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Washington Sculptor Completes Heroic Allegorical Figure of Lib- erty—Prizes Awarded in the Society of Washington S feet in height and stands on isphere 2 feet in diutneter. eral outlines Victory suggestion of tion flowing so wings. slobe he isphere fs w band of le feel tion. has done so, probably nual exhibition of the Architecturyl League It colored variety bronze. Mr. 10T oW Tm; Society of Washington Artists | works tion now e society. 1 That the first prize would =o to Mr. most astute ing the place of he ated the high held «'harles Dunn =student of the Corcorun and a pupi ocal attempted ingly cunvas ood de sty oulders s Jarge as is this fizure and us mo ross it run ihe words o Sometimes called te of the visiting public. case the eplnion of the artists’ aithough no award is ever universally | HE _SUNDAY ] indeed, and one reasonably to The great marvel is, how- e not more of these ttored through the ve ure the art lovers S What cs | know be aoing when pletures of such wth as some of these can be had for little -~ $50. $100, $150-—nothing as e | compared. let uS <ay. 10 th> portraits U the [y 5 most dittsingulshed cut-of-town # | painter hanging in an ad £l forward mo-jlery, for which, it is unde he itches the litiers have in some instanc ckward | mach as $15.000. work be coveted. the well | o has st [ C gori- | ag of Liberty bring- | ing peace to the world. The n in flowing drapery he LA MECHLIN. BUSH BROWN, known sculptor, completed b BY R of the figure vev Samothruce flight. of the w tosses it i tukes on the sppenrance of The right hand is upraised e in benediction; in the left The head. clas of and as drapery that 1 E REAT interest is attached (o ihe special 2xhibition of etchings and dravings by Emil Fucbs which is now o view in the Corcorun Gallery ot « remarkable showing. Mr. her of fizures, and of are Jfew. amazingly few. His mauner of etching is different. also, from that of the majori He has w technique entively his own. and § ithoaine : iy fully commands his medium. To tigure is fully supported. he hem. | the student of etching. to one who 18 Around the lower edge of the hem-y .\ corqunt with etching as an art and gt 1€ | s sensitive and open-minded his works n of Good W nd| jrerien w second band bearing | "y V0t enguging fo observe how ve Ay SYetehbon: {little_modeling he uses for flesh, how Bush-Brown conceived this fig-{ g, IOTEEIR I8 Hams o short lina, nd sketched it some years e : 3 ‘o how baldly il, to his mind. there v he employs dark ink, 2 1S PIOS | Chat subtlety. peace on carth, he did ot |, op colia black: how, again, he will disposed 1o develop his O o monthe b | se an uninterrupted outline, an out- Within the last few months he|line which flows with surpassing A e ely ix he twice the more it will be ¢ exhibited, And for the first time at the an 3= it wer n4 is held a scrol n feature. is well nd is stron; the head of ¥ modeled rental as is its charvacter, the idea e lizhtness, of buoyancy. is wdmiras conveyed. One foot rests on the the othier barely touches it. yet | & Earih to M His nudes are chaste and ox- ite, one in particular, showing .a of New York. is modeled in pla olde nd silver ve figure is done in the = tance: the drapery in 1h tone. The Ay pleasing .o | MAnY lines. is fascinating. His heads WO of old peasant women are Rembrandt- |esque in suggestion. His portraits of ociety women have an amazing air of sophisticatic And then there are those delightrul | portraits of Robert Lee and Stone- wall Jackson, idealized from phote- sraphs e will sav, “How can a Zood po be done except from life?”" but should be remembered that almost all of the portrait sculp- ture that we have of great men were made long after they had ceased to {live. Why, then, should we not have erlina of par mem. | o other the work studio this afternoon and to- afternoon from 4 to 6. * it wwarded for the its annual exhibi- on view in the Corcoran ¢ of Art. These were awarded < after the exhibition opened, vote of the membership of three prizes shown in by umerous ways are employed for award of honors of this sort. an outof-town jury is sometimes it is left to a In this award ie the consensus of confreres, and in sfactory, this would seem most | to have attained that greatly red end. n for his fulllength portrait of young woman in black might al- have been prophesied by the as soon as the exhibition ned, from the fact that the hang- | commmittee gave to this painting | honor half way around | ular wall, which indi- | steem in which it was | of the profession. | a Washington boy, a | chool of Art | of Edgar Nve and of other | He has here not only but achieved an exceed- | ambitious and skillful work: a ure well drawn. well placed on the and broadly painted, with a 1 of reticence and decided re- aint — characteristics which one semi Ly thoss artis commonly associates with mature ex perience. studied the foilowers. that from Freer Gallery of produce quite one’s own. congratulated Undoubtedly. Mr. Dunn has | works of Monet and his It is quite probable, also, learned a thing or two tler's paintings in the | ut all the admiration | the world and careful examination | the works of masters would not | this resuit without a gift | Mr. Dunn is to be only upon his he h; Wh not prize but upon his achievement. No one will quarrel with the second prize, which went to Camill hu 1 Iy painted, so workmanlike t White- | ch: rmm:i o fresh- suk t of Baltimore for her ture of a little girl in red. nd_sympathetically is the | tech nique. More yrobably be evoked by the third a honorable mention, to Edgar Ny his cubi: “vhich nust paint_in thi douht that Mr. Nye does it as well as could be done. " he painting of roses by Mrs. Leisen- | profile, v [ ™ would avd, or rather theme difference of opinion painting of boa ic_interpretation invariably makes appeal both OF n those who | vet with | pan's back againt a background of | ONE OF THE FUCHS ETCHINGS jactor: of Charles W. Leavitt, the land- scape gardener, and of Harvey W. Corbett, the New York architect. One of the most interesting features AR, WASHINGTON, however, Is a series o ngle plate-— mother | and child—the first state showing the ios very lightly etched. the second state witnessing a_strengthening of | the iines. u slight udditfon of stadow: | the third state shows furiher progre: {ston, and fnally. in the fourth. the { finished state. the work exhibits a bril- | ney of light and shade. a perfection | fof hundling, 11 is a beautiful subject | tenderly and exquisitely rendered 1L is interesting to note the Adiffer lence and vet the similexity between | the drawings and the etonugs, a num | ber of which are of the sanie subject. | "No onc seeing thix exhibition can | question that Emil Fuchs is an ac Jcomplished draftman and that he is also a sensitive artist. SO sreat it the interest in the exhibi- tion of “early American portraits, mintatures «nd silver,” which opencd | {in the National Gallery of Art, Na Itional Museum, December 5. that ef. {forts are being made to continue the | exhibition through the month of Janu ary. the permission of lenders being | | sought by those in charge. The holi- day seawon, which is almost upon us. | presents many distractions, and ther have heen numerous requests, for th reason, for the extension of the clos- ling date. Directors of art museums {and private collectors from other feities have come and are coming to | this exhibition, which by all is con- {sidered one of the most notable of its | kind which has as vet been set forth. {"The illustrated catalogue contains ibrief historical _sketches of carly American portrait painting and early American silver making, as well as biographies of the painters and a list | of the siiversmiths and their dates, so | that it il serve not only as a cata logue of this exhibition, but as hand | book on the subject. The Public Library, in response to a request, has compiled a bibliography of American art and artists, American miniatures and_early Silver—books which can be obtained at the Public | ART. the artist and the public. But if one style there is no portraits etched and painted? But M Fuchs shows a number of riraits etched from life. He is one {of the few who do portrait etching faction thut one |directly on the plate. In this exhibi- re portraits of Paderewski, sensitive in its reading: of Forbes-Robertson, ideali; * % x is with real sa | notes the little gold “Sold” sicn on | tion in thic exhibition—a charming Johnston * |west, NSTQN. FORBES-ROBERTSON. AN ETCHED PORTRAIT SIRBX!OE'J 1L FUCHS, WHICH IS ON EXHIBITION AT THE -COR- CORAN GALLERY OF ART. Library which bear particularly upon this exhibition. This list is ul\l(\lnnhll“ both at the exhibition and at the Pub- lic Library, and will be found especial- 1y helpful to those who wish to pre- pare papers for clubs or make special | study. | TTHE Washington Water Color Clubd | announces its thirtieth annual| exhibition to be held in the Corcoran | Gallery of Art from February 5 to 28, inclusive. w ok o | ARION BOYD ALLEN of Boston, | but who is well known in this| city through exhibition and brief resi- dence here, has been holding an ex hibition of paintings of the Canadian Rockies in the Vose Galleries, Boston, which has attracted favor tion. LORENCE W. GOTTHOLD, for- merly of Washington, iz holdin an exhibition of paintings and screer &t the Ferargll Galleries, New Yor William B. McCormick rays of Mrs. Gotthold's paintings: “They are re markable for pictorial charm and cour- ageous handling. * * * All of I\N'I flower studies have the character virile strength and beauty one « ciates with the best of the ¥ ainters of the days before the com: ing of the post-impressionists, oniy Mrs. Gotthold's surfaces are much more interesting than those of the Gallis painters, which adds to the handsome effect of these brilliant can- * | JOOKED ruzs have recently come found their place not only in modern | Lomes but in exhibitions of art. Mr: Anna M. Laise Phillips, formerly |this city. af one time principal of the Luise-Phiilipa School, has written a book about them—"Hooked Rugs and How to Make Them,” and is saild to know more of this industry than any one elte. She is herself a producer of hooked rugs and has a wide and dis- tinguished clientele. x % x LI-KULI KHAN, for some years diplomatic representative from Persia to the United States, and hence a resident of this city, has, after an absence of eix years, opened what is Known as a Persian art center in New York, and things, liluminated manuscripts, Per- Islan book bindings. potteries, textiles, | | brocades, needlework and rugs. AT THE CORCORAN GALLERY t P hents of Land | Faulkner, . U. very much into fashion. and have | 1y, is showing, among other ! H. K. BUSHLBROWN AND HIS COMPLETED FIGURE Ol TO THE WORLD. BRINGING PEAC HIGH. AND THE OF SAMOTHRACE, ERAL OU , D. ¢, “LIBERTY BRINGING PEACE” LIBERTY . FIGURE IS 8 FEET TLI LL THE VICTORY Taniic | jed | i | essions at the Library and lists reading will appear in thi each Sunday of recomm Public H. G. The fon. HTC-BX16e Buck, A. E. Municipal Budgets and | Bud Making. 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SHALL never own this book, T know. But if 1 were going to choose the book of my heart I'd --but, what's the use! Buch a big and impressive, such a ver- itable Llue-blood of a book! But this is not its supreme lure. That lies all along the way--nearly every page throws out a snare—in pictures down into which one sinks—away down into o soft and acquiescent satisfaction that is indescribably good. An art critic would know how to give name: 0 the searching quality of these pic tures. He would give all the laws that make them right. e would make contrasts and comparisons with other artists, with other periods. He would be highly useful to one in get- ting into this beautiful hook. But— I like my way. Everybody likes his own way. So, I sit for no end of a time before—say, a bridge, or a factory, or a_coal breaker, or any other object that I had supposed Im- possible to art. I ait lost, and saved, too, that these symbols of {ndustry can be made so real and yet so utterly beautiful. To me this is the wonder of Joseph Pennell. A rose, u lady, a knight—these, of course, theee serve art, but they serve life not at all. Life s terrible, and beautiful-—so these pictures say. And along with them go the days, from childhood on, of this out-speaking man, who ap- pears to say at all times, riot all that he thinks, certainly, but just what he does think at the moment of talking. You never saw o many Interesting people together at one time as you will find in this book. And they. to it the author?—are pecullarl natural and frank. Good compan The best in the world. Good art? Oh, splendid, or ®o it seems to me. Take the two together and you have a sur- passing book whose like you'll mnot meet again in many a long day * ow k% AND TONS Ry ameay MacDonald, author of “Sociallsm: Critical and Con- structive.” Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company These essays stand for off days in the busy life of 4 political leader. They stand on the wide lines of absorbing political actix representing moods rentiniscent and young that have moved in to take possession of hours relaxed and roomy with leisure. A wide “wandering’ and many ‘‘excur- &lons ' come to the front here. In the main these wanderings are from place to place—back home in Scotland, WANDERI | through England and Wales, a glimpse of the Channel Islands, passage among the islands of the Aegean, splendid picture of Constantinople Sometimes, however, an excursion is | made into the land of new politics. The clear charm of the whole lies in | its vouth and zest of enjoyment, in its fnstinctive turning to the joys and likes of young folks. rather than to the staid onlooking of subdued matu- rity. Among all of these refreshing journeys there is nothing here more interesting. more illuminating, than the author's introduction to this group of comings and goings. Like this: wanderlust 1S perhaps the most pre- cious of all the troublesome appetites author of “A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter,” ete. Tllustrated by Charles Garner. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co. THE LITTLE DISCOV . Amy Le Feuvre. Illustrated by Grace Noreross. Penn Publishing Co. JEANNE'S HAPPY YEAR. By Alice Ross Colver, author of “The Jeanne Books,<' etc. Illustrated by Ralph Dunkelberger. Philadel phia: The Penn Publishing Co. SKITTER CAT. By Eleanor You- mans. Illustrated by Ruth Ben. nett. Indlanapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. THE CUCKOO TAPESTRY CLOCK: and THE ROOM. By Mra. Molesworth, author of *Carrots. etc. Illustrated by Walter Crane. New York: The Macmillan Co. MERRYLIPS. By Beulah Marie Dix. Tilustrated by Frank T. Merrill and new frontisplece and decor tions by Anne Cooper. New York The Macmillan Co. ANNE THORNTON. By Anthony, author of Quill Girl," ete. Tlustrated by Nora Sweeney. DPhiladelphia: The Penn Publishing Co. HILDA OF THE GRE By Pemberton Ginther, author of ““The Beth Anne Books.” illustra ed by the author. Philadelphi The Penn Publishing Co. ON_ CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING—ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE EVENING. By Grare Richmond. Tlustrated by Charles M. Relyea. Neéw York: Double- day, Page & Co. THE VOYAGES; Deing Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery. By Padriac Colum. Tlilustrated by Wilfred Jones. w York: The Macmillan Co. LITTLE UGLY Indian Tales, dine Coolidge. and Miska Petersham. The Macmillan Co. “The Yellow N SMOCK. FACE; And Other By Florence Clau- Tlustrated by Maud New York: WITH THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. By Francis Rolt-Wheeler. With 48 fllustrations from photo graphs. Boston: Lothrop, lLee & Shephard Co. THE GOLD ROCK OF THE CHIP- PEWA. By D. Lange. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. A LITTLE MAID OF MONMOUTH. By Alice Turner Curtis, author of ““The Little Maid Historical Books,™ ete. Illustrated by Grace Norcross. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co. THE WORLD'S BEST HUMOR. By George A. Posner. Illustrated by Charles Clark. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co. SHOWS AND STUNTS: Practical Entertainment for Every One, for TFun or Funds. hardt, recreation expert for .over six years with the Amerlcan Ni tional Red Crose, 8t. Charles, Il The Universal Press. WEBBTER'S POKER BOOK; Glori- fying America’s Favorite Game. A Handy Volume for the Hearthaide Consisting of 50 Portraits by H. T. Webster; Informative and Divert- ing Text on the Joys, Rules, Lore and Pitfalls of Poker by George F. ‘Worts; 8ide Line Suggestione Interpolations by Mare Connelly; Authoritative Data on the Histroy and Technique of Poker, Including Hints from Hoyle, by R. F. Foster, and a Foreward by George Ade, Together with a Compartment Con- taining a Set of Poker Chips and a Pad of 1. 0. U. Forms Embellished by ebster, Ready for Instant Use. New York: 8imon & Schuster. THE STORY OF WILBUR THE HAT; Being a True Account of the Strange Things Which Sometimes Happen in a Part of the World Which Does Not Exist. Written and drawn for the fun of it by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. New York: Bonl & Liveright. . | stately and impressive verse, to give | ma | tensified by the fmagery of the poet, by the high spirit of his undertaking, | “The | | during the Boer wa: Philadelphia: The | Lotta Rowe | SERVICE SERIE&—THE BOY | By F. V. Degen. | of the soul of man. * * * The epirit of adventure stands out like blue moun- tain peaks seen from a distance and recelves in fine glory the lights of durning and of sun setting. * * © Some admiration for the old disrepu. tables does the living reputables no harm, but much good. o, the Span- ish Main, the Windward Passage, Darfen. Hispaniola. Panama, are names that will make our hearts beat and our pulses thrill o long as life 18 in our bodies. In those regions these sentences are being written. I have passed by the tortolse-ltke {siands of Tortugn, the den of the buccaneers. I have skirted the coast of Haiti with its one hero, Toussaint, and its many | worthless rivals and failures. 1 have | been through the Costa Rican foreats | and swamps and have seen the blue | of the mountains ot Central America, | which is surely unmatched by any blue of this earth. * * % Every minuto | of these days has been golden"—and | 1t 1s this gold of adventure and beauty that Rameay MacDonald pours out for readers through these pages. * % ok ok THE BOOK OF EARTH. By Alfred Noyes, author of “The Lord of Misrule,” etc. New York: Fred- rick A. Stokes Co. The story of evelution, sung in nar- rative verse by Alfred Noyes, give the content of “The Book of Barth Inspired by the riven earth of the Grand Canyon, the poet, like the plain onlooker over that stupendous exam- ple of earth makfng, began instinc- tively to reach back for the far begin- nings of this Amazing achisvement. And in this questing retrospect he came upon what other men had con- jectured and partially proved, and abandoned and resumed-—all along the iine of history. Greece and ltaly, France and Sweden, Germany and England—earli in its own searchers after the truth is summoned here, in testimony according to his time and place. Pythagoras und Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Linnaeus, La- 'K, Goethe and Darwin and Cuvier march in this contributing pageant of science. It is an intensely fascinating story, one whose effect is greatly in- by the cadenced sounds of Lis | This book is the second in the new “The Torch- of the three, “Watchers of . is splendid with the achievements of the astrono- mers as this one is with the investig: tions of science applied to the theory of evolution. and song. author's bearers.” HULL DOWN Wind-jamme ellers. By X0 the W Reminiscenses Troops and Tra Kir Bertram lHayes, | 1. €. 0., Commodore of ite ‘Star Line. Illustrated New York: The MacMillan Co. | Lacking only five years, this book | holds the substance of half a cen-| tury at sea on the part of its author. That time goes back to the ships and it was on Bertram_H. not a sir of 5 then, one | { judges—began to learn hix lessons in | lite from the seq. “greatest thing God ! made"—the And_all over the| world he sailed—first in the clipper ship, then under steam. Across into Tndia, over to Australia, on across the Pacific and areund to the Atlan tic—everywhere where sails and steam | carried there went this seamen. In| the course of time honors came and | command—command of a transport . command of \hr‘) Olympic during the World War and | finally, in charge of the Malestic, once | the great German ehip Bismarck. Men | and events crowd this record of mar vears of important service. them all, interesting as they are, it Is the author himself who stands out | in the interest of the reader. Not that | Sir Bertram has any thought of doing this. On the contrary he seems to put | almost everything in the way of work, in the way of important and notable | people, in front of himself. But, there | is a quality of rugged strength about | the lorig story, there is a plain way | of telling about real adventures, there is a kindliness and a sense of fair play and a patfence with life itself—all of these go into this great of 43 years on the “Seven Seas” with ail | manner of sea-zolng craf UNCOMMON AMERICANS. By Don €. Seitz, author of “Joseph Pulitzer: His Life 2nd Letters,” ete. Indian- apolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co, Twenty and mc portraits of “men and women who have broker the rules.” The book is dedicated to “those who have falled.” Therefore you expect to meet, and you do meet— not the lauded regulation herces of history but, instead. a group of men and women who, living were subfects of ridicule and contempt but who, be ing dead, are now reaping considera tion and honors, as the dead have a way of doing. ‘A company of fnno vators, this. Men and womén who dared their ideas into the open, there to give them form and color and dee- laration to a scandalized and hostile world. _Here, for instance, is Mary Baker Eddy, who, in the face of skep- ticism and unbelief. established a new cult, second in followers to only one other religious organization. Here are Joseph Smith and Brigham Young—the first a “seer and states. man,” the other an ‘“organizer and builder.” Here is David Crockett, who died for Texas, and up in the north there is Ethan Allen, “liberator of Vermont.” ~ Across in’ Massachusetis is that oddest of men, Lord Timothy Dexter, “lord” by his own naming and insistence. S0, the count goes on. rounding up this strange company of adventurers, evangels, patriots, war- riors, wits, pathfinders, vofces in the wilderness and cranks. Around each Don Seitz gathers a substantial body of evidence, analysis, good judgment and sympathetic ‘understanding. An interesting and informing book intro ducing readers to a group outside the common ranks of the great—to a group, nevertheless, that imparts many a strain of originality and courage and real power to the common fabric of American life * w % OLD YoUT A Novel. By (‘oninxl-l by Dawson, author of ““The Coast | prov. | ertption. | suit of | natu }in that {when a man | swoon. of Folly ete. Tllustrated by Charles D. Mitchell. New York:' Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. No. not a_romance of the glands. | Yo the recently popular novel | wherein a woman of middle life re-| verts to the look of 16 by way of which | she captures a youth that might easily | have been her son. Not that kind of | story at all, with its Inevitable se-| quence of nature’s punishment for such outlawry upon her decrees. Rather is this the common story of youth defeated by its own timidities and quite natural cowardices. The romance does not énd, however, at this hopless point. Instead. it goes on by virtue of a belated courage to the recognition of romance long after it 1s supposed to have died out of the hearts of mature men and women And it does take courage for this par- | tlcular acknowledgment. Think of | the ridicule Involved—the disguat even. Byt, Mr. Dawson with a true! insight—himself no coward to dare| this development—selzes upon a clear reality of human nature and, upon this basis, projécts in a most attrac- tive social setting, the romance of a palr no longer young. It is the author's close sefzure of the minds of his characters that gives o fine a . stance here. This acumen, coupled with a distinct art of soclal interpre. tation, lifts the novel much above the level of pure oclal patter and places it with the intelligent and If: studies of life as it flows on below ti surface of mere appearances. T} heroine sums her own sftuation he with, “It fs0't youth but love whic makes the world younger.” Some thing for the reader to whether or not he agrees heroine. discus with th MANY LAUGHS FOR MANY DAY=~ By Irvin 8. Cobb, author of “Spea irz of Operations,” etc. Na Tork: George I1. Doran Compan: Here they are—a iaugh a day fo every day in the year. Actual coun the good measure of the pre Not a bad plan to gathe them in for one of the innumerable Year beginnings with whic every man or woman on the morning of that memorable day sets out in p new and better life. who fortifies each day for us with u hearty deep-seated outburst of morn ing laughter. One caution only goes with these incomparable Cobb stories Take but one a day. And never, neve: be beguiled by the tang of that on: to taste just one more Humor e queer customer—a nibble too muci and it goes flat on the tongue, acid i1 the stomach let us take our Cobb laughs wil fine discretion like the true epicure letting it lie o the tongue in a deliberate savoring Fine and reviving. if we treat then well, these dally laughs at the band of a generour provider. Might dangerous, though. under the leas excess of indulgence. STAND BY. By Caroline Cox. York: Harper and Brothers. A common incident of wartime sets this romance upon its way. Many girl at that tinie did this very thing ipped her photogr 11 signed an ddressed, into one of the socks tha she bhad knitted for some soldier Many a time too the sequence wa exactly what it is here. A subsequen meeting just before the soldier satled away, a secret marriage and the part ing. After this, there was in each o housands of cases nothing but “stan. by” for the confiding young womai 50 swept off her feet by the enthu siasms of wartime and the irresisti Lle urge of her own youth. It is upo: this fam ar groundwork that the a thor builds the story of lovely Rose mary Lee. Jack Har] young and brave and reckleks— ltke _most boys, of the forgetting sort. There wer u s ¢ for him to remen Aud in the w Wi AR st the Hun he forgot, and fo Koes on And by Ne s a dev ally, women 1w vhen they are gone, to of them that these o ed in their hearts. *I of countless centuries idealization idenlize me t the patter: ipers sustained he: as old as huma A 1. old story 0lyn Cox has revive: in the soft colors of true romance to set before readers as a r present CARTOONS T Hoover, Shu In a foreward t toons Nobhert Benchle a t of people” who “fun 1Y papers ar funnie We are ot 5o we listen iri uifon what Mr. Benchley has to sav about it One reason is, uccording to him, that there are too many good artists in the country who are nothing else at al Many a tinie have we too wondered what went on in the mind of the artis to make him draw iZ Hlar pic ture to strate particular joke. “Nothing at all went on in the mind of the artist That's the answer The artist was simply a very good draughtsman with + k witand no s at all o walient and ap ealing points in public life generally hen Mr. Benchley zoes on to say tha like I:lison Hoover ap pears in * sanctum with a draw ing which n=ans something, the edito; is in state of joy hordering on And when, as with Elliso here is not only an idea, bu a new idea as well, r wake up out of their sleepy t mbing of the inny paper to feel the thrill of fresh wit calling to them, this moment with Mr. move oyr into the comp artist for Life. The best of par lligon 1Toover—full of pointe: ideas heuring upon the common news of the day, adept at that careful stressed-and-eased work that present< the individual with his special idio synerasy upon him, keen of wit an waturated with humor at its best. A prime picture book. A fine opportur ity for the study of a special art OM LIFE New Y Hoove Famed Vase Destroyed. Censiderable mystery surrounds the destruction of what is known as the “Farnese vase,” a famous and beauti ful objet d'art that has been housed for generations in the Naples Nationa Museum The vase w found Iying In a hundred fragments on the floo of the museum, and the polica inves tigation has been fruitless. The fou custodians of that part of the museum have been arrested, however, on the faint suspicion that one of them ma have dashed the precious relie to the floor as a protest inst low wages The Farnese vase has lonz been cor sidered p " Why Not Give Book of Washingten by Robert Shackleton ’ | At all Bookstores, £330 The Pean Publishing Co. Dunthori: of London —announces the open- ing of his gallery at 1205 Connecticut Avenue On Exhibition Etchings and Engravings Paintings and 16th Century Maps