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AY THE SUND STAR. WASHINGTON. NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Exhibition of Ecclesiastical Art of Special Interest at This Time. Permanent Exhibits in Washington—Other Art Notes. BY LEILA MECHLIN. N connection with the General Con- vention of the Proiestant Episcopal Church which is now meeting in Washington, the Joint Commis- gion on Joint Architecture and the Allied Gifts has set forth an exhibition in the Ohio room of Memorial Conti- nental Hall. This consists of photographs of churches and church decorations by ®ome of the lesding architects and craftsmen of the co It is an in- teresting end impressive showing. espe- iders how dreary cclesiastical art In fact. though great improvement has been made in this fizld in the lasi double decade. there il comparatively few churches in alted States which vie with those towns of England. of 50 years ago. . Spai To a great designed ct those who have this country in these later days followed the style of the Gothic, pa because that style was employed during th> great era of eathedral puild so that it is firmly essociated in our minds with religious revival and hence has taken on special spiritual significance. In many in- nces we have borrowed quite lavishiy !:mm the builders of old, but in some instances we hi made their language our own and have adapted it most suc- cesstully tn present-day purposes. The firm of Crem, Goodhue & Fer- guson of Boston was undoubtedly largely responsible for the adaptation of the Gothic 1o modern church building in America, and the works of this firm are smong our finest ecclesiastical monu- ments today. As iz well known. this firm after A number of years separated, Ralph Adams Cram and the late Ber- tram Goodhue working independently, end thus covering perhaps A wider area af endeavor In the exhibition arranged by the ‘rin' Commission on Church Architec- re and the Allied Arts, both Mr. Cram snd Mr. Goondhue are well represented. Most notable and engaging. perhaps. snong the pnotographs of works by t}e former are those of little All Saints’ Church. Peterborough. N. H.: of the chapel for the Choate School at Wall- gford, Conn. and the chapel for roersburg Academy at Mercersburg, B, The Peterborough church and the ercersburg chapel are pure Gothic: the chapel for th= Choate School by Mr. Cram it Georgian, pure Colonial, as chaste and simple and charming as anything that the great Wren produced ~—an evidence of an amazing versatility on the part of the designer. Among the examples to the credit of rtram _Goodhue is St. Stephen’s hrch, Cohasset, built. like the house the wise man in the parable, on the ks. and it is seemingly & part of its | m nt foundation. Of notabiesin- serest in the same group is.a photo- raph af a chureh doorway with vesti- le, finely designed and beautifully produced in stone—a magnificent piece of masonry. The weil known firm of Zantzinger, Borie & Medary has to its credit in this exhibition numerous photographs of the WMemorial Chapel at Valley Forge, of which the firm members wers the de- signers, a chapel simple in design but rich in ornament—ornament essentially suitable for the purpose. Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick make jte 8 showing with a variety of | urches not only for Protestant Epis- @opal congregations, but likewise for Lutherans, Presbyterians, etc., all in the Gothic style. Frohman. Robb & Little of Boston, present architects of our Washington Cathedral in process of erection on | Mount St. Alban,” show not only per- spective renderings of the exterlor and interior of this magnificent English dows of 30 or more years ago are being replaced by mosaics of color symbolical of religious themes such as those which glorify the cathedrals of Europe. In short, this exhibition gives a com- prehensive survey of the progress of ecclesiastical art, and at the same time its potentialities. And it evidences the fact that we have here in our own country at this time arti: designers and craftsmen capable of producing art as fine as the noble art of the past It may be interesting to know that the Join Commission on Church Archi- tecture and the Allied Arts in the Protestant Episcopal Church functions somewhat the same as the municipal art commissions in relation to civic art: that it brings before commit- tees of experts designs for church build- ings and decoration, proposed memo- rials. etc., and passes upon their artistic merit in an endeavor o secure the best and prevent artistic errors in imperishable material. The sev- eral dioceses of the Protestant Epis- copal Church have subcommittees of the committee of the whole, and there is little doubt that the influence which has been exerted has been extremely stimulating and beneficial. ‘The com- mission is headed by the Rev. Milo H. Gates. vicar of the Chapel of the In- tercession, New York. * x W reference to the sub- and in ITH further ject of ecclesiastical art, view of the fact that 25,000 persons are at present in Washington in attend- ance at the Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church. attention may be called to some of our perma- nent exhibits of interest to these vis- itors in Washington. Mention has already been made of the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, which is being erected on Mount St Alban. As the great outdoor services have been held under its shadow, this will not be overlooked. Nor is it likely that those who visit Washington from afar will fail to see liftle St. John's Church on Lafayette Square. designed by Latrobe in the early days of our Re- public, much altered from the original but restored in 1921 by McKim, Meade & White But there are churches of other de- nominations which are very yorth see- ing as_monuments of art and which might be passed unobserved. For ex- ample, the new Unitarian Church at * % of architecture, but contains extremely | interesting mosaics designed and made | by Mary Chase Stratton of Detroit, one of our foremost potters. So much for our houses of worship. Of our memorial sculpture first men- tion should be made of the Adams Me- | morial, that world-famous work by Au- gustus Saint-Gaudens, a masterpiece of art which has permanent placement in Rock Creek Cemetery. This figure, sometimes celled “The Peace of God,” has a dignity and emotional quality be- vond description, and conveys to the mind of the observer a sense of quiet, of eternity, which cannot be put in words In Rock Creek Cemetery is also the Kauffmann Memorial. “Memory.” by Partridge. and the Anne Simon Memo rial by Brenda Putnam. Different in character. but similar in purpose, is the beautiful Eustis Memo- | rial, “Sir Launcelot,” by John Gregory in the Corcoran Gailery of Art, a panel in relief depicting the “Lament of Sir Ector de Maris over the dead body of Launcelot (‘courteoust knight. truest friend") in the Church of Joyous Gard.” Of a less intimate character is the equestrian statue of Francis Asbury, the well known ecircuit rider, by Augustus Lukeman, at the intersection of Co- lumbia road and Sixteenth street. and the stern bronze figure of Luther, a rep- lica of the figure by Rietschel at Worms, which stands in_front of the Lutheran Church facing Thomas Circle. In the Clark collection of the Corco- ran Gallery of Art are comprised (wo beautiful stained glass windows—one & thirteenth century window taken from | a church at Charires, France: the other | a seventeenth century Flemish painted | glass window, by Jean de Caumont— | admirably placed so that their full beauty can be comprehended. The | chancel window in the Church of the Epiphany. representing “the manifes- tation of Christ to the Gentiles,” is | by the late Henry Holiday of Engiand. | and is finely lighted both day and night. | In the National Gallery of Art, Na- | tional Museum, Tenth and B streets, | Evans collection, i to be found John | Lafarge's original painting of the “Visit | of Nicodemus to Christ.” from which | the window in Trinity Church, Boston, | | was made. Though small for our National Cap- | Gothie structure, originally designed by | f Vaughan, but also photographs of a ‘church group including parish building and cloisters in the Spanish mission style designed by them and erected in ®an Juan, Porto Rico. Emphasis in this exhibition quite nat- | urally is placed on architectural design, but if the visitor looks sharply he will discover evidence of development in the allied arts which with architecture have | gone hand in hand. For example, there | 1= a photograph of a magnificent door- | y built apparently of solid wood with | %::‘&m“y designed- and wrought iron | . It is impossible to believe that ' these are not the work of our foremost worker in wrought iron, Samuel Yellin of Philadelphia. whose work compares with the finest produced in the Gothic ege or in the later Renaissance. There are also examples of beautiful wood | carving such as that which comes from | ths hand of John Kirchmayer of Bos ton, one time an Oberammergau player, always an artist. There are a few pho- K ic examples of fine hand- wrought silver—chalices, patens—such 25 might well have been produced by | Arthur J. Stone of Boston. who in skiil | both of design and workmanship equals that earliest of our craftsmen in silver, | Paul Revere. examples shown of extraordinarily fine ecclesiastical decorative painting, no- dably panels for a reredos in a chapel tn New York by “Tabor Sears. There are also photographs of stained- glass windows, and in one or two in- stances these have been colored to better s effect. For the most part the exhibits in this section have been con- tributed by Clement Heaton. the de- signer of the Sterrett Memorial Window fn All Souls’ Church. dedicated last Spring. Mr. Heaton is one of a number of American stained-glass workers who, after intensive study abroad of the great glass of the early centuries, have acapted Gothic practice to modern uses ®ith a skill and sincerity unexcelled A= a result the painted pictorial win- | PAINTING IN _THE r FIRST PRLSBYT AVENUE AY TWELFTH STREET, NEW YORK. in the Georgian style by Coolidge & Shattuck, architects of Boston, and near it. a little farther north, the Church of the Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic), designed by Murphy & Olmstead, archi- tects: Maginnis & Walsh, assistant architects, in the early Romanesque style. peculiar to Northern Italy. St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church on Rhode Island avenue, a brick edifice, was designed by C. Grant Lafarge, son of the great painter, in the Romanesque style, and contains beautiful mosaies. murals. by Edwin H. Blashfield. Finally. there is the National Shrine of the Im- maculate Conception in Brookland. de- signed by Maginnis & Walsh, archi- tects, which is not only fine as & work “RIAN CHURCH, FIFTH 1 And there are one or two | Sixteenth and Harvard streets, designed | ital, this list does not constitute a | subjects in that country. | { | | 4 negligible showing. * x K % VWASHINGTON is fortunate in pos- sessing not only the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art with its additional attrac- | tion of the Clark collection: and the | Freer Gallery of Art with its Whistlers | and its splendid representation of the | art of the Orient, and the National Gal- | lery of Art, which is still in its begin- ning, but also the Phillips Memorial Gal- lery, privately organized and endowed; and, of later establishments, the Textile Museum, housing the rare collection as- sembled by George Hewitt Myers. This museum, situated at 2330 S street, here- tofore has been open to visitors only by card. This Winter, however, it will be open free to the public on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from | 2 to 5 o'clock. Obviously such & col- lection as this is not purposed merely for the curious but rather for the con- nolsseur and the student. In order, however, to make it fully available o such, its owner, Mr. Myers, is opening its doors without formality to all, thus | exemplifying anew the almost prover- bial generosity of our American art col- lectors. * ok ok % /AT, the Abbott School of Fine and ™ Commercial Art was informally shown one day during the past week a | callection of water colors by Louis Wol- chonok, teacher of etching and archi- tectural drefting. as well as commercial llustration. Mr. Wolchonok studied | first at the National Academy of De- sign, New York. later at the Academic Julien in Paris. He spent the past Summer abroad and has brought baci (with him a sories of large, broadly rendered water colors painted in Paris, | i Venice, Florence and other cities fa- | miliar to the tow _ Among these water colors are a num- ber of pictures of famous bridges—the Ponte Vecehlo, Florence; the Rialto, | Venice: and bridges crossing the Seine. | Mr. Wolchonok has also painted a num- | ber of pictures of the sidewalk cafes of Paris: and excellent as are all of his ks these are perhaps the best, com- | ing subjective interest with great >chnical cxcellence. The cafes are ike dark caverns, with little people imible in the shadow: then comes e sidewalk, and above, the light | facade of the house seen through a | sliage, sun-bodabbled. Tt is the con- | st of the sunlight and shadow which | akes these works of striking inter- | Mr. Wolchonok uses a full brush. | beavy color and dry paper. The result 5 extremely effective, R ow ok "['HE Dunthorne Gaiiory, which for a number of vears was on the east 42 of Connecticut avenue between | “hode Island avenus and N streef, hes smoved to the west side of Connecti- vt avenue between R And S streets, A has now more commodious and at- | L aetive quarters, \ MA ®unthorne 1= show!n& at the | etchings for their permanent collections. | | and again spent | view in Pittsburgh t. | after which the European section will {1and and at the Art Institute of Chicago. D. C.. : OCTOBER 14, A NEW HAMPSHIRE CHURCH INTERIOR OF ALL SAINTS ONE OF THE PICTURES MORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL. present time a miscellancous collection | of prints, etchings by well known cor.- | temporary etchers of England, France | and America. including. as especially | choice, works by Cameron, Martin Hardie, and our own John Taylor Arms; also_sporting prints and ex- quisitely colored mezzotints. He fs | also specializing in beautiful examples of the cabinetmaker's art—English | furniture of the Adams period. | * ok oxox HILIP HARRIS GIDDENS, Amer- | ican etcher, an exhibition of whose work was shown Jast season in the Dun- | thorne - Gallery, has recently returnec | from a trip to Dalmatia, where he made | many interesting studies of picturesque | While abroad he was honored by the Contemporary Society of English Artists, which asséci- ation purchased one of his etchings for presentation to the British Museum. | The Victoria and Albert Museum, Lon- | don, and the British Museum also in- dependently selected several of his » kK R. AND MRS8. BUSH-BROWN have returned to Washington and re- opened their studios at 1729 G street. They spent part of the Summer at their | country home in Pennsylvania, but also | visited Folly Cove and Duxbury, Mass,, vo weeks at Yaddo, near Saratoga. * K ok X 'HE Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, will open its twenty-seventh inter- national exhibition of paintings on O tober 18, following the Founder's day es, at which the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Melion, will be the prin- cipal speaker. At that time the prize awards will be announced. ! This exhibition will contain 381 paint- ings, of which 253 are by European and 128 by American artists. It will be on gh December 9. | be shown at the Art Museum in Cleve- | ‘The director of the department of CHURCH, INCLUDED | THE FLUTES OF SHANGHAL 1928— PART REVIEWS OF AUTUMN BOOKS 'Reaching Backward Into the Past for Reading Material—"How We Got Our Liberties” and a Number of New Novels. | 1PA GILBERT MYERS | CONTEMPORARIES OF MARCO POLO. Edited by Manuel Komroff. | New York: Boni & Liveright. “ HE Biack and Gold Library,” Boni & Liveright, is meet- { ing, more than hall way | the growing class of readers | who are reaching backward |into a far past for the men who lived |and worked and wrote in those distant | days. More and more is the conviction | growing that life is of one piece, that every age is needed to interpret the present one, that this growing and con- tinuing adventure must be instructed | by its beginnines And so. whether it ! be history or letters or other whatnot |of human achievement, there is today an impulse, R movement that includes the past with the present. identifying {the two as parts of a single thing. | In_such mood. or thought, as this, | records of old centuries are taking | on new values. The book in hand s |a case in point. Here we find, rather | oddly to the common notion, that our | friend Marco Polo actually had co- | temporaries who did their bit, as well |as he, in gong about the world, in | setting down what they saw and heard |and felt. himself takes on an added actuality from the reports of these his co- temporaries. In this book William Ru- | bruck (1245-1247) offers the story of i his travels to “the Eastern Parts of the World." The journey of John of Pian de Carpini, made over 600 years | ago, is given and the journal of Friar »! Ocoric, along with the Oriental travels PETERBORO, IN EXHIBITION BOOKS RECEIVED CHARLES DICKENS: From New Sources. Straus. New York Book Corporation. CUR] - CASES; From Socrates to Scopes. A _Biography By Ralph By Edward Hale Bierstadt, editor of | l1ove of the marvelous lends romance 'band of conspirators and works out an | and color to his record"—and so on | “Celebrated Trials.” - Coward-McCann, Inc. PAINTERS OF DREAMS. By Elizabeth Stancy Payne. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: A Review of Politics, Personalities and the Press. By Silas Bent. New York: Horace Liveright. SPEARS IN THE SUN. By James Ed- win Baum. author of “Savage Abys- sinia.”"Chicago: The Reflly & Lee Co. GAY. By Ruth Pine Furniss. York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. _ THE ONE AND THE OTHER. By Richard Curle. New York: Double- day, Doran & Co., Inc. New York: ) ARMENIA AND THE NEAR EAST.| By Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. New York | Duffield & Co. THE CONQUEST OF LIFE. By Dr. Serge Voronoff, M. D.. transiated by G. Gibler Rambaud, M. D. New Yorl Brentano's. MANY WATERS. By Marjorle Berk- ley McClure. New York: Minton, Balch & Co. A LANTERN IN HER HAND. By Bess Streeter Aldrich. New York: D. Appleton & Co. THE PROFESSIONAL GUEST. William Garrett. Appleton & Co. By New York: D. By Louise Jordan Miln, author of “Mr. Wu." ete. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. RISING WIND. By Virginia Moore. | New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. THE MISSING PARTNERS. By Henry Wade, author of “The Verdict of .of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela—all of these records of centuries ago, An in- | troduction by the editor. Manuel Kom- roff, gives definite place to this new |work in its relation to the works of | Marco Polo himself, whom the reader | is constrained to us® as something of | a guide post from the fairly familiar ~_!'to the utterly strange. More than this, | Mr. Komroff, in a most readable man- | ner, tells of the purposes of these | men in their far journeyings. why they i.‘fl out at all, what they found east- ward in the land of the Mongols. who were their rulers in addition to the | great Kublai Khan, who is the sub- ject of Polo's interest and attention. Cosmopolitan | something of the sort of man_that {each el these adventures was—“Rabbi IOUS TRIALS AND CRIMINAL | Benfamin was a Jew from Spain. H!!! | deseriptions are quite ccurate and his in passing designation of all of them. It is the introduction which, in a fit- ting combination of matter and mood, defines the atmosphere of the sue- | | ceeding storfes and puts the reader | in touch with the spirit of the whole— a_ spirit not out of harmony with that ‘07 today. All of this work is, to the commonalty, inaccessible, or would be | | were it not for the enterprise that has | projected “The Black and Gold Li- brary,” where we are permitted to meet also Plat. St. Augustine, Lueius | Apaleius, Francols Villon and others |of this more and less remote past. * ook | HOW WE GOT OUR LTBERTIES. By Lueius B. Swift. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. UR learning is a patchwork affair— | portion of the other. life in cross-sections as it actually does exist and carry on. ‘The other day a man told me he had learned more history from H. G. Welic then from all the other historians put together. Here for the first time he saw the movement as a whole, gathering that he had not otherwise sensed. True, Wells might have made some errors as the critical savants aver, but in the sum of effect, even in the sum of fact. these are not important. “How We Got tunity, along a single line, that Wells granted by way of his inclusive groee» sion of historic event. Where did we, Americans, get the liberties that have | made of this country what it is? Where a little of this, a slice of that, a | 1t is ealled seeing | Confusing, though. | from this full view an understanding | Our Liberties” offers exactly the oppor- | did the impulse start that gave us in- | morrow.” etc. ton & Co. *JHE Florida land boom backs “Spring Tide.” And a substantial backing it proves to be, since it supports a man size conspiracy to get hold of a long shore strip of real estate, to say noth- ing_ of originating a squatter uprising besides rlrryina along a couple of ro- mances in full flavors of meeting. court- ing and marrying. Business rivalries of both honest and dishonest brand, the | ignorant, ferocity of the disturbed squat- ters, the strenuous vicissitudes of voung | love—all of these combine to pitch the adventure to a high key and to carry |it. forward in_an atmosphere of tens | excitement. This Iz just the key that | the author makes use of, just the whirl- | wind of action that he produces here |t is a finely interesting tale, drawn | straight off from the top of things as they rush along today. The action is believable throughout. The characters New York: D. Apple- | are not. only plausible in their behaviors. | | but they also are attractive as men and women in this wide-awake day. Hon- | esty and idealism exist—even in respect | to the Florida land boom. and these the | | author portrays, not only in a con: | ent fidelity but in a spirit of approval | | as well. So rushed and even confused | And, reading. Marco Polo | a0 we being pushed about from pillar K here fs at abou | | to post In these spinning days. that the | brilliantly picturesque quality of current | life fails to register with us. But here | Octavus Roy Cohen has deliberately | saturated his theme with the romantic lamour that by right belongs to it. car- rying the action forward in a spirit of true adventure. “Spring Tide" i ad mirable in conception and make-up, just as it is to the reader an uncom- monly enjovable means of entertain- ment. *ox o ox | CAP'N SUE. By Hulbert Footner, au- thor of “Queen of Clubs,” ete. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. “HE novelist it in luck these days. Themes of adventure erowd upon him from all sides. Prohibition, boot- leggers, land booms, flood, air naviga- tion, the motor, with its possibilities for | | erime; mishap and social significance— ‘ these are but a few of the sources of in- | spiration for the ambitious penmen of | the moment. Getting the better of pro- | hibition is the theme that here createsa | exciting line of action for the use of | the reader. | “Cap'n Sue” begins in an idyllic vein down along the shore of Chesapeake Bay, lovely spot as matter of fact, lovely | here in its portrayal as well. Cap’n Sue is a young girl who, at home in her little boat and about the whole support of the family. earries produce across to | a nearby market. When a perfectly nice | man offers Sue good money to help land | some stuff of his Sue calls that a| windfall in time of need and gets into | the business with a will. Then the matter spreads out in mysterious prof ects, in & g|orloun trip to New York for | Sue, in a dozen strange but enormously | exciting business matters under which | Sue’s home matters are decidedly look- | ing up. There is & young man of the | | neighborhood who looks with suspicion | and dislike upon—particularly upon that | | slick young man. And so the business of | adventurine 9nd landing unlawful mer- | chandise goes on with much gusto and | with many dangers to Sue—if she only knew it. The whole is conceived in the | spirit of romance. yet its foundation is | of the realest sort. The nffect is that | of a story of modern affairs carried out | {In a fine balance of fact and fiction, | | Good entertainment for any reader of | the novel. * k% X | THE TIRED CAPTAINS. By Kent Cur- tis. New York: D Appleton & Co. | O doubt there are hundreds of them | —captains not left tired by the dangers and stresses of warfare, but tired, mnstead, of the emptiness left hy | dull military routine since the war. This is the story of a youth who, out | fine arts of | Pittsburgh. | brary and lists of recommend reading | | will appear in this column each Sunday. | TALES FROM GREENERY STREET. | Bu You AllL" New York: Payson & Clarke, Ltd. WHO KILLED GREGORY? gene Jones. New York: A. Stokes Co. the son of the great sculptor. SURRENDER. By J. C. Snaith. New York: D. Appleton & Co. PUBLIC LIBRARY. Skt A 4 W 1. author of “Porto_ Bella Gold." etc, it wcosssions. a1 the Bublic Lt Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincoti, Co. the Carnegie Institute, is Homer Saint-Gaudens, By Eu- By Denis Mackail. ton Mifflin Co. | THE RELIGION OF JESUS. By Wal- Biography. Asquith, H H. Memoirs and Reflec- tions, 1852-1927. E-As68. rdett, Osbert. W. E. Gladstone, E-G45bu. | Gorges, Raymond. Baynes, Naturalist E-B347g Greever, Garland, ed. A Wiltshire Par- son and His Friends, 1926. E-B684g Lynd, Robert. Dr. Johnson and Com- pany. E-J631 1. Nicolson, Hon. H. G. The Develop- ment of English Biography. E-1 N>4, Peyton. M. B. and Kinley, Lucia. Mothers, Makers of Men. E-9P469. Poliakoff, Viadimir. The Tragic Bride. E-A1 26p. Walpole. Hugh. E-T74w. Young. Norwood. Carlyle, His Rise and Fa’l. E-C 194y, Bible in DePauw_University. In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merriil Co. THIS SIDE IDOLATRY; A Novel Based on the Life of Charles Dick- ens. By C. E. Bechhofer-Roberts. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. MOODS; Cadenced and Declaimed. By Theodore Dreiser. With 15 symbols by Hugh Gray Liehsr. New York: Boni & Liveright. THE QUARRY WOOD. By Nan Shep- herd. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. THE CONFESSIONS OF A PUZZLED PARSON: And Other Pleas for Reality, By Charles Fiske, Bishop of Central New York. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | THE SANDALWOOD FAN. By Thom Drama. McMorrow. New York: J. H. Sears | &co Bennett, Arold. and Knoblock, Edw ! e e, D By EAWArd. | | poT YE DIE: A Story From the Past Baate. e M o or of the Future. By Cicely Hamil- YD-836b. ton. New York: Charles Seribner's Gogol, N. V. The Gamblers, and Mar-| SO0S. riage. XMISJ;‘G.‘)Mg.E. e b e Herne, J. A. ore Acres ‘and Other e . British Fail to Reach Immigration Quota Ernest Harold and Crusader. | Anthony Trollope. Hand. Plays. YD-H433s. Neumann, Alfred. The Patriot. YD- N396p.. Schweikert, H. C.. ed. Early English Plays. YD-9Sch93. tha figures for the last year show a net decrease of some 30,000 in the emi- grants from Great Britain as compared | with 1926-27 15 another fact still more | surprising, namely, that In neither vear has the American quota for British immigrants been reached. The official returns upon this important matter make a striking contrast to the | popular opinfon and Irequently appearing in the pres Jcxample, it was asserted the other day that in' Scotland alone there were some 50000 intending emigrants aw ing their turn under the American | | Hygiene. | Montague, J. F. Troubles We Don't Talk About. QFD-M76t. Smiley, D. F., and Gould, A. G College Textbook of Hygiene. QH- 45. sh, J. J. Laughter and Health. QH-W 166 1. Weltmer, Ernest. Relation, Health and Happiness. QH-W468. A For Civies and Political Science. Fyfe, Hamilton. Archon: or, the Future of Government. J-F99. Harman, R. V., and others. American | he Citizenship Practice, Shorter Course. JTB3-H227. Hill. H. C. Community Civics. Hill. H. C. Vocational Civies, H55v. Jefferson, Thomas, Pres. of U. 8. Jef- | |, i fersonian Principles. J83-J1358 xl casants of Russia Switt, L. B How We Got our Lib- \ay Get Old-Age Pensions erties, JO-Sw54h b Ll Old-age pensions for peasants are o TeTbes { posiblify. ” Bver ‘anxious to keep fa- igi vor with the land, the council of peo- Religions Books. ple’s commissars has recommended (o Baker, E. D. The Worship of the Lit- | the central executive committee a de- tle’ Child. CXS-B 173w. { cree by the provisions of whieh, if it Carrier, Blanche. ‘The Kingdom of | IS approved, every peasant over 85 yeais Love. IKR-C234k. | of age will receive a pension from the Doan, F. C. The Eternal Spirit in the | state smounting to 50 rubles ($25) per Daily Round. CK-D657e. car. This is approximately the average Fiske, G. . Purposes In Teaching [ Annual wage received by a rural work- Religion. ' TKR-Fa4p. {man. Tt is hoped to put the proposai Gllkey, C. W. Present-day Dilemmas | into effect hy 1920-30, when. it is esti- in’ Religion. BR-G395p. mated, 267,000 peasants in Great Rus- Miiler. B. V. God the Creator, cia alone will receive the pension. M1, . e Th:‘;rnav;‘efi:._‘_;;‘ Told by Otis Skinner, | T ks Aninsstice For W Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de. The Ivom the ¥ State Journal. Agony of Christisniiv. CC-Un 12.E.| Probably the ice man and the coal N. The Wresile of Re: man, when they meet, refer to debatable h Truth. BR-W633w, Autumn weather gs “No Man’s Land." United States immigration would shortly be amended s0 as to in- crease the "annual total from this T-H35¢. | country HKE»’ - Civies at BSK- s | Wieman, H. liglon wit! Frederick | dividual freedom of opinion and action? | ‘The answer to the question, the telling | of the great story, goes back and bark | and back to the ancient Anglo-Saxor: | 2 “tun-moot,” the straight progenitor of | friends to talk it all over with, the ad- | our own town meeting, or our American = miration of women—pretty glorious if | tun-moot, the seed of our representa- | one came out of it. And he did come tive government. From this point, the |out of it to find empty do-nothing days, author moves ‘along to the varfous ANO object to gain that seemed worth- high peaks of such advance toward | While beside the elation of war davs. freedom, telling again the story of | Then he fell in love. But the ‘girl Magna Charta and its effects in thoe | loved the boy who had been killed i | “Petition of Right” and the “Bill of | battle, the one who wrote beautiful| into the thrills and hazards of aircraft fighting. . This was life something Itke— danger, escape, the excitement - of | of a drab and uneventful life, plunged | pis the wise ones say. A natively self:: and cruel man or woman d DS under such unfortunate urge a finished technfe of producing suffering and un- happiness in others. The novel in hand is a Study of Stanley Ames, & girl child who appears to have been born vain. selfich and herd. The story covers the life of this character from little girlhood to maturity. Upon ! whole its effect is that of a study suggests the scientist with a sinile point of observation set under the microscope that no part of it may rs- cape examination A storv has more of dilution to it. It is more fluld, I concentrated upon a single point. An attractive social medium provides the means for Stanley Ames to pursue her devastating courss. On the second page this child takes her canary from its cage because it is hers and she wants it. She hugs it to death because she loves it and it is h hug it to death. This oes throughout her career. She seizes and holds. smothering with either love or hate or empty worryings. Credit goes to the author for letting the study end itself. instead of imposing the hap- py conclusion for which most readers cry. A very good place to stop reading the middle of the second page, where the child kills the, canary. There is nothing essentially different from that anywhere further along in the development. Gypsies of Europe Are Lured by the U. S. VIENNA, Austria. September The gypsies of Contral Europe. where for centuries they have felt themselves most at home, want to go to America, where they can wandsr about in con- voys of touring cars. Europe is getting to be too restricted for them. Thers are too many frontiers. and it is diffi- cult to pass from one country to an- other, not like the good old days before the war, when legitimate gypsies and Americans suffering from wanderlust could travel without passports. The war did away with many of the liber- ties of past days. Monarchs have given place to a pest of legislatures which are passing stupid laws by the thousands. Hungery is the country where the aypsies thrive. Such a rich farming country always produced more than it could sell. There was always-a sur- plus of food products. So the gypsy caravans wandered about at will. Some permittad their palms to bs crossed with silver, and in exchange told for- tunes. Horses were swapped. Now and then, when hard pressed. a little harvest work was dene. Of course, thers was a little stealing—one has to live. But the main source of revenue was from the nn&s drawn from a quivering violin. nd a gypsy can put his soul into his violin: it is part of him. ‘They must assume Hungarian nation- ality if they wish to remain in Hun- gary: Foreign gypsies, if there is such a thing, are to be sent over the frontier Jugoslavia is also taking measur against . the gypsies. A vear ago, the city of Zagreb, in Groatia, expelled all the gypsies. and forced them to setile outside of the city limits. In Czechoslovakia the most drasti~ measures are being taken against the wandering tribes. They are all to b~ registered and provided with identity cards containing photographs and fin- ger prints. It is estimated there are | about 20,000 gypsies in Czecheslovakia. The identity card probably is a direct | result of the strange actions of a tribe in Slovakia. They are aceused not only of having killed many wayfarers, but of having eaten them as well. The trial of these suspected cannibals will take place soon. About 80 witnesses are to be heard. "GOODSPEED'S BOOK SHOP Ix & National I tor fon. Its.stock of Rare nstitut kS, Prints and Autographs is 304 titles: pric . ta. titles. free. ' Print Catalogs and n femi- bulletins of Print Exhibitions Sy ree. When in Boston Browse in GOODSPEED'S Ne. T Ashburten Place. st Boston: Hough- | ter E. Bundy, professor of English | Coupled with the Surprising fact that | Rights” as these liberating triumphs reacted upon the British Parliamert and subsequently operated toward our own Declaration of Independence and the framing of the American Constitu- tion. The place of the Supreme Court in this scheme of protected liberties is defined and set in its relation to free speech, free thought and religious | liberty. Now, this is the story of an | amazing growth in the life of a peo- { ple, a story that would stir every boy | and girl, could they hear it. As mat- ter of fact, they never do hear it. save {in plecemeal portions that never do | get together to make a real feast of stirring truth. Why not? The logic of this course s clear. its usefulness patent. Why not. then? Education is on the move, on & slow and cautious move. Maybe in a hundrsd years (his way will come. * kR | THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS. By Robert Keable, author of “Simon, Called Peter,” ete. New York: G. P. Putnam’s sons. ROB!}R’I‘ KEABLE was a rebel. All of his novels give proof of it. His general revolt is against conventions of ening effects of repetition, routine, tra- dition, squeezed dry of any essence of meant) or inspiration. This is the story of Montague-Smith, schoolmaster in an English school for boys. A teach- er of history, he one day grew posi- tively sick over his millionth rehearsal jof “Henry VIIIL, 1509-1547: (1) Kath- | erine of Aragon, (2) Anne Boleyn, (3) | Jane Seymour, (4) Anne of Cleves, (5) | Katherine Howard, (6) Katherin Pt + + * Battle of Flodden, 1513"—] | could go no further. | A few months before, been In the wi wher you see, he had a few stupen- 1 This anti-climax w too much. So | Montague-Smith reformed his hist | teaching. He made it live and move. | The boys ate it up. Montague-Smith |1ost his job. He would. Not unhappy. quota, and the hope was held out that | he set out for North Africa on vacation. | law | The ship that carried him away had |on board also Mile. Thais. Her real name was Martha Sparks, but wh could be an actress, even a little one, with such a name? So Mile. Thais it was. Then follows one of the most engeging adventures that you will find n many a long day. good sense, a beautiful wholesomeness animate this friendship. As a matter of | fact, Martha Sparks was no better than she should have been, so the judges of human perfection would have told you. But the innocence of the schoolmaster was simply impregnable. To him Mar- tha was much more chaste than Diana —or would have been had the question ever come into his mind. Simply charming—the whole happy affair! The end? Oh, Montague-Smith went back to school, rather more tolerant | than he had been, never with a thought | either that he had had a moment of | real danger in the great outing. Martha | Sparks? Well. what does become of | fhe woman? I don't know. 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