Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1929, Page 32

- Notable Collection of Etchings and Charcoal Drawings by Joseph ' pennell presented to Library of Congress—Newly Executed Portrait of President Placed on Exhibition. BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE Library of Congress has lately received a notable gift consist- ing of 159 etchings and char- coal drawings of London by Joseph Pennell. The donor is Sir Frederick Macmillan, head of the well known London publishing house, by whose order the drawings and etch- | ings were made to illustrate & book on | < London which Henry James was to have written but did not. The collec- tion now, through Sir Frederick Mac- miilan's generosity, becomes a part of the Pennell Memorial Collection, and has been placed temporarily on view in cases in the upper stair hall at "‘“i Library of Congress under the auspices of the division of prints. . The collection comprises 50 etchings, all but two of which are listed and fllustrated in the great catalog of Pennell's etchings lately published. The | two exceptions are works of which the compilers had, until the present mo- ment, no knowledge. therefore may be regarded as finds. There are 107 char- | coal drawings and two wash grawings, each of a different subject, :’1 setting | forth graphically various aspects of the London that Joseph Pannell so d(‘flfl}'i Joved. A few of these works were re- duced as illustrations to & book on b don by Sydney Dark which was « fssued in 1924. The gift of the entire % collection to the Library of Congress { was, on the part of Sir Frederick Mac- | * millan, a graceful as well as a generous | ¥ act, betokening undoubtedly his esteem | & for Mr. Pennell and his desire to con- | 1 tribute to his memorial. | These etchings and drawings were | made between 1886 and 1017, but the | majority undoubtedly were done in what Mrs. Pennell terms in her intro- duction to the Pennell catalogue, “the Iate 1890s.” Practically the earliest is | 3 “Chelsea No. 2" which is in a St}'l(‘{ quite unlike that assoclated with Mr. Pennell through his later productions. When this was done he was un- doubtedly influenced by French work | and had not come, as he did shortly | § thereafter, under the influence of { Whistler. But this etching shows his | * mastery of drawing, his excellent sen: ~ of composition. As the years passt e became more deft, more able to sim- lify his compositicns and at the same 4 &m, indicate, when necessary, claborate | 3detail. His line, which in this early | { work is strong and firm, became more | 1 mensitive, more delicate, but never lost | « its_sureness. . Mrs. Pennell tells of Mr. Pennell's endless efforts toward perfection; how he experimented with acids to insure satisfactory biting; with inks, with | : paper of many kinds; how in his Buck- 7 ingham street chambers he first set up « his own press, a clumsy affair, heavy to | , requiring g‘very ounc:d otfo p‘hyslcsl | which he urn, a Rt o be ‘exchanged for cne PPy — PEp—— re readily Bank of England when < presses run by machinery. But it was | *on the first heavy s, according to | { Mrs. Pennell, that the majority of Mr. | Pennell's London etchings were printed, rinted by his own hand and under his ever watching, critical eye. | It is customary, when running an edition from a single plate to strike off a few additional copies for definite pur- poses, such as reproduction. These are | never signed and are not counted in the | al “edition. Many of the prints | ncluded in the Macmillan gift ave of this sort and for this reason are un- madtfi:n a number bear the etcher’s charcoal drawings, which are in <he majority, are not less interesting than the etchings. In some instances _they are even more interesting, as they <are more distinctively personal, indi- i vidual; and they recall Mr. Pennell’s | " interest in lthography, his great war | .work series of lithographs for which, all unkno;nr to himself, th'jse d’;zmus ‘were ‘haps & preparation. was Iargely, it will be remembered. through IMr. Pennell's efforts that lithography “came back 2s an art, and that the Sene- “felder Club of London was founded. $ Artistically and subjectively these g::s are of great interest, but that in- 3 t is e by a knowledge of -the background of life t which “they were uced. A 0 e 0 Mr. Pennell him- elf tells of this in his autobiography, ““The Adventures of an Illustrator.” #“From 1885” he says, “we had our sheadquarters in London and gradually fgot rooted there. There we should have ‘remained had it not been for the war, | for, when it came and stayed, it was | ‘borne in upon me more and more that | smv place was in my own country.” | i First Mr. end Mrs. Pennell lived in | “Bloomsbury, then they moved to_North | street, Westminster; then to Barton street—"a lovely old paneled house”; then to chambers in Buckingham street and after 14 years there they built an {apartment on the roof of Adelphi Ter- race House, where ihey stayed until 11017, ring our 30 years in Lon- idon,” Mr. Pennell says, “many people ‘came to us, and at one time we took to ‘having evenings. That was in Bucking- ham strect, and we had them every ~Thursday. Some centered around Phil sMay—not, as at the last, in riding dress, <which Punch more or less compelled ‘him to wear, as Shannon painted him, | ‘bus in solemn black. * * ¢ He was al-| ‘ways smiling and balancing himself on | “top of the Willlam Morris chari and it | never went over, he never fell off. He +said little but took it all in; every- ‘body loved him. Hartrick, Sullivan, Beardsley and Walter Crane would be there, and McLure Hamilton, and we S would have to rush him out if Whistler came; and George Moore and Sickert and McColl would look in. This was before we all fought. * * * And it was | “n those days that we saw so much of «Whistler znd all sorts of people crowded “in—Page, with his delightful stories; “Henry James sitting by the fire in the | twilight—Abbey sometimes, Sargent a few times.” Here the International So- clety of Painters, Sculptors, Gravers was “put on its feet by Whistler,” here the original Society of Illustrators “‘was born” and the Senefelder Club “flour- Adshed.” “And sport and literature and cookery and art and good talk reigned in our rooms.” Mr. Pennell tells interestingly of his association with Henry James and of his working with him illustrating his books. “I am not sure where or when | I first met Henry James, but I recom- | ber the first important letter I got | WATERLOO BRIDGE AND SOME] JOSEPH PENNELL, PRESENTED DRAWINGS TO THE PENNELL Mi LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BY SIR | temporarily from him, I had made a series of drawings for an article of his on Lon- don and he wrote me that, getting out of a train somewhere between Lyons and Paris, he picked up The Century on a book stall and that he liked the draw- ings so much that he had to tell me =o. A little while after I received his letter I ran into him at Macmillan’s office in London, and he asked me to lunch with him in his flat in Vere Garden.” The descrip- tion of the lunch is characteristic. It was hot, Mr. Pennell says, and when he arrived he found Mr. James en des- habille, writing at a desk. “He told me he was setting Daumier in his place in the art world by an article, and I, with one of those inspired bursts of cheek which come to me sometimes, told him that he was not able to do so; that no author who is not an artist has any right to discuss the fine arts.” But apparently Henry James did not mind, for from then on, according to Mr. Pen- nell, “he kept turning up every now | and then.” Once they met at Keats' | grave. It was not until 1889, when | Heineman suggested bringing out an | illustrated edition of “A Little Tour in France,” that Mr. Pennell illustrated anything but articles by him. Then | he completely illustrated this delightfyl book—one of the best guide books, as Mr. Pennell himself says, that has ever been written. In order to make these fllustrations Mri Pennell visited on his bicyele every place about which Henry James wrote “and did every drawing on | the spot.” “I think I made a pretty book of it,” Mr. Pennell comments naively. Some of these original works are included in the Pennell Memorial collection. The color blocks used in the book, however, were all burned dur- ing the war. After illustrating “A Little Tour 1!\; France” Mr. Pennell did a_secries of books with James—“Itallan Days” and | “English Hours.” Curiously enough, the illustrator did not seem to think that | the author was satisfied—"“but I did my best,” he says. This series of books was issued by Heineman, and it in- cluded also Hays' “Castillian Days” and | Howells' “Italian Journeys.” | But if James did not like the books | he evidently did like the illustrator, and | as the years passed the friendship ripened—"though I was always afraid of him and nervous with him,” Mr. Pennell confessed. He was not an easy conversationalist. But he visited the | Pennells frequently in their flat in Adelphi Terrace—"Barrie under him, Shaw in front of him, Galsworthy to | week, of the wax mask of Pavlowa by ‘This portrait, the second which Mr. Cartotto has painted of the President, | is but just finished and was done 1n‘ the White House. It is for the Phi; Gamma Delta Club of New York, the President’s fraternity. It shows the | President standing with his left hand | resting on the corner of a desk on: which are piled some books. It is a! very exact representation and undoubt- | edly an excellent likeness. The eyes | are apparently resting on a distant ob- | ject, and the expression is passive rather | rather than alert. The President in| this portrait has the appearance of a very tired man. Mr. Cartotto painted last year, as a commission from George D. Pratt of New York, a portrait of the President for Amherst College, after the comple- tion of which he did portraits of Justice Stone and of Attorney General Sargent. He has undoubtedly & gift for likeness, and he is an excellent draftsman and a conscientious technician. He is also adept in the making of silver point drawings; in fact, in this field he is perhaps without rival. The Corcoran Gallery has hung this | Iatest portrait of the President on the south wall of the middle gallery op- posite the staircase, where also hangs Sargent's masterly portrait of the late Senator Lodge. A study of these two portraits in juxta-position will be found illuminating, the style of presentation being so greatly varied. * X K X THE Corcoran Gallery of Art has strengthened its permanent collec- tion by the purchase, during the past Malvina Hoffman, a unique and ex- ceedingly distinguished work. Other purchases have been made from 1 Malvina Hoffman’s notable exhibition. | The little bronze of Pavlowa dancing with Novikof was acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kauffmann; the small bronze, “Head of a Senegalese Soldier,” by Irwin Laughlin; besides which com- missions have been given and one or two of the drawings bought. This delightful exhibition closes to- morrow morning, at which time the works will be shipped to the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. ik o, 'HE Water Color Club's exhibition also ends at this time. By the middle of last week 24 sales had been made—a record for & local show. * % ok TH left of him, Temple Thurston and the Savages near. Those were our neigh- | bors. The last time I saw him was at | a Christmas dinner at Sir Frederick Macmillan’s, where he sat beside Lady' ANNA PAVLOWA, MAN, PURCHAS A HEAD IN COLS D BY THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART. E Society of Washington Artists will open their thirty-eighth an- nual exhibition with a private view in the Corcoran Gallery of Art next Sat- urday afternoon when the gallery will be_open until 6 o'clock. From today until February 17 & spe- ORED WAX BY MALVINA HOFF- Macmillan.” What wonderful company, | in what a delightful environment these works were produced! It has been said that London at the time of Sir Joshua Reynolds was more delightfully peopled than at any time since, but in all probability the days when Mr. and Mrs. Pennell were living there with Barrie, Shaw, Galsworthy and thosc others mentioned as neigh- bors, and Whistler, Sargent, Abbey, Hartrick and a score of likewise great artists as assoclates, were quite as full of distinction and charm soclally and intellectually. It is those days which these London drawings will ever recall. * K K K PORTRAIT of the President by| Ercole Cartotto has been placed | on exhibition in the | Corcoran Gallery of Art. RSET HOUSE, AN ETCHING B¥ WITH OTHER ETCHINGS AN EMORIAL COLLECTION OF THE FREDERICK %CMILLAN. | studio at 1724 Connecticut Avenue, and cial exhibition of miniatures in wax by Ethel Frances Mundy will be shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. bk UNDER. the patronage of the Min- ister of Roumania an exhibition of paintings by Jean Negulesco, a Rou- manlan artist, will be held at the Yorke Gallery,*2000 S street, from tomorrow to February 23. Mr. Negulesco exhibited here about a year ago, but he is said | :?1 have progressed in great strides since en. For this artist Duncan Phillips has predicted a brilliant future, because of his past achievement and because “he is one who evidently loves life so much, sees it so variously, and responds to it so sensitively.” Among others who en- thusiastically support Mr. Negulesco's work are Rockwell Kent, the painter and illustrator, one of the most succes- ful of our modernists, and Richard Le Galllenne, the writer. * oK K K LYN WILLIAMS, for many years president of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters of London and well known in this country, has returned to Washington for the Winter, taken a is now holding an exhibition in the Dunthorne Gallery (next door) of his portrait drawings done in charcoal and colored crayon in a manner inimitably his own, These portraits ere not as small as the usual miniature but are smaller than the common drawing, and are extremely intimate and accom- plished, covetable possessions. Next Saturday afternoon Mr. Alyn Williams will be host to the Art and Archeology League in his studio, 1724 Connecticut avenue, and at that time will give a lecture on the “History of Miniatures, Past and Present,” with personal reminiscences. * K K K HE Community Institute of Wash- ingicn announces an_{llustrated lecture by Dr. Bruno Roselli of Vassar College on the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna, which the Italian arche- ologists are unearthing in the North African Desert near Tripoll. Dr. Ros- selli is the head of the Itallan depart- ment at Vassar, and is a we]l known lecturer on art and internati poli- PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE PAINTED BY ER- COLE CARTOTTO, FOR THE PHI GAMMA ELTA CLUB OF NEW YORK, OF WHICH THE PRESIDENT IS A MEMBER. Indian, Tool of Communist (Continued From Third Page.) by the Peruvian government, the prob- lem cannot be said to have been solved. The steps taken so far to relieve this state of affairs are but the foundation of an elaborate plan institution which will have far reaching result in the fu- ture. Education and culture will be without & doubt the salvation of future generations, but at the present time it becomes necessary to care for the needs of those classes who today comprise three-fourths of the population of that nation. If the education of this im- mense population of nearly 4,000,000 In- dians who have passed the school age is any longer postponed, their very iives | will have been sacrificed. The Peruvian government, convinced that the redemption of the Indian can- not be accomplished solely by educa- tion, it has also undertaken to solve| the agrarian problem so vital to the life of the present Indian generation. Briefly, it may be said that this other part of the government program con- sists in the proportionate legal distribu- tion of lands, thereby making of each Indian a small property holder. In this manner the productive efforts of each individual is stimulated and the.slavery tradition which the “false redeemers” of communism pretend to exploit, would be forever done away with. To carry out this part of the program the Peruvian fovemment has acquired great territorial extensions from wealthy property holders. Among them may be found the “Hacienda Lauramarca” in the Province of Cuzco, the “Pauranga” in Castrovirreina, and the “Cajamarca” in Ayacucho, which comprise a popula- tion of at least 16,000 Indians. These lands, and those acquired in the future, will be distributed among the same na- tives who today live as planters within their boundaries. This has been the policy adopted; the government buys all lands which today are more or less unproductive for future distribution among the natives, thus making of cach planter a small property holder. Likewise, and in order that it may cncourage labor, the gofernment has proviced that an appreciable percentage of the lands now being irrigated on the account of the state or private indi- viduals be gratuitously distributed among the natives who contribute with their efforts as a reward for their la- bors. So nearly 600 hectares have been distributed among the Indians who toiled in the irrigation of the “Pampas del Imperial” in the Province of Canete. In this manner is Peru bringing civ- {lization to the Indian, methodically, scientifically, at the same time that it drives away the serious menace of com- munistic propaganda among the native classes, Value of Advertising Recognized During Time of Homer and Horace BY RALPH V. D. MAGOFFIN, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor and Head, Depart- ment of Classics, N. Y. U Whenever some discoverey of ancient customs comes to light it is more often than not commented upon in this wise: “How modern they were!” Only a little reflection is needed to see how sub- jective, if not introspective, such a re- mark is. Would it not come much closer to the facts of the ease if what was sald were “How ancient we are!” Tt would doubtless be wrong if we were to claim, when Homer says the Creek warriors praised the honey of Hy- mettus, that the great epic poet was advertising that particuzar brand of honey. But advertising it certainly was. That line would never have es- caped the blue pencil of a modern edi- tor. We know that Roman writers said that the best wax for candles was from Spain and bore the Carthaginian trade | mark. Publicity Made Wine Farmers. We read that Falemtan was the best | wine; that, the best veils came from the egean island of Cos; that African olive oil was not so good as that from Tus- cany; that the bronze work of Etruria, the candelabra, of Tarantum, the purple dye from Tyre, the iron armor made at Populonia, the roses grown in Rhodes were the best in the world. ‘The hotels or inns of ancient days supplemented the oral protestations of “mine host” with signs that made it clear why the place was known as the Inn of the Four Sisters, or the Inn of the Elephant, or what you please. When you saw painted on the wall of a wine shop at Ostia a beautiful two-handled cup and read below it Bibe qmfl sites, “Drink, because you may be thirsty,” one's dust-clogged throas would want to sample whatever wine the keeper of the Osteria might have. In Rome the Sosii Bros. advertised the new books of the poet Horace with placards at the sides of their shop tics. He has extraordinary command of the English language end an intimate knowledge of his subject. By special invitation Dr. Roselli is to lecture at Gunston Institute Friday evening on “Art Along the Adriatic.” Invitations to hear Dr. Roselli have been issued by Miss Gildersleeve and Miss| * ok Kk ok Kerr. AN exhibition of etchings by Anne Goldthwaite opened in the Smith- sonian Bullding under the auspices of the Divislon of Graphic Arts, U. S. National Museum, January 28 to con- tinue to February 24. Fuller review of this exhibition will appear later in these columns. * kK K AT the new Lorraine Gallery, on Con- necticut avenue, there is now to be seen an exceedingly interesting portrait of Commodore Lewis Warrington of Vir- ginia, painted by Rembrandt Peale, which has up to the present time, it is understood, been in the possession of the Warrington family. * ok K K F will be on view at the Arts Club ofl paintings and water colors by B. L. Cuming, woodblock prints by Charles W. Smith and silhouettes and drawings by Bruce Wallace. * K K K ON ‘Wednesday afternoon, February 6, at the studio of Miss Catherine Carter Critcher, 1603 Conneccticut ave- nue northwest, at 4:30 p.m., Miss Ger- trude Richardson Brigham will speak on “The Spanish School of Painting.” The talk will be illustrated with color prints, Tea will be served, and the meeting will be open to the public. ‘ROM today until February 16 there | door. Nearly every store around the | town market place or along the busi- ness streets carried advertisements painted on the walls above and on each side of the main entrance door. One finds the names of the mer- chants and sees paintings that depict the dyeing of coth, the making of jew- elry, the baking of loaves of bread, etc. Near the Circus Maximus, in Rome, there has been discovered an ancient shop that advertises itself as “purveyor |of the president of the games”;a flor- | ist displays a painting of beautiful flow- ers, with the advertisement, “I do not | sell my chaplets of flowers to any but | lovers.” One innkeeper resorts to a sort of moving picture to edvertise his wares, The first painting shows a goat laden with panniers of ripe grapes; the next, the god Bacchus squeezing the grape juice through a press; in the next, two slaves are carrying off the wine in & big amphora, thus hinting that it is better to buy it so than in bottles, and in the last painting, a party of friends at a banquet table are drinking and pledging one another with the greatest gusto. Darber Shop Was Polygeot. In Palermo a shop has the following sign both in Lotin and in Greek: “Latin spoken here, but not in the way the barber next door advertises on his sign that reads ‘Every langusge spoken here.” ‘When you ask him who speaks so many languages, knowing that he knows none, he will say, ‘my customers.’ Outside one of the gates of the well of Rome is a tomb made in the likeness of an oven. Around its top runs a frieze on which are shown all the dif- ferent processes in connection with the baking business, from the grinding and mixing of the flour to the sale of the baked loaves. At Pompeii there is a gravestone with the picture of a de- ceased cut in low relief, with his name in incised letters below the relief bust. Above his head is his advertisement, which in death is to continue to prove +his profession and his skill. Two foot forms are cut in relief, and over one is a sandal which he doubtless thus ad- vertises as the best thing of its kind. But perhaps the most unusual adver- tisement is one in Alexandria. It is one of the shoes of her who must have been one of the flirts of the town. There are special nails in the sole of the shoe. When the shoe is pressed upon the ground the nails make a neat little written, or punched, advertise- ment. It reads, “Follow me.” How | much new is there under the sun, any- way? ! Wreath for Memorial Taxed as “Vegetable” Intercourse between countries can take on strange forms in complicated Europe. Recently a small town in Czechoslovakia near the German fron- tier, and mostly inhabited by Germans, unveiled a monument before the whole population of the neighboring town. A lovely laurel wreath was sent from Ger- many through an officlal deputy. But unhappily the boundary, watc! by legionnaires, lay in between; and on day the ‘control was especially sharp. ~ After long negotiations the German deputy was permitted cross—not so the laurel wreath. The Czech leglonnaires could not well re- fuse the wreath, but they wanted to collect duty on it. But under which column on the tariff were wreaths to be found? Funeral wreaths were not mentioned either. They could be classi- fled as “spices.” But this did not ap- peal to the deputy, and the zealous cus- toms officials were obliging enough to designate the wreath as a “vegetable.” | | the exacting school of journalism in an The Presidents From Harrison to Coolidge—New Arabian Nights—Zane Grey's Latest and a List of IDA GILBERT MYERS. MASKS IN A PAGEANT. By William Allen White author of “A Certain Rich Man,” etc. New York: The Macmillan Co. PRESIDENTIAL procession, half a hundred years long or there- about, marches by. Presidents from Harrison to Coolidge, with captains and outriders in at- tendance, make up this great political parade. In the lusty ardors for which he is so well known, Willlam Allen ‘White here bends himself to a near and | intimate portrayal of the members of this distinguished pageant. Having done this, he stands off and weighs the entire line against the quality and manifest destiny of the great country which it represents. At one moment this man of im- petuous vigor separates the procession into kings and dynasties and waiting Warwicks as king-makers, into rebel- lons and restorations and ‘“young princes of democracy.” Again, he looks upon it as natural history and biology —earthworm, anthropoid ape, cave man, all brought over as enlivening simili- tudes of the growth of political concept and practice as these are embodied in the political leaders under examination. But no matter what rhetorical fig- ures Mr. White may use to serve his purpose. No matter how often he changes them. No matter if he mixes them. The point is that he is com- pletely interesting, even exciting. En- grossed actively in politics all of his producing years, grown both informed and wise in that pursuit, trained by appraisal of the political field from every point of view, waywise with | words of pith and punch, of color and clear artistry, Willlam Allen White is at all times an excellent means of spending one's time. It is to these numerous character sketches—for in effect this is the sum anA substance of “Masks in a Pageant” —that the author brings such equip- ment, one that provides complete adequacy of content as well as a clear delight in his work on the part of the reader. There is not a single study here from which-one could not quote with profit to every one. But, of course, that is out of the question. Familiar with the political background from a newspaper man's long intercourse with it, keen to the human nature of the laborers in this field, acute in psycho- iogical reaction and its appraisal, familiar with the run of history through which man has made his more or less meritorious way forward, a wizard with speech, William Allen White has here produced, in a seemingly light vein, a very substantial and useful survey of the political administration of this country for half a century. And is he always right and sure in his conclu- sions and divinations? Probably not. | A man so interesting in his effects must become more or less enamored of effects | and therefore seek to produce them.| Mind, I don't say that this man does. But he might, excusably might. How- ever that may be you will find in this book a body of truth as the author sees it and as he so lustily puts it over. Every time I hunted him down he was right—frequently generously and tact- fully right besides. Projected in a mood of lelsure and compliance this is a Beflolu;nmlmégenw tlrfi!\l'erthelcss. and | a mighty interesti to read and think about. . * K ok ok EYELIDS OF THE MORN. By Wijnant So the wreath was accurately weighed and taxed accordingly. The fotal duty was $1y A done 50 much you will more Johnson. Illustrated by the author. New York: D. Appleton & Co. A STORY of youth. The friendship of two lads gives this matter foun- | dation and go. Soon, however, after the common way of time, these two are no longer boys at school. Young artists in Paris, instead—a poet and a sculptor. ‘Then, young soldiers in the great war. Then—well, that is all. Now, the friendship between two men, young men, is a surpassing theme. Nothing else in human affairs quite comparable to it for depth and sin- cerity, for a sturdy standing by with- out question under every circumstance. Do not older men possess the power to sustain this friendship? Hardly ever. And women? Oh, never. In half a million years, maybe, the women. But there is & long and deep history against them in this respect. How- ever— Once inside this story you realize that it is in the hands of a young man who is going along, quietly, with this pair, sensing their moods, feeling into their | minds with long, delicate fingers of | sythpathy and divination. The things | that boys think about, and conceal, are | here—bewildered reaches into the fu- | ture, odd gropings into a past of un- reality, yet a vivid and immediate past to them. Places and experiences and friendships away back beyond the border line of here and now unite these two by way of broken admissions and half-confessions. They live the school life of a couple of lusty lads, reaching each other intimately only in seconds of special revelation. Lessons and girls and the usual to-do of schooling time push these boys along, naturally and simply, to the career chosen by each, and to the war—a particularly career- less matter in this case. Calamity! Meanwhile, igside this story, you are sitting by, very quietlike, for a thing of moment is going on here. No mistake about it, an artist is working—his theme before him, he is shaping it into life by way of himself, his own seizure of youth in its shapes and colors, by his own frankness of disclosure, by his way with words, a poet's in-seeing way that not only puts life into the theme, a way, also, that delivers the matter ¢ | The former fill a book with deadly stuff. New Fiction. ly keep right on until the end. And, by the way, the “Story That Is All Lies” is a most ingenious pattern of that which can really be accomplished by sheer lying. However, it takes neither fairy tale nor folk lore to demonstrate this. Just listen a minute anywhere. Scholars have made _collections of folk lore the world over, East and West. Here, however, is a collection of fresh storles that have the added attraction of having been a part of the author’s own childhood and youth. And, some- how, they have stayed, fresh, in his mind, despite the over-layings of time | and the absorptions of business. You will feel at once the new quality, the young quality, of these “Other Arabian | Nights.” EEE WILD HORSE MESA. By Zane Grey, author of “Nevada,” etc. New York: Harper & Bros. THE hero of this tale of the West is a horse—the wild stallion, Pan-| guitch. To capture this king of the mesa, to subdue him to the will of man | t is the adventure. Plots and | plans, pursuit and ambush, are each tried in turn. Gradually a love story gets on its way along with the more hardy enterprise. But to the reader there is but one engrossing interest | here. ‘That stallion must not be caught | by these things having evil designs | against him. So, in the ups and downs | of ofher incidents set to picture here, | the reader waits upon every page for | the appearance of Panguitch and for his triumph. After a good deal of ex- citing stuff the great horse is a pris- oner. You should see him—no, no, you shouldn’t see him—so astounded, be- wildered, enraged, outraged. Nobody should see him at this moment of de- feat. If this were the end of the story, it would hardly be worth reading. Not that it has not the full Zane Grey meas- ure on man size business about it. It has. But if man were really of the pat- tern set out by the underhand capture of Panguitch, he wouldn't be worth a minute’s hearing. Well, he isn’t, really. So you go on to the end, when with your hat in the air you are cheering for the Big Horse. Oh, yes, the love story is all right. Good support for the main issue. But it is the story of the Great Horse that counts so masterfully in this case. * k% THE ROGUE'S MOON. By Robert W. Chambers, author of “The Sun Hawk,” etc. New York: D. Apple- | ton & Co. ROBI‘.R.T CHAMBERS has taken to| piracy. It may be that this new mood of adventure began with his de- fense of Capt. Kidd, proving to himself and his readers that the notorious Kidd was a much traduced mnen. Not a pirate at all, but a quite decent, a quite dis- tinguished citizen as well who, like many another before him and since, has come under the suspicion of law and order. At any rate, nowadays, Mr. Chambers is turning out exciting adventures at sea, all of the pirate stripe and, there- fore, all of a day wilder than this one. The story unfolds down Carolina way, where a secret and safs port invited harborage for marauder and buccaneer. So before the big business is over you will catch sight of many a villain—the infamous’ Blackbeard, Capt. Death and | many another, amopg them one woman, as flerce as the next one. To put a touch of softness in this hard matter, there is a girl, Nancy Topsfleld. You'll like Nancy. To be sure she's like a boy and passes for a boy. But she had to do that, so don't hold it against her since she is; all around, qualifieg to be called a genuine heroine and a winning one, too. She finds a beau, or he finds her, and this fact brings moments of easement in a mat- ter that is pretty much blood and thim- der or would be if it were not for this | delightful heroine. Good work, we al! say, who enjoy the thrills and shivers that Mr. Chambers is so able to give us by way of his incorrigibly romantic typewriter. * Kk % LOIS MILLS. By Maria Sias. Minne- apolis: The Midwest Co. THIS novel serves a double purpose. ‘The first is to introduce a new | story writer. The second is to announce a new publishing house in the Middle West. Both promisingly worth while. | ‘The story is entirely modern—that of the young woman of the hour bent | upon a public career as the single sat- isfaction of the future. Business, art, music, what not—anything -so long as it lifts the girl out of the antiquated | role of wife, housewife, mother and the rest of the humdrum way. Now this story, likely to be carried away by the modern yiew, becomes a really consid- erable one by virtue of the fact that its author—unquestionably young in out- look—possesses the saving grace of knowing her human nature, as this has developed in the female of the species. For soar as she may, rebel as she does, deny as lustily as it is in her to deny, the girl, all said and done, seeks finally the age-old destiny of the woman. The girls of this story do. They must if the writer is holding hands with life, even at odd moments. The novel starts off with vigor. It is a talking novel, progressing by way of conversation. Usually a dangerous expedient. A shade dangerous here. Few people talk well. Now and then one talks too well. The latter makes one feel as if he were sitting in on an interminable seance with Oscar Wilde. This book talks too much—a little. The girls are not up to it. No girl is. But, barring this slight defect, it is a good story—modern bodily into the mind and heart of you, sitting quietlike and looking on. This, is a first novel. This writer is & young man. He must be. Else he couldn’t have done i this thing. I'd use the word “charm” | in respect to his writing power if that word weren't already worn to a T T'll just say, therefore, that you have | waiting for you a story of power and | good beauty upon a theme of general con- cern, upon the subject of youth in its momentous urgencies and deep signifi- cancies. * ok ok ok OTHER ARABIAN NIGHTS. By H. L Katibah, A. B, Beirut, S. T. Harvard. Tllustrated by W. M. Berger. New York: Charles Scrib- ner’s Sons. “WHAT shall I tell you,” asked the old story teller, sitting in the soft Syrian darkness, a group of chil- dren squatted around him eager for him to begin, “a story that is all truth, & story that is half truth and half lies, or a story that is all lies?” “Tell us & story that is all lies!” chorused the children. Not imps of darkness these young ones. Conscious rather, no doubt as we ourselves are, of the agreeable flexibility of pure make-believe, of its ready fitting into every sort of fascinat- ing and utterly impossible to-do. And so, with such send-off, we come into n of “Other Arablan Nights” --a book of Syrian folk lore to which this author himself listened over and over again as a child. Here are { 1o | Sorcerers and jinns mixing with the common folks,” performing magic at many a point otherwise too dull to be endured by even the simplest and most ’ unexacting of humans. Life is a dull business without lies to liven it. And 50 the stories grow out of nothing at | all, except being alive and trying to! make a go of the business, The man- § ner of them is artless and wholly con- | vincing. The most of them deserve | special praise. Im| ble to give but, be sure to read “ Seller of Words” and “The World of Chance.” Having than likee I active and natural one, its young men— in spirit and outlook, engaged in the development of a handful of worth- while young women, its setting is an rescuers in a way—are such as one would like to be saved by. On the whole the story has much more to its credit than otherwise, and much in the THE RED KITE CLUE. ¥ew York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., ne. EDEN CLAY. By Walpole Brewer. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co. HOW WOMEN CAN MAKE MONEY. By Mae Savell Croy, author of “1001 Shorter Ways Around the House.” etc., New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co. By Owen Fox Jerome, author of “The Hand of Horror.” New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc. SWAG. 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