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Work of the “Intimate Impressionists™ at the Phillips Memorial Gallery—Water Colors{S by Washington Artists—Reorganization of Handicraft Guild— Purchase by French Government. BY LEILA MECHLIN. T the Phillips Memorial Gallery a collection of 14 paintinj the work of “intimate impre: sionists,” is on view. This is the concluding exhibition of a series arranged for the present season by Mr. Phillips to acquaint the Washington public with the best of progressive development in art, the art of painting. In founding the Phillips Memorial Gallery Mr. Phillips declared it to be his conviction that great art of all periods was homogeneous and that the art of today was essentially the inheritor of the past; that one period did not end merely for another to begin, but that all were of the same family. He was one of the first to venture to show the works of old masters and modern painters side by side, and by so doing proved the soundness of his theory. The cur- rent series of exhibitions h: been arranged to illustrate to a degree the same continuity, and each has been selected with the utmost care in order to carry special significance. The artists represented in the cur- rest showing are Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Albert Andre, Samuel Hal- pert, Plerre Bonnard, Maurice Pren- derga Marjorie Phillips and Paul “Pont Neuf, Paris,” has been seen in the Phillips Gallery’s exhibitions be. fore. It is bold and strong. Bon- nard’s “Early Spring” and “Girl and Dog” are seen now for the first time and .may be regarded as admirably exemplifying some of the tenets of the modernistic school.. A single example represents Mau- rice Prendergast. It is “Ponte Della Paglla,” a joyous work in color, in which the gay parasols of those pass- ing over this little bridge have almost the effect of a mass of floating bal- loons. Walter Pach, in his address before the recent convention of the American Federation of Arts, pald high tribute to the Corcoran Gallery of Art for having been one of the first public museums to acquire a work by Maurice Prendergast. It should not be forgotten, however, that the Phillips Gallery had earlier still purchased not one but numerous ax- amples of this gifted American paint- er's work. Paul Dougherty, the last of the eight, is represented by a painting of a “Blue Bowl and Carnations.” That he should be found in this col pany will be a surp: to many, as Mr. Dougherty is assoclated in the minds of the majority as a painter of marines and one of the leading acad- emicians. He !s a painter, however, ‘Washington Society of Arts and Crafts and been completely reorgan- ized. The president is Maj. P. D. Glassford, U. 8. A, an instructor in the Army War College; Mrs. Maude L. Whitman is vice president, Mrs. Bertha McCue secretary and treas- urer. The board of governors is composed of Miss Marian Lane, Rob. ert Le Fevre, Le Roy Birch, Mrs. Emmy Somer, Miss Alberta Mont- gomery and Miss Margaret Comegys. The objects of the soclety are to encourage those Shgaged in the arts and orafts, to promote an apprecia- tion of articles of beauty and useful- ness made by hand and to encourage higher artistic standards. A building which will contain exhibition gal- leries, a salesroom, assembly and lec- ture room and studios, will be opened October 1. In order to encourage craftsmanship prizes will be awarded to the Washington schools or to those composing groups in crafts and Industrial work. Tt is hoped to create a real market for the works of local members and to uphold at the same time a high standard. A campaign for membership has already been launched and a compe- tition instituted for a suitable in- signia. The prize, which will be $35, Mrs. Cresson has undoubtedly in- herited from her father, Daniel Ches- ter French, an unusual talent; in other words, she has plastic intuition and she has had good training. No wonder that whatever she does show: a feeling for plastic form, a sensit touch and a gomprehension of cl requirements.” In no sense is she an amateur, and, above all, her rendering invariably embodies spiritual quality as well as sculptural form. Mr. and Mrs. Cresson close their house in Washington the first of th! week and go to Btockbridge, their Summer home, for the coming months, CLARA HILL has lately shown in the Dunthorne Galleries a por- trait head of a baby and a bas-relief of Lieut. Gordon Dodge, a young aviator who lost his life in the World War, as well as a number of other earlier portraits in relief. During the past Winter she has produced a wood nymph and faun to be used as Carya. tides in a mantel for the Kendall Man- sion, Bradley Hills, Md.,, of which Walter Clarke Waggaman is the ar- chitect. Miss Hill will spend the Sum- mer at Bronxville, N. Y., as usual. * ok ok % * ok % ¥ = ome Facts About Samuel Pepys, Who Kept an Astonishing Diary—A Novel Con- cerned With After-War Conditions—Tales of Fishing in Virgin Seas—Other Novels of the Day. of new message, the feel of glamour- ID.A GILBERT MYERS. SAMUEL PEPYS. By J. Lucas-Du- breton. Translated from the French by H. J. Stenning. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Bons. his power to re-create himsel! to the lively interest of these interven- ing yvears. tually made himself a cotemporary |Of these fish perpetuity by virtue of the astonish- ing Diary whose frankness of revela- tion serves to set many another man out before himself, even as it sets Pepys out in his own eyes. Human s about the same. There- plain and intimate self-ex- posure made almost 300 years ag reads like the personal yesterdays and tomorrows of certain definite human qualities. One of the few honest diaries, the Pepys Diary. Not a particularly mer- {torious one, but an honest one. And this attribute gives a fair accounting for its mingly inexhaustible lite. Diary is a source of joy to the painter of portraits in life, to the gold dilrr in human motives, to the philosopher hunting his honest man, to the in- N inconsiderable man, counted | game. At any rate here you ha all around, yet for more than |80 plain and clear that there is no 200 years Samuel Pepys has|mistaking the various beguilements time over time demonstrated [ needed to entice fish of various dis. ¢ | position and habit. In effect, Pepys has ac- |sworn testimony to the clear prowess 0 | €asy to imagine a sportsman ous newness. For the real sportsman there are definite and detailed accounts here of the ways to lure and then capture relatively deferfcel tures—but that, I And pictures of generous number give something like ermen in the waters of the Pacific. A beautiful book in fts complete make-up and one calculat to. stir the envy of real fishermen, those, who catch and catch, and then have their pictures taken with them- selves festooned with indisputable evidences of their prowess. It is quite losing his head over Zane L] fishing adventure in “Virgin Seas. * o® ok % A SPORTING CHANCE. By Mar- garet Cameron, author of “The Involuntary Chaperon,” etc, New York: Harper & Bros. PON the surface a fatally handi- capped hero, this one. The son of a millionaire to start with. By Percival Galahad Brazenose, THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent acressions at the Public Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Philosophy and Psychology. Andrus, Ruth. A Tentative Inven- tory of the Habits of Children From 2 to 4 Years of Age. 1924, BIE-An24t. Atkinson, W. W. Mystic Christianity. 1908. BALAtS4m. Boae, George. French Philosophies of the Romantic Period. BE3S BE3f. Chambers, Mrs. M. D. M. Training of Boys and Girls. C366, < Coagrave, Mra Daughters. BP-C824m. 1 (':ml:s:nv Joseph. Keep Smiling. BFO. C84. Care and BPP- & G. Mothers and | Rimskii-Korsakov. N. A. Rosenfeld, Paul. Rowbotham, Rolland, Romain. Rolland. Romain. Saint-Saens. Sehumann, Robert. My Musical Life. VW10-R468.E. Musical Tortraits Interpretations of 20 Modern Com posers. VW10-9R72m. F. J. Story-Lives Great Musicians. VW10-9R784 Beethoven. VW1u B393r.E. A Musical Tou Through the Land of the Pas: VV-R645. ‘amille. Musical Men: orfes. VW10-8a26.E. Letters of Nober Schumann; selected and edited b Dr. Karl Storck. VW10.Sch$68a Modeste. Life and l.e! er Tlich Tchaikovsk VW10-TI87¢.E Apartments Needed In Capital of Japan In Tokio one often hears the staic Crumley Desnoyers, ‘Thomas. W. L. Fenton, Mrs. J. M. C. Logic. A Practical BH-C8881. Good Morning. 'BQS-D466. Dodd, E. E. Fiber and Finish. BQS D663 ment that the housing problem can b solved by the erection of aparimer houses. Newly arrived foreigners in the bic cities of Japan, perpiexed by the search for moderate accommodations A 1dil be given for the best emblem or | g prench government has lately | dulgently ironic observer of men. So|Dame: Paychology of Babyhood. BIE- | wonder why entarprising builders de Alfred Sisley, the earliest of the group, was born in 1889; Marjorie Phillips. the latest, in 1895. Four of the painters are French, the other four Americans. The two works by Sis shown are “Snow at Louveciennes” and “Banks of the Seine,” both of which were acquired some time ago for the Phil- lips permanent collection. They are exquisite works, subtle, reticent and lovely in color—paintings which are representative and at the same time interpretative. They set forth not merely actuality, but actuality ex- pressed through a sensitive per- sonality. It is indeed as if the painter had taken the observer by the hand and said, “Come and see this lovely vision which I have discovered.” Al- fred Sisley did not disregard drafts- manship, nor did he forget the neces. sity of creating a_ composition, but he was not afraid to transcribe real loveliness in nature, and such he has permanently recorded for our unend- ing jov. The example which represents Rerthe Morisot in this exhibition is a figure composition—two girls. Tt is representative. but less appealing, perhaps. than some of her landscapes and garden themes: and vet the was better known for her pictures of the boudoir, the nursery and the drawing room—interpretations of femininity than for her outdoor pictures. he was a pupil of Corot. Manet w her brother-in-law, her friend and he mentor. She was the one woman whose name is associated and whose work was reckoned on a par with that of the great French impressionists, the greatest of all of whom, doubt- less, was Manet. Mrs. Phillips’ paintings have been likened to those of Berthe Morisot, and there is undoubtedly a similarity. This similarity lles somewhat in man- ner, in the choice of color, in sincer- ity and restraint. Mrs. Phillips is represented in this exhibition by a landscape, entitled “Rich Earth.” and a landscape with figures, ‘Before Sup- per.” The latter, as i3 explained in the catalogue, is & moment out of the lives of two little children in their mountain home. Albert Andre is represented by four | examples, among which a still life, “Melon, Peppers and Grapes.” is per- haps the most interesting. This paint- ing has all of the vivid strength of the works of the modernist school, but is rendered with a refinement and finish foreign to this school and truly exquisite. The slices of melon are broadly painted; the grapes, on the other hand, are rendered with minute accuracy. The whole is a splendid piece of color and goes to show that it is not necessary to be crude in or- der to be forceful. Samuel Halpert, the American, and Pierre Bonnard of France are less _subtle and more primitive, if thig word can be applied to sophisticated effort toward simplification. Halpert's |'T who is interested in experimentation, one who has never been satisfled to follow old trails or allowed himself to get into fixed ruts. This exhibition will continue for one week longer. It is open to the public this afternoon, Tuesday, Satur- day and the following Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. The first of June the gal- lery will close until Autumn, * A’r the Washington Arts Club there now are on view a number of water colors by various painters. The lower drawing room is given over to a group by Dorothy Savage, who is a pupll of the Maryland Insti- tute and of Charles W. Hawthorne. In the drawing room upstairs the works are by local artists, chief among whom may be mentioned Alexis B. Many, Cameron Burnside, Arthur Musgrave and Edgar Nye. Miss Savage's 12 paintings are dis- tinctly in the new style—that style which purposely disregards drafts- manship and assumes, with sophisti- cation, childish directness. Her color is good, and her handling of medium skillful, but her works are frankly little more than notes made on a large scale. They give, it is true, the substance of the subject, as the head- lines {n our newspapers summarize news. If one is satisfied with such summary, whp should object? But surely work of this sort disregards the amenities of beauty. It is as though the artists were satisfied to merely make a beginning but not willing to take the trouble tc beauti- fully carry a work to a complete end. A newspaper's headlines can hardly be regarded as literature; why, then, should similar expressions in paint- ing be regarded as consummate art? The works of our local painters on view in the upper drawing room at the Arts Club are to some extent in the same style, Edgar Nyve's water color of houses and figures, which has been given a place of prominence over the mantel, is essentially mod- ernistic. The works by Cameron | Burnside show simplification but | greater refinement. Three marines by Alexis Many show simplification and effectiveness in design without apparent straining for novelty. They are modestly un- signed, but works which would at- | tract favorable attention, regardless of authorship, wherever they might be shown—water colors which well deserve to be classed with the works of Winslow Homer and the leading masters. Arthur F. Musgrave's two pictures ave of a back porch screened by foliage and setting forth interest- ing contrast of sunshine and shadow —typical examples of cotemporary work, illustrative, decorative and ex- tremely individual, * * % HE Washington Handicraft Guild has changed its name to the insignia. for letterhead and mark of identification on articles made by members of the society. It is open to all. Drawings may be submitted in any scale and in any medium, in black and white or in color. They must comprise the name of the so- olety, its initials, a motto or other letters or wording, providing elimina- tion for minfature reproduction can be accomplished without detriment to the design. Those who enter the competition must send their drawings by November 1 to Maj. P. D. Glass- ford, Washington Barracks. The judges will comprise H. K. Bush Brown, sculptor; Alvin W. Hall, di- rector Bureau of Engraving; Felix Mahorney, National School of Fine and Applied Arts, and Alexis Many, art instructor, McKinley High Bchool. The announcement of the award will be made December 1. This {s an interesting and encourag- ing' movement. The British Ambas. sador, Sir Esme Howard, at the an- nual dinner of the American Federa- tion of Arts, given in this city on the evening of May 14, especially urged upon those in attendance the im- portanoce of developing craftsmanship. stressing the value to the peopls of fine handwork. Royal Bailey Far- num, president of the Federated Council on Art Education, said re- centl; feel that industry is never going to solve the art problem until we develop the hand craftsman. The hand craftsman is going tG lead the machine.” The Boston Soclety of Arts and Crafts has not only made a success of its Boston salesroom, but also of its more lately established mmiesroom in New York, which goes to show that there is a market for fine handwork of a high standard. We have here in Washington some excellent craftsmen—weavers, work- ers in metal, wood carvers, etc. If the society upholds as high a stand- ard as does the Boston society. there is no doubt that a real clientele will be developed. “As Granville Barker once said, real love of art is not developed merely through appreciation. We cannot call ourselves a musical people simply be- cause many attend concerts: we can- not call ourselves an artistic people because many attend exhibitions; it is only through the creation of music and art on the part of numerous in- dividuals that such claim €an be truly made. M.\RGARET FRENCH CRESBON has lately modeled/an extreme- ly impressive portrait bust of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States. This portrait was done from a death mask and from photographs. It may, therefore. he regarded not only as an impressive personification but genuine likeness of one of the great founders of our republic. * % ok ok | purchased " a painting entitled “Azaleas and Wisteria—Magnolia Gar. dens, Charieston,” by Willlam ,P. Silva, formerly of this city, now of California. Mr. 8ilva, who for several years had a . studio in Washington, passed through °this city last week on his way back to Carmel from Eu- rope. The early part of the Winter was spent in Venice. Later he and Mrs. Silva were for a time in a little town on the French Riviera. From there they went to Paris, where Mr. Silva not only exhibited at the salon, but held a one-man exhibition. The picture purchased by the French government is somewhat simi- lar to the painting of the Magnolia Gardens shown in the latest annual exhibition of the Society of Washing- ton Artists. It was described in the Paris edition of the New York Herald of May 3 as follows: “This is a paint- ing of a certain garden in Charleston, 8. C., a spot which Mr. Silva has painted many times. This garden of exquisite remoteness is saturated with a haze of gentle lavender and gray. The drooping mosses and festooned wistarlas which hang from the trees, and the azaleas spreading their soft, rose-tinted petals below, are enveloped in the atmosphere of a dream.” Mr. Silva was represented in the Paris Salon by a painting of the Pa- cific Ocean seen through the cypress trees at Carmel. He has sketched constantly while abroad and has brought back some charming views of Venice, of Spring on the Riviera and of Paris. He has lately been elected first vice president of the Southern States Art League be- cause he is a native of Savannah and a long resident of Chattanooga. one extremely interested in the develop- ment of art in the South. * ok ok HE Landscape Club is holding an- ther exhibition at the Ambassa- dor Theater. Eighteenth and Columg bia road. This exhibition opened a week or more ago and will continue for a month or six weeks. It consists of ofl paintings and water colors by members of the club—30 works being shown. It is the third exhibition of the kind held in the lounge of this theater. The purpose is to bring art to the people. It is all important that efforts of this sort should find lo support. the local support which they essentially deserve. * ok ok X COLLECTION of water colors and etchings of Egypt and Lon- don by Capt. Longstaff of England is now being shown by Miss Furbanks at 1401 Twenty-first street. Capt. Longstaff is an ex.service man, who is now giving his time to water-color painting and etching. His pictures of London are especially graphic and pleasing and to those who know and love London must make strong appeal. BLOTTING OUT Five Million Adults in U. ILLITERACY BY 1930 HOPE OF CRUSADE! TENDS TO BALANCE CONTROL| S. Make Only Marks for Names—This Year Vermont, North Dakota, Dela- ware and Oklahoma Expect to Be Reclaimed. BY CORA WILSON STEWART. Director of the National Crusade Arainst Titeracy. When 700.000 voung men had to make their mark for their signatures to the draft roll, at the beginning of the war, the country was aroused. The fact that a_ war to make the world “safe for democracy”’ was be- ing fought. as far as we were con- cerned, by an Army containing so many thousands of soldiers who were unable to read or write seemed unbe- lievable. But that fact, in all its grimness, stood as an {ndictment against the American democracy and hecame a powerful factor in the movement to stamp out illiteracy. Crusade Organized. Today there are 5,000,000 men and women in the country who can only make & mark for their names. That vast number is being steadily re. Aduced. And now a national crusade has been organized to stir up the 100,000,000 who can read and write to blot out illiteracy by 1930. In the present year four States ex- pect to be reclaimed—\Vermont, North Dakota, Delaware and Oklahoma. illiterates to band themselves to- gether to aid the States and com- munities in making a more aggres- | sive fight. Willlam Allen White is president. Jane Addams and Glenn Frank are vice presidents, W. Carson Ryan of Swarthmore College is sec- retary and associated with them are State superintendents of public in- struction, five past presidents of the National Educational Association, sev- eral former governors of States, lead- ing editors, authors, artists and busi- ness men. These are not only prom- inent but practical people and they have adopted the brave slogan “No illiteracy in 1930." ‘Work Being Co-ordinated. This crusade is co-ordinating the work of all agencies that are attack- ing illiteracy” and it will press them into battle all along the line. There is, of course, no human remedy for adult illiteracy but to teach the il- literates to read and write, but there are quick, Inspiring and dramatic ways to do it and materials that both delight the learner and facilitate in- struction. There are also many places besides the schoolhouses where the enemy can be attacked. | Fifteen years ago nobody thought {lliteracy could be wiped out of any given locality. Those who thought of illiteracy at all considered it an fr- remediable thing. Illiteracy condi- tions had not been uncovered. The figures had not come to stand in the public mind for what they really are ——wasted intellect and blighted human beings. Few cared about the flliter- ates or realized their power to hamper the community, State and Nation. The awakening came about 1910 in the South, where {lliteracy was preva- lent. Kentucky. quickly followed by Alabama, North Carolina, S8outh Caro- line, Georgla, Mississippi and Arkan- sas, started the uprising and it spread from State to State. Then came the draft of June, 1917, with { tragic revelation. The figures were startling enough, but the sgituation would have been more tragic® had it not found a background of experience in the way of experts, trained teach- ers and suitable texts ready to meet it. Movement Spread Steadily. The movement has steadily gath ered momentum, until school official who once looked on to scoff are now proud to help in the territory in which they are responsible for the achools. And recently there was o ganized the National Illiteracy « sade with headquarters in the Ameri- can Red Cross Building in Washing- ton. At last a group of the Nation's Besides the dchoolhouse, every church, every library, all the mills t and factories, all the jails and peni- tentiaries, the almshouses, the houses of the people, even the convalescent hospitals, are places where classes may be organized and conducted in the war against illiteracy, and even solitary individuals are not to be for- gotten, whether in the mountain fastness, or in the city tenament. This crusade believes that every one must be sought out and given his chance. (Copyright. 1926.) g i i i Fishermen Protest. Aroused by protests from the Ki- angsu Fishing Guild, the Chinese Gen- eral Chamber of Commerce has wired to the civil governor of the province at Nanking strongly protesting against the fishing by Japanese sub- coast of Kiangsu. The fishing guild {has attempted to stop the Japanese [from fishing in these waters, but fafled. and therefore appealed to the provincial authorities for the protec- tien of their interests. The civil gov- ernor has been asked to employ Chi- ness warships to patrol the coast to prevent further Japanese violation of jects in Chinese waters along-the sea- | DISTRIBUTION ‘Workers Pay Management and Fix Own Wage Un- der Present System of United States Econo! BY ROBERT S. BROOKINGS. President of the Institute of Economic A wide distribution of “'big business securities has so segregated manage- ment from ownership as to enable us to develop an understanding of the relation of capital, management, labor and the public to each other such as was difficult, if not impossible, under the okl regime of ownership-manage- ment. To discuss “'big business” and the public in an understanding way we should study the component parts of each. Money in industry is worth no more or no less, risk considered, than money in transportation, public utilities, or any other form of investment. Man- agément in industry is worth no more or no less than it contributes to the efficiency of labor. Tabor is. there- fore, interested in fairly compensating capital in order to keep it in industry and in paying management all that it can make {tself worth. Labor, hav- ing thus paid management for fits service and capital for the use of in- dustrial facilities, must then in fixing its own wage, which fixes the market price of its product, have due regard for the public which is all of the other. labor groups, including transportation, agriculture, professional and other sérvices. This interpretation of the position of labor while diftering widely from the usual understanding is coming more to be accepted. It simply Places the industrial worker, however, in a position analogous to that of the tenant farmer, who, having paid his landlord rent, is in undisputed posses- | sion of his farming facilities. One-i third, or 85,000,000, of our population live on the farms, and about 40 per fcent of the farms are rented. i Labor, being thus so largely respon- | isible for and so largely interested in | industrial results, should certainly be | !&iven in the interest of the widely scattered stockholdérs a reasonable representation on the board of direc- tors. While issue may be made with the contributing value of such repre- sentation, I am convinced from my own experience of its importance, and the record shows that not only the heads of departments, but the chjef executives of industry, as in transpor- tation, have, as a rule, developed from the lower ranks. A measure (of authority with responsibility pro- jmotes this development and “big ! business” must progressively develop its management in this way. As the pub!i consists of numerous groups of workers, includ- | ing*those who render professional and other services, the problem under this interpretation does not seem to be the rel OF CAPITAL i tion of “big business” to the public cl s @ane mics. problem of the relation of each labor group, or group of workers, through mediums _of exchange, fo all other groups. In getting below the surface of “big business”.and the public. therefore, we find the public is simply composed of “big business” and other groups of . workers who are also rapidly becoming the capitalists. We know from the difficulty we are now experiencing in adjustaing the relation of certain industial groups to the agricultural groups how difficult it is to bring about an equitable distri- bution between all the groups. I think we all appreciate the danger of a ten- dency to appeal to the Government or | & the law for an adjustment of these differences. Germany evidently sensed the importance of some sort of a division between soctal, economic and political interests when she attached an economic advisory council to the Reichstag. ‘We, in this country, have developed no other nation has, economic and social organizations independent of government and I have the feeling that if the law of supply and demand fails to adjust the differences which are sure to arise between our numer- ous groups we shall be able, through this genius we have for social and economic organization,: to largely ad- Just these differences independent of government {interference. The ent development of a code of busin th- ics by the United States Chamber of Commerce as well as an increasing appeal to arbitration for the settle- ment of our differences rather than to have recourse to the courts, is hopeful evidence in this direction. “‘Blg business” lends itself to such ad- Jjustment because it is free from that intense personal interest incident to ownership-management. (Copyright, 1926.) Models’ Pay Poor. The models in Paris; are having a hard time. For years pretty girls have sought to make a legitimate pro- fession of posing for artists, schools or students in Montmartre or Mont- parnasse, and many of them picked up a tidy living thereby. But now, with falling exchange, the business is t hopeless.” At the cole des Beaux Arts the models are|, paid 60 francs a week for four hours' posing per day. In many ateliers and studios the rate is much less. Sixty francs is about $: S Japanese novelti such as porce- lain, lacquer, matti; s and - artl- es make up less than § ":“;.“ of from one point and another these draw close to Samuel Pepys by way of this house-of-life that in such gufleless honesty he bullt to hearth and roof his mildly scandalous caree! M. Lucas-Dubreton here submits the lite of Samuel Pepys by way of the Diary to the test of the literary Erenchman's habitual penetration be- low those surfaces with which the majority are eontent to deal. He ap- plies to it the French writer's clarity of thought and his select! kill in lifting ess¢ntials from the clutter of nothings that imbed these essentials. H s upon it the French writ- er’s social fnstinct and that different outlook upen soclety which aets the analytical Gallic mind off from that of the. more aentimental Anglo-S8axon. ‘Without any extepuation the Ilatter reprobates Samuel Pepys out of the old sinner's own mouth. The former accepts him as a familiar example of the man tribe. smilingly handing him ver 8 & not exceptional case in those da; externally so different from our own times. And around Pepys him- self M. Lucas-Dubreton gathers the el ements and arranges the parts of a little portrait of the social life of the times. Here is Pepys. trimmer in pol- itics, such as we have today. A sponge upon his patrons and this, 100, is not a lost art. Pepys. ogling the ladies and imagining a thousand successful amours that never materfalized out- side his own mind. As for this point toda Pepys was a poor husband to a pro- vokingly average wife. Times, vou see, have not changed so much himself by way of the Diary which might stand. one opines. as a quite general confessional. And. with all. Pepys was an honorable and re spected servant of the king. high in the favors of the admiralty which he served with loyalty and eficiency. The picture spreads to a sprightly ex- posure of the. life of the court. But it is, pre-eminently, the portrait of Pepys himself that stands clear here under the hand of this French artist. A portrait that is peculiarly French in conception, in composition and in fin- ish, one, too, whose qualities have been maintained by the translator in a most satisfying fidelity. o THE HOUNDS OF SPRING. By Syl via Thompson. Boston: Little, “If Winter Comes,” in title and spirit takes the pro- for a future whose present is far more gray than golden. Brown & Co. “THE Tounds of Spring.” like phetic mood and word of the poet to promise hope 1t i8 not to be expected that yriters. especially those of Europe. will for & long_time be able to get away from | the World War whose effects are so pressing as t itself themew apart from this en. Rrossing one. And that's as it should Le. It's the world's business to re member the war. poets and novelists and pl and painters who bend thei keeping its memory green. ‘‘The Hounds of Spring” is the story of an English family in war time. 1t art to is. therefore. a story of patriotism. of | heroic parents and sons, a story of | loss that is irretrievable and of the accommodations that go along with these losses in order that life ftself may go on in the home and in the country. It is besides a story of young love, a beautiful idyl put 1:10 strain of war time and its insecurt- thes. constitutes the heart of this romance. This is the center from which radiate in infinite delicacy and feeling and art lines of action that move out into | the war itself and then turn back to this English family again as the wise and friendly and understanding foundation of a truly beautiful story. A strong and consistent story besides. | Read it, first, to restore the luster of your possibly tarnished faith in the family itself. Read it for the young love that it depicts with 8o much of race. Read it for the outcome—and You'll not like that. You'll wish that this might have happened instead of that. You may be shocked—probably you will be. But, remember, this writer i{s not a miracle-maker. She appears to be, instead, the medium of a romance that is made out of life s, in the main. it was lived over and over again in the English war time. To this material she has applied a ry delicate and sensitive art of st elling. The combination has put into your hands a novel of fine substance and undeniable beauty, EEE TALES OF FISHING VIRGIN SEAS. By Zane Grey, author of “Tales of Lonely Trails,” etc. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Bros. T'S time to go. 'Time to move along the running waterways or to stop beside the waiting pools with Isaak Walton. Time to stir around and to say with old Peter himself, “I go a-fishitg.” But, just possibly, the game of watchful walting, the chief content of the fisherman's lot, doesn't suit you. Maybe you haven't the patient, non-resistance of Job. Per- haps you like adventure at second hand. A great many do. It is fine to take risks with their thrills and shivers just sitting, easy-like under the shade of a wonderful elm tree that I know, there to read of amazing achievements by the stréenuous and uneasy folks of whom there are a- plenty. If you be of this second class, suppose you take this fishing adven- tun:y Zane Grey. In no time af all you will find yourself sailing away in a perfect beauty of a yacht, The sherman, for the Pacific and ds. Off the west side of South America you will come upon islands, not particularly well known—the Cocos Iriands and the Galapagos. And there the great fishing adven- ture begins. Man-size fishing, too. Days and days of it. And there is much beside—the face and mood of strange islands, the same old sun well, of course, one can’t know. | ince. | this honest man confessed himself to | it | | life. 10| to crowd out from even ! So welcome to the ! Y Writers | yigTORY OF FRA It is tho family. however, that | . | to end with. For no one on earth could be a hero under such fell cir- cumstances. And, really, it couldn’t have been out in the open. But, in- side a book, with an unconquerable humorist who is at the same time a marvel of ingenious invention and u dynamo of energy, the thing really Percival elieve it or no And he is a lot more than is good looking. of course. Ha is possessed of traits that set one off in a fervor of nervous dread lest he make a misstep in_some of his amasing experiences. What. to the reader, does a perfectly staid father count In wanting his son to tend to | business. It is made to appear here | that the prime and only business of | young n should be to succor ladies | in dlstre And so the reader trails along. all out of breath, behind this whirlwind of a fellow, hoping and praying that he come out all right every time. He does. too. A fine ble comedy. that comes in happily to make a sunny spot in ong drah tales of the humans who are turning the great Middle West | inte a succulent world harvest field and into a swiftly advancing area of surpassing civilization Fine en- deavor, all that out in the Middle West, it for our expanded moments, butAt does get dry, so very dry. i . THE LEADING LADY. By Geraldine Bonner. author of “The Pionee wtc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Co. N engaging story whose staging suggests the theater rather than It is in substance, too, the story of a play produced by a company of players in the natural scenery of an island estate lent to them by its owner for this purpose. Upon the surface it is the story of the theater folks engaged in presenting “Twelfth Night.” But behind this stage effect of professional zeal and jealousy and overreaching that seems to make up 80 much of the artistic life. there is another story of off-stage interest that culminates finally in tragedy and mystery and an approach to the true detective theme. The effect of the whole lacks vividness, lacks the truly convineing grip on the situation that a less overlaid plan might have ob- viated. However, it is an engage- ment for the easy hours of Summer time, and suits that perfectly legiti- mate purpose weil. BOOKS RECEIVED MYSTERY CAMP. By M. M. Dancy. | Tllustrated by P. L. Martin. Bos. ton: 1.. . Page & Co. LIMPING MAN . Grierson. New J. Clode. Inc. ! i Francie Edward By York . By Jacques Bainville, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, ete. Translated by Alice M., and Christian ;s . Litt. D.. ete. N D. Appleton & Co. THE BOOK OF NATIONAL PARKS. By Robert Sterling Yard. Execu- tive Secretary. National Parks As- sociation, author of \'The National Parks Portfolio,”” etc. With maps and .illustrations. Fifth printing. New York: Charles Scribner’s Soni BOOK OF MODERN ESSAYS. Fdited by Bruce Welker McCul- lough and Edwin Berry Burgum. Department of English. Washing- ton Square College, New York University. New _York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. CHILD OF THE WILD. A story of Alaska. By Edison Marshall, author of “The Sleeper of the Moonlight Ranges.” Illustrated by Herbert M. Stoops. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. CREATIVE FREEDOM. By J. W. T. Mason. New York: Harper & Brothers. MICROBE HUNTERS. By Paul de Kruif. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. THE CONQUEST OF THE PINES BY THE UNITED STATES, 1898-1925. By Moorfleld Storey and Mareial P.‘Lichauco. New York: G. Putnam’'s Sons. THE ABBESS OF CASTRO, and other tales. By Marie-Henrl Beyle (de Stendhal). Translated from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. New York: Boni & Liveright. 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VWO E. - ecoections Makers of Song. joutward form, and does not not seize the opportunity to make quick return on the investment by pu ting up apartments, for which ther: is 8o urgent a demand. To many Jap anese who have returned from resi dence abroad the apartment hous. would make a special appeal. The so called “foreign’ house as built in Ja pan—except the mansions of the wealthy—justifies its name only in 8 Justifs the increased rental asked just be cause it is “foreign.” Native-style houses, with their complete absence of modern comforts as known in th. west, are difficult to heat in the co seatons. Because of their lack of cor Veniences they are costly to operate. They require many domest 3 Soviet to Spend Vast Sum for New Housing In its extensive program for present fiscal year the Moscow soviet includes $30.000.000 for buildings to relieve the housing short age in the world's most overcrowded city. Drastic measures will be taker to encourage private and co-operative building. House commitiees are forbidden 10 resell rooms. non-workers will be ex pelled from their rooms in the cen tral section of the city and it is fo bidden to rent a room to any of the leisure class. Al escept a favored few are crowded like rabbits. Entire families occupy single rooms The citv's population is increasing faster than even the. “programs’ and many times faster than what is a complished. In the meantime the Moscow Sovie which operates the hotels in the « has shown a practical appreciatior of the situation by raising rates one third. Washable Bea-ded” Dress Features London Exhibit A goregous display of silks. satins and velvets. ranging in color from deli- cate pastel shades to hues of tropics brilllance. is on view during this week at the first artificfal silk ex hibition held in England. A. M. Samuel. partiamentary secretary. over seas trade department. declared in his opening address these fabrics are fit 0 provide such a robe as the Attic women wove each vear for the god dess Athene. The most novel exhib was a gown decorated with flexib glass beads of many coiors. The be have a wonderful shimmer and va riety of color, they are not sewn to the material. but riveted on. and are so trong that it is possible to wash and the beads iithout damaging the new Reds’ Luxuries Scored. Members of the Communist pariy as weli as Soviet officials received re cently an extremely severe lecture from .Joseph Stalin. one of the domi nant figures in the new Russia. By way of illustrating some of the faults in the character of Russian Commu nists, he pointed out that grain buyers appointed by the government usually began business by hiring several ste nographers. buyving an automobile and surrounding themselves with a little army of employes. “We are too fond plans, meelings. anniversaries and dedications.” said Stalin. “We have too many volunteers for honors wh are mot averse to celebrating an an niversary every six months. Many Communists who should be setting others a good example are actually acting like hogs in the Soviet o chard.” He appealed to the Russians take advantage of their position and change Russia from an agraran to an industrial countr of fantastic PAUL WHITE Read in his Amazing Book The Truth About Jazz J. H. 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