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“NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Comment on the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Exhibition—Pur- chases by the Gallery-——portrait Busts at Arts BY LEILA MECHLIN. i HE Eleventh Exhibition of Con- temporary American Painting. which opened to the public in the Corcoran Gallery of Art last Sunday, has by its interest and Importance overshadowed all other local | art events this past week. Rarely has an exhibition created as much interes or stirred as much discussion. The ad- vent of the modernists and the award | of prizes to works of the new or so- | called advanced school has created lve- | 1y comment, as well as caused some | bewilderment. But this is well. Prob- ably the best service the modernists have rendered to art is to jolt us out| of old ruts and to make us ihink. | On the opening night of the exhibi- Won_announcement was made of the purchase by the Corcoran Gallery of Art | for its permanent collection of the pic- ture which received the first prize, a painting by Bernard Karfiol, entitled “Summer”; a still life by Henry lee‘ McFee, to whose landscape the fourth prize and honorable mention was award- ed, and two paintings by Arthur B.| Davies, a nude entitled “Stars and Dew | and Dreams of Night” and a mountain | landscape entitled “The Umbrian Moun- tains.” All of these works are in the | mnew mode, and the reason for their ac- quisition was, in all probability, the de- sire on the part of the Corcoran Gal- | lery of Art to demonstrate catholicity | and to give representation to all phases | of the art of today. Also, it is possible | that the trustees wished to indorse the findings of the invited artist jury. Whether the public concurs in the gment of the jury or gives its in- | sement to the recent acquisitions, all | agree that it is better for art to| nave purcieses made, even if later they | are repented, and n sinild be remem- | bered that works purchasea :v = public | institution do not have to be perpctually | displayed; the best of our art museums | ‘have commodious cellars. But it is true that a great many people consider prize | wil THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER ¢4, L) 1928—PART Club—Other Notes. only of sympathetic _atiitude toward 'nature. These are what might be called inti- mate pictures—pictures home to the observer the significant division of graphic arts of the world, are | Museum, this season opened on Octo- loveliness of the outdoor simple, restful, refreshing, colorful and full of delight, and at the same time are of a sizs which can readily be!Strauss, an American living in Switzer- taken into the home, hung on the walls | land. perpetually enjoyed. | Rarely does one see so many attractive | of small rooms, pictures of this sort or have so excel- lent an opportunity, at moderate cost, for acquisition. By color from the exhibition shown at the Arts Club a fortnight ago, have been retain- ed for longer showing and are now dis- played on the walls of the dining room. This is not only a well deserved compli- ment to Mr. Holmes, but the extension of a privilege. Mr. Holmes is one of our foremost water colorists; his works are not only competent but of enduring in- terest, as the selection now on view amply testifies. % A¥ in Room I of the Chamber of Com- morce’s beautiful building at modern mag shown under the auspices of the Na- tioa’s Buein: the official magazine of the Chamb: of Commerce of the United States. For th> most part the wotks are in pen and ink or wash and have to do with our national commerce. Many are homorous; some partake of the charac- ter of cartoons; not a few show current use in this field of the new idiom. Cubism is said to have gone out of style in England, but its influence survives here, and in some of these drawings awards and the purchases of a public | one finds close relationship to the de- #nstitution as indorsement of merit, and | sign of modernistic furniture; the germ # this merit is not obvious are inclined | to either distrust their own Judgment‘ or all art. A good many of the pictures in the | ‘Oorcoran Gallery's exhibition were hors concours, for one reason or another not | eligible for prize award. A little aster- | isk in the catalogue designates these | ‘works, but the visitor does not always | take in its significance. For instance, | among the paintings in this exhibition | not competing were James Chapin's “Allne McMahan Making Up,” Frank | W. Benson’s “River in Flood,” Irving R. | ‘Wiles’ “The Family,” Jonas Lie's “Sap- phire and Amethyst,” Emil Carlsen’s | “Fog Bank,” all of Redfield's, all of | Hibbard's, all of Hawthorne's, Daniel Garber’s three landscapes, to name only | = few. But there is no apparent reason | why the majority of these pictures might | not be open to purchase, and certainly | some of them will sooner or later find | their way into public collections where | they eminently merit place. | There is still opportunity for the| public to demonstrate its preference by | voting for the popular prize, a prize to be given by the Corcoran Gallery to the painting which receives the most votcs | from visitors during the exhibition. Also there is no reason why public. spirited art lovers should not purchase some of these pictures and give them to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. To the attention of such we re: | s atest and most distinguished work Frank W. Benson's “River in Flood,” John C. Johansen’s “Land of the Hunt- | ers,” Gifford Beal's “Net Wagon,” Eu- | g’n.e Higgins® L] Prederick Waugh's “Northerly,” ber's “The Sycamore,” Henri’s “Pink Pinafore” and Albert L. Groll's “Christo del Monte"—all of which ‘woul reflect honor on she -purchaser as well as on any collection in which they might be placed. Such an.aggragation ©of works of supreme importanca—genu- inely epoch-meking works—would de- clare any current exhibition" more-than | noteworthy. H THE trustees of the Corcoran Gallery | of Art at a recent meeting formally accepted two paintings and a work in stulpture offered by generous donors. ‘These are a painting by Charles Sprague Pearce, entitled “‘Bergere,” the gift of Mrs. Walter MacEwen, and a painting by Edward H. Barnard, entitled “Fields and Pastures,” the gift of Mis. Mary B. Horne of Melrose, Mass., sister of the artist. The work in sculpture is a | bust of Comdr. Richard Evelyn Byrd by | Margaret French Cresson, the gift of | * k% % | is the same. Most clever and engaging is a Babbitt | serizs by Charles Dunn of this city. Especially interesting, too, are some works by Tony Sarg, who gained promi- n: originally through his puppet show other well known artist fllustrators are likewise represented. This is altogether an interesting display. Opening on October 22, the collection will be on view until November 7 be- tween th: hours of 9 and 5. Those who | “CHRISTO DEL Leith-Ross and Audubon Tyler. All are | reaching out doing a serviceable work capable painters, and the works shown | beyond the city limits. in every instance give indication not | astery of technique, but a | which bring | Institution, under the auspices of the special request a number of water | Tarbe:! by William H. Holmes, selected | unusual and exceedingly Interest- | oo : el g it ExBIbINON S mwan | Yl BRnE 1615 H| straet. This consists of a collection of | zine illustrations and is | | | | Earl Horter, Gordon Grant and | o) MONTE,” BY ALBERT L. GROLL. CONTAINED IN THE CORCORAN GALLERY'S EXHIBITION. | * ok ok K HE sccond special exhibition of | prints shown in the Smithsonian | National r 29 and will continue to November This consists of etchings by Carl Mr. Strauss was born in Boston in | 1873, studied in the public schools, then in the School of the Museum of Fine | Arts, at the latter under the tutelage of k W. Benson and Edmund C He was Initiated into th technique of etching by S. R. Koehler In 1895 he went aboard, where he re- | mained for fite years, traveling and | studying. In 1901 he returned to | Florence. At the Venice Internationa: | of 1907 he exhibited a large figure com- position in tempera, but he found etch- ing more to his liking and in 1910 con- | tributed prints to the Munich Interna- [ tional, since which time he has ex- | hibited regularly in European countries All of his plates are bitten with acid never retouched with dry-point. His | subjects are chiefly Italian and Swiss, i * K Kk % | ‘HE Public Library of the District of | Columbia, co-operating with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, has prepared for free distribution a reference list on contemporary American painters whose works are included in the Eleventh Ex- hibition of American Oil Paintings. This reference list gives not only books but periodicals in which articles on the va- rious painters have appeared. To those who wish to make a study of the works shown in this exhibition such a lisi will prove of great service. * K Kk ORDON DUNTHRONE has an- nounced the removal of his galler- les from their former location, on Con- necticut avenue just above Rhode ! Island avenue, to 1726 Connecticut ave- | nue, between R and S streets, Ex- hibitions of ctehings and water colors will be held here every two weeks throughout the season The first of these exhibitions, which ned on the 22d, consists of etchings of foot ball subjects by Roramond Tu- dor; also, modern Japanese color prints. There are 25 foot ball subjects, repre- senting as many phases of this great national game. Last Sumser at Amsterdam, where A _PAINTING Miys. John H. Gibbons of this city. The | visit it and are not acquainted with the last, having been invited to seyeral ex- | Chamber of Commerce Building should hibitions in other cities, will not be| not feil to step for at least a moment placed on_exhibition here for some | into the great hall adjacent, which is months. The two paintings; however, | undoubtediy one of th2 most beautiful will be added to the Corcoran Gallery’s| foums of its kind in America. permanent collection and placed on| N o® e Vie . o present | S U o gty "THE Landscape Club of Washington transient exhibition. * K k% | 7 is exhibiting again at the Mount 'A-r the Arts Club, 2017. T street, three ;Plenlm Public Library, Sixteenth and portralt busts by Mrs. Cresson are Lamont streets. Beginning November now temporarily on view, together with| 1 this exhibition will continue for at an extremely interesting group of small | ot g fortnight. Daintings, chiefly landccapes, by & $I0UP| pyig club has sent out this season of Woodstock, N. One of the busts by Mrs. Cresson is| two traveling exhibitions on separate of Joseph P. Day of New York; a second | schedules—one to cities in Virginia and 1 of her distinguished husband, William | ., . e Penn Cresson, architect, diplomatist and | he Carolinas, the other to PR P writer; the third is of & woman, end| without title. All three show strong | modeling and distinét personality. Mrs. | Cresson, it will be remembered, is the daughter of Daniel Chester French, and much of her work has been-done in her States farther south. The size of the pictures in these traveling exhibitions is limited to 20x24, and the works are suitably but simply framed. Each group consists of between 30 and 40 can- vases, ond ths artists represented are father's studio. While undoubtedly zhe | Messrs. Barrows, Brown, Buckley, has been influenced by Mr. Prenci's|Clark, Clime, Dergans, Horsfall, Jame- teaching and example, Mrs, Cresson | son, Jex, Johnson, Meryman, Moore, shows in her work distinct individu- | Perkins, Rolle, Schram, Sudduth, Watts ality, and is to be reckoned among the | and Weisz. Among the places showing most gifted and capable of the younger | these exhibitions are libraries, numerous generation of woman sculptors. | women's clubs, two State fairs, two uni- The Woodstock artists represented by | versities and a fine arts soclety. Thus paintings in the Arts Club exhibition | the Landscape Club, while demonstrat- are John F. Carlson, Frank S. Chase, | ing to the Washingfon public its prog- ©ecll Chicester, Allan Cochran, Harry ' ress through the local exhibition, i “GRISON VILLAGE ON BORDER INGS OF CARL STRAUSS ON EX} “ ! OF RAVINE.” ONE OF THE ETCH- {IBITION A l‘fl'{ffllu SMITHSONIAN, (M the Ninth Olympiadewas held, an in- ternational exhibition ‘was set forth of paintings, scuipture and prints, repre- senting sports. The American collec- tion was one of the largest and most representative, but even it demon- strated, together with potentialities, & remarkable paucity in this fleld. It is| possible that the attention which the | exhibition at Amsterdam has attracted will induce more artists to follow Rosa- | mond Tudor's example in relating ert | and athletics, as did the Greeks of old. | Rk 188 CATHERINE C. CRITCHER announces a series of talks on art and its appreciation to be given in her studio at 1603 Connecticut avenue by Gertrude R. Brigham on successive Wednesday afternoons at 4:30 o'clock. The first of these lectures, which took ' place last Wednesday, was on “A Tour of the East.” The subject next Wednes- dl{ will be pt—the Begluning of Orlental Art.” Miss Brigham, whose pen name is Kiktor Flambeau, was one of the organivers of the Art Promoters' Club of George WAshl.ngwn University, which this season has headquarters in The Playhouse, 1814 N street. * ok * * THE Maryland Institute of Baltimore announces an exhibition of paint- Ings by Lilian Giffen from October 26 to November 9. Miss Giffen is president of the Baltimore Water Color Club and alo holds membership in our local art socleties. PBoth she and her work are well known here. 50,000 Visit Shrine Of India’s Virgin Mary| ‘The shrine of Virgin Mary at Vailam- kanni, a village situated in the presi- dency of Madras, is one of the most famous in India, but almost unknown ito the rest of the world. More than 1 i 50,000 persons of all castes and creeds ) —Hindus, Moslems, Jains—and all com- munities assembled recently to worship \at the old shrine of the Virgin. The people come from lon% distances, from | the East, from far off Fiji, Saigon, Cey- ilon and other countries. The ghrine ; dates from the sixteenth century, when i the route to India was first discovered | by the Portuguese, although tradition I states that the shrine has been there from time immemorial. It appears that the captain of a ship going from Macao to Colombo was caught in a storm in the Bay of Bengal. His ship was saved only after the name of the | Holy Virgin was invoked. The cap- tain and his crew built, as they had ‘vowed, a_shrine in her honor, and | tradition has it that the Virgin Mary \herself appeared and showed them iwhere to erect the shrine. Ever since, the place has been a center of pllgrim- age. Presents are often placed In a bamboo flask and sealed. These are thrown into the sea addressed to the shrine and it is said that invariably the sea throws them back to shore. They are afterward presented by the officiating priest, a Portuguese Roman Catholie Prlen. with great ceremony, to the holy image of the Vl?m Mary, CORCORAN EXHIBITION “PASTOR DE CABRAS, NEO' MEXICANO,” A PAINTING BY W. HER- BERT DUNTON. The clink of hammers on the forge, — | the_drone of farm‘xnacmm'r_v, blends | ahds, | with the vague murmur of voices in d | classrooms and study halls, with the chatter of girls in the big kitchens and Jaundry. On an open piazza girls weave on looms patterned after those of their descendants of their own Northern sol- | grandmothers beautiful old rugs and Qiers, who during the reconstruction | bedspreads, repeating old designs, keep- period following the Civil War had ing alive an almost forgotten craft. On » | spinning wheels they spin woolen thread rom Third Page.) had washed the soil from their h: had rushed by them, leaving them an their children in profound ignorance, She told partiotic societies that many of these mountain children were the lineal | | are going to and from | of daily living. This is exactl, | Opportunity " | flocks. come to the South as “carpetbaggers. “Here are your purest Americans,” she sald. “Your Anglo-Saxons. spend thousands of dollars to ‘Ameri- canize’ the hordes of Latins and Slavs that come to these shores. You plant | schools among the negro secttlements. | Will you not heed the call of thesei boys and girls of the mountains, blood | of your blood?” | Money began coming in from her | ‘begging tours,” as she called them | ... and ever morc children kept | coming, making more and more money | necessary. From all over the country | You | tiny streams of contributions began | flowing over the Appalachlans into | Georgla to the Berry Schools. Yet| never, never sufficient, never com- | mensurate with the need of the children of the uplands. An unending file of boys kept trickling down the mountain | trails, their packs on their backs, their overcoats patched, their hats battered. Footsore, shy, they stood gazing through the open gates down the “Road to Others Hear Story. Gradually the story of the Berry | Schools and the sublime devotion of | its founder spread beyond the State of | Georgia. Men like Andrew camegle‘r heard and heeded the story and started | an endowment which assured a small | annual sum. Women's clubs heard. Churches heard. Theodore Roosevelt | exclaimed: “This is the real thing!" | when he listened to Martha Berry tell | the story of her school. “There should | be a school for girls, too,” he an-| mounced. { Through his influence it became pos- | ! sible to build the first girls' dormitory, “Sunshin> Shanty.” With the opening of this dormitory, slim, sunbrowned | girls in sunbonnets, calico aprons tied | about their waists in the manner of little old grandmothers, walked down the trails their brothers had walked to cnter the Berry School, to work with | their hands for the privilege of an education. “We-uns has come,” they said. “Wimmin-folks wants larnin’ same’s grew | men-folks.” Bo the school grew and grew; from its dozen into the hundreds. Building multiplied. More teachers came. More acres were -cultivated. There were additions to herds and And with the growth of the school its undaunted founder faced continually the problem of money for its maintenance, for equipment, for teachers. It is now 26 years since the three little dusty boys listened to Martha Berry tell magic stories in a tiny shack. They are grown men now. And Mar- Berry, white haired, gentle, with eyes both brilliant and tender, looks down from the “House o' Dreams" which the boys and girls themselves built for her on the summit of Laven- dar Mountain, upon the spreading.re- alization of her girlhood's dream. Blue moutain ranges, covered with brown sedge and piney woods, encircle | her. Below lies the Foundation School, where children, irrespective of age, are inducted into the co-operative spirit of Berry. Half hidden beneath tullp, dog- wood and elm trees are the brown log buildings of the girls’ school, the lovely colonial chapel, the brick schools for the boys, shops, barns, dairy houses and Feith Cottage, where live the nine orphans that Martha Berry has adopted. Nearly all the buildings have been constructed by the boys themselves. In the warm meadows beyond the campus sturdy boys in the uniform of the | er's understanding. |cabin in the blue Appalachians with from the angora goats of the farm. They sing as they work, in clear young voices, old mountain songs. From the very first the Berry Schools were essentially agricultural. The five courses that are given—agriculture, home economics, mechanics, literature and science, and a normal course—train boys and girls for a practical, work-a- day life. Teday, when a mountain boy graduates from Berry he not only has an academic education, but he is an efficient farmer who has learned farm- | ing by doing it. He knows the care 0(" herds and flocks. He can bulld with| wood and brick or the stones of his| mountains. He is ready to take up life | on the sofl intelligently. He has been | taught scientific methods of cultivation and fertilization; how to put nitrogen: ous cover crops back Into the earth, how to select seed, how to rotate crops, how to carry on the daily routine of farm and dairy. A generation sepa- rates him from his father. Two hun- drad years separate him from his fath- | | An Efficient Home Maker. | When ‘a girl leaves Berry she is an efficient home maker, a _good mate for | her farmer husband. She can cook, | prescrve and sew. She can keep house, i barnyard and dairy tidily. She can weave and spin—ancient arts. She can | work out a family budget and a bal- anced diet as well as an algebra prob- lem. She is prepared for wifehood and motherhood, for the physical care of‘ herself and those dependent upon Hher. | She is but a generation separated from | her mother. Two hundred years sepa- | rate her from her mother's understand- ing of life. She may become a teacier to little mountain children, but in all| events both boys and girls leave Berry . to become young crusaders to their kin- folk, eager to battle against ignorance and poverty. There are no servants at Berry. All| must work. All want to. It was a new and difficult idea to spread in the moun- tains that hand labor is dignified and | honorable. Martha Berry taught lads that lesson, working a profound psychc- logic change in the male point of view. Many other subtle things are taught— | an appreciation for the beauty that lies all about them, of the power of char- | | cter. ‘With the passing of years honors have | come to Martha Berry, honors that in- | evitably come to those who carry through | great dreams for their fellow men. Her | own State has recogniged by public res- olution her service to the cause of the | poor and lowly. In 1925 President Cool- | idge awarded her the Roosevelt Medal for distinguished service in America. | Presidents Taft and Woodrow Wilson | have spoken their interest in her unique undertaking. Many Have Been Trained. Summer is over at the Berry Schools. The harvests are in. There will be other Summers, other harvests, but to- day Martha Berry counts 2,500 boys who have gone out from her schocl skilled farmers, 371 who have became teachs:s and principals in rural schools, 307 housewives, 25 nurses and 6 preachers, Others fill secretarial and office jobs. ! She sees her school and its methods copled by other backward sections. Th: harvest s in. 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L. Gates, author of “Wit! THE HERETIC OF SOANA. By Ger- hart Hauptmann. Introduction by Harry Salpeter. New York: Th2 Modern Library. | A DISTINGUISHED and beautiful Hauptmann story whose course serves to state a vital problem, leaving s solution to the reader as it must be left sinee its answer rests with the in- dividual. There are two roads to life— one the path of resignation, the other the way of realization. Which? - The | agent of the one is repression, that of the other is expansion. The answer is withheld. Instead, the story of the | priest of Soana is unfolded. =Young. | | devout, schooled to the inhibitions of | | his vocation, the young priest without | | question foliows the footsteps of the | | long procession of devout men who have glorified his religion. A saint, the peas- | ant folks call him, and so 1 suppose he |is. Zealous to save, he discovers far up | on the mountain a family about which, | upon inquiry down below, he learns the shocking truth that has made them outcast. Yet, he is not able to turn away from them and he cites to his heart a greater than he who loved the sinner to the measure of his wrong- doing. So, to the mountains the young priest went to reclaim the sinful man and woman and their children, for when they came down into the village they were stoned by the people. A | daughter of the pair, a youns girl, sim- ple and very beautiful, opened the heart of the pries* to life, to the beauty of the world, to the warmth of the sun, to the | refreshment of flowing streams, to the | | call of the birds, to all of that which he, hitherto, with eyes fastened upon the ground had not seen. The boy was in love with the girl—the old story. It is_given here. Such is the “heretic,” “The Heretic of Soana.” The story and the question both stand here in a pro- | found conception, one that is true to life, human life, and that is most beau- tiful in its projection. A poem of lyric sound, and-human appeal. But, you still have the question to answer for yourself. Going along with this lovely sculptured fragment of life is a most competent survey of the genius- of Hauptmann by Harry Salpeter, a critical outlook that is calculated to place the reader before Hauptmann in a greater advantage than he could secure without such sincere and capable and waywise assistance. » kA WHAT EVERYBODY WANTED. By Elsie Singmaster. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. | "T'HERE are. three of them to be sup- } plied here—three women to be |'supplied with what they wanted. ~ And | that statement gives the whole matter |away, in effect. For, just naturally, | each wanted a husband. That is the | way it has always been in life and | | there is no good reason to assume that | | any change has taken place in this| ;lmmemorml “want.” A mother and | two daughters. They are placed in a | delightful corner of Maryland. And it | | is with the look and feel of this | locality that Eisie Singmaster scores | | her oest work. The rest turns 6ut to }be something like good housekeeping. | To provide three men as husbands for | the attractive and still soliciting mother and the two girls is the first move in this piece of master management. On | to Legin early to own things. In these | paper this is not such a hard thing | two ways they are a free people. And, | to do as it might prove to be in actu- says the author, “there is more joy and | ality. But, the men rounded up, there | more happiness, there is more poetry (is a deal of placing and Teplacing of and -deep emotion in a gypsy camp of | one and another in the game in order name of Martha Berry, the “Sunday | school—overalls—are plowing. Girls in blue dresses and pink sunbonnets bend, like flowers themselves, over flower gar- dens and vegetable rows. “Blue-rtbbon” cattle grage in the meadows. Fruit ripens in the orchard. Looking Ahead in China Cnntinusd From First Page.) yesterday centers of Americanism, have all been taken over by Chinese di- rectors; the five or six thousand Amer- ican missionaries, who had set up col- leges and hospitals in so many Chinese towns, have greatly decreased in num- ber during recent months due to de- partures provoked by the recrudescense of anti-foreign feeling. The American Minister is deferred to by the Nanking authorities no more than his European colleagues. The imports from America are, on the whole, modest. Indeed, one well might wonder at this almost unique spectacle. In the eyes of those who cannot look beyond statistics, the United States is not very powerful in China, as compared with England. As a matter of fact, how- ever, we may not be far wrong in thinking that it may become almost everything there. The situation reminds one of the famous inning of the Sieyes bro- chure on the eve of the French Revo- lution: “What is the Tlers Etat (the com- moners) in France?” “Nothing.” “What will it be tomorrow?"” “Everything.” A dissatisficd American friend of mine, with whom 1 was discussing all this, answered in a rage: “It is our cursed self~complacency. . . .” Well, even my pessimistic friend did not find any answer when I showed him that, starting from her Panglos- sian ide American democracy man- ages to create a general assent, from orida to Michigan, to an Orlental Rollcy which has both grandeur and orizon. What does it matter if—as Columbus touched the Antilles when he thought he was making for the Indles— lady,” as she is everywhere called, and | there will come a look in the eye, a note in the voice that bespeaks sn in- articulate love and reverence, the love that the “least of these” gives to the greatest among us. she arrives at her far-seeing formula through a series of ideas and impres- sions of which some are mistaken. After my last trip to China I went to the Institute of Politics in Williams- town—(how delightful, after the yel- low Manchurian plains, were the sweet Berkshire hills!)—where I had prom- ised to lecture upon the st-war European problems. In addition to the ~lectures, various round tables studied special problems. One of these, very ably directed by Prof. Quigley of Minnesota University, centered upon the Chinese situation. I learned much by gonig there, but I also discovered this: trat by the side of well informed savants, as Quigley himself, Hornbeck, Gale and a few others—all with a clear and far-seeing judgment—there were some, like cer- tain representatives of missionary un- dertakings, who, in all good ‘faith, helped to establish a series of formulae which had no basis experimental reality. Some of them, convinced that they are completely representative of the republican ideal, pour upon present China a benevolence as general as it is “ague. “‘What, after all,” they say, “are the Chinese doing but following ’;ur exam- ple? They are fighting for the republic; they have got rid of their emperors, as we did of our king a hundred and fifty years ago.” American missionaries who have re- turned from China show bright Chinese ?u&us of an Americanized. type, and his is hailed, in uninformed centers of the Middle West, as a great work, overlooking the fact that the Chinese masses are as ignorant of America as of Europe and would gladly continue in_their ignorance. Finally, even in political- circles, the feeling is to be three ragged tents than in the largest city of our civilized world.” You don’t have to_agree, but it's worth thinking about. Free from the thousand “don’ts” and “must nots” that hound the rest of | every woman is bound to be under the | H: us from the cradle to the grave, free from the stodgy business of owning things and the dreary business of hoard- ing them——why, these gypsies are the royal partakers of life itself. At least, that is the impression one gathers here ——and clearly it has its points. This is a history, authentic history, hnvmg to do with the accepted origin of these people, with their dispersion toward the Wost, their invasion of Germany, France, Italy and Spain, their overflow into the British Isles and across the seas. | that mark every page here which de- Iiver the gypsy over to the reader bodily and spiritually. Listen to one of them. A big gypsy fellow had been “in” (in jall) “for 30 days. Upon his release there was great joy in the camp—a merrymaking of boisterfous welcome. But the man was sad. Nothing seemed able to lift the gloom. Finally he con- fessed that his grief was not for his own confinement. but for the jailer— the jailer was “in” for life. And that ust about broke the big gypsy's heart. wely, don't you think? all of us have had sorrows, I'm sure, over the terrible life of the failer and the hangman— unspeakable existence. Well, the book is full of pictures, moving pictures, of these people at one or another point of y freedom and unconcern. And, mind to secure any effect at all. But the writer is energetic and resourceful. The | women of the first part are also inde- | fatigable, either openly or sécretly, as | clementary natural need to find a place | for hersy'f in the sun of some man's marital t"itention. A lot of good humor and gay humor itself go along with e Singmaster as she drifts back and forth | between something like real love at one | point and a clear bit of expediency at another. Good eéntertainment at any Problems of the Family,” and Gladys Hoagland Groves, joint authors of “Wholesome Childhood,” etc. Phila- delphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. LSIX PLAYS; “Mamade Butterfly,” “Du- e Darling of the Gods,” “The Girl of the Golden ‘The _Return of Peter By David Belasco. With an Introduction by the Author and Notes by Montrose J. Moses. Illus- trated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. | $PORTS;. 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Modern Japan and Its ment it turns out that only two are Problems. G67-Al 53m. guilty of the charge. but which is the Bonsels, Waldemar. An Indian Journey. | innocent man-is not known. Not ex-| — G69-B64T. | actly a plausible situation, to assign' Candee, H. C. New Jourmeys in Old | such competition of invention, under | —— Asia. G685-C 16. such a condition—but, it serves. Not| Collinson, C. W. Life and Laughter altogether in the. interest of justice. 'Midst the Cannibals. 1926. GI96- | either. But & criminal is not the only | C89. |one who occasionally saves his life at Cowing, G. C. So This is Paris, and the last minute. A story teller.often | does it. This one does, saves not only the lives of all three but, in a measure, redeems himself from sheer inconsis- | However, here ‘are the three| found that_China is enerous remittance ol lemnity, Chinese say that it was stolen money : three march along in a quite proper and that only a part has been restored. | energy and precipitation, since each 1 might continue the list of political | js gesigned as a life- saver. I know ! and psychological illusions about China | gxactly which man I'd let go freé by ! [ Atk mavioE, certain vogue in yirtus of the excellenoe of this, h"x" merica. ast gasp, 80 to speak. And the real But the admirable part of it is the pogmg o? enjoyme‘x’net here is sure to| fact that the paradoxical synthesis of hinge with the reader upon what he | these illusions is & wide, solid, far-| ajso judges to be the best of !hc‘ seeing and generous adherence to & stories and which of the men by vir-| well informed policy, looking forward |tue of this fact earns his freedom.| to the time when the Pacific shall have | fere is something almost good enough ' shrunk, when the United States shall | for a contest—or would be if there were | tency. rateful for the ' £ the Boxer in- | the the truth being Good in adventure, plausible in | the element of surprise and mystery, that the 'swift-moving and sudden-turning, the London, Too. G39P-C83s. Hall, J. N. ‘Mid-Pacific. G173-H 14. Harrison, A. M. A Majorca Holiday. G272-H24. Holland, Clive. Denmark. G50-H71. Hutchinson, Hubbard. Prom Rome to Florence. G35-H973. Miller, William. Greece. G34-M617. Physical Education. Lowman, C. 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America may be mistaken as to certain passing interpretations of the actual Chinese crisis, bub never wrong as to *he essentlal ones—which, after all, is what matters. And she has understood more quickly than Europe that force used in: China, the moment after it has | relaxed its pressure, leaves no more mark than a boy's finger upon a rubber ball; also, that one memory alone never passes—that of rancor and hatred. the Fascist press of Italy, tries to prove the beneficent power of long-laid d(ynaatlc or oligarchic designs—just as 1 France, on the very eve of era—it is interesting to note that the one long-dated political conception con- cemin’ the greatest demographic prob- lem of tomorrow is the work of the American democracy—a democracy with no oligarchical history behind ity Thus, at a time when the nationalistic | and royalist press of France, copied by i ARIADNE. By Isadore Lhevinne. 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