Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 24

Ericsson Monument Unveiling Is Impressive Art Event of the Weeck—New Portrait of the Bishop of Washington. Permanent Exhibition in Place at Corcoran Galleyy. BY LEILA MECHLI) F chief interest last week was the unveiling and dedication of the John Ericsson Monu- ment, which, with an un- usually impressive cercmony, took place yesterday. Unfortunately, the cutting of the monument, waich is largely in stone, has noi been com- pleted. therefore a plaster model was used in its stead for the dedication ceremonies. Th.s monunent is the work of James Larle I our foremost American s p in its conspicuous position, n moved from the Lincoln Memo Potomac Parkw 1 will necca be one of the sighis of Washington. In this city of memorials this monu- ment stands out as something cuite different and apart. It embudies in its design a portrait figure of John Ericsson, the inventor and designer of the Monitor. But the main portion of the monument is given over to al- legorical representation of the in- ventor's characteristics. On a round pedestal in a well arranged group stand figures personifying Vision, Ad- venture and Labor. At the feet of Vision, wrapped in a voluminous cloak or coat and in evident contemplation, deep thought, humbly sits John Erics- son, - whose willingness to work and love of adventure enabled him to achleve that which he en It is a great thing when sculpture not only fulfills the requ: ments of art but speaks in unequiv- ocal terms to the passerby. It is well, when a monument is reared to & mortal man, that it should set forth his immortal characteristics, me- wmorializing spiriteal achievement ather than physical supremacy. This Ericsson Monument does. entlally plastic, impressive in mere bulk and outline. There 1s beauty in form and in mass, but back of this is beauty of design, beauty of intellect, beauty of significan: A new standard is set by Mr. Fraser, through the medium of this work, in monumental sculpture. James Earle Fraser, it will be re- membered, was the sculpter of the statue of Alexander Hamilton which nds on the south steps of the Treasury—one of the best portrait statues not only in Washington, but that has been produced in this coun- try, vieing both in‘interest and merit with MacMonnie's great statue of Nathan Hale, which stands in City Mall Park, New York. Mr. Fraser was also the sculptor of the John Hay Memorial and of that interesting equestrian, “The End of the Trail,” embodying the spirit of the Far West, which was a notable feature of the San Francisco Exposition. James Karle Fraser's impression- able boyhood was spent in the Dako- tas, his father, Alexander Fraser, heing one of the engineers of the Northern Pacific Railroad. His play- mates were Indian boys and girls. When the railroad was completed the family moved to Minneapolis. It was there that the young sculptor began his training in art. Later he went to the Chicago Art Institute, and from there to Europe. He was fortunate enough to become a pupil of Augus- tus Saint-Gaudens, working in the great master’s studio in Paris at the time the Sherman Statue in New York took shape. After five years of this apprenticeship he returned to New York and took up independent work in his own studio. It was in the early there that he did a beautiful me- dallion of the children of Mr. and Mrs. MHarry Payne Whitne; Later he de- signed and modeled the gold medal for the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the medal of honor for the American Institute of Graphic Art: Some years ago, when a new -cent plece was to be issued, he was given the commission for its design and modeled the figure of a buffalo for one s.de, the head of an Indian chief for the other. Every one who has in his purse one of these coins possesses & work in sculpture by the great sculp- tor of the John Ericsson Monument. It was James Earle Fraser who was chosen to model a war memorial for the Bank of Montreal, the most beauti- ful statue, Royal Cortissoz says, thus far related to this subject. Writing of this work some time ago in “The Field of Art,” in Scribner's, Mr. Cortissoz remarked: “It commemorates the valor of a portentous body of men from the bank who died on the fleld of battle, more than 300 of them. Fraser inter- preted their deeds, not in dramatic, but in serenely meditative form. He mod- eled a standing figure of Victory, a gleaming white image, which he has placed among the colossal pillars of dark granite that make the sallent feature of the atrium. The statue is architecturally in harmony with its environment. It is literally part of the building, and Fraser's conception of his task was, no doubt, determined in @ measure by an architectural view of the matter. But what has interest- ed me in this superb memorial has been the fact that the artist’s imag- ination, profoundly touched by the war, was never for a moment dislo- cated or detached from the atmos- phere in which, as an artist, he h been accustomed to work. ¢ ¢ ¢ He adhered to classical ideas, was almost Greek in his treatment of form. He looked to the spiritual side of victory, its calm steadfastness, its mood of ex- wlted resignation. He thought only of what was nobly traglc in the world conflict, and as he did so remembered constantly the fundamental, immemo- rial canons of plasgic art. The result s a monument extraordinarily beauti- ful, one in which amn historic conven- tion 1s so filled nn? animated by per- sonal force that it {s lified above con- ventionality. Incidemtally, it offers a rave rebuke to those numerous me- wrials produced since the war which nave illustrated the impulse toward mere novelty. Washingion s indeed fortunate in having iwe of Mr. Fraser’s works unong its public memorials. ' * kX * PORTRAIT of the Bishop of Washington, the TRight Rev. James E. Freeman, D. D., has been painted by Mrs. Marion Boyd Allen of Boston, a non-resident memher of the Arts Club and a frequent exhibitor in local exhibitions. This is a three- quarter length and represents the bishop 1n his robes standing with face and figure turned toward the observer. 1t i$ technically an excellent piece of work, broadly painted, simple and di- rect. It was done, in fact, in seven and » half hours’ sittings, and there was little chance for indecision. The destination of the portrait, it is under- stood, is the Cathedral library; mean- hile, it has found placement in the bishop’s house. Mrs. Allen held an exhibition here last vear at the Van Dyck Gallerles. Her portraits of the late Jonn Lane, the London publisher, and of Anna Hyatt, whose equestrian statue of Joan of Arc is on Riverside Drive, ew York, are well known, outstand- ing works. She has been particularly successtul also in figure painting and interiors. Her pictures of children e pecially have found popular favor. The great portrait which vitally in- terprets personalitytogether with like. ness is not an evéry-day occurrence. The great portralts of the world are, n fact, so few that almost every one can name them. It is not quite fair, therefore, to measure current produc: tion by these standards or complain if it does not attain them. Mrs. Allen’s portrait of Bishop Freeman is essen- tially commendable for technical mer- it, sincerity and simplicity of treat- ment. * % Xk * ‘HE permanent collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art has been rehung and the gallery is again open to the public. It was no little work to take down, box and reship the more than 300 paintings comprising the Tenth Biennjal Exhibition and to re- hang the entire permanent collection. Happily, the rehanging has been as heretofore, and visitors will have no difficulty in finding, in their accus. tomed places, old favorites. To some extent the Corcoran Gal- lery’s collection is arranged chrono- logically, the works of the earlier American painters coming first and the works of the later painters in suc- ceeding galleries. The Corcoran Gal- lery of Art has since the first laid spe- cial .emphasis on American painting, and it has today one of the best col- lections of American painting that has been assembled. - Note may also be made of the fact that there has been some rearrange- ment of one of the lower galleries, that containing portrait busts in mar-. ble and Barye bronzes, the small gal- lery adjacent to that in which the Eustis memorial is found. By the acquisition of new cases and the re- arrangement of bronzes and busts, this room has now been made ho- mogeneous with the beautiful Eustis memorial room—fitting introduction, as it were, to that splendid work in sculpture and charmingly arranged collection of small bronzes. ‘The Corcoran School of Art closed for the season yesterday. The award of prizes will be made tomorrow or Tuesday, and from Tuesday, for a week or more, the work of the stu- dents of the school will be on view. * % % % '‘HE annual exhibition of the work of the students of the Catholic University of America is now open to the public. The work shown is being exhibited in the drill hall build- ing at the university, in the hall and class rooms on the second floor. ‘This exhibition is noteworthy, show- ing as it does the work of the success- ful students of the local school in the Fontainebleau scholarship compe- tition. A student of Yale University, Mr. Nagel, with Mr. Miller of the Catholic University, were winners of the two scholarships offered for for- elgn travel and study.. One of the Fontainebleau scholarships was won by John E. Miller of Cleveland, Ohio, who was also awarded a first medal by the jury of the Beaux Arts Insti- tute’ of Design. Mr. Miller will sail on the 8. 8. Paris June 12, to remain in France until October. The subject of the program for the Fontainebleau prize was “A Municipal Carlllon Tower,” and the high stand- ard of presentation which prevailed was quite as remarkable as the wide range of imaginative power displayed in the solutions presented. The prize winners' designs indicate upon the part of the student designers an ap- preciation of modern requirements of design coupled with a fine feeling for architectural composition in which a distinctly modern ‘suggestion is dis- cernible. The Fontainebleau scholarship car- ries a $500 prize given the Society «f Beaux Arts Architecty and ranks ‘with the Paris prize, the Warren prize and the Henry Adams prize, coveted goals to be achieved by students in architecture throughout thy: country. Vr. Miller's project whi gained h oniainebleau scholarshipy was also awarded the second prize of the Mu- nicipal Art Society of New York: ‘Thomas A. Locraft, also of the Catho- lic University department of a@chitec- ture, received a second medal-in the same competition, which drew fom a field of over 30 collegiate architestural schools and ateliers, and for Whml 267 drawings were submitted. ! During the past session medals, first ment®ns and. other awards' of distinction in similar competitions were awarded, in addition to Mess#s. ler and Locraft, to Messrs. Hoga®, Gallardo. Goettleman, Tucci, McMe- hon, Pairo, Chappeler, Patterson and Biberstein. A remarkable record! ‘The session’s problems in design covered a very wide ra “A Byzantne Baptistr {tation”” A Pavilion in the Style were among the most stimulating. One day sketch prob- lems, pen-and-ink renderings and studies from the antique done in char- coal also indicate the scope of the year's work. The exhibition, to which the public is cordially invited, represents the work of about thirty students, from varfous cities of the United States and from far off Egypt and Guatemala. The exhibition will continue for some days. The school of architecture of the Catholic University was awarded for the year 1925 the gold medal of the Socfete des Architectes Diplomes par le Gouvernement Francais for the highest standard of excgllence among the college architectural schools—a signal honor. The splendid co-operation of the various art societies, including such professional socletles as the American Institute of Architects, hus made the work of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design possibly the most important program of education in the arts be- ing at present carried on in America. ‘The French government, too, has lent its ald to further the cause of art edu- cation by permitting the use of a por- tion of the Palais de Fontainebleau for housing the studehts. ‘The correlation of the work of the sculptor, the painter and the interior decorator and the architect is also brought about and the reactions cer- tain to follow as a natural result of the blending of these arts under such favorable auspices will be of the greatest importance to the future ex- pression of art in America. * % X BALTI!\IORE is soon to lhave a million-dollar art museum build- ing. A site has been selected In the best residential section, adjacent to ‘Wyman Park and Homewood, on the estate of the Johns Hopkins Univer- v. This site, comprising six acres, was presented by the unlversi The Municigal Art Commission has chosen @s architect Howard Sill of Baltimore, Who will associate with himself in the work John Russell Pope of New York. The museum, which was incorpo- rated in 1914 but not Inaugurated until 1922, is housed at present in the old Garrett Mansion on Mount Verngn place. Florence N. Levy is director, and under her admirable administra- tion numerous notable exhibitions have been held and the museum’s col- lection and activities wisely developed. ® % '‘HE Joseph Pennell Memorial hibition, which was announced to open in Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, June 10, has been postponed until October. Arrangements for this ex- hibition are being made by the Print Club of Philadelphia. ® ok ok % Summer s exhibition at the Washington Arts Club will con- sist of works by resident artist members. * ok %k % N the Arts and Industries Building, United States National Museum, there is now to be seen an exhibition of pictorial photographs by members of the Cleveland Photographic Society. This exhibition will continue through the month of June and will be the last of the series for this season. Swedes Breed Foxes. THE JOHN HAY MONUMENT, BY JAMES EARLE FRASER, SCULPTOR OF THE ERICSSON MEMORIAL. Youth Movement in Germany Victorious For International Peace and Good Will BY DR. CARL J. FRIEDRICH, Institute of International Education. A definite step has been made to- ward the reaMzation of the dreams of German youth for internatfonal un- derstanding and fellowship. The aged Fleld Marshad von Hindenburg re- vealed to the world that a new era had come in \Germany when he put his signature o the Locarno treaty, which sealed peace in Europe. The youth movement, that spiritual ren- alssance among the young people of i Germany which began 20 vears ago, at first ridiculed, then feared and hotly attacked, has won the battle for in- ternational understanding, good will and peace. From its origin, when a few in- dividuals were fighting for their ideals, there has developed a powerful or- ganization of all the students in Ger- many. During the last few years of desperate economic struggle, 100,000 students in Germany have jolned to- gether in a co-operative effort'to ban. ish the difficulties which were harass- ing them. As Dr. Reinhold Schairer, director of the bureau in rge of the co- operative activities of the German students, pointed out, “there are no boundaries to scholarship. Realiz- ing this, the students of other lands gave $400,000 to the students of the German Republic. This was given with the express desire of helping the German students to help themselves, and they did. In the Summer of 1923 more than 63,000 students out of a total of about 110,000 were e in industrial and agricultural work, 10,000 of them in coal and ore mines. In all, more than 100,000 students se- cured jobs during the last four years, for an average period of from 6 to 12_months. With this organization spreading throughout all of Germany and repre- sented in all German universities by local agencies, there sprang up em- ployment services, co-eperative stu- dent kitchens, clinics, translation bu- reaus, mutual loan societies and stu- dent unions. To give one example of the magnitude of the enterprise, the loans of the mutual loan societies amount to nearly $475,000 year] All these activities of the students were to help themselves. But while engaged in this desperate struggle for their own economic relief, the German_ students shared in the un- usual effort of all the nations of the world to pool their intellectual achieve- ments and thereby bulld up interna- tional good will and understanding. A bureau of international relations was established. At the same time the Central Federation of Students de cided to ralse by yearly self assess- ment the sum of $14,000 te enable some of their best confreres to study at foreign universitics. As a momo-. rial to students all over the world who died in the wur, this foundation is of more practical and lasting benefit than many monuments of stone. ‘Thus, the idea of international stu- dent exchange by means of mutual arrangements for hospitality and scholarship fathered by the Rhodes trust has been widely adopted. Under the careful guidance of the Institute of International Education and its di- rector, Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, and with the assistance of a board of edu- cators from all over the country, it has been possible to set up definitely what is now recognized by the uni- versities of the United States and Ger- many as the American-German Stu- dent Exchange. “‘!l_:lndetr ll}ls(:rmngexgom 50 German ents of the very finest type have been able to avail themselveyspo;)f fel- lowships granted by universities of this country, and a similar group of American students have gone' to Germany as guests of the German universities. An Immeasurable amount of {inter- national understanding and good will has been established through these agencles. There is definite news in the fact that practically all the Ameri- can universities have declded to co-op- erate. It is splendid to know through the momentous conference of Amerl- can students at Princeton University held in December, that American students as a body are looking with sympathy and deep interest at what Wwe are trying to accomplish in Europe, (Copyright, 1926.) Much tnterest 1s telt hers in the| [OWa Botanist Studies Bees’ Tastes In Choosing Pollen for Winter Diet breeding of rare foxes. Recently 70 pairs of silver and blue foxes arrived in Stockholm to be transferred to the Norrland. The main expense in fox farms is fencing. The fence must ex- tend at least nine feet under the sur- face of the earth to prevent the foxes trom digging themselves free. Obvi ously some of the myriad islands around Scandinavia would be good sites for fox farms. There no fencing would be required. While there is & good market for good skins, the stock s expensive and when too many foxes are kept together they deteriorate rapidly. Silver foxes are very difficult to handle. ¢The blue fox, on the other nand, is easy to breed, but its pelt is ~ much less value. Bees have preferences in food as well as humans. Chérles A. Hoffman of the department of botany at Iowa State College has been carrying on an investigation to ascertain just whatt types of pollen they prefer the most. Except nectar, pollen “is the most important raw material used by honey bees, though both are essential. Pollen is stored by the bees for use over the Winter in compact masses called bee-bread. It is as necessary for the larvae, or young bees, as milk for bables, and without it the swarm would soon die out. Rye flour has been tried out as a substitute, but is not particularly successful, since pollen is the bees’ sole source of available protein. In feeding the larvae, the bees evidently first digest the pollen and then administer it through glands opening near the mouth. Later they are fed a mixture of pollen grains and honey. Disease That Turns Teeth P Many plants are exceedlfigly lavish in pollen. production. It has been estimated that a single dandelion blossom may produce about 365,000 grains and a peony 3,500,000. The amount used by a colony of bees is relatively enormous, mounting up to manys pounds in a season. A single bee c¢an bring in several hundred grains on one trip. With the information and chart which Mr. Hoffman has prepared, it is possible for the heekeeper to examine thé pollen from the incoming bee and determine from what source.the bees are obtaining their honey. Pollens from members of the legume family, such as clover*and alfalfa, are popu- lar throughout the Summer in re- flons where they are common, as in he Middle West. Earlier in the sea- son when the orchards are in bloom, the bees draw on the blossoms of the fruit trees as a source of supply. le* "Discussed by English Physiologist A welrd and rare disease that turns the teeth purple and makes sunlight on the skin unbearable was discussed by Prof. J. Barcroft, well known Eng- lish physiologist, in a lecture before the Royal Institution. The affliction is so rare that there are only three known cases int England at the pres- ent time, but it is of especial interest to physiological and medical science because the purple substance, por- phyrin, is closely allied to the red ma- terial, hemoglobin, that gives blood its color. Subtracting its iron and albu- men from hemoglobin by appropriate chemical means leaves porphyrin. No‘one knows yet why the bodies of these unfortunate patients should be manufacturing the wrong plgment, Prof. Barcroft sald, but the fact re. mains_that it is constantly being formed and deposited in their bones, teeth and skin. Porphyrin react: strongly to the “invisible light,” or ultra-violet part of the solar spectrum, 80 that the victims of this mysterious ailment have to wear gloves con- stantly, and if they go out of doors in the daytime must<put on heavy el s, R The only creature that normally wears porphyrin as part of its body- oovering, Prot. Barcroft said, is a trop- fcal bird, the touraco, parts of whose feathers are stained a briliant red, with a porphyrin-copper compound known as turacin. * This pigment is further remarkable because it seems to be the only normal occurrence of copper as a coloring compound in feathers or skin. Turacin is soluble in weak alkali, so that when it rains and the bird comes into contact with such alkaline, solutions as occur fre- quently in nature the poor ‘touraco bleaches out. Although porphyrin is rare as a normal coloring in adult animals, it is the commonest pigment found in egg- shells of birds, Almost all the colors of birds’ eggs, from the blue of the robin’s to the homely brown of the tln:‘n"e, contain this strange ' colori: Eight Baths a Year Average in Moscow Careful investigatiorf has resulted in the denouncing as a canard of the story published in the United States that near Lake 'Baikal has been dis- covered a village in which the inhabit- ants never bathed. Careful investi- gation by the Moscow economy depart- ment shows that the 1,800,000 inhabit. ants of this city average eight or nine baths a year. One Doctor Looks Upon Biogra.phy*—-Mystery Story Which Concerns Washington—The Life Story of Howard Pyle, - 1DA ‘GILBERT MYERS. THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT BIOG- RAPHY. By Joseph Collins, au- ! thor of “The Doctor Looks at Liter- ature,” etc. New York: George H. Doran Co. I again moves out into_liter: ture. And, as is the doctor's babit. his equipment for this adventur- ing is that which he has gathered pro- fessionally from the study of men and women more orless under the domin- ion of disordered nerves. Assuming that the majority is to a degree undet the same nervous handicap, the doc- HE doctor goes on with the clinfc. As has already done more-than once, he here !tor here takes on the role of neurolo- glst in literature as well as in medi- cine, The growing public favor of the biography has attracted the question- ing eye of the doctor, Why this sud- den growth of general interest in the life record of John and James and Susan? A dull matter this routine record was not so long ago. Every body receiving consideration from writers was, regardless of special qual- ity, set down under the drab roofage of birth, youth, marriage, begetting, dying. Not a dull matter any longer. For nowadays the biograph, has taken on the charm of romance. Its subject is the center around whom poople and events gather, or from whom they recede, accotding to the effects of his own out-reaching deeds, of his own spiritual radiations, of his own substance of character. Here, too, as in the novel, there is the na ural interplay of persomality and cir- cumstance. the rise of events from level to level of growth and develop- ment and effect. Such, sketchily, is the new bivgraphy, so deservedly pop- ular with serious readers and artists. The doctor talks about it as a source from which man gets “moral. physical, mental and emotional assistance; he sees where others have fafled and why; he recognizes avoiduble obstacles and handicaps; he learns the value of health_and its relation to happine: he suffers vicariously, or enjoys jectively with the subject. His own life, therefore becomes happler and more complete because of his Intimate sojourn with a successful predeces- P *’Beyond a general discussion of bi- ography, the Goctor undertakes a spe- cial clinic of certain writers and those of other professlons—war and editor- ship. Some of these are home gTow Others are brought in from the oul slde. All come under the scrutiny of biography for the reason, no doubt, that whatever a man's theme in authorship or wdrd of mouth may as- sume to be, the actual theme is the writer or speaker himself. The authbr spins tales Innumerable upon & single hero—himself. Poets sing of them- selves. Warrlors recount their own deeds®in summaries of war. Ever body in the world Is his own hero, Everybody talks about himself. There is no other way. All the characters of a novel are pleces of the author, of course. There is no other So all writing is in essence blograph: Therefore, it is quite properly under makes groups of “interpretations. And a host of interesting people file by—Lafcadio #learn, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Anatole France, Sainte-Beuve, Conrad, Thomas Burke, Jobn Keats and others. For war- riors, Lord Wolseley and Robert E. Lee. Then Edward Bok, Joseph Pulitzer, Edward Mitchell, J. St. Loe trachey 3 : And upon these the doctor exercises his professional dexterity of mind and hand. Besides, an lpressive knowl- edge of books and their writers comes to his assistance. A critical sense trained by long usage in dealing with tHe border line|between health and allment steps alongside. And then here is the most outspoken of men, influenced not at all by the conven- tions of thought and speech. Well, the doctor makes the purely literary critic operating under certain rules and shibboleths appear like a most useless piece of literary furniture. A greatly inspiring and helpful doctor, this doctor of literature. EE HOWARD PYLE: A chronicle. By Charles D. Abbott. Introduction by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Harper & Brothers. LIFE story that will appeal espe- cially to artists on the one hand and to children on the other, while it is bound to be of clear interest to the general reader. This is the story of a great American illustrator. It is also the chironicle of hard work, of in- defatigable zeal as teacher and of high standing s inspiration to fellow art- 1sts and craftsmen. To children Ho ard Pyle is a teller of old tales in'the spirit of youth itself. To boys in particular does this man and brother stand out as the minstrel of a heroic past. The founder of an American school of art, Howard Pyle adds this achievement to an already overflow- ing life of effort and accomplishment. To suéh full life Charles Abbott gives sympathetic and affectionate care. His effect .is to re-create the person- alitv of the artist in the mind of the reader and to project in vivid fashion the activities and interests of this American artist. Many of Mr. Pyle’s letters add here to the general effect of immediacy and reality. Many of the artist’s own pictures are repro- duced here also as an added value to an already suhstantial book of many kinds of value. SR % THE OLDEST GOD. By Stephen Me- Kenna, authow of “An Affair of Honor,” etc. Boston: Lfttle, Brown & Co. » A CHRISTMAS party in an ancient English castle that was calculated to arouse eerie thoughts and feelings. sitting about the fire-lit room the talk ran on the 'gryesome question of where the devil got his cloven hoof. Serious people in the group, scholars and elders, wandered to the theme of paganism and Pan, predecessors of Christ and Christianity. systems of religion came up, some- what fitfully, in application to the views and objects of modern life. The talk grew, taking on a curiously pene- trating+ effect with the advent of a stranger coming in as one comes in for rest or shelter on a longer journey than this stopping place implied. The story progredses by way of a certain possession that took hold of this Christmas gathering. It séemed as if there was a secret individual purpose on the part of the younger element to try out this religion of na¢ ture. It is not difficult to see what such a resolution, the secret common possession of a number of young men and women, might luce in the way of unprecedented behaviors on the part of English men and women of usually conventional training and out- look. Mr. McKenna has a prodigious job on his hands to make even an ap- proach to plausibility out of this situ- ation. One feels the strain upon this ‘waywise and interesting writer, so apt in every sort of social complex. Here, however, his approaches to the matter in hand show the labor of invention required by him to sustain that which he has undertaken. Oh, an interest- ing story of English folks, A all greatly busied ) umericans, cial n.mu‘:...uum upon which t strung that bears quite too heavy a this inclusive theme that the doctor [ th | i | essentially wrong man. strain upon its power to hold up. However, there is great beauty and seriousness of thought here and there in this curi@us tale of Christmas time under the influence of the “oldest pe intruding upon the rightful spirit of that time. R RN THE BLUE CAR' MYSTERY. By Natalle Suramer Lincoln, author of “The .Cal's Paw,” etc. New York: D. Afpleton & Co. ANOTHEH murder mystery by Natalle Lincoln, specialist in the dramatization of Capital City crimes. The old Commodore, who here comes to an untimely and shocking end, lived over in the northeast. The house is still there, so the author indicates. And this means that again a certain ‘Washington reader will hurry away to identify the place before the zeal of the locgl realtor hus swept away an- other of the interesting landmarks, all of which seem to him to be specially odious and worthy of destruction. To come back to the Commodore. One morning he was found dead in his library, his work scattered about him Here begins another of this author’ characteristic man hunts. There are no known criminals in sight. Miss Lincoln has mnothing to do with this class. On- the contrary, everybody closelv or even remotely related to the Commodore is respectable and well considered. Yet, after her own fashion, Miss Lincoln hunts her man, or woman, not too fdr away from the victim's own circle—doubtless upon the fairly sup- ported theory that every human has within Bim the potentialities of all evil as well as of all good. One after another of the Commodore's own household walks straight into the reader's suspicion without any ap- parent effort on the part of the writer to make him do so. Yet, there he is. All sorts of strange factors drift eig- nificantly into the situatfon—the “blue car” among them. The mystery goes on growing, no matter how near one thinks, repeatedly, that he is sure of the right man, who is, of course the Tt is interest- ing—the way to this discovery. Be- llevable and attractive people gather here, comporting themselves becom- ingly to their roles and clrcumstances. Because of this feature one does not race along on the all-absorbing hunt for the criminal. Interesting things happen—things interesting in them- selves despite their bearing upon a vital and rather exclusive point. And then—well, one s certain that this climax, when it does come, is, in the author’s opinion, as well as {n our own—the best ever. * & ok k- CAT’S CRADLE. By Maurice Baring. author of “The Black Prince,” ete. Illustrated by Daphne Baring. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. 6 A T' that moment the thread of his life crossed and caught that of Blanche’s, and the fingers of des- tiny, with a deft movement, changed ttern in the cat’s cradle &f their lives.” A clever title, you see, and one so broadly applicable as to name almost any story of human inter- course. The author says of it: “It is a true story. The main facts, the strange facts, are all true. You can find the story {tself in the old files of a newspaper. ‘This final statement prepares one for any sort of unbeliev- able adventure, since the day's paper conveys enough of strange and star- tiing truth to fortify romancers for the rest of their lives with novels of poignant realism. It is a tragic story, having to do with an Italian princess of great beauty and its unhappy possibilities. A story of love and sorrow. But Mr. Baring is opposed to any specific reve- lation about the real pattern of this true tale. A natural objection on the part of an author and one that should be respected in the interest of the reader as well as in deference to the writer's wish. So'let us talk about something else. The story is too long, much too long. for its content; much too long for the crowded and hyrried days of the present. Too many people of too little variety of personality overtax the reader’s ability to take care of them all. The main facts, col- orful and significant as they are, would have made a better romance than this crowd of people and inci- dents and scenes succeed in doing. Too many soclal affairs going on. One is hurried hither and thither to teas and evenings and theaters and operas in a_bewildering uncertainty as to when he left one of these and took on another. 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