 muchy troubl a single | seem to those who have perhaps less v ne wish you for 4 3 Do child can inve And by . < i e R ] e Roston: Little, Brown & Co. hillg Sodn Invent P Audi by ibe e knowledge of art! {'the business has gone only a little Mr. Redfield singled out as of special verks of Stevenson, beautifully pre- GREAT company, this, into which | way there is a completely unanimous interest the portrait by John Neagle »ared in every ternal feature by you are invited. With them you!asreement that elephants most Y 2 : of Col. Richard M. Johnson, lent by he New York publishing house of [will go a-sailing all over the world. | tuinly can think. These & rue | e 4 the Corcoran Gallerv of Art, which Charles Scribner’s Sons. Not in swift ships, however, along |siories of many animals—fying hangs to the left of a Washington ey well charted ways. Instead vou Wil fand lemurs and fying squlrrels, portrait by Gilbert tuart and (o' the : > o TN} sall away in lttle craft, shiveringly |snakes of the . boa constric- right of a superb Copley. This Mr. A WILD-ANIMAL ROUND-UP. BY[unfit—so it seems to you—to explora | tor, python type s Redfield declared to be one of the \William T, lornaday, director of |unknown seas for the finding of new | storles. A delightful tale about two | finest portraits it had ever been his » New York-Zoological Soclety.||ynds, new worlds. Marco Polo is, | Lears—that most philosophic and | pleasure to see, a work which, ac- New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. | ;naybe, the most thrilling of these— | humorous and lovable creature. Ad- | cording to his convictlon. surpassed HE blessedpes out . man of for is it because he knew so well how | ventures with crocodiles and apes are in quality the works of the great Eng- learning is that now and then one | to tell his own story of far Cathay and | here. together with a few *fish facts." {lish masters. John Neagle was & of these refuses to act learned or the marvels of the Bast? A good | You know what Tony Sarg can do in Philadelphian, and the little instruc- alk lke a book. Ie's not second, however, is Cortez in Mexico, | the way of pletures. He has done it | {tion he had came from Bass Otis and | ise to the rest of us until or Pizarro in Peru. There are voy-|all in this case, to the iwonderful {from watching Gilbert Stuart paint. | each the babit of plain an v [ages in the Pacific and suilings in the | iliumination of all these animals of | | He began us a coach painter. yet his | cech. Willilam Hornaduy is @ South Seas. There ave tales of Hawk- | the jungle in their quite human ways | brush work is free and assured, his | P learning. He knows as s |ins and Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh | of Dehavior. A very understanding {color strong and good. He is a| y. and wmore than but per aland Capt. Couk—each adding Wis |und tender little introduction is given | “THE CARAVANERS.” A BLOCKPRINT IN COLOR BY HESK | paiuter among painters. A superb 2 W few, about the animals without which | bit of discovery to the already mighty | by Dr. F. A. Lucas, director emeritus | HUBBARD, ON VIEW AT THE SMITHSONIAN. { portrait by this same artist, it will be | this world would be a sadly lacking | Ilmpire of England. Some of these [of the American Museum of Natural szl St —— |remembered. was given prominent place. He has been about every: |read like pirate tales—and such they | History place in the Centennial exhibition of- where, getting acquainted with animal |are, in fact. With the sad and zmm-“ ¥ ok ¥ ¥ i ries as t skirled prodigious invita- | adventure, some of these of the “hair’s | the Nutlonal Academy of Design show “MRS. JAMES PEALE.” A PORTRAIT BY CHARLEs W. P} { lite, from the wild corners of Mex-|fate of Capt. Cook goes that of ex'| | ypaipns RASE. By Ber I tions to “fall in.” Tn no time at all | breadth” variety, all of them crammed |last month in the Corcoran Gallery ! LENT FOR EXHIBITION PURPOSES BY MR~ HERBIR ico down to Trinidad and off to the|plorers in the Arctics—Sir John |-t !RAIRIE ROSE. By Bertha | they came to the sugar-bowl ship. and | with the color and swing of rare do-{of Art. This was a portrait of a Do. PRATT. | 3 | \frican jungle. ~Among the golden | Franklin and Scott. Triumphant, at [ ush. Tlustrations by Henry C. | heh ey ‘sailed away and away to|ings. 1ighting for one's life in | Dewees, and it was lent by the Uni- mountains of the \West and up in|the end of the story is the American oston: Little. Brown & Co. | fing the Happy Isles. Oh, to be sure, | strange regions with wild men and | versity of Pennsylvania Alaska and here and there, besides, | Peary who reached the North Pole, | ['HIS is a story of the West when. |they found them. So let's book for {welrd beasts became an every day's| There is much to be said in praise | gouen room on the mmin floor, has 1as he pursued an unending quest of | that for which so many struggles had oing from Wisconsin to lowa, the | the next sailing of the sugar-bowl [occurrence. The plain matters of iod of the hanging and arrangement of | jead been given an entire room o animals in face-to-face meetings. Ob, |been made. A great hook of splendid | family must trail the distance in a and shelter turned out to be things|this exhibition. The portraits havelihe second floor, that to the immedi: he knows an immense amount about achlevements e v fitted to ke prairie schooner. This particular time | b | of daring d hazard A thr very heen placed \\_'Hh the utmost care With | lefy of the staircase, where it make them all. the life, the habits, theone up o' mights for the reading of it. | the adventure has to do with a boy | THE RED DIAMOND. By samuel | minute and anticipa- | regard to subject, color. composition, | ympressive showing. A greater amol vays of thinking among them. t . . and girl who were of the company of [ lie. jr.. author of ““The Inca | tions orse 1o come size and style, and because of their | ¢ qace heing ble, several i irts of self-protection, the crafting travelers. It is with the girl herself- Smerald New York: The minutes—these the way {excell placing ure particularly im- | ¢ works I been included, so elusion and escape. And the LITTLE JOE OTT By Thornton | {he “Prairie Rose”—that one finds the | Century Compans WBIGT v oa il e searching | pressive. picture hanging was » collection as now shown con s, that in telling of W. Burgess, author of “The Bed- | chief charm of the romance. It is 2 hun » “ved diamond th nazing e 11| done the director of the gallery, tur nd of what he has time Storfes.” etc. Illustruted bY |clear that one does not have to cross | he t! Loys and their ed 1ond nos i ssisted Mrs. Porter Chandler, vice : 4 earned of the 8¢ ison Cady Boston Little, | the world to find adventure. For this | ma ¢ n o ther side of this | beauty and wortl P P Lt cha the subcommit e O ot o in in the collect i ne at in rt Brown & Co. | Rore of the prairie niet many things | wor: another one, on many an |wome hi ¢n temy s s i ‘f’;fdl‘i"f"\;,li el O o il inch OBODY around the Smiling Pool | to try out her courage and pluck—a | T A it A el Ll Sonccu ol e un‘”md}n‘?‘. = . could swim and dive like little Joe | threc-day blizzard. « prairfe fire that | | Ernst, «r::flwfl:" of ‘hi‘;g;lm\:‘ PM:);» tary nd Mm 3 i Otter. 0dd fellow, little Joe Otter. An | 1 amazing and territying specta- | i " | | it e 18 talking about. And, under:| yneasy chap, ulways away somewhere. | ¢le). an encounter with u rattiesnake— | o o Sioey | DI0wn el el of Shenind space 1eft | Once he wus gone for months, nobody | to say nothing of the prime bustness | M, Ghl T i | ot e P of the enterprise. for |ynew where, nor what he was up to— trying her hund at housekeeping | of wi e o, | chara he Joy of néw animal friends. for|eycept little Joe Otter himself. He | when fires would not kindle and water { > i . e O ot ainie |y e Ayt uan | 5 98t |knew. 1t was Poter Rabbit who final | woulu not boil. when an evil zenius | [N : ——— . Sk e s s e e o lj\;g‘{“f;“‘:l; ly saw him in the Laughing Brook.|secmed to stand by to plague and | Pt b :.v. 1 is engaging. Take, for instance. the United States might find HH' his|And Peter—full of curiosity, like the | frustrate. A nice. wholesome girl | | the oprtrait of Hannah Gould, lent by Voakatelr: - S © on MiS|rest of us—watched him, and followed | that you will be glad to know | " s \TMN Paton, This waé painted | ik it e g ered Joeieiney Home £+ ] { by Joseph Badger, who flourished in | THER BOOK OF VERSES FOR|a new one. Yep—mm-mm—babtes:| THI SWORD OF THE HOUSE OF New Dngland between 1708 and 1765. | the exhibitio ! . Edited L. V,|Two of 'em, as peart and playful as DE MARILLAC. By Thomas A.| It is a portrait of a little girl in & | Belgians, the Wranalel y 2 Pintere B H. Mawhinne Niustrated by gray-blue frock with a tiny bunch of | fcully painted with a lily Pictures by Francis Bed-|vou please. And that's what little e ¥ | E: ¥ f her head. Strik-|the Crown P f Ru ow Fork: Fhe Mormilinh |lor Ottar tadiveen Gine. sht o soniet Manning de V. Lee. Philadelphia: flowers on the top o ad. Strilc | the Crown Princess of Rumania an FU" the children Mr. Lucas has|Sleep without a “Bedume Story.” I'm ROMANCE of France in the sev- :mc;‘ i’:‘fnkm“;n Tent by Miss Anne ‘U:(N‘!’ ot Mo RIS Hatte 3 gathered here beautiful poetry | DOL though by ignorant people 1 sup. teenth century. Its hero is a Carter Green. The style of the paint- | Harold J. Coolidge and Mrs. Olive from many of the great English poets, | Pose T'd be called ‘way past the vears who. as faithful follower of the ing is much the samé, and again the | Ames. These poeins are, for mental effect and | {oF bedtime stories | 125t of the house of Marillac. feads a little houquet as a top-lnot. appe: M rexter yvm\»‘nlen es of use, grouped * ok o av a ‘.' e o .th: How beautiful the Copleys are!!bru hroadly gecording to theme. The main 5 PRINCE AN - e ause to which he has sworn | | @ « ] W h a marvelous technique this | pressio: point M this book of verse lies, how- | * Fig PRINCE AND THE PAGE. oY fealty. This only stresses the y .I o~ American paint l\'ovl be- l{v.ul: less soy Charlotte M. Yonge. Illustrated by 3 = { { young American pa | sver, in the fuct that in making the| \p 1 I New Yorl and intensifles the ardors of { fore ho went to London or e in | American pai Marguerite de Angeli. New York: 3 < 3 ollection Mr. Lucas had in the fore Be Miacrifllan Company Lis devotion. Here are battles in theé | [ 0 B contact with really shed | dignity and d tront of his mind, the children rather - oIpany. Mediterranean, here are desperate | { painters! What an array there is of | han the poet.” fe himuelf says it is| AN 0ld story that your fathers and | er.counters, here are slave galleys and 3y Stuarts 14 in all, including the splen- | e s X not so much poetry as poetry-for- mothers have read many a time.|shipt of the line. The whole is a S 1did Shippen portrait owned by the | NEW gallery has been opened in hildren.” And in addition he has|Well worth yvour own reading, too,| lighly colored and fascinating ro- Gorcorin: GalleEy ot ATt ana. that | Washi and this 1s good ade the point that in so far as this |since it i one of the few tales that do | marce of the days when real deserv. most lovely boy-portralt of John Ran- | news. Gordon Dunthorne of Londo is possible it shall be poetry that fits grow musty with age. It goes |ing always won, or is said so to have 3 dolph, lent by Mr. C. W. Coleman, the | the junior member of the well know itsell to being read aloud. All poetry b in English history to the | won. A well «ustained romance that | | b B | latter a portrait worthy of placement | firm of Robert Dunthorne & print sings. or should sinz. All poetry for|timeé when crusades were made [is pitched to the highest key. Boys &/ among the great portraits of the | publishers. has opened a gallery at children should sing aloud. And in|against the Far Fast where many a | will eat it up. | berar onuecticut #venue for the exhi most cases it does here. The love |youth tried out his courage in what * %k PHES Dhates wers anity epestini tam | and sale of cichings and en of pure poetry is a very great per-|was called a holy cause. This is the| BILL THE MINDER. Written and; ily, and they are splendidly represent. | B v old and modern master: Why Not sunal possession: one can hear Mr.|story of two young men. cousins, 3 - W. Heath Robinson, 2'in this exhibition. Charles Willson | vccasionally paintings and. of 1 3 Tucas thinking in this vein. To be|One became later the King of England, New York: George H. Doran Com | Peals, it will be remembered, came | interest, fourteenth century maps The Book of Washi S° 4nd bermanent. howover, it st | The other, in one of the queer turnsof | pans. from Queen Anne County, Md.. and | ftied up his gallers in excellen: Ihe book o aahmgfon e 4 voung love. beginuing eariy and | life. became an outlaw, the doer of | yrar o Er N s B it 2 e e oot ltate with'a fow niccesiof eatly 5 sinking deep.while the mind is open |reckless and luwless things against | J G . $000 fun from start to finisn is | Capley in hin early studles of art and | ican_furniture. secured last Summe By Robert Shackleton 1nd soft and receiving. el A Shunes;e “Bill the Winder." Bill, you see, ; B sfurnituce, secored lask Somin o Cidencen " Kounds, TS, TREmos | hotier tarn B the Ttter come was | 28 otie of the 10 children of the old | f [ orked for o time with John Hes. |in Englnd and he s eh ; Bl S0, lie makes sure to gather singing | this youth, convinced that Lie had been Teouiigathererand hismife LThei iy ; ot o iy o s bl Sl st The Penn Publ poems, many of them for these firstlall in the wrong, gives himself to the | S10'F 8oes that here were nine bad- s e e i s ritat worksia Meritom ha pproaches of poetry to the hieart of [last of the crusades in the hope of | temPered boys and one good-tempered Jreent to Tondon andspentitwo yesta o ihe child. | Under such wise self-tu-|imaking good that which had hitherto | SIT. | Being bad, we many of them, 0 the minder. And mining must have been one of Bill's names. for, by his ingenlous methods and his unfailing 1 in the lessons of youth Mr. Lucas offers this beautiful “Another Book of Verse for Children." v ow % SPANTSH DOLLARS. By Reginald Wright Kauffman. Tllustrations by Manning DeV. Lee. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company A BUAUTIFULLY written story of ™ romantic adventure that goes back almost 200 years, when this coun- 'ry Was a narrow thread of colonles along the Atlantic coast and when England and Irance were fighting each other for the mastery of the New World. This is the tale of the expedition against Louisburg, on Cupe RBreton Tsland. when the English and been all bad. A good story, as good now as it was when your father read it. BIBLE STORIES RETOLD FOR CHILDREN. By Eleanor Crosby Kemp. [Illustrated by .J. James Tissot. New York: The Adelphi Company SYMPATHY and an easy story-tell ing way o into these stories from the Bible. The aythor has held her- self well in hand and mind. since she has presented her themes from a point of view calculated to attract and hold children. Here is the story of Adam and Eve, not as the first of the age- long procession of sinners, but as the success, he won the grand prize in the country around. But you will have to read it, for vou would never in the world believe any one's account things out just exactly all right. The back of the nonsense. the great minding tournament. In fact, he became the offictal minder of | of even half the things that Bill the Minder succeeded in doing to bring pictures here will help much in con- vincing vou through your own eyes of the ways of Bill in the pursuit of the business of minding. A delicious bit of foolery, with no end of sense A PORTRAIT BY CHARLES WILLSON PEALE, OWNED BY HERBERT PRATT OF i returned he established himself in Phil. | adelphia. Tis portrait of his brother. James Peale. in this exhibit, lent by Herbert Pratt of New York, and the portrait of Mrs. James Peale in the same collection are notable amples. James Peale was best known for his miniature painting, and there are no less than 25 of his miniatures now to be seen here, There are two interest. ing pictures, almost identical, of Mrs. John Brice and child, one by Charles Willson Peale, the other a copy by his son, Rembrandt Peale. In the miniature section there ari examples of the work of Anna Clay- poole Peale. the daughter of James in Banjamin West's home. When he | Ponte Vecchio. in Florence. showing a | long line of interesting facadas, the actaii of which is marvelously pre- sented with an accuracy and a deli- cacy of touch rarely equaled. On the farther wall are two beautiful etch ings by Cameron, a landscape and 4n architectural subject. both to be reck oned among this Scotch etcher’s best works. To the left of these hangs « superb example of Meryon, and to the right two recent works by Roi Part ridge, our own California etcher; be- sides which, in a portfolio, are to be seen a number of Childe Hassam's re cently made etchings of Washington, one of the White House, one of St John's Church, and a _very charming rendition of Mount Vernon, looking Nation - Wide Success by the author of IF WINTER ihelr Americun colonists defeated the | first of the human family instead. il e, i French. Tle the “Menioirs eof [Here are Cain and Abel—not as the | SUNKEN GOLD. By Andre Savig- & = Peale, of Margaret and Sarah Peale, | inland, rather thun toward the river, w Books at the PubllC berarv her sisters, and of Rosalba Peale,|a view less frequently rendered than COMES J daughter of Rembrandt Peale. : One of the most interesting portraits holias Rowntree.” for the first time | first murderer end his victim, but non. Translated from the French i i f published to the world.” gives us an |rather as the first brothers. And so| by Edgar Jepson. New York: D.| Recent sions at the Public| venture in the Arctic. G14-N155h. | the S i evewltnesy partaking of the exciting |in every case, this writer hay held| Appleton & Co, Library and lists of recommended (O'Connor, V. ( A Vision of Mo- g ) : ONE events of that time and pluce. There|to the larger vision, to the truer A TREASURE nunt, here, in ulr'—.nlmg will appear in this column roceo strete . =l o 3 who, it will be remembered, spent. sev. | ing and clashing here, “Abraham, the F stretch of seacoaat: bit new y st. GH4-OsT3E = . . secry an frafls to eibl - 4 . e in fiction for such business. Some- | bl 5 appy | €T3l Years painting in Washington be- gecrst Indian irile o ‘explove.” with Tsise and Rebecea.” M N o e Geography and Travel. | b P oTts @nd HEPPY | fore his invention turned his atteation | Dunthorne no end sudden hazards ,e,”‘,{ng oot 5 4 cliffs of the English Channel the hull | Blundell. Peter. On the Fringe of Y and Sinnott, . P. Na- | 210n& other lines b ¥ from them. There o age of children und | 45 a0 Ol treasure ship lies buried | terniSens, SonEnDe as Nelghtozs, (GE17n, B e L A f Lond, decn: The storlen about it have R | poams s N o e s pyup. | triat is displayed is a beautiful self-| of London head and ste: hund. There are book tha Py e and 2 . Nevertheless, they hav on Authropolog 3 z ! a0l eotts of Tl chu e x|t Biboolt ithati el feontinue tanaiili ahonentatiire abons thamalte i nat) | o nnonologs Pusley, W, L. Gree Islands in Giit. | PHPter. and farther along s a portrait | —announces the open- A.SM and the whole of it this writer projec Eo% | venture fn the hearts of a group of | Cammaerts, Lmile. The Treasure| ' {ering Seus. G16-P99g. P ‘"S] N(E-dfx ';nte"Pb) e i f his gall t il in & beautiful and believable romance |JO'S BOYS. By Louisa M. Alcott. | ooanhel folks, descendanty of the| House of Belsium. G468:C146. |Reed, ¢ B. Four Way Lodge. GI09- e e B R L e HUTCHINSON of the eurly duys of our country Pictured in color by Clara M. Burd. | pumsSie (M4t used to ply a sniart s Brown: o J. Sy Ante e i 5 ! Matthew | - NUMBER THREE JOY STR BOOKSHELF is the knowingest | is met with many a tarn of . 2 ’ Pratt's father was a friend of Dr.| BR T 3 gallantry P. H. The Cottages and s, L. B. T -aphic Mapping. 9 | A ew York: D. Appleton & Co.” " | £ thing in the world about the best | and courage. The subject ‘sets the | = st \illece 1ife of Rural Baglant. Eohon e s Riroern PPIS. | Pranklin, and his mother's brother venue $2.00 wherever ANY hands und hearts went into |beloved books of children. Fathers|first lure here. And the adventure 1912, G4b-D682co. Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr. Great. | T3 James Claypoole, the artist. In| ihe isking arbibie (-hnh‘“malnnd mothers may make mistakes about | throughout sustains itself in am o ver. ¥ { Frances of Assisi. G35U-F27. bRy : Y paten 1ol who' sometime’ Wapder | bookahelt mover, Yousse. 1 knows | sunpens. Firestone, C. B. The Coasts of Illu-| Gtapleton, Alan. London Alleys, By- [foF, {we and a half vears after the Etchings and n street, adding the hope | M - | w k% sion. GC-F31. ways and Courts. G45L-St27. Do Ehet e horne ot o e Tt Sl of hese may. without fail | X0 o M iy SOMPANY | CONNTE MORGAN WITH THE FOR. | Foster. C. B. T. 1,700 Miles in Open | Tissot, Roger. Mont Blanc. G87.T528. | DUring that time he painted the pic:| find Number 3. Here live o King youngsters are particularly open and | CONNIE MORGA [ THE FOR- o e et and . Geodatic Supvey, | ture of “The American School,” includ. | vings 2 spotted dog. Tere you will ‘roma | (ree. for, mever frowning, it stmply | T D by Jate @ X e e Engraving. > Luquer, the work of Samuel F. B. are sea battles und lund Lattles flash- [lesson, to the line leading out toward ach Sunday Ossendowski, F. A. The Shadow of | Morse, the inventor of the telegraph oraon frequent call for courage and & cool (Lo set up, if may be, an interest in|dceP: The stories about it have ve-| Burton. Sir R. F ple Rim. GT26-PS7 portrait of Malbone, the miniature | PUI{PD SE s P : 8 I | business in this region. ‘The story of Topogruphic and Geo-| Rivard, Adjutor. Chez Nous. Gg27.|Plcity and evident skill, today as fresh : 1205 Connecticut P | Boston: Little, Brown & Co. ooy Sabasts i el LDbEtoL iy Eiyaud - Nous. in color as when painted. .1 3 1764 Pratt went to London, accom- | o - books are sold Faure, Gabriel. The Land of St. £ he W 4 A 4 et ke 00RS book for boys und girls. Tt {x dedi.|tPis matter, and often do—but the | atmosphere of daring event and tagt| *rincol 5 o Sianaers of the Wortd. 1905 | panying Benjamin West's bride, On Exhibition ing the portrait of West and some of ' LITTLE BROWN 8 CO. | upon princesses and crocodiles and | S@nds by looking on to find out the| Hendryx. Tllustrated.” New York: 0 JL A Roaming Through| = Geographical Dictionary of the|hig filustrious students, which is now ! Paintings and | b PP o Southern China. G66-F846r. Virigin 1slands of the U. S. caraway cakes—each in sons or stors | D0OkE that children best like to read, |, U: P Putnam'’s Sons. e O . 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