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~ Great Picture by a Living Artist Is Acquired by the Phillips Memorial Gallery—Other News of Local Galleries. monplace themes, are essentially imag- fnative—the stuff of which dreams are made; and possess a certain eerie qual- t ity. His palette is made up of elusive rain- llre e;lt:my and rer‘lewnA Last year I acqui W0 works of supreme kind—the marvelous portrait in plaster of a ‘Thinking Woman,' by ‘harles Desplau, and Derain’s noble classic landscape of Southern France. ‘This year I have added to the collec- at least t‘h;ve other eomnporx ‘works destined to rank high among immortals in the opinion of the hb‘eu ve bow tints, prismatic, subtle. His out- lines are almost never definite, and yet he presents exceedingly definite things—for instance, “My Brother Builds a Home,” a house in process of erection in the woods, a man in the foreground suggestively represented; “Transplanting,” a man and a woman taking a plant out of or putting a plant into the earth, with trees and follage as background. “The Source” is essentially mystical; a maiden stands at the head of a white horse, Pegasus without wings with head bent drinking at a spring, veiled in mist. “Ripshin Road” is stronger in color, possibly realistic, possibly mythical. “The Flight,” a little picture in the gallery this | to left of the door, is a new and origi- nal transcription of Mary and Joseph and the Little Child on the way to Egypt. The ass which Mary rides has balked, and Joseph is tugging at its halter, urging it over a rocky height. But the painting has a serious aspect and has undoubtedly been done with serious intent. ‘There are a number of portraits in the collection, but they are less in- teresting in this instance than the subject pictures, perhaps because por- traiture permits no flight of fancy. This_exhibition continues for a few t | more days—that is, until February 1. same for him phasis on “Mano the adds: “I was one of the ture after its arrival Galleries in New York, wrote York where “The m‘nfl mem' .:-{t by &IK {rom the Phflm Memorial Gal- Wi . 1f Mr. Phillips i&' completely ma- BT o i : i Efie o Efi ; { 2 & ; Hpe L i ES' 14 i ! g 2 § g i + F § i . f | ; g .5?& 2 B § g b ¥ § him 8 delightful painter of Jandscape with children and animals.” In the Jower galiery after February the symbolism exhibition will continue, subject to changes, just ‘con! “OLD LOCK HOUSE,” A e BEGINNING tomorrow and continuing to January 31 there will be an exhibition of eight decorative panels by Olin Dows at the Yorke Gallery. These are intended for a bathroom and are landscapes with small figures. Mr. Dows was formerly a student of the Yale Art School, working under Eugene Savage and Edward Cassius Taylor. R AT the Dunthorne Gallery there is an extremely interesting exhibition of portraits, landscapes and street scenes by Caroline Van H. Bean. Mrs. Bean exhibited a group of her portrait drawings at Madeleine Mc- Candless’ studio a year or more ago, but the present exhibition marks a great advances since then, advance both in technique and in grasp of subject. Among the works shown is a very englfmg double portrait in ofls of two e small cl hildren. Among her water colors are two delightful outdoor studies done nude, holding a restive Pegasus, wings lifted, ready for flight. It represents a genius, the creative spirit—what you will, and has been cast in bronze, but is shown here in plaster. The whole group stands not more than 8 or 10 inches in height. It was modeled last Summer at Peterborough, while Miss Hill was a member of the MacDowell Colony and occupied one of the cabins in the woods, the one in close proximity to MacDowell's original cabin, where jsome of his best music was composed. One of Miss Hill's medallion por- traits, and also one of her drawings, is of Miss Agnes Kendrick Gray, the poetess, who was also working at Peterborough last Summer. Witnessing further to Miss Hill's ver- satility is a reading desk in wood which she designed and is included in this exhibition. Whatever Miss Hill undertakes to do will invariably reflect her artistic temperament, but in the making of little bronzes, she especially excels. * ok ok ok A THIRD member of the MacDowell | Colony, Prentiss Taylor, is exhibit- ing here at this same time. His work is set forth in the upper room at the Arts Club, and consists of costume de- signs for the theater and a series of “Arrangements,” inspired by and pur- posed to accompany “Endvmion.” The latter are abstract and in the new manner. The artist himself says that he has been told that Keats would not approve of these abstractions, but Keats was young when he wrote “En- dymion,” and it is his conviction that as these works represent in art the present spirit of youth, he would have been in sympathy with them. To the average visitor, in all probability these abstractions will not be intelligible, but there is no doubt that they are sin- cere; an effort to find wider expres- sion. * K ok ok N the two rooms on the first floor of the Arts Club are to be seen water colors by Margaret Lent and Roy Clark, very different in manner; interesting contrast, therefore, ohe to the other, Miss Lent’s work is broad and strong and vigorous, amazingly so for work in this medium. Mr.” Clark’s is rather high in key, clear and delicate in color. In both one feels much to commend, much that is admirable. Miss Lent, it will be remembered, has been the recipient for two years of the in Florida, and a series of engaging New MISS ELECTRA WEBB, A DRAWING BY CAROLINE VAN H. BEAN, 'WHICH IS INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION AT THE DUNTHORNE GALLERY. York street scenes, the last in gouache. Her portrait drawings, of which a num- ber are shown, are sensitive and ex- tremely individualistic. An interesting contrast is made by two masculine portraits in oils, one of Ernest Thompson Seton, a tour de force, produced, it is said, in six hours, showing the famous author at his desk with ink bottle, pens and paraphernalia before him; the other a much more studied and traditional portrait of Prof. Oster of Columbia. Mrs. Bean has taken up her resi- dence in Washington and will be per- manently located here in the future, * Kk k% A HILL'S exhibition, which is to be seen in the rooms of the League of American Pen Women, 1108 Sixteenth street, January 21 to 28, in the afternoons, is made up of small works in sculpture and a group of very interesting drawings. ‘The sculpture includes portrait me- dallions and works in little in the round, works which would normally seem to be reductions, but which in this instance are originals. One of these small works represents a youth, WATER COLOR BY ROY CLARK. ONE OF THE PICTURES 1N ARNERUBITION AT THE ARTS Ci3, New York Water Color Club’s much coveted prize. Her command of medi- um, the virility of her technique put her almost in a class by herself among woman painters in water color, * K x ok A’l‘ a recent meeting of the Land- scape Club of Washington at the home of Frank Niepold, the following officers_were elected for the ensuing year: President, A. H. O. Rolle; vice president, Minor S. Jameson; treasurer, C. F. Wittenauer; secretary, Garnet W. Jex, and assistant secretary, Willlam L. Maclean. * % k X | i | | COLLECTION, (Continued From First Page.) given to American shipping by the Fed- eral Government, as aid is given by the government of Great Britain and other foreign nations to their merchant ship- ping. In consequence he called the sixty-seventh Congress again into spe- cial session, this time to meet Novem- ber 20, 1922, so that he might put the issue to the test and obtain action on a merchant marine bill before the Con- gress closed March 4, 1923. By its op- ponents the shipping bill was promptly dubbed the “ship subsidy bill.” Stron, opposition developed, and the bill dlg not become law. Since then no effort has been made to provide for a direct governmental subsidy to the American merchant marine, although several laws have been passed to assist in other ways the establishment of a permanent merchant marine. That session called by President Harding was the last special session of Congress. President Coolidge took over the reins of Government in 1923, following the death of President Hard- ing. While there have been deminds upon him at various times to convene Congress to deal with farm relief and other preblems, President Coolidge has The Story the (Continued From Third Page.) interesting, has conferred upon Col. Arturo Ferrarin of Italy the title of “the best aviator in the world in 1928.” Col. Lindbergh was the league’s choice for 1927. It will be recalled that, be- sides establishing sundry new dura- tion records, Col. Ferrarin in July, 1928, THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Poetry. Bacon, Leonard. The Legend of Quinci- bald. YP-B 126 1. Foulke, W. D. Songs of Eventide. 'YP-F825s. ‘The Last Enigma. West-Running Brook. Ballads. YP-0H 146b. Herdy, Thomas, Winter Words in Vari- ous Moods and Metres. YP-H226w. Marshall, M. L., comp. Representative Spenserian Sonnets. YP-9M35r. More, Brookes. Myrtella. YP-M812m. O'Sheal, Shaemas. Jealous of Dead Leaves. YP-Os43]j. Mark., Now the Sky. History. Bolton, H. E. History of the Americas. F80-B63. Dexter, Philip, -and Sedgwick, J. H. The War Debts. F30798-D528. Hopkins, J. A. H, and Alexander, Melinda. Machine-Gun Diplomacy. F961-HT7. Martin, Willlam. Statesmen of the War fl“fimmpecu 1918-1928. F30798- Rippy, J. P, and others. American Policies Abroad: Mexico, F955-R486a. Stanard, Mrs. M. M. P.N. The Story of Virginia's First Century. F863-St25st. Roads, Streets and Pavements. ERCOLE CARTOTTO has just finish- ed a new portrait of the President, painted in the White House for the Phi Gamma Delta Club of New York, the President’s own fraternity. This {)om'alt will be placed on exhibition at he Corcoran Gallery of Art tomorrow for two weeks and will undoubtedly prove of interest. * k% ¥ A SPECIAL exhibition of miniatures in wax by Ethel Frances Mundy will be held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art February 3 to 17 inclusive. * kK % J N Corcoran Hall, George Washington University, January 31 at 7:30 o'clock, the first of a series of programs, including all the arts, will be given under the auspices of the Hans Chris- tian Andersen Circle of this city. Maj. George Oakley Totten will preside and { the chief feature of the program will { be an fllustrated lecture on the “Archi- j tecture of Denmark, Hans Christian | Andersen’s Home,” by L. Marnus, a | leading Danish architect, who is at present traveling and lecturing in this country under distinguished auspices. , The lecture will be given under the | Joint auspices of the local Scandinavian | Society, the division of fine arts, George | Washington University; the Washing- | ton Chapter of the American Institute | of Architects, the Institute of Musical | Art and other local organizations. Two | musical and one swry-teulnfien\mbn { will be included. Tickets are being dis- | tributed through the sponsoring or- | ganizations, | ! A COMPETITION is announced for a poster for the inaugural charity ball, with prizes of $10, $5 and $2.50, besides which 30 designers whose | posters are considered worthy will re- | ceive $2 each. The committee of * Kk ok % Bateman, J. H. Highway Engineering. STA-B31. Bauer, E. E. Highway Materials. STG-B32h. Highway Research Board. Proceedin; of the Sixth Annual Meeting. STA-8HS53, Principles of Highway ‘Wiley, C. C. Engineering. STA-W64p. Commerce and Business, Bonneville, J. H. Elements of Business Finance. HK-B64. Durstine, R. 8. This Advertising Busi- ness. HKA-D937t. Hickernell, W. F. Financial and Busi- ness Forecasting. HKP-H52f. Husson, Joseph, Department Store De- livery Management. HKV-H96. National School for Commercial and ‘Trade Organization Executives. Chamber of Commerce, Administra- tion 1927. HK83-N219. Pollak, K. H. The Shrinking Week and the Growing Wage. HKB83-P76s. ‘The Procter & Gamble Distributing Co. Essentials of Selling. HKF-P943. Shibley, F. W. The New Way to Net Profits. HK-18h62. French. Barney, W. 8. Premier Livre de Lecture. X20R-B260p. Cardon, Alice and L. N. Premiere Annee de Francais de Junior High School. X39G-C 175. Clement, Marguerite, and Macirone, cé“?i‘:" Je lis et je parle. X39R- Garneau, Hector. How to Speak French. X39-G 186h. ussiegt, Henrlette, and Dickman, Introduction to French Free ymposition. X39-M8671. 'argment, Michael. Exercises de Com- gzosll‘t:on et de Grammaire. X39G- X Shelton, W. H. Minimum Essentials of A J. Col i award consists of Clifford K. Berryman, Mrs. William Penn Mechlin, Duncan Phillips Rainey. The poster committee, by whom the competition is conducted, <consists of Epen F, Co balrman, n, Leila and Ada | C. French. X39G-Sh45m. . Powell Minnigerode and John Deibert. Further information may be obtained from Mr, Comins, 1611 Con- “MANO THE DANCER,” PAINTED BY TURE HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY C. NDRE DERAIN. THE PIC- Special Sessions of Past made no such call, believing that Con- gress could handle the problems before it in regular session. There has been "0 attempted tariff legislation during the Coolidge administration, although there have been demands from certain sec- tions of the country for modification of the present law. April 15 has been the generally ac- | cepted date for a special session of the new Congress. In some quarters, how- ever, the hope is expressed that the session may convened carlier, cer- | tainly by April 1, so that the legislators | may get down to work and complete | the tariff and farm bills and get away from Washington by July 1. Senator Shortridge of California has urged this carlier date upon the President- | elect. An effort is to be made to confine | the subjects with which the special ses- sion is to deal to tariff and farm re- lief. The ways and means committee | of the House is at present holding tariff hearings in preparation for writing a tariff bill to be introduced in the House when it meets in the special sassion. It is expected that by the time the spe- cial session opens a farm bill embody- ling the views of Mr. Hoover also will be ready for presentation. Week Has Told made a non-stop flight from Rome to in 51 hours and 59 minutes. The claims of Col. Ferrarin won by only the nar- rowest margin over those of Capt. Kingsford-Smith, commander of the Southern Cross in the great flight over the Pacific from California to Australia. It seems a little curious that the claims of Sir George Hubert Wilkins do not appear to have strongly chal- lenged, though Amundsen declared his Point Barrow-Spitzbergen flight far and away the greatest of flights, and many of us are inclined to concur in that 3 ent. course, Dr. Hugo Eckener was de- clared prince of the lighter-than-air performers of 1928, succeeding Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosendehl, United States Navy, prince of 1927. “Pirst flyers” of sundry countries in 1928 were named as follows: United States, Carl B. Eielson; Great Britian, Bert Hinckler, who in 15 days flew in a collapsible one-man airplane from Croydon, Eng- land, to Port Darwin, Australia; Ger- many, Capt. Koehl, the first to make a non-stop westward flight over the North Atlantic; France, Capt. Costes, the first (with Lieut. Comdr. Lebrix) to make a non-stop flight over the South Atlantic. * k ¥ % NOTES.—The world in general is de- lighted to learn that Marshal Foch, only the other day dangerously ill from bron- chitis and a heart complication, is now considered out.of danger. ‘They're at it again in their super- fantastic way in Russia. Some 150 pi s of the exiled Trotsky were arrested the other day on the charge of plotting civil war against the state, were summarily tried by officials of the Ogpu, were found guilty and were dis- patched to “rigorous isolation” indefi- nitely as ‘“enemies of the proletarian dictatorship.” A new brisk drive against the Trotsky faction seems to be on. Conflicting reports reach us from Afghanistan. The position of the usurping Ameer, Habibullah, is rendered difficult, perhaps im ible, by estab- lishment of the fact that he is a Persian, not a Pathan, born. Moreover, he has had no experience in government, and ‘tis said that government services have ceased to function. On the other hand, Amanullah may have fatally “lost face” by his abdication. At least he must demonstrate by feats of arms that his act was only a “strategic move.” The situation is one to pretenders, ‘The Chinese ‘“disbandment confer- ence” has decided that for military purposes China shall be divided into six areas, namely, of Nanking, Loyang, ‘Wuhan, Mukden, Peking and Southwest China; that the entire military forces of the country shall not exceed 65 divi- slons of 11,000 men each, i. e., 715,000. The annual cost of maintaining such a force is estimated at $192,000,000. Former Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is dead of a paralytic stroke at the of 67. He had known very. poor health since he retired from the Senate in March, 1927. Certainly he was one of the most admirable figures of his generation in American politics. History repeats itself odoriferously in Oklahoma. ~The Oklahoma House of Representatives has voted articles of impeachment against the governor, Henry 8. Johnston. Gambling Legalized As Lure to Tourists Realizing what attraction gambling ’é" - u:; d a bill 2 ‘Zn Ln;.: ongress has passed a author gambling, with a proviso that govern- ment revenues therefrom be used for street improvements and for advertising Panama in the United States as a tour- ist center. The bill was passed after heated debate, the arguments that Pan- ama could offer the tourist as much as does Havana finally prevailing. Several American companies have already ap-|in plied for exclusive rights for gambling enterprises, but the government is with- holding the concession until guaranteed that the buildings will be of modern Port Natal, Brazil—over 4,400 miles— | % JANUARY' 27, 1929—PART 2. --———m, IDA GILBERT MYERS. TRAILS OF THE HUNTED. By James L. Clark. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. FTER all it is the attitude that counts, many times, rather than the action itself. It does here. As action this is an account— complete, vivid, informing—of big game hunting. There are dozens of them, varying to be sure, with the quality of the individual adventurer, but, upon the whole, running pretty much the same. such game brought down, such dangers met and made away with, such and {other. Much vivid work has been done in this fleld, exciting to read about and admirable as sources of information. But in this case that is not the point. Mr. Clark did all of these things and tells about them as well as the next one, offering a fine supply of pictures made by himself or his wife where words prove to be inadequate. No, the point is that this man has a different attitude from the others, an outlook not along the common line, and therefore a course of action that is individual, a better attitude. Mr. Clark started by being an artist. Perhaps it was chance that set him to modeling animals—I think the first was modeling an elk in was turned to a fronting upon animal life. He grew interested in it, made the subject his profession, went out hunting under the conviction that in no \'cr{ long time the animal world | would be largely done away with. So ! he satd he would go ahunting for the sake of preserving certain animals for future study and informatioin. And he did go all over the United States, into Canada, across into Africa and Asla, putting more than 20 years into the job. The artist in him sets the animals up in a lifelike way. The Na- tional Museum here in Washington has a group of elk prepared by Mr. Clark. Qo look at it. As I was saying it is the attitude of this man that counts. | Read the first chapter of this book for a new view on an old subject. “Man is the only animal that kills for pleasurc.” “Instances are rare in which lions have actually started trouble with men, and the same is true of other animals.” “The truth of the matter is that there is not an animal in the wilds that is so prone to attack man_ without reason as is the average high-spirited bull or stal- lion, such as are to be found upon countless farms in the United States.” “Wild animals are much less dangerous than automobiles. One is in greater danger attempting to cross Fifth Ave- nue in New York, than he is going un- armed through the 50,000 or more head of wild animals that inhabit the 110 square miles of the Crater of Ngoron- goro in Africa” And that's that, to settle the plea of ferocity on the part of these animals and, therefore, the necessity of killing them on the spot. There is no question according to Mr. Clark that the passing of animal life is certain under the encroachments of the human animal. He tells of this by way of records showing the rate at which the depletion is going on. The book as a whole is one of interest coupled with a deep satisfaction to the reader who is tired of that bundle of vanity and bombast known as the big game hunter. To the clear and com- prehensive information growing out of this shooting big game, much more often with the camera than with a gun, there is added here the keenly alert interest of the understanding man the lives of these hunted ones. “Trails of the Hunted” is, I think, the most worthwhile book on the subject that one can find for the uses of in- formatioin and adventure also. * ok k% THE STRANGE CASE OF MISS ANNIE SPRAGG. By Louis Brom- field, author of “The Green Ba etc. New York: Frederic O story. A deeply interesting study of emotionalism instead. Religion and love—man-and-woman love—the supreme emotionalism are here, by a series of incidents brought to bear in revelation of the theme chosen by Mr. Bromfleld. The Middle West, Londonand Italy provide the shifting background of investigation. The matter culmi- nates in the death of Miss Annie Spragg in an Italian palace, upon her hands and feet and brow the stigmata. said to have marked St. Francis of Assist, also in token of heaven's bless- ing. Some smiled, some waywise ones, at the story, but the peasantry round- about ‘believed it—because they had seen the marks, you know, or ti tht they had. From this Italian town story moves back and forth to London and to the little village in Towa where Miss Annie Spragg lived as a girl. The highly dramatic part of the matter !l that = dealing with Annie Spn:‘u: father, the Prophet Cyrus Spragg, Wi declared himself to be God. During the last century there were in America waves of religious hylurhr—pmnh‘;'u , new a) 3 - terious cults forming, strange delusions taking wide possession. Indeed, these have not entirely died away in the pres- ent century. Against them reason sets itself up, law intervenes, authority ex- acts penalties—but the human mind has a passion for salvation by way of signs and wonders, human mind has amazing potencies for illusion and weird beliefs. Cyrus Spragg is the real triumph of Louis Bromfield’s dramatic gift in this story. In lesser measure, however. each person brought forward here is the embodiment of some strange coneeption of religion, a conception born of the individual passion for happiness, both here and hereafter. Confusion in the human mind and heart is the out- come of this struggle to know God Jove and man love. A somewhat ter- rible story, or series of incidents, in its effect upon any reader—but a tremen- dously interesting one. Don’t pursue it. Let it alone, Ignorance is a comfort- able companion at least. * ok Xk THE _ITALIAN RENAISSANCE IN ART. By Otho Pearre Fairfleld, Litt. D. New York: The Macmillan Co. N its first effect this study is that of history. It is, besides, the history of a certain period of Italian art. And that, it seems to me, is the only way to present art, to present, in fact, any- thing that is clearly a part of some larger whole. A picture means nothing, a building means nothing, save as it stands in expression of the life, the tual and material life, that pro- this book is outstanding and admf Designed for students, it is notably free from cluttering and confusing_details, presenting instead the plain highway of artistic inspiration and production from the approach to the fourteenth century, th h “the golden age” and on to the d of genius and its en- during vitality. Sculpture takes on its e e, S By way for g 8 painters. “The golden projects Leon: of Fra its way with art, just as it is keenly alive to every incident calculated to reanimate the theme with the feelings and apprecia- tons of the present. To enjoy this of syogy; Such countries shot over, | such views of the peoples and the land- | scapes of one part of the world and an- | | ' the New York Zoo. At any rate he|{Gh r | | | Animal Life and the Trails of the Hunted—Italian Art—Inter- esting Novels of the Season and the Second ! “American Caravan.” reader, who, maybe, is unfamiliar with such technical terms as the professional | artist knows so well. For this reader such technical treatment is happily missing here. Out of it one, happy and at ease, may gather the groundwork of a falr understanding of the theme and the period with which it deals. Mechanics is reduced to a minimum. Spirit, inspiration, motive and achieve- ment are paramount. A fine book for | the general reader on a subject not| often made clear to this class. * kK * A MAN CAN BUILD A HOUSE. By Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, author of | “Green Forest,” etc. New York: | Harcourt, Brace & Co. THAT is, he can if he really wants to | and if she really wants to, more | than the two of them together want | to do any other thing whatsoever. In Mrs. Colby’s new novel it takes a pnlr; of immigrants—the man a laborer, the woman a servant—to prove the point. Off against this couple are set people, men and women, engaged in the main in an effort to eat their cake and have it too. False partnerships are the rule among them, where unfaith is the com- mon practice. where self-indulgence deals in daily sacrifice of the party of the second part. A theme wide as the world, you see. Mrs. Colby has how- ever chosen to set its limits by a big department store whose owner, a young- Jew, becomes the secret dream of every girl in the place. Inside this Jew is a boy who never grew up. It was that boy who selected a wife. It was the grown man who paid for this indis- cretion. Very little happens on the sur- face of this story. It is with the thoughts and feelings of the unsuited pair that the matter concerns itself with such clear divination and such | convincing portrayal. There are oth- ers who come and go here, all of them beset by the destructive influence of self-exaltation, of bending every- thing in life, not to co-operation but to the personal gratification of some faithless man or woman. Not a popular theme, since there is tacit agreement to cover the truth in this respect. Not popuylarly treated either, since it deals with state of mind rather than with ac- tion, with secret foibles rather than with the semblance of winning virtues. It is, nevertheless, a strong story, a true story and a tr&uhlin!k o:ne. * THE SECOND AMERICAN CARAVAN. Edited by Alfred Kreymbarg, Lewis Mumford, Paul Rosenfeld. New York: The Macaulay Co. DID you see “The First American Caravan?” ‘Then you know that here is a new literary enterprise, con- stituting a year book whose is to represent the richness and variety of American talent and genius in the way of literature. Here is wide-open opportunity for those who are venturing out into the novel or the play, into poetry or travel or the essay—into ur;} form of literary work whatever. Here an independent organization, standing for no single group, for no set form, for no section of the country. It is as wide in its invitation as the country itself, as hospitable toward innovation as to- ward the long established. Within this “Second Caravan” is proof of the ex- pansive spirit behind the enterprise. Here are novels, plays, narrative verse and stories. Sixty authors are regre- sented by this single volume. ew writers as well as those of established place are welcome here, provided—in their work the editors find that which they are so sedulously seeking—fresh talent, new outlook, the spiritual gift to represent America as it is and promises to be. Familiar names greet one here—Sherwood Anderson, Conrad Edna Bryner, Waldo Frank, Alfred Kreymborg, Robert Frost, Lewis Mumford and many others. There are new names, too, indicating the good faith of the enterprise as this is set out by its editors “Economically, the American Caravan is a co-operative organization in which the contributors receive their pro rata share of the royalties; the enterprise is sustained neither by advertisers nor by special subsidies.” Its major purpose is defi- nitely stated as it of an aim “reinforce in the wrif consciousness of craft and clarity of purpose, and at the same time to bring him in touch with a sympathetic pub- lic.” Interesting and rather stirring this enterprise of three recognized literary men set on foot for the round- ing up of American literature for the encouragement of American writers by way of business methods and a prac- tical business outlook. * ok k% STAMMERING CENTURY. By Gilbert Seldes. New York: The John Day Co. No, no, not this century, which jis quite too young to have its story told. Gilbert Seldes is talking about last one, 1800-1900. Into it the author has packed the “eccentricity and fanaticism” rampant in the United States for that period. And into it he has put nothing else. Yes, that is just | the way you would feel coming out of it—as if, luckily, you had escaped be- fore you were dragged back and put where you could do no harm. Unbe- lievable that even millions of people, such as the country held during the century, could have contrived so much FeLax Wanoxvy's MATIONAL SCHOOL OF WE AND APPLIED 4 ART > Connceticut Avenue and M Street (1747 Rhode Liland Avenue) Nerth 1114 v ‘New Classes Now Forming . . . Day and E: Individeal Lastruction by Mr. Mahony and Scaff. v We teach you to become an asset in the CONMERCIAL ARTS ‘aceept o position in Interior Decoration. Cos- tame Devigaing. Dynamic Symmetey. and Commercial Ast. Send for our cataleg. New classes begin February Ist. U have d of anew and msopuhr book. You want to it,butmaynotwish toowniit. Hmhmhwm'.um serves you, by renting an of fiction or non-fi {f ew and popular. Youp: rental fee: you start and stop whevou choose. Prompt ser- vice of the newest titles. volumes. of delusion, so many orders and kinds of sheer craziness, so many experiments in everything under heaven for the re- demption of the earth. To be sure, there are tricksters and liars and bunco men doing their part in this stammer- ing time, just as there are in this time, but, by and large, this is an exhibition of honest errancy. Religion is the lead- er in the overwhelming emotionalism of the day. Out of it are political ex- | periments, social reform enterprises, the doing away of law and order in the interest of “living your own life” Here is the greatest conglomeration of humanity, all scrambling for some real or fabricated vision that the world has ever seen. I wonder. That is a large statement and an_unsupported one. Let's take it back For, looking around. it appears that this present century is doing a fair business in the way of “stammering” through its days and nights. If T were you, I'd read this book by the minute, just a glance now and then. It is dangerous to take it as a whole. To meet the Old Adam is not so terrifying, but to meet a new soul is disconcerting. The Communist is at the top of his. pitch in this book. and so is the political Red. Here are apostles of this and that, saints of sweetness and light, winners of souls and stormers of heaven. And, belleve it or not, here is “The Kingdom of God in Chicago.” That was in the last cen- tury. The book is a curiosity of facts based upon fanaticism and eccentricity. Good for reference, stimulating as in- dustry on' the part of the author. a museum of the odds and ends of hu- man belief and action based upon it BOOKS RECEIVED HANDBOOK OF NAPOLEON BONA- PARTE. By Ivar L. Sjostrom. Phila- delphia: Dorrance & Co. LOST SPIRITUALS. By Lily Young Cohen. Tllustrated by Kenneth K. Pointer. Forty-one plates of musi- cal compositions as compased by Ne- groes and set down in music by the author. New York: Walter Neale. THE PROFESSOR’S WIFE. By Bravig Imbs. New York: The Dial Press. SCIENCE AND GOOD BEHAVIOR. By H. M. Parshley. Sc. D., professor of zoology in Smith College. India« napolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. A SON OF HIS COUNTRY. An imagi- nary novel dealing with George Washi n's youth. . By Walter Bloem. Translated by Frederick H. Martens. New York: Harper & Bros. TODAY AND TOMORROW-—AEOLUS; or, the Future of the Flying Machine, By Oliver Stewart, author of “The Strategy and Tactics of Alr Fight- ing,” etc. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. TODAY AND TOMORROW — THE NEXT CHAPTER; the War Against the Moon. By Andre Maurios. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. TODAY AND TOMORROW—STEN- ‘TOR; or, the Press of Today and To- morrow. By David Ockham. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. THE PLAYS OF J. M. BARRIE— PETER PAN; or, the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. By James M. Barrie, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. THE COAST OF INTRIGUE. By Whitman Chambers, author of “Don * Coyote,” etc. New York: Rae D. Henkle Co., Inc. RAIDERS OF THE DEEP. By Lowell Thomas. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. UNDER THE YEW: or, the Gambler Transformed. By Robert Nichols. New York: Covicl, Friede, Inc. DIGHTON ROCK. A study of the written rocks of New England. By Edmund Burke Delabarre, profésor of phychology in Brown University. Illustrated. New York: Walter Neale, WHERE IT ALL COMES TRUE IN ITALY AND SWITZERLAND. The experiences and observations of Betty and Mary as related by their aunt, Clara E. Laughlin. Illustrated. 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