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Exhibition of Prints at the Library of Congress—Many Ameri- can Artists Represented—Qil Paintings on View at AT THE GALLERIES THIS WEEK. Corcoran Gallery of Art. Permanent collection of Amer- jcan paintings rehung with re- cent acquisitions. National Gallery of Art, U. S. National Museum. Paintings of Gothic cathedrals of France, by Pieter van Veen. Smithsonian Institution, Divisien of Graphic Arts. Exhibition of etchings and dry- points, by Margery Ryerson. U. S. National Museum, Arts and Industries Building. Pictorial section of Royal Photographic Society of London. Freer Gallery of Art. Permanent collection—Oriental art; Whistler's works. Library of Congress, Division of Prints. Comprehensive exhibition of prints selected frcm permanent collection. Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1604 Twenty-first Street N.W. ‘Tri-unit exhibition of paintings and sculpture Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, 2 to 6. ‘le Museum, 2330 S Street. <, tapestries and othor tex- i cf the Near and Far Fa“ Lpon Monday, Weduesday Friday afternoons, 2 to 5. A mission by card, obtainable a. the office of G. H. Myers, 1508 H street northwest. Arts Club, 2017 I Street. Exhibition of work by a group of landscape architects; collec- tion of work by commercial il- lustrators of Washington. Gordon Dunthorne Gallery, 1726 Connecticut Avenue. Etchings and other prints by cotemporary artists; exhibition of old and rare books, courtesy of the Gardenside Book Shop of Boston. Yorke Gallery, 2000 S Street. Water colors and etchings by Gifford Beal, Hayley Lever, etc. T the Library of Congress, on the second floor, in the great hall known as the South in, is now to be seen a comprehensive exhibition of prints drawn from the Library's permanent collection, em- bracing certain recent acquisitions and representing artists of several nations. Arranged alphabetically according to the surnames of the artists, the collec- tion occupies a majority of the cases both to the left and to the right of the corridor and, with excellent lighting, gives even the casual visitor abundant material for entertainment and instruc- tion. This alphabetical-arrangement brings into juxtaposition artists of different nations and not only gives opportunity for interesting comparison but also helps to demohstrate the fact that art is es- sentially international. For the most part the artists represented are cotem- porary, but in a few instances works by older and deceased print-makers have been wisely given inclusion. It is gratifying to find in this collection so large a percentage of the works of American etchers and engravers, and to find, moreover, that they hold their own with the works of the accom- pu-fh'hedufi o Dot e ot e o ngress a limited sum to expend in acquisitions. ‘Therefore, unless the artists have been uncommonly generous and donated their: works, as In some instances undoubted- have, it is remarkable that the which the Library owns should be a5 outstanding and up.to date as it is. On the other hand, those who fol- low closely the art of print- in America cannot fail to note that in a good many instances the artists repre- sented in this exhibition have produced better and more recent work than that shown herein. Our American etchers undoubtedly witness in their works to a sensitiveness to beauty and a lightness of touch, but it must be admitted that for the most part their works lack that evident sense of the permanence of art, that quality of poise and quiet assurance that one :lnda in the works of their French con- reres. Another result of the alphabetical ar- rangement is to disregard methods and mediums, to place an etcher and a wood engraver, & lithographer and a wood- block printer side by side. 1If, there- fore, one wishes to acquaint one's self with the art of wood engraving in this country and compare it with engraving on steel or copper in France, it is necessary to wander back and forth among the cases and pick out here and there notable examples. Our American wood engravers stand supreme, and though their art today has fallen practically into disuse and is in danger of being forgotten, so long as our national print collection con- tains such fine examples of the works cf Timothy Cole, Juengling, Kruell, ey “MUSICIAN OF GLOUCESTER,” Normal School. Closson and others as are found here it cannot be without honor. Among Tim- othy Cole’s engravings are portraits of Mark Twain and of George W. Cable, after paintings by Abbott Thayer, and an exquisitely delicate portrait of Wil- liam Cullen Bryant after a painting by Wyatt Eaton. The fact that none of Henry Wolf's engravings is included in this group is subject of regret. ‘The collection opens with a up of very distinguished works by Achener, a French cotemporary etcher, who is followed by Mr. and Mrs. Armington, British citizens who make their home in Paris, but are especially well known here because of periodic visits to this country. Then comes, in order, Frank W. Benson, represented by a group of his etchings of wild fowl and sports- men, among which is to be noted an excellent pho! avure of one of his well known works, “Geese Rising.” D. Y. Cameron is not represented at all in this collection, although the Library of Congress owns some of his finest prints. His sister, Katharine Cameron, is represented, on the other hand, by three or four of her delicate renditions of flowers and insects—bees, butterflies, ete. Thera is a series of beautiful litho- graphs of Alpine scenes by A. Calame, and not far distant two or more ex- quisite etchings by Daubigny and a se- ries of his finest Venetian subjects by Frank Duveneck—splendid works which will always be prized. Emil Fuchs, who is painter, sculptor and writer, is represented by a charac- teristic group of figure etchings resem- | bling, as his work invariably does to | some extent, pen-and-ink drawing. Going a little farther afield, one finds ~ fine series of figure etchings by Heint- man in the Rembrandt spirit; and, her still, admirable portrait charac- ations = (lithographs) of distin- cunished personalities by Walter Tittle. | There is a beautiful McBey, a war sub- ject; a fine Hornby, done some years ago, showing a sunrise over the battle- field of the Marne; a whole group of by Cadwallader Washburn, whose latest works, the Riviera series, are now on view at Dunthorne’s. ‘The only local artist represented is Benson Moore, and his representation is of comparatively early work. A number of wood block printers are represented, among them Lankes, and there are several color etchings by co- temporary etchers that have pleasing, though not altogether convincing, qual- ity. Dating back beyond the present are portrait engra: on copper or steel by Piquet after Nauteull, Coydel, Le- brun and Rigaud. And still many represented in this comprehensive showing have not been mentioned. AT the Myrtilla Miner Normal School, in this city, was held December 14, 15 and 16, under the auspices of the College Alumnae Club, composed largely of graduates of Howard University, an unusually interesting exhibition of ofl paintings by Laura Wheeler Waring, to whom a first prize in fine arts was awarded by the Harmon Foundation last year. Some years ago, when an exhibition of the works of negro artists was shown at the Dunbar High School, Mrs. War- ing (then Laura Whecler) was repre- sented by an excellent drawing in char- coal of figures with landscape setting. * ok Kk Xk So excellent was this work that it was later refroduced in the American Mag- azine of Art. Since then the artist has not only continued her studies but made marked gmms Her exhibition here last week comprised nearly 40 paint- ings, portraits and landscapes in oils and several sketches in pastel. It in- cluded the prize painting, & portrait of “Anna Washington Derry,” an admira- ble characterization of an old-fashioned negress. It is a study in browns and grays, well composed, executed with the utmost simplicity and portraying not only the features of the individual but certain racial characteristics which are Alfred Hutty’s work, Charleston scenes, trees (which he better than the major- ity knows how to etch) and a view of the Capitol. Robert Logan and Louis Orr are both represented by several works, interpre- tations of architectural subjects strong- ly rendered. ‘The little English girl, who is now almost, if not quite, grown up—Eileen Soper—is represented by a series of her charming children's subjects, playful and at the same time very artistic. An- other English etcher seen at his best is Smart. %mu well repre- also is an ex- A Frenchman sented is Lepere. cellent series of Dutch etchings by s'Gravesand. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Daniel Garber, who is better known as a painter than as an etcher, is rep- resented by four exquisitely delicate works, subjects which he has painted. Kerr Eby is at his best in a single ex- ample, a man plowing with a pair of oxen. ‘There is a series of etchings of ca- thedrals by Fitton; a lovely view of Gloucester Cloisters by Hester Frood, an Englishwoman; figures and a Vene- tian architectural subject, “Ca d'Or,” AN ETCHING BY ARTHUR W. HEINTZELMAN AND INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 2 fine. Her portrait of “An Orphan Boy,” a_ typical representative of his race, with an appealing expression of wist- fulness and pathos, was also notable for merit.: The majority of Mrs. Waring's por- traits shown in this exhibition were of negroes of the wealthier class, probably painted on order, their colorful, up-to- date costumes affording the artist op- portunity for picturesque effects. Her landscapes were chiefly thumb-box sketches about 6 by 8 inches in di- mensions and showed impressionistic tendency. The painter is a native of Hartford, Conn. Her education in art was begun at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Chase, McCarter and museums. AMONG ORIGINAL DRAWINGS “THE VIRGIN AND INFANT CHRIST,” A RED CHALK DRAWING BY ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO, 1494-1534. LECTION OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FORMED BY V. WINTHROP NEWMAN AND EXHIBITED AT THE GALLERIES OF THE AMERI. CAN ART ASSOCIATION, NEW YORK. IT IS AMONG THE COL- ters of the Dutch, English, French and other schools—the collection of V. Win- throp Newman of New York City. In- cluded in this collection will be works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Jan Steen, Da- vid Teniers the younger, Van Dyck, Constable, Cox, Crome, Gainsborough, Hogarth, Lawrence, Reynolds, Romney, Rossetti, Turner, Whistler, Boucher, Fragonard, Tiepolo, Titian, Murilla and Velasquez, Invariably the collections sold are placed on view and made available to the public for a week or 10 days before the sale takes place. Thus the public is glven opportunity for acquaintance with a great many rare works of art during the process of changing owner- ship, and is proportionately profited. * ok ok % 'UR of our local artists have been invited to contribute works to a traveling exhibition shortly to be sent out by the American Federation of Arts. They are Richard Meryman, Bur- tis Baker, Catherine Critcher and Mrs. Bush-Brown. ‘This exhibition has been assembled chiefly from the works shown in the ‘Winter exhibition of the National Acad- emy of Design, and will be shown first in Fort Worth and then in other Texas cities. The American Federation of Art is sending this traveling exhibition to Texas for the nineteenth season, during which time extraordinary development in the fleld of art has taken place in that great Southwestern State. Mrs. | Charles Scheuber, librarian of the Car- negie Library, Fort Worth, and director of the Fort Worth Art Association, un- der whose auspices these exhibitions have been held and the circuits ar- ranged, visited Washington during the exhibition of cotemporary art at_the :| Corcoran Gallery and later visited Phil- adelphia, New York, Boston and other cities, making a special study of art EE 'ROM New York comes the interest- announcement that an exhibi- |.tion of 12 works of J. Alden Weir will be held in the Macbeth Galleries from January 1 to 14. These are chiefly paint- ings which have not heretofore been publicly shown, but are considered | among the painter's best works. ‘Weir is undoubtedly one of our “OLD WHARVES OF SAN FRANCISCO,” AN ETCHING BY JOHN W. WINKLER AND INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION AT THE Violet Oakley. There she won the Cresson traveling scholarship, which en- abled her to go to Europe for further study. On a recent second trip abroad, she studied under Boutet de Monvel and sketched in France and northern Africa. She shows her French master's influence chiefly, perhaps, in her man- ner of portraying her subjects against a background of plain color. Only in four or five portraits in the recent exhi- bition were such accessories as furni- ture, books and decorative wall-paper employed. Mrs. Waring is director of art at the State Normal School at Cheyney, Pa. About 1,500 people visited the exhibi- tion during the three days it was on view here, and many sales were made— gratifying response from the artist's own race. Apropos of Mrs. Waring's exhibition, it is interesting to know that the Har- mon Foundation in New York, through the co-operation of the Federal Council of Churches, is assembling for a second time a collection of negro art which will be shown at International Home, New York, in January and then sent to other cities. There are prospeots that this collection will be shown in Wash- ington. It will, it is said, uphold a high standard of artistic merit. * k% ¥ T the Arts Club, 2017 I street, the exhibitions change today. In place of those which have been on view for the past fortnight are now to be seen works by a group ‘of landscape archi- tects of Washington and work by a xrougmor commercial illustrators of ‘Washington, the latter including Clif- ford K. Berryman and the staff of The Evening Star; Charles A. R. Dunn and the staff of the Nation's Business; Felix Mahony, Marguerite B. Neale, Rochan Hoover and staff; Advertisers’ Art Stu- dio, represented by J. D. Irwin and Iris Beatty Johnson; Commercial Art S04 M. Lo Wsmn Johson snd M. and Mr. g ol and Mr. Fredericks. TR * INJEW YORK is fast becoming one of ction Ea1e vying 1 mpostance with au les. Wi those held in London. These sales are held under the joint auspices of the American Art Galleries, Inc., formerly the American Art Association, and the Anderson Galleries. To these sales come from time to time for dispersal the great private collections not only prices brought set a record as well as establish values. An interesting sale scheduled for the first week In January consists of & collection of original drawings by mas- of America but of Europe, and the | ha American masters and his paintings are coveted and procured not only by pri- vate collections but musums through- j out the world. He is represented in the Luxembourg, Paris; the Metropoli- tan Museum, New York; the Corcoran | Gallery of Art, the National Gallery and the Phillips Memorial Gallery, all of | this city, as well as in the Brooklyn { Museum, the Carnegie Institute, Pitts- burgh, and the museums of Detroit, Syracuse, St. Louis and Cleveland. * Kk k% AT the Yorke Gallery, 2000 S street northwest, there will be shown from December 24 to January 15 an exhibi- tion of water colors and etchings by a group of cotemporary American art- ists. The list of exhibitors includes Arthur B. Davies, Childe Hassam, Charles Pendergast, Gordon Grant, Gifford Beal, Hayley Lever, Robert Hal- lowell, H. R. B. Donne and M. Elizabeth Price. Fuller notice of this exhibition will be given later. . “Gentleman” Beggar Gets Jail Sentence Begging is a very ancient and noble profession, It is comforting to learn that ‘he great age of mendicancy is by no means over. In the day time Max Stummel, who has but one leg, sat on the floor of the Anhalter railroad station in Berlin and collected alms. But whert his work was over, Max, his pockets filled with more money than most respectable Germans can earn in the same time, repaired to a quiet place and from a package took an excellent costume—suit, shirt, collar and tie, and shoes—changed into it, and until the following morning, lived like a “gentle- man.” But unfortunately Max had a habit of. taking lodgings in good houses and of departing after a time without paying the bills. The inevitable hap- pened and a defrauded hotelkeeper rec- ognized in the beggar of the railroad station the former defaulting lodger. 8o the story came out and Max came :Tm for six months. It was not the first e. Miscolored Stamp Sells for $10,000 A mistake made by a Swedish gov- ernment printer in 1855 has turned out to have been worth exactly $10,000, though not to him. That amount was recently received by a Stockholm phila- telist from a Gothenburg amateur for a Swedish three skilling stamp (equiva- lent to about 1% cents) which was printed with yellow ink instead of in green, the color of the remainder of h | the issue. The stamp first came to light in 1860, when a school boy found it on a letter in the attic of his grand- mother’s home and sold it to a stamp dealer in Stockholm for seven oere— about two cents. Later it was sold at a high price in Vienna, Paris and Ber- lin, eventually returning to Sweden, It s been suggested that the present owner may present the valuable bit of paper to the Swedish post office which now possesses one of the most gew and valuable collections of stam) the world, | THE PUBLIC LIBRARY | Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. Aeronautics. Chamberlain, C. D. Record Flights. SZ-0358r, 7 Clark, V. E. Elements of Aviation. 8Z-C54e. Garber, P. E. Building and Flying Model Aircraft. SZP-G 162. Jacobs, A. M. Knights of the Wing. 82-J 15k. Le Page, W. L. The A B C of Flight. S2Z-L55. Patrick, M. M. The U. S. in the Air, 8Z-P27u. Literary History and Criticism. Garrod, H. W. Byron, 1824-1924. ZYA-B997g. Jones, Llewellyn. How to Criticize Books. ZY-J72h. uox,‘snsrother. English Literature, ZY- More, | P. E oThe Demon of the Abeo- lute. ew Shelburne Essays, Vol. 1) beY-AMBAflt‘I“.’ Ponsonby, A. A. W. H. More English Diarfes. ZY-P776a. . Fiction. Annunzio, Gabriele d’. The Triumph f Deatl 0f Atherton, Mrs. G. F. The Jealous Gods. mr}x;lnn&n. E, pseud. The Empress of earts. Beer, Thomas. The Road to Heaven, Erskine, John. Penelope's Man, Hamsun, Kout. The Women at the p. Hueffer, F. M. A Little Less Than Gods. McFee, William. Pilgrims of Adversity. Walpole, Hugh. The Silver Thorn. ‘Woolf, Mrs. V. 8. Marriage, Groves, E. R. The Ma e Crisis. KWM-G918m. i) Groves, E. R. and G. H. Wholesome Marriage. KWM-G918w. Groves, E. R, and Ogburn, W. F. American Marriage and Family Re- lationships. KWM-G918. Neumann, Henry. Modern Youth and Marriage. KWM-N39m. Religious Music. Barnes, E. S, ed. Unison ' Anthem Book. VYRB-B26. Benson; L. F., ed. The Smaller Hym- nal. VYRH-B44 Orlando. Sawyer, H. S, ed. Denison’s Christmas Songs and Carols, VYRC-Sa9. Shields, E.- M., ed. and comp. Junior Hymns and Songs. VYRH-Sheé3j. Smith, H. A, ed. The American Stu- dent Hymnal. VYRH-Sm57. Thompson, H. W., and others, comps. The Choirmaster'’s Guide. 1924, VYRH-T37. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract So- clety. Songs of Praise to Jehovah. VYRH-W29. Zittel, C. A. Organ Accompaniment for the Chants and Hymns Contained Iznd St. Mary’s Manual. 1924¢. VYRH- Italian Newspapers Losing Circulation ‘The decline in newspaper circulation in Italy since the Fascist press laws went into effect several years ago has been widely noted. Some circulation statistics from an authoritative source indicate the lessened reader interest in Italian papers. In 1922 when the Fes- cist revolution began 592 news vendors in Rome sold 400,000 copies of the vari- ous papers. The population of Rome has increased considerably, being now well over 800,000, but the number of news vendors has decreased to 420 and their sales are now only 140,000 copies. Rome’s leading morning paper, the Messaggero, used to print 150,000 coples but today prints 50,000, of which 15,000 g into the provinces and 35,000 are sold Rome. - The leading evening paper, Gironale d'Italla, publishes 90,000 in- stead of 500,000 copies printed in 1922. The other important evening paper, ‘Tribuna, which for 40 years was the official organ of the government of the day, today publishes 10,000 copies. Lavoro d'Italia, official organ of the Fas- cist labor syndicate, publishes 40,000 copies as every local labor organization must subscribe. Its news stand sale in Rome is 500 copies. Corriere d'Italia, organ of the Catholic wing of Fascism, publishes 5,000 coples, while Popolo di Roma, second morning paper, publishes 10,000. Four extremist Fascist organs—Tevere, Impero, Bril- lante and Piccolo — together publish about 5,000 coples. Italy's greatest pa- per, Corriere della Sera, of Milan, is un- derstood to publish about 300,000 copies as contrasted with 700,000 six years ago. The Vatican organ, Osservatore Ro- mano, said to be the only paper pub- lished without government supervision, is reported to have greatly increased its circulation. On the other hand opposi- papers like the Soclalist Avanti, h once had a circulation of over a n, ;'n no longer permitted to be “|of the South. And with Sax REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS A Writer Deals With Spain and Its People—The New Orleans of: Early Days—Novels and Travel Books From BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. THE SPANISH PAGEANT. Ay Arthur Stanley Riggs. _ Illustrated. In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Com- pany. T started 20 years ago—this author’s desire to know Spain and, just possibly, some day to write a book about it. The day is here. The book is at hand. On official service in the Philippines, Mr. Riggs became keen to the complete Spanish stamp of the islands. No doubt, too, his mind slipped back to his own country and the lands below it, all of them rich in signs that Spain at the height of her glory had passed that way. Then began the sailings to Spain and home again, many times. Out of these migrations has come “The Spanish Pageant.” Brilllant, swift- moving, kaleidoscopic in its sudden shifts, yet marked by an inner unity, the book is clearly a “pageant.” But it is infinitely more than this. Behind this gorgeous show stands Spain_itself, alive, dynamic and significant. In the 20 years devoted pretty completely to this country, Mr. Iypel.fl to have soaked up Spain in all of its essentials, body and spirit. And now, easily, simply, and without apparent effort, he simply oozes Spain—the natural back- ground of its impressive history, its cities made, unmade, and made again by one after another of the tribes and peoples of invasion. In one historic city and another there is here the ef- fect of reading the riddle of its rise and existence by way of its streets and buildings, its monuments, its art, its great s. Each of these has its testimony to give, its tribute to pay here and there to this or that great conqueror, or that great composer of ill-assorted elements. History, records of archeology, legends from a pre- historic past, the testimony of archi- tecture and other forms of art, a thou- sand anecdotes and incidents gathered from the present—all these meet here in an amazingly lifellke revelation of the whole of Spain, great country and great people. That the author is an enthusiast serves merely to make him the more exacting as to the authenticity of his reportings, serves as well to ani- mate the whole panorama of this national life with its own high spirit. The other day I saw the King of Spain on the screen and heard him talk. That same night I met him in this book talking to Mr. Riggs. The same man. When mention was made by this author on the fact that the King was a hard working man—"Don Alfonso suddenly looked tired, but he smiled and said sontething to the ef- fect that when he was born nobody consulted hi he would like to be. They just set him to work and kept him at it, so all he could do was to carry on and make the best record possible.” That was the way he looked on the screen—tired, diffident, smiling and friendly. Now, this entire book is of the vividness of that per- sonal contact with the King of Spain. Its knowledge has, no doubt, n spread out many times. Its spirit, how- ever, is of a warmth of appreciation, its portrayal of a nearness that will not, in a long time, be surpassed, if, indeed, it be-approached. * ok ok % FABULOUS NEW ORLEANS., By Lyle Saxon, author of “Father Mis- sissippl.” TIllustrated by E. H. Suy- dam. New York: The Century Co. LONE of American cities, New Orleans partakes clearly of the “fabulous.” So does Lyle Saxon, in that he still holds on to & good faith in all sorts of acceptances which the simon-pure elders in a skep- ticism learn early to reject. ‘When Saxon was a boy of 10 or thereabout an old negro of the family took him out into the streets for a long day of Mardi Gras merrymaking. And, as if it were yesterday, that day takes of one. Here, through the eyes of that same small boy, rav- ished by the splendor of it all, the carnival makes its way before us—a festival of far-away origin, its general rngm both sumptuous and grotesque. t is the Mardi Gras, projected in such zest that sets the key of New Orleans, according to Lyle Saxon, as it sings and dances and makes love and fights on up to these latter days, when it is settling to the sobrieties of industry and trade and progress. Happily, the author makes short shrift of these days of modern usefulness, of the sorry fact that New Orleans is of age and is more or less seriously bent upon settling down. “Fabulous New Orleans” is in the main concerned with the play- time of the city, with its younger days of romance and adventure, with the mixed strains of blood that here take effect in strange beliefs and astonishing customs. French, Spanish, the white American, negroes of both pure and dilute strains, Creoles—these are all contributors to the ultimate character and personality of this captivating city on we about the town—along the river, u see the big oaks sacred to those w] offended sense of honor demanded the duel in restitution, into the “haunted house” through a creepy twilight, and through the deserted streets in the hideous days of the plague. Then, be- ing good, thorou ing moderns, we walk through the new city, though our hearts are back with th> eerie stuff of the old town. But, whether with the new or the old, we are constrained joy- ously to pay tribute to Lyle Saxon and his picturemaker, Mr. Suydam, for a truly enchanting book on'a spot that Possesses so much of fable and charm. * ok X ok THE THREE PASSIONS. By Cosmo Hamilton, author of “Caste,” etec. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, A SAVAGE story. Well, it is a sav- age theme. History and the cave man and current life all give support- ing evidence of this. No other three of man’s myriad passions have urged him to such ferocities of behavior as have these—love, religion, money. And these make up the foundation of this romance. A modern outlook. So love personifies itself in the modern young woman—capable, forthright, knowing what she wants and taking a straight line toward it. Pretty, and mostly un- dressed—you know the pattern. Maybe she is outrageous. Mr. Gibbs makes a case against her, snapping her head off at every page. But the girl has a lot of heads, all of which she is using to bring about a marriage between herself and the reluctant young fellow who, when she proposes quite frequent- ly. snarls and declares “not by a d— sight,” or words even more conclusive, However—well, she does it, at last, and | H. he certainly makes a better bargain than she does. This episode, this theme, provides for the other two—religion and money. It is the boy who gets religion, gof down into the slums to potter around. He would. He's that kind. His father represents the money, a great shipbuilder, a power, a tyrant— but a pitiable old man, after all, hun- gering like a beggar for love, for his son’s love. He gets it, too, in a boy's way of negligence not intended, of in- difference not realized. In the study of materialism by way of this old man the author simply eats nails and spits them out in a zled excoriation of money and its fell effects upon the human. There isn't really any such man as old Wrexham, nor any such woman as his wife, Lilith. These are bits of nightmare floating off from the dream stuff of this author. It is youllx Philip, their son, who . forgets m“l A goes | BLACK FOLK TALES; Iz.mz the Publishers. sense or good heart. And, of course, Mr. Gibbs meant just that, even though he is so flerce about her. The story ends with this girl and boy bending over the father—past any help then. The boy is saylng—now, this is not a pretty word, and we don't use it over here—he is saying, “What a stinker I've been"—and he has, if we know what that is. J;xst a snhvaze t1‘-‘om|mv:1s about things pretty much as they are, though not quite. And if anything is going to be done about it, this flapper girl is going to do it. * K K K CARAVANS TO SANTA FE. By Alida Sims Malkus. Illustrated by Marie A. Lawson. New York: Harper and Brothers. A HUNDRED years ago you might have seen in Santa Fe the counter- part of the little village that gives set- ting to this romance of the West. Quite away from the rest of the world were the few settlers of the hamlet. So, they lived as their forbears had lived, the life of old Spain. In this respect the story gives out an interesting and use- ful picture of a corner of life within the borders of the United States, a corner which holds to this day reminiscent touches of that early period. The romance itself is of the tempestuous sort that people of hot blood, the world over, summon when the tender passion is in action. A trader from New Or- leans loves & beautiful Spanish girl of Santa Fe. Rivals, intrigues, difficulties of many a sort stand in the way of this courtship. At the end, the happy end, we find the two, not only in love with each other, but one of them, the girl, newly in love with America rather than with old Spain. “And so Steven and Consuelo lived in the land of the Red Trail's end and built for the com- ing of the empire from the East. Though the trail was crimsoned for a quarter of a century afterward with the blood of pioneers, and the prairies encarna- dined with the dying buffalo, still the silver caravans came.” The feel of history is in this beautifully simple story of a corner of the Great West. i s LEGEND OP SLEEPY HOLLOW. By ‘Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: David McKay Co. I READ it again last night. Never with deeper enjoyment. Well worth keeping d is this legend of the Dutch corner of New York State, writ- ten by the smooth hand and sly humor of one of the best loved of our earlier writers. history is here, the his- tory of local customs, of the common ways of life among our forbears. Good literature is here and children, if let alone and not crowded into it by a taskmaster, have a deep sense of the worth while as against the worthless. 8o, let them take this book and having done so, leave them with it in the peace of a spontaneous enjoyment. It is a beautiful volume. Arthur Rackham was the inspired man, surely, when he re- created Ichabod Crane, when he set the headless horseman out o' nights to scare almost to death the people of Sleepy Hollow, and to settle, for good and all, the hopes of Ichabod reaching out after pretty Katrina Van Tassel. A book to have for one’s own. It is #0 beautiful in both looks and behavior. * ok ok ok JIJBT a word by the way: Two novels of excellent worth, already in cir- culation, have been given the distinc- tion of holiday externals by their pub- lishers. deserve it, as they de- serve also an increasing tribute from a steadily growing crowd of readers. One of these mnovels is “Blowing Weather,” by John T. MeIntyre (Stokes). ‘The other is “Drums,” by Ji accuracy, in a spirit of intense drama, in the colors of high adventure. Here f the immediate and endur- Both of these romances will W in use and popularity. They will going concerns long after the tide erotic nonsense faded away out of current reading. BOOKS RECEIVED TE% M{smy OF SEVEN GABLES. y Mystery of Black Eagle Island.” Tllustrated by Ralph Dunkelberger. Philadelphia: The Penn Publish- SKITTER AND SKEET. By Eleanor Youmans, author of “Skitter Cat,” etc. Illustrated by Ruth Bennett. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. THE GOLDEN BOOKS—THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. By J. 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