Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1928, Page 32

NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS ‘Exhibitions at the Arts Club Are Attracting Attention. Changes at Corcoran Gallery — An Interesting Lecture—Other Notes. BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE exhibitions at the Arts Club this week. which opened last Sunday and will continue until next Saturday. are quite out of the ordinary and of very genu- ne interest Miss Eipprell. whase exhibit is to be geen in the lower room. is one of our foremost pictorial photographers and her works attain to a very high artistic standard. Portrait photographs full of individuality and interpretive of char- acter constitute the larger part of her, exhibition on the walls, but in port- folios on the table are many phot graphs of still life subjects and interfors which possess extraordinary fine quality and are of extreme interest Miss Sipprell has an exccllent sense of design and at the same time is very gensitive to the subtleties of beauty line. in tone and. in expression. This delicate perception of beauty is evi- cenced most strongly_in her interpre- tations of stil! life. For example. e has pictured in one instance a bit of wnodbine seen in water in a round glass retainer. The line of the stem, the effect of light and shade. the way in which emphasis is placed. give this iy theme exquisite significance. There is another pictorial representa- in a vase and a e of the flawer, v of the objects magination and rmary most home- artistic in arrange- shings. and lege, an character. and f ntained h studel e ter) erected as 8 _memorial to a Dart- who died during his col- the gift to the college of instances were made by have an intimacy that one se even in pictorial photographs. Miss Sippreil succeeds those that she photograpt mospheric whether in- doors or outdoors. ng and inter- esting is a series of portraits she made Jast W r of a distinguished Russian Nadiejda Plevitzkaya, who has zed in Russian folk songs and won her way in New York to high ac- claim. Miss Sipprell is very skillful appar- ently in interpreting children. due doubtless to sympathetic understanding. Her picture of & piump nude baby is “CAMP- GLACIER NATIONAL | exhibition, and the southwest gallery, | in which heretofore were shown casts. | Both of these galleries are now to con- | | tain cotemporary work in sculpture, | and the rearrangement permits excel- | lent showing. The monumental work in | marble by Daniel Chester French, in- | spired by the Great Gevser in Yeilow- | stone Park, entitled “The Sons of Go Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair." has now been placed at the I'end of the southwest gallery. and at the | 1 opposite is 1o be seen Andrew O'Con- nor’s group. "Adam and Eve." Smaller works. inciuding animal sculptures by Fdward Kemeys and Westgrn subjects by Frederic Remington. are disposed | at intervals on either side and on the two long walls, while in the center has been placed the Manship group. ‘Dancer and Gazelles.” in bronze. In the south gallery are to be scen MacNeil's “Sun Vow" ‘and the splendid | group by Konti, lately acquired. Here also are two small bronzes by Bessie Potter Vonnoh. and a few important works in marble. Both of these gai- | Jeries are lighted from the side, o that the plav of light and shadow on the sculptural works is pleasing and effec- tive. | With the rearrangement of these gal- leries the entire series o the south. be- RINNing with the Eustis memorial room, so beautifully rearrangsd a couple of vears ago and including the Barye bronzes. have taken on a charming ass vect and prove delight-giving henceforth to the visitor; places in which one will wish to linger. not merely places vhere exhibits may be seer he new wings are how practical completed. and it is hopsd that install tion will go forward with sufficient ra- pidity to have the formal opening to the public in the late Spring. o WORD has been received that the ! French government has conferred | on Homer Saint-Gaudens. director of fine arts at Carnegie Institute, Pitts- | burgh. and a member of the board of directors of the American Federation of Arts. the decoration of A chevalier of | the Legion of Honor. This honor is be- | stowed in recognition of Mr. Saint-| Gaudens' services in the field of art, and is gratifying not only to the recipi- ent but to his many friends and fellow workers During the war Mr. Saint-Gaudens, with the rank of captain, was in com- mand of the first camouflage company to be formed. He has. during the past will PARK." ONE OF THE WATER CO death by Mrs, Pennell, entitled “The | Glory of New York." | Mrs. Walcott told how she had, as a little girl, received instruction in flower painting in Philadelphia and with what delight she had painted flowers all her | life. Encouraged by Dr. Walcott to continue this work after her marriage, she traveled with him on his scientific expeditions, invariebly with her paint- | box on her saddle. and industriously | made what Dr. Bartsch, in introducing | her, described as portraits of all the flowers that she not only found on her | way but searched out in nature's hid- ing places. Mrs. Walcott has combined in her | rendering of wild flowers accuracy with | artistie rendition, so that her works have the approval of the scientists and | the praise of the artists. It was first | on the invitation of Mr. Minnigerode, director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, that & group of Mrs. Walcott's wild- flower paintings was shown in the Corcoran Gallery. From here they were fnvited to Chicago and from there | to other art museums throughout the | country. Such invitation constitutas | the highest compliment. The publication of American wild- flowers as painted by Mrs. Walcott bears the name of the Smithsonian | Institution as publisher, but was ac- | tually financed by a group of “sub- | scribers, each of whom contributed $500 | for & set of four volumes, the initial | publication costing over $50.000. These ! volumes consist of separate plates with descriptive text in covers but unbound. | The paper on which the reproductions are printed is handmade iinen stock. | therefore permanently lasting. The | text has been written untechnically. but | has been carefully edited so that it is | botanically correct. yet essentially per- sonal. At the same time that the edi- tion de luxe was issued ior subscribers a less costly edition for placement in public libraries and schools has been gotten out. The plates are identical, but the sheets are smaller, and it is earnestly 10 be hoped that this edition may have wide circulation The late Prof. Sargent of Boston, re- ferring to Mrs. Walcott's work. said that she had rendered the public a similar service in her painting of wild flowers to that which Audubon ren- dered in his pictures of and writings on_birds. After describing the way the book came into being and the process of | reproduction. Mrs. Walcott passed around among the audience plates Con-‘ THE SONG.™ A TAINED IN AN EXHIBITION ( SIPPRELL, AT THE ARTS CLUB. (Continued from First Page) order their transportation back to Ber- lin, saying that the conference has failed because the French demanded more than they could pay. But finally the picture of that gold being laid on the table will determine the day, plus the eagerness of the Germans to get this business settled so that they can make a real start on the path which they think will lead to world trade domination once they get going. with all restrictions off.” *x % x Politics in_the United States pre- sents the next moet difficult probiem The vigorous objections made British debt seitiement on the ground that Britain was being let off too easy found a popular response in some parts of the country. Senator R. B. Howell of Nebraska, for example, made speech after speech In his State, when running against Senator Hitchcock. insisting full And the money used to pay a sol- | dier bonus! Mr. Howell believed firmly that the British should have been com- pelled 1o pay a great deal more than was provided in the Mellon-Baldwin settlement. Since that time there have been even |louder attacks on some of the other settiements. ~ The Italian settlement was a peculiar case, due to the bitter apposition to the Mussolini government on the part of several strong American organizations. Leaders of these organi- zalions figured that permitting the Ttalian government to fund its debt to the United States on such easy terms would make it easter for Mussolini to intrench himself in power by getting cheaper credit. This contention has ians since have sold large blocks of bonds here at low intercst rates. | e | "The financiers studying the situation | are cgnvinced that the attitude of the American people would be changed con- stderably if it were a question of getting the h immediately. They believe that one of the chief causes of distrust and objection to the debt selilement has been that objectors here beiieve the “foreigners” are merely using the debt | settlements as “bait” to get a lot more | American capltal, and that the Euro- {pean borrowers will never pay back }euhrr the capital they are borrowing | as a result of the settlements, nor con- tinue pavments on the settlements as been justified. opponents of Mussolini | here declare, by the fact that the Ital- | LORS BY RICHARD A. CHASE, WHICH ARE ON VIEW AT THE ARTS CLUB. he work shown, perhaps her #. possessing in its firmness its arrangement of #ts strength and subtiety. ss and naivete of the old After all. how obvious but in- explicable a thing is art! »+ 5w e upper assembly rooms at the b of Washington, Richard hase's water colors. mostly of the éramatje mountain scenery in and oind Glacier fonal Park. hold their own with dignity paintings in this medium are all keved and are snown iIn white which in this anee are admirabl suitable He has & erispness of st £74 8 frmness of touch which are very engiging. Purthermore, he has a style Gul's s own How many different pones of expression artisis have dis- evered! | Rirherd A. Chase is one of the Chi- ergo p He was at one time & t in the Benool of the Art Insty “nicsgn, under Beyflert and Oberteufler Later he studied under Hswihorne st Provineetown, and it was there that Pelix Mahony of the Arts Ciub discovered him. 1t is to Mr. Ma- that the pleasure of tne present exiipt 1+ due. for it was through his efiors that the eollection was brought y gLom. tation of the Northern Pacific ron, Mr. Chase went Jast bummer b nd puizites s e - s great seale extent the gurst of the Northern Pacific wnie at (lacier and tne ralirosd b bougnt one of nis most suceestul o vaien Bome idea of the sirengih gmpress of s work in I I [ lograpia contained in an #loim whicn sccompanies Lois #xlibi tor and v or e PHY exniiton at the Yorke Galleries 000 B streel, enanges omorrow &' whicn Ume wn exnibiton of gint 1r.ge in gouncne e Wiida Muy Gor gon of ¥nglend wiil be put on view Mise Gordon siudied under Frank Brengyyn m Lomdon wnd in Fanders Ere hes been traveling for the lect yewrs elamriing from the lnie of Wigh poing 10 tie 1 an Cogsl Gieece Crete, Pelestive, ¥yyit m. Birman Yndle. Kashimir western Thibel China B0 Jepen Bhe spent Vhree yesrs ir Irdie. ard while the guest of Uie Wi hereie of Patisle painted the portreits ldren Bhe paserd several hmir wna from there s westers " sved menong (e lemes Doy Y the World War she terved with \he sh V. A D and recelsed many ¢ Wtions from the government Her Srge Which mie being Klowr nndir aintingiinied fie B Animssadir himition il i here on pationage vill e on Feruary 4 e Corcoren Gutiery Swo of e prineipel ooms on the it Loor ~the one W) Ve eatreme south $hn wae Ger Ao recent Amer At e ey RAL Mulplire a6 a0 Gressinns) Current Peoneld in ln’ book issusd since his dossn's look like & Trivet | week. been on duty at Fort Humphreys, fuifilling obligations as an officer of the Reserve Corps Homer Saint-Gaudens s, as almost every one knows, the son of Augustu: Saint-Gaudens, one of the greatest of the sculptors that America has pro- duced. It is interesting to know that the town of Baint-Gaudens in France. in which Augustus Baint-Gaudens was born, is s0on to erect a mo a memorial to him. We b eity, it will be remembered, Saint- Gauden's masterpi the Adams Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery The international exhibitions of paint- ings held yearly in Pittsburgh under the auspices of the Carnegle Institute of that city, are assembied by Homer Saint- Gaudens . "I'HE January calendar at the Balti- more Museum of Art s interesting 1t includes 8 one-man exhibit by Abra- ham Manievich. a Russlan artist, who nas heen living in this eountry for the last five years ction of paintings drawings and engravings by George O Hart, the well known etcher and illus- tator, famillarly known as “Pop” Hart bronzes by Degar and & series of re- productions of his paintings: a Bunday afternoon concert, and a lecture by Mme Eva Sikellanos, on the Greek handicrafis Tne Manievich exhibit comprises 31 paintings done since hir arrival in counLry - street scenes In - New and Pittsburgh and New Eng- 14 landecaper, wll Gigorously rendered Hart's pictures are of his favorite sagnbonde and travel observations The concert scheduled will be given ¢ the Baltimore Music Club Women's the direction of Frang veil known ax 8 com director and member of the faculty of the Peabody Instivute Mumie Eikellanos was formerly 8 Miss Paimer of New York and has been ex- tremely metive in Greece since her mar isge a considerable number of years 0 the aevelopnent of it in that bt rehubiliiation, s it were &rent art ideal wmong the Greeks & bt materinlised In ihe re-entah- iriment of the Greek drainn, & subject which Mme. Bikelinnos hes presepted Lo aitingulshed audiences in New York omeon wnd in Uhe interest of wiich B0 Ui Country wt piesent ¥ % a coll this Yurk | MOST Witerenting teik was giveny i e houk on American | o which she Wid of the successtul efforta made by one of ouy seading Ameriewn paiitere, Willikm | Hudge. L develon & procese of wlor re- | production which would present witer 0 tacsimile wnd permit the une o e oot unglazed paper dhe metiid developed by My Rudge and his Arsocintes in Low known as the Smith o iun proces anly i the production of the monu nental book on Americsn wildfiowers by Mre Waleath, but wies in reprodue ik vater colore by the lnte Joseph W has been used not | | tained the second volume. giving in- teresting informal reminiscences of th circumstances under which the original paintings were made. This will aiways remain in the an- nals of the Arts Club as & most mem- orable evening « % oo AN exhibition of 41 bromol transfers by Herbert Bairstow, fellow of the Royal Photographic Soclety, of Hali- fax, England. 15 on view during the present month in the Arts and Indus- tries Building, United States National Museum, section of photography. Mr Bairstow 15 known for his splendid work in this line, and no international photographie exnibition s sald to be complete without examples of his work R |JBEN F. COMINS has Iately returned “ 1o Washington afier having been for a month in Memphis, Tenn, where an exhibition of his portraits and olher paintings has been held at th Brooks Memorial Arl Gallery. This gallery, the gift of an art-loving citizen of Memphis, 5, a5 Mr. Comins himsslf says one of the finest and most per- fect ittie galleries in this country. and any artist is fortunate Lo be privileged 10 exhibit there, ‘The Brooks Memorial Galiery atands In_ Memphix' beautiful park, and in comparison with the greut museums of the country might be Jewel box. It is small bul exquisite and wis destgned by James Gamble Hogers of New York, who also designed it wiil be remembered, the Harknew buildings for Yule, A portrit of the donor was painted for the gallery some 10 vearn #go by Cacllia Beaux, and is regardea as one of her best works. e [HE AL Promoters Club of Georg: Wi hington Untversity mnnouneer an exhibition of ofl paintings by Mism Blondelle Malone, now on view at the Hotel Dupont. 1460 New Hampshire avenue, which 1n now the club's head- auurters. These are Bouth Caroling Iandscapes. Miss Malone has made a specially of garden pictures, has traveled much wnd ' & very serious painter Bhe is xpending a portion of the Winter in Washing'on s 158 GRACE E. MoK INBTRY of 8L Faul, Minn, well known both ks writer and artist, 1s relining o Wash inglon the latter of this month for the remainder of the Winter. An exh! bitlon of Mise MeKinstry's work has lately ‘been held in the Bt Paul Pub e LAbrary This compiised pletures painted in Prance, Bpain, Holland and recently 0 California aud potraits by Mins MeKinstry lent by Carleton Col- lege. Wi Duluth Bar Association, the Minnesota Historical Boclaty. the Uni of Minnesola and var natl . The Muster Mecha Vi the Bew Yoik Merahd Tt M1 Ford has achieved the lmpissible last. He har made a Foid (hat wrd al described as a ! | they have promised It is perfectly true. the financiers ad- mit, that if the whole scheme worked out as it is planned, private investois, instead of the Unlted States Govern- ment. would be “holding the bag." but this thought, they insist, will not dis- |turb the people who have been doing { most of the kicking about the debt set- tiements. These kickers, the financiers assert, have no particular sympathy for PHOTOGRAPHIC VMITZRAY A, RUSSIAN SINGER OF to the | that the debts should be collected in! STUDY OF NADIEIDA PLE. LR SONGS, WHICH 1S CON. ) PHOTOGRAPHS BY CLARA E. CASH-AND-CARRY REPARATIONS recefved they could make arrange- ments to get a discount within a cer- tain number of years when and if the balance of the reparation bonds are “The United States Government would not be a holder of these bonds. Its cltizens would be the holders. as they are now holders of many hun- dreds of millions of German bonds that are secondary as security to the reparational bonds, The effect upon Fngland and France would be the undoubted restoration of their gold standards, the raising of the credit of those countries, and the easing of their money markets per- manently “If siich a thing were done French credit would rapidly 2o to a 4'. per cent | basis. if not lower. That in itself would be an additional value to the French which would go to more than make up the apparent loss of & lot of | money which they will nq collect from the Germans. =% k. “With the 1 per cent amortization upon the German loan it would gradu- ally disappear within a generation The fixed charge upon Germany woul be less than it will be, under the T be able to Dawes plan, in 1929, and the present | cash value will be more than the allies would realize from the collection of the present indebtedness. It will enable them to go on a permanent| standard. establish their credit ' gold perhaps on a pre-war basis and enabie them to settle their indebtedness be- tween themselves and the United States. “Above all there will come from this ening of interest rates all over the world a stimulus to industry that will | redound to the credit of every nation their fellow Americans who buy foreign | | bonds anyhow. and would not worry much as (o whether they were ever | paid or not |~ Actually, however. the financlers de- {clare that the German reparations [ bonds. as proposed under this would be a perfectly sound investment |"They point to the fact that they would | this step. plan, | underlie all the normal German govern- | ment bonds, including the bonds of German cities, which have had a fair sale in this country, and they would he secured by the same physieal properties which now secure the pavment of reparations under the Dawes plan under the Dawes plan e w e Which brings us to the question of whether there would really be a market {for the reparations bonds. on, which | the whole scheme rests On this point the opinion of Mr. Baruch should carry some weight, He proposed, In a memo- randum prepared some time ago, that | the first {saue of these reparations bonds might be between $2.000.000,000 and $4.000.000,000, with a balance, not to be I excess of $6.000,000,000 more, or a total of $10,000,000.000, to be held and sold when the Reparations Commis- | ston should “deem wise and feasible " “Buch a bond.” he wrote, “could be 1s- sed on n 6 per cent basis and perhaps | & basis close to 8 per cent | maked mbout this fust before this article | was written, Mr. Baruch was even more optimistic as 1o the low interest basis on which the bonds would be bought by tnveators of the world ) [ “Tnis bond” he con'inued, | be good beyond peradventure because 1t ia & first charge upon Germany, and | ma wdaltions] security 1t ia w first mortgage upon the property, such an ralironds and industries of Cermany, which have always earned many times the Interent upon these securities “The German bond would be & gold [ bond weue In dollars, pounds, gutlders kronen live the Belgian frane and the new French frane st its new, stabilized [value. This would give an interna- Uonal market now not enjoyed by any [ RecurityIE only 82,000,000 000 were [nold, '\t would give France 81,040,000, 000, England whout 84500.000,000 and each Interested country fls propor- ton LR “WILh the proceeds from these bonds the allled governments could do number of * things. Undoubtedly it ild stabllige their ourrencles on & 14 buats The English and French ould the cash recelved from (i 1o muke & cash settlement with the Unlted Biates for a laige part i not il of thelr indebtadness O tainly the Prench recelving two bil Jona and elghty millons of dollars in cash fiom the sale of thewe bonds Wikl be able to make a readiustment of helr Indebtedness tn the Btates 11 they could not theli indebledness | retire all sl i | Bpain. | Spanish wheat | Thousands (When | “would | United | accemsible (0 all involved and justify each and every one of them in taking less of & doubt- ful principal by getting a definite present value. “The industrial renaissance n the whale world which would result might B0 on for years to come. because it Would result not only in a revival in England, Germany. "Belgium, Africa, Central and South America and Asia. but throughout the United States the rest of the Northern Hemisphere “With the German reparations set- tled. the Germans would be free to ald by peaceful penetration in bringing Russia back into the economic circle.” ‘e Only the first move has been made S. Parker Gilbert, the “uncrowned king of German as he is called be- cause of his power as head of the Ger- | man Reparation Commission under the Dawes plan, has already recommended that the amount of German repara. tions be fixed at a definite sum. That 18 believed by the financiers who hi been studying the situation to be the first move. Thev know that Secretary of the Treasury Meilon and Dwight W MoITow. now ~Ambassador to Mexico and former member of the frm of J P. Morgan & Co. were In favor of They believe that further steps will be made as 80 1 as the time is believed ripe to make them. Old Fashioned Plow Handicaps Spanish If the old Roman plow is not soon banished from Casttle there will be danger of a grave economic crisis in The average value of the orop is about $400,- 000,000 for an area of 10,000,000 acres, mostly sown and reaped by hand of sun-blackened men, crouching low as they toil with sickles through vast fields, betoken the back- ward conditigns ‘and the starvation wages. As a result of these priml- tive methods Castilian wheat cannot compete In the world markets, though Ma quality is renowned through the ages. Wheat harvested thousands of miles away in America or Argentina can be sold in Sanish ports at less than the cost price of the domesti- cally grown cereal has had to restriet wheat imports, creating an unsound economie situa- ton. 'The situation ean and must be suved by the extensive use of tra tors. deeper tilling and increased fe Wization . Bearded Women Story Branded as Fiction Inhabitants of Vorariberg, in west- ern Austria, did not know Whether to be indignant or to laugh over the ar- tele on “Rearded Women of the wal ser Valley” which an Amerioan news agency sent from Vienna, The story goes something like (his | “laolated n the Alps cut off from | communication with the world, lives u tribe whose women: ns well as the mey have long beards One person - family whose members inherit this I8 chosen 10 4o down to the, world and CRILY O Decensaty buainess, Martinges are contracted within the tribe “The peaple are selt-sufficient. rats- NG thelt own grain, weaving their own | cloth and making thete own tools. Thely | Iangusge 1 & mixture of German and | tocal dinlect which they alone can | understand " | 16 there s & pure race tn Barope it 1 10 the Tyrol and in Voravibery. puve | German — And the Walser Valley s Who care (o see for | themaslves whether this tribe of beard ko With the cash they ed women teally puists, The government | We IDA GILBERT MYERS. KING COBRA: An Autoblography of | Travel in French Indo-China. By | Harry Hervey, author of “Congal! | ete. "New York: Cosmopolitan Book | Corporation MAGINATION spontaneous and fan- ciful, a quick seizure of the dra- matic in scene and situation, a deep feeling for the orientalism of the Asfatic coast. a way of his own with picture words. This is Harry Hervev pestering the Far East to de- | liver up more and more of its burled | life. He tells us here about a little boy | fingering an illustratea book. A pic- | ture stepped out before him, a pieture | of towers and terraces. And under the picture was written “Angkor"—a word “that wheeled in his brain like a brazen cagle.” And opposite the picture com- ing to meet him like a friend were these words: “In the depths of the forests | of Siam I have seen the star of evening | rise over the ruins of Angkor.” It was many years after that the boy, a man | grown, set forth to find the buried city of Angkor. And “King Cobra" is the story of that outfaring. It is the story | of the heart of Harry Hervey seeking its own true sustenance from the ruins, | the jungle-buried palaces and towers and temples of a city thousands of miles from his own birthplace, thousands of leagues apart from the civilizaticn that | claims him. Yef, never so much at | home. never so clearly in the midst of | | his own spiritual kin, is this man as when he i3 digging into the long pas: of | the Orlent. The story moves like some gorgeous barbaric pageant. “Now comes the muffied basso of kettle drums. One hears the throb of marching men, the cadenced clash of arms. It is the great migration of the Khmers. Elephants plunge above a sea of jungle bearing roval persons in all the panoply of state: palanquins sway in_the crush of thousands of troops. The tempo | quickens, mounts wildly. Again the oattles. Scream of elephants, crash of chariots; sweat and strain of grappling | bodies"—and so on and so on. This | is but legend. the ancient tale that some battered monument reveals. But it is all done over into vivid and gor- | geous life by the affinity of this man's spirit with the story that is before him. | He is the story. he is a part of that | older and buried day. It is by the | | urgeney of his own zealous kinship and | dramatic furv that the past moves so | urgently aflove the dull routine of the oresent. It is a quite remarkable per- { sonal experience to go along with the soul of Harry Hervey as it draws its | own kinships out of the buried pas® of Indo-China. | i * % % % CLEARED FOR STRANGE PORTS. By Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Richard Derby. Kermit Roosevelt. Tllustrated. New York: Charles Scribner’'s Sons. { ERMIT ROOSEVELT stands the impresario of this literary Roose- | velt travel and adventure. Explaining the composition of the book. he says “My mother, after & number of vears of continuous petition. at last, during a long voyage to South America. wrote The Odyssey of a Grandmother'™ Mrs. Kermit supplied the story. “From he Land Where the Elephants Are.” | Richard Derby provided the two records of personal experience in Alaska. Ker- mit Roosevelt gave the rest in hunting and exploring accounts from the Far East. Unusual happenings and experi- ences gather here in direct and simple report from this family sympostum. It 1is the family savor of the whole that gives it unusua! interest, though there is clearly much of adventure in far places to make the book interesting without such bulk of personal tmpls | cation. Explorations are now so gen- | eral, travel books are now so numerous, that the reader hardly expects to find in them much of the strictly new much of brand-new information. This being the case, taken with the partner- | ship quality of the book in hand, one | is tempted to play the- child's game | of choosing which out of these four has mast completely absorbed the ex- periences set down. has most graphi- cally given out the color and tang of | adventure. “Prom the Land Where the Elephants Are” is a fine story. marred in the eves of some. it is true. by the underlying purpose of the expedition, but in {tself and upon the whole a graphic, dramatic. personal experience of undeniable interest and charm. It is all, however, al of travel and exploration and “big-game ‘hor::m:“ on the part of the Roosevelt amily. A spirited rev e WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator. Illustrated by Clavton New Yor&: George H “HE man plane 20 miles behind the German { lines ~ He was given a decent bural by the Germans and his © Was later found by the Red Cross." Capt. Springs stll speaking: “On the seventh anni- | versary of his death I brought out his | diary ‘and began to type it. His body lies “at_ Houplines. near Armentieres his spirit still haunts the pages of his din Not meant for wide distribu- tion, the diary. though. through the good offices of Mr Doran and its serial printing n Liberty. is reaching out to hundreds of readers, all of whom are fortunate to come upon a personal story af such high courage. of such flaming youth, of such daring ventures and withal, of such hopeless outlook. Frank and unashamed the boy tells of his fear and hatred of the war. “I'm sick hile I'm waiting around all day for the afternoon patrol I think I'm going crazy. 1 keep watching the clock and | fAiguring how “nn‘ I'm gotng to live. It | gives me a dizzy feeltng every time 1 | hear of the men that are gone I've | lost over a hundred friends. so they tell {me, but to me they aren't dead yet They are just around the corner, 1 | think, and I'm still expecting to run [into them any time As soon as 1 | 8¢t Into my plane and take off I'm all | right again. That is. 1 feel all right tho' T know I'm too reckless 1 | only hope I stick 1t out and not turn | vellow. Al I'm fighting for now s my own self-respect.” And %o the frank and bovish story goes on. hating the WAF, hating the loss of young men that | 1t nvalves. despising the wisdom of the old men who declare war and then let | the voungsters do the dving A won- | derful story. as pititul as it is hopeless | and' helpleas. A high adventure of | Youth, of one who under the barbaric | | glamour of war divines exactly its ter- { ible tall of sacrifice of the young men | You are tired of war tales Read this one They have had their day. Well read this one, all the same .- e THE SECRET OF FATHER BROWN By Qubert K Chesterton author oY The Man Who Knew Too Much,' elo, New York: Harper & Bros 'I‘tN fresh chances 1o follow around With Father Rrown on his trail of crime and Ingenious as & ohtld, this engaging detective 1s & maost disarming disecrner of secrets are being laboriously hidden Nobady sees him, nobody thinks about him the general hullabaloo of pursuit under the direction of some famous member of the affivlal detective force Then Al ihe laat plalin defeal manitest Father Brown 1 some deprocative and apologetio geature hands over the main | elie Wneovers the jeal crminal I one of the stortes of the group Father Browh opens up the seciel of his suos | cens, tholgh e himsell never valls # | micemss Father Rrown (alking - Vou oo, 1 was 1 who Kilied Al Uiee peos RE the diary ends, due to death of {ts author in 11 Known Novelists. ple. You see. T had murdered them:' all myself, so I knew how it was done.” Astonishment, dismay, fear, took hold of his official audience. And Father | Brown went on: “I had planned out! each of the crimes carefully. I had thought out exactly how a thing like that could be done and in what style or state of mind a man could really do it And when I was quite sure that I felt exactly like the murderer himself, of course T knew who he was. 1 mean that I really did see myself, and my real self. committing the murder. I didn't actually kill the men by ma- terial means, but. that's not the point I mean that I thought and thought about how a man might come to be like that, until I realized that I really was like that in everything except actual final consent to the action. I don't try to get outside the man. I try to gst inside the murderer. I try to think his thoughts, wrestle with his sions. to see the world with his s, till I am really a murderer.” And this confession is the “secret” of Father Brown's success, as set off against the external gestures of detec- tion that flourish under the name of | scientific investigation. Ten corking tales bear up Father Brown in his the- ory and practice. Wi FANCY LADY. By Homer Crov. au- thor of “West of the Water Tower,” etc. New York: Harper & Bros. | ’I"HIS is the story of Mrs. Zeila Boone. It is. however. the storv of any one | else who has traveled through faith out | to unfaith. and then further on into e adjustments that must be made be- tween these two states. To bring such | general experience within reach to give it point and color and meaning Mr. Croy deals with the individual in her own immediate surroundings. in her own personal problems. So this is the story of Zella Boone, small-town woman, religious. devoted to good works, a shining light in the small community of familiar and realistic pattern. Trou- bles, deep enough and frequent enough. turn the mind of this woman, as they | do the minds of the most of us, against the Providence in which she had so devoutly trusted. These troubles are depicted literally. so literally that they | are of the likeness of our own. They | turn the woman away from her faith. It is then the business of the story to bring her to that power of compromise between the religion of her youth and | the denial of it under disappointment and hurt—the compromise that about everybody is driven to make. As a story of individual life in a small community this is a consistent and interesting de- velopment. Of the school of realism it, nevertheless. partakes of the Cinderella brand of fairy tale in its jovous ending. | It is. however, in its broad application, in its deep general significance. that the novel reaches its highest level - “THE DARK ROAD." By Harold Bindloss, author of “The Ghost of Hemlock Canyon.” ete. New York. Frederick A. Stokes Co. T is generally agreed that a change now and then is good for everybody. And there is'no reason to assume that the novelist also does not at times feel a similar urge toward fresh themes and settings. toward new approaches new routes of development, truer issues. Harold Bindloss appears to be a case in point. Thirty novels. or thereabout. drawn from the blizzards of the North- west, from ranch and cattle range. from mine and lone trail have set up in this novelist a yearning for blue seas and white palm-fringed sands, a place where the emotions run hot. where revolutions rise and set with the sun. where the hinterland stretches away in impene- trabie jungles. Something like this would do for mew location and fresh impuise. Mr. Bindloss has & perfectly good errand down that way. one con- nected with the finding of raw material for a certain industry in the North This Is to be a staid business venture As if having his own dobbts in e matter, the novelist invites a company to go with him so that. in case the errand itse!! proves vain, he will be left with the wherewithal for romance and adventure. 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