Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 48

it} oa enc At 0, exhibition of etchings and i drawings by Livia Kadar at Gordon Dunthorne’s, which opened on December 3 to be on view for two weeks. These works are small in size (ths largest no bigger than an ordinary magazine page) and so very fine that the artist appears to possess a microscopic vision. She has made extensive use of stippling in her pen drawings, and her etched line is a marvel of diminutive perfection. Her Lrints and drawings have marked deco- rative quality. It is rare to find work which can bear the close scrutiny given to miniatures and at the same tihe loses nothing when seen from a distance of 10 feet or more. The artist manifests a partiality for tree forms in her work, treating them in a stylized manner, yet differ- entiating the, various fes with ‘de- lightful effect. In addition to the works in black and white, there are & number of ‘drawings embellished: with water color, exquisite jewel-like pictures that recall Persian miniatures or illumina- tions on old manuscripts. A number of exhibits not listed in the catalogue n- cludes tiny lockets, boxes, brooghss,€tc., in each of which the decoration is-one of the artist’s diminutive designs. Mme, Kadar's subject matter is par~ Siculariy refreshing in this dag:Wwhen many artists seem preoccupied with:pre- senting the barest realism. Her prints and drawings breathe the romance of old legends and half-forgotten fairy tales, of myths which may never have been recounted, but one is confident one remembers them on seeing these little pictures. They have mystery and the charm of imagination. Mme. Kadar came to the United States for the first time this Autumn and her first exhibition opened in New York November 15. The exhibition now at the Dunthorne Gallery is but the second in this country, although she has had exhibitions in London and Paris in the last year or two. A native of Budapest, she passed her childhood traveling with her parents throughout Europe, and spent little time in schools. Her art, in consequence, is wholly her ,own. She is the wife of the eminent Hungarian novelist and dramatist, au- thor of “Balalaika” and other works ‘which have established his place in the literature of his nation. ‘The American Federation of Arts has sccured through Mr. Dunthorne, a num- ber of Mme. Kadar's etchings to be circulated in its portfolios of original . ....“-——‘-.n-u-' THE, SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTO D. C. DECEMBER 9, 9 P 1928—PART Art World. portraits, . scenes from ' Punis and Algiers, flower gardens and landscapes of New England, glimpses of France and a yiew of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It is intetesting to note that the artist has found as much cdlor in | reticent New England as in North Africa, although the average person is doubtless of the opinion that Africa and the Orient ‘hold a monopoly of brilliant colors, which can only "be equaled in our American Southwest. Beautiful and diverse blues seem to dominate many of the paintings, “Sun- rise Over the Grand Canyon” is a harmony of pale blues and violets. and “The Shadow,” a painting of Tunis, has a turquois sky separated from the viglet-blue shadow only by the"line of a suplit wall. Picturesqus costumes add brilliant notes of -color to many of the North African pictures. * K x x PENCIL drawings of Princeton and Harvard Universiiies by Marian Lane, which opened the’season at the Yorke- Gallery November 12, will con- tinue .on view until December 15. ‘Among the loveliest works in the group by this. Washington artist are a view of the new Gothiic chapel of Princeton, dedieated; only‘last Spring; also the library ‘and Cleveland Memorial Tower, and Nassau Hall, Princeton; Holder Chapel and Harvard Hall, and “Corner of the Widener Library,” Harvard. * Ok k% THE event of chief importance in the fleld of art in Washington during the week just past was doubtless the :{ award of the popular prize: of $200 to Gari Melchers' portrait of “A Na- tive of Virginia.” This painting was reproduced and detailed account’ given in The Evening Star of last Wednesday. In selecting this superb example of por- traiture, the public has maintained its reputation for good judgment, for in each of the popular referenda held in connection with Cofcoran biennials since 1916 the popular prize has been given to a tpnntlng which has had the approval of artists and critics as well as of the public. ‘The second choice for the é)opul:r prize, a self-portrait by Leopold Seyf- fert, is also an admirable piece of work, by one of the Nation’s most highly gift- ed portralt painters. “Chionodoxa,” by Sergt. Kendall, which received the third highest number of votes, is beau- tifully executed in the traditional man- ner, with a decidedly modern subject. prints. * % Xk X - 'A GROUP of drypoints by Cajdwall- ader Washburn is alsd om.view at the Dunthorne_ Gallery, {u’ the same The Corcoran Gallery of Art will be open from 2 to 5 o'clock this afternoon as usual, affording the public its last omommity to view the eleventh bien- nl exhibition of cotemporary. Ameri- | NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Etchings and Drawings on View—The Popular Prize at Cor- coran Gall_ery—‘-Other Notes of Washington's NEW note is sounded in thematter. There are several excellent|playing the symbolism of the Tudor rose. There are in this exhibition ex- | amples of bindings by old and modern craftsmen, from Clovis Eve and Gas- | con, to Cobden-Sanderson and Riviere, | to mention but a few. * kK * §AT the Arts Club opening this after- | noon with a tea, at which the in- | dustrial arts committee will be hosts, jare a_showing of dog. subjects by Mor- |gan Dennis of Provincetown and the | annual exhibition of the Washington Soclety of Arts and Crafts. * K Kok A SKETCH CLUB has been organ- ized by students of the division of fine arts of George Washingten Uni< versity, to meet every Wednesday in the architectural building. Any student of | the - university who is taking an art course may apply for membership, but is required to submit a drawing as proof of his ability. Each member of the new club will turn in a sketch every week, | exhibitions of which will be held at |each meeting, with constructive criti- |cism by Eugene Weisz of the faculty. | Prizes will be offered at the end of the year for the best work produced. Georgé Washington University has for many years been one of the institutions of higher learning which have included courses in art in their curricula. In re- cent years there has been a tremendous impetus to the ‘advancement of college art in the examples set by these insti- tutions, and especially the department of fine arts of Harvard and Yale Uni- versities. New York University this Fall established a degree-granting Col- lege of Fine Arts, which has taken over the faculty and courses of .the old de- partment of fine arts, with many addi- tional courses, not only for student artists but for art writers, editors and others similarly connected. It is grati- fying to see art elevated: from the posi- tion of a scholastic “poor relation” to the dignity of equality with the study of medicine, law and . various other pranches. It is now possible for the young artist to prepare for his profes- sion without neglecting his general edu- cation and for him to receive the same consideration as the student lawyer, doctor or bond salesman. * K ok K D® GERTRUDE RICHARDSON BRIGHAM will give another talk in her series on Oriental art at Miss Criteher's studio next Wednesday after- noon at 4:30. Dr. Brigham's subject will be “China—The Art of the Oldest of Countries,” and it will be illustrated with material personally collected when she resided in China as a member of the faculty of the Canton Christian Col- lege, and in addition a number of Chi- “FRUIT MARKET,” BY SALAMAN. A PHOTOGRAPH IN THE SMITHSONIAN EXHIBITION. period as the exhibition of Mme. Kadar. Mr. Washburn's latest work constitutes a new Riviera series of .25 prints, pre- senting picturesque aspects of St. Tro- pez, Villefrancheé, Sospel, Monte Carlo 2nd other little towns of that part of France and Italy, “Boats and harbor scenes predominate. ‘This artist's fine work is already fa- miliar to Washington art lovers, as ex- Ribitions of it have been held in this city from timas to time for some years. One of the earliest exhibitions at the Dunthorne Gallery during its first sea- son here in 1926 was a group of etch- ings and drypoints by Mr. Washburn of Mexico, Arizona and New Jersey. The artist is now making his ‘home in France. He was born in Minneapolis, .studied architecture at-the Massachu- New York under Mowbray and Chase. He subsequently studied under Sorolla in Spain and Besnard in Paris: “He is a member of the Washington Arts Club 2nd of the National Arts,Glub, New Yorg_ City. A gl § and dry- ts Austen Ryer- son,; at the- titution, in the' division of graphic arts, is cofposer chiefly of studies.of chilghood, inspired can ofl i'lutnunn. ‘The American Gal- leries will be closed during the removal of this exhibition, beginning tomorrow, and the reinstallation of the permanent collection: * Kok ok THE National Gallery of Art is show- ing a group of paintings of cathe- dals of France by Pieter van Veen, which opened yesterday afternoon with a speclal view under the patronage of the French Ambassador, Paul Claudel. This exhibition will remain throughout the month. Pieter van Veen was born in Holland, but has made this country. his home for some years. EEEE TH!: pictorial section of the seventy- third exhibition of the Royal Photo- graphic Soclety of London was placed on view during the past week in the arts and industries building of the Smithsonian Institution. | This exhibition' of photography has become an annual feature at the Smith- sonian. It includes this year 220 prints, the majerity:of which are portraits of | figure smadies, a trend mnoticeable also in |the various important exhibitions of | painting. Carbons, bromides, gum prints jand various other types of photographs shown proyide a surprising variety of |effect and bear resemblance to varjous by the artist’s exper &s & teacher in an East Side church sehool, New' York City.. She achieves her effects with extreme economy of line and her delicate suggestive style is ideally suited to her subjects. She has caught the charm of childhood in general, of the average youngster, rather than the ap- peal of the exceptionally beautiful child, Her subjects seem to have been captured unawares, and their innocence, unself- consclousness, their absorption in what- ever they are doing., is unspoiled by studied poses. A particularly engaging t is one entitled, “Christmas,” show= ing a suggestion of a few branches hung. with glittering balls, dolls and tinsel, and beside them a bewildered baby face, obviously wondering what it is all about. “Peter.” a curly-headed little chap with . a tip-tilted nose, amd “Sound Asleep” | are distinct individualities, yet at the same time universal in their identity r:nh the very small person in every one’s home, Among Miss, Ryerson's most telling captures of childhood entering the ’teens are a series of prints depicting young musicians, el in early efforts with the piano. or, the’ violin, such as “Pirst Quartette” “Hay= den Sonata.” -These studles were made of children at the Music Settlement and include some of the artist's best plates. This is the third monthly exhibition of the season at the Smithsonian In- stitution, and is open week days from 9 to 4:30 and on Sundays from 1 to 4:30 throughout the month. * % ok PAXNT!NOS in ofl and water color by Frank Townsend Hutchens, now on view at the Yorke Gallery, of which mention was made in these columns last week, show diversity of subject > " types of ‘original prints, such as etch- | charcoal and wash drawings. The cam- |era is the most uncompromisingly real- | istic of media, but the artists employing it have prodticed many beautiful, fanci- {ful and poetic compositions. One ex- | quisite print shows a simple arrange- ,ment of five pieces. of clear glass in dif- ferent _shapes transmitting sunlight, | Artists ‘of photography. in the United \Ststes and Europe, as well as in Great ! Britain, are represented in this exhibi- | tion, which wiil be shown until Decem- | ber 26. | * k¥ X ? A THIRD exhibition which opened at | the Dunthorne Gallery on Decem- \ber 3, to continue throughout the | month, is that of old and rare books from the Gardenside Book Shop of Boston. It comprises several hundred items, chiefly from English private li- braries, and includes ks, manu- seripts, incunabula and examples of fine printing from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Among the many items which have special appeal for bibliophiles, are a Pm from Caxton's “Polycronicon” of 1482, which is printed {in black letter with a large capital in red: a copy, in excellent condition, of the Nuremburg Chronicle, the picture book of the Middle Ages, filled with wood cuts, -the largest of which extend |over two pages; a chained book, “Vo- the originel chain survel and ring used to fasten it to its original library; the Diwan or “Complete Lyrical Works” in | Persian (1615 A. D.), illustrated with | four full-page minjatures in beautiful rich colors. Among the modern e: amples is Edmund nser's “Epithal mion and Amoretti,” bound by Sa gorski and Cutcliffe, its binding dis- !ings and silver points, as well as to'! cabularius Utriusque Juris,” which hag. nese rugs lent by Sarkis Manoukian. ‘The public is invited. F. 8. * ok % % EGINNING this afternoon and con- tinuing: for 10 days, there will be an art exhibit at the Jewish Commu- nity Center by the artist, Saul Raskin. Mr. Raskin will exhibit a group of Palestinian paintings and etchings and a group of American water colors. He will also give talks on his paintings from time to time. The artist came to this country 25 years ago and has devoted himself to the theory and prac- tice of art. The public is - cordially invited. 14,000 U. S. Pensioners In Philippine Group American military forces have op- erated in the Philippines since 1898. | There are now some 4,000 military | pensioners of Uncle Sam in the islands, ! drawing altogether -about $150,000 & month, and applications are being ap- | proved at an average of 50 a month. { October’s first payment checks were ) more than $100,000; this, aside from | the regular payments on pensions pre- | viously approved. About 75 per cent of the pensioners are native scouts and their widows, and the other 25 per cent are widows of Americans of the campaign days and the old veterans themselves, the dwindling few .who have not yet gone west. F. E. Keith is special pension inspector assigned to the islands. - He finds many widows who | are illiterate being defrauded by shys- I ters. Today he is finding the claim.of a lawyer for $1,000 out of a first pay- ment check of $1,450. Change of Surnames Restrained by Reich Although there is no longer the rush to change names which was a feature of imperial times, the list of people in Germany who are not content with their present names even today, num- bers 1,000 a year. But the legislators will not allow a, change of name for the mere pleasure of a change. The motives are examined carefully. Most of these applicants are Polish miners in the Ruhr, who want to give a Ger- man appearance fo their name. There jare many applications by foster parents who want to rename illegitimate chil- dren adopted by them. - All applications i on grounds of mere vanity are refused. Quite a number of people still' wish to appear more “gentesl” through having the little word “von,” the sign of aristoc- racy, put before hteir names. There are also a number of “war brides,” who suddenly remember their “fallen” bride- grooms and wish to take their name. These applications are examined thoroughly, but few of them stand ex- amining - “WINTER,” BY ZAKEREWSKI. CONTAINED IN THE R TION AT THE SMITHSO! ONE OF THE PHOTOGRAAPHS YAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY EXHIBI- Thought Is Clearly D BY PAUL WRIGHT. “We shall count them!" proposed. one of the women in the party, and she began: “One, two, three, five, ten, seventeen, I guess, twenty-one—oh, my goodness!” There was dismay in her voice. “They come so fast and look so queer that I'm hypnotized. They're all hypnotized, too! There is witchcraft in this eclipse!” “Anyway,” she continued, “the whole thing is impossible and I don’t believé it while I'm looking at it. This Cal- cutta is the second city in all the Brit- ish empire and it has street cars and hot and cold water, some times, and telephones. Those things don’t match Wwith this, this moon worship.” ‘That is the point of this story. Moon worship and modernism do not agree. | Therein lies one of the facts that must | be remembered in any consideration of | India. The ceremonial we were watch- | ing, with its blind obedience to tra- | dition, evidenced India’s most aston- | ishing state of potential explosiveness, that becomes more critical with every passing hour, the mixture of conflicting concepts. India” Has Many Crises. All this was contrary to what ws | have been tols Is anything happen- ing in India?" we asked before we ar- fived. “Nothing,” was the calm re- ply. “Everything is running along as usual. There is nb crisis.” The answer was silly, for though India is very old it is not yet finished, it has never reached its angle of repose. At this moment it is particularly aching with infernal strésses. ~Moreover, India is faced with not oné crisis but many. To mention only three of them, there are the contests between Briton and Indian, between Hindu and Mohammedan, be- ‘tween dead philosophies and modern emancipation. We stood watching the drift along the civilized, asphalted Calcutta streets, under the moon's anemic light. The stream of Hindus moved without hurry- ing, without delay, The automobiles the motor busses, emblems of the West's detested industrialism, interfered as little as possible. Men, women and chil- dren marched riverward, through the dusk of the eclipse, and that half light was kindly ‘to the spirit of the occa- sion. Full moonlight would have jarred. As they marched mex\; sang hymns, they blew -on conch shells. Some of the young men danced, stiffly, almost unconsciously, like marionettes or like frog legs galvanized into action. Moon worship it was and it was not. That is to say, while what we saw was not_avowedly adoration of the yellow orb, the effect was the same, for thou~ sands of Hindus were reverently con- fessing the power of the moon for good and evil and doing homage because the eclipse, while it lasted, had some mys- tic power to magnify and concentrate the moon’s good and evil potencies. Hence they marched to bathe in the Hoogly and be spirltually purified and | perhaps - protected from the moon's malefic influence by the sacred stream. Hence also they gave' alms, achieved much more than the average virtue therefrom because good deeds—like their opposite~~done during an eclipse have multiplied power. Hence also they acted or refrained from acting in a multitude of other ways according to the prescribed formulas. Hordes Flock to Hoogly. Hundreds .of thousands of Hindus that night, wherever the earth's cone- shaped shadow could be discerned mov- ing over the face of the moon, were taking part, and some thousands of these were marching past us to the river. We watched the endless exodus from the crowded and suffocating war- rens beyond the park ‘to the Hoogly, whose dark wators would cool their bodies while the eclipse endured. Presently we took a taxicab driven by a reckless Sikh, who carried us across the great bridge that leads to the Howrah railway station. Here the crowds_of believers were thicker than ever. From the Howrah bridge we looked upstream and downstream and everywhere saw the people siiting and eclipse to pass and with it the manifold taboos of their dark bellef. ‘We had seen processions in Indla before, and had watched the purifica- tion parade to the Hoogly during the Dusserah festival and found nothing particularly disturbing or astonishing about them. The bething in the river has its modern allegorical counter- part in the West. But this moon affair was different. It was burdened with an unholy antiquity, like something that has outlived its time. It suggested an era when men were more closely assoclated with dogs and wolves, and anybody who has ever seen a wolf run- ning insancly through the woods in the full of the moon can appreciate our sensations. - There was an aroma of the cave-man period about the exhibi- tlon, It connoted strange and terrible rites that go along with jungle lives and Jjungle minds. This reminiscence of re- mote and unholy old times was guarded by disciplined police and made safe for the bathers by a galaxy of electric :’c-r&hnghu along the muddy but sacred anks, Here was a vestigial remnant that the Western World sloughed off l‘mf 2go. Very few of us pay much attention to the moon, except peets and' lovers, and standing in the water, waiting for the | ECLIPSE OF MOON HELD SACRED IN MODERN, YET ANCIENT, INDIA Struggle Between Old Traditions and Presert-Day efined as Natives Pay Homage to Powers of Orb, a lunar eclipse excites nobody except the astroncmers, and they are paid for it. “"Yet here we saw thousands of Hine dus- upsetting their evening programs, walking ‘miles, enduring heat and fa- tigue, risking death by drowning and death by cholera and typhoid to bathe in th¢ Hoogly while the moon was blackened by the earth’s shadow. Why? Because the immemorial past, moth- eaten and moldy and worse, possesses their minds. Moreover; the eclipse ritual is only a smiall part of an enormous system of antiquated tnought. The moon cult persists along with a million other man- dates that govern every phase of Hindu life, from the exact method of incin- erating the dead to the most intimate detail of the peasant’s morning tollet, Here is mortmain, the dead hand of the past, indeed. Something in this archaic inheritance stifles thinking and impedes progress. It was the realiza- tion of this that troubled us as we looked on that night. Rubber Wood for Violins. Ditmaf-Graz, an investigator of Ger- many, has announced that modern vio- lins rivaling the old masters' instru- ments in tone are possible, if the wood is impregnated with rubber latex before varnishing. He claims that in the new process the rubber has the ef- l?“tpf rendering the wocd permansantly elastic, © " THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Rw,en’b’ accessions at the Public Li- brary afd-lists of recommended reading will appéar in this column each Sunday. Painting. Abbott, E. R. The Great Painters in Relation to the European Tradition. ‘WP-Ab28. Allen, E. B. Early American Wall ill\llsltlngs, 1710-1850. 1026. WPJ- Boehn, Max von. Miniatures and Sil- houettes. WPZ-B63m.E. Bulley, M. H. A Simple Guide to Pic- tures and Paintings. WP-B875s. Furst, H. E. A. The Art of Still Life Painting. WPS-F98. Mather, F. J.. Modern Painting. WP- M423m. Rotoerstein, Willlam. Twenty-four Por- fraits: 1923. WPZ-R74ta. ‘Wehle, H. B. American Miniature, 1730~ 1850. WPZ-W42. History. Barnes, H. E._Living in the Twentieth «Century. FOT9-B26 1. Bell, Clive. Civilization. FE-B41. Buell, R. L. Europe: A History of Ten Years. F3079-B865. Columbia University. An Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the Vest: a Syllabus. FE-C726ic. Gloag, John, and Walker, C. T. Home Life in History. PF4599-G51. Institute for Qovernment Research, ‘Washington, D. C. The Problem of indian Administration. F809-In7. Quigley, Hugh, and Clark, R. T. Re- publican Germany. F4773-Q44r. Thomas, L. J. Ralders of the Deep. F30794-T36r. Humor. De La Mare, W. J. Stuff and Nonsense and So On. YW-D372s. Lurie, C. N. Comp. Make 'Em Laugh. YW-L967m. Marquis, Don. 'The Old Soak’s History “of the World. 1924. YW-M3470a. Masson. T. L. Tom Masson's Book of Wit and Humor. YW-9M387bo. Meyer, J. S. Advice on the Care of Babies.. YW-M579a. Sullivan, Frank. The Adventures of an Oaf. YW-Sub5. ‘Wolfe, Humbert. Lampoons. 1925. YW~ ‘w834 1. Printing. { Allen, E. W. Printing for the Journal- ist. ZH-Al 53p. Conkey, W. B, Co., chlngm What & Business Man Should Know About Printing and Bookmaking. ZH- C764. Lyon, J. B, Co. Style Book. ZHE- L9886, Mattingly, J. B. Correct Estimating Practice. ZH-M434. Musie. Debussy, A. C.” Monsieur Croche. D35.! Dunk, J. L. ‘Tonality. 1926. Fundamentals in Musical Art. 30vi VV- F96. Isaacson, C. D. The Simple Story of Music. VWE-Is 12s, Moore, M, C. Fundamental Music Sys- terh. '1926. VXPA-MT783. Posner, Meyer. Elementary Theo: { . Muslc. Yiddish Text. Y61-P846. Wagner, B. E. VXPA- W 124, of Music Book. Christian Life. { Claggett, R. P. Christ in High School Life. 1925. CK-C512. Montgros, Gabriel de. The Duties of & Christian. CK-MT764.E. Phelps, W. L. Love. CK-P516 1. ‘Young Men’' Christian Associations. Committee on Discussion Courses for High School Boys. Jesus snd & Boy's Philosophy of Life, CK-Y8! < ice, | something of the role of infant prodigy. REVIEWS OF WINTER ,BOOKS The James Gordon Bennetts and Their Newspaper—Fiction, Knowledge in Nugget Form and the Boy Scouts’ BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. THE JAMES GORDON BENNETTS Father and Son; Proprietors of the New York Herald. By Don C. Seitz, author of “Joseph Pulitzer,” etc. In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. CHURCHA School Press—these press, by virtue of its compara- tive youth and its robust serv- are the deeply influential ele- stands beside the other two in ments of modern life. The Certainly it rivals the school in supple- menting formal learning with an exten- slon course that goes on, t school days, throughout life. This is, however, merely a collateral effect of the news- paper. Its basic work of telling the news identifies it with every public activity—society, politics, religion, government, industry, finance, with every whatnot of human performance and interest. Such spread and power for the press have been reached in little more than a century. Primarily the newspaper was the organ of party politics, an individualistic affair, con- cerned with the high worth of its own | political supporters on the one hand and on the other, with the utter worthlessness of its opponents. The newspaper ‘widened its borders | materially under the initiative of James Gordon Bennett, the elder. It was he who first made the daily paper “im- pudent and intrusive.” “And to do this he became the first real reporter the American press had known.” The story of the phenomenal growth of the dally press, certainly the most influential single instrumentality of modern life, is an exciting story. In the beginnings of this impetuous ad- vance the elder Bennett had a large part. Courageous, daring, far-seeing, original, callous to abuse, he became in his promotion of journalism and in the building of a great daily, a doughty warrior whose battles are as stirring to read about as are those of march- ing armies, or those of medieval knights " pon 8. Seltz 1 n C. Seitz is of the clan. Journal- ism is his fleld. Here is where he has won honors and distinction. So to the telling of this story of a great paper and its makers he brings both knowl- edge and zest, both experience and the fiower to set it to fitting drama. So ere we go back over the road with him as he points upon this and that gain for the newspaper through the ingenuity and persistence of the elder Bennett. Any number of the common E:ess features of today had their start the mind of this indomitable Scot, Bennett. It was he who, more than any other, widened the conception of “news” to cover every activity that promised information and interest to the great reading public. This new out- look brought no end of hatred in its train. This he minded. not at all. As for material, the world was his oyster. He fought the national bank in his daily, he pried into financial operations. He invaded the sacred precincts of so- clety for copy. Times certainly do change. He intruded upon private life, %0 his hot enemies said. And he was thrashed in the public street for some- thing of this kind. This made no dif- ference with him. Indeed, he countet & good hatred, salty and bitter, as a substantial asset for an ambitious editor. The modern “scoop” had its origin in the methods of this man to get the news speedily. The seed of the Asso- ciated Press was planted by him. The use of the telegraph, of swift couriers, of every possible means of hurrying up the news was most ardently, accepted by him. He was the first st fllustrate the daily {mper, Or /and pluck coupled with great ability stand to the account of this pioneer journalist. And the Herald, under father and son, grew and expanded and lived—well, you know about this. Here is a superb adventure giving the life story of two men and a great daily paper. It is set out in clear and dramatic statement. Its effect is that of a gorgeous pageant of progress whose complete justification and honor lie in the quality of the whole American oress of today. * k% % GONE TO EARTH. By Mary Webb, suthor of “Precious Bane,” etc. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. ¢¢(LEAR-EYED, lithe, it stood for a moment in the clear sunlight—a year-old fox, round-headed and velvet- footed. Then it slid into the shadows, A shrill whistle came from the interior of the wood, and the fox bounded to- ward it.” ** ‘Where ["“ bin? You'm stray and lose yourself, certain sure!' said a girl's voice, chidingly motherly. ‘And if you'm alost, I'm alost; so come you whome. ring, and there’s bones upper “With that she took to her heels, the little fox after her, racing down the callow in- the cold level light till they came to the Woodus's w".fie'" This is the stoty of two little crea- tures, Hazel Woodus and her pet fox, one hunted to death by hound-dogs, the other by hound-men. Both are wild, fearless, untaught in the ways of men, defenseless. “s»: they are fair game. This beautiful story is set in a corner of wild Wales, a spot with which, clearly, this writer is deeply familiar. The look of the mountain land, the feel of the air, the ways of the people, are all a part of her own consciousness and sympathy. And from this setting is drawn the tragic story that, page by page, aches with the beauty and terror of life. A poet is at work here and a really surpassing dramatist. Simplicity s the keynote of a portrayal that here searches the depths of the human heart ts bitter strife between evil and good. An_ austere command of ma- terial matches and embodies the cruelty of life itself. The'innocent defenseless- ness of the two creatures secures the tremendous poignancy of the whole in its effect upon any one who may have courage to take this beautiful work of t in his hand. Yet, there is no strain or effect, not a line of that, in the en- tire 'story. A truly fine artist has seen this thing and, being a true artist, has been able to deliver it over in the stark passion of her own power. In the crowd of more pretentious volumes 1 passed this one by for several days. Then, one night I took it up in the spirit of “I may as well do it now as another time.”” Within a couple of ges I was gone and did not come ck till the reading was done. In- deed, I am not “back,” not really, yet. A great adventure, to be sure, to come upon a book like this, & most uncom- mon adventure. * ok ko WHILE RIVERS RUN. B Walsh, author of “The the Door.” New York: A. Stokes Co. A Maurice ey Above Frederick ROMANCI.ut in the Highlands of Scotland. This is the fact that VVI- | accounts for the best of the book’s| charm. Not that the human element is -D92. | in any degreé negligible. It is not. The | men and the women, the lovers and the ladies, all behave as these have be- haved time out of mind. Except, that, these seem more intelligent, more in- tuitive, with minds more flexible and responsive than do the majority of those who live their lives in novels. There's a reason. The author himself is that way. Therefore, the reader goes along with the spirited and rather cap- tivating love matters that have found shelter here, in a mood of clear enjoy- ment. So often this mood is more or less marred by the reader’s ithy for the limitations of the poor author. Not so. here. All is alive with some- thing of the same spirit as that which domina the land itself—the tonic air of the Highlands, the enchanting blue of the skies, the high bsckoning of the hills, the chummy confidences Year BOO](. of the little rivers, the enduring fabric | of the common life. In a word, here is romance wherein the humans live |up to their surroundings in nature, | just unconsciously live up to these be- | cause it is woven into the fiber of them. | Here are humor of characteristic stamp, here is sentiment of the true order, here are behaviors such as the situa- tion warrants. Clean and aired, here is a robust story that is also a most delicate and sensitive story. Most en- joyable and richly worth while. * k x % NUGGETS OF KNOWLEDGE. By George W. Stimpson. New York: George Sully & Co. TH!: alert newspaper man must fre- | quently find his kit bulging -with odds and ends of news stuff, a miscel- laneous overflow of routine output. The | poor housekeeper of a news man, kicks | { it all away out of sight thinking that some day, maybe, he’ll see what can | be done with it. Another one, tidier in habit and, possibly of the New Eng- | land persuasion .of thriftiness, falls| upon this ragbag litter to set it in order, to turn it to usefulness and per- haps profit. George W. Stimson belongs to the second claes, as the book in hand proves. Out of an accumulated bulk | of news remnants he has produced a | general utility volume of good substance. It reads something like the dictionary, which is a fair tribute since no other book, save possibly the Bible, can com- pare with_the dictionary in its word dramas. In Mr. Stimpson's “Nuggets of Knowledge” may be found innu- | merable bits of authentic fact that have been forgotten in substance while the words and terms covering them are still in current use. Opening the book at random, which is the only way to deal with it, let ys look at some of the topics that stand” here in such variety | and scope: | When were the dark ages? | ‘What were the Seven Wonders of the Werld? Why is New York called Gotham? How did eggs and rabbits becom assoclated with Easter? How did “tabloid” originate? ‘Why did Samuel Clemens adopt the name of Mark Twain? | And so on and so on indefinitely to | the summing of reliable information | on a host of common topics, whose foundations have fallen into obfcurity. A fine index invites the reader to go | as far as he likes in pursuing any of | these themes. A useful book, and an interesting one to whose author readers are in debt for the intelligent and de- pendable treatment given by him to & packed and bulging kit of news stuff. R ok B THE BOY SCOUT'S YEAR BOOK. Edited by Franklin K. Mathiews. Tllustrated. New York: D. Apple~ ton & Co. 'HOUGH, of course, it wasn't really made for Boy Scouts or any -other | boys, yet the past year was a wonder name, a name going away back lo me dark days of pirates and smugglers and other fearsome and fascinating law- breakers, adds much to the possibili- ties of the adventure. These, with the inventive gifts that boys and gir}s pos- gess in such astounding re, give the foundations upon which there rises such activity, such dangers, such es- capes—then all over again—as never was, except with fun-loving, .active and creative children. greatest dramatists and the greatest actors In the world, the children. Here the; at a very fine.best, one in whici the reading youngsters in the world would be glad to have a share. Even | a reading share is enormously better than none at all. BOOKS RECEIVED THE MACKLIN BROTHERS. By Wil- liam Heyliger. New York: D. Apple- ton & Co. THE BASE BALL DETECTIVE. By ‘Charles Geoffrey Mullér, author of “Puck Chasers, Incorporated.” Illus- trated by Paul Martin. New York: Harper & Brothers. FUN WITH FIGURES. By A. Freder- ick Collins. Illustrated by the au- thor. New York: D. Appleton & Co. DONA ISABELLA'S ADVENTURES. By Gladys Blake. New York: D. Appleton & Co. THE GHOST OF THE GLIMMER- GLASS. By Merritt Parmelee Al- len. Illustrated by Victot Hall. New York: Harper & Brothers. THEY RETURN AT EVENING. A Book of Ghost Stories. By H. R. Wakefield. New York: D, Appleton & Co. THE RED CAPE. By Rachel M. Varble. Illustrated by Henrietta Adams Mc- Clure. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. LITTLE BROTHER OF THE HUDSON; A Tale of the Last Eries, By James A. Braden. lllustrated by Pitt L. Fitzgerald. New York: Harper & Brothers. | JOLLY GOOD TIMES AT SCHOOL; Also, Some Times Not Quite So Jolly. By Mary P. Wells Smith. Hiustrated by Helen Mason Grose. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. MARY AND PETER IN ITALY. By Eleanor Barton. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons. 101_GAMES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. By Maude Day Baltzell. Ilustrated. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons. MORE THINGS TO DRAW: A Sequel to “Drawing Made Easy.” A Help- ful Book for Young Artists. By E. G. Lutz. New York: Charles Serib- ner’s Sons. BUT ONCE A YEAR: Christmas Stories. By Eleanor Hallowell' Ab- bott. New York: D. Appleton & Co. A WOIDERFUL ADVENTURE. By year in such events and achievements as drive deep into the interest of youth. And this particular year book is. theres fore, packed with marvels of flying and | sea adventuring, of a getting together | of the entire world by way of the radio | and by other performances of science, | the great modern magiclan. It is of | such rich material that the new Year | Book is made. Tales of true adventure, descriptions of new inventions, accounts of travel by air and sea, with the names of Lindbergh and Comdr. Byrd riding | high all through the achievements of the y For once, certainly, print and pictures enter into a full partnership. Artists have clearly done their best to make pictures that will set the stories and other records out in a more com- plete way than the text alone is able to do. Significant of the spirit of this Year Book, there is on the cover a por- trait of the boys’ greatest hero in the world at present, Charles Lindbergh. Any one would love this book, not a Boy Scout alone, but any boy, any girl —any man or woman. * k% % NOTHING IS SACRED. By J hine Herbst. New York: Coward-Mc- Cann, Inc. ‘ ERE is a novel whose foundation is next door, or across the street, or in the next square. Just a piece of life | as it is represented by a family—father, mother, three married daughters and the proper number of sons-in-law. One daughter has children &nd rather wishes she didn't have. Another is childless and makes this the foundation of her imagined troubles. The third is anx- fous lest her particular man, off in Chi- cago or Detroit, is not as lonesome as she wishes him to be. You see by this that here is a story that is calculated to fit about every neighborhood. Inter- esting? Not at all. No more interest- ing than to sit on the doorstep seeing the folks go By. It has, however, a decided point in its favor. This is, I think, a first novel. Whatever the sub- Ject chosen, one might fn such situation ¢ & natural overdoing or under- . Nothing 6f the sort is to be seen | here. A straight story, unfolded with insight, with & keen sense of such arawma as does exist and with a corre- sponding effort to give to this its true content and value. , 1t seems to me, is not only the high point in the work, but a very high point, indeed, that can be expected to make itself plain in other romances. What is the novel for? The old query that is never answered. Is it to reflect life, to pro- vide a pattern of common existence? Or is it to amuse or divert or entertain by virtue of its poetic translation of bare existence into some beautiful way of life? I don’t know. But I wish the clear gift of this girl were not being used for so gray a pattern of realism. * x k¥ SMUGGLER'S ISLAND: And the Devil Fires of San Moros. Clarissa A. | Kneeland. Illustrated F. C. Yohn and Wallace Golds: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. PRIDE in possession is the first feel- ing that this book will be likely to arouse in the boys and girls Jucky enough to have it for their own. For | it 1s o very beautiful book—a sizable, | dignified book, finely made, exceedingly well pictured. In a word, a book to| own and to love better and better as | the reading of it is repeated many | times. Adventure from start to finish | carries the business along. An island | { —not an uncommon thing to be found ! 1 | river—provides the chief asset of this enterprise. Upon it a cave of unsavo: | WEBSTER'S NEW DICTIONARY . Kn: 1 fl!fi‘ of NewWorla i, 2,900 Geomraphic Tustrations. "Get SOLD AT ALL BOO! or heroi¢ or beckoning toward a better | distri in the near-shore of ocean, or lake, or| 5 Harold Dearden. Illustrated by Wil- liam C. Blood. New York: Cosmo- politan Book Corporation, ON SWEETWATER TRAIL. By Sabra Conner, author of “The Quest of the Sea Otter.” Decorations by- Edgar gmar. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee 0. RENFREW RIDES THE SKY. By Laurie York Erskine. New York: D, Appleton & Co. IN THE TIME OF ATTILA. By Pran- ¢is Rolt-Wheeler, _Iliustrated by Frank T. Merrill, -Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. 3 SILAS BRADFORD'S BOY. By Joseph g. zl:..mooln. New York: D. Appleton 0. ONCE THERE WAS A PRINCE. By Aldis Dunbar. Illustrated by Mau- rége Day. Boston: Little Brown & THE SEAL OF THE WHITE BUDDHA; Being the Tale of a New England Girl in the Year 1847 Sailing Aboard her Uncle’s Clipper Ship to Dis- tant China, and of the Mystery, Ad- venture_and Great Good Fort: which Befell Her. By Hawthorne Daniel._ Illustrated by R. A. Hol- berg. Decorations by Glenn Tracy. New York: Coward-McCann, Ime. THE STORY OF YOUTH. By Lothrop Stoddard. Illustrated by William Siegel. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. ADVENTURES OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By Edwin Emerson. Illustrated by Elmer Hader. York: E. P. Dutton & Co. THE STORY HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Elizabeth O'Neill. Illustrated by George Morrow. Neg York: Thom- as Nelson & Sons. . THE CORAL ISLAND; A Tale of the Pacific Ocean. By:Robert Michae! Ballantyne, author of “The Young Fur-Traders,” etc.. .New Edition. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Colonization' Fails In Northern Sweden Sweden’s attempt to colonige the fore ested cegions of Norrland with disssat- isfied farmers from other sections is apparently destined to go on the rocks. A large number of the 450 colonists financed by the government in the hope of secu 4 permanent popula. tion for some of the remotest northern. cts have announced their intens tion to move back o central and southe ern Sweden. The soil s unfit for cule tivation, they declare, and the severe weather endangers their lives. They complain of the lack of hospitals and schools and of misrepresentation by government mm On the other hand, another e for colonizing the disiricts adjacent to the Gulf of Bothnia' and the many rivers of the country has proved successful. government has loaned money to the children of farmers to enable them to purchase their own holdings from their parents, and thus many who might have left for the cities rémain to till the soil. More than 1000 such’ loans are made to people in Norrland every year, and eventually it is hoped fo bulld up 8 fairly 1!!’&' population. 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