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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Official Announcement of Opening of New Clark Wing of Cor- coran Gallery of Art—Exhibitions in Washington. . Ranger Fund Painting. THE SUNDAY BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE Corcoran Gallery of Art of- ficially announces the opening of the Clark collection in the of March 10, with a private and reception. From March 11 may be secn by the pub- lic. becoming one of Washington's per- manent assets in the field of art. To view and opening art mussum artists and other prominent from various parts of the This opening will ot only the Clark but the new wing. and will definitely mark poch in the development of Wash- view the collec on as an art center. | * % % % onal Gallery of Art has Tate- otification of an addi- h the Ranger fund. of Belmore Browne, entitled Canoe.” This picture was an exhibition of Mr. cs held in the Macbeth )of American paintings to our National { Gallery of Art. | 3 S | tional | sold Smithsonian Institution; lan honorary president Washington { thy Gatehell: M w { one Ywas medals was awarded. lto ibiting for Iy | Art In { bition. 2 the Ponn: | Arts and | of Pittsburgh. cape by William H. Holme: | tor of the National Gallery of Art and of the Society of rtists: a still life by Doro- Garden Zinnias.” by L. plinger, and “An Unfrequented by J. C. Claghorn.. of the new exhibitors this year Howard Iams of Washington, | Pa. to whose very beautiful still life pamting one of the soclety’s bronze It is interesting ow that Mr. Iams has only been three years, and that ing that period he has shown at the te of Chicago's annual exhi- National Academy of Design. vIvania Academy of the 3 with the Associated Artis He has works in three | City. now of New York, has been: hold- noteworthy annual exhibitions at the | i€ for the past fortaight an exhibition | [DURING the first fortnight that the i Society of Washington Artists’ an- new Clark wing on the evening nual exhibition was open in the Na- Gallery of Art five paintings were These were “Dogwood,” by Mrs. Abbott, wife of the secretary of the 1and direc- & Ma auditorium of the National Muscum on the cvening of March 10, at which time, in addition to the election of of- ficers for the ensuing year and routine business, an illustrated lecture will be given by Frederic Allen Whiting, di- rector of the Cleveland Muscum of Art, on “How to Bring Art to the Pcople.” Admission to this meeting is by card only, it being exclusively for members | of the soclety and their friends. * - THE art season is at its height at the present time in New York. At the Metropolitan Muscum an extraordinarily | interesting and important loan exhibi- | tion of Spanish painting from El Greco { to Goya is now on view. To this exhi- ) bition” the art museums and private collectors of this country have made generous contribution, and again 1t i | evidenced to what an amazing extent the great masterpieces of art of the Old World have found their way in recent years to the United States. * ok % % T the Grand Central Galleries, Fe- licie Waldo Howell, formerly of this ¢ s | f her recent works. Miss Howell is an STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. 'RAIT IN LOCAL EXHIBITION ’ | | | FEBRUARY 26. 1928—PART 2. | REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS The Importance of the New Biography—Fashions in Books Have Changed Since World War—Novels From the Publishers. IDA GILBERT MYERS. HE new-: blography is today run- ning a neck-and-neck race with | the novel itself in public favor. You recall that, not so long ago. a “life” made the dullest of reading. Even clear genfus could hardly carry on under such treatment. Inva- riably there was the monotonous time formula—birth, childhood, education more or less, a career of sorts, marry- ing, begetting, burying. Oh, a dreary business throughout! : Then on a lucky day some writer, more likely a group of these, said:| “Let's throw over this dull rigmarole. actual men about to write just what the novelist does with his made-up man. We'll make a hero of each of | them, setting him down in the midst of his own drama, he its deriving source of action, quality, color, outcome.” This, roughly speaking, is what they did, thus gaining over the novel the point of fact as against that of fiction. The new movement accounts in good measure for the wide and growing pop- | ularity of the biography. Not entirely, though. Within the past few years—say, since | weale's experience with the country and | he World War—the common taste in | Weale, author of Empire,” etc. millan Co. HE ripe story 15 almost immediately distinguishable from the one that | is green. The first, by virtue of its| completeness, sinks at once deep into | the reader’s acceptance and satisfac- | “The Vanished | New York: The Mac- | tion. Like this one. Here is a romance | |of China where revolution and turmeil | provide the prime means of stir and in- terest. A theme skimmed off the top | |of the present moment in that country Wang, a Chinese boy, is the hero of | this tale. He becomes a soidier and an officer in the revolutionary movement. {He is, besides, the major part of the story even though a romance of West- | ern color goes along for diversity of ap- peal and as a link between the Orient | The point of | the matter is that, writing any story | and the reader’s mind. about China, this author would produce the true picturc #nd carry across to the reader complete conviction. Innumer- able little things, not noticeable to the | passing traveler, come out here in evi | dence of intimate touch with the char-| acter of the Chinese, in proof of Mr. its people. Good as the romance is. treasurer. Philadelphia- Published oy tne company. PEGGY BY REQUEST: the Love Story of Noel and Pef from “The K er of the Door,” Written by Request of Some of My Readers. By Ethel M. Dell. New York: G. P. Put- nam's Sons. HIGH GROUND; a Novel. athan Brooks. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. RED PLUME RETU! Huntington Wiilian, < Plume,” etc. Illustratea ny Morg=. Stinemetz, ew Vork: Harper & Bros. HALF A CLEW. By Richard H. Wat- kins. New York: Edward J. Clode Ine. WINDOW DISPLAY ADVERTISING an Analysis of Its Force as a Sairs Medium for Manufacturers, Travel- ing Salesmen, Advertising Agencies and Retail Merchants. By Cari | Perey. New York: The John Day 0. By Jon The NS. By Edward N THE CALL OF THE WILDS AND THE FARM: for Protection, Propagation and Conservation, the Forest Streams, Wild Life and Farm. By | Neal S. Whisenhunt. Illustrated | present time, and his pictures appar- ently have proved good sellers. Mr. Iams is & pupil of Malcolm Par- | cell, whose painting “The Trudger” is one of the most notable works included | in the Pennsyvivania Academy's 123d o {associate of the National Academy of Design and is a regular exhibitor with the leading art associations of-the coun- | v._One of the well known reviewers in New York, referring to her cxhibi- eroes has changed, as fashions in|ag <ych it is conspicuous. really, for its| > - at lother matters shift, The blographer | suntie Dt ciinN ot ol ihaNasily | Daaess LT CLuswotler BuliBhlig ins beeis as ket (OFSeIliemn 2 and the traditional life of the Chinese. |t 5 he s been"active to mest 1t | ousyat over the worid for s knowi- | PERENSE OF THE, WEST, By Hio al e presen m * e Massis. slate Tint People generally ¥ | edge of China. so the story about Put-| it o FRRIRIRE OF T, O £ New York. during the past It is a scene in the Cana a lake in the lap of the | lls. ps snow covered and | -capped. A painted cance with oW, & type now as extinct as the man it. moves from the a great ciiff, making scarce- v a nippie in the mirror-like surface of a recent issue of the New has declared Belmore e to be “a stout-hearted natural- having for the past seven yea: 2 high mountain regions of dian Rockies exploring and Among the paintings shown cheth h up in the mountains said to have given ecloquent testimon: e persistent search of this explorer for remote and engaging subjects. The carly painters of America— | and Bierstadt and M oduce work typical of this however, were essen- ealists, ‘copyists of nature. The n and women who are painting to- gay are striving to render not mere! {fact. but emotion. to interpret truly the impression of grandeur and bigness| find m the awe-inspiring'and drawings by Pasquale Monturiol should be. essentially Spanish | . the painter himself being a | & Ume interest in the photographic | Spaniard and his subjects for the most | of the early painters palled. our | part representing scenes and ‘of these great manifestations untouched by man. When for | w great West was declared unpaintable, + | cdeoclaration which the works of our co-| WHICH 1 rtists are proving incor- he Panger fund was estsblished, it be remembered, by Henry W er, through bequest, and is admin- i by the council of the National ign. It represents all , estate, which was given & fund for the purchase of produced by American artists 9 and 1927 62 paintings purciizsed through funds from th all of these paintings th of Art has option un ears after the artist’s the paintings. if not country. T of American paint L up and othe Gallery one of deer | annual exhibizion, now in progress. X ox % % O called special attention to her represen- !lmn ai the Grand Central Galleries, tations of New York night life—water March 5, at the National Gallery | colors which he signalized as penctrat- of Art, there wiil be opened a col- [ ing studies of a phase of life unique to lection of cotemporary works by Brit- | the great metropolis. Miss Howell has ish painters, assembled by a distin-|SPecialized in city pictures. but hereto- guished committee in Great Britain ! fore they have been chiefly architectu- under the Pearson to other owing here in Washington. * % % % personal direction of Miss | Fal street scenes, impersonal. ‘This coliection, which is to cities, will have its e e unusual cxhibition the visitor to ! AN, New York may see at present is that of modern French decorative art T the Arts Club, 2017 I street, there |at Lord & Taylor's on Fifth avenue. open today exhibitions of paintings | This exhibition was opened Thursday by Mrs. May Malone Ashton. Ashton has been for a numbe: Thomas Wood Hastings and evening by the French Ambassador and {is shown in a specially designed archi- { tectural setting. It affords the public a a teacher of art at the Busi- | first opportunity of seeing cotemporary | ness High School. She studied at the | deccrative art in a setting for which it | Corcoran School of Art under the late | Was designed. It comprises seven en- | Mr. Andrews, Mrs. Andrews and their | sembles by the foremost French design- | associates, and along with ‘her teach- |ers. In conjunction with the French |ing has kept up her own professional | collection, Lord & Taylor has arrang- | work. o Galleries, is, as i in flav s own native land. There 15 invariably a dramatic note | open S INCLUDED IN THE SOCIETY OF W. in the art of 8 | dent in the m: paintings in. Particularly | wrappeg 3 trac P proc in an exce sibly the study for a large mural paint- a subject eminently suitable for Very ing, such treatm ed a series of modern rooms which are |its interpretation of the twentieth I"THE current exhibition at the Yorke | century stvie. consisting of painting The purpose of the exhibition is not mly to show what is being done in France, but to encourage originality of design in this country. *w x persons in 'rHE TRI-UNIT EXHIBITION ‘at the i Phillips Memorial Gallery, which d the first of February, will luc] BY MARGARET S, ZIMMELEE HINGTON ARTISTS EXHIBITION, ‘This note is ¢ ority of Mr. Monturiol's | public and students opportunity to in- forceful are | spect the collection not once, but many two of his figure studies of men, one in picturesque Spanish costume, the other | & black cloak. < his study of a Corpus Christi a colorful pageant rendered |the public on Tuesday, Baturday and ingly decorative way, pos- | Sunday, from 2 to 6 o'clock. Most at- \Aly_continue to May, thus giving the | times and to become fully familiar with the works shown. The Phillips Memorial Gallery, at 1608 Twenty-first street, is open free to in connection with this exhibition a beautifully illustrated brochure, { Bulletin of the Phillips Collection, has on, which is under the |bren issued. with filuminating notes on anish Ambassador, | the exhibits by Mr. Phillips. e for another week he Yorke Gallery 1s 10 be seen time & charming little ly James Parnham, a fig- de woman kneeling with worship or prayer, coneeived, exquisitely mod- as in 2 w g vm-.a.‘.” * oxox % | IN' the Smithsonian Building, under the auspices of the United States National Museum, division of graphic arts, an exhibition of etchings by Charles W. Dahlgreen will open tomor- row and centinue to March 24 * v oo NNOUNCEMENT has been received of a memorial exhibition of the | paintings of the late Willlam Baxter ! Closson, to be held at the Grand Cen- “IHE CHIEES CANOR” A PAINTING BY BELMORE BROWNE WHICH WAS PURCHSSED FOR THE NATIONAL GALLERY THROUGH THE RA ) LER LUND, T THE NATI INGTON ARTISTS A tral Galleries, New York, March 13 to Mr. Closson was well known in Washington, Mrs. Closson being a daughter of Dr. Edward M. Gallaudet of Kendall Green. He was a member of the American Federation of Arts and the Washington Arts Club. as well as of a number of other prominent art as- sociations. He was born in Thetford. Vt., and the greater part of his life was spent in or near Boston. Mr. Closson first attained distinction through his engravings on wood, for both in Europe and America. He be- wood engravers whose works cmbel- lished Scribner’s, the Century and Harper's Magazine from the late 70s Iln the carly 90s Proofs of his iengravings are in the leading museums and libraries throughout the country | During the latter years of his life. {when the photo-engraving process did away to a great extent with wood en- { graving, he took up painting and at- j tained with this medium distinctive and | distinguished results. He followed | somewhat in method the style Monti- celli, and his pictures were for the most | part glimpses of fates—gayety in syl- ;van setting. He had an unusual color | sense, and his imagination was of rare | and engaging quality. H “Iz will be gratifying to all of Mr. and Mrs. that he will be fittingly memorialized by this exhibit of his works at the { Grand Central Galleries, New York. | SR | AT the Dunthorne necticut avenue, there is now on | tion of etchings by txo cotemporary American etchers, C. Jac Young and Harry Wicki but received his artistic training in thi country, having been a pupil of C. Y ‘Turner and E. M. Ward at the National PORTRAIT OF DR. FRANKLIN H. MARTIN, BY JUL CONTAINED IN THE EXHIBITION OF TH which he was awarded many honors | longed to that now famous coterte of | Closson’s friends in Washinaton | Gallery, 1205 Con- | | view an unusually Interesting exhibi- | C. Jac Young is a Bavarian by birth | N LAMAR, | SOCIE OF WASH. | ONAL MUSEUM. | | Academy of Design, New York. He | 1s & member of the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, the California Print Makers Society and the Chicago Socicty nf | Etchers; and his works are included {m the permanent collections of the | Los Angeles Museum, the New York and Newark Public Libraries, and the | Art Gallery of Toronto, Canada. He 15 represented in the present exhibition at the Dunthorne Gallery by a number | of extremely interesting marine etch- ings. showing high surf breaking against a rocky shore—an unusual theme for the etcher, but one which has been most successfully handied in this instance. Mr. Young also shows several woodland subjects. beautifully rendered, with a delicacy of touch and yet with roal decorative effect. Harry Wickey is a member of the newer school of etchers who tained a large measure of succe: work is essentially in the modern style, but has been honored by conser as well as progressive group: | been awarded the Logan prire of the | Chicago Society of Eectchers, the Shaw ! prize of the Salmagundi Club, and the bronze medal of the recent Sesqui- centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Three of his etchings, among them “Snug Harbor.” included in the present cxhibition have been purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New | York. and one by the Art Institute of | Chicago. He, likewise, is a member of the Brooklyn Society of Etchers. ‘This exhibition will continue on view | until March 10 i R | ’I‘HE llied Artists’ Association opene a new gallery here, at 1519 K street | northwest, on February 18. It is under the direction of James D. Waring. More than a hundred paintings are on exhi- bition. a collection representative of rious European schools as well as of American past and present. Works of the nineteenth century predominate | The gallery is open to the public from 9am to6 daily. A biliion dollars of new wealth for the corn belt through the annual util- ization of its 200,000,000 tons of corn- stalks and 20,000,000 tons of cobs, now wasted, is the promise of engineers and chemists to the American farmer. How the greatest agricultural waste, cornstalks and cobs, can be made into | by Prof. 0. R. Sweeney of Iowa State { College. In a decade or two they will be utilized on A large scale, he pre- | dicted | ““Before the many products of prom- tsing usefulness could be made even on {a small scale in the laboratory,” Prof | Sweeney said “years had to be spent lin patient, ingenious, fundamental re- cearches to determine the exact chem- feal and physical natures of these raw | materfals and thelr constituents. Not only agricultural but also industrial and cconomic problems had to be solved with the aid of engineering re- search, supplementing the work of the sclentist. Much remains to be done. Growers of Other Crops Aided. State College, in the midst of belt, has been a leader in the attack. Knowledge being gotten in the conrfieid will be useful also to growers of other grains, peanuts, flax and cot- Civilized men will be able to continue to feed and clothe the increasing populace and to supply many of their other wants by successful solution of just | these problems “What does the laboratory offer to industry from these raw materials now wasted? Paper of several grades, pa- pler mache, wallboard and other sub- stitutes for bulding lumber, substitutes for nard woods used in furniture and fintsh, 1ayon, acetie sugar that can be used by diabetics maple sugar flavoring to be combined with cane or beet sugar to make ‘maple syrup,’ oxalie acid, plastic material ¢electrical and heat insulation and fur- | “Furfural was u laboratory chemical | not many_ycars ago, scarce at $50 {pound. Now it 15 produced in large | quantities at 14 cents. With increasing production, improved methods and de- velopment of co-products, even the lat ter price may be more than cut In half Furfural 15 & fluid heavier than water | having many and various usck in plas- I ties, dyes, palnt removers, antiseptics anestheties, germicides, embalming fluids and motor fuels It burns in Jamps with & more brilltant flame than kerosene mnd hus not the unpleasant odor of the latter | | Predicts New Industries, I It the chemist and engineer and farmer can solve the economle prob- [ lems, new industries may dot the prit | ries Among these problems one of the | foremost has been the cheap colle {of the stalks aud cobs to n few placer | where they will be subjected to the firnt [ stepe toward becoming saleable com- moditles. Bpecin]l machines have been devised for gathiering up the cornstalks i the field, or for cutting the standing | 7o, husking the ears and shredding i the stalks, Another problem i the safc and inexpensive storage of the raw ma terials throughout the year, In order that the industrial opevations may b | continuoun | “As contrasted with forests, which, ance cut, wre not quickly replaced, and commaonly In America are not replaced at all, the corn wastes would be pro- duced year after year in great quan- [ Otes within the same wieas. A newrby forests have heen consumed, for exumple, the saw mills and pulp mills have had 1o move to more an temote loeations from their markets | vhest the corn production shonld de- | vveane, the fertility of the soll must he i maintained 1t has been learned that thils can readily be done by growlng | {81,000,000,000 in New Wealth Predicted | For Corn Belt Through Saving Waste some 300 useful products is told in a| report to the Enginecring Foundation | ton who have similar waste materials | acld. acetone, o/ move | |it to the forefront of general interest. { This is a workingman's viliage. i soya beans es the ‘rotation’ crop. The sova bean is a strong nitrifier of the | soil. After extracting the oil from the | bean, the refuse, including the stalks and meal, can be plowed back into the | soil. The income from the ofl. which | many uses, will partially offset the | lack of income from corn in the years | of change of crop. Thus the cycle would become complete by the chem- istry of nature, and the energy of the sun weuld be converted perennially to many uses of | Long Fight Foreseen. | “Depletion of the forests and of minernl resources and advances in | chemistry and _engineering will have much to do with the measures of suc- | cess which may be achieved in turning these agricultural wastes into wealth AU best, it will take much time, research | and development | “More than rescarch, engineering. | industrial development and financing | will be required. Useful and valuable new commodities may be produced, but successful production at a fair price not bring economic success. As well been said: The fight for sgnition for a new product is al- | | most as hard to woge as is the fight |for a new idea” | . Sars Aid to Identify Criminals, Police {may | ha | | | ‘ nd | = | What cars are really for is at last }bflnz realized, thanks to the French | police. |7 Criminals may disguise themselves {v«llh false eycbrows, gold teeth, derby | hats and distorted factal expressions | They may even desperately burn away | those famous clues to Iidentity, their| | fingerprints. But the astute French de | tective tiptoes around for w sidewise | 1ok, and there are the same old eais, boldly displaying characteristic curves, angles, stzes and propertions An individunl's ears may not only patr of that particular mod existence. But thelr value as a clue in establishing identity 15 being stressed by detectives, beeause of the complexity | of ear formations, the readiness with which they can be observed and photo- araphed wnd studied, and the diffieulty | of the individual concealing or disguis- ing them. The fact that right and left ears of the same individual wre some- | times noticeably different adds to the | value of the clue | . E {German Legal Weekly | Sets Grammar Record | Placing the verb last, a8 the German language permits, leads to a form of dramatic suspense, i which the veader learns ull the charucters, gets a good view of the scenes, has an tnkling that something has happened or 1s about to happen, but knows nothing about the plot until the very luat. Or a German writer will tell the lite history of some one. Just us you wre wondering why this particular man 15 mentioned ut all the writer comes out with it and closes Wwith “just dled " 8o, when a man | marvels at a long sentence 1t really 15 & ong sentenco - N0 mistake ubout that | Avcording to w Bevlin paper, the Juitat's Weekly i establishod o vecord tn long ‘ntences. Inan article on vules of procedure for the lawyer's assoclation 200 words stving along before & pertod comes (o break the monotony. ‘The dramatio climax 15 & notice of a fine of At least 10 marks for not sticking W the rulea, ! par | the phitosophy | by this man and made to stand as the | the most stirring ki | Webster, ! Boston | buthy have turned away from war, no matter | how speciously it may be advocated. | The world is so full of a number of | things, of better things, so the people say, that there is neither time nor rea- son for killing off wicked nations, espe- cially since the sins of yesterday may become the virtues of tomorrow. Sci- ence is making a brand-new world. | Creation, not destruction, is the center | of present interest. The new heroes | ate builders, explorers of industrial in- | tent, men whose vision embraces work, | human amelioration, an earned happi- ness. These are the ones about whom | people nowadays want to rcad. These are the ones who give body and spirit | to the new biography. since these de-| fine the hopes of the world. These! have changed the fashion in heroes ‘r The general is fading out «of the pic- | ture. Caparisoned steeds no longer | caracole under the gorgeous and impas- sive man on horseback. In his place are other men. otherwise absorbed. These are building roads and railroads, canals and bridges: these are exploring the world for materials of industr: these are co-ordinating scattered units into great corporations. these are seiz- ing the vision of a more useful educa- ticn. Men who are doing the world's work. This kind of hero. bending to the constructive enterprises of the pres- cnt, coupled with a new conception of the true intent and spirit of biography, constitute the two elements that have re-created this form of writing. pushing { * ox % VISCOUNT LEVERHULME. By his Son. Boston: Houghton, Miflin Co. \VER in the west of England stands the model village of Port Sunlight. It is ‘model” in the scnse that its design contributes to the comfort of the work- men living in it, that it ministers to the sense of brauty that every one pos- sosses, that it promotes the general health and well-being of its men. women and children. Port Sunlight was built with soap. Yes, I Kknow. There is & way among certain people of smiling at such origin as this. But.| when you stop to think of it, could there be anything more worth while, more poetic, even, than this cleansing agency as the sign, and the sul nce. of a great busine:s that engages count- less people tn work that docs not fail, that provides wages which do not lapse. that encircles the world in an activity of unqualified merit This is the story of a great industry, “Sunlight Soap.” It is even more pointedly t story of the man who created that industry. leading it out of | the obscurity of small beginnings up to its present scope and power. Sinc: a man is greater than any, or all, of his work. this is properly the story of the Levers, father and son, by way of whom this gigantic enterprise came into be- ing. Outstanding figures, these. through- out the business world Work of the experimental sort s this record on its ay. Soon. however, the tdea of e fon m its appearance and b comes reality in expicrations that reach almost throughout the world. these for the purpose of establishing new plants and sccuring trade expansions. A strenuous workaday story of enor- mous scope and equal success, of ad- ventures many and various. Bevond this period is that of Viscount Lever- hulme himself. a useful man in politics and other forms of public life. All in- teresting. The high point of general concern however, is that dealing with of business developed * sole arbiter of his business life. While the whole record is one of splendid movement, of absorbing rest, it 18 Leverhulmes philosophy business | broved and matured. that offers to business man or woman not o guide but an inspiration as well of the outstanding books “Vis Leverhulme,” whether the reader is | looking for definite help or is. instead seeking A period of fascination in the company of a man Whose pers and powers. and achievements. and scope. A are of | e A NEW ENGLAND Edward Everett Hale. Edwin D. Mead. Tlustrated ton: Little, Brown & Co. NIE MEADS foreword to this new Y8 cdition of A New England Boy- hood" serves to set the story down i the present, where it so clearly belongs by virtue of its spirtt of boyhood as well as by veason of the older New England life that it pletures so vividly So, under his geod offices, the book takes its place with ity actual co- temporaries, the books for bovs written by Mark Twain, Howells, Aldrich. Co fin, Trowbridge Warner and Loutsa Alcott's “Little Men” ‘This, Mr. Mead says s the “only noteworthy book about Boston Bovhood " “What did 1t mean”—Mr Mead (alking —to be barn in 18 It meant that James Mo was Prestdent of the United States And he goes on o point out the great men lving at that time: Thomas Jdef- ferson, John Quiney Adams. Dantel Abraham Lincoln. And the of 18y of i Hales was a little et but “a good place tn which to be Born,” according to Edward Everett himself. ‘Ther later. he_studied law aad became a lawver, changing this career for that of ow and editor of & newspaper through which he exerted a marked mAuence on the life of New England and boyond. “I have known many men not a few important men; but of all those whom have Kknown, Edwavd Everett Hule was on the whole the most intevesting, the most oviginal, and | fmpressive personality, the most publio- apirited and generous. and the best man " Such is the bt of Bdwin | Mead And to this ho adds: It & for the aspiiing voung wen and women of Ameriea today fo read and absorh his warks, aud (o mako his dreams and Ieals come (re; (0 love thele countey I the high wav tn which he loved it and o Know . as he Knew. that above all natlons s humanity itsett.” DR HER CLOSED HANDS, Ry BOYHOOD. By Foreword by Bos- Putnam nam Weale runs And. certainly. the signs of a most intimate knowledge of it saturates the action of “Her Closed Hands.” s CONFESSIONS OF AN AUTHOR'S WIFE. Indianapolis: The Bobbs. Merill Co. ¢ A DAM” is the author's name. His wife must be “Eve.” If the origi- nal Adam had such a helpmeet as this | one proves to be, and such good fun besides. why, then, we need waste no more sympathy on the father of all creation. It has come to the most of us, I think, that a really witty person must be more or less of a trial to live with. I knew one, once—a wife who was one unbroken sparkle. A thousand times I've seen the husband orientate himself afresh in appreciation of a story already worn threadbare with the tell- ing in his presence. I always felt so | sorry for that husband of a witty wife. | But this one seems to be of a better | breed. At least, she reads that way. And one laughs along beside her as she so gayly and shrewdly puis appraisal { upon the vicissitudes of authorship and her own part in those trials. “We know another editor” opens a series of her most delicious talk—true talk. with- out a doubt, on that much-discussed matter, “the happy ending.” For in- stance. “We know another editor for whom Adam used to work. so innately chivalrous that he objected to ill treat- | ment of the fair sex even on paper. So_when Adam had fashioned an espe- cially appealing heroine and had put her through an especially appalling series of adventures, this gentleman couldn't see his way clear to use the story as it stood. ‘She’s such & nice irl, Adam. it honestly doesn't seem fair to do all that to her. he complained.” So the jovous dents gather thick around one as thi clearly enjoyable woman reveals to us not only her own Adam. but all the Adams roundabout. besides. Full of zest and equally full of entertainment * e x o2 INTERFERENCE. By Roland Pertwee. author of “Gentlemen March, Boston: Houghton. Miffiin Co. IP you saw mystery tale was derived. you carry the two along together in com- parisons and contrasts and an ummn:e‘ judgment as to the relative mer possibly an ultimate judgmeat as to| the worth, or unworth. of this tran formation. If you did not see th vhiy. then, you are lucky. since you w hen have the experience of doing a bit of detective work on your own. The | murder comes late in the narrative. | postponing the element of mystery till & good story has been told. This in- volves one of the mistakes that youth is always making. with its natural se quence of disaster to be made good. otherwise, with its effort to rebutld on a broken foundation. In this pa ticular enterprise M Pertwee does achieve a rather idy! marriage. The marriage becomes pense in the murder & rather happily, the proves to be & chivalr who serves as the age spite of himself, in clear: tery to his own undo! leaves A curiously £0 on the way of th undisturbed b as were ousiy not of & qua love of the husband or the sympathy of the reader—yet does both in measure. An inge even though ingenuity clearly on the ebb. BOOKS RECEIVED BUBBLE AND SQUEAK: a Book of Light Verse. By Harold Herse Deaver: The Author & Jou THE SOUTH AMERICAN BOOK. 1928: a Guid: tries and Resoure: ica, Inclusive of So America. Mexico and Cuba. Ex by J A Hunter. London: South American Publications, Ltd BRIGHT AVENUES: a Josephine Bentha A Rae D. Henkle Co, Inc THE CHRONICLES OF A CONTENT- ED MAN. By O.J. laylander. Chi- cage: A Kroeh POEMS OF THE LONGER FLIGHT Chiefly Odes and Apostrophes. 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