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a S, 1929—-PART 2. 'THE» SUNDAY STAR. . WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH LOCAL ART EXHIBITIONS Galleries Offer Splendid Showings for Visitors in Washington for the Inauguration—The Comins Exhibit—Other Notes of Local Artists. BY LFILA MECHLI COMPREHENSIVE exhibition of his recent work was given by decorative today and as desirable as closely related to the charming little when cotemporary vogue brought them | nto existence. | works in poreelain, which Vicken von Post (now Mrs. Totten) did in her own AMONG THE COMINS PAINTINGS REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS The Eskimos and Their Land--Novels From Several Writers. “Napoleon’s Legion™ and “The World on One Leg.” The Roosevelt Bird Lists. BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. THE SINGING GOLD. By Dorothy Col that before he is the man of learning ! and research. The test of the book in its immediate effect is that this is INNER LIGHT; A Year Book of Daily In the upper gallery at Dunthorne's, particularly appropriate to the season | and passing events, is a serics of carly | American views—rare engravings, lith- | oBraphs in color—a view of Georgetown g : | about 1846, a large view of the City o “Betty and Dot.” little daughters of Mr. | Washington ‘n 0oL Siewme ot tne e and Mrs. Charles Drayton of this City. |ito)"in process of development, views of The portrait is to hang over the mantel |y, 1t PAtts oF CeveioRTS 5 in the Drayton drawing room, where | Baltirore in 1752, Boston in 17 the walls_and_woodwork are white: | York and it Environs in 1761, therefore Mr. Comins kept it high in | %7k 2nd its Environs in 1761, the Olty key. . : g = 0111\1::“1&5\::.”7R1r91;;’<'!‘? :::;-2;:]1:1; | Philadelphia, old Charleston American | e years o s - | cities as they we en our Republ 1y, are dressed alike in simple, delicate | CLic5, 85 they were when our Republic| tirell. Boston: Houghton Miffiin | 's Tumediate effect 1s that this is Ca stead to another family of our own F you chance to be in that certain people, of our own country. part of Auazr;lma where this story | PPURP grew you might, just possibly, come ; upon ‘its author.” A young woman | NAPOLEON'S LEGION. in a wheel chair or seated by the| Frafeklyn Parls. New York roadway in a motor which she herselt |, & Wagnalls Co. handles and controls. And maybe she | JOWARD the end of this book is an would tell you about ‘the singing | account of the “American Saciety gold"—about the down larks, millions | of the Prench Legion of Honor. and of them, that soar, singing. high in the | this is followed by America’s roster of | sunshine above the huge flocks of sheep | membership therein. The high point | making their slow way across the land. | Of the volume to many readers. who | Then she would tell about the little | %ill find deep interest in the list of Texts and Comments. compiled by Jean A. Freeman ton: Meador Publishing Co. , | GRANNY REMEMBERS. By Ella H By W E Mac The J. W. Burke Funk PRELUDE TO BATTLE fred Gottfried. New John Day Co. S OF THE SILVER FISH. tchen Krohn and John Norton Johnston. lllustrated by Mary Haring. Indianapolis: The Written and Bos- A Eben Comins in his studio suite. at 1611 Connecticut avenue, last week. Then for the first time he showed a number of portraits lately completed. among them a_portrait of home in Stockholm and cxhibited when she first came to this city, works of a | rare sort, of which we have too few to- day. These original porcelains, which have been exhibited in the Metropolitan | Museum, New York, and other art | museums throughout the country, rep- | resented for the most part characters in Swedish folk lore, It is delightful that Mrs. Totten is now thus memorial- | izing our Mother Goose. A group of Mrs. Tolten's works are By York Man- The 68, New pink dresses and are pictured against a gray background, in which bits of pink. violet_and other colors are suggested | vaguely. The frame. designed and | tinted by Mr. Cominz. exactly suits both picture and wall, setting the one apart and yet preventing abrupt contact ‘There could be nothing more difficult than such a subject. vut seldom cocs one see a portrait of this sort more satistactory or better cszme. The heads in both instances are beautifully painted, fully finished, very expressive; the frocks, the arms, the background are all broadly brushed in, but there is no impression of incompleteness; the expressive child faces, the earnest, mirthful eyes catch and hold, as the painter meant they should, the ob- ver's attention. And there is a nice erentiation” in character, in person- y—Ilikeness with difference. Another of Mrs. Comins’ recent paint- | ings is a three-quarter-length portrait | of Scere! Wilbur of the Navy. The | cabinet member is seated in an arm- chair with a gray battleship in the background, vaguely suggesting a mural decoration—that kind of significant ac- cessory which the old Italian masters loved to employ and which so seldom | is used today. For the type of ship which Mr. Comins has presented is that which will always be associated with al | was voung and urban life was far 1ess | to be shown in the great forthcoming complicated than it is today. | Thaw's P AT the Yorke Gallery the exhibition 4} of paintings by H. M. Rosenburg which opened last week, has been sup- plemented by a group of portraits by Mrs. Alexander Blair Thaw and a group of little statuettes by Mrs. George Oakley Totten Mrs. Thaw's exhibition seven canvases, the most recent of which is of a little girl. “Barbara.” painted with great simplicity ard di- rectness. Included in the group is Mrs. ellent portrait of her hus- band. a self-portrait, the latter an ex= tremely subtle and satisfactory work; also a portrait of her daughter. Donna Beatrice Theodoli, and of Donna Theo- doli's little son, “Filippo.” Here, also, is_the portrait of Mrs. Macfarlane in which the artist has made use of an un- usual background scheme, placing her sitter against the edge of a window so that there is sharp contrast of light and shade. Mrs. Thaw, it will be remembered, has comprises | studied under excellent masters, and ' large plates, to which has most recently | she has a style quite her own. Aok “HE statuettes which Mrs. Totten is showing at the Yorke Gallery were produced very recently and have just MRS. CHAMBERS (NEE PLATT) AND HER CHILD. A PASTEL BY JOHN RUSSELL. ON EXHIBITION AT THE DUNTHORNE GALLERY. Secretary Wilbur, the ship from whose | been exhibited at the Grand Central decks airplanes can rise and on which | Galleries, New York. They are six in they can find resting place. This por- | number, and each represents a char- trait is very direct in rendering strongly | acter from Mother Goose or American modeled, realistic, but by no means in | child lore. For instance, there is “Little the category of the usual “official work.” | Miss Muffet” seen scated on her tuffet, It is destined, it is understood, for |Very much scared by the spider; there placement in a semi-public building in |is “Little Bo Peep” going in search of Secretary Wilbur's home State. |her lost sheep. there is “Little Boy third important canvas lately com- | Blue” asleep on his haycock: there is pleted by Mr. Comins is a portrait of | the Right Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee, | first Bishop of Washington, a portrait | which is purposed to memorialize him | In the Washington Cathedral's collec- | tions. It was painted from photogaphs | and from criticisms by members of | Bishop Satterlee’'s family and close friends, by whom it is found eminently | satisfactory. It represents the late bish- | op as a younger man than the majority | of Episcopalians in Washington will re- he first took up his episcopal duties in this city. rather than when, years later, | he laid them down. It represents essen- tially a spiritual man and one of beau- tiful manly countenance. He, too, is pletured seated and is seen wearing his | episcopal robes. Mr, Comins has been experimenting | lately in pure fresco painting—that s, | painting on wet plaster, as did the old masters of Italy. In this medium he has produced one or two interesting panels in the spirit of the twelfth cen- “Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary” with | her watering pot in her hand: and just extracted from the Christmas pie. Besides which Mrs. Totten has added to the group “Yankee Doodle” riding on his poney with a real feather stuck in his cap, as debonair as can possibly be, at sight of whom any one rigl minded would exclaim, “Maca-Roni"! “What a dandy.” These little works, which are full of the child spirit and of laughter, are cast | in a composition which is almost un- breakable, so, as Mrs. Totten says, chil- dren can handle them safely, and are painted and varnished. so they have the | charm not only of sculpture (and they are essentially plastic, by the way) but also of color, and they are exceedingly modestly priced. In modeling them Mrs. | Totten had in mind the ornamentation of nurserics, of kindergartens and the Little Jack Horner” with the plumb | | exhibition of American sculpture to be | {held in the California_Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, from | | April to Autumn. | | * ko ok | | AT the Library of Congress in the South Curtain, under the auspices of the division of prints, a group of 17 stchings by Gabrielle DeV. Clements of | this city 15 now on view. 4 | “Miss Clements began etching in the | early '80s when the art was young in! | this” country, but the work that she is | | doing today is in the spirit of the pres- | {ent and compares favorably witu the | best. Thus it is most fitting that she | should be given place in the present | owing of contemporary work and that that place should be bstween the Pen- {nell exhibit and the more comprehen- |sive exhibit of present-day living | etchers. Chronologically arranged, the etch- ings in this group are approached from the present; that is, the latest work is shown first. This consists of what is known as “The Baltimore Series"—five | been added one of the State House at | Annapolis. These Baltimore plates, | showing characteristic views in that | | city, were dene in successive years— | the Washington Monument in 1896, the Harbor, Baltimore, in 1921; Mount Vernon Place in a snowstorm, 1925; | the Battle Monument, 1926, and North | Avenue Bridge in 1927. They are all elaborate compositions and show ex- | traordinarily fine draftsmanship on_the | part of the etcher. “The Harbor, Bal- | timore,” is beautifully etched, very im- | pressive; “North Avenue Bridge" is an exceedingly unusual composition sho ing the conjunction of the Pennsyl- vania, the B. and O. and the Western ; | Maryiand lines, a typical scenc so | rendered as to present not only a sense | of power but of real structural beauty. | Artistically and technically these plates | are notable achievements. They are | all published by Bedann of Balitomre, | each in an edition of 250. In three \lnsunccs the edition has long since been exhausted and the price conse- ‘ quently not only doubled but tripled. | * Turning the corner from the case in { which this series of etchings is shown, | one finds the still earlier works—"The | Mill Race,” dated 1884; two Gloucester | subjects, “Home from the Banks" and | “Herring Fleet”; “Rockport Quarry,’ | also dated 1884, as fine as anything that | the etcher has produced—a little up- right plate showing the oxen on the | quarry’s floor drawing away the heavy | blocks of stone. Belonging to this same serfes is “The Road at Folly Cove,” d lightfully naive but assured in tre: ment. Then come two of Mount St. Michei—unusual views—two of Chartres and two of Taormina—in all a group of which any might be proud. Gabrielle DeV. Clements was. born in Philadelphia in 1858, the daughter of Dr. Richard Clements of that city and Gabrielle DeVeaux Clements of South | Carolina. Her preliminary education | was in the Philadelphia schools. She | studied drawing and lithography at the | Philadelphia School of Design for Wom- jen in 1875 prior to entering Cornell | | University the following year. | _ She graduated from Cornell in 1880, | |returned to Philadelphia, attended | classes at the Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins, ‘studied etching | with Stephen Parrish with a small group of artists whom he invited to work in his studio once a week, and produced her first plate in 1882. In 1884 she went to England and France and stud- ied at the Academie Julian in Paris| under Fleury and Bouguereau, exhibit- ing in the salon of 1885. The efchings of Chartres and Mont St. Michel now on exhibition were all done in the Summer of 1885. Returning to Philadelphia, she took up mural painting and did panels, first for the New Century Club and Guild, | then for the Pennsylvania Building at | the Chicago Fair. In 1894 came her | visit to Italy for the purpose of ex- | tended study of mural painting in Flor- | ence, Slenna and Venice. In 1895 she | became assoclated with the Bryn Mawr | | 8chool in’ Baltimore as head of the| | department of drawing. and continued to live in that city until 1908. During these vears she did decorations for three churches there—Trinity Church Towers, St. Paul's Chapel and St. Matthew's, | Sparrows Point, and also executed a | decoration for & music room for Mrs. | Horace Brock of Philadelphia. In 1910 she came to Washington, where the majority of her Winters since have been spent, in company with Ellen Day Hale Miss Clements and Miss Hale have a Summer home at Folly Cove and studios well equipped with facilities not only for painting and etching but for printing etchings. Miss Clements is a member of the fel- “BETTY" AND “DOT.” DAUGHTERS OF MR. AND MRS. CHAR DRAYTON OF WASHINGTON. ONE OF THE RECENT PAINT BY EBEN COMINS, [ ciety of Etchers and the Etching Club | urdav and sungay afternoons free; the of Charleston. | Mayers ‘rexuie Museum, 2330 S ntreet, a e o | private collection generously open to MVIARGARET A. R. STOTTLEMEYER | the public Monday, Wednesday and Fri- is holding an exhibition of minia- | day afterncons from 2 to 5, admission tures and small portrait drawings at | by card obtained at the office of George the Lorraine Galleries. Mrs. Stottle- | H. Myers, 1508 Fifteenth street; the meyer includes in her exhibit portraits | Freer Gallery, with its Whistlers, its of men. women and children, and uses | Peacock Room, and its marvelous Ori- delicate color and clear wash. Her | ental works of art: and the Smith- miniatures are not strong, but they have | sonian Institution wherein at the pres- a certain charm of simplicity. Her ent time is to be seen an exhibition of drawings, on the other hand, show di- ' etchings of birds by Charles E. Heil. rectness and forceful treatment. | % XTH N * ow x S. BAGDATOPULOS, an exhibi- THE Landscape Club of Washington * tion of whose paintings .f East is to have an exhibition of paint- | Indian scenes and portraits "s now on ings at the Arts Club from March 2 to 16. The Arts Club committee and Felix Mahony will be hosts to the Land- showing a group of dry-pofnts of Indian ! subjects, together with a few Dutch pic- { view at the National Gall <y of Art, is| “BARBARA,” A PORTRAIT BY AT THE YORK] MRS. BLAIR THAW. ON VIEW E GALLERIES, | scape Club membership at a tea from | 4:30 to 6:00 next Sunday, March 10. | This club has had a traveling exhibi- } tion on the road this season which has | been shown in 19 cities of the South and has attracted very favorable at- tention. Vl & k% | SITO! to Washington should not tyres, under the auspices of the Art Promoters’ Club, at the Playhouse, 1814 N street northwest, opening today from 3 to 6 p.m., to continue for two weeks. Mr. Bagdatopulos will be present every afternoon from 4 to 5 p.m. to meet those specially interested. The exhibi- tion is open to the public. x % % * LARA 1. BOONE, chairman of ex- |like-places frequently by children. But|lowship of the Pennsylvania Academy | these are works which will delight chil- | of the Fine Arts, the Society of Wash- the permanent exhibits | such es the Corcoran Gallery with its splendid collection of American paint; ings and its new wing housing the va- Tled and mportant W Aoy ot Art, | S. Ruckman, Miss Loretto Lowanstein A States | and Mrs. G.'B. Shantz, respectively, at }}‘;‘:f‘gg“,'fiflgzfig‘y.};‘nfli‘f&’;";"s?r':e&f;m» clubhouse, 1108 Stxteenth stree where at the present time the splendid | Untlh March 15, iy f‘gh;b'l;‘::‘ ‘:x"cg;‘: exhibition of Malbone miniature is on Sundays, SPECIAL exhibition of drawings by view, and paintings both contemporary A Miss Marian Lane lately shown in American and by the old masters, com- Fl’i&t‘d in the Evans and Johnson col- . the Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, is to be placed on view in the Corcoran ctions, may be seen; the Pennell Me- morial Exhibition at the Library of Con- Gallery of Art this week, an exhibition which will undoubtedly commend itself gress; the Phillips Memorial Gallery, | to the visiting public. overl hibits and contests, League of American Pen Women. announces the | continuation of an exhibit in oil paint- ings, pastels and ceramics by Mrs. W, * K ¥ % with its old and modern masters, espe- clally masters of the new schools, which is open to the public on Tuesday, Sat- PUBLI Recent accessions at the Public LIBRARY the THE C Secondary ~ School. |dren of mature years as well as little | ones. In style tury, one an "Entombment of Christ,” in which a group of figures is seen carrying the body of the crucified and character they m'ek | ington _Artists, the ‘Washington Water Color Club, as well as out-of-town ganizations, including the Chicago So- Library and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. IP—FT736w, Maguire, E. R. The Group-Study Plan. P-M218g. Monahan, A. C. Laboratory Layouts for Savior 1o the tomb provided by Joseph | of Arimathea, The other is a picture of the Christ—very simple, somewhat clongated, essentially in the spirit of primitive art. The latter he has done not only in frescc but in oil paint, illustrating thereby the special rich- ness of the plaster medium. Of Mr. Comins' versatility as well as of his| command of several mediums, this ex- | hibition gave eloquent witness. S /\CROSS the street, at Gordon Dun- | there is now to be seen an exhibition | Biography. Bailly de Barberey, Mme. H. R. Eliza- bry',h Scton. 1927. E-SeT4b.E. Blunt, H. F. The Great Magdalens E-9B625. ; Hite, L. F. Swedenborg's Historical The Position. E-Sw33h. Hugel, Friedrich, Freiheer von. Mystical Element of Religion as| Thayer, V. T. The Passing of the Reci- Studied in St. Catherine of Genoa.| tation. IP-T33p. 2 v. 1923. E-C2841 h. | Weber, J. J. Picture Values in Educa- Mareu, Valeriu. Lenin. E-L5427m E. tion. IPP-W3s. Sparrow, Mrs. L. K. The Last Cruise the High School Sciences. IRK-M74. Mort, P. R. The Individual Pupil in the Management of Class and School. 1P-M847i. Odell, C. W. Tyaditional Examinations and New-Type Tests. IPM-Od2. Rugg, H. O, and Shumaker, Ann. The Child-Centered School. IP-R84. 1926. E-8p277s. thorne's, 1726 Connecticut avenue, of paintings by eighteenth century mas- ters, lent by M. Knedler & Co. of New York. which, with the beautiful | old English furniture contained in this gallery, are seen to delightful advan- tage. Here are works of supreme merit —-a Gainsborough portrait of Capt. Bragge, painted about 1762, to the right of which hangs a portrait of Mary Ann Sykes by John Hoppner, and to the left | portrait of Mrs. Jane Dawkes, after- Morris Robinson, by George | omney. The Romney and the Hopp- 1 are both studies in white and are ine examples Here also 1s a “Portrait of a Lad: by Allan Ramsay. and an amazing por- trait in pastel of “Mrs. Chambers, nee | Platt, and Her Child,” by John Russell, | which was shown in the Royal Acad-| emy. London, in 1788 and is as fresh | today as then i Of great interest in this group is a | “Portrait of a Boy With Two Dogs,” by | Nathaniel Dance, which comes from the collection of the late Duke of Hamilton and is supposed by some to be a por- trait of William Beckford, the younger, when a child Here is a group of paintings of Lon- don and 1ts vicinity. done with that seme care that Canaletto bestowed on his pictures of Veni Two are by Samuel Scott, One is a “View of Old Putney Bridge,” which Whistler painted many years after but which has now long_ since disappeared. The other is of “The Thames at Barnes." | Here are works which have stood the | test of time. the test which Jefferson | applied, works which “generations have agreed to admire,” and which are as MRS. JANE DAWKE PORTRAIT BY ( EXHIBITION OF El DUNTHORNE GALLERY. AFTERW | Speight, H. E. B. The Life and Writings B 0? John Bunyan. E-B888s. | Ueland, Andreas. Recollections of an| | ! | | ARD MRS. MORRIS ROBINSON. A ORGE ROMNEY, WHICH IS CONTAINED IN THE SHTEENTH Cl NTURY PAINTINGS AT THE I ant. E-Ued. ergr;‘\r{“gr. L. Forgotten Ladies. E-9W93. Advertising. Vaughan, F. L. Marketing and Adver- | tising. HKU-V46m. Dippy, A. W. Advertising Production Methods. HKA-D627 . Dunlap, O. E. Advertising by Radio. HKA-D925. Lewis, Norman. tions and Packaging. Literature. Bachelor, J. M., and Henry, R. L., eds. Challenging Essays in Modern ’I‘houxh{. Y-9B 127c. H Gibran, Kahlil. The Prophet. Y-G357p. | Hergesheimer, Jx;l_'cph. From an Old| ouse. 4 - A Rover T Would Be. Lucas, B. V. Y-L961 r. aurols, Andre. A Voyage to the Island of Articoles. Y-M446V.E. A, S The World I Saw. Y-MT757w. i “iurry, J. M. Things To Come. Y-M966t. ~wcomer, A. G. and others, comp. Twelve Centuries of English Poetry | and Prose. Y-9N436ta. H hilps, W. C., and others, eds. Models and Values. Y-9P5ém. | V/ikinson, G. E. How to Read Litera- ture. 1927. ZX-W655. Teaching. Alberty, H. B. Teaching. IP-Al 12. Fontaine, E. C. Ways to Better Teach- Samples, Demonstra- HKA-L58s. ! Hills, E. C., and Ford, Spanish. Brown, 8. W. A Spanish Beginners. X4OR-B819. Haller, R. W,, and Klein, Arthur. College Entrance and Regents Spanish. X40G-H 153. J.D.M. A Span- X40G- H557s. Laguardia, C. G. B, and Molt, P. M. A sni?m\ Outline Grammar. X40G- L 138, Parker, E. F., and Torres Rioseco, Arturo. An Intermediate Spanish Grammar and Composition. X40G-P227i. Scymour, A. R, and Carnahan, D. H. Alternate Spanish Review Grammar and Composition Book. X40G-Se06. | Reader for ish Grammar for Colleges. Spanish Stories and Plays. Cano, Juan. Cuentos Humoristicos Espanoles. X4OR-C 166. Cano, Juan. La Vida de Un Picaro. X40 R-C 166v. Marquina, Eduardo. La Morisca. Y40D-M346m. Ruiz de Alarcon y Mendoza, Juan. La Verdad Sospechosa. Y4OD-R854v. Weisinger, N. L., ed. Cuentos Alegres. X4OR-W436. Cotton in Natural Colors. Scientists are experimenting in cross- .ng natural-colored cotton to produce any hue desired. Cotton grown in Egypt has a brownish tint, that from India a gray, that from Peru a reddish shade and that from China is yellow The plants breed true to type and the Project Method in' colors are fixed and do not change with ! choly! variations in soil or climate, so that it may be possible to eliminate dyeing. hawks of the plains that follow the | | moving sheep to prey upon these “tiny {sparks of music.’” Singing they rose ! though they knew the hawks were wait- | {ing for them, singing even as they fled | from the talons of death. Once among | | the soaring larks and the hovering {hawks “my father heard a little rush of song, and something soft and quiver- ing darted into his open shirt and nestled against his great chest, while the thwarted hawk circled above his | head, calling shrilly. He had carried the beautiful desperate atom there until the safety of darkness came; and dear, rough, gentle old man that he was, I never heard him tell it, even years after, without tear-blurred eyes. It had been so frightened and so small and vallant, that it had flown not only into his shirt but into his heart.” Such is the key to which this lovely story is pitched and such, in a sense, | is the essence of the story itself. Al handful of people, the family and work | folks on a sheep ranch in Australia. A small band, maybe frightened, certainly valiant, under the brooding exactions of a vast and untamed land. A plain rec- ord, this, of family matters. Plain? Well, as plain as pure poetry can be. For this is poetry, a lyric, into which good fun enters and keen wit 1and a smiling valor before the hard ex- actions of the unsmiling land itself. Here is the story of little Joan and | Dickie, soaking up their particular corner of Australia till it is a part of their blood, the whole of their spirit, the source of joy, and grief, through all their hours and years. A record of life in that far quarter stands here, clearly in its own character. The human stuff of the story is charming and delicious. The year-in-year-out intimacy with this home corner of Aus- | | tralia yields innumerable pictures of | jillimitable land and sky, of miles of dry waste, of long stretches of gray mulga trees splashed here and there with golden boronia thickets, of innumerable small wild creatures, they, too, making | a go of life in this amazing land. It| is, however, the human element that | counts so big here. In a strange set- ting to be sure—that is, strange to us— vet they are cut in our own pattern. { Just life is here, plain, simple, natural. The people are “muddiing through,” as we are. But it is life met courageously, challenged valiantly, accepted stoically. And as for the business of putting words together in a way that makes music and | tells the true story besides—why, here, | you have a rare and beautiful example | of that very kind of art. * ok ok x THE WORLD ON ONE LEG. Ellery Walter. Illustrated. York: G. P. Putnam'’s Sons. iNOT the world on one leg. | the boy who rounded it and crossed |it up and down, both on the straight jand ‘on the bias, every which way, | was on “ome leg.” Crippled to the necessity of crutches, this astonishing lad, set out to see the world at 14. He | put seven years into the sight-seeing !and then, at 22, propped the crutches beside him and took a chair for the | telling of the great story. And it is a great story, not only in its scope but in its content as well. There is no point in telling where he went. You can read that. Besides, he went every- where—Old World, New World, famous quarters in each, many a remote corner here and there that most travelers pass by, but not this traveler. There is but one world, to be sure. Or, so it is said. Happily, however, each traveler makes the world out of himself—therefore both he and his readers are sceing it fresh in every new record of travel. Aston- | ishing as the account in this case is, of ! new regions visited, of new sights and | new experiences—these fade to a de- gree beside the personality of the writer himself, If you are looking for courage and daring, for gusto of life, for the | zest of sheer living—stop right here. For here it all is. Think of it!—A la | erippled, moving out under the sting [of the wanderlust. going to all parts | of the earth, earning his way, eating up | experiences, limp by limp, and hobbling {on again. And not a small part of the achievement is that of making a book after the journeying was over, that of taking up a lecture tour to let the world see how its many parts look to the eyes of a lad out on his own. A good share of the record, good for the reader, is that the print of this book is fairly bursting with its content of joyous travel, of eager sight and no small de- gree of insight. Pictures fall over one another here to let the reader know— word pictures that move on a run, that sparkle with the traveler's own joy, that laugh with his glee at being on his way. We speak of a book being alive, now and then. Well, here is one, 50 acutely alive as to make one a shade offish about handling it, lest it speak right out in the face of the reader. A great plece of work by a boy who is greater than the book itself. * ok ok k¥ THE PEOPLE OF THE TWILIGHT. By Diamond Jenness. Drawings by Claude Johnson. New York: The Macmillan Co. Wl‘l’H the Eskimos of the North Alaskan Coast we are at this mo- ment in the comrlny of & man who has been there for three years and more, getting ready for us to come along up that way. A guide is after all an essential when the traveler finds his self in a strange place, everything cov- ered in the deep concealment of the generally unknown. In that situation there is no way of knowing the impor- | tant from the trivial, the basie from | the casual. No such disability attends { By New Instead, Americans so jonored and the causes for such signal distinction A long list, including, not warriors alone but | men useful in peaceful walks as well— inventors, scholars. philanthropists, ar- tists, financiers, and others. It is this point of inclusiveness that brings the average student to the vital matter— that of the origin of the order, an origin that indicates Napoleon's gifts for peace as well as for war and con- quest. Wars over, for the time being. this wise statesman saw that there had arrived the moment when not only set- tlements but progress as we':, rmust take the place of conquest. Napoleon, wise to the human heart, placed full value not only upcn the impuls~ duced good public service but upon the emblems as well marking that service 50 that its wearer stood proclaimed in | the eyes of men as a figure of substance and usefulness. So. this great man— coming to be scen—expanded the order that he had instituted in honor of brave military leaders and fighters, to take in leaders in all important walks of life. And here, complete, is the story of “Na- poleon’s Legion"—its rise and growth ism and citizenship, its present outlook and significance. A very valuable line of vital history is included here in the story of the “Legion.” ik THE MURDERS IN SURREY WOOD. By John Arnold. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. nounces its hopeless handicap. can be hunted out with any degree of certainty, with any degree of interest to the innocent bystander. seem to be at present engaged in some- thing resembling a carnival, a carnival of crime. And this fact, no doubt, led the author in a spirit of realism to pile one murder on top of another with a quite too liberal hand. Now it seems to me that a story of crime must have interludes of activity that are, in outer seeming at least, quite removed from any implications of slaughter or other Ul-doing. Moderation, the sparing hand. the power to soothe and set rest, must be as essential in the equip- ment of the author of murder stories as it is essential to every other sort of practitioner. Take any profession— music, medicine, law, whatnot—it must sake of the public if not for the sake of the professionals themselves. As a structure, as something built—founda- tion. framework, filling and finish—as a technical fabrication, this story is not so bad. Just a single murder, duly incited and committed, just a plausible amount of false pursuit to be remedied that pro- | greater in peace than in war as it is| and expansion, its effect upon patriot- | 'HE title of this mystery tale an-| Certalnly one murder is as much as| To be sure, we | at | have its moments of easement, for the | Bobbs-Merrill Co. UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE WIG- WAM. By Newion W. Gaines. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House. THE INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD; A Manual for Mothers. By John Lovett Morse. A. M., M. D, Edwin T. Wyman. M. D.. and Lewis Webb Hill. M. D. Second edition, revised. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co. NE THEOPHILE HYACINTHE LAENNEC: A Memoir. By Gerald B. Webb, M. D Tllustrated. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. THE SOUTH AMERICAN HAND- BOOK, 1929: A Guide to the Coug~ tries and Resources of Latin- America. 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The mortality, however, was slight and Chang may yet give trouble. Of course, the Chinese are asserting that Chang is backed by Japan, seeking in fresh disorders a pretext for keeping Japanese forces in Shantung. We are told that famine grips nine | Chinese provinces end that the Na- tionalist government is not acting ef- fectively to relieve it. It may be that the Nationalist government is quite un- able so to act, but there you are. There are said to be 20,000,000 persons either and corrected, just a clear line of pur- | starving or desperately undernourished. pose making its way through a less | The appeal for funds of the China in- dense jungle of circumstance of inept | ternational famine relief commission and indirect connotation—all this would | has been only very moderately success- have helped the story. and would have | ful. Morcover, even if the commission roused the interest and admiration of | had all the funds it asks for, there is readers. If I were John Arnold I'd take | the ancieut problem of distribution. In seythe and mower, root digger and |view of the primitive condition of com- stump exterminator, to clear the ground munications whatever the abundance of somewhat, and then I'd make a real | supplies, relief must needs be very im- mystery tale—one that doesn’t look | perfect. Both politically and economi- quite so much like the slaughterings of | cally the improvement of means of a live stock corral. * ¥ % X N a recent issue of the Boston Tran- script a news item headed, “A Roose- velt Record,” states that three bird | lists of President Roosevelt had brought at public sale $525. One of these was made by him in the Adirondacks, one at Oyster Bay, and one in Washington, D. C. The last was made for “Birds of Washington and Viecinity,” written by L. W. Maynard. “Birds of Washington and Vicinity” is now out of print, but the Roosevelt list of the birds of Washington and roundabout has been reprinted by Mrs. Maynard and is now in the city book- shops, ready for the Spring study of birds of this locality. It is a long list, more than 90 species represented by it. “Doubtless this list is incomplete. I have seen others that I have forgotten,” says Mr. Roosevelt in a note to Mrs. Maynard. He notes the birds that nest on the White House grounds. Of the sparrow hawk he wrote, “A pair spent the last two Winters here; they fed on sparrows—Ilargely, thank Heaven, on nglish sparrows.” Planning a new edition of the Wash- ington bird book, Mrs. Maynard asked Mr. Roosevelt for a list of the birds seen by him around the White House. “Certainly!"” was his cordial reply, “I will do better than that. I will make you a list of all the birds I remember to have seen in and around the city.” Adding, “You'd better send me a re- minder. I may forget.,” then smilingly, “Send the reminder to Mrs. Roosevelt, or it might get into the waste basket.” The Roosevelt list was dated March 27, 1908. It was not used until the next year, when the President had left Washington. One bird in the list was unknown to Mrs. Maynard by its name there, so she wrote to Mr. Roosevelt asking him if it had another name. ‘The reply, written from the Outlook office, came the day he sailed for Af- rica: “Yes, the bush sparrow is the field sparrow.” Books Received E OF CAREERS FOR A Practical Guide to Achievement. Compiled and edited bv Doris E. Fleischman. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. TO MARKET. By Harvey J. Sconce. AN OUTLIN! WOMEN; us here, however, for Mr. Jenness does | know the place and the people. He' has dug beneath the surface of Eskimo lite in a search for the foundations of | many of their customs and beliefs, for many of the causes that have even- tuated in their present status of char- acter, of physical stamp, and in their attitude toward the new day whose | dawn is breaking even at the poles, | North and South. A companionable | man, this one, even though he be stamped “scientist,” “investigator,” “ex- pert.” For you see he does not wear his learning like a gaudy garment. Not at all. Instead, he has invited wisdom to sink deep within him, there to stew in his particular personal juices. Then, when it comes to the surfsce in our behalf, walking along beside him, it proves to be the genial companionship of a man who can tell us the most vital and interesting of the phases of life up here on ti Alaskan Coast. We meet the people of “the twilight” and enter their snow huts, partaking for the moment of their ways of life. We trail the caribou and sense, diffi- dently, the long darkening of the days. “Winters long and severe, Summers too short and too late in their arrival to permit the growth of fruits and cereals.” isolation, wandering perpetually for food, too much darkness—oh, melan- Yet one would not miss the adventure up North in eompany with this sympathetic man, who is all of l | | | Boston: The Stratford Co. TREASURES; and Other Poems. By Winston Barnes Lewis. Boston: ‘The Stratford Co. THE MYSTERY OF THE HAUNTED | WING; and Other Stories. By Maurice O'Regan Fitzgerald. Bos- ton: The Stratford Co. AN EVOLUTIONIST LOOKS AT RE- LIGION. By Charles A. Collin. Bos- ton: The Stratford Co. MOODS. By Gertrude Lee. Boston: The Stratford Co. THE INFERIORITY FEELING. By Willaim S. Walsh, M. D., author of Yorke Gallery 2000 S Street | Paintings by H. M. Rosenberg | communication is China’s main de- sideratum. It is estimated that 900,000 tons of fecod are needed, whereof only 300,000 tons are available in China (mostly in Manchuria). It is, however, pleasant to note that the provisional authorities of Hupeh province are exerting themselves with energy and some success toward rellev- ing the terrible situation in that province, but elsewhere the local au- thorities seem supine or worse. The old story over and over again. One, Li Tsung-Len, leader of the so- called “Kwangsi-Hankow faction,” exe- cutes a coup. overturns the government of Hunan Province and establishes a new government, named from Hankow. (Changsha is the capital of Hunan.) Some dispatches, however, discount the importance of this affair. And now we hear that, though Marshal Chang Tsung-Chang suffered a severe check at the outset of his at- tempt to “come back,” he persists and appears to be gaining strength. We are told that a considerable number of Nationalist troops sent to “eliminate” him have joined his standard. 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