Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1927, Page 48

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS English Lithographers Show Their Work in Washington. Reproductions of Durer Drawings at Dunthorne Gaucry. H BY LEILA MECHLIN. N exhibition of English litho- of the graphs by me! Print Makers' Society of Cali fornia, who are for the most parf also members of the Senefelder Club of London, opened in the Smithsonian Building October 3 to continue to October 29. This is s of eight exhibi- d and held under the auspices of the division of graphic arts, United States National Museum, during the season of 1927-28, from Oc- tober to May. These exhibitions are arranged for by Ruel P. Tolman, who is not only the head of the division of graphic arts but an etcher and art expert. The series promises this year to be of no less interest or mote than in past seasons.. The entire prog: for the y has been announced. comprises etchings by Richard 1. Rishop, Roland Clark-and Eric G. Scott; woodblock prints ip color by Mr. woodblock prints in color by Frances searhart, with etchings in color by haxt; etchings by Armin nson, etchings by Charles W, Dahl- veen, woodblock. prints in color by 1iter J. Phillips and etchin: ildren, by Diana Thorne. he present ‘exhibition is made up of 35 prints by 10 artists, among the best known of which are John Copley and his wife, Ethel Gabain; A. S. Hartrick and Elsie Henderson. About 20 years ago in London, largely through the initiative of Jo- seph Pennell, there was a renaissance of the art of lithography. 1t is pos- sibie that Whistler's work in this medium was the enlivening spark, but whoever is responsible for the recall, the result has been an added medium of expression for artists and a consid, erabie number of very beautiful draw- ings available to the public, It has become customary to think ot lithographs as commercial produc- ns, because the lithographic process is so largely used for this purpose, but the artist’s proof lithograph. such as these now on view, is essentially an original, being drawn usually on the stone by the artist and in many cases printed by him as well. During the World War many of the now cele- brated posters by such distinguished artists as Brangwyn, Forain, Steinlen, Nevinson, Spencer Pryse and Joseph Pennell were done in this medium, both for convenience and for effect. There is nothing more charming than a fine charcoal drawing a masier, and in most instances it is the effect of a charcoal drawing that a lithog- rapher produce: Among the lithographs now on view are figures, architectural subjects. ani- mals, flowers and compositions. These works are not only charming in them- selves, but go to show that. after all, drawing is not. as some might be led to believe, today a lost art. Dunthorne, . THE gatlery of Gordon 1205 Connecticut avenue, has re- opened and Mr. Dunthorne inaug- urates the seasonable event by an un- usual exhibition of exquitite reproduc- tions of drawings by Albrecht Durer. Washingtonians e very familiar with Durer's woodcuts through the mperb collection owned by the Library the first of a se tions to be arr ny a 1y of ¢ Albertina Museum in Vi- enna have the slightest conception of the variety of his work and the ex- quisite beauty of his drawings and water colors. These now have become available not only to Austrians and other Buropeans, but to us here in the United States through their publica- on in facsimile by Anton Schroll & Co. of Vienna. They are priceless trensures and they are within the mears of almost all. That Durer was a consummate draftsman goes without saying, but it is surprising to find that he used as care in drawing the tiniest flower as he did in rendering a life- sized portrait. In this exhibition one finds two exquisite water colors by Durer of a wild geranium plant and a columbine, There is aiso @ neatly but freely rendered little bunch of vio- Jets and a clump of grasses. There is a study in line and color of a dead bird and of a very live rabbit; also a wise- looking owl. There are pictures of cities—one of Antwerp, which is par- ticularly attractive. There is a series of three or four ladies of Nuremberg in the quaint headdresses and cos- tumes of Durer's d. There is an en- gaging drawing, daintily colored, of a Venetian costume design, a sketch of the rear view very like that shown in our own fashion plates appearing to the right of the model figure. Of the utmost charm is an imagina- tive picture, delicately tinted, of a Ma- donna and Child with a landscape set- ting and many minor figures and de- tails, in the background the Star of Bethlehem and a trumpeting angel overhead. There is a facsimile of a drawing in charcoal and chalk on blue paper of “Hieronymus” with his full, curly beard, his splendid wrinkles, and there is a “Pair of Hands"” so beauti- fully drawn, so expressive of charac- ter that one can summon the image of the person to whom they belonged. The originals of these works were all done between the years 1495 (three yea after Columbus discovered America), and 1526, and here they are, as fresh, as significant, as engaging, as full of human interest as though done yesterd: nd the humblest may possess them for a song. Here is a real gain derived from modern inven- tion, a real cause of gratitude for the development of mechanical proc % recent * x k¥ X Burnside was not only tragic death of Mrs a shock to her many friends, but ¥ st a shadow over Jocal art circle 3oth Mr. and Mr years of thei 1y made a pla by their confreres and their were held in high esteem. When the decision was made to give up the ‘Washington studio and school and re- turn to Paris, much regret was voiced Mr. Burnside preceded his wife abroad and was occupied in executing certain commissions in Paris when the tragic news of her passing reached him. Mrs. Burnside had been for some time in frail health, but her work was of an extremely vigorous and virlle sort. She was fond of strong color; she was keenly interested in the modern movement, though she was instinctively conservative. Her art was her life, and she put the the best of herself into it. No one can do more. Her passing Is a sad- noss and a loss. * Kk ¥ ¥ IT is good news that a series of excellent color post cards of local subjects has been produced and placed on public sale, These are reproductions of paintings by Miss Lesley Jackson—paintings which were made for this special object, with patriotic intent and fine local pride. The series embraces views of the Capitol, the White House, the %.incoln Memorial, the Washington Cathedral, the Dupont Fountain, the ‘Washington Monument seen across Sherman Square, a vista of Penn: vania avenue and the cherry trees in blossom. They are issued under the name of the Roundabout Prints and if their sale is as good as it should be there will be others. Every one will have favorites, but the entire geries upholds a high standard of artistic merit and gives a true interpretation of the beauty of our ::':‘mug buildings, our National Cap- The enterprise was to a great ex- and Mrs. Harold Havem Brown, | |tent the result of the initiative of | Miss Po sselt a painter, and | Miss Jackson ch one of the post als is a miniature ture, a genu- | ine work of art and worthy not only to serve as a souvenir, but of perma- | nent preservation. | * % % X THE Baltinore Museum of Art has a new director—Meyric Rogors— who was at one time a member of th> staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but more lately has been con neeted with the Fogg Museum of Har vary University, an architect by pro- fession, a muscum worker by choice. Announcement is made of exhibitions | useum during the month of foll Pennell Memor hin at the n October as folio Exhibition of etcl pastels, drawings n B nl . water colc A lithographs lent Joseph Penncll: books and to illustrate his life and the Peahody Institute; rnwall and Devonshire : pain by Monet rep- his earliest 1 middle periods of work; text esigns by Bask de in Paris; Viennese school ipture by Meyer by Rosenthal and us pointinz of i ol varied w lent by |and rich offering. In this'day of va d Balti near neighbors. thi S I\' connection anention may be made in these' columns artistic pageant entitled “The Trail of | the Iron Horse,” which is being pre- sented as the main feature of the Cen- tena hibition of t altimore & id transit Wash have become weli | the | Ohio ~ Railre Halzthorpe, Md, daily thro! sber 15, geant was w n by Margaret - bot Stevens and Sigmund eth. (The latter, it is recalled, is to locture heve in Washington November 3). It Is In | the form of a music-story and pavade. he development of in sportation in America from foot travel to the latest and most pow- erful railroad locomet The well executed plans of the various groups, the pleasing colors of the costumes. which appear-to be exceptianally ac curate with regard to period. bring this pageant well within the fleld of art. * %k % X HE Detroit Institute of Arts has just taken possession of its new and beautiful building, the dedication exercises and opening view being held last Friday evening, October 7. This museum is a city Institution. It is con- spicuous among museums for the beauty and fitness of its new building to museum purposes and the close con- nection of the institution with the lives of the people of Detroit. The opening is marked by the loan of nu- merous rare works of art, as well as the redisplay of the institute’s perma- nent exhibits. X One feature of the Detroit Institute {the Unive, lection of craft work by tsmen, larg pre sented by C ze ;. Booth, president of the Detroit Socicty of Arts and Crafts and brother of Ralph H. Booth, president of the Arts Commission, which is dircctly responsible for the of the Detroit Institute zement of Arts. Mr. Booth and his brother re both mewspaper men, publishers the Detroit Ne of the institute is Wil- Im. R. Valentiner, who at one time was curator of paintings at the Metro- politan Muscum of Art and is one of leadir erts on the paintings of the old masters not only in this ountry but abroad. i e he_directc N exhibition of paintings by Edith £X7 21 McCartney of this city is be. i at the Ferargil Galleries, 37 ty-seventh street, New Yorl 9 to October 11. These are devoted exclusively to wks of American artists’ and Jv hospitable to works of ex: nal merit. K ok % % HARI HENRY NIEHAUS, the sculptor of the Hahnemann and the John Paul Jones statues in th city, has heen commi tatues of Henry Clay and Dr. McDowell to represent the te of Kentucky in Statuary Hall at the Capitol. were selected Clay and McDowell as the most illustrious <ons of Kentucky by a committee con- sisting of the president of the Univer- sity of Kentucky, the president of sity of ‘Louisville president of Berea College, appointed by the Kentucky Legislature at its last session. The statues will be the of Louisville, Ky., and it is he who has commissioned Mr. Niehaus to do the work. These statues should be a real addition to Statuary Hall. It is not often that patriotism or lovalty to ate finds more excelient ex- * ok Xk ok KATHERINE CRITCHER has reopened the Critcher School of Painting and Applied Art at 1603 Connecticut avenue. She is assisted in the department of painting by Mis: Bostwick, one of her former pupil who hos aiso studied With Webster at incetown, while the School « cd and Commercial Art is in e of Miss Conegys. Miss iteher’s own private studio is now lo- cated wt 1726 Connecticut avenue. For the first time for a number of years Aliss Critcher spent the Summer in the mountains of Vir. ginia. She devoted herself dur- ing these mmmer months to making character studies of negroes. Miss Critcker, it will be remembered. is not only a member of the Society of Washington Artists, but also of the Taos Soclety of 0. She has exhibited in the Paris Salon and in the leading exhibitions of this coun- try. She is represented in the perm nent collection of the Corcoran Gal- of Arts which is worthy of remem- VENETIAN (COSTUME DES! lery of Art. GN BY ALBRECHT DURER. i | Seventieth Congress Qf Problems Left by Its Predecessor (Continued from First. Page) Interstate Commerce Commission would report to Congress the extent to which unifications had taken place, and make recommendations for further procecdings in the light of conditions as they then exist. Al- though this measure may be modificd in some details, a bill along these gen- eral lines, contemplating voluntary mergers wherever they can be worked } out, will be presented. Coal legislation was debated from time to time in the Senate during the last session, especially by S or Copeland of New York. A bill was reported from the Senate commlttee ( on educatlon and labor, but no action { was taken on it. The measure reported out by the committee last Winter would have authorized the Bureau of Mines to as- semble data on the production, dis- tribution and sale of fucl. In the event of labor disputes, the measure empowered the President, in his dis- cretion, to employ existing agencies of conciliation and attempt to induce the disputants to submit to voluntary arbitration. Should arbitration prove of no avalil, the biil would have autihorized the Chiet Ixecutive to create an emer- gency board, which would advise him Inherits Batch within 30 days whether there was danger of the public being deprived of an adequate supply of fuel. In the event of a report that such danger existed the bill authorized the declar- ing by the President of the existence of an emergency and the revival of the law of 1922, granting additional powers to the Interstate Commerce Commission and providing for the ap- pointment of a fuel administrator. 1f this question is considered again it will have to go through the stage of committee action first. Whether the Muscle Shoals issue n be disposed of at the coming ses- jon, in view of the differences of opin- ion that have prevailed among mem- bers of Congress in former years as to how the project should be leased, is problematical, but it is almost certain to be a live question again after the lawmakers meet. The proposal to manufacture fertilizers for American farmers is an important part of the question of feasing and developing the Muscle Shoals project. Much time during the Winter un- doubtedly will be devoted to renewed discussion on Capitol Hill of the con- dition of agriculture, including an- other battle over the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, which was vetoed after it had passed the House and Senate in the last Congress. The Boulder Dam bill, for flood con- ag and the | =ift, however, of Isaac W. Bernheim | | | | | | C., OCTOBER 9. IN SMITHSONIAN EXHIBITION IN THE NIGH CONTAINED IN A '] DIVISION OF GRAPHIC ARTS. T,” A LITHOGRAPH BY JOHN EXHIBITION UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE COPLEY. IT IS CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST. By De v Carman. New York: rper & Bros. THE MAGIC FORMULA: and Other By L. P. Jacks, editor of ibert Journal. New York: Rros. Harper SILE By A. E. Forrest. Chi Covici. MURDER IN THE MAZ Connington. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. | 1L PENTAMERONE: The Tale of | Tal, Being tis r hard Burton, K. C, Giovanni te Basile, Boni & L ght. THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO lections ¥rom the Translation Jowett, lege and Se- of | Late Master of Regius Pro- fessor of Greek in the University of Balliol € Oxford. I d with an introduc- tlon by William Chase Greene, as- of Greek and i arvard University. New Boni & Liveright. GUIDES, PHILOSOPHERS AND FRIENDS; Studies of College Men. By Charles Franklin Phwing, Litt. ., L. H. D., LL. D., etc. New York: emillan Co. IN THE PATH OF THE STORM. By James Rutherford Franklin. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. PRIMITIV HEARTHS IN THE PYRE the Story of a Sum- bloration in the Haunts of By Ruth Otis Illustrated mer’ Prehistoric Man, Sawtell and Ida TPreat. v Paul Vaillant-Couterfer. New York: D. Appleton & Co. NORFLEET; the Amazing Experi- ences of an Intrepid Texas Rancher With an International Swindling Ring. By J. Frank Norfleet, as told to Gordon. Hines. Revised edition. 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Chicago: Pascal Civiet. WAY OF REVELATION: A Novel of Five Yea: By Wilfrid Ewart Foreword by Stephen Graham. New York: D. Appleton & Co. ANABEL AT SEA; The Adventures of a Shy but Determined Lady in Scarch of a Husband. By Samuel Merwin, author of “Silk,” etc. Bos- ton: Houghton Mifflin Co. A _CHILDHOOD IN BRITTANY EIGHTY YEARS AGO. By Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil De Selincourt). Tllustrated by Paul De trol on the Colorado River and for the development of hydroelectric power and irrigation in the West, is expected to be reintroduced. It was taken up on the floor of the Senate at the last session, but the controversy that de- veloped over the project caused it to laid aside without action. Still another measure that was pressed in the Senate during the last Congress without being acted upon was the Tyson bill to extend retire- ment allowances to the men who served as emergency officers in the Army during the World War. This bill has been before Congress at vari- ous times since 192 In view of the fact that the Senate will have the question of the seating of Senators-clect Vare of Pennsyl- vania and Smith of Illinois to deal with as soon as it convenes in Decem- ber, indications are that the upper branch of Congress will hardly be able to do much on its legislative program before the Christmas holidays. While the Senate is deciding what course to pursue in those cases, however, the House will be getting started on its business, Boston: Houghton Mifflin ON THE AIR. By Paul Deresco Augs- bur & New York: D. Appleton & THE HAND OF HORROR. By Owen Fox Jerome. New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc. {THE MID-OCEAN TRAGEDY. By John Hawk, r of “The Ser- pent-Headed S etc. New York: George H. Doran C MICHAEL STROGOFF: The Courier of the Czar. By Jules Verne. Il lustrated. New York: Charles Scrilmer’s Sons. THE REGICIDE'S CHILDREN. By Aline Havard. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. { | 3 THE PUBLIC LIBRARY fons at the Public sts of recommended appear in this column Recent a Library and reading will each Sunday. Biography. . Burnham, ,F. Continents. Chadwick, 1906, Greeley, A. W. venture and Service. L. H. Adoniram couting on Two p'n Chadwick. Reminiscences of Ad- BE-G815. Per Judson. D. L. Moody. E-M7Tr. ank, Bishop of Zan- ‘Wilson, D. 4 rlyle at His Zenith, 1848-1 E-C194wl. Gardening. | McKinfiey, Mrs. E. P. Iris in the Little Garden. RISE-M21i. Rockwell, F. F. The Book of Bulbs. RISB-R59. Safford, W. E. The Potato of Ro- mance and of Reality,, 1925 RIC-Sa 1. Weaver, J. E. and Bruner, W. Root Development of Vegetable Crops. RIA-W379r. Travel. Cundall, rank. The Darien Venture. On_the Road in Hol- . G46T-H2360. Touring the Holy Land. The Great 2v. n Social Bureau. rthquake of 1923 in Japan. G67-J27. Moore, Charle ‘Washington. the Na- apital. G859W-M782w. How to Find Old Paris. Business. 3 E Yield Per Cent Problems. 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L. ristian Young People Lx;xdg\\'orld riendship. 1925. CXS- Sh28ey. Shaver L. Young People and the Church. _192: CXS-Sh28y. Southard, M. M. The Attitude of Jesus Toward Woman. CGQ-So87. o Novel Writers Prolific. English authors are becoming too prolific. Some of them produce four to six novels a year. In order to facilitate the sale of the mass pro- duction of prolific authors, the pub- lishers are asking them to write under different pseudonyms. Every time a new novel is produced by the so-called new authors the critics hail a new star in the firmament of English literzture. To complete the camouflage, some of the well known publishing “firms have two or three trade names. - 1927—PART 2 IDA GILBERT MYERS. MOTHER INDIA. By Katherine Mz author of “The Isles of F¥ear.” New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. AN-FLIGHT and the radio, the telegraph and telephone | have served to shrink space | so effectually as to make general human welfaro a close, interlocking concern, every part propérly open to common scrutiny, the whole dependent upon a universal understanding and obs nce of the basic laws of such well-belng. To in- formed, right-living John Smith and his family living at one end of a city block it is vital that James Brown and his family at the other end of it are also equally informed and right-living, else the Brown tribe stands as active | menace to the continued security of | the Smiths. And so, nowadays, the other side of the world is, in effect, just across the street either, on the one hand waving the red flag of dan- ger, or on the other floating bright banners of promise and example. It is here that we come upon Kath- erine Mayo. keen to the multiplied | contacts of modern life, awake to the | deep significance of these, Turned, in | the beginning partly by accident, to a study of the t Indian in his re- lation to a nmew world order of recip- rocal adaptations ana accommo tions, this writer converted the situa- tion into opportunity. And here we find her trdveling over Indiaz—north, south, east, west—through <-mmnms! native villages and the starved lands | lying in between. One, reading, bound to be caught and held immedi- | ately by the practical business com- | | petency of this invi tor. Neither piety as such, nor pedantry, nor senti- mentality shows its face in the unde taking. This is not a study development, not a comparativi look upon religion, not an analy the idiosyni of government. It is simpler, and deeper and more im- portant than a merely scholastic con- sideration could possibly be. Bare human stuff is the materlal of the study. The daily life of these millions is the pressing point of view. What do they eat, what houses do they live in, what care do they give their bod- fes, what and vigor slckness comes what is done for the henefit of the ail- ing, for the security of the family and neighborhood ag: st infection and the spread of dis hese are, in the maln, the ques- tions set by Katherine Mayo and an- swered out of the common life of India itself. This answer is an ap- palling one. Its amazing parts, col- lected and co-ordinated, presents the panorama of millions of humans caugl® in the backwash of 5,000 vears devoted to soul contemplation, with a corresponding ignorance and dis gard of bodily health and material ad- vantage. From the surface of this alarming exposure it looks as if the tremendous inertia of the situation might hold India another 5,000 years, or more, to its own past, to a tacd rejection of the overtures of healthful modern life. Read here the record of child marriage, of early child-bearing, of the broods of sick, deformed, un- nourished children of India. Go with Katherine Mayo into the hospitals— set up by the English—where even the sufferers resist inroads upon the immemorial ways of India in its dis- regard of the most elementary facts of cleanliness, of hygiene and sanita- tion. Read the whole revolting story of ignorance and cruelty, of caste and class, of incredible poverty and suffer- ing. This book is written in the in- terest of no authority —church o) state or organized philanthropy. It the independent venturs of a highl intelligent woman of direct purpose and a purgly practical method. With ch qualities to project the adven- ture in humanity Katherine Mayo here offers to the world a chapter of existent life that is calculated to make the pictures of Dore and Dante look like pastel pleasantries of Arcadian landscapes. i race out- e? * oK ok % BREAD AND FIRE. By Charles tumford Walker, author of “Steel. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co. A THEME so big, so diversified and slow moving as to refuse the tidy sequences and conclusions of any story. So the author concerns him- self little with the tidy orderliness of the novel writer. Instead, like life, or fate, or Providence, he throws off a slice of life that is patternle: dividual - existence always , and leaves the matter there—as destiny does, as Providence does. Very broadly speaking, the fleld projected here is that of industry mottled, as actual industry is today, with about every ism that the uneasy mind of the discontented has been able to invent. Jumbled together within the field of work here is the radical, the rebel, the agitator, the skilled and ths unskilled turning out steel and copper for the uses of this mechanized world. To objectify the thought and purpose of this phase of industrial life there must be outstanding people, cne or more. The center of this par- ticular business is a young man— working, but thinking, too; adventur- ing in the way of getting a living as he had a little before adventured in war, looking around to see how the others are carrying on in the laborious exactions of the copper business, pick- ing out one here and there and setting (him up, alive, as expressing some- thing worth while. Something of a poet, now and then, a bit of a lover— Jjust a bit of one, not much. All in all a genuine human set down in the tre- mendous adventure of being alive in a terribly active world. So the story goes on, the reader hoping a good cli- max for Harris Burnham, for he has grown to like this interesting fellow. But nothing, happens—it doesn’t in life, you know. And this story is simply a chunk of life, real and at hand. No, this is not a story with popularity hidden in its pockets. Not a lot of folks will read it. But those who do will say that here is truth, vivid and undeniable, and then they will grow a little more uneasy about this monstrously exacting present, pushing marionettes all over the place. * Kk ok TWILIGHT SLEEP. By Edith Wkar- ton, author of han Frome,” ete. New York: D Appleton & Co. A BIT of annoying contusion goes along with the reading of this novel, a touch of the crossword puzzle in effect. And this has really nothing to do with the author, whose skill in the art of the novel is freely accepted. No; the handicap rests with the mate- rial itself, with the subject matter under consideration. A comedy of cur- rent social New York, its prime pre- occupation is, logically, with the fact and immediate effects of divorce. Din- ners, dances, the play, the opera, cer- tain’ intellectual gestures of generally soporific influence, sports, touches of politics, echoes of business—all serve here as a medium for putting away wives or husbands, for taking on Here is where the read- If these were dull I newer ones er's trouble arises. people, who they are or used to be would not matter. But they are not dull. On the other hand, the most of them are engaging enough to enlist one in a backward-running pursuit of them yesterday or the day before, when they were bearing other names, supporting other situations of unease and discontent. This bit of annoying perplexity continues throughout this twilight sleep” of easy surrender and equally prompt revolt, which, in regu- lar succession, stands as the common of | T and Others. ark of modern marriage with the al idlers and playfolks of the mo- ment. The book steps out as & whole, however, a characteristic Wharton —well knit in structure, suave in spirit, politely ironic, subtly sardonie— apable, well-bred gesture toward a dominant aspect of modern social is quite an aside— | rome” stand in the Why—and this does not of Edith Wharton's novels? It is v all odds her best hook, clearly from every point of view her most distin- guished achievement. Why? wihiew MY JOURNEY TO LHASA. By| Alexandra David-Neel. Illustrated | with photographs. New York: | Harper & Bros. "[HE forbidden thing is invariably | an object of special desire. One wonders if this fundamental reac- tion of human nature does not in good measure account for the irre sistible lure of the forbidden city of Lhasa to adventurous travelers of certain stripe. Clearly the lure ex- ists with all sorts of reasons, more or substantial, for penetrating the long seclusion of this outpost of the Ifimalayas. More travelers are <eeli asa. More writers are giving pe 1ccounts of this par- ticular ment. “My Journey to Lh s the distinction of recording first white woman's entrance into the forbidden city. It is a personal account of persistence, of courage, of many inventions in the way of new roles and new de- vices whose single aim was to fur-| ther the business in hand. Beyond | this point is the stor within the city walls And beyond this stands the fact that other wom- | en and men have been shown the| v: to obtrude themselves into a where they are not wanted. prime p of this adventure in the effort involved in reachi is Lhasa. Here ourt ha danger for those Here is the chance s in order to reach a beggar, now a now a trader, here Now 2 laborer, this and here that to evade suspicion and_detection, since either might or would cut short the enterprise in a manner not altogether desirable, to nothing of its effectually block- the outcome. An easy writer, and modest, too, the she set out for Lhaza and then im- mediately falls into an account of the strenuous and exacting job of getting there. A great many photographs point the text with interpretation and fllumination. A prime outfar- ing—not for 2 woman. but for a man- size man as well—whose record of- fers both fresh information and keen enjoyment to the reader. R THE LANDS OF THE § By Mary Austin, author of “The Ar- row Maker,” etc. Boston: Hough- ton, Miffin VWORDS dipped in the pigment of an ol and abiding love serve Mary Austin here in a portrayal of the lovely face of California. And as with the pictures of all true artists, thie one evokes feelings and desires and dreams that scem to be inde- pendent of colors and compositions. One sees and smells and hears and feels the Golden State as its mountai and rivers and coast lines and border. ing sea pass by under the power of this author’s hand, under the divining: effect of her intimacies - with this stretch of earth. There is in this book not only a satisfying accuracy about the natural features of California, but there is, too, in a remarkable sym- ithor tells why | Katherine Mayo Writes of India and Its People—Fiction by Gertrude Atherton, Charles Rumford Walker actual fact. Beautiful work. this. caly culated to bring joy to many readers, * K % K WE LIVE BUT ONCE. By Rupe: Hughes, author of “What's thi World Coming To?" etc. Ne York: Harper & Bros. by, Rupert Hughes skint a bit off the top layer of presen concerns. Having but one chance af life, everybody is primarily devoted tg the' pursuit of individual happiness The universal common denominator o} human existence is love. or very late in it, other vented to take the place But at the period when at all the illusion of love is p: mount, This is the span with which Mn Hughes conc s himself here. A small group serves the purpose. Thd modern outlook animates it. There Early in life ames are in { this one ters coun) fore we have here the young woman in the case, active in pursuit of hey :aan. Nice girl, too, nice girl ever though the man be alrendy within the bond of matrimony. The wife is nol of his sort—-she never S0, to ran som him looks much like philanthrops; ng of its being such 3 thing to do. It is upon thread that the comedy strings and situations leading up t ngement of the social fao tors in the ¢ , to & new pause thal may very likely lead to some othet combination, since nothing seems mord flexible, more fluid, at the momeni than the various units and groups con stitutir “acial whole. Toward thy end of th ter the author falls inte smething + to farce ftself—an ex pedient required by the majority ol Peaders who cling to the old story hout of childhood with its unfailing happy outcome. Apart from this lapse—im posed by the public—Mr. Hughes re the waywise observer, the shrewd analyst, the engaging storw teller that he has so many times be fore clearly proved himself to be. Irish Business Men Turn Eyes Toward U. S. Possibilities of Irish trade develop ment in the United States have beey under discussion by the Dublin Rotary Club. One manufacturer said thy fleld for Irish goods in America wat really unlimited, but that the good must be of “top end” quality. H( urged organization of Irish traders tq study the American market, but if was pointed out that jealousies pre vented such a combination. Maj Bryan Cooper, Rotary chairman, and a leading figure in the Dail, expressed his belief that the secret of succesy was the one stated by the late Vicy President Kevin O'Higgins at the im perial conference. O'Higgins theq laid it down that “the object in Ire. |land is to have consistent merit rather | than occasional excellence.” Says Flowers Lov Sir Jagadis Bose, a well known In dian professor, claims to have discov: ered that flowers have hearts and feelings and that they fall in love with one another. He is giving a series of lectures before the British botanists, and hopes to prove thal the present teachings of botany are far from being correct in the light of recent discoveries, He says he cay illustrate the effect of well kno ' drugs on flowers and trees, and show that the death of one flower may pathy, a gathering up of the whole s a body, a soul—the two com bined as are the body and spirit of man, to signify something different from either, to project a completeness of effect that lifts the reader far be. yond geographical fact or historical significance. A writer of originality and strength, Mary Austin has here | turned her hand to the most delicate and penetrating of artistry for the sake of portraying the features of her beloved California_as these exist in her own heart and as these exist in “It is clever, smart, ing"—N.Y. H«aldj'il‘ ribune “A flower that blooms at midnight . .. his most ime rtant writing since THE i N HAT." L ~New York! 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