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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Interesting Exhibitions at the Arts Club—Pennell Etchings, - Water Colors and Lithographs on View at Dunthorne’s. BY LEILA MECHLIN. F special interest and peculiar O paintings by a local artist, Tom Brown. now on view at the Arts Ciub. This is the most comprehensive showing that Mr. Brown has made, and it amply testifies to his sensitiveness of impression and his keen appreciation of beauty in na- ture. To one of the works shown first prize for landscape painting was given a year or more ago when the Society of Washingten Artists held its annual exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, and while there is no doubt that the work deserved the honor. it is not . essentially bettcr than its fellows in this exhibition. Tom Brown is a North Carolinian, having been born in Wilmington May 31, 1881. He studied here at the Cor- coran School of Art, then under Fred Wagner _at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with Lester Stevens, and finally under Edgar Nye. But while he has learned from all these paint- | ers, he imitates none. His work is ex- tremely individualistic, but at the same time reticent. Artistically, he would seem to have inherited from the so- called expressionists—J. Francis Mur- phy, Tryon, and the greatest of them all, Twachtman. They, in turn, un- doubtedly were influenced by Monet, though they never employed his method of expression or affected his style. Invariably Mr. Brown uses color in high key and renders with real subtlety impressions of light through atmos phere, without strong demarkaticns of sunshine and shade. that he interprets most feelingly, most sympathetically, when nature is T awakening from Winter's sleep: but early Autumn pictures when the world is again seen through a veil of haze are equally significant and no less true. Among his most interesting canvases in this exhibition are “The Little White " 'a flowering fruit tree seen against a mass of fresh green Spring foliage: his “Prelude to Spring.” in which a group of trees quickening under the warmth of Spring sunshine are nicely indicated. and quite an elab- orate composition entitled ~ “Just Spring.” to which the place of honor over the mantel has been given. * % * % RUTH OSGOOD of this city is ex- hibiting with Mr. Brown, and her work makes an interesting contrast which evidences on the part of the charm is a group of landscape | It is Springtime | “WAITING ROOM, | notice was given last week. Here one sees a very charming figure study of 2 young girl violinist by Marion Boyd Al- len of Boston. who hes previously ex- hibited in Washingten and is well known here. An exhibition of Mrs. Al len’s paintings of the Canadian Rockies and the Northern Peaks, White Moun- tains, w Hampshire, has lately been shown at the Vose Galleries, Boston. Th> exhibition at the Arts Club in- cludes also a painting entitled “Julia and Enriqui,” the work of Susan Ricker | Knox, who has made a specialty of pic- tures of immigrants and has rendered with great individuality racial types Over the mantel in the lounge has been hung a broadly painted and bril- lantly colorful still life by Kathryn Cherry of St. Louis entitled “Bowl of Fiowe and nearby on the north wall | is a colorful still life by Susan B. Chase of Washington, “The Red Chair.” like- | wise rendered broadly. Mrs. Chase also shows & painting of “Lake Como,” and | Eleanor Parke Custis contributes to this | showing a characteristic rendition of “A Street on Lake Como,” possibly in | Bellagio, a delightfully picturesque | scene, | Gladys Brannigan's “Macroom Castle, | | Twilight.” is an ambitious subject force- fully presented—a typical Irish theme. ! | Anne Abbott shows two little etchings, | {a head in dry point and a group of | | buildings rendered in pure etching. | There are “Roses,” by Marion Haw- | thorne, & Gloucester scene by L. Scott | Bower and a& sympathetically rendered | ‘Portrait. of an Old Lady,” by Anna | Duer Irving, a descendant of the great | Washington Irving. This collection will be on view until | March 30. | | R AT Gordon Dunthorne’s interest is di- | ¥} vided between the exhibition of | maps in gesso by Mildred Giddings Bur- | rage. which eccupy the walls of the | upper gallery, and etchings, lithographs | | and water colors by Joseph Pennell, to | which the major space on the walls in | | the lower gallery has been given. | Miss Burrage’s maps are unique and | | exceedingly well done. At the opening | | tea Monday afternoon many expressions preciation of their originality and istic merit were heard. The Pennell collection brings back | pleasant memories and old associations. It consists of 51 etchings, 13 lithographs. i six water colors and a pastel, almost all | UNION STATION, | in_ the WASHINGTON,” BY sam—similarity which may be only a matter of merit—similar ability to see and to make manifest beauty of a like sort, but which goes to prove to the houghtful observer kinship of all great art. It is truly, as Saint-Gaudens onc: said, not what you do, but the way you do it that signifies. Mr. Pennell's way and also Mr. Hassam's was and is the way of the real artist—he who has conquered medium and has something to say. In his last years Joseph Pennell took up water color painting and made a number cf very charming essays in this medium. Most of them were studies of New York City and Harbor as seen from he windows of his Brooklyn Heights ho- tel. Four of the water colors in this exhi- D. ¢, MARCH 24, | i bition are of New York Harbor subjects. | One of them, “Statue of Liberty,” is an | exquisite work showing in an extremely small compass a spacious view of water l and sky, with the Statue of Liberty | holding the center of interest, such a | view as one might have from a high window at great distance, and yet in- timate in appeal. There is probably no artist in our tim: who produced more prolifically and who upheld more consistently a high standard When one thinks of the books that he illustrated. of the etchings made, of the way he ! 1 | than Jcseph Pennell. | that he | espoused the cause | of lithography and revived interest in it | as an art, and how finally he took to water color painting and employed it as a master would, it is marvelous in- deed. We are fortunate in having in W. ington so many of Mr. Pennell's wo Library of Congress, and tix time will come when the Library of Congress, through his endowment for a museum of chalcographie, will be able to issue at extremely low cost. for the benefit of the art-loving public, prints from his numerous beautiful plates, now in the safekeeping of the division of prints. It is a notable fact that though Joseph Pennell's etchings and ltho- graphs now sell for high prices, he con- sistently and continuously issued them at an extremely low price—in many instances at not more than $12—in order to make them available to those of moderate means. No one was, in all probebility, a more severe and drastic critic of our times and of our art than Joseph Pennell, and yet from many standpoints there were few more patri- otic, more public-spirited, more eager PENNELL. painters extreme individuality of vision and emphasizes the variety of ways by which a capable artist may find ade- quate expression. Miss Osgood paints more broadly, with more strength and far less subtlety. In her work the whole story is told, well told, but without leav- | ing much to the imagination. She is a good draftsman. a capable painter, and the works which she shows in this exhibition indicate not only the pro- fessional standard but definite progress toward real achievement. ‘The majority of Miss Osgood's pic- of which were owned in England ll’ld} have but lately been brought to the | United States. They are for the most part in his later manner, and show broad, free rendering of elaborate sub- | jects. : Of particular local interest are found | | those done in and around the Unioa | the great waiting room, another Iroml the portico looking toward the Capitol, | a third looking across the plaza toward | the portico. The last shows great fiags flying from the flag poles which stand to extend the field of art and its priv- ileges to those who wished to enter it. * * ¥ % THE American Federation of Arts, which has its main office in this city, 15 assembling at the present time an_ exhibition of etchings, lithographs and engravings by American artists, to Station in this city—one a view across ‘ be shown by invitation in the Victoria | and Albert’ Museum, London, for six weeks, beginning approximately the middle of May. ‘This exhibition is to a great extent | the outcome of a somewhat similar ex- tures, apparently painted in New Eng- | back of the Columbus Fountain and re- | hibition that was held under the aus- land, are either of the seacoast or of call the comment which Mr. Pennell |'pices of the American Federation ot" useums meets there. rolling hills. “New England Hillside” and “September in the Hollow” are par- ticularly engaging. Her flower paint- ings, “Gladiolas and Delphinium” and “White Cosmos,” and her still life, “Pep- pers and Bottle,” are extremely nice in color and freely rendered. In fact, in this exhibition both of these local painters give excellent ac- count of themselves. * e BOVE stairs at the Arts Club is an extremely varied collection of works by members of the Pen and Brush Club of New York, of which advance STATION,” A PENNELI! himself made that if these flags were larger they would produce a much more | splendid, gala appearance. In | etching Mr. Pennell has taken matters in his own hands and has deliberately | enlarged the flags, thus tangibly illus- trating his own recommendation. | ~ Bearing further upon this same point | is the pastel, “Fete on the Riva,” which shows a magnificent flag floating from | one of the beautiful flagstaffs on the Riva at Venice. Curiously enough, there | is @ certain similarity of style in the | rendering of this most interesting pas- ! tel and certain pastels by Childe Has- L this | | Arts at the Bibliotheque Nationale in | Paris last Summer, in that instance an exchange exhibition, for it will be remembered that simultaneously and under the same auspices an exhibition | of works by French artists was shown | in our Library of Congress here. Not only did the Victoria -and Alber Museum invite this exhibit, but it has set aside its best gallery during the height of the season for the showing. An honorary committee, consisting of the presidents of the leading print so- | sieties in this country, such as the Cal- | ifornia Print Makers' Soclety, the Chi- “FROM UNION ETCHING! cago Society of Etchers, the Brooklyn | Soclety of Etchers, the Print Clubs of Cleveland and_Philadelphia and the | American Institute of Graphic Art will in a measure stand sponsor for the | exhibition, which will be selected by & | distinguished group of artists, among | | whom will be the following: John Ta lor Arms, Kerr Eby, Eugene Higgin: Martin Lewis, Ernest D. Roth, Levon | West, Louls C. Rosenberg and Willlam | Auerbach-kevy. The jury is to meet | in New York on the 5th and 6th of | April. The prints are being sent at | | American Federation of Arts, in this city. An fllustrated catalogue will be printed here and forwarded with the prints. This is the most comprehensive col- | lection of American etchings that has | ever been shown in London and the | etchers themselves are enthusiastic over | the prospects. Such exhibitions, it is thought, go far not only to establish our American artists in the estimation of connoisseurs abroad, but also to cre- ate better understanding and closer fellowship between nations. * ok ok % Two more subjects have lately been added by Miss Lesley Jackson to the group of color post cards of Wash- Ington, issued under the title “Rounda- bout Prints.” These are all reproduc- tions of paintings by Miss Jackson, ex- tremely accurate in rendering and at the same time very artistic. The now subjects are of Mount Vernon and of the patio and fountain at the Pan- | American Building. The former shows | the beautiful old mansion as one ap- | proaches up the hillside from the river. | Human Interest is lent by the intro- | duction fo. the figures of sightseers, | { little figures on the portico at a. dis- | tance, and figures of two young: women lin the foreground: approachifig the. | great house. This view shows not only | |the portico, but the little side porch | and the charming arcade which con-| nects the house with the kitchen and | | outhouses. | | The picture of the Pan-American | | Building gives special prominence to the | | beautiful Aztec fountain by Mrs. Whit-| ney. Again figures are introduced and decorative effect given by a group of overhanging palm branches. In both) cases Miss Jackson has recorded the at- mosphere of place, something which is invaluable and is seldom seen in a post | card. Among the older subjects most in- teresting perhaps are one of the Du- pont fountain, Dupont Circle; one of the Lincoln Memorial and a view of the White House from the grounds at the south. The painting of these pictures and their reproduction as post cards is on the part of the painter and her col- laborator a purely patriotic undertaking from a desire to improve these souve- inirs of Washington and to spread through their distribution a greater ap- preciation of the beauty of our National Capital and its envirens. | “An exhibition of water colors by Miss | ! Jackson of scenes in France and in this | country has for some time been circu- ! lated by the American Federation of | Arts and wherever shown has aroused | | great interest and appreciation. ok “HE Southern States Art League will | hold its ninth annual meeting this | year in San Antonio, Tex., April 4 to 6, | at the same time that the Southern | | branch of the American Association of As usual, an ex- | hibition will be held at that time of | members® works. exhibition become that no entries were accepted after March 1. Numerous prizes will be distributed at this exhibi- { tion, and after its conclusion the works t | will. be divided into two or three col- | Gibran, Kahlil throughout the South. * K Kk Kk THE committee on opposition to the removal of antique furniture and | other works of art from the free list | are giving a formal dinner under the | auspices of the Antique and Decorative | Arts League, Inc., at the Hotel St. Regis, | New York, on the evening of March 26, which will be attended by not only | members of the league but, as guests, representatives of the leading art asso- ciations, art collectors and others throughout the country. In connection with the reframing of |the tariff bill, endeavor has been made | from outside to induce not only the | placement of a tariff on cotemporary | art—that is, works produced within the |last 30 years—but also on antiques, | which since 1913 have been admitted | tree. It is in opposition to this effort that this dinner will be held. e | ‘THE exhibition of drawings, illumina- i tions and reproductions of drawings ~ by Miss Marian Lane at the Corcoran | Gallery of Art has proved so successful | and so many sales have been made that | it has been decided to extend it another | I week. | Miss Lane, who was seriously injured {in an automobile accident a few weeks | ago, is now making speedy recovery. {Ttaly’s Marble vS—c;:t To American Mart ! Romans who went there to extract the | pure white marble for monuments. Michelangelo himself journeyed to Ver- | silla to select the marble blocks for his | masterpieces. Eighty per cent of Italy's marble out- put is exporied to the United States for use in private and public - buildings. ‘Two Oriental couniries are now com- | peting with the United States, Incia Marble is Italy's chief export and the richest mineral product of Italian sub- soil. The best marble caves are those in Tuscany, In the Apennine Mountains, | near Versilia, which were known to the | | the present time to the office of the | Coulton Pach, Walter. Gocher, W. H. Trotalong. Goldberg, Isaac. So popular has this | !lections and will be sent on circuits | and Turkey, where muci white marble I 18 worked exclusively by Italian inter-' STATION TO CAPITOL” ONE OF THE IN THE EXHIBITION AT DUNTHORN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and'Hsts of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Art. Allen, M. C. The Mirror of the Passing World. W-Al 53m, Boas, Belle. Art in the S8chool. WB- B63. G. G. Art and the Reforma- W15-C83. The World, the Arts W-1Ed5. The_Technique of WMW-J63t. tio Edman, Irwin and the Artist Johnson, Borough. Pencil Drawing. Ladd. H. A. With Eyes of the Past.! W-11L 12, Ananias; or, The False Artist. W-P 11. Perard, V. S. Anatomy and Drawing. WMA-P41. Birds. Alexander, W. B. Birds of the Ocean. PE-A123. Nicholson, E. M. How Birds Live, PE- N6&2h. Sturgls, Mrs. B. B. Field Book of Birds of the Panama Canal Zone. PE-St97f. Riding. Gocher, W. H. Pacealong. VJR-G53p. VJR-G53t. McTaggart, M. F. From Colonel to Subaltern. VJH-M25. Noer, O. J. The A B C of Turf Culture. VKG-N68. Biography of Musicians. Ble, Oskar. Schubert the Man, VW10~ ch788b. Flower, W. N. Franz Schubert. VW10- Sch788f. The Story of Gilbert VW10-G37g. Schumann - Heink. and Sullivan, Lawton, Mary. VW10-Sch87 1. Sabaneev, L. L. Modern Russian Com- posers. VW10-9Sal2.E. Saleski, Gdal. Famous Musicians of & Wandering Race. (Reference Dept., does not circulate.) VW10-9Sa33. Schumann, Eugenie. The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms. VWIO0- Sch86d. Boats. Bowen, F. C. From Carrack to Clipper. SOHT-B67. Curtis, N. C. Boats. 1927. 80-C04. Leitch, A. C. Miniature Boat Bullding. SOHT-L53m. Moore, Thomas. Build s Winning Model Yacht. SOHT-MT78. Motor Boat Handbook, v. 1. 8OG M856. Smith, G. A., comp. and ed. The Out- g:u;g Motorboat Manual. SOG: m54. Family Ethies. Van Waters, Mirlam. Parents on Pro- bation, BP-V38p. Meyer, H. D. Pre-School Child Study Programs. BP-M579p. Pedersen, V. C. The Woman a Man Marries. BPY-P343w. Groves, E. R, and Mrs. G. H. and Children. BP-G918p. Eliot, C. W. Talks to Parents and Young People. BP-EI 46. Baldwin, B. T. The Young Child. BP-B 199y. Norris, Kathleen. BP-NT9. | Jesus Christ. | Bible. N.T. Selections, English. The Complete Sayings of Jesus. CGQ- 74. ] B4T4. Bowie, W. R. The Master: A Life of Jesus Christ. CGQ-B675 1. Fiske, Charles, b& ‘The Christ We Know. CGQ-F54. Jesus the Son of Man. CGQ-G357 | Gooder, Alba: CGQ- 6. G61. McKendry, J. B. The Life of Jesus for Junior High School Pupils. CGQ- M 19. | Martindale, C. C. Man and His Destiny. ' CGQ-M36m. ‘Rome Column Stands As Shrine to Bolivar Parents Home. | n. Jesus Christ. | tory for the confiict between the plebe- |ians and the patricians, has now become { the mecca of resident and visiting South | Americans. j Around 1800 Simon Bolivar, “El Lib- ! ertador,” came to visit the ruins of an- cient Rome and while atop Mount 8a- | cred he took a solemn oath to free his country from Spanish domination. South American will to this day | show you a small broken column on the | Sacred Mount and claim that Simon | Bolivar sat on it while lost in profound 1 meditation. | Today, in pilgrimage, South Ameri- ! cans retrace their liberator’s footsteps. America Is Called Cradle of Hawaiians The highest authority of the Mor- mon church in Hawail is advancing the theory that the Hawaiian race came from the American continent. This suggestion was made by Willlam M. Waddoups, president of the Ha- walian Conference of the Church of | Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mor- ! mon), in an address to the Hawailan Civie Club. President Waddoups, enunciated the theory that the Hawaiians are de- scended from aboriginal American stock —antedating the Indians as we know them. He also suggested that this ab- original stock developed a culture which was notable for artistic and sclentific knowledge. President Waddoups® theory is in con- flict to that of many scientists who are tracing the Hawallans back to Asiatic origin, Rome's Sacred Mount, famous in his- | 192 REVIEWS OF NEWEST BOOKS Serious Volumes on a Variety of Subjects—Early Spring Fiction. Adventure Story of the Pine Woods of Canada. BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. ! DAMS AND CONTROL WORKS: Bu- reau of Reclamation. Elwood Mead, | Commissioner. Washington: | ernment Printing Office. O bring into economic partner-| ship desert areas, on the one| hand, and flowing streams, on | the other, stands as the basic | purpose of irrigation, a sclence | of complex specific problems and a| | highly developed technic. of solving | these problems. An anclent enterprise, | this one of irrigation, as both archeol- | ogist and historfan demonstrate from a world-wide investigation. Its success | implies civilization. Its failure marks, the certain ultimate fall of such ad- vance. | It is now 27 years since the Reclama- | tion Bureau of the United States was | organized, equipped and set into opera- | tion. Irrigation is & major element in| the full scheme of reclamation itself. Its specific was, and is, to bring together in a working partnership | the arid regions of this country and the | innumerable streams that, so far away, are engaged in a perpetual marathon- ing to the sea. To join their forces would mean more homes and a vastly increased food production for thé use of the world. As it is, the desert is, | plainly, loafing on the job—just paint- | | ing gorgeous sunsets and devising the| illusions of mirage. The partnership | once effected, however, that same desert | | would, in rich abundance, be growing fruits and vegetables, grains and forage. | ‘The solution of this problem has| brought about the modern engineering age. It has produced the great builder, | the engineer, industrial unifier of the/| world, & power in the economic content of modern existence. The book in hand is & descriptive treatment of the work of irrigation threughout this country. Text, pictures, charts and diagrams come together here in portrayal and explanation of | the mechanics of irrigation. In much | of mecessary detail one learns here of | the typical storage dams and the dams | for the diversion of the waters. There | is here. too, a description, fairly clear to the general reader, and completely clear, one judges, to the technician him- | self & description of the high-pressure reservoir outlet works which in certain regions of special condition form so im- portant a part of the work of irrigation. ‘That which passes this professionally | expert discussion out into the open of | general interest is the concrete por- | trayal by way of picture and diagra. matic illustration of the special struc- | tures imposed by loecal conditions as these are placed here and there | throughout the country. Cases in point | are the diversion dams of the Colorado | River, of the Rlo Grande, and Wind River and Willwood. And here also are | the storage dams known as the Roose- | velt and Shoshone, the Pathfinder and | Arrowrock and others. High pressure | outlets also are given the explicit, ex- act, sclentific attention that the nature of his printing as officlal report requires. A body of miscellaneous articles bearing upon the subject, a group of appendices pertinent to certain important aspects of the work as it now stands and a bib- | liography that was selected, obviously, by an expert for its point and useful- ness round this official volume upon a most important.subject to & high degree of professional usefulness. And, more than this, here is a book that contains every element of interest to the general reader who desires to know and needs to know, the work of the United States in any direction that is pointed upon the well being of the whole. To me this | is an absorbing book. You try it. It | will ‘'be Just that to you. | And with it there goes a smaller printing, which by its nature becomes a | continuation of this one. Its title is “Foreign Markets for Irrigation Ma-| chinery and Equipment.” An issue of the Department of Com- merce, the study gives a survey of the work of irrigation as it is being carried on all over the world. This book also is illustrated. Its descriptions cover nearly 100 countries accompanied with tables of useful data covering area, population and the sum of the irrigation enter- prises. It is arranged in six parts, one for each of the continents. Here in every case is & summary of climate, ag- ricuiture and the various plans for irri- gation that in each case the special con- dition imposes. The main purpose of this discussion is to ald the machinery export business, the business of trade in irrigation machinery. Its collateral pur- pose is to inform and interest those in this country who are planning to be en- | gineers, or to be students of irrigation as an important part of economics. * kK K DON'T BE AFRAID. By Josef Lobel, | M. D. Translated by George P. | Gov- | |, | story w] | place that part. But, it is always the man himself who counts. An evangelist, lecturer, traveler—but always an eager explorer of the spirit, always the friend- y man, the ready sympathizer, the understanding one. Here is a rich and varied experience. Here is a pligrim seeking his fellows. One travels for change. One for adventure, for the thrill of danger, for the test of human | courage apd endurance. This man traveled to find souls—no, not & spe- cifically plous quest, this one. Almost a different, sort of spirituality is mani- fest here than the one connoted by the usual purpose and method of schooled missionery. beautiful and heartening story to which Philip Wilson has devoted himself in a fine zeal of appreciation, in a fine competency of production. * Kk X K THE HOUSE OF THE THREE GAN- DERS. By Irving Bacheller, author of “Coming Up the Road,” etc. In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. IN spite of the ups and downs which every romance must have in order to be a romance at all, this one never reaches so high nor dips o low as to remove it from the smiling acceptance of even the most critical reader. Within certain limits one knows what to ex- pect of this author. Besides the good hich his readers count upon there must be enough of human kind- ness and decency in it to leave people not_altogether discouraged at having 1anded upon this earth. In other words the good folks must outnumber the other kind, as they undoubtedly do in fact. There must be a wholesome leaven of fair dealing, & lot of kindness, many a playtime, and many an hour of leisur and laughter. These are all here. All here circling around a story of good plot, nothing less than a famous trial Whote end upholds fustice, as it should do and would do in'a romance counted worth attention by Irving Bacheller. Amity Dam is the hamlet where the chief interest of the matter centers and Amity Dam is exactly the kind of spot up in Northern New York that Mr. Bacheller knows as well as he knows the back of his own hand. Its queer characters, its friendly homespuns, its kindly humor, its ali-around good hu- man stuff, come out in the activities set agoing by the adventures of young Shad Morryson, who is certainly in need of friends and who gets them. A mellow Bacheller story to take its among those novels that, like this one, proclaim the balance of goodness and decency over badness and inde- cency in this amazing and beautiful world of ours. EE DREAM BOAT. By Norval Richard- son, author of “Pirate’s Face.” Bos- ton: Little, Brown & Co. IN spite of the fact that this is just & made-up story, sheer romance, it turns out, nevertheless, to be an_ en- gaging matter. The plot 18 & shade thin, but it achieves its purpose since it sends the young man who centers the action out from the United States across to Southern France, where on some off-shore of the Mediterranean lies anchored the “dream boat” that shapes the adventure and brings it to issue, Bequeathed to Francis Bruce by his staid and successful father, its first office is to disclose evidence of that father's two-faced existence. However, that is & minor matter. To take pos session of the legacy is the point that leads to the romance itself, incidentally opening the mystery of an errant fa- ther—of another errant father. But the man is dead. Fate in this case shows plain common sense. She slips & lovely ady of the younger generation into his place and the romance is on. Not fo novel, you see. The triumph of the matter, and there is fair triumph in it, issues from the sincerity and beauty with which Mr. Richardson has em- bodied and passed on that southern stretch of French country, that old Provence which merely grows richer in its essences and emanations under the commonly destructive offices of time. It is with this that the author wins the reader's gratitude. An old abbe sur- rounded by the parish peasantry in mountainside wherein lives the beau- tiful and mysterious girl with her slim household; a group of strolling gypsies —these provide the material out of which emerge the savors and fragrances of that ever-youthful sirem, old Prov- ence. Norval Richardson has a fine stock of words and a keen sense of their significances and of the ways they best love to get together in tuneful com- panies. And with this gift he works >ut the full and fruity atmosphere of the land wherein the romance of “Dream Boat” comes to its issue of happiness forever after. Dunay. New York: G. P. Putham’s Sons. FI:AR is the universal disease, itself a breeder of innumerable specific allments. That is, I think, conceled by | authority itself nowadays. hi man. Here is a physiclan—German, not | only in blood, but in the depth and | thoroughness of his investigations— | who brings out one and another of the popular bogies of the moment for an upstanding account with them. First, however, he gives pious warn- |ings against fear. asking the why exposing the futility of it. You will, nevertheless, go right on hugging your fears. They have been lifelong compan- lons. Harmful ones, to be sure, but you have not the will ® kick them out of the door for goxd and all. So, since this is true, move on to some of the discoveries of this German doctor in_regard to the best beloved of our afflictions. “High blood pressure” is | one of these. That coffee is a poison ! is another. That the heart in the “en- gine,” the sole source of continued ex- istence is another. The common method of eating is another. A meal should be a ritual of intelligent selection, leisure and enjoyment. And so, through 40 short and snappy chapters, the doc- tor takes up the personal ecomomy of | every man’s physical daily life. He! brings the bogies into the open, slaps | them with vigor and gusto. From this wholesome exercise he moves into a plain, simple, intelligible survey of cer- tain current theories concerning the subconscious life, the glands of the human body. their nature and func- tion. He offers sense, instead of miracle, on the subject of keeping young, on the necgsslty for sound partnership between one's will and his knowledge of the human body. There is something to say, something new and impressive, that much-handled subject of | Indeed, the characteristic of | | say, | upon | sleep. this book "is that it is all of it new | and fresh, not in its technical findings, | but in its approach and in its spirit. | Read it, Somebody calls it a “gloom- chaser.” Well, it is, in the sense that with sturdy personal co-operation it can give a body blow to many of the fears that afflict all of us. Read it. * K K AN EXPLORER OF CHANGING HORIZONS: Willlam Edgar Geil. By Philip Whitwell Wilson, New York: George H. Doran Co. NOT a new book just stepping out into the o) A year old and a| bit more. Quite an elderly book you see. However, some day, when there is leisure at your command and when at the same time your mood is warm and expansive, just sit down with this big | and friendly volume. Within it you will come upon a man, a wanderer who went all over the world questing peoples and races, to get near if might be i the special situations that made each of these peoples what it was inste: building it into another kind of life and civilization. Picture, incident, happen- ing, action—these follow one another, aow in this part of the globe now in d | home to the house in the depth of the | * ok %k |HEART OF THE WOODS. By Isabel 2% PO Adams. New York: The Century Co. “YHO was it? John Burroughs, that found the wide world itseif in his are the heart and mind and eye to know it. Isabel Adams did come to realize this—not, however, till she had traveled pretty much the wide world over. Then something said to her that | this was all back home, every bit of it. So she went home to find the world, pine woods that blanket the Laurentian | hills There, not far from a French- Canadian hamlet, she lived the life of a | world traveler, taking notes, mnaking records, finding romance and adven- | ture and fresh experience. Among her | simple neighbors she discovered all the | strange intricacies of the human heart, all the familiar traits that one crosses | the world to discover anew. It is of this discovery, it is of this wild life that she writes in “Heart of the Woods.” Hard { Winters find place in it—snow and bliz- bard with interludes of brilliant sun. Adventures crowd in the rescue of man | and beast from the insatiable storm king. Other adventures take on the! form of hunting, hunting moose and deer. Too bad, that! However, it is ber So we go along—not gladly, on those shooting trips. But.! happily, there is much beside this. A delightful strain of record includes the interesting people roundabout — the “habitants” themselves, the genial par- ish doctors, father and son: famous | wayfarers and occasional visitors. It is the French-Canadians, the native dwellers, who spice the story to its finest flavors of fresh interest. These, with the lone woods in their mysteries of | story, not ours. voice and manner, provide the chief - interest in this personal record of those northern solitudes by a keenly appre- ! clative friend and a writer of chavm; and skill. BOOKS RECEIVED WITHOUT CENSOR; New Light on Our Greatest World War Battl R | Yorke Gallery | 2000 S Street N.W. Exhibition of Paintings RY PASQUAL MONTURIOL Spanish Artist March 11th to March 30th the | It is a big and| their separate and distinct traits and | | behaviors; & ruin of a castle on the By Thomas M. Johnson. Tllustrated. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. THE MODERN LIBRARY—THE PHI- LOSOPHY OF SCHOPENHAUER. Edited, with an Introduction by Ir- win Edman. New York: The Modern Library. THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT. By Wil Irwin. New York: Double- day, Dorsn & Co., Inc. MY LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS. By Eddie Cantor. As told to David Freedman. lllustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers. READINGS IN PUBLIC OPINION: Its Formation and Control. Edited by W. Brooke Graves, Professor of Political Science in Temple Univer- sity. With an Introduction bv Clyde L. King, Ph. D., Professor of Political Science in_the University of Penn- sylvania. New York: D. Appleton Co. ON DOING THE RIGHT THING: and Other Essays. By Albert Jay Nock. New York: Harper & Brothers. THROUGH ENGLISH EYES. By J. A. !Sj)ender. author of “The Publle fe,” etc. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. FAMOUS AMERICAN ATHLETES OF TODAY. By Charles H. L. Johnston, author of “Famous Scouts,” ete. Boston: L. C. Page & Co. CHINA'S MILLIONS. By Anna Louise Strong, author of “The First Time in History.” New York: Coward- MecCann, Inc. SIX MORAL TALES FROM JULES LAFORGUE. Edited and Translated by Prances Newman. New York: Horace Liveright. ICE-BOUND; A Trader's Adventures in the Siberian Arctic. By James M. Ashton. With 35 {llustrations and a map, New York: G, P. Putnam's Sons. RED DAWN; A Novel. By Adele Blon- den. Boston: The Four Seas Co. NIGHTS ABROAD. By Konrad Berco- vicl. Illustrated by E. H. Suydam. New York: The Century Co. SHORT STORIES FROM VANITY FAIR, 1926-1927. With s Foreword by Prank Crowninshield. New York: Horace Liveright. FOUR DUCKS ON A POND. By Ruth Sawyer, author of “Seven Miles to Arden,” etc. New York; Harper & Brothers. |1 SAW IT MYSELF. By Henrl Bar- busse, author of “Under Fire,” etc. Translated by Brian Rhys. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. BISMARCK'S RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND, 1871-1890. German Dip- lomatic Documents, 1871-1914. Se- lected and Translated by E. T. S. Dugdale, with a Preface by the Hon. James W. Gerard, Former Ambassa- dor to Germany, and an Introduc- tion by J. W. Headlam-Morley, C. B. E., Historical Adviser of the Brit- ish Foreign Office. New York; Har- per & Brothers. DREISER LOOKS AT RUSSIA. Br ‘Theodore Dreiser. New York: Hor- ace Liveright. THE FATHER. By Katharine Holland Brown. New York: The John Day Co. WITS' END. By Viola Paradise, author of “The Pacer,” etc. New York: E. P. Dutten & Co., Inc. | LESSONS P¥ FINANCE: An_Attempt to Poj Economy to Blow Out Poverty. By James Arthur Dupre. Boston: Meador Publishing Co. THE WHITE GIRL. ‘By Vera Caspary. New York: J. H. Dears & Co, Inc. | Carlsbad’s Name ' Bothers Czechs ‘Whether Carlsbad should be called | Karlovy Vary and Franzensbad should |be changed to Frantiskove is still | bothering the minds of the Czechs and Germans in the cosmopolitan republic of Czechoslovakia. The population in these world-re- nowned watering places is German, but the Czechs still think it is a question of prestige to advertise the two resorts with the Czech spelling of the old Austrian names. In 1923, the district political admin- istration ordered the hotels and amuse- ment places to use the Czech language in advertising and in receipts, pro- grams and pamphlets. The cure as- sociations of the two towns appealed to the courts. After long litigation it now has been decided that the town committed no illegal act in advertising in forelgn papers in German, using the names Carlsbad and Franzensbad. . ‘The two health resorts are becoming pular as they were before the war. As the tourist trade is becoming one of the most important undertakings | in Europe, it is probable that the busi- nesslike Czechs have decided it not | worth while to exaggerate the import- Here is the helping hand toward such |own dooryard? Well, there it is. in | of the Czech lan; in this in- advance upon the common enemy of |everybody’s yard, provided only lhfl'fl'::‘:::ce. o e i | The old names of Carlsbad and Franzensbad are already too well ad- vertised to be scrapped. /Men Don Wofien’s Clothes to Get Jobs An unusual problem is facing the Tokio police department with the dis- covery that there are a number of the “waitresses” in cafes who are really men working in disguise. According to Junji Kaneko, high of- ficial of the police board, under whom the problem has been investigated, the practice of men masquerading as mem- bers of the opposite sex is increasing. It is very easy, he points out, for them to buy a gay kimono, and so long as they do not create any disturbances they are very hard to detect. The principal cause for this unusual situa- tion is the extreme lack of employment for men. ‘The demand for girls to work in cafes is fairly steady, and it is usually pos- sible to get some sort of a job as a waitress if one is at all good looking ! and has attractive clothes. Police regulations prohibit men from assuming the roles of women on moral grounds. ‘The authorities have issued notices to all cafe proprietors urging them to co- operate in seeing that only bona fide waitresses are hired. TheBook You Want ~ When You Want It ERE you mayobtain fora u:l; the purchase pdu—cnmk | of fiction or non-fiction, if new and | popular. pleas The service is and Lire g, the books are cm—&'d in- ‘h*m& You start and stop when you WOMRATH'S :88¢5ied 1310 F St.. 3046 1ith 8. N.W. Jeme Tmariett: 108" Connectient Ave. N.W, inssnan