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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Comprehensive Exhibition of Benson's Work on View in the Capital—Portraits of the Presidents—News of BY LEILA MECHLIN. Y HE exhibition of water l 1d etchings by F ally m s one and s colo don Dunthorne’s Gallery Connecticut avenue, a Mr. Be America \ event of not of our foremost painter in oils w outrank hir uley of Art 1ps of Mr. Benson collection now on comprehensive of h edium that we in Wa had the privileze of s work in have his water almost as fast as he ca The reason for this seck. Not only is Mr. prilliant technician, but ttractive subjects. safely surr that he p etches prima because he with joy by what he sees and has a frresistible desire to share that jo with It is in comvarativ recent that has taken t water show dium brush produ not nts in rs he of his m ind a ful complete command He uses clear color and there h w through : there is no som| render such H \ne: ev ence of fumblin has narily stance ‘hosen difficult as ‘“The Most of the pai time are landsc wre exquisite atmosphere One is a figure, in a boat, man_etcl the: for ut not ail studies, full ¢ permanent "he Bowman, reminiscent of h gs. The landscapes cove subje found in no arious blac snowv HilL" an exaquisit e, done without ove but evident strength ings a lovely transcription of Garden, wge, dotted movi ma emphasis with white rendition of a ess seen in se wall hangs an Harbor B: eater breadth rming collection t its best 9 in number, and include some est known plate th pon bit ¢ re uj of Mr. to the ng back to hir 1 the oper cannot fail t works more than a hin! the hat the finds in freedom of the t of birds, wild fo sportsman the big outdoors, lory of sunrise and sun- K of a vessel lo onlit sea; “Old Sq cese.” “Rippling ow I 1 art critle, extraordinary wo causes—first, the Ir t of his wo ing interest ng out upo * “Incom of th r one of these causes | vould have bee; great enou nomenal throu for the country hese o M iade while he wi hool of the Muse ton, in 1882, and h rde ns ¢ azine t was a view c Strangely enough, h 1 from that time until 191 ated and descriptiv hed work wa Museum of Fin prints, and by number of plates ha Nineteen fifteen wa most prolific_year. having to it upward of 50 etchings and ¢ Fach year sinc quota, and never power lished by the department of time a la been produced diminution o o series of r of the le and Sir Fra one Amer » t € such he s an included 1 »een written of Mr. Ber hings birds and wild fow likened them to the Ja Mr. Benson's method own: he has made h man, on authorities has said World Fo! Some have nese, hut essentially subject the Malee leac English nd etchers ar of the Western surer eye than Mr. Be the wing: indeed, 1thetic ) st has we must lool drawings of t} phic ble For lways on of in the his pictor motion « witt e sense ¢ vision ppy rhythm spontaneit to his « ement ¢ Citing Incomin Lwo « sent exhi Vg an fatic ar birds or | of sea. river or marshi motive of many of Mr. Benson plates, yet his felicity of desig fault for tha the in be k. W Benson, which opened in Gor- | 1205 week nd continues to March 6, is es water Ben he One may nd is filled 1z, but his picture: allows the instances extraordi- in Two terest Most engag- | Close a pool in the midst lusion. and equal Ben Here is ma real once ascribed success . and wecount for the phe- | works published pub- Arts, | that has seen ) one of the great ngland determined yroduction: on son for a bird suggestion sther vies, over nd Artist Colony. promptu.” which makes special ap- peal in Mr. Benson's plates. It is an amazement to find how low many of these etchings are priced— | figures which place them well within | the reach of those of moderate means. | This is indeed a most enjoyable and | impressive exhibit ! * ok ox X | THE Corcoran Gallery of Art owns | collection of portraits of the | Presidents of the United States which | for some years now, owing to limita | tions of space. has not been on view. | During the past week these portraits have been generously distributed among the schools of Washington, and 8o have again come to v copies of portraits of Geory | ton and his wife, Martha Washington, [ by Gilbert & t, made b» G. P. A, | Healy, have bee ately lent to the Geol University and hung in Coy . The other portraits, beginning with John and ending with President McK have each been lent to the school named fn honor of the President repre | sented. Al are said to be excellent likenesses, were thought sufficlently { £0ood to be included in the Corcoran Gallery's permanent collection and are well framed Of the 24 (2 of Martha Was ed by Healy, 5 n m. in is h- n is n 1y o 1 including the portrait ngton), 17 were paint being copies of th: works of others, 12 original works. George Peter Alexander Healy was ,in July, 1813, and died s late as 1894, At the age of 16 he is said to have begun | copying prints and making likenesses of all who could be persuaded to sit for him. His first successful achieve- ment was & copy of a painting by iuido Reni, “Icce Homo,” which was purchased by « priest and placed in a | church. In 1836 he went to Paris and tudied, In 1858 he was in Chicago, in 1369 he revisited Europe, and resided | for some vears in Rome. While there he painted portraits of Longfellow, Pope Pius IX, the Princess Oldenbers | and other distinguished persons. The | number of his portraits is almost | countless. Among them may be men- | tioned those of Louis Philippe, Guizot, Webster, Clay, Lincoln and He is represented by works in | the City Hall, New York: the Metro- | politan~ Museum, the Pennsylvania -| Academy and other collections. At his best, it is said, his heads are strong, dignified and characteristic. He also produced a number of large | historical *_pictures, for _example, “Franklin Before Louis XVI,” which won a third-class medal at the Paris | Salon in 1840 and his “Webster's Re- ply to Hayne,” which now hangs in Faneuil Hall, Boston. He was a good, sound, but not a brilliant painter. The portraits of Presidents William H. Harrison, Andrew Johns Rutherford B. Hayes are Eliphalet F. Andrews, who for ears was director of the Corcoran 0ol of Art, of which he was the nizer. Mr. Andrews was born eubenville, Ohio, in 18: studied the Dusseldorf Academy and un- Knaus and Bonnat, the latter in His portrait of Martha Wash- ington hangs in the White House His work was In the style of the ademicians of the Dusseldort school—strong, virile and workmah- like. The portrait of Grant is by Henry Ulke and the portrait of Cleveland by S. Jerome Uhl, both of whom were at one time numbered among our Washington artists. Mr. Ulke studied in Berlin, Mr. Uhle in Paris. The portraits of Presidents Garfield, is o n ot e r- a d of m 1. o t n 1 - e n William T. Mathews, in England in 1821 and e i shington in 1905, He d at the National Academy of Design in New York and was a por- trait painter of more than ordinary Kinley »f | who was e uld be well if other institu- tions like the Corcoran Gallery would o distribute their surplus exhibits, placing them in the achools on indet nite loan rather than leaving them in storage, profiting none. * k¥ ¥ WORD was received in Washington week that the gold medal iward of £100 in the annual exhibi- tion of the fellowship of the Penn: | vania Academy of the Fine Arts { won by Sarah Baker, at one time | + stedlent at the Corcoran School of Art, for a self-portrait. Miss Baker von the Cresson traveling scholarship rom the Pennsylvania Academy and l.lix one of the group of talented younger paint The fellowship exhibition opened on “| February 10 in the galleries of the " | Sketch Club, Philadelphia. About 100 | artists contributed works. ok ok . Washington Chamber of Com- merce will hold its second annual industrial exposition in the Washing- | ton Auditorium from March 4 to 13 and =« agaln generously set aside | \dequate space for an exhibit of paint- . works in sculpture and other -dfums by local artists. The exhibit ill he shown under the auspi he Society of Washington assisted b the Landscape Club, \ and the Washington | Wa Color Club. The committee in harze comprises Theophilus Parsons, Cameron Burnside and Dorsey Doni- phar > d s ot is ™ a k | or puir DE L ington painting 3 Coolidge, Mr. and Mrs. rz_Ander- son, Miss Mellon and others. Mrs. de Laszio has returned to England and | Mr. de Laszlo Is soon to follow. While in New York Mr. de Laszlo ccupled a studio on West Sixty- seventh street and executed a num- n it 1A of important commissions. He in fuct. been kept unc et has busy since he came to this country late in the Fall. * ok ok ILFROD 8. CONROW, who is well known in Washington, having apent a season or more here in past years, has taken a furnished apart- ment on Sixteenth street for the Spring months and plans to hold an exhibition of his recent works and to do some painting while here. Mr. Conrow has lately finished a portrait of Lord Exmouth, formerly Charles Pellew of this city. ok % % N exhibition of portrait and land- scape photography in bromide ind bromeil by A. C. Banfield of London, England, is now on view in the Arts and Industries Building, United States Natfonal Museum, sec- tion of photography. RN e T the Arts Club, 3017 I street, an exhibition of paintings by six | Boston painters, arranged by Eben Comins, who is now {n Cdlifornia, was placed on view yesterday to continue for a fortnight. Also the group of etchings by Katherine Merrill has been moved from the Smithsonian Bullding to the Arts Club for the greater convenience of the members and their friends. In addition to these exhibitions, there isnow to he seen at the _club a collection of water colors by Warren N. Ferris, the National Museum. under the auspices of the division of graphic arts, an exhibition of etchings by John W. Winkler, an American artist, at_present residing in Paris, is now on view. * Rk ok ok DISTINGUISHED Brazillan art- ist, Decio Villares of Rio de Ja- neiro, has been visiting Washington. Mr. Villares is both a painter and a sculptor. Among his best known paintings are a canvas _entitled “Moema,” and allegorical works, “The Genfus of War” and “The Christian Martyr.” Among his works In sculp- ture ‘{8 the monament to Jullo de Castilhos in Rio Grande do Sul, erected by the government of that state. *or ok o Tm—: collection of raflway posters a sembled by the Bureau of Railway Economics and shown in the Trans- portation Bullding last April and in the Public Library in May and June, is now being re-exhibited in the Co. lumbfa Junior High School, Seventh and O streets. The collection now comprises 500 exhibits. The exhibi- tion will continue through March 6 and s open to the public. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. Biography. Bradford, Gamaliel. Wives. E-9B725w. Chekhov, A. P. Life and Letters. E-C4l4a.E. Collins, Joseph. The Doctor Looks at Blography. 1C694. Diehl, Charles. History of the Byzan- tine Empir F33-D563.E. Lewls, Mrs. R. O. The Queen of Cooks —and Some Kings. E-L5861. Saltus, Mrs. M. G. Edgar Saltus. E-Sa38 s. Sears, L. M. Smith, N. A, E-W634s. Washington, D. €. Citizens. Souvenir Record of Testimonlal Dinner Given in Honor of the Ambassador of France and Mme. J. J. Jusserand. E-J987w, John Slidell. 1-S13s. Kate Douglas Wiggin. History. Belloc, Hilaire. History of England. v. 1. F45.B415. Bercovicl, Konrad. F8399-B45. Berkman, Alexander. Myth. F5466-B457. Bertie, F. L. B., Ist Viscount. The Diary of Lord Bertie of Thame, 1914-1918. 2 v. F30791-B459 British Trades Union Delegation Russia and Caucasla, 1 Russia; the Officlal Report. K BT Browne, Lewis. Stranger Than Fic tion. "61-BS18. Dav! V. 8. A Day in Old Rome. ¥ D29d. Harbord, J. G. On New Shores. The Bolshevik to Leaves From a War H216-1. The Growth of the United States. ['83-H226g. High, Stanley. Europe Turns the Corner. F30798-H534e. Makleev, Nikolal, and O'Hara, Valen- tine. Russia. F5466-M284. Ossendowski, F. A. From President to Prison. F5466-0s78. Rice, S. P. The Challenge of Asia. F60-R36. U. S. Congress. House. Commission The Old Oregon Trail. Harlow, R. V. Geography and Travel. Atkinson, J. B. Skyline Promenades. G842-Athds. Baerleln, H. P. B. Over the Hills of Ruthenia. G54U-B14, Bartholomew, G.. ed. las of the World. Bryan, J. T. 1. 1924, G67-B846. Carpenter, F. G. Along the Parana and the Amazon. G991.C226. Carpenter, . G. China. (366-C226c. Coudenhove, Hans. My African Neigh- bors. G742-C83. Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. The Dunlop Touring Maps of the British Isles. Ref. G449-D9. Hassanein, A. M. Citizens' At- Ref. GZ-B285c. Japan From Within. “ON THE KEDGURCK,” AN ETCHING BY FRANK W. BENSON, WHICH IS ON EXHIBITION AT THE , DUNTHORNE GALLERY. MEDAL-WINNING PORTRAIT SELF PORTRAIT. BY SARAH BAKER, WHICH WAS AWARDED THE GOLD MEDAL N THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE FEL- LOWSHIP OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF S. NE ARTS. Arms Conference Is Unreality From Point of View of British ___(Continued from First Page.) ture which is at the moment worth eculating about. On the contrary I say quite frankly that it seems on the surface of things entirely doubtful if Great Britain, for example, would look with approval on the present reduction | of French, Polish or Rumanian armies, Just as it is recognized as absurd even | to imagine that Italy in its present mood will reduce its forces. The announcement that the United States has decided to adhere to the World Court and come to the Geneva conference will lead to a new stimula- tion of interest in American purposes. Every nation in Europe will naturally speculate upon the degree to which it may be possible to make use of this new and ity factor to its own i terests, which in the nature of things will seem legitimate. he British will belleve our presence can be em- ploved to restrain their good French allles, where they are a bit o0 press- | ing: the Germans will believe that our views of disarmament may be tu to thelr advantage, since they are the moment almost identical. But despite all this, every countr in Europe is, to say the least, plainly suspiclous of what It may mean for us to come poking into what Is, after all, the purely European question of relative military strengths. There has been no agreement between the great | powers as to restriction of armaments | and no conference could con by | lead to any success until th been substantial agreement the mair. conference in advance of the more or formal assembling in Geneva. Great Britain, France and Germany reach agreements in Lon don, Paris-or Berlin, afterwards they go to Locarno or Geneva and go through public motions which carry out private bargains. But now there have been no private agreements. Such_eatisfaction as there is Great Britain, speaking broadly, over our return, grows out of the belief in | {a very | comprehensions | new naval conferenc that there is chance of our agreeing with F an with any | continental country. it would be | idle not to recognize that even here our coming awakens misgivings. There | 18 the feeling that we shall complicate | more than contribute, and at least one whole section of the dominant politi- | cal party would greatly prefer that we | stayed at home and minded our own | buglness. Speaking purely and simply from the London point of view, my judg- ment is that the arms conference which has already been postponed will be in its present stage a wholly unimportant affair so far as positive results are concerned. As I have sald, a conference can succeed only where there has been substantial previous secret agreement. All the agreements that are possible now are purely negative. Britain and France can and may agree not to dispute, to take the line which will fnsure long and exhaustive investi- gations and avoid any real discus sions. The affair may be kept alive hy postponements until the political bargains have been made. Then the full-dr parade can held at Geneva. be All European peoples feel accurate- ly enough that they are engaged in a life or death struggle for survival and that their difficulties vastly Increased because we have chosen exigent rather than generous. 1l have equal reason for dis- liking us and they do. Enthusiasm ur coming to Europe or enter- the league Is rigidly limited to small section of pro-leaguers in each country. For the rest we simply constitute a new element to be dealt with, but not in the small- est sense a_new force which Is to be followed. Turope does not want our advice or our political co-operation; it does want our cash and our eredit; it does hope to find a way to escape the burdens of det to us, and it is slowly, but surely. settling down to clearly European state of mind, in which there are mutual understandings and very mutual totally” beyond American apy 1l As for coming to Washington for : that s outside the purpose of any Lluropean country now. The British simply will not con- sider any further reduction of strength, the uropean powers will not listen to any prohibition of the submarine and no one wants to pre cipitate a new fight between France and Italy on the one hand and Britain on the other, such as wrecked the ter half of the Washington conf ence. On the contrary, nce, Brit- ain and Italy are getting on admirably and are equally eager to avoid con tentious subjects. In a word, seen from the London viewpoint, the whole arms conference affair is in the main an unreality. All governments find it useful to satisfy certain domestic sentiment by sol emnly assenting to the principle of disarmament and publicly agreeing to a conference to deal with It. But it is | generally realized that any real effort to bring about sensible limitations now would lead to a new KEuropean chaos almost as bad as that which has now been abolished. The invitation to America to come was, so says Lon- don, mainly the resuit of a Washing ton intlmation that it desired to be in- vited, and the American presence is Pt (0 be an embarrassment, mot a benefit, and (o glive dangerous ap- pearance of reality to something which was never taken serfously in Paris or London and Is not now, even after we have announced that we are on the way. Our coming blocked the plan for an indefinite postponement: now follow- ing a limited delay, some other way will have to be found to drag out what cannot be avoided. Doubtless when the conference meets there will be an endless high-sounding declaration from all quarters and an indefinite effort to give the appearance of reality. This may deceive, but I advise my readers to watch the results, not the pro- spectus. Not fully prepared for our sudden decision to come, Furope has adjourned the Geneva meeting not so much to reach an agreement as to disarmament as to decide what to do with the United States. (Copyright, 1926.) Coolidge Makes Vigorous Demand For Early O. K. on Italian Debt Pact (Continued from irst Page.) and to then turn it over and look at it from what is known as a possible po- litical viewpoint. e has done this to the opposition that already has pre- sented itself in connection with this legislation. In the opinion of those who are in the President’s confidence, the opposition in question is more than 90 per cent political. At least the opposition is being aroused princi- pally for political gain. Therefore, it is natural to expect the opposition to be confined principally to Democrats of the Senate, and after a careful study of the situation the President is | satisfled that there is a marked divi- sion in the ranks of the minority party in this matter, and if the opposition is to succeed it must gain the sup- port of a number of Republicans. At the present writing there is no evl- dence of a possible stampede on the part of Republicans. On the con- trary, a preliminary survey of the sit- uation shows no eagerness on the part of any material number of Republi- cans to desert the administration forces and cast their lot with the op- position. Senator Borah already has signified his intention to lend his ora- tory in opposition to ratification. Those Republican Senators who are entertaining fears about the coming elections and who are anxious to have the debt settlement side-tracked until after the balloting is over, realizing that the chances to accomplish this are very slim, are now planning a counter move by having the settle- ment plan referred to the foreign relations committee of the Senate for consideration of certain foreign as- pects assoclated with the ratification of the plan. Their object in doing this is with the idea of ?caslbly dig- ging a temporary grave for the plan in that committee, which happens to be headed by Senator Borah. ernment, and that no favors should be shown to a nation headed by him. Because of this aspect of the settle- ment question the: Senators insist that the Senate body should turn the matter over to the foreign relations committee to study and to make a report before the proposal to approve the plan is offered on the floor of the Senate. Senator Smoot, chalrman of the Senate finance committee, who will handle the plan fight for the administration, is preparing to defeat any such attempt as this. He has served notice that he will bring the plan before the Senate for action Just as soon as possible. He said he was unli; awaiting to get the tax re- duction bill out of the way. Now that that has been accomplished the Itallan debt can be looked for at any mo- ment. Those Democratic leaders in the Senate who have been engineering a movement to defeat ratification are not trying to hide their political mo- tives. They contend that there has been too much bipartisan treatment of legislation during this session of Congress and that the Republicans are getting all the glory for the ac- complishments and will reap the real benefits later on when they go before the electorate. Some of the Demo- crats who are ready to kick over this so-called bipartisan arrangement ar- gue that the rank and filé of people throughout the country do not ap- prove of this plan for settlement be- cause of its unwarranted liberality, and that the Democrats would do well for themselves if they took a stand in opposition to ratification and thereby pave the way for making a national issue of the question iIn the political campaign this Fall. Thus far the Democratic leadership in the Senate, while not pleased with the trend that appears to be in favor of the administration, are not fully certain that it would be a wise stroke They will insist that Mussolini, dic- tator of Italy, has become a menace and is endeavoring to destroy the thedries of a democratic form of gov- to attempt to make a national issue of this. They see too many risks as- sociated with such a bold step. In the meantime they are waiting and hoping § will j uation of human life upon the earth REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS Looking Backward to the Days When America Was Young-A Book of Facts About Our Country—Fiction Fresh IDA GILBERT MYERS, WHEN AMERICA WAS YOUNG. By John T. Farls, author of “The Ro- mance of Forgotten Towns,” etc. Illustrated. New York: Harper and Brothers. H AMERICA WAS ““ Young" opens a way for the exercise of a practice both useful and interest. ing. True, “eyes front” is the proper attitude of progress. And the future, to be sure, is the only remaining work fleld of man. Yet an occaslonal looklng backward serves more than one good end. It re. emphasizes the continuity of all growth. It reminds one that each of the splendid achievements of the present is sourced {n some simple ne- cessity or desire of the past. It pro- jects the future in accordance with the general spirit and purpose of that past. It discourages erratic depar- tures from the principles that have sustained the growth of this country. It tends to bring caution and modesty to prophets and seevs. It brings en- couragement and is likely to temper pride. Quite apart also from the use- fulness of this casting back into the vears of our beginnings, it proves to be an adventure of many a surprising turn and fulfillment. Going back to colonial days, this author sets within them a group of the important interests which, be- ginning then, struggled and grew along with the times till today they serve to knit this great country to- gether in the bonds of common In- stitutions and common pursuits. The newspaper and the school are the paramount influences of the present. Therefore, early in this book the author takes his reader to visit the colonial editor and the colonfal school master. And with him the reader goes ajourneying over narrow trails and rutty roads, gathering glimpses of colonial houses along the way and stopping here and there for touches of the home life of that day. He even adventures as far as the “capl- tal in the woods"—a wild and foollsh and impossible project, that capital, to the wise men of colonal foresight. There were pirates in those days, And here is a thrilling chapter of privateer turned pirate and of natural- born buccaneers besides. A tragic chapter tells of the slaughter of our forests that has been going on now for about 300 vears—and with yet no veally effectual measures in opération for making the only restitution that can be made in this respect. Indoed, one of the striking impressions left here Is that in many vital matters this has been a most prodigal nation, whose liabilitles so carelessly assumed tax the substance of many on coming generations. This is not a stor: deals serupulously with substantiated facts throughout, gathering these from documents and reports of the days with which this study deals. But even official reports do some times take on the appeal of romance and adventure. They do here. They open up many an intimate view of the beginnings of that which is today the hoast of the present as fts e clusive possession. For instance, in “Two Centuries of the Post Office” there is, among much else of keen interest, the nucleus of our twentieth century parcel' post. And so it is in every line of consideration, that con- stant linking up between colonial in- terests and enterprises and their modern successors. None of the old activities apy to have fallen by the way, unless piracy be counted as really extinct A thoroughly authenticated study projected with the effect of a stor. on a subjeet of prime importance to studious and generally intelligent Amerfeans book. Mr. Faris A SHEBA. By George, author of “Th Blooming," etc. New Yor Putnam’s Sons. AND the two were made one. This is, therefore, a record of the ex periment of matrimony based upon the new-fashioned theory of perfect equality between the two.. At least this is the theory held by the young wife. Tn actuality, no husband ever entertains this theory, however i quiescent he may appear at the begin nings of the new bondage. And he right, since there can be no such thing as perfect equality between ar two persons, between any two set: of conditions. However, equality i ned foundation of this ad in marriage. Therefore, the novel is a W. L. George study of ¢ woman who Is ploneering for her kinc in the field of freedom while her na ture Is, in secret and to her horror hugging the chains by which nature holds her to the business of keepins the world going. There is, consequently, almost ne outside to this story—no more thar might be projected by any averagc well-to-do Mr. and Mrs. Smith o Jones or Brown. It is, instead, an uncanny exposure of the deeply hid den impulses and urges that le, usual Iy unknown and unsuspected, within the hearts of all women since these ure dedicated primarily to the contin W. L. Second G. P GIFTS OF Upon this fundamental design are erlald and interwoven a maze o' confused and warring feelings and needs that work toward the surface in a bewllderment of contradictions and denials. The author forced this disclosure into the story form with which he was familiar and skillful n essence, however, it 18 a matter for the laboratory and the clinfc. Here is the gesture of the Investigator, not of the romancer. As to its truth, let the women decide. AS to its purpose, that clearly is of scientific cast. As to ite effect, there will be none outside the ranks of readers and the critics, an academic effect alone. | * k% * COUSIN JANE. By Harry Leon Wileon, author of “Merton of the Movies,” ete. New York: Cosmo- politan Book Corporation. HUGE fortune of the California brand made. The same fortune lost, leaving high and dry a palace, fittad in size and primary intent to house a regiment, or royalty, or any other big demand upon its spaclous hospitality. In the dry old mansion | the ebbed fortune had left three hu.! man relics of the flush old days. It is, to this house, to these relics, that the | little girl from school, Cousin Jane, comes to live. For Jane's fortune also has gone with the rest. The story, a long one, engages itself wholly with the life of Jane in the big house. A most lovable bit of little girlhood, Jane, who finally comes to think that she can’t possibly stick it out there—the monstrous house, the great rooms, the queer old folks, the loneliness, the lack of all play save From the Presses. further, till Jane runs back again— not able, you see, to run away really from what is so plainly her job. Such 1s the general drift of the stofy abou: a most engaging and lovable little girl. Maybe the story is too long. Maybe Harry Leon Wilson gets so taken up with that big house that hc packs too many pages with descrip- tions of it. Nobody reads long word pictures any more. There isn't time. If & book, nowadays, doesn't jog along at pretty sharp clip it is due for many skippings. And here one does skip a lot, running along ahead to see what Jane s doing. If the author had kept up with Jane, instead of lag- ging behind, this would have been : corking story. And it is that—all but Certainly Jane is of the right stuff and so are some of the folks arounc her—made of the Harry Leon Wilso) Wlend of genial wit and gentle under- standing. But it is too long, too much of a job to put upon even so capable and winning a child as Cousin Jane. LI TWENTY MILES OUT: Indiscretions of a Commuter’s Wife. By Her- self. Sketches by Beatrice Stevens. Boston: Little, Brown and Com- pany. ATURALLY, if commuting were quite all that it is “cracked up to be,” there would have been no record of the experience here. It is that difference between the theory and the fact that creates the atmosphere of gayety and laughter in which the episode thrives. All of the experfence is familiar, nothing new about any of it—the neighbor’'s dog, or cat, or horse, or all of these together. There are the famillar feast days and play days of the suburban community. There 1s skating too, when “I missed stroke and got out of step and man- aged with magiclanly adroitness to hitch the buckle of my skate over the point of Gregory's. I slithered unexpectedlygand ran the tip of my skate neatly under his heel. I tried, as the modern psychologists advise, to think thoughts of success. I tried to fancy myself Lady Astor skating on a lake in Switzerland, or Hans Brinker on silver skates. The pond was full of experts. This is the way she does it, the way she turns everything into amusement and laughter by the virtue of a good wit and the gift of being able to laugh at herself. A half hour of hilarity and fresh fun waits for the reader here. ** %% THE KEEPER OF THE BEES. Gene Stratton-Porter, author of “Freckles,” etc. Decorations by Lee Thayer. Illustrations by Gor- don Grant. New York: Double- day, Page and Company. MILE or so of meadow and fleld, a stretch of woods, by choice a stream, a patch of sky, all the winds that blow, such sunlight and storm as the good God saw fit to send these were the domain of Gene Strat- ton-Porter, whose neighbors were the birds and plants and bugs and furry little live things of the open count Out of this material she has made many beloved stories for readers who are generally young and hopeful and belleving. Fresh stories of youth at its best. At the earlier storfes and partly true of the latest ones. This means that the closer this writer kept to nature and the people who, like her, were in close touch with nature, the better were the stories that she made. Whenever one of her romances, how. ever, left this environment to tauke up the purely social setting. it failed to achieve the beautiful consistency of the other sort of romance. In so far as “The Keeper of the Bees" projects the California Valley in its natural beauty, in so far as it deals with the idyllic life of the man working among the bees humming in the sunlight, just so far does the story rise to this author’s best. In so far as it deals, pitifully yet hopefully, with the broken soldler wooing life out the sunlight of the valley busy with the life of the swarms, just o far the story is also of this writer's best. The romance, however. manand-woman part of th takes on the touch of the fa of the purely inventfonal t writer, somehow, seemed not escape when she ventured into domain of pure romance expressed in the emotion of love between two voung people with nothing. except love, to engage their thoughts and behaviors. By Story astic. W this * % o % SPANISH ACRE: By Hal Bvarts,, author of “Tumbleweeds etc. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ROMANCE of the Southwest, a setting that this author treats with a consistent realism whose effect is pure drama. The Indian and the white man are at first set off against each other here, to the disadvantage of the Indlan, soaked in superstitions, and to the gain of the white man free from such handicap. Later, the struggle is between cattlemen and sheepmen. In both cases the conflict is over an area abandoned by the Indians since it was under a curse and annexed by the white man. Then, it becomes the bone of contention be- tween the ranchmen and a lone sheep rafser In the valley. Nothing but sur- prises and raids and reprisals. all of which are projected in the daring and dash of the plainsmen as we have been taught to know them the writers of- Western stor! Nothing but fighting, save one strain of ro- mance that goes along with the rest of the thrills that rise out of the gal- lant harards which make up the sub- stance of this active and exciting story of the Southwest. BOOKS RECEIVED WE MUST MARCH; A Novel of the Winning_of Oregon. By Honore Willsle Morrow, author of Enchanted Canyon,” etc. York: Frederick A. okes Co. THE GLASS WINDOW; A Stor; the Quare Women. By Lucy Fur. man. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. | ACCORDING TO SAINT JOHN. By Lord Charnwood. Brown & Co. CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFER- SON, 1812-26. Selected, With Com- ment by Paul Wilstach. Indian- apolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. FALSTAFF; And Other Shakespearean Topics. By Albert H. 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