Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1929, Page 32

Marjorie Phillips’ Paintings on Exhibition—Architects Meet- ing in Washington — Garden Pictures and BY LEILA MECHLIN. COLLECTION of recent paintings by Marjorie Phillips (Mrs. Dyn- can Phillips) was opened on April 6, to continue to May 28, in the Phillips Memorial Gal- lery, 1608 Twenty-first street. Mrs. Phillips’ work is not by any means unknown to Washington art lovers, for she has been represented in the Corcoran Gallery's biennial exhibi- tions and from time to time in the changing exhibitions at the Phillips Memorial Gallery, but this is the most comprehensive showing of her work that has so. far been made here, al- though she has twice held exhibitions of equal size and importsnce in New York, one of them at the Durand-Ruelq Gallery, by special invitation. ‘The present collection in the Little Gallery comprises landscapes, with and without figures, and still life—flowers and fruit. There are 1» or 16 paintin~s in oils, and of these only two or three have been previously exhibited. In- cluded in this small minority is a painting entitled “On the Ridge,” show- ing a broad sweep of open rolling coun- try, broken here and there by patches of woods—a simple, realistic theme, treated in a broad, decorative manner. The lines of the hills flow rhythmically and resolve themselves, apparently un- consciously, into a pleasing pattern. One feels the solidity of the earth, its moulding as by the hand of a great sculptor, and is moved and impressed by the pure beauty of expansive effect. Here is a work of real distinction, done without a trace of self-consciousness or affectation. Likewise charming, and even' more naive, is & painting entitled “Tea at the Sand Pile,” an outdoor picture in which children and an awning chair are used as decorative factors, human- izing the composition, lending a sympa- thetic touch. The way in which the awning chair is painted indicates to the initlated an amazing amount of skill on the part of the painter, skill which permits a most difficult subject to be rendered with apparent ease, ease which takes on the air of the matter-of-fact. There are other pictures in this col- lection in which child life is given in- teresting and adequate expression, such as “In the Orchard” and “A Little Playground.” . ‘The desire of modernists today is to become as little children, to be able to give forthright expression to not only things seen but things felt. But few are successful in such attainment. Mrs. Phillips is one of the few, and the rea- son for it is that while gaining maturity in skill she has not lost her freshness of viewpoint, “the sweet perfume of Springtime years,” which Lowell lauded in his great poem on womanhood, and which, once lost, can never be re- gained. ‘Witnegsing to this painter's technical #kill and originality are her paintings | of still life and flowers. “Pineapple and Orange Tree” is a complicated com- position rendered with great assurance and worthy of comparison with the works of some of the leading French masters. A small study entitled “Fruit” is no less good, but much less preten- tious, as is also a modest study of zin- nias; whereas, on the other hand, there | is resplendent beauty in the gigantic, colorful “Poppies,” which greet the eye of the visitor immediately upon en- trance to this Little Gallery. Referring to a note in the catalogue of the Phillips Memorial Gallery en- titled “A Collection in the Making,” one finds that Mrs. Phillips (Marjorie Acker) studied at the Art Students’ ague under Kenneth Hayes Miller and “exhibited from the first sincerity in her work and a poise which enabled her to resist the fashionable idols of the hour—Renoir and Cezanne—gh de- fense of her own individuality.” Mrs. Phillips still resists such temptations, and though she has undoubtedly been influenced by her exceptional opportun- ity for acquaintance with and study of the works of Renoir, Andre, Bonnard and others, she maintains a style ex- clusively her own. w0k TH‘E great event this week in Wash- ington will be the annual meeting of the American Institute of Architects, the exhibition of architectural models and designs of the development of the National Capital in the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art, incident thereto, and the ceremony on Tuesday evening of the presentation of the gold medal of the Institute of Milton Bennett Medary of Philadelphia, to be held, at the invi- tation of the trustees, in the Corcoran Gallery of Art under the auspices of the American Institute of Architects. ‘The American Institute of Architects is, as the majority know, a professional organization, national in extent, the purpose of which is to advance the art of architecture and to uphold it to the highest standards in this country. It has been in the past a most influential organization for the improvement of taste and for the encouragement of bet- ter building. It was active in securing the appointment of the original Mc- Millan Park Commission for the re- planning of Washington, and it has stood firmly back of the plan drawn by this commission ever since. That it should now be concentrating upon its further artistic development looking to & still greater Capital City to come au- u{s well for the Washington of the uture. The gold medal of the institute is only given for the most distinguished achievement. Among the recipients have been George Kim, Bertram G. Goodhue and Henry Bacon. Mr. Medary belongs in this category. He 15 not only past president of the American Institute of Architects, but he has to his credit work both fine and beautiful, work showing dis- tinct individuality in conception and execution. The American Institute of Architects, which owns and has its headquarters in the historic Octagon House, meets in convention on the 23d, 24th and 25th, adjourns then to New York to view the great exhibition of the allled arts set forth in the Grand Central Palace by the New York Architectural League and affiliated inizations. ‘The development of Washington will be doubly emphasized in connection with this convention by a meeting to be held on the 25th in the great hall of the United States Chamber of Com- Etchings on View. merce under the distinguished auspices of the Secretary of the Treasury, at which time Mr. Mellon, to an invited audience comprising. the President of the United States, the cabinet, members of Congress and members of the Ameri- can Institute of Architects, will set forth plans and ideals for the upbuilding and beautification of this city, and a lately completed model showing the proposed location of #he new Government build- ings and the development of the tri- angle south of Pennsylvania avenue, latefy acquired by Congress as sites, will be shown. * k ¥k IN connection with the exhibition which the New York Architectural League is holding in New York, it is of interest to know that included therein is Eben F. Comins’ large fresco “The Entombment,” painted here in Washington studio during the past Winter and pu: , it is understood, for permanent placement in a great ec- clesiastical huu;flng. . [ * A’r the Yorke Gallery, beginning to- morrow, and essentially appropriate te the season, will be an exhibition of garden pictures by Mary Somerville El- wes of Somersetshire, cland, held under the patronage of the British Am- bassador, the Right Honorable Sir Esme Howard. tion of color in black and white, are re- markable characteristics of his_work. Roland Clark follows in Benson's footsteps, but shows to some extent in- dividuality of treatment. Benson Moore has made a path for himself, chosen unusual subjects found in the zoo and presented them with decoraiive effectiveness. One of his etchings of birds, “White Herons at Home,"” was recently seiected by a most exacting jury of etchers for an exhibi~ tion to be held in the Victoria and Al- bery Museum next month, * ok X AN’ additional work in sculpture by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney has found this week permanent placement in this city. It is a memorial to the four women responsible for the found- ing of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, and was unveiled ‘with suitable ceremony at noon last Wednesday in connection with the great annual meeting. The work consists of a draped figure of a young woman standing with out- stretched arms, approximately life-sized, rendered with marked simplicity. The head is bent slightly forward, the face is serene in expression. This figure is supported by an exedra bearing the dedicatory inscription. It is of marble and has been located on the axis be- tween Memorial Continental Hall and ‘e b “FOURTEENTH CENTURY PRIORY.” A PAINTING BY MARY S. ELWES. IT IS INCLUDED IN AN EXHIBITION AT THE YORKE GALLERY. At an exhibition in London of French | battlefields and English gardens Queen Mary purchased a water color of Eng- lish wild flowers and, it is said, compli- mented Miss Elwes on her pictures of devastated France, pictures painted while the artist was doing practical re- construction work on the battlefields. The art critic of the New York Her- ald Tribune, reviewing an exhibition of Miss Elwes’ work held at the Anderson Galleries, New York, said: “She is an English water colorist who has traveled extensively, painting with much deli- cacy and feeling the flower gardens of many countries. Her exhibition is filled with the charm of these different lands. Her England is quite the most romantic, for there is frequently some old castle wall or medieval gateway rising amid the intimacy of the garden precincts. She bridges the gap between the gar- dens of England and South America with a fitting sense of the more vibrant and striking qualities of the latter, and her Jamaica garden series is particu~ larly vivid.” Miss Elwes has traveled in many out- of-the-way places and has exhibited her water colors not only in England and in New York, but in Paris, Buenos Aires, Valparaiso and other places. And not only does she paint, but lectures and writes. Her lectures are on gardens, on rt and on international affairs. She is at present painting here in Washing- ton, having wisely chosen this time of Spring leaf and blossom for her visit and exhibition. * kK % A’r Gordon Dunthorne's, likewise ap- propriate to the season, may be seen this week etchings of birds by both American and English artists. Among the Americans represented are PFrank W. Benson, Charles E. Heil, Roland Clark and Benson Moore, the last a B, Post, Charles F. Mc-| Washington! ian, Benson's birds are for the most part wild fowls—duck$ and geese in flight, water birds, birds which set the sports- man’s pulse to throbbing, for Benson is not only an artist, but a sportsman. He has the quick eye of the Orlental al- though he is all American, and the keen sense of the lover of wild life out of doors. Others, since he began, have etched similar subjects, but none has etched them as he has done—with lightness of touch, strength of line and |Sf suggestion of motion. As ar etcher g-tnx W. Benson stands among the st. Charles E. Heil's birds are of a dif- ferent sort, scientifically correct, ex- quisitely rendered—specimens, studies, not as one would see them in a mu- seum, but as one would see them un- seen, at close range. ' His rendering of feathers of varied textures, the sugges- \ the new Constitution Hall, facing the Pan-American Union the south, with a grove of evergregas as a back- ground. ¥ Mrs. Whitney, it will tbe recalled, is the sculptor of the unique and beautiful Aztec fountain in the Pan-American Building. Furthermore, the heroic fig- ure dedicated to the men on the Titanic who gave their lives far the women, presented to Washingtod, but not yet mr‘xiq:nently placed, stands also to her credit. : According to a recent report issued by the National Sculpture Society, New York, Mrs. Whitney 1s at present in Spain attending the unveiling of a colossal statue for which the Spanish government commissioned her. This is a statue of Columbus, which is to* be erected in Palos, the port from which the great discoverer sailed. Another of Mrs. Whitney’s wotks in sculpture is the American War Memorial at St. Nazaire, Prance. % %% M!NTION was made in this column last week of three Washington sculptors—Mr. Bush-Brown, Mrs. Cres- son and Mrs. Totten—who will be rep- resented in the great exhibition of cotemporary sculpture to eb shown at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco this Summer. The name of Miss Clara Hill should be added to this, making the Washington representation four. Miss Hill will be represented by a “Girl and Pegasus.” This work was unfortunately selected too late to be included in the monu- mental catalogue of the exhibition, but will undoubtedly be listed in the smaller ‘handbook. From April 27 for a fortnight Miss Hill will show at the Arts Club a num- ber of recent portraits. —— Coolidge Ex-President In February. to Rome American political procedure is an in- comprehensible process for ‘most = ropean commentators—including title writers for movie news reels. Durin; the second week of February—three weeks before Calvin Coolidge was to re- linquish the presidency of the United tates to Herbert Hoover—there was exhibited in a prominent Roman cinema a motion picture of “Ex-President Cool- idge of the U. S. A" on a hunting ex- itlon. The Italians read that Her- rt Hoover was elected President last November and heard much of the President-elect as a visitor to South America. They assumed that by Feb- ruary Hoover was President and Cool- idge “ex-President. L] __(Continued From Third Page) Canada over 9,000,000 cat- tle—nearly twice as man; 1,000 of population as the Unite 3 to us are by a great percent what are known as “stockers and feed- ers”—cattle shipped over here on the hoof, to be faf in _America on American grain, Lynn Edminster of the Institute of Economics says: “8o fren are the disadvantages for cattle feeding in Canada as compared with the United States that neither the actual nor the prospective importation of finished beef from this source, whether on or off the hoof, constitutes a very serious threat to our cattle in- dustry. Canada's record export of beef to the United States was 36,000,000 pounds. Compared with oar own an- nual beef luction of from 6,000,000,- 000 to 7,000,000,000 pounds, such fig- ures are obviously small.” But what is small for us may be big for Canada. When, for instance, the Fordney-McCumber tariff went into ef- fect, Canadian stockers and feeders were on the free list. A tariff of from & cent and a half to two cents was laid on them. Canadians still remember that it was nearly four years before scarcity of live stock compelled Amer- ican buyers to pay the new price—four years during which Canadian herd owners were carried by their banks. gropoud to double that ‘anadians, regarding that rospect, remember how they previous- y turned to Great Britain and sought other markets. Today, however, they have a card or two in their xe:‘zs which they did not have on the ea! occasion. Importation of U. 8. Goods. They look at their importation last year alone of $916,000,000 worth of American goods and they talk of re- taliatory duties. They say something about & boycott of American goods. They see in the late reports of our own Department of Commerce that we ex- port more foodstuffs to them than they export to us. They observe that we sell lthem 90 per/cent of our exported peaches and berries,. 74 per. cent of our exported lemons and 85 per cent of our exported oranges and that they are in general our principal export country for all fruits, By united opinion they have: em- barked upon making preferential tariffs with more well disposed countries. They now have such treatles with every country except ourselves and Germany. But their big ace is the matter of the St. Lawrence waterway. Canada is not so keen for it as we. For while formerly all Canadian wheat went out by the St. Lawrence, now all of Alberta’s and part of Saskatchewan’s wheat goes west through Vancouver, and still another outlet is furnished by the Hudson Bay Railway, which is just being completed. ‘The American farmer wants the St. Lawrence route for shipment of his goods to Europe and has said -so re- peatedly. Also, the United States wants the hydro-electric power to be devel- oped; Canada already has plenty of power. Now, Mr. Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, signed a report to the effect that the new canal to take American agricultural products to Europe should be built not through New York, but down the St. Lawrence, and in his sub- sequent speeches he made it a part of his presidential program. As President, he faces the possibility of a tariff which, if passed as planned, { will almost undoubtedly be met by Can- ada with a refusal to give us the right of way. A perusal of the Canadian press leaves one in no doubt as to that as- | sertion. Moreover, the Canadlan | Premier himself has given good ground for the belief that agreement by Canada | to join in the St. Lawrence project de- pends to some extent upon our attitude toward Canadian products. Attitude Toward Tariff. At this point, however, it is of the | utmost importance to note that all { Canadians, in their expressions upon this and other similar subjects, em- phasize their realization of the fact that tariff, like immigration and liquor laws, is purely a matter of American ‘domestic legislation, with which they have not the slightest intention of interfering. Tt is we Americans who should ob- serve the international barometer for ourselves. It is the representatives of the Ameri- can farmer in Congress who must de- cide whether we shall take a tariff wall which already impedes Canadian ship- ments and elevate it to the level of an embargo; whether (despite the fact that it is not our agricultural interests, but_theirs which are threatened) we shall declare what amounts to an eco- nomic war upon Canada and throw away thereby not only a considerable amount of our present but the farmers’ own St. Lawrence waterway as well, and get in return so little that it amounts to nearly nothing. Tt is this situation which at this mo- ment is actually acute. When the cap- tain of the I'm Alone got himself sunk 200 miles at sea, he merely spectacular- ized and popularized discussion of a situation which has arisen often before between us and which has not caused a ripple of sentiment against us among Canadians. Methods Objected To. 1t is not the enforcement of our laws to which Canadians object, so much as the method we take of doing it. In the matter of prohibition, as in immigration and in radio, it is the state of mind of the American official, not of the Ameri- can people, that Canada often finds tryingly hard to understand. A num- ber of instances might be adduced, but let us take the two most striking re- cent cases. Up at St. Johnsbury, Vt., close to the Canadian line, an American workman was fired from a power-dam job and a Canadian taken on in his place. The man who had lost his job went to the immigration officer (who is reputed to be a zealot) and informed him that Canadians were beirig brought down from Canada under promise of a job n contravention of our “contract labor” laws. Some of these Canadian workmen were cast into jail by the local authori- ties and held incommunicado while the immigration - authorities were getting 'the regular legal warrants ready.. We Americans get so used to such violations of the law by the law’s awn enforcers that we grow somewhat cal- lous about them. But obviously that sort of thing can result in only one way when we Our own government has to take its hat in its hand and apologize. The incident gets remem- g:rerda tbrud‘ and the apology is seldom ) of. it on the nationals of ; apers the constant inquiry: R, W undzrdv{nm;,!’:"ahh ruling made was passe , why was id'St Bave Lo v maaety o b ve to wait nearly three years, until April of 1927?” ¥ In other words, however justifiably right we may be in the matter of policies and legislation, why do we not achieye a more understanding way of making them known to our foreign "{5:20"7 o n we turn from rum running and immigration to the question of radio control, we find ourselves again upon a plane where the cold facts may be with us, but the psychological values largely against us, % Radio Waves Adjusted. Of the 96 channels for broadcasting Canada is “allowed” 6 for her ex- clusive and 12 others which she shares with American stations. After a number of conferences on both the subject of broadcasting and the allocation of short commercial wave lengths, commercial channels have been comfortably adjusted. But Cana- dians remain resentful on the subject of the allocation of broadcasting :h;‘;mel.s, i e hold that percentage of use is the basis for claiming the right to broadcast. We point to Canada's ten millions, as compared with our own one hundred and twenty millions of inhab- itants. We claim within that population a higher percentage of owners of sets. We are jam full and turning away applicants. We have 650 stations on the air, while radio engineers say that really not more than 500 can be prop- erly accommodated. Canada has one 5,000-watt station at ‘Toronto, one at Winnipeg, one at Mon: treal and stations under construction at Ottawa and Toronto, all on clear channels. There are 75 broadcasting stations of a7 sorts in Canada. ‘These are all facts. Like many other facts, they are conclusive till you look behind them. Actually, both sides realize that what every one is trying to get is a vested right is as many transoceanic }ines as possible, and that if we should ever have to go into some international court to discus our claims, we should want to be able to point to the going proper- ties we have been using over such-and- such a period of time. But Canada looks at us and says: “I don't like to have to admit that the United States owns the air! And that we have to ask her for the right to use it!" Probably the Canadian goverriment does not pass unmindful of the fact that American radios advertise Ameri- can goods, Canada’s Position. “Canada,” a distinguished Canadian writer said to me, “holds that the United States Radio Commission has no right whatever to assume authority to allo- cate wave lengths for Canada, and they won't stand for it! We have now the Royal Commission to investigate radio control everywhere. They have been to Europe. They are now in Canada and they will shortly proceed to the United States. We are looking to them to sug- gest a policy.” Certainly we ought to be able to put our side of an argument without mak- ing such- reasonable people as the Ca- nrdhm think we are trying to own the air, Leaving aside the question of the tar- iff, there are numberless examples of the enforcement of our domestic laws— in the enforcement of which we have asked Canada to assist and which she has always done her best to aid—con- cerning which the psychological values | are so important that they could well | be referred—not for settlement, but for | discussion and dissemination—to a com- mission composed of Canadians and Americans. . There is existent: today under the terms of a treaty such a body—the Joint International Commission. The three American members are all men of considerable political experience— ex-Senator McCumber, ex-Senator Du- bois and ex-Senator Clark. ‘The three Canadians are Charles Ma- grath, an outstanding business man and chairman of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission; Sir Willlam Hearst, an able lawyer and formerly a provincial premier, and a Nova Scotian lawyer, Mr. Kyte. Cana “If the Commission Decisions. ‘This being a three-to-three commis- sion, it cannot reach a decision unless one man sides against his own country. Yet so well has it functioned that its numerous and frequently important de- cisions almost always have been reached unanimously. The work of this com- mission might well be broadened to in- clude a great many controversial mat- ters which it does not now handle. There is certain opinion in Wash- ington that in cases where our domes- tic legislation tangles itself up with our foreign relations, as it inevitably does from time to time in our dealings with Canada, some one who represented the foreign affairs side of our government might well be included in dealing with it. Such persons might be expected to appreciate those imponderables in in- ternational relationships which are eas- ily forgotten in the enthusiasm of law enforcement by our well intentioned, often overzealous Government em- ployes. 3 Canada, in her present psychology, is growing rapidly in her sense of inde- pendent nationality. She has nearly ceased to be “colonial” in hel;d)sychol- ogy. Shall her future be turned toward deeper indentification with the British empire? Shall she be forced to look to London for her future? Or shall she growingly find her interests identified with those of the Americas? ‘The answer is largely up to us. » Yok;)hama Leading Tokio in Rebuilding Yokohama is leading Tokio in the proportion of its reconstruction pro- gram completed since the earthquake of 1923. Both the capital and its port have spent millions of dollars building up since the catastrophe five years ago, and most of the work undertaken by the special boards created to supervise this is expected to be completed before the end of 1929. The amount of work done here is larger than in Yokohama, and there were many delays in begin- ning certain important parts of it, due to city politics. Some idea of the gigan- tic task may be had by noting that in ‘Tokio 199,000 houses have been moved to make way for new streets through hitherto congested areas. In Yokohama 19,000 houses were moved. The large number of bulldings destroyed gave the opportunity for these changes with a comparatively small amount of moving. The building of 110 new bridges in Tokio is another feature of the program. :| Hawaiian Volcano * May Become Extinct Tremendous avalanthes in the almost ited empty crater of Kilavea, Hawail's “live volcano,” again have given hope that g EEED A Wide Variety for the Book Lover—Fiction From a Number of Authors—A Study in Heroics and a IDA GILBERT MYERS. WINGED SANDALS. By Lucien Price. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. WAS late in starting out. For, you see, my foolgear was wrong. Nobody could go hob-nailing after one thod as this man was. As a matter of fact, I had to walt for ‘wings, of sorts, to sprout from my heels. Once ready and started, however, my pursuit of this modern Mercury was swift and secure. Over to France for its cathedrals, into Germany for music, to Italy for painting and into Greece for its sculpture. That was ¢he course, these were the goals sought. This might be called a travel book. Such it is, but a travel book so differ- erent from the average of this tribe as to be counted a clear alien. In effect, the terrain traversed lifts above the solid earth into the clear atmosphere of—I want to say “culture”—but that word has in a measure lost its char- acter through bad treatment. Still in its virgin sense this is the only term that applies to the effect of this ad- venture .of the spirit. Out of the actu- alities of architecture, music, painting and sculpture there rises here the es- sence of art in its pure beauty, in its call to that deep sense of striving after the far and high things, in its call upon implications that cannot be explained, upon significances that cannot be set down. Yet here are just two men going about, talking together—as modern these men and as current, so to speak, as “button up your overccat” or any other emanation of the moment. But they are not that, except for the off hours of getting here or going there. Once arrived, they step into great move- ments, into grand common impulses that, created century by century the cathedrals of France in the Middle Ages—Notre Dame, Chartres, Amiens. Human life built into aspiration and dream and vision. Beethoven and Wag- ner embody the music of Germany. Here, too, the end comes by way of i dividual human reach and loss and reach and gain, till, triumphant, thelsei n bringing to earth the music of the | two succeed, surpassingly so far, spheres by way of symphony apd song. In Italy and in Greece it is the same. By painting and sculpture—pigment spread upon a receiving surface, a block of marble chisel-hewn—there rises, ever new, a world of enduring beauty, the envisagement of man's out-reaching under the urge of an inner drive toward the unattainable. Such, in a very unsatisfying rough, is the travel book—the Mercury flight of a holiday for these two companions and friends, this pair so quietly humor- ous, 8o keenly observant in their pas- sage from one of these great themes to another one. If you are of the in- quisitive kidney, you will gather from the book a host of facts, authentic and comprehensive, on both art and the life surrounding it. If, however, you have in addition wings to your mind as well as to your footwear, you will have a joy immeasurably greater from this holiday of a couple of busi- ness men, going out from Boston into | the ever-new world of art. ERE JOSHUA'S VISION. By William J. Locke, author of “The Beloved Vag- | New York: Dodd, Mead | abond,” etc. & Co. JOSHUA FENDICK is just another William J. Locke man to win the heart and revive confidence in a sub- stantially decent and friendly world. Joshua steps out as hero of a modern tale when he is close to middle age, if not ‘already arrived at that critical point. The inside of this man is in- corrigibly young. So, having won dis- tinet success in business, Joshua de- termines to try out some of the dreams of his youth. He likes art, likes it so much as to suspect himself of real tal- ent in one or another of its expressions. Owing to the friendship of a sculptor— a fine woman, by the way, who serves more than one sturdy turn in the case of this budding artist—Joshua becomes a ynodern Pygmalion, digging out and setting up in his own inner shrine the beauteous figure of Galatea. Sounds classic—doesn’t it! It isn't. Rather, as modern as tomorrow. For this is, in effect, the now familiar scenario of the old man in love with the girl in her| teens. Except—that Joshua is never ridiculous. Locke looks out against any such contretemps in his art. The model is lovely. The model is unawakened, a genuine Galatea. But Joshua keeps his secret, never letting it glaze his eyes as he looks at the girl. never letting his feet jiggle and twitch under the delu- sion that he is Bacchus, or some other godlike youth. No, Joshua becomes the girl's friend—trusty, genuine, overlook- ing, providing chances for progress, ‘with never a hint of love. Joshua would do that, just as any other of the Locke men would. A practiced story teller, this author spins an absorbing modern tale and with it holds fast to the kindly spirit, to the understanding heart, to the genuine humor of the laughing sort, to the true knowledge of men and affairs that possess this writer. And Locke keeps his romances as clean as a sun- dried line of linen still flapping in the wind, sweet smelling like clean clothes, too. Joshua is very close to “The Be- loved Vagabond.” and both of these must be pretty much the whole of Wil- Hfam J. Locke himself. Let's hope. * K ok % DARK STAR. By Lorna Moon. In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Tms is the story of Nancy, who was born under a dark star. There are two sins in life, just two, that cannot be expiated. One of these is failure on the part of a child to have gathered up & father in its transit from nowhere to somewhere. In our cooler moments, to be sure, we recognize that the sin of the child—if it be.sin—is wholly of the vicarlous order. But that fact in no sense softens the punishment of the world upon its illegitimates. Now, Nancy had no father. Some said it was le Weams, the horse tender. And some opined, grudgingly, that it might have bee nthe laird of Fassenfern himself. As for the parties of the first and second parts, they sald nothing at all, gradually fading out of the scene, with Nancy alone left to fight the battle of her parentage. And it was a battle, for, with all her soul, Nancy refused to be sired by the horse tender. ‘This is Nancy’s story. Simple in its countryside setting, tragic in its human house | content, the romance is a blend of dark splendor and crude living, of sturdy friendship among the coarse and evert low, of cruelty from the pretentiously good. And in the midst of this is Nan- cy, so untutored in life, so innocent in her thoughts, so dauntless and fear- Battlefield Angel. Smith, author of “Rahwedia.” Illus- trated by Ferdinand E. Warren, New York: D. Appleton & Co. C HAROLD SMITH is today a cap- * tain of the carbon industry, branch offices to the central business standing in all parts of the world. He is a rich man, whose voice is potent in the guidance of many a business enter- prise. “The Bridge of Life” is Harold Smith's story from boyhood up to the present. He tells it himself. A straight story of packed adventure, that, start- ing in London, moved across to New Zealand, where the lad lived among the Maoris for & time. PFrom there to San Prancisco to New York and out into the Far East. Over and over again he crossed the seas and the lands. His experiences ranged from a plan for self-destruction to the bolder design of throwing in his lot with the opportuni- ties that began to come out to meet him. “Lady Luck” and “the Goddess of Chance” appear to have been the presiding powers in this wanderer’s life. To them he pays grateful homage in a closing chapter of his book, where he outlines the philosophy of human ex- istence as he has gathered it out of his own transit across its plane. Pursuing happiness at first, as all young things | do, he came to know that of all dreams, | happiness is the most illusory, the most | fleeting. This final, slightly homiletic chapter will detain the elders, either in agreement or dispute. It is the body of the moving story, however, that will catch and hold the youngsters. For here is adventure, true adventure—no mere | pipe dream of an Haroun al Raschid. Here is a youth of their own blood ‘and outlook meeting life with a courage that is a tinge pathetic for one so young. But he grows older and the adventures 2lso grow to man size. Now and then | the courage flags. But not for long. This is a_dauntless fellow giving point to the whole business of being alive. | Boys, lusty boys, will eat this book up and it will be no end of good for them. The stir of it. The boldness of it. For | this lad made friends with luck, ran | out to meet chance when he saw it com- ing toward him. Kept plugging at life and, finally, made it go his way. made it take him into partnership. That he ‘arrl\'ed will- not be so vital to these | young readers. The fight is what will | catch them, as it should. A finely stir- ring story, a stirring’ true story. * X x % | THE MAKING OF BUFFALO BILL. A study in heroics. By Richard J. Walsh in collaboration with Milton S. Salsbury. Tllustrated. Indian- apolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. JHERE is a story wherein sensations push and crowd and jostle for attention. It could not be otherwise in | anv adequate record of the life of | William F. Cody, that tempestuous | adventurer and born showman of the | West. Here in orderly procession march the life and the deeds of Cody. A mere announcement is certainly enough to draw quick and intense attention to | the story that has been worked out with | care by these two, Richard Walsh and Milton Salsbury. Salsbury having died | during the course of the work, Mr. ‘Walsh was left to complete it with such | other assistance as he found serviceable. | greatest debt is to Johnny | '—Walsh talking—“Cody's foster | nd long his companion in the | show.” To others, besides, he acknowl- edges a debt for records and scrap- | books and other sorts of authentic i | formation concerning this hero of in- | numerable dramas and melodramas. | Buffalo Bill has already become a legend, a figure of history and myth combined. This book aims, however, to:| sift rumor out of the fact. Its purpose | is to present the true story of this spectacular figure as he so gallantly embodied & period of the opening West | itself. Deleted, as the record must stand, it is, nevertheless, a story that | makes fable look wan, that drives even | hectic invention into a futile and tepid gesture of welcome. The old dime novel crumples up in despair, the blood-and- thunder tale gives only skim milk, the conventional hair-raiser registers only the thinnest shiver, beside these real stories out of the life of one of the realest men who ever paraded the stage | of the Far West. No more fiction about Buffalo Bill. The facts have settled that. b A A g THE ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD: And Other Poems. By Anne Kelledy | G&bem New York: Harold Vinal, | + Ltd. 'HIS title covers a sequence of poems whose subject is Clara Barton— | her service, her radiating influence, her life. Beyond these there are a few poems that linger around the idea of war. Not many. Rather does this au- thor trace in song one and another of the great features of the American | landscape, its people, its history. The Grand Canyon and the Mojave Desert are among her sources of inspiration. ‘There are simpler themes—touches of home life, moments of loitering, recol- lections of art.at home and abroad, fairy tales and personal dreamings among them. Originality is here, but that is not so strange. Poets are sup- | posed to be original, and frequently | are. But, besides, there is good brawn | to these lines, a forthright movement, | an effect of strength. The music is| good, that is, it, in the main, moves | like the music with which the com- monalty is familiar and which it likes. Most of us like the tune of poetry, prefer it to the hysteric unexpectedness of much of the free verse. We like this, like a lot of it. For an instance of many preferences. listen to this one: My pleasant little golden house Gleams safely through new maple- shade; Many a task awalts me there All T evade. For Spring arrived in Washington Some moment between the dark and dawn And of a year's days this is one An %o, e authe , 50, the author goes “Vagabond- ing,” this Spring day in Washington— and who can say her nay! Not the longest nor the strongest of these poems, but, at this moment—the one to read. BOOKS RECEIVED ‘THE GOLD BUG. By Edgar Allen Poe. Foreword by Hervey Allen. Notes on the text by Thomas Ollive Mab- bott. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. , WHILE ‘THE BRIDEGROOM TAR- | RIED. By Edna Bryner, author of “Andy Brandt's Ark,” less, as to win for her, first, love from | THE the reader, and then to win for her com)] n use of the hopelessness of her state. For the world is not going to overlook Nancy’s sin in not providing herself with a father, Out of the school- ing that life is furnishing her, free, is the other lesson—that of the flee form of love, of the wanton o 45 blay " ana biay agatn un. & pew 3 and play fleld. sounds trite, ¥t g ef i E »8<® isE8 | i i zis EE i Yorke Gallery - 2009 S Street N.W. Exhii;idon Waeerncolouu by . Mary Elwes English Painter of Gardens April 22nd to May 4th LOST. By G. O. Young. Bostor: The Christopher Publishing House. A VOYAGE TO THE ISLAND OF THE ARTICOLES. By Andre Maurios. Translated from the French by David Garnett. Wood Engravings by Edward Carrick. New York: D. Appleton & Co. FOX FIRE. By Jeanne De Lavigne and Jacques Rutherford, authors of “And the Garden Waited.” New York: Duffield & Co. OUR REVOLUTIONARY FOREFA- THERS; The Letters of Francois, Marquis de Barbe-Marbois during his Residence in the United States as Secretary of the French Legation, 1779-1785. 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