Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1927, Page 50

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASH Important Additions to the Phillips Memorial Gallery Collec- tion—Oil Paintings and Drawings on Exhibi- tion at Dunthorne's. LEILA MECHLIN. ps Memorial to the public order that the, extremely ind varled exhibition some time in Pebruary might be installed. first view of this exhibition was given yesterday afternoon. The ga lery Will be open and on successive and Sundays farch »xhibition is in three sections to the works of mod those who are finding or have found new and unusual forms of expression in painting: another com striking contrast, figure of ts by cotempo artists or ar who have lived in the last 25 and the e essent : 'he third section is made | works by the old maste 1l three Mr. Phillips traces BY Tuesdays, Satur during February an- | for opening | gain this afternoon | | plaee of honor is given to a landscape | hy Ronnard, who Mr. Phillips con- | s.ders one of the greatest living paint ers of our day. In Bonnard he sees an affinity to De Bussy. Both, he cluims, are masters of naunce, links between the old and the new in music and painting. The lately acquired stiil life with flowers by Matisse, hung to the right. lends gay color, as does a | figure painting—a girl in a red dress | with a dark dog, by Bonnard——hung | to the left. An entirley different prevails in the little galler ins an amazing amoun mall space paintings, for inst tin-Latour's beautiful, but essential- , partrait of “Mademoi- E Alden Weir's pic Kitting for Soldiers.” There s a lovely little Dewing here, “Pan- dora,” and a charming interior with figures by Helen Turner. Every way one's eve turns there is something mosphere wce, as Fan- golden thread which has from the beginning in all 1 at all times the gr tapes: presenting the history of art. moderns has been given the to the paintings older school, the to the great mas on the first floor, open to the public. n extent this unusual e cus in and does special honor | remarkable head in stone of sculptured by the hand | jwn artist of about 1300 lately brought to this country acquited by Mr. Phillips. This marvelously realistic, vital, personality, has been placed 1t the end of the main gallery facing the door with Augustus T superhb decor 3 ainting, Voice of Many Waters,” back of it. To the left hangs a painting by Twachtmann—gray sand dunes hold- ing blue water in their lap, reflecti blue sky overhead; on the other a colorful landscape by Cezanne. Next to the Twachtmann is a Maurice Prendergast with its gay and v color, Next to the Cezanne are [ ings by two Americans, one of whom is Marjorie Phillips. As a color | scheme this wall is exquisite and one can find no end of esthetic enjo in_definite study, but pas- feasting. wall in this gallery is over entirely to a series of water colors by John Marin, whose works Mr. Phillips, and a good many others, highly esteem and greatly en- joy, but which to the general public and to many art lovers mean little or nothing. Mr. Phillips himself says that these paintings must be profoundly studied to be understood that they are not intended as rep- resentative, that they are mnot in- tended to be naturalistic interpreta- tions of things seen, but rather the registration of things felt—sym- phonies in color, the works of a paint- er which parallel in music the works of a great composer. Among Mr. Phillips’ estimates of artists in his lately published “A Col- Jection in the Making," he speaks of Marin as follows: “This Marin, Wwho epeaks emotionally or not at all, whose works are ‘immediate realiza- tions,” is_more than an improvising wizard, With his amazing intuition he hints at strange truths freshly ap- prehended. ‘He puts down a world out of focus as it seems in a suddenlly leveled glance into distance—the cen- ter of vision alone clear—the rest, blotches and indefinite masses of col- or. The world is there, as it is before the reason steps in and adjusts it with old experfence” He gives us moreover the quickened sense of our intense modern life in the midst of encircling and bewildering elements. He is a modernist in his emotional tempo even more truly than in his technique which is akin to the con- summate calligraphy of the greater Chinese designers.” The greatest Chinese designers, however, were essentially draftsmen; line meant much to them, whereas seemingly it means nothing to Mr. Marin. They dealt not merely with color, with emotion, but with facts. It seems to the writer that Mr. Tack's exquisitely colorful painting, *The Voice of Many Waters,” more nearly approaches the work of the Chinese of the great period than do Mr. Marin’s, but it must be admitted that the writer is one of those who find no pleasure whatsoever in Mr. Marin's works. Mr. Phillip same od and yrary hibition | B and head full The given right has frankly stated in his recent valuable book that the pur- pose of his gallery is in part to serve testing ground and that he shows these and other extremely modernistic works in order that Washingtonians have the opportunity of seeing udging for themselves of their or their demerit. He admits present estimates may in time prove incorrect, but he is giving the younger men, who are sincere, oppor- tunity for fair showing. There are certain principles to which, as fundamentals, all great art up to the present time has conformed. These principles are not applicable, in many instances to the works of the modernists, therefore the critic, even ihe devout art lover, in the presence of such, frequently finds him or her- self wordless, unable to praise or to . to comprehend, to explain. all opposite that on which the wrin water colors are shown exhibits utiful arrangement, color combina- tlons of unusual effectiveness. The | their beautiful. But the gem of the whole collection, the surprise, that which carries one completely off one's feet through inherent and unspeakable beauty, Is a lately acquired portrait head by George Fuller, a cotem porary of Inness and La Farge and Thayer and Dewing and those other great Amertcan artists, who through works, have added bheauty to our own world and reputation to our count Works by George Fuller are included in some of the leading art museums of this country—prized possessions, but none that the writer has seen is as fine or as masterly as this sensitively and sympathetically painted young woman's head. Not only the Phillips Memorial Gallery but Washington, is to be congratu lated that it has come here to stay. This gives but a summary account of this nogable exhibition, but as it has just opened and will continue for four weeks, ample_opportunity will be provided and taken advantage of later for fuller description and dis- A o T the Dunthorne Gallery an ex- tremely pleasing and appealing exhibition of oil paintings by Lilla Cabot Perry opened t week and will not cl until next Saturday. Mrs. Perry is perhaps better known as a painter of figures than as a painter of landscapes, but the pres- ent showing is chiefly made up of the latter, a single exception being a portrait of a little girl, “Hilde- garde,” very sympathetically render- ed. Quite a number of the subjects set forth were painted during the past year in the néighborhood of Mrs. country home at Hancock, One of these is a Winter scene—a little cabin set on a hillside among leafless trees, the ground snow-covered, the title appropriately, “A Snowy Monday.” Smoke comes from the chimney; the week's wash hangs out. There Is a lovely Spring picture in the collection chfefly fea- turing blossoming crabapple trees. Mrs. Perry’s style is a little that of the French impressionists. She has undoubtedly taken her cue ffom Mo- net, whom she knew intimately, and she has in her paintings not a little of his stylistic quality. Furthermore, she uses fresh, fine color. She is ob- viously a lover of nature as well as a lover of art, and one who has studied nature in its many moods. Among the pictures in this exhibi- tion are three or four painted in Ja- pan. One is a view of “Fuji from Iwabuchi”; another, very attractive, “Theater Posters, Ikao, Japan,” and a third, “Fujl,” just Fuji. Three of the paintings in this ex- hibition were purchased as soon as it opened, one by the Countess Sczhenyl, one by Mrs. Marshall Field and one by Mrs. Perry Belmont. Mrs. Perry has just held an exhibi- tion of her works in the galleries of the Guild of Boston Artists, of which she is secretary, on which the critic of the Boston Transcript made the following excellent comment “One can but admire,” he said, “the sus- tained interest displayed in her art by the exhibitor, ever able to assem- ble at short notice a considerable ar- ray of canvases, a large proportion of which has never been shown before. Nature seems continuously to present new aspects, which to her have real small size sketches done in a free and suggestive manner—artist's notes, fleeting impressions. * ok Kk IRGINIA HARGRAVES WOOD, the sister of Waddy B. Wood, architect of this city, and very well known here, has issued lately a lit- tle booklet containing reproductions of some of her most recent portraits in red chalk, charming interpretations of childhood, among which are por- traits of Michael Tree, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Tree; Hon. Michael As- tor, son of Viscount and Lady Astor, and Lloyd Symington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Symington * k% K NNOUNCEMENT has been made by the National Museum ,that Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston's beautiful photographs of Old World gardens, lately temporarily shown in Corcoran Hall, George Washington University, will be shown in the old museum photographic halls during the month of Februa i Il T the Arts Club of Washington, from February 6 to 19, will be shown an exhibition of oil paintings by Burtis Baker and an exhibition of er colors by William Lester Ste- vans of Rockport, N . Later in the month, from February 19 to March &, will be shown an exhibition of ultra- modern art assembled by Eben I Comins. This will comprise the works of Stuart Davis of New York, Barl Bragg and Prentiss Taylor of this city. February 10 has been set aside as industrial arts evening, with Mrs. Nellie A.°Brenizer as hostess. Mr. Frederick Lewton, curator of textiles at the National Museum, and Mrs. Lewton will be guests of honor. Mluminator Toil Over Shakespeare The art of illuminating books, so prosperous in the Middle Ages but vir- tually unknown in these days of in- dustrial progress, is not completely dead yet. An exquisitely illuminated manuscript that took Alberto Sangor- ski, Londoner of foreign descent and formerly a jeweler, five years to fin- ish has been bought by an American for $1,500. The volume is of Shakes peare’s songs and sonnets, rendered on pure vellum, with 50 pages of illumi- nated borders, containing upward of 40 minfature fllustrations inspired by passages in the poetry. It is bound in blue and crimson levant morocco, with Shakespeare's arms and crest, the motto made in 18-carat gold enameled in_heraldic colors. Each miniature took him from two to three weeks to paint. Another work i an illuminated manuscript of “Romeo and Jullet” on vellum, bound in pink levant morocco and studded with 214 rubies, 36 amethysts and 150 pearls. Sangorski has spent 25 years in “making” these beautiful books and is reputed to be supreme in his medieval art, He seldom takes less than a year in making a manuscript. His longest task extended over eight years, 1914-1922, when. he illustrated Thomas Moore’s “The Light of the Harem,” the binding alone occupying two years. This hook was bought by the Maharajah of Patiala for $25,000. Soviet’s Gold Mining Machinery Worn Qut Individual gold miners and private companies that were in Siberia before the World War are now encouraged to return to the Soviet Union on ac- count of the blight of that most pros- perous of occupations under govern- ment operation. ¢ According to Comrade Ignatiev, chief of the mining department of the supreme commission of national econ- omy, the machinery which the state nationalized has worn out and new explojtation of the gold regions has ceased, The output for the fiscal year 1925-26- was 38,006 kilograms (a kilo- gram is about 23 pounds), or only 54 per cent of the 60,837 kilograms mined pictorial interest and are accordingly transposed onto canvas with remark- able facility. * * + Herolc under in- clement conditions has been the art- ist’s devotion to her native landscape; the painting which remains most clearly fixed in the mind shows a cot- tage blanketed with snow and backed with slim trees which rise dark and sentinellike toward the sky. It is one of Mrs. Perry’s latest paintings and is one of her most crisp and in- cisive endeavors.” The painting re- ferred to is undoubtedly “A Snowy Monday,” on which comment was made above, [UNUSUAL success has attended the exhibition of Miss Marian Lane's pencil drawings of Washington, water colors, illiminations and book bindings now in progress at the Dunthorne Galleries. Miss Lane has chosen wisely in the matter of subject, and demonstrates the picturesque quality in those buildings which many of us pass unnoted day after day. Among her water colors is one of a group of houses in Bruges which is particu- larly significant, as are a number of * K ok X in 1913. ‘With customary Soviet astrological accuracy for the future the depart- ment has figured out already that the output in 1927-28 will be 46,686 Kkilo- grams. Hindu Women Discard Custom-Imposed Veils Posgibly inspired by the feminine revolt in Turkey a group of Moslem women in south India have decided to discard the traditional veil (purdah) imposed upon them by custom and religion. The wife of the prime minister of Mysoré presided at a meeting at which more than 1,000 women agreed to abolish the old restrictions. She challenged the orthodox religious au- thorities to quote textually from the Koran anything enjoining the wear- ing of the vell. This the religious teachers could not do; and as a result no veils will henceforward be worn in Mysore. ”~ - *SNOWY MONDAY," A PAINTING BY LILLA CABOT PERRY, . . sccoselp. s N THE PHILLIPS GALLERY EGYPTIAN HEAD OF THE THIRTE! ACQUIRED BY THE PHILLIPS PORTRAIT BY GEORGE FULLER, NTH CENTURY B. C.. RECENTLY MEMORIAL GALLERY OF WASH- WHICH IS A RECENT ADDITION TO THE PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY COLLECTION. Western Hold on China Faces Break, With Britain to Be Greatest Loser (Continued from Fi press of the world has heen filled with more or less vague descriptions of the revolt of the East. Nearly all of these reports have had the vice of compar- ing Chinese and Asiatic conditions too closely to European and American and drawing conclusions from parallels which, however appealing on paper, bear little resemblance to reality. Yet it is manifest that there has been and continues to be a disturbance in Asia which tends to become more and more definitely anti-European and more and more seems to follow the conception of Asia for the Aslatic: Several years ago this movement in India seemed to have become irrestst- ible and British retirement became a topic of general discussion. In %he end thie British rode out the storm. Their situation for two or three years has improved oh the surface. But it is hard to believe that it has been permanently consolidated. Today, ignominious retreat in China could not fail to reawaken extremist activity in India. But, on the other hand, the use of force, the arrival of war, the presence of American and other European forces beside the Brit- ish, might have ah equally strong challenge to Asiatic populations. And at bottom the difficulty lies in the fact that no decisive victory seems possible in the premises. Aggressive War Costly. Ewropean troops could certainly hold bits of Chinese territory indefl- nitely. Enough troops might be gath- ered to break any single Chinese army, but no country iri the world, save the United States, could possibly finance a large struggle, which in the nature of things could bring no immediately considerable financial returns. And the public sentiment of no European country would long support such a costly undertaking. Thus, in the last analysis, the Chi- nese situation is no more than ore more demonstration of the extent of the disaster to Europe incident to the World War. Europe is today com- paratively impotent because’ i is ap- proximately exhausted. And _this, after all, was the explanation which underlay the ultimate retirement of the Roman legions 4rom the Rhine and the Danube. The barbarian hordes which flowed into the Roman world were not on the whole more coherent or more or- ganized that the Chinese masses to- day. The movement was rather in- stinctive than ordered. Similar waves had undoubtedly beaten against the scientific frontiers of the empire for several centuries. What had changed was within and not without. And, measureably, that is what has hap- pened in the Western World today. 1f the United States chooses, with its immense resources and great popu- lation, to play an imperial role in the Fast, or anywhere else, it can do it. The European position in Asia would at the least be enormously fortified if we appeared to share in operations to break the present Chinese revolution and restore order even in the treaty Rorts and at the coast, How far even we could go beyond that is open to question. In the present situation of Europs, however, it is at least doubtful whether any long-continued operation could be carried on without our par- tigipation or any viable adjustment be obtained by force. By contrast it seems a_mistake to think of the prob- lem as Chinese alone. The whole po- sition of Huropean powers, of Britain in India as well as China, of. France in Indo-China and Syria, the situation of the Dutch in the Bast Indies, 18 within _limits affected. Retirement from China may well prove not the last but the first retreat of .FEurope from Asia, or at least the second, fol- lowing Chanak perfectly logically. (Coyright. 1027.) e b Brifisl;Museum Mail Yields Rare Articles The mail man with the most inter- esting route in the world is the one who drops his bag at the British Mu- seum each morning. And the con- tents of that bag make far and away the most extraordinary postal delivery received by any one in England. Each delivery is a veritable grabbag in curios. Gems, stones, arrowheads, old books, rubbish, shells, bits of leather, fossils, postage stamps, live animals, stomachs pickled in alcohol, colns, butterflies, weapons, bones— this is the sort of rag-bag collection which the museum officials discover with almost grotesque excitement upon opening the mail in the mdrning. Though there is seldom anything of decided value, the mass of stuff is always sorted out and weeded care- fully for any rare and valuable curio. Most of the senders expect no acknowledgment or reward—in fact, there is no return address on many of the parcels. Evidently they do it for fun. But is it? Ask the postman. Rikisha Boys Guard Their License Plates Chinese traffic police have their hands full in managing the rikisha boys, who disregard all the rules of the road when they can get away with it and often when they cannot. The other day a traffic officer, Chinese, seized the license plate from the back of a rikisha whose puller had infringed a regulation. The boy —he was an unhappy, ill-favored young man with a pock-marked face ~—dld not show fright, but he started to bawl—that is the right word. The seizure of the license plate or the cushion is the traffic officer’s way of ruling the rikisha pest. The boy rents the vehicle for the day and must return it with both license plate and cushion, or he forfeits this means of subsistence, If he loses either he|. must go to the police court to recover. it. There he must pay a small fine, about 50 cents in United States mon INGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 6, 1927<PART 2. i ¢ - 1 New Volumes by James Henry Robinsqn and _] Loe Strachey. A Dog Story and More Adventures of Tish by Mary Roberts Rinehart. IDA GILBERT MYERS. THE ORDEAL OF CIVILIZATION. By James Harvey Robinson, au- thor of “The Mind in the Making, ete. IHustrated. New York: Har- per & Bros. EADING the titles of these chapters and noting their auences, one would call tiris book a broad survey or outline of civilization from the break- up of the Roman Empire to the World War. And that's what it would have been if the author in making it had taken his position where the great majority of historians the world over have taken theirs as matter of cour This he did not do. Instead of run- ning along beside events in the role of chronicler, Mr. Robinson took his stand in the present for the purposes of this study. In the midst of today he looked about upon the multitudi- nous aspects of the present—upon government, industry, politics, educa- tion, society religion; upon the sum of the essentials of current existence. “How did we get this way?” is the form of the vernacular fn which he projected the supreme question in the life of every nation, in the life of the individual “as well. ‘This standpoint, this terse question, marks the essen tial departure of this study from the conventional routine of the historian. But it is this qirestion that marks well the difference between history as a potent force in the understanding of the present as a vitalizing element in the shaping of the future wnd'the deadwood of a history that stops with record and ¢hronicle, no matter how full nor how exact these may be. “How did we gét this way?” Just what in the past has contributed o mightlly to this amazing present of many-sided interest and opportunity? The answer I8 close by, and it is this .| nearby contributing age that he uses to give reasonable and satisfying an- swer to the cruclal query. Some of the. manifestations of the ‘present—in- deed, many of them—go farther back for thelr answers. So back to an- other stage or phase of civilization does the author lead us for the condi- tions that produced these more re- motely sourced aspects of the common life of the present. Such, generally speaking, is the plan of this strikingly pointed study of the ciyilization in whose midst ‘we are working and whose advance it is quite within our power to assist. Now, this rational plan of study, this panorama that in cludes our own day with the causes that directly produced it, and. that contains also the seeds of a future day, has a still deeper purpose than that of accounting for our present This deeper purpose looks forward to the attainment of an intellectual and moral majority. When we have seen truly the ways along which we have come, a8 We do see them here, our next tAsk is to discard the out-moded archafc . things— unfounded soruples, - superstitions, remnants of old and futile practices, subjection to anclent authorities. All these to go as, throngh such studies as this one and through the reflections and re sonings that such studies bring, w finally reach the stature of becoming “historfcal minded.” A remarkable departure from the common view- point of historic study, an equally re- markable development and outcome that promise a. revolution in history making, that ought to bring about a vevolution in grasping the content and substance and spirit of civilization itself. * k ¥ % AMERICAN SOUNDINC J. St Loe :Strachey, editor of the Spec- tator, New York: D. Appleton & Co. COQU/HAT ‘a modest man! How friendly end how wise a man this is!’ Such is the sum of feeling that gobs out toward Mr. Strachey upon reading “American Soundings.” We've grown rather used to a flip- pant skimming off the top of things American at the hands of European trippers’ to this side. Used to snap- shot_ judgments, usually of the ad- verse brand,.as these blythe visitants flit from place to place in the United States with: leefures to sell, with other wares called merchandisable by them. So it ‘comes as a kind of blessing to have this ripe and seasoned observer talk to s and about us in the under- standing spirit of the old blood bond. Not a longer tarrying in America supports the views given here than projects the freer outlook of so many of the others in like situation. The great difference between Mr. Strachey and these i that he had more to bring to this country than they had, 80, naturally, he had more to take away in the line of fair judgment and a teuly friendly association. More of general experience belongs to him, more of special training, more of the See It at These Stores Wm. Ballantyne & Sons Brentana’s John Byrne & Company S. Kann Sons Company Paul Pearlman Woodward & Lothrop and your local bookstore e = = Merriam Co., Sprinkfield, Mass. without cost, epecimen "Wevaters New. Tntorn o Rewalar ang Indie papots. ‘ou_Are the Jury” and sei (Wasl. Star 2-6-27) but this is a_grievous matter |y {of episodes -oi mind’s unbias, more of mellowing in- fluence and a greater desire to see America than to see himself by way of this great country.. So. in the friendlfest spirit and the most delight. ful of ways, he tells what he saw and how these things looked to him. He talks of our universities, of our lit- erature and its makers, of our lan- guage in its common rootage with his own and of the natural changes com- ing to it in a new setting and a new tlay. He talks of our characteristics as they come to him, and touches upon . certain representative Ameri- cans. In a_more personal way he speaks of Jefferson and Lincoln and, among the poets, of Emerson and Whitman. Whatever his theme, how- ever, @ wise and kindly man, as well As a graphic and impressive writer, shows a keen eagerness of interest in this new country which is.after all, a part of the old country to which we all-belong and from gwhich we all de- rive much of our promise for the future. E R D THE DOG. By Albert rerhune, author of “Lad.” rated in_color and with wings by Marguerite Kirmse. ew York: Harper & Bro. SRE another Terhune book about dogs for boys and girls and men and women to own and cherish. Aside from its stories, this is & beauti- ful book—all green and gold on the outside, and on the inside quite alive with plctures by a lady Who is able to g6t 4 good deal of the heart and mind of w dog into his portrait. These are stories selected for one excellent rea- son or another from Mr. Terhune's amazing dog lore.- So you may -be sure that they are storiés to be treas- uréd, by virtue of their deep affection for the dog and their genuine intimacy with the feelings and ways of this wonderful creature who—God knows why!—has chosen man as the object of an undying devotion, of a pefrfectly gelflégs love. First I'd have a boy. Then he should have a dog. And around the twe 1'd build a little books shelf and fill it with true storfes about dogs. Then I'd kKnow that in one re- spect, at least, 1'd fortified that boy’ against loneliness and a dozen other of the besetments of young life, of old life as well: And on that shelf, to be sure, would rest-every story made by Albert Payson Terhune.about his best of friends. And others, too—many others—from those who can get their dogs across, alive, to the printed page. e & e o TISH PLAYS THE GAME. By Mary Roberts Rinehart, author of “Tish,” ete. New York: Gteorge H. Doran Co. O NE know: to happen here. old fHiend whose ways are by this time fairly caleulable, hat the whole matter in hand. And does this Tish—you are asking—create her own situations as well as fill them? Something like that which is, after all. much the way with the rest of us. We scramble together odds and ends of this and that from our surroundings and -call these sit- uations. Having assembled tiem, often so ineptly, our next move is to run away from them, to renege the whole game. Right here ig the re- freshing difference between us and Tish. She plays the game with a zest and gallantry and’ sense of fun that constitute the prime attraction of the story itself. Picked off the top of al- most any passing day, here is a sum and incidents that is broadly representative of modern life —the common outlook. the general fronting upon both pleasures and serious occupations, ways of behavior, modes of thought. Deftly grouped in a drathatic unity, these, offering the familiar alternates of sense and non- sense that give Tish and her sponsor, Mrs, Rinehart, prime opportunity for @ special aptitude in the use of humor as a medium of comment on things as they are. However, the purpose here is the good story, a purpose more than tulfilled. Any deeper meanings that lie - within the matter are made subordinate to that of an hour's en tertainment of that sunned and aired sort in which this author is so ade- quate and satisfying. * ¥ ¥ % DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS. By Struthers Burt, author of “The Interpreter's House,” etc. New York: Charles Seribner's Sons. I, his Heart bo'ls a lover, this Struthers Burt, and in his mind a critic. So, with his hands he writes romances based upon his heart's love for the solitudes—for the great West for almost any long and lonesome stretch of earth. But, being even more of an observer and interpreter of current life than he is story teller, his novels are rich in interludes of pretty well what's going For Tish, an THE helicopter Binet test petit point You will find these new words, and thousands more, all clearly defined in personal opinion upon. one and ar othér aspect of human behavior and idlosynorasy. Used, by’ birth and education, to city ways, he finall broke with these for the emancipation of the ranch, the forest and the plains of the West, for the freedon of the Southern mountaine. Thu equipped, he writes tales whose set ting is, In_the main, these retreat from crowded centers. = Waywise 1o the human, however, his narratives of the open life are crowded co mentaries on men and women—théir motives and their ways. A not un usual theme takes control of “The lectable Mountaitis.”" A common these days, for the rich city v the stage g This Then, by virtue of his ow: for remote corners, Mt Burt speedily moves this pair out into the West, where they are left to do their best in protecting a spot of great natural beauty from the pro Jects of promoters in water power and the other whatnot of human prog rey The matter has its ups downs—all of them drawn from the circumstances of the situation. Many of them are purely personal to the young couple, ¥uddenly set down i strange surroundings, some of them | rise from the onset of industry against | their desirable home stretch. It works jout, all of it, ‘in a good. logic o | human nature making the best « | things—as ‘human nature fs finall forced to do. A good story. Yet, it is when M¥. Burt steps into it i his own proper person, passing con ment hers and there, that one gets a full meagure of enjoyment out of the matter.” He knows a lot about {men and as much about women. e is free with this knowledge and no oyer sparing of the feelings of any of us. And in this saplence there is great enjoyment for timid folks who dire not say it themseives but who know the truth about us as well Mr. Burt does. “‘City people are som nambulists pretending they are awake ' —comea’ o mind as one of the inspired remarks of this write; If we wepe to protest, no doubt tha Struthers Burt -would say ‘“Well Just look around. Watch, wait and listen for valid signs of 100 per cent of vitality.” However, this is nor to the point right here. The point I8 that sudh obtrusien.of an authoy into his work, as a distinct individu: passing remarks, is counted a seri flaw in the structure of the no Yet—one couldn't spare Struthe Burt from thi sindependent role, for in it he is a vein of pure gold. 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