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THE SUNDAY STAR. W NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Exhibition of Italian Art Opens at the National Gallery—Modern Art and the Classic Beauty—Many Artists Repre- sented—Other Notes. BY LEILA MECHLI HE_exhibition Italian art ich opened Thursday at the ational Gullery is quite dif- ferent from uny exhibition that we have had in Washing ton, and very interesting. Tt is ex <remely miodern and at the same time pervaded Ly the spirit of classic beauty with which th for centuries has been associated Futurism was born in Ttaly and still Aourishes there. In Italy, more than ny other country in the world tod: perhaps, there ix « determination among those of the younger genera tion to think for thems vet, satu ated as they vre w.th the great art of 10 past, and respecting it as they do, they are not mere rebels, but sincere nnovators. There u competence well as a sincerity in all this work which give assurance, and the fact that in several instances those who have gone farthest are seen to have recaptured the classic tradition hand ed down by such painters as the best of the Italian primitives and the more ~ophisticated Durs season to the belief that sion is unbroken, The exhibition, which comprises not only oil paintings and sculpture but a few examples of work in black and white and the industrial arts, occupies five galleries and has been beautifully the succes- “THE FORTUNE TELLER. ATIONAL | arranged under the personal direction | of Dr. Lauro de Bossis, who, with| \bram Poole, our American painter, | first conceived the idea of organizing | the exhibition and has been largely responsible tor its management in this ountry. { In the main gallery are admir shown the 12 paintings by Mancini, he showing of which alone would | onstitute an event of note. Mancini might be said to be the rgent of | italy.” For 40 years he has held | srominent place talian art. His | technique is extraordinary, unlike that of any one else who has ever painted, but the result attained is one which combines exquisite play of color w tonal effect. He is almost in the same Ireath a realist and an impressionist. lis pictures have the charm of me- ined glass, the effect of a nd beneath the ap- | sh-work is a real | of cture and 1 at great labor in student dayvs. | cause Mancini is a great technician can afford to disregard technique. | e of his early paintings is included the group, and some may prefer it the two most recent works, but all akin. They are all the of a great artist In this same gallery is to be seen Boldini's famous portrait of Whistler, which s owned and has been lent by the Brooklyn Museum. To an extent it is Whistlerian in character. Boldini studled first under his father in Fer- rara, then at the Academy in Flor- ence. His first professional success, however, come to him in London. he went to Paris, where lie has®ived ever since—essentially a cosmopolitan painter. smaller ind less famous wor to L group of paintings by Ferruccio Ferraazi, one of the most interesting of the painters represented. Born in Rome n 1891, we are told that he copled old masters for a time under the cuidance of his father and then stud. jed under famous masters at the In- stitute of Fine Arts in Rome. Com- ing first under the influence of Segan- tini, he became an adherent of the im- sionist movement, from which he reverted to the ideals of the masters of the fifteenth century. Now, at 34, he has developed a highly original style, one which undoubtedly harks back to the early Italian painters of murals, yet which is his own. “The Tragic Journey” is a typical exam- ple; better still, perhaps, is his por- raft of members of his own family; and in “The Idol" one finds, despite Cubistic suggestlon, a very real ®SNEAPCLITAN BOY.” BY VIN- CENZO GEMITO. art of Italy | r and Holbein fends | | says jof clas; much. to | the inter | size original drawing, made by this artist as a study for his fumily group. It is as beautifully drawn as a work y one of the old masters. A young Florentine, Primo Cor who has lztely come into promin ‘ in Rome and his native city | resented by two works in th { gallery, both Chine: | ed with a certain orientalism, a lus | clousness of color, but a modernisti | tendency toward fuzziness of surface |~ The vestibule to the exhibition, that | is, the small gallery which one enter | first, sets forth some of the choices | works in the collection—two o# & | dini’s, Ferrazzi's family portrait und notable > very remarkable s by Casorati, who at | present lives in Veror @ law | musician and a writer who irned 1o pamting under the guid ! of the Neapolitan, Vianell { These are portraits of an engineer Signor Beria, and of one of Italy’s ricl men, nor Riccardo Gualino, and his wife. Signor Gualno is a manu- facturer of silks, a patron of art, a | man conspicuou both | ing and his achievement. has painted him and wife | amazing_simplicity dignity has produced portraits of great tality—real portraits, beauty. Adding sume » subjects, paint 1 T for his learn sorati with and v ng " BY ANTONIO DONGHI, EXHIBITED AT THE GALLERY. distinct personalities, “ut in a way quite his own. These ure superb achievements in the new manner. If one wishes to have a real shock it is necessary to go to the last gallery of the series, wherein are set forth not only the painti of Antonio Donghi, but of Modigliani, Fortu and Giacomo Balla. Here are futur- ism and cubism and some of the other isms without restraint, in the fullness of their blossom. Modigliani belongs e French school, however, having lived in France and fallen under the in- fluence of the French post-impression- entially to the “THE ARTIST'S FAMILY “a modernist,” as Dr. Brinton “in the vein of Deraln and Picasso.” Donghi is of quite a different stamp. A young man, born in 1897, he has made, it is readily seen, a painstaking study of the art of the seventeenth and cighteenth centuries. He has car- ried the art of simplification far, and he has done amazing, if not beautiful, things. His “Fortune Teller” is not oniy a tremendously impressive work, but as a painting hasa curious, stereo- scopic effect. His homely but powerful. Is Set” and “The Stairway” both show an astonishing use of unimportant ob- jects to establish scale. In the one instance it is & loaf of bread which occupies the center of interest; in the other a group of fresh-laid eggs. Here is, without doubt, an original mind held reasonably in check by an artis- tic sensitiveness to beauty and a re- spect for competency in craftsman- ship. Donghi is an admirable drafts- man, a good colorist, an efficient modeler; in short, an artist of unusual and original talent. Depero, Prampolini and Balla are all arch futurists. The first two us natural forms to convey Drogr meaning. ists, from their works. Balla goes a step beyond this and uses pure geometric form and color to express, symboli- cally, sensations, as, for instance, his “Sensation of Spring.” In his own of this exhibit is a large | is rep- | forth | ato Depero, Enrico Prampolini | They are not painting what | they see, but an idea or a group of | ideas, and one may get what one can | |field he is legitimate and not uninter- esting. | And still nothing has been said of the wo s of Oppi, of Cadorin and of | @ number of others who deserve at- { tention. Oppt, it will be remembered, was the goid medalist at the Carnegle | Institute, Pittsburg, last 3 He is resenied In this exhibition by Girl” and ishermen at anto Spirite.” Not the least interesting portion of this notable exhibition is the sculp- | ture. ernistic, but 1n a number of instances it i= found that those who have goné farthest are apparently on the road home, not with unaccomplished pur- pose but with new vision. Such, for is Adolfo Wildt, who de- lighttul little child, with dark eye. holes peering out of a polished, ex- quisitely modeled marble face, and subtle interpretation of ‘he Virgin™ | contrast amazngly with his wild, gro | tesque masks shown in the gallery w.th the works of the futurists, It would be difficult to say too much in praise of his beautiful mask of “The Virgin,” so amazing, subtle and at mospher so lovingly carved. It is said that years ago two little igamuflins m Naples presented themselve t the door of an artist's siudio, saying in chorus, “Master, yourary” One was Mancini, the other mito, the The { instance, sculptor, w Philosopher,’ beautifully’ mod eled child's head in this exhibition | put him in the cluss of the great mas- ters—the class of Donatello. he Family Idol” by Giovanni < a beautiful conception beau rendered—the child of the fam- y in the poise of a Buddha. Dazzi's Antonetla,” Maraini's “The Kiss” and works by Selva are also full of ditional beauty and evidence ritage. There are two works in sculpture in an unusual medium—iron. The art- ist Gerardi was a blacksmith, and he was true to his medium. These por- trait w ve been Dbeat. en out of iron with amazing skill, Four artists division of arts. One graphic is Romano Dazzi. the son of the sculp. | tor, Arturo Dazzi, who astonished his pa nts at the age of four by his imaginative drawings of figures in motion, and at eight was producing work of extraordinary brilliancy. He is now scarce 20. There are woodcuts by De Caroli: which most certainly hark back to Durer. De Carolis is also a mural painter, but he owes his chief fame to illustrations in black and white of the works of d’Annunzio and Pascoli, a he is credited with the revival modern Italian book illustration In the decorative arts there group of beautiful glassware, | in Murano, upholding the tr of that famous factory hey are | the work of Paolo Venini, whose ai | bition is to have Venetian glass return to the classic purity was its original charm. It is inter esting to know that the designs of many of the inodels here exhibited were taken from the paintings of Veronese, Titian and Holbein. In this section, too, is seen a beautiful silver plate by Renato Brozzi, who has ac- quired fame as a painter of animals. The silver plate exhibited shows rao- bits galloping around its margin, not banally, but_through a floral design. It is said that he has the habit of | making hundreds of sketches before { attempting the metal relief. which has | all the accurate delicacy of Japanese | painting. A handsome catalogue has been | published by the Italy-American So | ciety, under whose auspices, this ex- | hibition has been brought to America, with a foreword by Christian Brinton, notes on each of the exhibiting artists and numerous {llustrations. Happily, the exhibition will be on view here for the next three weeks. of is a made ditions FERRAZZO. VERY one is looking forward wita the utmost interest to the opening of the exhibition of coten porary American painting in the Cor- coran Gallery of Art next Saturday evening. Announcement has already been made of the prize winners. Suf- fice it to say that the exhibition is thought by those best capable of' Judging to not only uphold the high standard set by previous biennials, but in some respects to surpassiit. * % % AT the Washington Arts Club to- day are opening special exhibi- tions of etchings by W. H. Bicknell of Winchester and Provincetown, Mass., and of water colors and etch- ings by Thomas S. Handforth of Paris, France. Mr. Handforth, a young artist not yvet in his thirties, is a native of Tacoma, Wash., but a pupil of Charles W. Hawthorne, to whom, it will be remembered, the first Clark prize and Corcoran gold medal have just been awarded. During the war Handforth was stationed in shington as an anatomical artist with the Medical Corps. At the close of the war he went to Paris to study and has lived there since that time. He has, however, traveled extensiv in various countries of Europe. His first one-man exhibition took place in Paris a year ago and received warm praise from both French and American critics.’ He is, indeed, hailed as one of extraordinary gift. At pres- Like the painting, some is mod-| are represented in the | Ak IN ITALIAN B ent Mr. Handforth is in Tunis, but is planning tv return to America before long * kX W AT THE Dunthorne Gallery etch Pennell have now taken the place of the etchings and aquatints of John | Taylor Avins, which attracted so much attention during the past month. M. Pennell neec no Introduction to Washington or o any art center. There is probably v merican artist | Who has a wider international as well national reputation, and this op- portunity to study and know more in timately his work, both as etcher and | painter, will be welcomed. R 'WO distinguished woman | from out of town have been ps ling in Washington recently {Marfon Boyd Allen of Boston Miss Louise Heustis of Mrs. Allen, it will be had exhibition at the Van Dyck Galleries here last year, She returned to Washington to execute some por. trait commissions given Miss Heu 1. She studied League, New Yorl Kenyon Cox, and later at the Julien artists nt of form which | Recent accessions at the Public L brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. Language. Ayves, H. M. ed. A School Dictiona of the glish Language. Ay Bagster-Collins, E. W. ed. A German Read 4TR-B1441. Beeson, H. A Primer of Medieval -Lati! 6R-B393. Bond. O. The Sounds of French. X39-B043s. Bruno, G. pseud. Le Tour de la France par Deux Enfants. X39R-B836t, Cardon, L. Premiere Annee Mod- erne. X39G-C177p. Denney, J. V. and_ Tobey, S. B. Eng- lish Grammar. XG-D416e, Drummond, A. M. ed. A Course of Study in Speech Training. XY- D846, {Galland, J. S. and_Brenes Mesen, | Roberto. Spanish Composition. X40- G135, | Hauch, E. F. Beginners. Lyon, Bertrand. Pract Speaking. XY-LO86p. Moore, O. H. and Foure, Robert. French Reader. X39R-M783 Muret, Eduard. Muret-Sanders Enzy- kiopadisches. 1910. 2 v. Ref. X47D- MO49, Pink, M. A. Illustrations of English Synonyms. X-P654i. Pope, P. R. Writing and Speaking Ger- man. X47-P813wa. Reeder, W. G. Two Thousand Spell- ing Demons. XS-R255t. Bel;s.‘l‘]rnet. Latin Drill Book. X36- 144, Roth, Suzanne, X39R-RT45¢ Schwartz, 1. A. French Grammar Re- vigw. X39G-Schof. | Seymour, A. R. and Smithers, A. E | “Practical Spanish Grammar. X40G- 1 Sed6p, | First German Grammar X47G-H29. for Public ed. Contes TFaciles. Smart, W. K. English Review Gram mar. XG-Sm27e. Sparkman, C. | Ingles. X | Spiers, A. F. K XDW-Spd3. | Spiers, T H. B. Manual of Elementary French. X39G-Spds. Spillman, H Making the Business Speech Effective. XY-Spds. Vendryes, S Primer Curso de perantido Text BooR. Essays. Dobson, Austin. Sidewalk Studies. 1924. Y-D653s. Goodspeed, E. J. Heard, Y-G629t. Greene, Mrs. A. Y-G833d. Milne, A. A. The Sunny Side. Y-M636s. Nathan, G. J. The Autobiography of u Attitude. N194. Powys, Llewelyn. Ebony and Ivory. 1923, Y-I'S7%. Sherman, 8. P. Letters to a Lady in the Country. Y-Sh671. Sprau, George. The Meaning of Litera- ture. Y-Sp7. Things Seen and Dipper Hill. Drama. Brvine, 8t. J. G. Anthony and Anna. YD-Erd4a. Galsworthy, John. The Show. YD- G137sh. Glacometti, Paolo. The Outlaw. 1883. Y35D-G344m.E. Howard, 8. C. They Knew What They Wanted. YD-H8324t, Ladies’ Home Journal. One-act Plays. YD-9L1240. Phillpotts, Eden. YD-Pi45d. Sa.ume!sv A. The Gladlator. 1881, Y35D- Sass, Shakespeare, William. King Lear; ed. by P. M. Buck. 1919. YD-S5Kb. Steele, W. D, The Terrible Woman. YD-St340t. Wills, W. G. Charles the First. YD- Wesse. Devonshire Cream. Poetry. Adams, R. Rude Rural Rhymes. YP-Adl Bowring, cient M. r John, ed. and tr. An- Poetry and Romances of Spain. 1824. Y40P-9B68.E. Browning, Robert. Shorter Poems. 1906. YP-BS2sh. Hagedorn, Hermann. Ladders Through the Blue. YP-H123 1. Jefters, J. R. Roan Stallion. YP-J358r. Lowell, Amy. What's O'clock. YP- L949w, SHINGTON, D. C. “CHILD,” BY ADOLFO WILDT. ings and water colors by Joseph | XD- | EXHIBITION |Academy in Paris. She is u member | of the National Association of Woman Painters and Sculptors and of the ewport Art Association. A painting of hers, “The Sea Capt Family,” which was included in the Corcoran | Gallery’s biennial two y | ceived this Winter a priz {for the best painting submitted in a {competition for a calendar cover, to {which the leading artists of the coun try made submissions. She, (oo | painting portraits here, after having | spent the greater part of the Winter in the South. She has specialized somewhat 18 portraits of children, who she peints with exceptional sympathy and charm. Miss Heustis is occupy: {ing Mr. Wallace Bryant's new studio at 1916 G street THE portrait of Admiral Stockton tely unveiled in Stockton Hall George Washington he work of Richard vice principal of the ol fart, and vapidly famong the foremost it painter M Meryman | erected a studio building on Twe | street between E and F stree west for his own accommod I that of at least two other | crsity Merymi Corcoran Scl king b American por- ne tion and —_— Masters, L M393. Neihardt, J dian Wars Noyes, Alfred. YP o, Ransom, J. (. e | Rice, C. | Smith, E. | labies | Stephens, James YP-St458p. Taylor, Edgar and Austin, Mr. Lays of the Minnesingers. Y4TP-9T21. White, N. I. and Jackson, W. C. eds. An Anthology of Verse by Ameri can Negroes. 1924. YP-9W3346. Civil Aviation Gels Strong British Aid L. Selected Poems. YP- The Book of Earth. Chills and Fever. 1 Bitter S. comp YP-9Sm35h. A Brew. YP-R362k A Book of Lul Poetry Recital. e 1825. t B determined tc give civil and comm 1 aviation least a fair chance. The latest step in | this direction is the acar {don airdrome which the government | bought for £650.000, in order to cen tralize and control in efficient manner every branch of aviation in not primarily military. Of course, Hendon is to have & mili- tary importance also. Indeed, it will become the headquarters of two squadrons of the royal air force, as well as two auxiliary squadrons scheduled as part of the London afr defense force. Hendon was originally a country club for wealthy amateurs in aviation. Surgeon Adds $1,000 to Income Statement According to a story that is current in medical circles, says the Intrans geant, a surgeon declared his income to the French revenue authorities at 67,000 francs (approximately §2,400). A few weeks later he sent a bill for 20,000 francs ($770) to a patient on whom h» had performed an operation. Two «Jays later he received from hi: Joseph. Language. X11-|tax collector the following: “I am surprised to find that you performed only three operations last year. Ccnsidering the fee you re. ceived from my cousin, whose life vou saved and for which I thank you, 1o you not think you ought to put a figure in front of the amount mentioned in your income-tax declara- tion?"" 7The surgeon took the hint and raised his declaration from 67,000 to 167,000 francs ($6,423). Plea for Alien Wives. Betty Kjelsberg, Norwa woman social reformer, striving to unite Norwegian and Swedish women in a campaign to bring about freer conditions of entry into the United States for the wives of Scandinavian emigrants. Mrs Kjelsberg urges that the wives of Scandinavian men in the United States be admitted irrespective of the quota. The formalities of the examination »f newcomers, Mrs. Kjelsberg declares, should be simplified and the examina- tions should be in the country of de- parture and nof at Ellis Island. It is quite common, she says, that a man goes over to America, makes good and wants his wife to follow him. Owiug to the strict limits of the quota he sometimes has to walt several years, a delay that often breaks up families. — . Russian Investors Few. Mrs. foremost Only 640 persons of the 139,760,500 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lices live on interest received on in-| vested capital, according to the report of the commissariat of finance. How. ever, 1,062,730 persons paid taxes on revenue, most of them dealers, own- ers, lessees of property, partners in commercial undertakings, contractors and speculators on the Bourse, Such revenue amounted to $184,600,000 in #ix months. ° MARCH 28, place | at isition of Hen- | Britain-] v 1926—PART 2. BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. THE PHANTOM PUBLIC. By Wal- ter Lippman, author of “Public Opinion,” etc. New York: Har- court, Brace & Co. HE theory of popular gov- ernment rests upon the be- lief that there s a public t directs the course of events, I hold that this mere phantom. It is an abstraction.” And Lippman goes on to ma that man’s environment i« complex while his political capacity is simple. And at this point he guin axks the question that from Aristotl till now has haunted political science. “Can a bridge be built between the complexity of man's political environ ment and the simple lines of his po- litical capacity?” And, so far, the author maintains the possibility of such a bridging is not in sight. The actual governing of our coun try “is made up of a multitude of ar rangements on specific questions by particular individyals become visible to the private eitizen. When a citizen has qualified as a voter he finds himself one of the the oretica cern. He has not made the compli. cated machine with fts 500,000 federal officers and its uncounted lul'.d‘(»f fices. He has not seen much of it He is bound by contracts, by debns, by treaties, by laws, made before he was aware of them. Only some small 113 public is And in those episodic moments whe, he stands in the polling booth a highly intelligent and public “ <pirited voter indeed who can discover ! two real alternatives and enllst his influences for a party which promises something he can understand.’ i And here, in further demonstration of the fact that the public is u phan tom, Lippman enunciates the follow ing principles: xecutive action public. The public acts oniy by aligning ftself as the partisan of some one in a position to act execu el intriisic ynerits of & question are not for the public. The public intervenes from the outside upon the work of the insiders. “The santicipation, the analysis and the solution of a question are not for the public. The public’s judgment | rests on a small sample of the facts | at issue. | " ““The specific, technical, intimate | criteria required in the handling of ja question are mot for the public | The public's criteria are generalize | for many problems: they turn essel | tinlly on procedure and the overt, ex | forms of behavior. i. going on, the author < the tusk of the politica wvise the methods sam the eri h is not for the it s | uea in the use | of these methods. So. not for the pub { lic, the phantom public, to originate, r‘even to understand deeply. | the task is to use the tools handed | over to it, to make use of the ready | made methods put into its hand. | A clear study, subversive in intent but nevertheless bent upon a'frank acceptance of that which stands open to the eyes of every man. And with it there goes no specific, since its of fice 8 to set out the facts of a matte that has so long been swaddled in fietion. And in concluéion of a frank and clearly stated theory Lippman says: “I have no legislative program to of fer, no mew institutions to propose There are, I believe. { fusions in the current theory mocracy which frustrate and perver fts action. * * * I do not know what the lessons will be when W have learned to think of public op fon as it is, and not as the fictitious power we have assumed it to be.” The best of this frank study is that it is highly provocative of some inde pendent thinking on our own account, other men’s thinkings. THANDEDNESS: A New Inte pretation. By Beaufort Sims Pa Foreword by Harvey ‘L. Jo: | dan, iy Protessor_of H The Macmillan Company. GYR/HY should this be a right- handed world”” The reasons must lie deep in the history of life that have caused practically all of the race of men to make use of the right hand te the exclusion of the left. We accept very strange things without question till, one day, some one draws attention to this or that which, upon reflection, excites interest and curi- | osity at least. “Why should this be a | right-handed world?” is such a ques- {tion. This book is an answer to the { question. At least it is a theory put I'out for examination, for controversy perhaps, for acceptance maybe. Not an easy book for the layman to attack, | no matter how curious he may be. For | this is a study of sclentific character, |an occult thing to the average. And - | while the author has simplified him- | self and his work more than the sci- {entist is wont to do, still the reader must accept this as a task rather than as a pre-digested pellet to lay upon his tongue. At the outset the author sums such theories upon this subject as are at hand. Habit, heredity, nursing and early education and half a dozen other theories are offered here as a sum- mary of the matter at the present time. From this point he ventures out into his own fiell of investigation, { submitting tests for detecting one's | native handedness, and adding the | general tests on this subject at Eliza- beth, N. J. Charts indicate the experi- ments made and the instruments used in these investigations as the author synthesizes the brain and the hand, | “he brain and the eve, in the study of | the mystery of this generally right- handed world. Unsuspected correla- tions are set up here as bearing upon the subject of our asymmetrical bod- jes functioning in so unequal a part- nership. What is it about? Are we gradually to be transformed to an equal-sided- ness of greater functional effictency? This is for the scjentists to say after they have worried this theory of Dr. Parson’s to the extent that the scien- tist does worry each thing presented to him till he has “arrived at the truth,” as he calls it. Safe to say that they will have a fine time over this theory. And then, by and by, the plain man will begin to reap the fruits, if there are to be fruits. A book for the specialists, one, however, that is almost—not quite—within the reach of the interested lay reader. * ok ok THE GREAT WOMAN STATESMAN. By Nanette B. Paul, LL. B., Au- thor of “Paul's Parllamentary Law ot New York: Hogan- Paulus Corporation, ] content this volume is an abstract of Ida Iusted Harper's “The Life and the Work of Susan B. Anthony.” |The direct purpose of the book in hand s to subserve the immediate uses of the Susan B. Anthony Foundation, an establishment calculated to create and sustain an interest in those woman ploneers who during the past cen- tury advanced the cause of woman suffrage, inaugurated among women the fight for temperance and became These rarely | | rulers of a great going con-| fraction of it all comes to his notice. | For it, | immense con- ! de {active and powerful leaders in the anti-slavery agitation. The more gen- eral purpose of the study is to pro- vide a condensed and easily accessible source.of information upon the life of one who stands as an active agent in an important phase of American his- ry. Here is a sketch of the early life of Susan B. Antiony, of those in. fluences of setting and temperament public _obligations resting upon her sex. From this point of awakening to her clear duty in the matter the story goes on with her efforts and fail- | ures and slowly advancing successes, | till at the last the name of Susan B, | Anthony has an honorable place in | the historic story of the world's progress. There stands here also a sketch of the Anthony League of the District of Columbla—its foundation, its progress, its mode of operations, its present standing, its aims and objectives for the future. Along with this sketch go the names of those who have effi ciently furthered the cause of the league. In the main, however, the book is the story of the woman who stands as the inspiration and encour- gement of those women who have accepted her call to the ranks of re- sponsible citizenship. Here is one who takes her influential place as a pat- tern of fortitude and intelligence and perseverance in leadership & g IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY William Bourke Cockran. York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. DDRESSES of marked oratorical than they deserve. These are, in the main, confined to classroom studies, to the literary exposition of a more or less patient tutor casting pearls before dren. The historic content of these orations receives no. appreciable con sideration. where, as 1 ¢ théy sum almost inva of some high moment in his They ire the flare on the mountain top lighting up all the ways to this sum | mit of events. Edmund Burke, Daniel | Webster, Demosthenes. Cicero and many another since their da | masters of eloquence. are ign the voice, each. of the vital points of his life and tine. A book of addresses here by William Bourke Cockran, one of the gifted ora tors of our own day, only three vears ago speaking with power and elo quence in our own Congress. Cockran | Possessed three supreme topics. each | close to the heart of the man. One of | these was Ireland. for Wil | Cockran was a true son of Erin, be side being a perfectly good American Another one was the holy Catholic re. ligion. And a third was politics em wodied e _principles of the Demo. atic party. Through his own mental agility he was. as a rule, able to bring the three under the spread of his own mastering passion for liberty. An cdd trio bring together at all under the inspiring names of freedo independence, liberty. There is no lac of” sincerity here. Rather warm heart and a faclle mind drawing free- dom from the very hands of restrai However, these addresses project picture after picture of American life and events at some outstanding point of importance and interest. Here is history as well as music, fact as well as Impassion fancy putting the spot light upon many points of national concern. * N RICHE: GENTLEME) | Borden. Author of Makers,” Etc. ‘The Macmillan Company | ANOTHER story on the current {#} theme of unhappy marriage. an- other story of the happy solution of this impossible situation. Marriage is the most completely disillusioning state into which man and woman have entered. Once thoroughly and hon- estly convinced that a mistake ha Lucille Candle- York: By g stick ew | in place of our indolent acceptances of | been made there is no power that can | | restore to marriage | its most solemn obligations. The sa- credness of contract doesnot avail. The {commands of religion do not suffice. | The social duty falls into desuetude. {only a an rigidity of adherence ! to the conception of austere devotion to promises made when the conditions ; were all against sanity of agreement | —only this state can prolong the ten | ure of a really hateful marriage. Lov- ers niay quarrel and make up. with in crease, rather than diminution, of af- fection. Married pairs, never. Yet, here is an agreeable story—well set, now in England, and now in Africa— of unhappy marriage. Embalmed in the atmosphere of a religion that counts marriage a lifetime undertak- ing, the vicissitudes of the romance are unfailingly hedged in from the final complete separation of the two-in-one. A story rich in incident, waywise to the portrayal of character, intuitive toward the fraiities of human rature, orderly and dramatic in mat- ters of story building—a story that counts its deepest foundations those of revealed and ingrained religious convictions and adherences. ** % THE KENWORTHYS. By Margaret Wilson, Authof of “The Able Mc- Laughlins.” New York: Harper & Brothers. HERE is a romance of American life that broadens out finally to embrace the social problem of divorce in its reaction upon the children of parents legally separated. The divorce is founded upon the technical charge of desertion, with no defense set up by the husband, who seems to be willing for release on any decent ground. For sentimental reasons the boy is assigned to the mother with per- mission to vi the father at set times. Speedily the mother marries again, so speedily as to suggest that the prellminaries of the ceremony must have been made prior to the legal separation from the first hus- band. strung lad, hates both his stepfather and his mother. He loves his father. s first intent and D. APFLETON & COMPANY, that turned her thought toward the! distinction receive less attention | a self-engrossed number-of eailow chil- | am Bourke | The boy, a sensitive and high- | REVIEWS OF SPRING BOOKS Volumes That Require More or Less Serious Study—--"The Phantom Public” and “Left-Handedness™— Few of the Newest Novels. The story advances chiefly by way of the errancles developed within this bo by his unceasing resistance to the bonds set over him. All thinking people have no doubt thought sorrow tully of the millions of children that are situated as this boy fs—a human being fought over as dogs fight over » bone. But the dogs have the excuse of hunger. These parents, as & rule have as their prime mocive the hurt ing of each other. However satis ing this strife may be to them, ft i death to the children. This fact brought out in the case of y. whose life is one of passion { ate rebellion, one violent straln to be with the father whom he loves. It ac counts for his lonely and tragiq deat! The divorce, the ruined boy, are i cidents in the lifa of the Kenworthys Jim and Bob Kenworthy and their fine mother. This family setting is of strajght American etripe. There is bit of a triangle in Bob’s marriage, fo. his wife loved Jim, till Jim went off to Chicago and married another gir So Emily took Bob. But here is & gir of the right stuff. Married, she iivec up to her promise in a whole-souled way. Any one will like Emily Ken worthy as readily as he will dislike Jim's wife holding her son as a w on against his father. Some v say that there is a touch of me {drama bout this novel. And so ther | is. but it 1« the melodrama of life i {self. They'll say that the boy is to high-keyed. And so he would be the world were not full of just st | wilful and resentful boys. Hat | said these things, they will then settle | down to the respectful consideration of an unusually good novel of Ame: | can life in certain of its aspects {Moscow Scofl's at New *‘Calendar of Saints™ coffing at superstition 1unist creed includes the Christian religion. Moscow part newspapers are openly sarcastic ab the northw e region ndustria bureau. whos hor a new “calendar ot 8" hLas just bee: ered. Russian custon [ n children according to the names of saints on a calendar. eac! child thus having two days each yea for presents—a birthday and a name {day. The new name compendiun explains the weird names that being fastened on the new Russia | generation. Among the 365 selections. with thel English _meanings, are: Atheos Tzika, central committee of Union Communist party (o! Yedinstvo, front of unifor ity: Agitella Brest-Litovsk tr 'ty of workers: S Despite thelr vhich in the com p of 1 da r. solidar n ouncil ¢ rs of the U. 8. 8. ¥ ial decree: Mettalir textile trus: onal industria collective move Plekhar others are communist ¢ Bebelin Farada a given after historical | secialist lead: {Slovaks Irked by Taxes Under Czech ¥'nion Plan Although the Slovaks have formed a working agreement with the Czechs !'in the Czechoslovak Parliament they are much opposed to the tax policy of the state. Slovak farmers did not like to pay taxes while they were citizens of Hunga ve not learn ltke to p o their new go ment. | " During several vears the govert {ment did not press the collection { taxes. On the books of the state the | back taxes accumulated. Now Czecho | slovakia is cutting a little finer on re | ceipts and expenses. The Czech cut | rency has been kept stabilized for se\ | eral years. An effort is being made t | collect back taxes and round off the budget. 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