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THE 'NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Exhibitions in Washington This Month—Paintings of Walter Beck Attracting Attention—Artists Return- ing to the City. BY LEILA MFCHLIN. N Rome, «ago, an exhibition of paintings by an American artist created a veal sensatio exhibition was visited by the King, the Prince Imperial, by other notable persons wnd by crowds representing the gen- eral public. It was the talk of Rome. The artist was Walter Beck. an ex- hibition of whose paintings opens to- day at the Arts Club, to coutinue | through December 10. AMr. Beck is by no means unknown Washington art lovers. In the | ational Gallery of Art are two of his | t f the “Life of Christ” and a | of his_portraits of Civil | The latter were ant’s Tomb on the | * of Gettysburg. and | not in the flush | appeared at that | ard, | 1 a little over two years o fittieth annive picture the e v youth, but e ey are very straightforw frank, represents ey “Life’ of Christ” paintings | e and idealiatic, Twenty of these are owned by the Brooklyn Muserm. one is 1o be found in the Art | Museum at Montclair. N. J. another | the Newark Museum M But it was not realism, it was not ary heroes or ideal- | Istic. illustrative compositions which set Rome agog: it was a complete in- | hovation in the realm of painting, an | effort to express, through the medium ©f color and form, emotional reactions. The paintings were entitled “Tem- peramentals.” They set forth “Lyric Cadences,” “Overtones,” “The Notes “Celio,” *The Element of Light,” | the Garden."” | 1 the Fa 5 these paintings | were shown at the Grand Central Gal- | Jeries, New York, and those who spon- sored the exhibition awaited with con- siderable trepidation the reaction of the public. To an amazing degree. it was favorable. The people went und went A . were interested. were more than interested; the paintings got a hold on their imagination. A writer, ‘ing to this exhibition, said: “The es, when studied. will furnish con- g evidence that the more ab- ~ presentation of beauty and an inexhaustible | urce of interpretation. The imagina- s whetted to a limitless number and versions in response rvey of the pictures.” Among | the more en; g of the musical sub- jects shown at that time was one en- litled “Overtones.” which was de- seribed as follows: “The color would seem to be of the earth, the sea, the the rainbow. sunsets and moon- all subdued into something jous and satisfying. Into this mass of formless color, vaporous and more or less atmospheric and pene: trable, Beck has painted a group of hulf-earthly, half-heavenly = figures. Retween the definable and the inde- finable they circle and float. With an unbelievable majesty and grace, with a beauty of line which only the robed human figure can convey, these be- ings, laden with ideas which link humanity and divinity, long out of the depths, carry onward and upward their spiritual overtones. * * ¢ One Joses one's self in a_fairyland where fantasie rules and philosophy plays.” Others have attempted to demon- strate the close association of color and sound. particularly musical sound, Tut none seems to have achieved quite the success or interpreted it in quite the way that has Walter Beck. Mr. Beck was born in Dayton, Ohio, in March, 1864. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and taught for some years at the Cin : cinnati Academy of the Fine Arts. | He worked at that time in the Rook- wood Pottery, gaining thereby an ap- vreciation of form and of decoration. He taught also at Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, and lectured on pictorial composition. In 1898 he won a com- petition for mural decorations for the vestibule of the city hall, Cincinnati. He is the author of a book on “Art Principles in Portrait Photography” an extremely versatile, all-round artist. * ok % W N the lower room at the Arts Club, beginning today and continuing for 1wo weeks, are to be seen photographs ;. by Frances Benjamin Johnston, who has lately found a new field for photo- graphic Klter etation in examples of early American architecture and colonial gardens. It is these which she presents in this exhibition. Miss Johnston, as almost every one knows, has been for years a leader among American photographic pic torialists and has done much througt her work to place photography among | the fine arts. R I special interest to local art lovers is a_book which has lately been published in England, “The Valiant Gentleman.” the biography of the late Herbert Ward, whose splen- did African_collection, including his own magnificent works in sculpture of native Africans. was given X years ago to this Nation, when it was placed permanently in the National Museum, Natural Histoty Building, adjacent to the halls occupied by the XNational Gallery of Art. Through the medium of letters and | extracts from his diaries Mrs. Ward, the author of the biography, has striven to reconstruct, and to a re. markable extent succeeded in recon- structing the imposing and really splendid figure of this great explorer- artist. She has brought to our knowl- edge through her instinctively graceful writing and the art of the sympathetic understanding biographer the per- sonality of the man to whose talent! ‘we are so greatly indebted. She has 10ld of an artist who was more than an artist; she has reminded us that he was the Herbert of Hopkinson Smith’'s memorable tale, “The Arm- chair at the Inn”; she has recalled the association of her husband not only with Hopkinson Smith, but with our own Thomas Nelson Page, as with anley and other great characters, She has unfolded an amazing tale of adventure, of courage. of high ideals, of devotion to mankind. The hook was written for the Ward grandchildren. that they might know their grandfather whom some of themn | had never seen, but it is a great gift to us all and to the literature on art and it makes even more valuable | 1hose astounding works which Herbert | Ward produced and which we of this country are honored by possessing xR T the Corcoran Gallery of Art there has heen placed indefinitely on exhibition as a loan a charming little bronze by Janet Scudder, the fig. ure of a child. which might well serve ! as a garden ornament or for a foun. 1ain Aliss Sendder is one of our most Fifted woman artists, a skilled medal. Jst, a producer of charming small sronzes which, while full of gayety, | yossess the stability of fine art. A ®ood many years ago she spent a ! AWinter or more in Washington: then for a_number of vears she was in New York. Now she makes her home mnd has her studio in Paris. o JRANK GARDINER HALE Washington a visit once a hringing with him esamples beautiful hand-wrought dencing the continued masteriy craftemanship among the arts. Mr. } visit this year occurs between svember 28 pays ve ot jewelry existance of nd its place his THE | evi- | or not, one should not miss visiting this exhibit. * ox JBEN I. COMINS has returned to this clty after several months' absence and has reopened his studio | t 1611 Connecticut avenue. During | the month of December Mr. Comins, by speclal invitation, will hold a large one-man exhibit in the Brook Me- morial Art Gallery in Momphis. e is at present painting the portrait of James Madison Barker of Bristol, Tenn., which will probably be Included in the exhibition. Mr. Comina has lately executed an important portrait commission in New Haven. * ook % AN exhibition of the works of Ed-| n Howland Blashfield is being held at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 633 West One Hun- dred and Fifty-fitth street, New York, apening November 11 and continuing to April 1 Mr. Blishfleld, it will he remem. beved, is the artist of the mural paint. ings in the dome of the reading room of the Library of Congress and of the beautiful series of mural mosaics at St. Matthew's Church in this city, ¥k %% DELIGHTFUL group of water colors by Eleanor Parke Custis is on exhibition at the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art in the glass cases on the cond floor. Having opened last Sun- it will be on view until Decem- These little paintings, the fruit of the artist's sojourn in Europe last Summer, represent sireet scenes, interesting bits of architecture and picturesque landscapes in Switzerland, France and Italy. They are painted in opaque color in flat decorative masses, and conjure up a vision of the life of Southern Europe, its warmth, gayety and vivid hues. Even the scenes done in the Alps have the atmosphere of Summertime, despite -capped peaks visible in the s The incidental figures in ny of the scenes—at the bazaars, washing clothes on the water front or otherwise occupled—add bright spots of color, Miss Custis is a Washington artist from every standpoint. She is a na- tive and resident of the city, studied at the Corcoran Art School and is a member of the Washington Water Color Club and Arts Club and the So- clety of Washington Artists. * k¥ % LLA P, MUSSEY, the daughter of| Mus. Ellen Spencer Mussey of this city, who began her career as a teacher of art in Washington, has just re signed her position as head of the art department of the Morris High School, New York, to which she was appointed in 1897. The High School Bulletin, in making mention of this fact, paid the following high tribute to Miss Mussey's accomplishments: “Miss Mussey has always been u leader among the members of the corps, and in her own high school has been a tower of strength. The crown- ing achievement of her career was completed when the great mural painted by Gorguet as a memorial to the 867 Morris men and women who sarved in the World War was finally dedicated in the auditorium of the Morris High School. Miss Mussey served with untiring energy on the committee that raised the funds and carried through to completion this magnificent project. Miss Mussey sailed today for Europe, intending to make an indefinite stay with friends in Geneva, after which she will go to ) SHOW. By Mary Carolyn Davies. Tllustrated by Herbert E. Fouts. New York: Henry Harrison. THE GRUB STREET BOOK OF VERSES. Edited by Henry Harri- sion, New York: Henry Harrison. HEDGES, HILLS AND HORIZONS. By Carl John Bostelmann. New York: Henry Harrison. UNTAMED. By Benjamin Musser. w York: Henry Harrison, BEHIND THE MASK, By Rosa Zag- noni Marinonl. New York: Henry Harrison, DALEHOUSE Francis ~ Everton, Hobbs-Merrill Co. 3 WORLD'S BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1927, Sixteen tales selected by the editors of the lead- ing American magazines, under the auspices of the New York World. With a foreward by William John- ston. New York: George H. Doran Co. PUTTERING AROUND. By MacGreg- or Jenkins (Rustics). Illlustrated | by Decie Merwin. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. AN UNMARRIED FATHER; a No By Floyd Dell. New York: George | H. Doran C: HALF A CLEW. By Richard I, Wat- }l\lnl. New York: Edward J. Clode, ne. THE ABSOLUTE AT L. Karel Capek. New Yor Millan Co. CASTE. By Cosmo Hamilton, author of “The Rustle of Silk," etc, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. WHITE HANDS. By Arthur Stringer, author of “The House of Intrigue, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mer- il Co. GOD'S DRUM. and Other Cycles from Indian Lore. Poems by Hartley Alexander, Illustrated by Anders John Haugseth. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. THE WINSTON SIMPLIFIED DIC. TIONARY: E 3 TH MURDER. By Indianapolis: RGE. By The Mac- William Dodge Lewi . D., Litt. D, etc.; Genry Ph. D., etc, and Ph, D., 3,000 illustrations and an atlas of the world, Philadelphia: The John €. Winston Co. THE TRUMPETERS OF THE CON- STIT ION. Charles Warren. The sixth lecture on the Cutler ‘oundation of the University of tochester, JUNIOR COLLEGE: Jts Organi- i n and Administration. Edited by William Martin Proctor, profes- sor of education, Stanford Univer. sity. Published by the university. a Da Day Story. By Jona. than Rawson. New York: Freder. ick A. Stokes Co, YOW BABY. Par Josephine Diebitsch ~Peary, ~ Traduit Par Marie Ahnighito Peary (La Snow Baby Elle-Meme.) lilustree Par Gravures d'apres des Photo. graphies. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. SALOME; A Tragedy in One Act. By Oscar Wilde. ~ Inventions by John )('!l(!l')l, New York: E. P. Dutton o. REPUBLICAN MARRIAGE: a Novel. By L. J. Swabacker, Chicago: Ar- sus Books, Inc | THE EVERGRE) TREE; By Kathleen Millay. Boni & Liveright. { DIMPLE DIGGERS: Thirty Poems by Robin Christopher. 1llustrated hy Gerta Ries. New York: Eim House, Poems. w York: and December %, when he will hold an exhibition and sale of his work at Jane Bartlett's, 1603 Connecticut ave- ®ue. Whether a potential purchaser 4 paris to study drawing and painting during the greater part of the year. The good wishes of the entire corps g0 with her.” * L NHE Winter exhibition of the Na- tional Academy of Design opens in New York tomorrow with “Varnishing day” and will remain on view until December 18. Numerous much coveted prizes will be awarded in connection | with this exhibition, among them the two Altman prizes of $1.000 and $500. respectively; the Carnegle prize of $500, the Julia A. Shaw and the J. Francis Murphy AMemorial prizes, as well as the lsidor medal, to mention only a lew, Announcement is made in connec. tion with this exhibition that addi- tional purchases will be made from the wor! shown by the trustees of the Ranger fund. These paintings will be assigned to art museums throughout the country. but on all such purchases the National 5t Art has first option, Sixi aintings have alieady been purchased the council of the Natlonal Acad- of Design, trustees, with this tund. The Ranger fund was established by Henry W. Ranger for the purchase of works by American artists, two-thirds of such purchases to be by artists who are 45 years of age or over, one-third by those of less years, with the pur- pose of encouraging production and the collection by American museums 5t the works of our native artists. ok ok AN event of this week will be the presentation of the Metropolitan Museum cinema fllms, including three of their most perfect film pro- ductions along the lines of authentic art that have been made in this great. est of art museums in America. “The films will be offered Thursday evening at Central Community Center as the third event of the Community Institute course for this Winter, and Huger Elliott, director of the mu seum’s educational work, will give a | short talk on the film production at | the museum and its imporiance and value in the art life of cultured Amer- icans, The museum has produced a num- ber of motion picture films which deal with art in its various phases and periods, and the three fiims to be shown on Thursday evening pre- sent a diversity of these phases and periods, Authoritative and vivid knowledge of armor and the armo skill, given iIn historical sequence, with knights in armor. will be shown in “A Visit to the Armor Gallery Furthermore, thé great beauty of de- sign of armor and the skill in model- ing In steel are clearly shown to the spectator in this film, “The Pottery Maker” story of the age-old making tery, Interwoven with a del story of a potter in the *sixties in “Vasantasena,” the story of tenth- century India, a careful study of the Indian paintings exhibited in the mu- seum has preceded the production of the film. Another interesting fact about this film is that the scenery has been painted in the “flat” manner pe- culiar to Indian miniatures, By stu. dents of Pratt Institute, who also de- signed and made the costumes and ap- peared as actors in the production. The Community Institute will pre- sent during the present season a num ber of interesting art events in the course, in which the Washington Ro- ciety of the Fine Arts is co-operating. BOOKS RECEIVED of “Ameri Democracy Robins Press, BEAU GESTE. By Percival Christo. pher Wren. Presentation edition. Illustrated by Helen McKie, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, ENDS OF THINGS. By Mary Dixon Thayer. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. ONCE UPON A TIME IN DELA- WARE. By Katharine Py Edited by Emily P. Bissell. Draw- ings by Ethel P. B. Leas Second edition. New York: E. & Co. INSTITUTE n Labor and American ' etc. New York: P. OF SOCIAL AND RE- LIGIOUS ESEARCH THE CHURCH 1IN THE CHANGING CITY. By H. Paul Douglass, New ¥ George H. Doran C THE A B C OF PSYCHOLOG By Vance Randolph, New York: The ‘Vanguard Press. AMERICAN MEDICINE AND THE PEOPLE'S HEALTH; An Outline With Statistical Data on the Or: ganization of Medicine in the United States With Special Refer- ence to the Adjustment of Medical Service to Social and Economic (‘hange. By Harry H. Moore, pub- Jic health economist, United States Public Health Service, author of “Public Health in the United States,” With an introduction by the Committee of Five of the Wash- ington Conference on the Economic Factors Affecting the Organization of Medicine. New York: D. Apple- ton & Co. THE A B C OF ARCHITECTURE. By Matlock Price. Profusely illus- trated. New York: E. P, Dutton & Co. THE MESS] ER OF THE GODS, By Phyllis_Bottome, ~New York: George H. Doran Co. PROUDHON'S SOLUTION OF THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. By P. J. Proudhon. Including commentary and exposition by Charles A. Dana and William B, Greene, Fdited, with introduction, by Henry Cohen. New York: Vanguard Pres: CHARACTER READING FROM HANDWRITING. By Louise Rice. With numerous line drawings, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, IYDAY PROBLEMS OF THE EVERYDAY CHILD. By Douglas A. Thom, M. D.. director of the Habit Clinics of Boston, ete, With an introduction by Grace Abbott, director of the United States Chil: dren’s Bureau. New York: D, Ap- pleton & Co. DOUG AND MARY AND OTHERS. By Aulemb’r-l;me With woodcut yortraits by Bertrand Zadig. New York: Macy-Masius. S FINDING THEMSELVES: the letters of an American Army Chief Nurse in a British Hospital in France. By Julia C. Stimson, M. A, R. N. superintendent of 'Army Nurs Corps, United States Army; la director nursing service, A. K. New York: The MacMillan Co. THE APPLETON BOOK OF SHORT PLAYS; Actable Short Plays for Amateurs. Second series, Edited by Xenyon Nicholson, editor of “‘Revues,” etc; author of “The Barker,” etc. Introduction by Bar. rett H. Clark, author of “'A "Study of the Modern Drama," etc, New York: D, Appleton & Co, SUS. By Henrl Barbusse, Trane. lated by Solon Librescot. Translu- tion supervised hy Malcolm Cowley, New York: The Macaulay Cg, MAN, GOD AND IMMORTALITY: Thoughts on Human Progress, Passag osen from the Writings of Sir James George Frazer, O. M., F. R.8., F. B. A, ete. Re THE MEXICAN QUESTION and American-Mexican Relations Under Calles and Obregon. By Willlam English Walling, author : Mexico . ., F. d and edited by the author. New York: The MacMillan Co. APPLETON POPULAR HEALTH Dutton | SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGT OVEMBER 27, 1927. The Yes, Yes Chorus BY BRUCE BARTON. ECENTLY | heard a man cribed i t We met him quite in the cerridor R so much vitality in h that | wanted to know me about him, “Whe he?” | asked. “He vice president of the Blank Corporation,” my friend replied. “He is the man who tells President John Blank the truth.” President John Blank is ener- mously rich. A large majority of his many employes work on the theory that if they can find out what the old man would like to h and tell it to him, sun will shine brightly on their path. vigoro vice president what he thinks. The result is that while John Blank di with him vie- lently on occasion, John Blank can't do without him. t menace to a big is the atmosphere nt in which ed. That at- heavy around Hous it destroys the per- epective of successful writers and speakers and other people of not recognize protect it Lerd Northcliffe, for example, tried hard to find people whe had enough backbone te willing to disagree with him. “He abandoned the Carlton Club,’ some one writing about him, “because he ered that most of its members were of the same way of think- ing, and that he could derive no new ideas from them.” When the Emperor of Rome streets ationed As higher and higher, duty of the slave ward and whisper: theu too art mortal.” 1 sometimes think that a man of sound judgment could make 'y good living in any large if he would develop the f that slave into a recogniz n. For a good-sized fee he could arrange to vi the mayor and the presidents of big corpol tions after office hours. Locking the door of the private offic: and drawing up his chair clo to the desk, he could say that the members of the ‘Ye Yes Chorus’ have all gone hom qu you would like to hear the real truth?” (Copyright, 1927.) NUCLEUS OF WINNECKE COMET SMALLEST, SAYS ASTRONOMER Heavenly Body Closely Observed Last Summer Through Arizona Telescope—Size of Center Is Computed. Despite the excitement it occasioned last Summer, when it came within 4,000,000 miles of the earth—closer than any previous comet—the Pons Winnecke comet had the distinction of possessing the smallest nucleus that has ever been observed in such a body. Probably it was not more than two or three miles in diameter. This is announced by Dr. V. M. Slipher, director of the lLowell Ob- servatory, at Flagstaff, Ariz. Slipher took advantage of the close visit of Pons Winnecke to watch it carefully with the observa- tory’'s big refracting telescope, with a lens two feet in diameter. He had, he ve, the best opportunity in years to make a measurement of the size of a comet’s nucleus, the center which is supposed to supply the rest of its materfal. On most occaslons, he say ‘the nucleus of the comet was found to be perfectly stellar— i. e., very small and sharp.” At such times “it was possible to distinguish the nucleus from stars only by its motion.” Star Is Tiny Point. Fven through the highest power telescope 4 star appears as a point of light. First Dr. Slipher compared the cometary nucleus with nearby stars. Then he took stars of similar brightness in another part of the heave near the planet Jupiter, and compared them with the large moons of that planet. As the e and dis- tance of the Jovian moons are known, it was thus possible to estimate the size of the nucleus. Its distance from the earth also was known, and thus it was possible to get a rough ap- proximation of its diameter. This, he found, was not more than two or three miles. Other studies of the :omet were made by Dr, Slipher with the aid of a spectroscope attached to the big tele. scope., In this way, by analyzing its light, he found several very peculiar features. 1t has been supposed that comets are excited to great activity as they get near the sun, but the studies of Dr. Slipher of Pons Winnecke, as well as other comets, seem to contra- dict these views. The spectrum showed very strongly the same dark bands that ave revealed in the spectrum of the sun. This shows that the comet's light consisted largely of reflected sunlight. Also, In the band of spectrum there appeared rather weakly the bands that are asso- ciated with cometary light. A spray of light which projected from the nu- cleus toward the sun gave off more light of its own than any other part of the comet. Reduces Its Light. Besides having its activity reduced { by approach to the sun Dr. Slipher be- lieves that fts close approach to the arth may have also reduced the comet’s light. In 1910, he said, it was found that the light emissions from Halley’'s comet were reduced as it ap- proached the earth and then became more intense as it drew awav. Pre- viously it has been supposed that the earth has little influence on the activ- ity of comets coming near it. 1t this is the case it would account for the fact that Pons Winnecke, de- spite its close appréach te the earth, was much fainter than some astrono- mers had anticipated. (Copyrieht. 1927.) Iroquois League of Nations, Effective For 200 Years, Is Reduced to Remnants The tradition of the first effective All-American League of Nations is sinking hefore the rising tide of clvilization, For 200 years members of the six nations of the great Iroguois Ci federacy have looked upon themselves as a distinct nation. Now, however, the remnants of the lroquois tribes in Canada and the Senecas, dagas, and others in New York find to their dismay that they are legally considered citizens of countries tra tionally supposed by them to be their allies. Most of the old guard among the Iroquois, according to Arthur C. Parker, director of the Rochester Municipal Museum, in a report to Art and Archaeology, feel that “for either Carada or the United States to legislate them into citizenship was as futile as for those same countries to legislate China or Mexico into United Siates or Canadian citizenship.” The treaty signed by representa- tives of the six nations and the new- 1y established republic of the United States 1n 1794 at Canandaigua, N. Y. is still as sacred to the Iroquois as the Monroe Doctrine is to the State De- partment, The more enlightened among their numbers, however, see, says Mr, Parker, that this measure of assimilation is only economic neces- sity and that for Indians to seek to maintain economic independence would be suicide. Was League to Enforce Peace. The Iroquols Confederacy was a genuine league to enforce peace, but by force of circumstances developed into the mosat effective fighting body among the aborigines of North Amer- ica. All the tribes that were not to participate in the confederacy were Jealous and strife naturally followed Earthquake Bell of Of Trouble Hours Earthquakes of the future may be heralded by the ringing of an earth. quake alarm bell a few hours before the shock. In this way there won't ba time for an exodus from tall build- ings und other places where the great- est loss of life iu likely to occur. That such an earthquake warning is not at all impossible is the state. ment made by John W. Evans, British seismologist, in a_letter to the scien- tific magazine, Nature. Investiga- tlons made by Prof. Akitune Imamura, leading Japanese earthquake expert, and presented by him at the recent Geodetic and Geophysical Union meet- Lv;s in Prague, support the former's eas, The effect that Mr. Evans proposes to utilize is that of a tilting of the earth’s surface which happen c| ems to ust nllg a gt while before a g SERIES—THE TEETH AND THE MOQUTH. By Leroy L. Hartman, D. D, S.. professor of operati denistry, School of Dental and Oral Rurgery, Columbia University. New York: 1. Appleton & Co. RISTIANITY AND JUDAISM COMPARE NOTES, By Harris Franklin Rall, professor of system- atic theology, Garrett Biblical In. tute, and Samuyel 8, Cohon, pro. fessor of .‘II ish |£eolot.v_ nion College, New Yor MacMilllan Co. 1 Onon- | until they were subdued. The Iro- quois, moreover, started and enforced the original Americanization sche: according to Mr, Parker. Every na. tion that resisted its power was segre- gated and led to new homes and taught how to behave. Though their culture was not of a high type, in their civil and social structure, they excelled. Their “‘con- ! stitution" is sald to be ideally adapted to the type of people for which it was designed. Women had an im- portant place and the council of the women had the power of nominating all the civil chiefs, Women, being mothers, were regarded as more valu- al than men and their ransom price when captured was twice that of a man, Record in 1ith tury. In the seventeenth century the Iro- | quois were an Important influence in determining whether this country would be dominated by the French or the English Their Huron rivals in Canada looked to the French as a [ means of overthrowing their ancient enemy, while in New York the Iro. quois looked to the British for the same end. Though the French were on the whole better liked, the Indians eventually found ‘that the English were squarer to deal with. Accordin, to Mr. Parker, the Krench forfeite the respect of their Huron allies by burning the flelds and stores of corn in the Seneca villages. To burn corm, even that of an enemy, was to stix against nature, against the spiris that sustain life. Therefore the pil laging French soldiers were offend: Ing one of the vital religious principles of the Hurons as well as Iroquols and 80 contributed their share to losing :g;mb‘nncn an empire in the new Future May Warn Before Tremor Hits In five Japanese earthquakes hetween 1793 and 1927, including the great guike of 1922, there was a lifting of the ground of a yard or two which preceded the quake by from half an hour to Aive hours, By means of an instrument develop. ed by another Japar clentist, Ishi- moto, a very sligh ing of the rth can be measured. So sensitive s this climograph, as the instrument Is called, that it wil detect a tilting of the earth so slight as to move a pole & mile high only a fiftieth of an inch at its top. With an earthquake that occurred in Japan last Spring, sald Prof. Imamura, as quoted by Mr. Evans, this instrument showed & char- acteristic tiiting which appeared from a few weeks to the day before the quake, About two and a half hours before the shock there was a rising of the ground of about a meter. Mr, Evans suggests a chain of such stations for warning. “It would seem desirable” he eavs, “in regions subject to serious earthquakes, a num. ber of locul stations should each be equipped with a pair of simple hori- zontal pendulums, so adjusted that if any unusual tilt occurs a bell should ring automatically in the office of a central observer and the Jocality indi cated there by a signal. would then judge from the number of sta- tions affected and the record of his own seismomater, whether the Ini- cations ‘6 sufMcient to warrant him in giving the alarm. e e PAR A Volume From the Pen of George Arliss, Actor—Amy Lowell Produces Another Book of Poetry—Covering a Variety of Subjects. IDA GILBERT MEYERS. UP THE YEARS FROM BLOOMS- BURY An Autoblography. By George Arliss, Illustrated. Bos- tou: Little, Brown & Co. HE pleasant flavor of a stroll in Bloomsbury with Dickens himself greets one at the out- set of this adventure in life. Just a sauntering through Museum street, at one end of whose short stretch the British Museum stands on guard, at the other end Mudie’s Library. It is, however, the shops in between that give such reminiscent gusto to the outing— Mr, Hickman's, where paper and pens are sold, the bookseller's shop kept by old Mr, Stubbs and young Mr. Stubbs, Then at the corner shop is Mr, Parr, in_his long white beard, looking for all the world like one of the 12 apostles. And Miss Ryan's, where such cakes may be found as you would buy coming from Mudie's on your way to the museum, or, hav- ing left the museum, you might get to stay vour stomach while you called at the library. Holding to this mood of genial loc ing backward, Mr, Arliss moves hap- pily through his childhood, where even then play-acting on his part amused not only the immediate family, but the neighborhood as well, since street and yard served him as stage even more satisfyingly than nursery or drawing room, In leisurely fashion the story makes its way, gradually widening to the dimensions of a stage career. This point achieved, the book becomes a wide domalin of art and stage craft where celebrities of the profession come and go in something like a pa- geant of notable artists who, as a whole, represent the recent vears of the stage in purpose and method and development, Intimacy with the theater and all that this connotes, both behind the curtain and in front of it, marks this hook of recollections. Innumerable fresh points of view upon it are offered readers. Actors— those lucky folks about whom every one is inordinately curious—come out here in frank service of open avowal and intimate disclosure. The big book embodies and projects the stage of the past in its general purpose and ec a part of the artistic and social life of the day. Be- side all this worthy business, it is the most companionable of reading on a theme of very general interest, given straight out of the hand and heart of a well beloved actor who possesses a peculiar genius of his own. PR BALLADS FOR SALE. By Lowell, author of “East Wind,” Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co. FROM every point of view a most desirable volume of Amy Lowell poetry. Quite apart from any academic controversy over the claims of free verse, the fact now stands plain to most readers of poetry that Amy Lowell is, by virtue of her work, be- yond the reach of such disputations, even as Walt Whitman himself is also beyond dispute the great poet of a new world, of a new day. “Ballads for Sale,” the third volume to be published since the death of their author, i uncommonly rich book in one It covers a wide reach of pla mood and subjec But however these poems may range—from Italian scenes to portraits of people, dn to reflections upon all manner of themes, and on still further to songs of the Pueblo Indians—they come together in original imagery, in rugged treat- ment, in straight outlook, in courage and fearlessness toward the art of poetry. They are fine and tonic in effect, beautiful in design and color, homespun to the soil of their birth— so richly worth a treasuring and a pondering. Not the least of the at- tractions here is the companionable little volume in which these poems are oftered to the friends of this great woman. * koW ok MEN OF DESTINY, By Walter Lippmann. Illustrated by Rollin Kirby. New York. The MacMil- lan Co. COLLECTION of interesting es- says from an interesting man. The essays themselves are bound to draw out a pretty general acceptance on the single count that they deal with people and affairs of the day. Everybody is more deeply concernec about the present moment than he possibly can be about even the most glorious past. The present is his and in it he is looking for reliable assist- ance along many lines in which his form of government requires his co- operation, Here are views and opinions, from a clearly reliable source, upon living statesmen and politicians, upon Government meas- ures, upon current states of mind re- specting important issues, with a touch or two upon writing men and their work. The collection does not aim at strict unity of theme, only such as inheres in the fact that in main these are questions which face Americans alone. The real point of the book is, however, Mr, Lippmann himself, who in outstanding measure nossesses the gift of clarification, of drawing the kernel of a question or situation clean out from the shell and husk of obscurity and hearsay and confusion in which it is commonly wrapped. Beside this power, so im- portant to the average reader, the author has also that of discussion and exposition in which rancer, bitterness and abuse are wholly Jacking. Genially, even smilingly, he makes use of his political wisdom for the ex- posure of political fallacies and tutili- ties—a much more illuminating and effective method than the most bril- lfant vituperation could ever hope to be, Beside being timely and sub- stantial in character the writing of Walter Lippmann {8 good meaty read- ing that cannot fail to capture any reader of serious mind and bent toward current im[l:l‘lfl"(:el. o THE RIGHT TO BE HAPPY., By Mrs. Bertrand Russell. New York: Harper & Bros. HERE is a book, written by a woman, that all intelligent and thoughtful women would be the better for veading. 'That fs, they would be the better for reading it if getting out from the shell of a few hoary notions about the place of women in the _world could make them better. O “Supreme Authority” 3,700 v'nuu:,ln e the | | This is no polemic, no tirade against the male part of the population, no propaganda for the rights of women along this or that line. It is in no sense violent or extreme, or any other thing calculated to rouse ire in any reasonable mind. It is, instead, the mildly stated assumption that evarybody has the right to be happy, reasonably happy, I take it. There is then a fair overlooking of what con- ditions happiness in this world. Not so much, either, you will find, upon calling tha coll of the elements that enter into a general scheme of ac- ceptances and satisfactions. There are things here with which you will not agree, if you chance to be a con- former simply because you never think at all about anything. Iere and there you may feel a shock of distaste—that is, you may if you are overloaded with quality that you choose to call delicacy, or modesty. But_if you are thinking, if you are intelligent, if you are honest and net too incrusted in tradition, you will read this book, assenting, accepting, and stirred to a new activity in work- ing out your own individual right to happy without prejudice to others, without permanent harm to others. While the book faces rather directly upon woman, it is a man's book as well, one, too, that is projected in a fine competency of discussion and determination. “The Rights of Hu- man Beings: Food, Work, Knowledge, Sex and Parenthood,” “The Rights of Children"—such are the namin; of certain chapters that are well worth any one's while. A fine achieve- ment e THE EXIL By Mary Johnston, au- thor of “Michael Forth,” ete. Bos- ton: Little, Brown & Co. OLITICAL in cast and substance is “The Exile,” Miss Johnston's latest novel. The action involved in this romance takes place some time in the future upon an island whose name does not appear in our geogra- phy books. Backing the main line of events is Richard Kaye, dictator of Eldorado Island. Ri rd Kaye, it de- velops, is an exile to this island, which for several centuries has been used for the punishment of political non- conformis 8o, in a sense, this is a haunted spot, where shades of political refugees seem to hover over the new dictator and his companions. And it turns out that Richard Kaye himself has been there before, just as these unseen people around him have been | there, are there still. It is this thread of Fastern theory concerning the goul in its many migrations that gives a clear charm to the romance as a whole, Apart from this somewhat new line of development for the au- thor, the story deals sincerely and soberly with the vision of a time when the world will have been freed from wars and a new day will have come to support the human family in its assumption of superiority over the other brutes and beasts of creation. * ok K K LATEST CONTEMPORARY POR- nk Harris, au- de: His Life and New York: The Ma- caulay Co. $ independent in his opinions as he is competent to form and of- em, Frank Harris is always in- Sometimes he opposition, but there is no harm at, since opposition is not his aim, but rather is it the effect of his rightness upon minds reluctant and uninviting. Not v biographies can compete with Harris' study of Oscar Wilde, with its fairness, breadth of viewy accuracy, line of approach and summary. And here again this author writes, brilliantly, fearlessly, competently, of folks all around us— authors, actors, politicians, statesmen. diplomats, rebels, business men and others and others. Some of the names covered by these studies are Thomas Hardy, Eleonora Duse, Annie Besant, Eugene Debs, Charles Schwab. Fred- erick Harrison, Gusta Flaubert, David Graham Phillips, “the great- est American writer"—what do you say to that? He comes near to prov- ing his point about Phillips, as you will see. “In my portraits I have always wanted to give my vision of the man—body, mind and soul—as- suming nothing save that his excep- tional qualities must be intimately related 1o his shortcomings, and re- | garding his peculiar virtues and vices merely as variations from type. 1 have never felt satisfied with my mental portrait till I could see that the man's books or works were as itably an outcome of him as the fruit is of the tree. His personal habits, his dress, his tricks of gesture and speech were all as important to me as his theories of art or life.” ¥rom such an intelligence with such a purpose you may expect to find por- traits that do portray. You will find| just that, and no end of enjoyment | besides. * ok kK STREET BOYS. By Translated b New Yorl THE PAUL Ferenc Molnar. Louis Rittenberg. Macy-Masius. MERICAN readers of discrimi-| ipe have learned not to and stories of ¥Ferenc | Molnar by. And here is a novel of | his about boys, Just boys playing | the streets of Budapest, such is the theme of the story in hand. But city streets are pretty much alike the world over, and certainly boys are| boys wherever they are found. So here. except for local touches which serve only to enrich the scene for | readers, is a story as true as life it-| self, one written out of keen insight and warm sympathy, out of clear kin- ship with the tribe of boy. Whimsi cal and gay, tender and piercing, by turn and turn about, the life of the city streets becomes a simple panorama of the young human In his imaginings and dreams of adventure and heroism. A street is for him a road around the | world, or wild out-farings by sea, or siege and defense between warring hosts, or any other thing that active muscles driven by more active (According to the booksel! lacest The Atlantic $10,000 Prige Novel fmaginings can devise. Not a hook for boys alome. A book instead for old or young, for man or woman, has a strain of boy in him or her, as the best of folks have. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent Library and lists reading will appear each Sunday. Chemistry. access the Public recommende:i this column ns at of in Browne, C. A Chemistr Darrow, F. L. try. LO-4D: Gordon, N. E ed. A Haif Century of in America. LO-4BSI. The Story of Chemis. Introductory Chemis- try, LO-G633. Tibbals, C. A., and Gill, E. E. tative Analysis. LOC-T43q Quali- Gardening. Gardner, V. R., and othej ing. RILG1T30. Kift, J. L. The Woman's Gardening. RIS-K358x. Rockwell, F. ¥. Gladiolus. R50%. Rockwell, . F. Shrubs. Rhetoric. ., W. F., and others. Handbook. . 8 Orchard. Flower RISL K 2390 Brya The Writ- ZB-BS4Tw. An English Manual Getting and Writing H268g. omp. Free-lance Writ. Ing as an Occupation for Women. ZCJ-Ol 86¢. Literary Biographies. Dell. Floyd. E- Sis37d. Gorman, H. 8. Hawthorne, E-H318g. Hibl:en. Paxton. Henry Ward Beecher. 3934hi. Robert Frost. E- Shelley, His Life and E-Shd5pe. X. _An Introduction to the Study of Blake. ZYA-B583p. Stewart, H. L. Anatole France. E- F843s. Willsie, Mrs. H. M. The Father of Little Women. E-Al133w. Politics. American Academy of Political and Social Science, Phila. Are the Filipinos Ready for Independence? i JU6811-Am3. | Brandenburg, Ei From Bismarck | to the World JU4T-BT3LE | Graham, M. W. New Governments of | Eastern Europe. JU30-G76ne. King-Hall, Stephen. The China of To- | d: JUB6-K38. 8. 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