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Unveiling §t 'BY LEILA MECHLIN. \ F chief interest during the past week in the field of art was the unveillng of the Meade Memorial which oc- curred with appropriate ceremontes Jast Wednesday, ~ This monument, which now tak among_the great memor! N Svar, stands in what is known as the old Botanic Garden, which will eventually become Capital Plaza. It is the work of Charles Grafly of Phila- delphia, one of our most distinguished American sculptors. Mr. Grafly was not content in cre- ating this work to represent fact merely, but has instead produced an allegorical group, daringly combining allegorical figures with a portra statue. The composition is a' com- pact mass and thus complies with the requirements of plastic expression. Gen. Meade, in military dress, is seen stepping forward, the principal figure in an elliptieal group embracing eight figures in all, six representing qualities of character, purpose and achievement—Courage, Energy, Loy- alty, Chivalry, Progress and Fame, Three on each side link the flgure of Gen. Meade with that of -War, a sin- {ster impersonation, whose wings overshadow the group. The mass is built up with bold strength, yet shows an amazing refinement of beauty of detall. The allegory is easily read. Dramatically it makes a lasting impression. Mr. Grafly has been working on this_monument for at least 13 yea In 1918, after he had spent three yea: in making grellmlnuy sketches and his designs had been approved by the National Commission of Fine Arts, he was still dissatisfled with it and was not willing to have any photographs published. From then on until com- paratively recently, changes were made in and again in order to satisfy the ideal of the sculptor. Mr. Grafly is not only a most gifted artist, but he is a conscientious and painstaking workman. Upon being asked once by a writer on art why he did all the marble cutting as well as the bronze u:uni of his amazing por- trait busts, he : “I find when the cutting is done mechanically that so much of the detail is lost. Some ar- tists do not care for detail. They say it makes their work look weak. It is not the detail which detracts; it is their false values. Look at nature, how perfect is her détall, yet her work is never weak. These sculptors do not study nature enough. They work from the outside and neglect the un- derlying principles of construction. Real sculpture is where you feel the construction, the bones that underlie the surface.” This gives an idea of the care with which all of Mr. Grafly's -work is rendered. Charles Grafly was born in Phila- @elphia December 3, 1862. He studied first under Eakins in Philadelphia, geoumufly drawing and painting, as kins was a painter; later sculpture in Paris under Chafix and Dampt. He is a member of the National Sculpture Society, the National Academy of De- n, the New York Architectural e, the National Institute of Arts and Letters; and he has been ‘awarded m prizes and honorable mentions without number from our own Parls on and our great annual exhibi- ns—in fact, he has received at the hands of his colleagues almost every honor within their gift. One of Mr. Grafly's col rado Taft, in his “History Ameri. e | pture,” lately republished and brought up-to-date, has said of him: ”T‘;nb'hk“m':l as American’s best teacher sufficiently proud dis- tinction, but fo e iz pletion an 3 Bargent, Mr. Grafly is unwilling,to con- fine himself to the field which has made him famous. - He has produced of late a number of monumental ‘works, ‘among them ‘The Pioneer Mother’ for S8an Francisco and more for Washington, . G4 Beppy com: , D, C.—a com- bimation of realism and oy whicl much thought and conscientious labor. labor.' Mr. Taft's reference to Mr. Grafly a8 a teacher is to be explained by the fact that for years he has not only *had private pupils in his studio but has been head of the department of scuipture at both the Pennsylvania Acudemy of the Fine Arts and the $chool of the Museum of Fine Arts, . In answer to the question s to whether teaching did not tire him, he is sald to have replied: “Not in the least; it refreshes me. I come back to my own work with a newer, clearer vision. I do not try to make ‘my puplls do things as I see them. I tell to study Nature.” Among puplls, and evidencing the fact his ‘that he does not try to press all into Pol whom, in his search for truth and mastery of technique, appreciation of the significance of perfection in de- tail, reflects his master's ideals but no one of whom shows in the least the impress of his style. It is interesting to know that chief among Charles Grafly's sitters have been his fellow artists. Mr. Grafly has produced protrait busts of Frank Duveneck, Thomas P. Anshutz, Paul Bartlett, W. Elmer Schofield, William #axton, Edward Redfield. Joseph De- Lamp and George Harding, to ‘mention only & few. Some of these| are 4n marble, some in bronze. Each| The figure of Progress, a 4 in Washington during the past week. of Meade Memorial the Chief Event in Art World During Past Week—The Sculptor’s Work. 4 ‘Other Notes of the Artists. Mr. Bugh-Brown's monumental group, “Indian and Buffalo,” was discussed and enthusiastically considered. The plgster cast of this great group, heroic in® size and representing a typical American subject, one which is now a thing of the past, has been placed tem- porarily on view in the great con- course of Union_ Statlon through the courtesy of the Washington Terminal Co. A number of admirers of Mr. Bush-Brown’s work who feel that this splendid group should be preserved and who recognize the fact that the Indian has not as yet been commemo- rated monumentally in Washington, are raising a sufficient fund to have the group cast in bronze. The Na- tional Commission of Fine Arts has ap- proved the project and promised an appropriate site in Rock Creek Park. A considerable portion of the neces- sary fund has already been subscribed and it is thought that the remainder will soon be forthcoming. The group shows an Indian on horseback killing a large charging buffalo and recalls the stirring stories of Indian and pio- neer life in our great West. Commem- orative works of art of this sort are very desirable public possessions and it is earnestly to be hoped that the present project will find carly consum- mation, * K ¥ ¥ T INDER the auspices of the Minls- U ter of public instruction in Rome and under the patronage of the royal ambassador of Italy, an unique and interesting exhibition of paintings by a distinguished Italian artist, Giulio Aristide Sartorio, is being held in the Anderson Galleries, New York, from this work he was badly wounded and permanently disabled, as well as taken prisoner. After two years' imprison- ment he was released, returned to the front and was again wourded. An_illustrated_catalogue has ‘been fssued of the exhibition in New York containing portraits of the Kfng, Mus- solini and of the artist himself among others, as well as examples of his work, His painting, thus judged, seem to give an excellent idea of South American countrles, and it s an Interesting thought that the Ital- an nation is thus employing an artist as special ambassador and utilizing art as a_medium for the creation of better international understanding. It is gratifying that the collection is on view in New York, but it would be still more gratifying if it might be seen here in Washington, our National Capital. * Kk % % JFBLICIE WALDO HOWELL, A. N. A., formerly of this city, i3 hold- ing an exhibition of ofl and water col- or paintings at the Vose Galleries, Boston, opening October 17 and con- tinuing ‘to the 20th, inclusive. This exhibition comprises Miss Howell's most recent work—a group of paint- ings made in Italy last Summer and a series setting forth in'most attrac tive form a number of beautiful New England doorways. Miss Howell returned from Italy in June and spent the Summer as usual in East Gloucester, where she con- ducted classes in painting. She will October 18 to November 5. Signor Sartorio was government commissioner for art during the recent cruise of the steamer Italia in Latin America, and the majority of the pic- tures comprised in this exhibition con- sist of works painted in South Ameri- can countries en route. Giulio Aristide Sartorio was born in Rome in 1860, the son and grandson of artists, so his education began in his own family. He is painter, sculptor, engraver and writer. His life has been varied and intercsting. His first suc- detail of the cess was won in Paris in 1889 by his painting, entitled “The Sons of Cain.” In 1896 the grand duke of Saxe-Wei- mar offered him the then vacant chair of instructor in painting in' the state school where Lenbach and Boeklin successively taught. This he held until 1801, when he returned to Italy. In 1804 he was called on to decorate the central salon of the exhibition at Venice with 14 panels which later the has its own distinctive finish and is ||/ set on a pedestal specially designed by the sculptor. €. H. Chase d C. R. Post, in their admirable “History of Sculp- ture,” give Charles Grafly high rank mot only as a great protraitist but also as an imaginative artist. “With 2 treatment as realistic as Falgulere's and with an expert knowledge of anatomy,” these authors say, ‘he has followed many modern Europeans in a devotion to the human body for its own sake; and he endows his nudes with the usual cast of vague modern symbolism.” In other words, Mr. Grafly has at one and the same time the power to | be both exact and Imaginative, to ren- der likeness, to represent form and to interpret spiritual significance—a mas- ter of his medium, a gifted artist. In his Meade Memorial, Charles Grafly has given our National Capital a work of art to be regarded henceforth with ride, a work in which he has put the best of his talents and his time. * % % % IT has been learned with a great . %" geal of regret that Mr. and Mrs. ! Bush-Brown have sold their house on | G street, which for a good many years . now has been a center of art interest @nd for art gatherings, and will spend | the greater part of their time at their | new country home in Pennsylvania. | They are retaining, however, fortu. nately, the use of Mrs. Bush- Brown’s studio, which means that they will occasionally return to Washing- ton for brief stays. Mrs. Bush-Brown's well known por- trait of her distinguished husband in sculptor's_smock, painted ‘in his G street studio, has been lately present «d to the Arts Club of Washington, of which Mr. Bush-Brown was an organi zer and for a number of years presi- dent, and has been accepted by the club, with expressions of appreciation, as a permanent exhibit and memorial. At a meeting held at the club last Thursday evening, the casting and Slacement in materia} of . 3 Head of “War,” one of the figures of the Meade Memorial. King of Italy bought and presented to the city of Venice, Immediately thereafter he was commissioned to do the paintings for the top of the hall of the Italian -Parllament at Rome, a frieze which depicts 280 figures of men and animals representing the spiritual history of the Italian nation, At the outbreak of the war he vol- unteered in one of the light cavalry regiments and was ordered to the ropt to make topographical maps, In L re-open her studio in New York next month, LR IN this connection it is interesting to note that the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art is showing at this time a series of actual doorways taken from old New England houses, which were about to be destroyed and set up in the museum; together with other architectural details from the exterior of early American houses evidencing beauty and fitness in design. This ex- Meade Memorial, which was unvelled hibition opened October ‘18 and will continue for several weeks, . * % % % ‘HE American Civic Association, which has its headquarters in this city, will hold a unique travel meet- ing in place of its annual convention this coming week. The meeting will oven in Boston October 24 and will continue there on the 25th. On Octo- ber 26 it will be moved to Providence, R. 1. On the 27th it will pass on to the Connecticut Valley, going from Springfield to Greenfleld. 1t is said that the world todhy is on wheels, This is the first time, to our knowledge, that a moving conven- tion has been held. Obviously the pur- pose is to inform those in attendance of various phases of admirable civic development. * ok ko 'HE corner stone of the new build- ing for the Baltimore Museum of Art was Jaid with appropriate cere- monies on Thursday afternoon. The Charles Grafly of Philadelphia, who worked on the Meade Memorial for the past 13 years. OCTOBER 23, The Story of Civilization (Continued from Third Page) the inquisitive visitor and the eternal plain. It is a savage monument, as of some towering centaur seerf in fearful dreams—the body of a lion passing into the head and face of a man. The body was once 198 feet long, but most of it has been destroyed by time and the mortality of stone. The great feet remain, dug out from the encom- passing sand in our own day, and rising to the height of. 10 men the gigantic head, broken here and there, but human enough nevertheless to make some students believe it a por- trait of King Chephren. R The world classes the Pyramids as art; but, of course, they are merely tombs, built not for beauty, but for duration; fashioned not to please the eye, but to conceal a carcass, and per- haps to impress a people. The honest traveler feels a little cheated when he comes upon them today; photography can catch everything but dirt, and en- nobles objects with vistas of land and sky. One stands humbly where Caesar bade his legions realize that centuries looked down upon them; one feels the centuries and acknowledges the per- sistency of the Pyramids.s But it is the memory and the imagination of the beholder that make these monu- ments great; in themselves they are trivial heaps of stones. There is some science in them, but little art; a sim- ple geometrical figure, like a child’s house of blocks or cards; rocks heaped upon rocks in dull precision and ar- ray, but with no design, no adujt sense of beauty—only a primitive fe- tichism of number and size. It is nat civilization yet; it is barbarism. ‘What the Pyramids reveal is the solid organization of a state that could command a hundred thousand workmen to carry stones for 20 years; a savage power reaching for its ends through blood and suffering without a qualm, The ancient inscriptions show us the “Great House" of government in which these works were planned and from which the nation was rulad. In this Great House (which the Egyp- tians called Per-o and the Hebrews Pharaoh) the king lived with harem and his attedants—wig makers, perfumers, _ launderers, bleachers, guardians of the imperial wardrobe and other dignitaries. One tomb de- scribes its occupant as “Overseer of the cosmetic box, overseer of the cos- metic pencil, sandal bearer to the king, doing in the matter of the king’s llll'afln to the satisfaction of his lord. " Chief aide to the king was the prime minister or vizier, and under him in every province were local governors who combined the functions of admin- istrator and judge. Here, 3,000 years before Christ, law reached its earliest formulation; we kriow that a highly | elaborate code of legislation existed, though it has perished utterly. The oldest legal document in the world is a written brief, preserved in the Berlin Museum, and presenting to a court a complex case in inheritance. Judges apparently required all cases to be of- fered not in oratory, but in writing— which compares favorably enough with our windy litigation. .Add' to these judges a host of scribes or sec- retaries, a parade.of soldlers and an army of tax gatheres (all piceured for us on the monuments), and we distin- — Famous Recalled In Noted Register In the old German town of Augs- burg there is a hotel, the Three Moors, founded some 400 years ago. In this hotel there is a famous register which has taken about a century to fill up, but which now must be renewed. In this register are the names of more fa- mous people than in any other similar book in the world (or so it is claimed). The book opens with the signature of the American Minister to Augsburg, then an independent state, who reach- ed the town September 4, 1805, for a conference with “leading bankers.” A month later one Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at the head of an army, left in two days and returned after a month as the victor of the battle of Ulm. Ten iprlnclpcfl speaker at this ceremony {was ¥. A. Delano of this city, presi- ! dent of the American Civic Associa- ' tion, treasurer of the American Fed- 1erallon of Arte and chairman of the | committee of the Sage Foundation on | the re-planning of New York. * Kok % ]THE Art Promoters Club of Wash- i ington’, announces study courses | for the season of 1927-8. There will ! be five courses of 12 studio talks each which may be taken singly or collec- tively. Special terms are offered to {club members. The courses will be i glven by Gertrude R. Brigham, Alex- Iflndvr and Margaret Woodburn, Mrs. Turin Bradford Boone, Miss Adelaide Dwyer and Miss Mary Virginia Leckie, The annual banquet of the Art Pro- moters Club will be an Egyptian din- ner, November 5, at 8 o'clock. Among the patrons of this club are Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Lyon, Judge and Mrs, Paul Myron Linebarger, Felix Lake, War- ren Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Gans, Mr, and Mrs. A. H. O. Rolle and Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Powell, § * ok k% IS8 LUCIA B. HOLLERITH an- nounces the revpenini of the Burnside School of Art, 532 Seven- teenth street, which, during the 8- eat senson, will be under her flr's{::l- years later appeared a man who was to be famous as Napoleon’s conqueror, Gen. Sir Arthur Wellesley. He came back in 1822 as the Duke of Welling- ton. Among other persons who par- took of the hospitality at the Three Moors were Sir Walter Scott, Sir Rob- ert Peel and Sir Thomas Lawrence, American Co-Eds Find Dublin Homelike A group of American co-eds, who just terminated an extensive tour in England, .recently visited Dublin and Belfast. To them Belfast seemed like an English city. But they declared that the City of Dublin is “more like home” than any place they have so for visited in Great Britain, As the United States-hustles and is full of life and Dublin easy-going, this trib- ute from the American woman stu- dents puzzles people here, who say that what the co-eds really meant w: that they found more spontaneous friendliness and social ease in Dub- lin and Belfast than they did in Eng- lxa‘nd. anblln. lke A;n:flu, hl::; indly strangers, Who atre trea a8 old friends, ' . guish the outlines of the oldest state in history. * k ok % Those early dynasties (ITI-VIII) con- stitute the“old kingdom; it is the age of organization, pyramids and chieftains made powerful with weap- ons harder than any that men had known before. The great figures of the empire are a warrior and a philosopher. Thut- mose III, who maintained himself on the throne throughout the first 54 years, of the fifteenth century B.C., pushed his armies ruthlessly into Asia Minor, won the Battle of Megiddo and subjected Syria and Palestine to Egyp- tian rule. Napoleon, attempting the same campaign in 1799, failed. Then, after an interlude of colorless kings, we come out of a forest of names and dates upon the bright and romantic flgure of Tknaton. A splen- did portrait-bust of him, discovered on the site of his ancient capifal Ahketa- ton, reveals to us the first distinct per- sonality in Egyptian history. It is a profile 6f incredible delicacy for the infancy of art; a face almost feminine in its softness and poetic in its ideal- istic_sensitivity. Only such a man could have dreamed of the audacious revolution which Iknaton, in the face of a reactionary priesthood, struggled to bring about in the religious and moral life of his people. (Copyright. 1027. by Will Durant.) THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. * Biography. Benson, E. F. 8Ir Francis Drake. E-D787be. p Busbey, L. W. Uncle Joe Cannon. E-C166b. ? Hamilton, Mrs. M. A. lyle. E-C194h. Llppmt!al:n, ‘Walter. Men of Destiny. 66m. ofl. F. Alfred E. Smith. Thomas . Car- Samuel Sewall’s O Rare Ben Jonson. E-J737st. Stelzle, Charles. A Son of the Bowery. E-St36. . Musical History and Criticism. Faville, Mildred. A Brief History and Appreciation of Music. VVI-F278. Ou’go;l, H. O. Sq This Is Jazz. VV83- 838, Van Vechten, Carl. Interpreters. 1920. VV-V378in. Whiteman, Paul, and McBride, M. M. Jazz. VV83-W58. Business and Commerce. Casey, H. A. How to Sell Newspaper Advertising. HKA-C263h. Hulverson, G. R. Personnel. HK- 1H876p. McNamara, E. J. Secretarial Training. HK-1M232s. Roorbach, G. B. HKS83-R6771. History. Dark, - Sidney. Queen Elizabeth. F4549-D245. Deutschmeister, Abraham, and others, comps. 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Y39F-L 15%.) Louys, Plerre. Le Crepuscule des Nymphes. 1925, Y39F-L938c, ollis, Jean, pseud. L'Oiseau Bleu ‘est Endormi. YS9F-V8lto. Bourget, Suivent. Giraudoux, 1927 PART 2. An Encyclopedia of Food and Nutrition—Stories About Dogs and a Pigeon—A Variety of New Works IDA GILBERT MYERS. THE NEW DIETETICS: An Ency- clopedia of Food and Nutrition. By John Harvey Kellogg, M. D., LL. D., F. A, C. 8. Battle Creek: Modern Medicine Publishing Co. 00D is, to be sure, a matter as old life. Yet within a few years food and nutrition have come to the front—a new busi- ness of vital concern to every: one. Our farmer grandfathers could, and aid, eat hugely, trusting in se- curity thereafter to the open air, the plow and Providence for the issue. The - grandchildren, however, trans- planted to indoors and a whole new order of occupations, have, for the sake of health and efficiéncy, been driven to turn to the new science of food, to a better knowledge of their own bodies in relation to food and the digestive processes, and, hardest of all, to the making of new habits in the selection and treatment of the dally diet. 5 ‘The New Dietetics” steps out to meet this urgent situation. Sourced in authority and supported by long ex- perience, the book is calculated to in- spire confidence in the reader. It is a comprehensive stitly, covering the wide fleld in all important points. And it is a well ordered book. There- fore it is designed to meet a gerieral need and to meet it step by step in an easily comprehended way. Another point, and this is one of prime impor- tance, is that here is a study wherein practice outwgighs theory—just what to do in this matter of feeding and nutrition, and why to do this or that instead of something else. Yet such rules of practice are invurlably founded upon theories that have been tested by sclentific research up to the present status of dietetics. By virtue of this plan—knowledge and practice uppermost,- theory properly subordi- nated—the whole proves to be a hane book of exceptional value upon a sub- Ject> whose importance recognized every day in every man’s life. Food as fuel and the source of hu- man energy is simply presented in the elements that compose it and the prin- ciples that separate it into classes of nutritive value. In equal simplicity follows a study of the digestive appa- ratus and its normal functioning. Be- yond these points the book is given over to a thorough consideration of foods and food values, of certain func- tional disorders calling for special treatment in the choice and use of Beyond {t8 clear and distin- guis usefulness “The New Diet: tics” is a book that is deeply interest- ing to individual readers and students. Are you for the time being.specially interested in, say, a fruit diet, or raw foods, or fasting, or any other phase of this up, matter of food and feeding? An excellently arranged table of contents becomes your imme- diate guide, leading you straight to the place where your personal con- cern centers. So back and forth you go through this domain of knowledge and practice till you have covered the whole, more than once, along the way to better health and well being through a study of wide and experi- enced outlook upon the. most ' vital of themes. * %k x % THE ROAD TO THE TEMPLE. By Susan Glaspell, author of ‘“The . Glory . of Conquered,” etc. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Com- pany. READ it as romantie fiction if you will. Certainly it is a theme fit- ted to such treatment and acceptance. Here is a story of the misfit -between a youth and the place where life hatched him out and set him down. To get out of the wrong situation into the right one is the instinctive im- pulse that sets the course of this tale. Born into the pioneer life of America, here is & boy whose spirit is that of an Attic shepherd. The predestined way therefore becomes that of re- gaining the lost home of this boy's soul. - Is not this a surpassingly origi- nal theme for the weaver of dreams? Yet this is truth, not fiction. This ic record, not ingenious for Fall Reading. and something of an artist as well you will find enjoyment and profit in this view of a France that is little known. The study of cathedrals pre- sented by the book is of exceptional interest and value—and, semehow, a French cathedral is, unfailingly, a stirring thing, connoting a past that is of vriceless significance. Pictures in abundance amplify the text in this particilar, and at other points be- sides. If you are a real traveler, going 'in person here and there about the earth, you will find “Undiscovered France” an admirable guide—com- plete, specific, practical and well ordered., ok GAY-NECK. The Story of a Pigeon. | By Dhan Gopal Mukerji, author of “Caste and Outcast,” eétc. Illus- trated by Boris Artzybasheff. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. MAYBE this story of a pigeon—of Chitra-Griva, or Gay-Neck—was written solely for children. I do mot know, since in a poetical and lovely tale like this I am: never able to draw the line where childhood ends and youth begins, nor even where age itself sets in. Years few or many can- not fail to find joy in this intimate story of a beautiful pigeon, whqse friend and owner is an Indian boy of Calcutta. From the time when Gay- Neck. left the shell till his return from service as a carrier in the World War he not for a moment ceases to win in- terest from the reader in the role of pupil to his master, in the role of com- panion as well. Around the lower heights of the Himalayas these two, with the great hunter, Ghond, learn life lessons for both boy and bird; learn to use their own bodies—arms and legs and wings; learn the differ- enco between friends to welcome and foes to shun; learn courage and the terrible blight of fear. This story of a boy and a pigeon, each trying life after his own fashion, projects both a philosophy and a religion as the guide of these two in the best ways of meet- ing both the world and one’s own self. A touching and beautiful tale of simple and deep significance. . ERE GRAY DAWN. By Albert Payson Terhune, author of “Lad,” etc. _New York: Harper & Bros. IF you already know the Terhune dogs you will be able to judge for yourself whether or not Gray Dawn, the subject of this tale, is the best of them all, as the Terhune family ap- pears to think he is. If' you do not know them, just take this collie and his story as good enough for anybody ‘who loves the friendship of the most companionable creature that so far has been made. Albert Terhune tells a good story. Maybe he inherited this gift from his mother. And, more- over, he has a constant theme that cannot be beaten. This book proves it, as many another book of his has al- ready done. So, through many pages of adventure with this intelligent col- lie you go in undiminished delight. Arid at the end you stand beside Mr. ‘Terhune as he says rather more to himself than to you: “Within a piti- fully small handful of years at very most he will be gone. That is the way of dogs. All of them die too soon; though so many of us humans live too long. While still he is here I want his stories to be read. Perhaps you may not like the stories. But I know you will like Dawn himself. Every one does.” * K kK ZELDA MARSH. By Charles G. Nor- ris, author of “Brass,” etc. New York: E. P. Dutfon & Co. THE face that launched a thousand ship§ had nothing at all on this Zelda Marsh _of San Francisco and New York. Mr. Norris' latest novel stands in the nature of a fantasy of fascination, men of every age, sta- tion and degree falling flat before this girl, who in place of any unusual in- telligence, education or training, is clearly overstocked with that subtle feminine essence = which the male finds as indescribable as it is ifrresist- ible. The tumult runs along the line of Zelda Marsh's ambition to be an actress. The sudden ups and downs is biogra] invention. More = thap that—much more than that—it is a wife's faithful account of her husband’s material and spiritual progress from America back to Greece, where all the time he had so_clearly -belonged. Romance, blography, autobiography’ stand as equal partners in this story of the life of George Cram Cook. What a man to live with this one-third American, two-thirds Greek misfit must have been! But Susan Glaspell is rich in a sense of humor—God knows she needs it.. Besides, she has love and a_wide comprehension and the gift of dramatic exposure. With these she has taken that man of hers in hand with so much of appreciation and understanding as to have turned him into a unique romance that is truth itself, into a biographic account that is alive at every point and strange at every turn of this amazing transit across a natiye America to an even more deeply native shepherd life around the hills of Delphl EE ON LOVE. By Henri Beyle (Stend- hal). Translated from the ¥rench by H. B. V. New York: Boni & Liveright. WITH the trained hand of the specialist Stendhal, in ““On Love" aissects love, not only laying bare the anatomy and physiology of this universal emotion, but tracing as well its intellectual and spiritual effects in the general life of man. Novelist by profession, but scientist at heart, this author works concretely Wwith thou- sands of cases under all the varying aspects and behaviors of the supreme illusion, tracing each manifestation to its particular source, defining each according to its special mode of flow- ering and fruitage. A thousand illumi- nating details go into this inclusive analysis of love. Finally, as in any sther scientific investigation, the whole crystallizes into an organized body of co-ordinated parts whose aim is to project into an intelligible bodily form that which, as matter of fact, cannot be said to possess any -semblance of substance whatever. An adventure in pure psychology, this, drawn from human behaviors under mental stimu- lation of a certain origin and order. The French quality of clear thought and close analysis marks this work to a surpassing degree. Out of it there comes to hand in an admirable ranslation and examination of love ‘between a man and a woman as two human beings who find the highest possible pleasure in living one life— the attachment of two fellow creatures —not of mut:r nml t‘l‘.v * UNDISCOVERED . FRANCE. By Emile Francis Willlams. Illus- trated, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. AS its title implies, this book offers reat a fresher entertainment than the clearly overworked course of the average tourist provides. Along the by-ways of the remoter provinces these motor travelers for two months explored old towns with their ancient buildings and narrow streets, winding roads, from .which tower and fortifi- cation and the remains of Ramlnl bridge or acqueduct swept into un- accustomed view, Through the un- of all France tbis topping for old als and churches, for bits of forgotten history, for snatches of com: remained unchang: ed In outlook and custom for cen- turies. If you are a book traveler of a stage cateer, or even of an at- tempt to break into a stage career, serve the main purpose of the action which is to provide material for the superpowers - of the young woman having the mattef in hand. Excess here works the mischief that it always does in any fleld: Too much of any- thing—seven the very best of things— becomes wearing and as'a whole un- convincing. So it is here. One tires of weak-kneed men and an invincible ‘woman, not so very much of a woman at that. An experienced and success- ful author has, more than likely, set out here to present one side of the picture of modern life. He has over- done it, overcomposed the sketch so that it has lost proportion and signifi- cance. - He has spread his colors too lavishly and too thick. It is all too much—much too much. * K k% LOVER'S STAFF. By Sibell Vansit- tart, New York: The Macmil- .. lan Co. I DON'T know why authors cull puzzling book titles from Shake- speare or some other ‘high source. There must be some good reason, since so many of them do it. It ap- pears that the great: William once said, not so profoundly as he was in the 'habit of talking, “Hope is a lover's, staff.” To be sure and of course. Around this bit of wisdom the author has built a love story— nothing else. No shade of Main Street realism about it, no agonies of morbid probings into subconscious states. Just a love tale set in Eng- | land war time. A very well constructed romance. it is, too, with its chief character, not a heroine, but a real man instead. Here is a finely honest fellow, who knows ex- actly what he wants, and sets about getting it with intelligence, patienc self-control and ultimate success. Lovers are not likely to be any of these things, not likely to possess any of these qualities. This one did. Occasionally in the coursg¢ of the matter the reader wonders if the game is worth the candle to him, but he thinks it is. So, after many de- lays and much vexation of spirit to this suitor, the young woman in the case takes the right turn and the story is ended. Not a showy book. not in any. degree sensational.. But there are here good structure, live characters, bellevable action, a sense of drama—on the whole an enjoyable and promising piece of work. THE SENTIMENTALISTS. By Dale | Collins. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. THE MAGIC TOOTH: And Other Tales from the Amazon. By Elsie Spicer Eells. Illustrated by Flor- ence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. | Boston: Little; Brown & Co. FAR GOLD. By Arthur Hunt Chute, author of “The Mutiny of the Fly ing Spray.” New York:J. H. Sears | & Co., Inc. AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES: H to Make Them. By Wilbur D. bit. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co. ESTHER DE WARREN: The Story of a_ Mid-Victorian Maiden. By Marshall ~Saunders, _author of ‘Beautiful Joe.” New York: George Doran Co. YESTERDAY'S HARVEST. By Il}'-" garet Pedle Ashes, 3 Doran Co. IEROES OF ADVENTURE. By T. C. Bridges and H. Hessell Tiltman Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 2 TENTIETH CENTURY CRIMES. By Frederick A. Mackenzl lus ed from photographs. Boston: Lit tle, Brown & Co. THE EXILE. By Mary Johnson Boston: Little, Brown & Co. TOUCHDOWN: As Told by Coacl Amos Alonzo Stagg to Wesléy ‘Winans Stout. New York: Long mans, Green & Co. LET ME FIX IT: A Handbook cf Brief, Clear Directions for Saving Time, Money and Nerves in House keeping, General Repairing, Tinker- ing, Caring for a Wardrobe, Cook- ing, Gardening and Other Usual and Unusual Daily Tasks. By May E. Southworth.. Hiustrated by Melita Ahl Phillips. New York: ‘William Morrow & Co. VANISHING MEN. By G. McLeod ‘Winsor. New York: Willlam Mor- row & Co. SOME MEMORIES AND REFLEC- TIONS. By Emma Eames. New York: D.” Appleton & Co. DOG CORNER PAPERS. Reprinted from “The Piper.” "By fillam ‘Whitman, 3rd. Woodeut Decora- tions by Thomas W. Nason. Bos- ton: Houghton Mifflin Co. THICKER THAN WATER; A Story of Hashknife Hartley. w. C. Tuttle. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company. THE OTHER TOMORROW. By Oc- tavus Roy Cohen. New York: D. Appleton & Co. THE MAGIC PAWNSHOP; A N Year's Eve Fantasy. By Rachel Field. Decorated by Elizabeth Mac- Kinstry. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. LA§S P(‘)REN%A‘ Or The Future of wearing and Improper Language. By Robert Graves, New York: !E P. Dutton & Co. BEFORE, BEHIND (AND BIGGER THAN) THE BIBLE. By Samuel Hamill Wood. Boston: The Strat- ford Co. JOFIN PAUL JONES; Man of Action. By Phillips Russell. Leon Underwood. Bre:.tano's. COUNT TEN. By Mildred Evans Gil- man. New York: Boni & Liveright. TRAVELERS’ TALES: A Book of Marvels.. By H. C. Adams, Deco- rations by William Siegel. New York: Boni & Liveright. PURSE STRINGS., By Edith M. Stern. New York: Bonl & Live- right. BED AND BREAKFAST. By Coralie Hobson. Illustrated hy Pearl Bind- er. New York: Boni & Liveright. Turntable Houses Will Get Sunlight The Frenchmen who crave sun- light in the home the length of the day find "ample gratification in the turntable foundation for houses. The ¥rench people are fond of sunshine, and sunny rooms are their greatest care In the selection of an apartment. Heretofore, no matter how good the exposure, it has’ been almost im- possible for a room to receive the sun’s rays from dawn until dark (the more sb since dwellings are normally stationary). The ingenious idea of two Paris architects of build- ing houses -mounted on a turning platform is solving the problem for the determined. A gmall motor cost- ing $8,000 operatés the platform, which revolves with the progress of the sun, and completely around, -too. Thus direct sunlight can -be made to play on whichever side of the house it Is desired. author of *“R New York: George Italians Adopt Verb o “To Spoon” as Needed “Spooning” is a custom unknown to Italians. For Italian love-making is highly decorous and conducted solely with a flow of language which, if un- derstood, would bring joy to the heart of any American flapper. It is lit- erally impossible to translate the American verb “to spoon” into the Italian language without using words which to Ttalians sound positively in- decent. Yet the custom has entered Italy, and the Italians have been obliged to transliterate the American verb to meet the situation.. Near Genoa there is a park in which pears a signboard which says, “Lo spunaggiamento severamente pro- ibito,” meaning *spooning severely prohibited.” Soft Drink in Japan. Installation of American soda fountains in Japanese. stores is in- creasing each year, and already there are about 30 to be found in Toklo. Ice cream and ice cream sodas, as well as other soft drink: are proving very popular among t! natives and the foreigners, despite the fact that they are considered luxuries and are relatively new tc the Japanese, Although the number of fountains in Tokio is small when compared to the number in an American city of the same siz?, it is a large gain_over that of several years ago. Most of the fountains are of American make * and are more than 20 feet long. Many are smaller If inter- . 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