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THE SU NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Contemporary British Artists Represented in Collection at National Gallery of Art—Washingtonian Exhibits His Work. Interest Shown in Various Other Groups. BY m LELIA COLLECTION of paintings by emporary nbled shown here. ¥ ate view 3 tomorrow afternoon under the his excellen itish Amt loct With the approval of the presi the Roval Academy. a and estab) ave benefited. even in th this g-nerous nt of humanity therefore, ta th? spiritualand | “THE SAXOPHONE AT EAHIBITION OF A. R A. af the he National and ope tion, W as & r Fri t a pagt extent h ING, NATIONAL change of the = . peries America and v ki 10 ¢ clate o e s is indeed a gracinus gesture on of our British {riends ther than ps i exhibitio anotr 1 15 offered 1o prov-s Great inders! unfemiiler to \ xhibitio Hieal und, and to oetter tt ) art is shown | n the International Exhibition at Pitts- Therefore to find admirable the preseni collection s 1o Furthermore there is a very | bond of sympathy between the f painting in Great Britain and reasonably so, in- style of the old-fashioned English school. Augustus John picture of a small boy in a green frock with white collar, cleverly executed, but not comparable with the painter's best © Augustus John is one of the plants {of the English chonl of today, although I not_always a p it painter D. contribution_is a cautifully painted landscape, “Loch Marll” with a perfectly simpie lumi- | nous sky which would have de- lighted, Tiad he lived to see it, Richard Wilson. Cameron, it will be remem- bered, 15 first etelier, then patnter—one |of the greatest etchers not only of our time but of all time. His paintings arc invariably of the Scotch Highlands and are interesting in pattern, spaclous in effcct—works which suggest the re- moteness ns well as the great silence of nature. Julius Olsson s represented by no Isss than four paintings—one of “Loch | Lomond after mdown;" another zens of the | “yoonlight on the Sea at Brighton painters | olsson is one of the great marin Britain. | paintars of our time, one of the great- vho is England has produced e late Ambrose McEvoy seated by a painting eatitled “The Thames. painting consid-rably in the style of the French impressionis and not fully representative of the | painter. But McEvoy’s works are ‘in great demand and it probably was im- possible to secure the loan of a more | representative canvas. Arthur Wardle years ago won repu- tation as a painter of animals, and quite a_number of his_paintings were shown here in the V. G. Fischer Gal- lery when he was at the height of his achievement. He is represented in this exhibition a painting of two leopards resting on desert sand: titled “In the Heat of the Day The distinguished _director of National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, C. J. Holmes, generously contri uted a painting, “The Canal Bridge Borwick, which shows him to be a t ditionalist and a painter of rcal at- CHLIN. British primarily will be-on view in vk in surprise. definit | schoals ing recention will : { extent possess common ido; er and o A do well to ican painters were in the fi ned in the British s=hool. It on that Copley, West, Gil- Malbone, ~Alston and to name only a few, ir art. It is the British portrait painting and in h-has dominated and to extent dominates our school m these early »day there has been between nited States a 1 the field of e been com- compri ed in hich om t London, by ng Robert Annig all Roy: also an hon- trons, on the names of the Earl of Bir G. Kenyon and to the Court of in an il h paintors ha ed gencrously by cf d States and our own been adopt est g in Skin- London. has executed mural for public builaings in the Missouri and California. In 1 Gallery, London. in a room for representatives of the I school one will find today work . Shannon, i’ A, Abbey who for long rtained residences omotors wider pur- s and than aside in ¥ to beset politics on of the mind of sh channeols of reputation of largely upon akes to antage < tional ges- iendship. and to have that ex- | representative is no sim- if. running mentall: t of distinguished Brit- visitor to the exhibition here tomorrow finds omissions it will not be v thos2 who assembled n endeavored to give A ssion of the average contem- atput, and the average output | out the hool of painting tod: ess n should aspire cept the Spanish-—is not high. alry for the We are t living in a time of change As a con- time of conflicting fons, and this is re- h Miss Charlotte of 1T the able tion of m e d sense of values and of technical skill ‘There is a very interesting decor: composition. “A Station of the Cross Veronica Wipes the Face of Christ” ion vellum), by Jessie Bay and a strang solemnly rendered religious subject, | “Ecce_Ancilla Domini,” by Robert An- it generation. | ning Bell. ioned flower paintings, very exact and claborately rendered, by Laurence Bid- dle. There are flower paintings in the extremely modern style, the style of Matisse. for example, one by Leslie Hun- ter. There are realistic and unpleas- - antly homely, but virile figure paint- ings which if produced would be labeled “Main Street,” but from Great Britain have the he Girl from the Village" and he Yellow Awning,” both the work of | Florence May Asher. There is a drab but extremely original and haunting painting of a small baby and homely nurse seated on a park bench, “George and Nana,” by Betty Fagan There is plenty to like and dislike. but there is little that does not have the ring of sincerity, that s not soberly done, that docs not show capability. The public is privileged to draw con- | clusions, 1o discover and maintain preferences. It will be well. however, if in <o doing the fact is kept in mind that some of Britain's greatest painters j are not here represented. and that this exhibition gives a general surve: art of painting in the year 1928 when perhaps that art is not at as high a level | the future; and furthermore that this Is not a collection taken from the Na- | tional Gallery, London, or the Tate Gallery; has not been sent over io be | treasured but to be seen. i * JiBEN F. COMINS has announced an “ cxhibition of his his studio, 1611 Connecticut avenu: from today to tomorrow week. On Sun days, March 4 and 11, the exhibition will be open in the afternoons and te served from 4 to 7 o'clock. During the week visitors will be admitted from 11 o'clock In the morning to 5 o'clock. A special Invitation has been extended to art students in the public and private schools of the city on Wednesday and | Priday afternoons at 3:15 o'clock, at hich time Mr. Comins will give an in- formal talk on portrait painting Among the recent paintings exhibitsd at this time are Mr. Com:ns' porirait of | Col. Lindbergh standing beside his fn- mous plane, The Spirft of St. Louis he portrait, which was made from ketches and studics, is full length and the | 15 entitled “We." Other notable works are a lately sumpleted portrait of Judge Henry Wade Rogers of the New York llate Court, and a portrait of Miss Theodora Catalani of this city. Ap- proximately 50 paintings will be on view | Mr. Comins is in the same bullding in which he has resided for some years, i but ha { floor. "This exhibition, therefore, in a | measure is given by way of a house- warming, 1o inaugurate his new quar- ter: '.'X.H-N EMMET RAND, one of 1he “ most distinguished of our American women portrait painters, will hold an exhibitlon atl the Yorke Gallerles, 2000 8 street, beg, tomorrow and con- tnuing through March 17, | Mrs Rand spent a part of in Warshington some years ago e a number of commissions. She has also been vepresented regularly in the bi- enntal exhibitions of the Corcoran Gal lery of Arl, most notably by a po v, Donald T. Warner, judge of th, rior Court of Connecticut, which, incidentally hibition v.hich ‘This exhibition * PLAYER” A PAINTING BY LAULRA KNIGHT, CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PAINT. H SAPRIL L. GALLERY Of art aceey » the rught to Wask nor extreme mples of 5 and moders tabl®, © the peop Britain may com: ppre- this exhibi- he American pub. of progr fon. British contem- contemporary and rit 1 retrogre: painiing in thi in the spt ke country, of other s n, the S of Iife, hab: ~ of d in obli e nation- there @5 a day. The put_on vew 5 well have heen American paluters, tb Franee or of wther ubjectt is not peinting nd that Briti * % %% a notabl by member an exnibition shown aroused mort cordial ex in Wa priv craing| works t Britain's of tode paintings by ated In this me L Winter ccuting s in The Knight, passed b the e and ns of th ara - emembered t Baltimore last scason | < 18 well known through- Harold Knight 7 an in- 1 the 5 hers Lomorrow s inciude por- opr st wiil AY A PAINTING BY ARTHUIC Y ARDLE EAHIHITION OF CONTEMPORANY l:;"ll’ll"lll‘ ‘l"Al.'\'ll Vi IATIONAL GALL LY OF AT, MARCH G APIIL |, ) ) 5 | mas tainment, a fine draftsman with a nice | There arc some extremely nld-ffl.\lh] in America | of the ! 5 in the past or as it may be in | récent portralts in moved his studio to a lower | will be included in’ the e | ']')\"Y STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ., MARCH 4. 1928 -PART 2 2. BRITISH AR i is represented by a | | | | | | | is repre- | WORKS SHOWN STHE GREEN FROCKR.” AR NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. M A PAINT | ‘ [ {trafts of Daniel Willard | the Baltim: 1 | Leweliys Barke: ns i | versity, the Rev. Endicot 1 of the Groton Mr. Wil- {liam H. Foster. ree t. Paui's {School, and Rob : est {dent of the | Arts, which had it y. and of the Metropol New York Mrs. Rand ha at various ¢ of her coll She is, it r of the portr iaud which hans 4 sum of Art, ) Railr fopk bory, 1 Ts in this an Muscum won numerous medals | | | ] | { H | | 1 i | “JEANETTE.” A PAINTING ON VIEW BY AT e in San Fo seulptite under but hax devoted b g her return t In the Smithsonfan Buil n ex- | hibitlon of etehing ¢ dry-points by | Charles W. Dahlgren of Iilimis opened | lon February 27 to_continie to March |25, This exhibition is held under th auspices of the diviston of phic arts {and fs well worthy of attention John, iori- aced Okl the thi ates and of 15 An intercsting patntis Baptist, attribut>d by fore tes o Caravagglo, has n oy temporarily_on cxhibition at the Galler hix painting, which 1 | propeity of Mrs. A, P. Mor | eity, was brou to the Unite | trom England by Saniiel Walker { In 1868 “came into the posscusion the present owners, Presumably it heat eut from a larger ean Catvagzglo, who rd between nd 1609, was the founder of the juralist “sehool und 15 partic | '] BOOK of w05k au 1569 nat- rly RECEIVED THE GOLD)! Betty Patterson By Duniel Frederick The Story of nd the Bonapartes Henderson, N A Stokes Co MIRRORS OF THE YEAR Revue of Trends and Edited by Horace iustrated. — New A Blokes Co, THE PROBE ETAT precident Boston W York A National Outatanding Figures svents of 1927-19); Winston Stokes York, Frederick M OF THE CHRISTIAN By John A W. Hans, of Muhlenbeg College The Statford Co FACADE. Ty Donglas Goldring York: Robert M. MeBiride Co GLIM 0P GREECE. Bdited by | Heainerd P Salmon. Washington'® | Hedlende Information Burenu | BPINDLESPOO! My Zillah K Mue- | donild, suthor of “Cobblecorners' el New York Do Appleton Co. ALADDIN, U 5. A By Einest Greens wood, author of “Chrading Human [ el Dhstated, New York Maiper & Bio CHIVER GOLD By Mary Iustrated Jolin Tndianapoli Hobty UHE GARY 1 ENEW Cotter, nuthor « 1'he With a Houl” With a C W Bamton. Boston tord Co WY BELIEVE skinner, Horberl ldn M Tarhell HNew Paxton " it Whithng Merrill Co By Arundel Corpotati Preface by “The Bt by An Tald by Ot Adunin - Gibbon Voueke Tamumt Chartes G Norels, Willlam - Allen White, Tnez Imvnes fowin - Will Towin, Alexand oy IWack ond ‘Thamns A Wdison. New Yok e | Continy Ca | NEW GOoD FOIC AMEIITCA Iy Herbert Parteh, Hew York. The | Century o, JANE WELSIL AND JANE CARLYLE AL IN EXHIBITION O CONT MARY THE ING BY AUGUSTUS E. JOHN, EMPORARY BRITISH PAINTING, ARCH 5-APRIL 1. acher of Ribera. He h batter known in in Ameri d alter be- g is to be is a p Europ: ing v of this t favor he erite work Paris crit reforred to “somber, but rich in color,” “a good painte of connols the duris u MALONE ARTS CILUR ASHTON, NOW uch int the group tngs by Ma i the upper assemb; Club last’ week and t These printing csentially in the modern mode, and lay first empl on structure and ,strength. Perh these notes h. been a lttle overs wplinsized, but 1f so it s the long swing of the pendulum away from weak protuness, Our tendoney tnvariabiy s, when we find oursslves wrong, to leap and leap oo far. In art, as in life, &t f diflicuit to maintain complets bal- ance, to strtke the happy medium be- tween —extremes. Mrs. Ashton doubtless b ing realiz Iy the necess ture and sire gone a bit (0o ngood fault Mus Ashton's pa are powertul, vitlic. out of the ordinnry aroused by gure paint- room at the Arts alon rd Keen- thevefore | fn this divection it is one will deny that WS NOW on view and that they she has By Flizabeth New York THE NERVOUS CHILD PARENTS By Frink Howard Richardson, A B, M. D, author of “Simplifving Motherhood, ete With Decorations by A Loube Spaldiog. New York: Q. - nam'’s Hon CHAPS AND CHUNKERS. By J Bushnell Am author of Lone Hand," ele. New York Century Co FORBIDDEN, By Joan author of “Dessrt Tove," York: ‘The Macanlay Co, FHE CLUB BAR MYSTERY Grace Colbvon. New York Macaulay Co PSYCHOLOGY ciples. Ny Uho D, profes urnard College Growth and Decline,” ete York: D Appleton & Co O DEADWOOD DAYS. Ry e Bennett, New York Hears & Co, Ine HTRANGERS AND TOVERS win Granberty. New Yok Macauluy Co HENIRY ADAN: Drew Harcourt 1lustrated Brace & Co AND HLI Conquest, cle. New The s Facts and Prin- W Lo Nollgworth of psychology in author of “Mental E J el " ny The of - Homersetahive Englind, and Braintree. Mass. Hin English Anceatry and Some of His Descendants Complied by J. Gard ner Bartlett for Kdward Dean Adains New York: Privately Printed HEUTER ANGELS . By Richard Henry Little, With an - Introduetion Ol Handt New Yok Haleh & Co IR O GHIACT Fdited by n Minton CONTEMPORARY VLAYE Helected and Fronk Hhay. New York Appleton & Ca Novthernand Fastern Gevman I By beon praciically withont ele Y I thie Woies, in ust beginning to aomote Hghting i houses S the identity of its service with nas | are | » | the ny | by | REVIEWS OF RECENT BOOKS by Genial Guide. Editor Studies Life of One of Great Leaders of Industrial Age. Travel and Adventure in Sudan Made Pleasant IDA GILBERT MYER! HE industrial expansion of this country following the Civil War | gave rise to a new kind of great man in the United States. Prior to this time it was states- | _.onship or one of the professions of ar itself that had delivered distinction | to this fmportant figure or that one. | The absorbing business of this new era was the building of raflroads out into fhe Middle West and on across the Rockies, was the opening of prairie lands to new settlers from the East, was starting water power out on its notable carcer, was mining the carth for coal and fron and ofl. It was these new activitics spreading across the continent that set the pattern of the new man, who In no very long time was to bear the name “Captain of Indus- ‘This is exactly what the new was. Later, some deliberately manufactured obloquy came to Test upon the name—and that is no new thing either. In the rapid spread and reach of industry this new kind of man was an inevitable development, a nat- ural sequence. For soon Jocal activitics of the same kind began to unite, a gesture of sheer economy. These unions grew and multiplied. From this process emerged finally the great idea | of organization—that combination and arrangement of parts, of allied parts, in | a perfect co-operation whose aim is | production et its highest with waste of | materfal and lcst motion reduced to a { minimum._ A complex thing is orgun- | ization. So it has proved. Men have { devoted thelr lives to its study and still 0. It i3 this modern institu- i tion, that has given rise to ( the “grcat men” of modern industry. |1t is here that with many others in | a growing band stand the Garys and the Fricks, the Mellons and the Mor- | gans and the Rockcfellers. | " We talk a great deal. in a spirit of | quite justifiable pride, of our education, 50 free and so widespread. Gathered | up in its essence of purpose, this educa- { tion consists in large part of the cita- tion of worthy cxamples for youthful emulation. As a matter of fact. edu- cation lags too far behind the pro- cession of life itself. The time to make an cxample most effective is to catch ome f ' outstanding part of the immediate ent. For this reason there is no better time for younz men and women to study the life of great industrial lead- ers than the present time. No better time for the gencral reader to ferret out the truth about these leaders than the present time. Here is one oppor- tunity to do just this thing: * & ox % HENRY CLAY FRICK: The Man. By George Harvey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. VIRILE man here takes up a robust sibject. This {s a combination that carries promise to readers. And the promise is fulfilled. Clearly. the writer is enthusiastic over his theme. And that, too, is a fine point for the out- ne, since there is a man studying a man ‘ollowing the usual biographic formula, Mr. Harvey frees it from any effect of routine since the backward carch into ancestry Is for the avowed and sustained purpose of tracing the sources of Henry Clay Frick's power of public servie. It is from such & course that many a turn in the character of the yvoung and ambitious m becomes the logical and expected turn, rather whimsical and erratic one. The as a whole is the story of industry this cc v under the hand of a master organizer. In such general scope the story covers the career of many an American of the past 50 years and less. Here is. in substance. the story of organized industry as a whole. no matter what special name it may carry or under what particular leader- <hip it may have progressed. As such, given in fairness as well as tn full un- derstanding. it is an Invaluable story for both students and readers who need But, in addition to such conception and treatment. here is the story of a kindly and lovable man. Here s a man ready to do a good turn to a fellow man, a man who loved his family and folks roundabout. A man who had a passion for looking at pic- tures and who, in the course of time. came to have seasoned and experi knowledge about art. And when money came he began to buy pictures. famous nes, old ones. priceless on At the k of this story of Hen Fric 1s a 1st of pletures owned by him that teil & story of their own about this “eaptain of Industry.” This story goes back Into Mr. Frick’s feeli toward beauty and worth. toward unhappiness and suffering. recalling many a page in this book where these feelings took effect In acts of substantial kindness | and understanding. A worthy subject, one to make Americans feel proud and glad. is here given a constderation that measures up to a clear competency of performance, and deep appreciation of Henry Clay Frick by his blographer, George Harvey oo CAMELS. By Danicl W. Streeter of “Denatured Africa.” New York: G P 'r”E back of “Canmls!” J ame, “Streeter.” C author Tlustrated Putnam’s Sons he cover shouted, t below stood the Said I “If this s Dan Stréeter I'm going along on that camel cruise " It was 1 went Not quite so hastily, however. as this sounds No, I made a good study of the map. pasted fast on ths inside ld. as it should have been. A map as is a map, too, (his one pictures tn place of wooden words Toward the top of it sketeh of the latest thing in| goloshes 1taly. Below, across a span | of sea, the pyramids and near by the Sphiny. as calmly riddling as she has | been for many centuries now, Tents here and there, Badouns. Armed | groups mounted.” out for blood and I plunder, more Bedouins. A lion ramp- {g through the sands. A barn {of an elephant looking with dreamy eves fnto (he face of a man avound | whose neck her trunk is softly en- | twined. In an excess of passion, so the story runs, she s lkely to pull! man's head clean off. This s a Streeter story, by the way. Over | [ toward the Eas{ & gorgeous caravan | setting North toward Jernisalem, Sheba [on her way to find out if the man Solomon 15 really Al that he s cracked up to be. Oh, this is Aftica and the desert, all vight, and we ave our way. Now, I you. elther by | the ook route or the “real highway jare elined to take vour travel as w [vitusl of veligion or With the ponder- oty of the pundit, don't fom us. For this s no essionary tradl, nor s 1t Lany sort ot archeologieal orgy. Not Feven an adventure n big-game shooting | 80 agam, 1 vou are of the blood- [ thirsty teibe, keep away rhe very last | thing i the mind of Daniel W. Street e v to Kill anvthing. Me can shoot | the widest of uny hunter you ever saw [ But i you have a touch of the “hort | Eon homesickness.” coms i under this canopy of travel and adventuve through [ the Sudan with the most gental o6 | iuides, the moat harmless of Nimrods | flio tmost keen-eed of men who, be | tween snapping pietiwres all over the | Place and” digging storles out of the Laand. willgive you all the veal informa- Hon (it will be good for you. What i more and better, you will find - this Blend of fuet and e Jov of ke | something (o put an extra year of 1y R L0 your owi aecount BASQUERIK. By Bieanor Hustvations by Katherine | New York: Harper & s [ CURTOUS, but wow and then wothing |54 mare than a tauch of keen intellt wence counts as genlus ftselt Maybe, | AL bottom, gentus 1s ouly tntelligence | Mervein Mevitt | submitted as evidence lifted to the nth power. Maybe so0. At any rate here i5 a case in proof of the fact that a writer by use of the most natural device has scored a triumph that nobody else, almost nobody else, | has reached in this particular way. To portray the Basque land, to set out the lure of the Pyrenees, to picture the old customs, the unchanging outlook of the prople of this region—this is the aim, first and foremost, of Eleanor Mercein No, no, not. the usual travel book Ad- mirable as these are, they do not fit into the aspiration of this author Nothing less than the daily life of some Basque family whose blood is of the essence of the mountains and long fam- ily lineage will do. It will take a story then to deliver the Basque country over to readers. Well, why not? A story has been the world's delight ever since words were invented, even before. So, a story it is going to be, a story whose purpose 15 that of the traveler who writes—thab &, to picture some plot of earth som:where. 1t i3 interesting to discover finally that this story whose hero is a Basque, th~ son of an old fam- ily, and whose heroine is the most mod- ern of American young women, i5 as completely absorbing on the story side as it fs intimate and warming and beautiful in its delivery to the reader of a picturesque and luring part of the earth and its people. Just plain intel- ligence, the union of these two lines of purpose to make a single striking ef- fect. “Why hasn't this been done be- fore, or oftener?” The question that always rises over the seemingly obvious It took this woman of keen intelligence” to turn the trick. And how well she has done it all. The story is of fine substance. Out of its daily run there comes, as naturally as breathing comes, the scnse of not only the body of the Pyrenees but its spirit as well. A beau- tiful piece of work. * * By E. M. Newman New . York: Funk & SEEING ITALY Illustrated, Wagnalls Co. I{ERE is a volume of the Newman travel talks. If you have listened to this traveler—and who has not?— vou, without a word in behalf of the book, know i*s value. Maps. pictures in abundanc>, descriptions that, drained of every unnecessary word, still flow with the ease of the most friendly in- tercourse. a selective experience that offers onlv the best and the most im- portant—these are the outstanding features of this journey with Newman through Italy. Gorgeous scenery stands to right and left. History in significant epoch and critical turning point steps into the open here. Art that has been the inspiration of the whole world looks down from the frescoed walls of cathedral and castle. Indestructibic work of the builders confronts one here in road and aque- duct, forum and amphitheater. The birth spot or dwelling place of im- mortal poct gives to each of us its own call to the ideals and achievements of genius. Added to this triumph of se- lection and portrayal there is much of definite advice in the way of specific guidance here. So, if you should be persuaded to travel in actuality, in- stead of by way of reading, here 15 on= of the best of books for sceing the best of Italy. DRAGON LIZARDS OF KOMODO. By W. Douglas Burden. Tllustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Scns. ¢J°OMODO" is not a what, though it sounds like one. It is a where instead. one of the islands of the Dutch East Indies on which live dragon lizards, pedigreed with a 60,000.000-year line of descent. To be sure, these lizards are not what they used to be. None of us is. They have lost size. In consequence they have shed most | of their terrors. They have lost the prestige of being the source of all the old dragon myths wherein gods and * % % . men went out to conquer this enemv to know this subject. as every American ! of the world. Indeed. the only si of the dragon lizard as he was in his prime is on the flag of China. the emblem of the Empire. The matter in hand, however, is the expedition formed and carried out by this author and his wife to go to Komodo. there to make the acquaintance of the living repre- sentatives of this old family and. if may be. to find relics of the ancestral lizard himself. Let us say at once that the pair came back with their creden- Is full upon them Spe s pretty complete, and unde good standing with sclence these the savant proper regard. They sound absolut il right to the layman, though it must be admitted that the layman cuts no figure at all with learning. Properly 30, too. Nevertheless, it is the appeal of this book to the average reader that counts here. Here is adventure fronted upon an unfamiliar quarter. A new and interesting place is set out in ple- ture, description and story by a wide- awake and enthusiastic man and woman who, happily, complement each cther in rounding out an unusual per- sonal experfence. Komodo with its voleanoes and jungles, with its tropical pirit, comes out here in vivid form Old customs and present people untte to give a full picture under the insight and management of this modern pa of observers, picture makers, inv fators, recorders, adventurers book itself is good evidence of the fi qQuality of these two for the pursuit of the dragon lirards of Komodo A completely engaging report of adven- ture in the interest of both science and the outfaring on its own account. - The Lead Dog author of “Tot Trail,” ete. Ilustrated Rull. Philadelphia. The lishing Co. \Y\\ other Kind of story can beat the 3N good dog story. So savs the dog lover. So say all of us Here is one, Up north tn the FLASH Marsh, By George s of the by C. L Penn Pub- W o & whole library in one voluwe. containing 452,000 entries -+ 408,000 (e, 12,000 biographi lentries, 32,000 geog ival subjevis; 100 valuable tables; 8,000 llustrations fur country, Flash, the lead dog, g proof every day of his heroic qualits of his almost human sagacity, of hi: fidelity and keen intelligence. Snow., cold, blizzards, fieree wolves, treacher; among the humans—these are some of the enemies that this glorio 2l bas to encounter. Beside the husiness of fur hunting and trading there i the mystery of a lost man for this tale to carry forward with it. Vivid pie- ture, arduous and heroic action on the part of two young fellows and the dogs, deep feeling for this frozen wil derness—these are the material with which George Marsh eompletes and hands over to us another thrilling ad- venture whose ultimate effect is tn pas to man’s best friend a little more of the great tribute that in comm, fairness belongs to him % x % POINTS WEST. By B. M. Bower author of “Good Indian” et Boston: Little, Brown & Co, (GRANTED the overwise man that the East has overtaken the W and that, in consequence, wild Wi storfes have lost something of tnel first tang of interest. Yet we should b2 decided losers, we readers, if listen- ing to such bugaboo talk the authors of Western stories should go into the business of folding their tents and tealing off into oblivion with the old Arab himself. They are good stories yet. Gripping stories, in the hands of the man who knows the earlier West, who has it still leaping in_his biood and singing in his heart. I, for one, hope he'll live a thousand years yet to sing our American sagas to the chil- dren of this great frontier continent of the Old Worid. B. M. Bower does know his West. He has proved it ready, with the good proof of two dozen nos on the subject. This one moves forward into the spirit of the present by way of youth, of one young fellow who, coming into the belief that he ran away when he should have stood still to fight it eut, simply turned back to face the music. That is good stuff for any boy or man to read, not bad for the women. either. Courage is a staple quality. Everybody has to have it at some time—at a thousand times and ten thousand. just in the business of getting along with the day's work. That is what this tale of the West 1 about. d in the garments of th earlier frontier it merely takes on an interesting quality by that means. The matter itself is as contemporaneous as the daily meal or going to bed at night. 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