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9 <3 1928—PART REVIEWS OF NEWEST BOOKS iFiction From Several Authors—Paul Wilstach’s “Italian Holi-. day"—The Latest Volume Concerning the Civil War President. IDA GILBERT MYERS. | p;nggsho}zertto rdeaderf icfnnl ‘Qheh‘ fullness | sort of boy in that rude setting that he s of th fact and imp] lon. | was all around. It sums to an engross- B A b PR +| ing adventure—a thing close at hand, G o g . | HLACK SADIE: A novel. By 'T. Bow- | clsar and vivid, fascinating s & piciuy s : : yer Campbeil. Boston: Houghton |of the life that used to be lived right | A Annmonv. A difficult theme | °Mifin Go. /! THE SUNDAY DECEMBER NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Bureau of Reclamation’s Unusual Exhibition—Paintings and Etchings on View at Various Washington Galleries. otection. _Another is a beautiful | Moses Dykaar, who is well known here, of “Le Puy,” in which three |having executed a considerable number heights, two crownad with steeples, one |of portrait commissions ins Washington. | with a sculptured figurs, make strong |shows a_portrait head of his wife and| | points of interest in a broad and varied | one of Dr. David Sohn. | \anascape. And finally, a portion of | Margery A. Ryerson, who is exhibit- | the facade of a great church with its |ing etchings in the Smithsonian at this | | marvelous carving in stonc—intricate, | time, is represented in the academy ex- | cxquisite as lace. and from which the |hibilion by a painting as well as prints. | itle of the etching is derived, It is only in recent years that the | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., PORTRAIT OF MUSICIAN BY LEILA MECHLIN, HE Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior has | prepared an intercsting and fm- pressive pictorial showing of its work for our Government ex- hibit at the exposition to be held in Seville, Spain, next year. This exhibit, which has been prepared and planned | for pr | 7iew in the place where, today, there is so much of plenty and variety and bounty. And always in the forefront of interest is the big, kindly boy figure of young Abe Lincoln, who came finally to be the for any sort of craftsman 10| A PIRST movel. A | | An exciting piece ubdetakes’ Ivh chisden’ S [£ of work The theme is a striking pletely the sociologist seeking | o, "oreover, this theme appears to “Lace | a generalization to cover and | by John H. Pellen of the Bureau of Reclamation, compriscs a large mural painting representing a typical recla- mation project, an cqually large model of a 45-acre irrigated farm, 12 trans- parencies, colored, showing different jects—dams, picturesque waterways, mdl under cuitivation and the desert before and after reclamation: also eight enlarged bromide prints colored by hand, showing different crops, the ‘harvesting of crops and other irrigation projects—the story of a great work told, and well told, in rlcmren, The mural painting, which is at leas 10 or 12 feet long, represents a typical frrigation project in an arid part of our great Southwest, and depicts the con- servation of water in the mountains for irrigation and electric power by the use of storage dams, a diversion dam and a distributing system of canals and later- | als, a scene designed somewhat after the Salt River irrigation project in the State of Arizona. In the foreground is the desert, with sagebush and strange cactus growths, then comes a wide area which is like a green carpct unrolled on the desert’s sandy floor at the base of the foothills, then the mountains towering high with a glimpse, in a mid- way gap, of cascades of water—three at falls like steps over three gipantic idams. Above the mountains is the blue sky broken and made more beautiful by floating clouds tinted by the late after- noon sun. It is an extremely realistic scene, and yet one in which the painter. Frank J. McKenzie, has introduced more than a little poetic suggestion, wusing artistic freedom in_expression. Mr., McKenzie is an_Englishman, a mative of London. In 1890, when a stu- dent at the British Royal Academy Schools, he won the Turner gold medal. Later he studied at the Jullen Academy in Paris and painted a number of years in Africa prior to taking up residence iin San Francisco. He has lately com- pleted several groups for the Museum 1of Natural History in New York, pre- sumably backgrounds for exhibits, and ids now engaged on a series of dioramas dor the New Jersey State Museum at Trenton. He is one of those scientific llustrators who find it possible to be both accurate and artistic. ~Certainly imothing could better exhibit to the peo- e of Spain_the methods which our hmngm Bureau has taken to ful- the old prophecy, “The desert shall TYPICAL IRRIGATION BY FRANK J. McKENZIE. THE PICTURE WII n Stone.” Of all, the last is the most | academy has included prints in its an- | |amazingz plece of technique and from | the draughtman’s standpoint | brilliant achievement. But Puy” and the “Chartres” other qualities which commend them, qualitics of surface linish and uniiy ot | effect. the “Le ‘Another beautiful work in this set is | Pennell, who, returning from many | “Le Pont Notre Dame, Mende,” pictur ing effectively an ancient bridge with a pointed arch spanning a little river and fitting in picturesquely with the out- line of the dsitant mountains. Mr. Arms and his family spent |all of las: Summer aoroad, visking the | churches in some of the smaller fowns Mrs. Arms gathering meterial for a | ook, Mr. Arms for his etchings—a de- |lightful and profitable holiday season. ® ok kK | BENSON MOORE has been invited by | the American Federation of Arts to send his_ painting, “White Pelicans | After a Bath” now included in the | Corcoran Gallery's exhibition, with a {group of 20 paintings sclected from this notable collection, to be shown in Phoenix, Ariz., in January, possibly later in other Arizona cities. As only the most notable works in the exhibition were selected, this was a tangible com- pliment. During October Mr. Moore had an exhibition comprising 50 of his etchings t the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Tex., and during December the collec- tion will be shown at the Neville Me- morial Museum, Green Bay, Wis. Later the group will go to the Hackley Gal- lery, Muskegon, Mich., and the Arnot Art Gallery, Elmira, N. Y. * ok X ¥ THE Grand Central Galleries of New York have for the first time award- ed a number of cash prizes, amounting to $5,500 in all, to their artist members. |in different parts of the country for the | One of the winners in the competition | was Jerry Farnsworth of this city. His |award, given anonymeusly, was desig- nated as “the Golden State prize of $500” and was won by a painting en- titled “Picnic.” Among the other win- ners were Richard Miller, Charles H. Davis, John E. Costigan and Edward P PROJECT IN THE SOUTHWEST, REPRODUCED FROM A M BE A PART OF THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATIO! HIBIT IN THE SEVILLE, SPAIN, EXPOSITI These prizes were given by art patrons | | purpose of encouraging American_art. | nual exhibitions, though etchers, en- | members of the academy since its | nent engravers were among its found- | ers. This innovation was made a few years ago on the instance of Joseph cears’ sojourn abroad, took up th2 dgels for his confreres and secured for them this opportunity of exhibiting, | as well as reccgnition, of the graphic | arts. ‘ * kK K | "J'HIS week, opening tomorrow, there | will be an interesting exhibit at | Gordon Dunthorne’s, 1726 Connecticut | avenue, of rare books, illuminated man- | uscripts, antiphonal leaves and minia- | tures from the Gardenside Bookshop of | Boston. Also, at the same time Mr. Dunthorne | will show Cadwallader Washburn’s new dry points, the Riviera series, but lately | completed, and a group of etchings and | drawings by Livia Kadar of Hungary, an exceedingly gifted young woman, who is exhibiting in this country under the patronage of the Hungarian Min- | ister. L ’AT the Arts Club Alfred Hutty's | etchings and lithographs remain | on view for another week and will well | reward attention. Mr. Hutty is one of those etchers whose works have greatly advanced in price in recent years, and, though price is not invariably a stand- ard of merit, it is a good index to the estimate of collectors and connoisseurs. It may seem to the uninitiated an absurdity, but it is a fact that from the standpoint of investment etchings well chosen yield a larger percentage | of increase on capital expended than | the best so-called “gilt-edged” securi- | ties listed in the financial news columns daily. IN the dining room at the Arts Club are now to be seen two paintings by Margaret Yard—a still life, showing an arrangement of glass on a table in the distinctly modern manner, and a portrait study of a young girl, painted with considerable directness and evi- dence of competency. Here, also, are | * ok ok ¥ JRAL PAINTING E Slossom as_the rose,” than does his re- cent work here. The model of the 40-acre irriga- tion farm tells the same story in a different form. Here a single home- stead with its farm land is set forth; a hit of Mr. McKenzie's gigantic green carpet is seen at close range. ‘This model was executed by Victor Minde- leff, a distinguished member of the Jocal chapter of the American Insti- ‘ute of Architects, painter, craftsman ;and designer. The model was designed this instance, however, by Mr, Pel- n. The transparencies and the large ‘bromides were colored by hand by Mrs. ;Allen of the Bureau of Reclamation, and they the story still further and over a wider range. * KRk rke Gallery, from Decem- December 15, a'{_x exh)m{—l of paintings by Frank Townsen mchemp‘vm be shown, Mr. Hutchens was born in Canandaigua, N. Y. but now makes his home in Silvermine, _eand in New York City. He Constant and Laurens Academy and the Col- in Paris, and under , l(nwbnyvnng O}tlori‘; Forest Brush in New York. e :‘member of the National Arts Club and the Salmagundi Club, New York; the American Water Color Society, the Paris Allied Art Association and the Art Association of New Orleans, an he is re] ted in the permanent " eollections the High 0 1A T¥the Yo AT of the Toledo Art Museum, Museum of Atlanta, the Sy- "yacuse Museum of Fine Arts, the Me- morial _Art wur{. Rochester; the John Herron Art Institute, Indiana- polis; the Milwaukee Art Institute, Point Museum, the Delgado ;:'\.lu?x]:‘ol Anf New Orleans, and else- re. 'hfir, Hutchens visited North Africa & vear or so ago and brought back 3 number of eharacteristic intings— scenes in Tunisia and in Alglers. = He has also t:lnud in France and in our own country. He is best known perhaps for his pictures of sireet scenes—build- ings, outdoor effects of sunlight and shadow, and_he occasionally turns to portraiture. One of the works in this 'exhibition of unusual interest will be his portrait of Georges Barrere, for many vears chief flutist of the New York Symphony Orchestra and now one of a distinguished quartet. * %k * AT the Smithsonian Institution an exhibition of etchings and dry- ints by Margery Austen Ryerson of ew York is now on view. to continue 1o Deeember 30. Miss Ryerson was born in.Morristown, N. J., and studied under Robert Henri and Charles W. Hawthorne, She is a _member of the Washington Water Color Club, the Brooklyn Soelety of Etchers, the Cali- fornia Print Makers' Society and the National Assoclation of Women Paint- ers and Sculptors. Amoang her awards was the Emil Fuchs prize at the Brook- Jyn Society of Etchers in 1924. Her prints are included in the permanent colections of some of the leading art museums. ¥ ok kK 7 ENNEDY & OO. announce the publi- cation of ten new etchings by John #raylor Arms, all done during the last gew months. three of which are in- cluded in the National Academy of Design’s Winter exhibition, which opened in the Fine Arts Galleries, New York, last Monday. A complete set of thess works may be seen now in the Dunthorne Gallery, in this city. Included in the set are an unusual wview of Chartres seen lookink up from a Jower street level across the sloping and irregular roofs of the humble dwellings which seem to have ecrept under the wing of the great cathedral W. Redfield. Among those receiving honorable mention was Spencer Nichols, formerly of this city. * % k % N the Winter exhibition of the Na- tional Academy of Design, which opened on the Monday before Thanks- iving and will continue to December 16. ben F. Comins of this city is repre- sented by two paintings—one, a' figure study. “Eileen With Folded Arms." the other a composition with numerous fig- ures, & typical city crowd viewing fire- works. To this exhibition Hobart Nichols, National Academician, formerly a resi- dent of this city, a member of the local art societies, contributes a Winter pic- ture, “Cedars in Snow,” broadly and admirably painted. Among the sculptors exhibiting is Edmund R. Amateis, son of the late Louis Amateis of this city, formerly a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and today one of the foremost of our younger sculptors. One of his works is entitled “Sp) the other, “Win- |ter.” Brenda Putnam, the gifted daugh- |ter of the librarian of Congress, shows an admirable study, “Blind Florentine.” The Story the (Continued From Third Page,) | donia bands are the indirect results of the crushing terms imposed by the post-war peace treaties. Macedonians living in those parts of Macedoina that were awarded to Greece and Jugo- slavia under the treaties are so op- pressed by their conquerors that they cry out to their leaders for relief, they do not want either to be Hellenized | or Serbiaized. Besides these Mace- | donians we have 800,000 more living within our borders who sympathize with their brethren under alien rule and are clamoring for autonomy. Paralyzed as we are by the peace treaties we can- not give relief either to them, or to those outside the frontiers. There can be no real tranquillity in the Balkans while these conditions endure.” I do not boast to have made the situation clear, but I console myself with the realization that no one else | has done so. Never was such | of ancient wrong, mendacity, secular mentality. Now, if ever, the Leagu:> | to the rescue. It is only proper independence would engage a vast deal of sympathy in the world had it not been compromised by murder, rapine, | and every species of ruffianism. It is, | indeed, peculiarly difficult to form an estimate of the situation in Bulgaria. That the Macedonia question is & very serious menace to the peace of the picion will insinuate itself that the authorities at Sofia are exaggerating the strength of Mikhailov and the im- gorunce of his latest activitise, in the ope of bluffing the powers into eesing the terms of the treaty of Neuilly and allowing Bulgaria a larger standing army. The latest development may | turn out merely bluff and rhodomon- tade. Yet the Macedonian question should not be lightly regarded, and anyway we must take note of Bul- garia now and then. * K K K China.—Once more, we hear, Sino- Japanese conversations have broken down. Sino-Italian, Sino-Belgian and 8ino - Norwegian _commercial treaties have been signed, which provide for abolition of extraterritorial privileges, effective January 1, 1930. The Nanking gevernment has or- % “ad- | mired confusion” the utmast Balkanism | jof the Balkans, an ineffable mixture | | prejudice, propaganda and sione age | 0] observe that the Macedonian claim to ' | Balkans is unquestionable, but the sus- ! two paintings of boats by Rowland Lyon, one of which, in particular, shows impressive strength and command of medium. * K kX 'HE American Federation of Arts, which has its headquarters in Wash- ington, will hold its second regional meeting west of the Mississippi in Den- ver, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- day of this week. The first regioual meeting was held about this same ume last year in Lincoln, Nebr., and was at- tended by over 300 persons represent- ing the art associations in approximate- 1y all of the Western States. It 15 be- lieved that the attendance in Denver will be larger. * kK ok THE Archeological Society of Wash- ington ard the Art and Archeology League of this city have issued invita- tions to a lecture, illustrated by mov- ing pictures, on “Recent Explorations and Discoveries in the Libyan Desert,” by Byron Khun de Prorok, director of the Franco-American expeditions to North Africa, to be given in the audi- torium of the Washington Club tomor- rc evening, December 3, at 8:30 o'clock. Week Has Told { dered supersession of the lunar calen- dar by the Western, or solar, calendar throughout China. Dr. C. C. Wu, for- merly minister of foreign affairs of the Nationalist government has been appointed Chinese Minister at Wash- ngton, succeeding Dr. Alfred Sze, who is transferred to London. It was not long ago that Dr. Wu made a world| tour in the interest of the Nationalist government, which included Washing- ton, and which is regarded by Nanking as a great success. * ok ok ok Notes,—We are told that Berlin's birthrate is 9.9 per 1,000 of population, f,s a(llmt 17 for London and 16 for | aris. Trotsky in his gloomy but healthful abode of exile near the border of Chinese 8inkiang has not been wasting his time. He has written what is said to be an utterly devastating arraign- ment of the Stalin regime. The original manuscript was confiscated by Stalin's agents, but ha, ha, there was a dupli- cate, which was smuggled to Berlin and printed there on asbestos paper, of course. The curriculum of El Azhar (the Splendid) the famous Mohammedan University at Cairo, is to be greatly modernized in the teeth of the Ulema. control of the ministry of education, and modern science will be stressed. This evolution is of first-rate impor- tance. Mr. Hoover is intimately acquainted at first hand with Europe, Asia (es- pecially China, Burma and India), Africa, Australia, Canada and Mexico of the greater areas and only South America has remained outside his im- mediate observation. He is now com- pleting his planetary tour. { Sax, of the Saxophone. ‘The man who put the “sax” in saxo- | phone was M. Adolph Sax, a Belgian, {born in 1018. From early childho {life was one of disaster. He was knocked down flights of stairs, swal- lowed a pin, twice burned, accidentally | drank virtol mixed with water, was thrown some disianc2 by an explosion cides nearly losing his lif2 by asphyx- fation and drowning. He survived all | ihese and d=vated the latter part of his life to muz'z, which resulted in his in- vention of the sazophon2, p - The university will be placed under the | .| forms only 7,200 tons into metal, his | the simple reason that up to the pres- of gunpowder, and was poisoned, be- | p: a most |gravers and lithographers have been | both have | foundation—in fact, a number of emi- | | PORTRAIT OF GEORGE TOWNSEND HUTCHENS. THE P HIBITION AT THE YORKE BARRERE. FLUTIST, BY FRANK ICTURE 1S INCLUDED IN AN EX- SALLERY. it may be, to illuminate the marriage | state. For, all its seeming likenesses urn out to be illusory, each pair stand- | ing as a special case, diffusing not even | 1 dim candle light upon the dark cor- | .ners of this paramount issue of Chris- tian civilization. More than this, with- | in a single pair, the parties of the first ‘and second part are individuals, differ- | !ent from any other two who, the world | over, are trying out the great experi- ment. This theme eludes the artist, the | novelist, as completely as it does the [scientist, but for another reason. Once | married, so the common mind runs, that is the end of the matter in so far | as any deep emotional interest in it is | concerned. Once married, the course | changes from the mounting flight of | courtship to the steady down hill of prosaic compromise, the essence of mat- rimony. Nevertheless, despite the general and specific handicap set up against_both social economist and romancer, A. Ham- ilton Gibbs. novelist, chose a case of matrimony as the theme of his latest story. Not only chose it, but got away with the cheice, rather gloriously, it seems to me. Not that he made any- thing like a passable go of the business, as real marriage, for he didn't. The is not the kind of author to force en issue for the joy of the fairy tale. 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By C. “Foot- New York: E. in defense of the married state—not with a wife just rescued from the too- attractive male on the outside and meking declaration, a bit faint, of her true love for the husband. All this is, really, beside the point. The prime fact in this romance is that Mr. Hamilton Gibbs has made a man— Michael—a clear and positive act of creation. as inspired as the making of Adam himself. And this man is going to travel around with the reader long, long after the story has passed out of hand and despite the fact that a th sand lesser, heroes of lesser romances | are going fo yap noisily for attention | from those passing by. Michael Gordon is a man. Indeed— and this is minor—he is the man for w?lom cvery woman in the world is looking—the one-woman man. That the | woman would tire of such fidelity as| Michael possesses is beside the point. What effect did it have upon Pat, the wife? She learned to accept it so com- plotely as finally to find it a shade wearisol here, either. She is merely average, except in the mind of Michael, where she is the surpassing achievement of life ftself. image as Michael unconsciously did, | she simply had to be great to him. There is a modern t to this part- nership that is illuminating. Both of these two went to work. They had to. Pat to the stage where she l:ad been be- fore the war. hael to the writing of a novel about the war where he had really distinguished himself. A very crucifying item in this relationship is that Pat succeeded where Michael failed, Nobody wanted a war book. Now Michael would hate it like sin to have the reader simply ache with sym- pathy for him, sympathy and love, but that is just what the reader does. He's so big and fine and stn!il;:b-u\d mis- erable, in an upstanding kind of way— that the reader aches, too, and tries with might and main “to do something about it It ends all right—after a fashion, after the fashion of life itself. No other way. Michael Gordon is & man—one item to hold. Pat is all right, just so-so. Item two in support of the claim that the wife, or the husband, is what the other one thinks her, or him, to be. Item three, matrimony is no vefy definite_solution of the problem of happiness. Item four, here is & novel deeply founded upon life itself, eae that is gonceived in a genius of sincerity and projected in a most conclusive kind of artistry. Let's say it again: Here a su gly fine novel, one besides, that adds Michael Gordon tp the ore- cious friendships of the reader, of any reader, I think. * e AN ITALIAN HOLIDAY. By Paul Wilstach, author of ‘“Along the Pyrenees,” etc. Illustrated. In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. NO doubts assail the one who sets out on a travel adventure in the company .of Paul Wilstach. Whether climbing the Pyrenees, or sailing the Mediterranean, or Ioitering here and there in pure holiday mood, the man can be counted upon to deliver even more than the specifications promise. I know. I've been with him. And here is chance to go again. You, too, will not be wasting your time in this Italian holiday: Quite otherwise, for you will gather up enjoyment all along paths that are hardly worn at all, certainly not worn at all by the conventional tourist. Rome, Naples, Genoa? No, un- less one or another of these be used as point of departure alone. Paul Wilstach does not choose these much-exploited centers for this expedition. Rather does he go here and there—for instance to Mussolin’s home town, Predappio, or to the place of Caruso’s birth and of his later disappointment. Or, one day, does he lead you to the “last home of Santa Claus,” the burial place of St. Nicholas. On another day it is the lit- tle hill towns of Tuscany, which are brought before you in glamorous colors of history, special incident, heroic mo- ment. triumphs of learning or of art, or in just the glories of their natural beauty. You visit with this inspired guide the country of Verdi, seeing the house where he was born, the parish church where the great composar played the organ. where his operas were composed and the greatest of his works came to light. Since many of ihese points of visitation are apart from the general highways of travel, one would be lost in this advetnure of the habitual foresight if Paul Wilstach had not foreseen such difficulty and provided against it—with an excellent map, that one indispensable adjunct of the travel book. All travel writers do not seem to know this, but such a subject, minus the map t0 point its ways, is deplorably lacking to the reader of this most inter- esting kind of writing. I was going to say that this is the most charming of this man's books of travel. I'll not say ! it. for they are all of that quality, since | he_is uliarly fitted to deliver far! d e |on the dress and speech and ways of essence of success was lacking, and this | me—but Pat is not the point | Creating her in his own | = ity. develop out of its own nature rather | than through the mediation of an au- ther. The vehicle of delivery—sen- tences, paragraphs, chapters—is like a mold which, receiving a hot fluid mass, delivers it finally in a record that misses no single feature or line or shadow even. Black Sadie is a negro girl, driftea | out of the South up to Harlem. Adap- table as flowing water is to the pattern of the banks along which it flows, Black Sadie in no time at all began to take the smart negroes of that New York quarter. Before long Sadie became the rage in the night clubs of Harlem. She became an artist's model. Sadie achieved lovers, yet always was this a selective black girl. A shade aloof, | more than a bit mysterious—indeed, savoring of the sorceress brand, though | Sadie herself would have known noth- ing at all as to the meaning of such a designation. Such is the general at- mosphere of the development of Black Sadie’s story, a story which at the end turns adroitly into the quiet ways de- liberately chosen by the age-old wis- dom of this negro girl from the South, and, before that. from the heart of Africa. Certainly nothing less that | | centuries of negro life could have made Sadie. The tempo of the story is one | of its wonders. Because the tempo fits the tune so completely as to turn this vivid night life of Harlem into a per- petual jangle of jazz—into a marvel of syncopation that fits, amazingly, the fact and spirit of the tale itself. A stunning harmonic whole has been evolved here by an author who knows the negro life of the South, who knows the negro, as Sadie, astonishing blend of crudity and subtlety, proves. An author who has commanded a medium of projection that is truly surpassing. Certainly the shadow of genius was upon this man in the making of his first novel, “Black Sadie.” R LINCOLN. By Lucy Foster Madison, | author of “Joan of Arc,” etc. Illus-| trated by Frank E. Schoonover. Philadelphia: The Penn Publish- ing Co. CHILDREN who draw this book, say | for Christmas, are promised a double pleasure in it. FPirst, there is sure to be the quick thrill of the good story. And from this there is the reach out into regular history lessons which, unhappily, sometimes stretch a dreary length along. At one point, however, the lucky youngsters who come into possession of “Lincoln” at the Christ-| mas of 1928 will find a friend step- ping out of the lessons to meet them. 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