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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL %8, 1929— PART 2 Interesting Report of the American Academy in Rome— Local Artists Show Work in Exhibitions —a New Museum in Baltimore—Other ] BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE American Academy in Rome, chartered by Congress, with of- fices in the Octagon in this city and at 101 Park avenue, New York, has just issued a report covering the past year, which includes aerhl.n items of special interest at this me. The American Academy in Rome was founded largely through the instrumen- tality and foresight of Charles F. McKim, a member of the McMillan Park Commisison and at the same time president of the American Institute of Architects. The plan for the academy took shape fn Mr. McKim's mind at the time that the McMillan Park Commission was studying city plans abroad, and in particular during a visit to Rome. It is to an extent, therefore, the child of the Park Commission and the American Institute of Architects. ‘The purpose of the American Academy in Rome is to provide a place of resi- dence and work for architects, sculp- tors, painters, students of archeology, and most lately, music and landscape architecture, who show extraordinary ability and wish to round out their stu- dent experience with a better under- standing of classical art, the great tra- dition. At first the academy was in rented quarters. Later, through the generosity of the late Pierpont Morgan, a magni- ficent building was erected on the Jani- culum Hill adjacent to a beautiful villa which had been bequeathed to the academy as a home for the director. During the gut year the Garden Club 17 fellows in fine arts in attendance and 3 in classical studies; 23 visiting stu- dents in fine arts, and 9 in classical studies; whereas in the Summer school there were 40 visiting students in the fine aris and 62 in classical studies. Some of the most successful and bril- lant of our present day sculptors, archi- tects and painters are former Roman fellowship holders. During the pas year the Garden Club of America raised a fund of $50,000 to endow a fellowship in landscape archi- tecture, and this year the second incum- bent of this fellowship will be appointed. ‘The annual exhibition of the work of both schools, which occurred during the past Summer, was opened by the King and Queen of Italy and by the American Ambassador. The various academies were for the first time asked to join in the annual exhibition of the Societa Amatori e Cul- tori di Belle Arti in Rome, and a spe- & “GREYHOUNDS,” AN ETCHING BY CARTON MOOR EPARK. enced organizations with | technical ecquipment and which have at their command a group of highly | talented artists. Germany, too, is ad- mirably represented. There are inter- esting examples of faience and pottery from Central Europe. Vienna con- tributes a distinct note to the exhibi- | tion. Among the products of her crafts- | men included are brightly glazed, low fired fizurines by women artists—Vally Wiesenthier, Susi Singer, Hertha Bucher and Dina Kuhn. In addition, of |course, there are the English highly | talented artist-craftsmen, producing varied manifestations of both the high and low fire kilns, notable examples of decorative ware. Dr. Charles R. Richards, director of {the industrial arts division of the gen- | eral education board, and an authority |on the decorative arts, has said: “The | most_important element presented by pare our own productions with those of Europe. It was for this purpose that the exhibition was organized and for this that it is being exhibited.” the American collection that has re- ceived much attention is the exhibit of tiles and terracottas made for architectural use. This displays a wide variely of technical processes, a real grasp of the needs in this field. It is to be regretted that this ex- hibition will not be shown in Wash- ington, but, after all, Baltimore is only next door. It remains on view there until May 4. * ok % ¥ LYN WILLIAMS, president and founder of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, has lately returned to England and has taken with him for his soclety's London exhibition miniatures by Margaret Foote Hawley, Laura Hills |and Laura M. D. Mitchell, a number of miniature wax portraits by Ethel P. Mundy, miniature bronzes by L. C. Rosenthal and seven small works by Natalie Hays Hammond of this city. Most of these American artists are already full members or associates of the society, which is often called “The Academy in Little” No work is ex- hibited in these exhibitions which is not miniature in size. The exhibition is rigid and even members’ works are otes. the dealers’ galleries ev-ry s~ason from October to May? If we are to have an American Luxembourg why should it not be here in Washington, where our National Gallery is located? * % ok % A NOTABLE exhibition of historical portraits opened yesterday with @ private view at Virginia House, th: home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. | Weddell, near Richmond, Va, to con tinue to May 25. Virginia Hous: | skirts of Richmcend, has been construct=d |in the last few years from material taken from the ancient priory of St.. | Sepulchre at Warwick, England. This historic house was being pulled down A STUDY FOR l i extensive | show of contemporary art is held in | which is on the nutJ i A FOUNT REVIEWS OF SPRING BOOKS | The Story of a Railroad System During the Past One Hun- dred Years—A Biography of the Secretary of Labor. The Season’s Fiction. IDA GILBERT MYERS. THE STORY OF THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD: 1827-1927. By Edward Hungerford. Tilustrated. | New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. WO big volumes project the first | hundred years of existence for the great B. & O. Railroad. At first glance the history of any | inanimate thing looks unillumi- ! pating. uninviting. A railroad—surveys concessions and rights of way, road. | beds, the laying of ties, the stringing of tracks, the rumble of trains, clouds of black smoke, the hooting of engines. goods passing back and forth. Dull! | lace roundabout. | foundation of high-plled puffs and|cents go on their blameless way rolls. That was when the horseless wagon served only to make frightened road-horses run away to the peril of drivers and passengers and the popu- this good story-teller not only an un- impeachable alibi for us all, but it permits the glamour of bygone times to come toward us in enchantment. It gets us out from “under foot” as well where, otherwise, we would be clogging up the story with our personal mendacity. with our individual denials. Preed, therefore, and provided with an illuminating perspective of the way it ‘| used to be, Mrs. Rinehart weaves us, Such recession gives | ‘Then boards of finance and direction, | . e Boads o e oxious as. weil a4 | 2dr0itly and understandingly. not only | & substantial and absorbing novel, but | gether. Ingenious and waywise in ity development and culmination. | BOOKS RECEIVED THE TRAGEDY OF THE ITALL s | With the Rescuers to the Red Te By David Giudici, special cc spondent of the Corriere della on Board the Krassin. New Yor D. Appleton & Co. THE LIONESS; A Romance of the Rif Mountains. By Ferdinand Ossens dowski, author of “Beasts, Men and Gods,” ete. New York: E. P. Duts the exhibit is the opportunity to com- | One of the prominent features of | when the present owner, coming upen the scene of destruction, determined to save it, bought the materlals, brough’ the stones and timber to Richmond and rebuilt in the style of the period 10 which the building originally belonged This work was done by Virginia build- | ers, largely from sketches and photo- | graphs, and the design includes a repeti- | fon of portions of three historic English | homes—Warwick Priory, Wormleighton, | the seat of Lord Spencer, and Sulgrave Manor, the home of the Washington fomily, The last portion of this. inter- esting house has been dedicated by the owners to the use of the Virginia His- torical Soclety, o which organization the whole building will eventually pass. It is under the ausplices of the Vir- ginia Historical Society that the present exhibition Is set forth. To this exhibi- tion private collectors and public nstitu- tions throughout. the country have made | B e oo the povait of |, And the bullding of the barriers and o e et oo o cmazo and ‘other | the safety valves is done on the efi- ieen Elizabeth by Zilcearo and oUe | cency basis, with no caleulation of one s o A e heve come. from | Cent of profit, relieved of local political Whiior s Mary Gollege, from ford | Wire pulling. It is to be a job done on P A My ot phin. | honor by the world’s greatest engincers, proud of their place in such an efficient dn?r‘.’::-l";rwgghiqne‘wn\};;gkmd George F.\ang honorable organization as _tne ineer Corps ts achieve- Thomas B. Clarke of New York has |y, E°¥ Potcs Raid proved himself again a generous lender. From his collection have come a group | Five Drainage Projects. of the Washington family by Savage,| There are five of these projects for the “Vaughan” Washington by Gilbert | draining off the flood time surplus— (1) Stuart, a portrait of Washington by |the Bonnet Carre spillway, which drains Rembrandt Peale and other notable |off from the river at Lake Pontchar- works. train, just north of New Orleans; (2) Hanging in the drawing room is a|the New Madrid Floodway, southwest of painting of a group of persons promi- | Cairo, Ill, on the west bank of the nent soclally in Virginta—portraits of |river: (3) the Bayou Des Glarges Loop: (Continued From First Page.) checked up with the world’s records for centuries. excluded unless they come up to a certain_standard of merit. Mr. Williams will return to Washing- AT THE SMITHSONIA the famous owners of Westover, Shirley, | (4) protection levees in Boeuf Basin, 0e and Brandon, James RIVeT and (5) protection levees in Atchafalaya AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME. Curbing the Miss |1s a member of the Mississippi River | HIS ARTIST'S WORK IS ON EXHIBITION | clal gallery was set aside for the works of the fellows of the French Academy, of the British school and of the Ameri- | can Academy. Our exhibit consisted of | five paintings, five works in sculpture and two architectural restorations. A special honor is noted concerning | the department of music. A concert composed entirely of works by our fellows in music was given, by invita- tion, at one of the regular concerts of the famous Reale Accademia di Santa Cecilia—the first concert of its kind. Prof. Lamond, who is in charge of the music department, has secured from a friend of the academy a con- tribution which is to be used for the purpose of developing an ‘“esprit de " among musicians of all the national academies in Rome. A series of concerts is to be given, at which the compositions of these talented young| composers are to be performed, and| after the concerts there will be oppor- tunity for informal discussion of the | works produced. Rome is rapidly be- | hibition of One Hundred Important | coming a musical center of the first magnitude for the young composer. | A year ago last Fall the academy | established in Rome an atelier for visit- | ing students of the fine arts which has been put during the past year to ex- oellent use. Among the visitors noted during the year are former Pellows Eugene Savage, Ezra Winter and| Charles Keck. | Under the directorship of Gorham | P. Stevens the American Academy in | Rome has come to take & conspicuous | and very worthy place in the estimation | of the Romans, and particularly those | mra&med with development in the fine | arts. Among Washingtonians who have muu by the academy fellowships are ond R. Amateis, who recently re-| ceived one of the New York Archi-| tectural League's medals of award for & work In sculpture shown in the annual | exhibition, and Leo Friedlander, whose | monumental work representing war is| to be given placement, probably, near | one of the approaches to the Memorial | an“e' now under construction in this | eity. 1 4 * % % | THE Bailtimore Museum of Art has formally announced the opening of 1t new museum. Among the first exhibi- tions to be set forth in the beautiful new | building is a notable collection of ton in the Autumn, bringing the American exhibits with him. ks 'HE exhibition of miniatures by Edward Greene Maibone at the National Gallery of Art was brought a close April 21. This exhibition at- tracted the attention of art directors and museum workers, miniature paint- ers and art lovers throughout the Coun- try. Many made pilgrimages to Wash- ington to inspect it. fore the exhibition closed 90 minia- tures were included in the catalogue, This number represents about one-half of Malbone's total production. Many expressions of interest and ap- preciation have been made, and h tributes paid to Ruel P. Tolman, under whose immediate charge this notable collection was assembled. * % x ONE Washington artist, 8. Burtis Baker, was represented in the ex- Paintings by Living American Artists, organized by the Arts Council of the | City of New York and held from April 15 to 27 in the Grand Central Palace as a part of the Architectural and Al- ligd Arts Exposition sponsored by the New York Architectural League. This exhibition was a unique under- taking. The directors of art museums, art critics, dealers and connoisseurs were asked to name from 25 to 50 American painters considered by them of supreme importance. The lists thus secured were complied, and the 350 names resulting were submitted to each artist named therein, with the request that he or she check important. Replies were recelved from nearly 200 painters and from the choice of these—that is, the names securing the highest number of votes—the repre- | sentation was made. Whereas the art- ists were selected thus by vote, the works were chosen by a speclalty ap- pointed committee, with the object of maintaining the highest possible standard. Mr. Baker is represented by his dis- tinguished figure paintipg, “Old Ta feta,” shown here at the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art. Wayman Adams, on the other hand, is represented by his paint- ing entitied “The Conspiracy,” a por- trait of late Joseph Pennell, J. McLure Hamilton and Charles Burns, Other familiar works were cata- 100 most | ceramic art assembled last Summer in| logued. For instance, Gifford Beal's Furope and brought to this country for | “Net Wagon,” and Miss Beaux's por- circulation in art museums by the | trait of Dr. Drinker, entitled “Man American Federation of Arts under a| With Cat,” now owned by the Brooklyn specisl grant from the general educa- | Museum tion board. This exhibition had its| Conservatives and modernists both initial showing in the Metropolitan | Were given place. For eXample, George Museum of Art in October, after which | de Forest Brush's “Portrait of a Lady,” it was shown in the Pennsylvania loaned by the Milch Gallery, and Charles Museum, Philadelphia: the Minneapolis | Burchfeld's “House of Mystery,” loaned Art Institute and the Cleveland Museum | by the Rehn Gallery of Art. It will later go to the Detroit| Among those of distinctly modernistic Institute of Arts, the Newark Museum, | tendency whose works were shown in Newark, N. J., and to the Carnegie In- | this exhibition were George Biddle, stitute, 'Piitsburgh, completing its cir- | Vincent Canade, Glenn O." Coleman, cuit late in September | Charles Demuth, Preston Dickinson, This exhibition is said to present an: Stefan Hirsch, John Marin, Alfred H. interesting and significant expression | Maurer, Gecrgia O'Keefle, Maurice of the contemporsry attitude toward|Sterne and William Zorak, whereas applied design. No branch of decorative ong the conservatives were such men art responded to the call of the mod- |as Emil Carlsen, Walter Gay, Daniel ern spirit and turned in revolt against | Garber, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, the lifeless and sterile coples of the | Hawthorne, Melchers, Seyffert, Spencer, nineteenth century so quickly as potlery,i“hlker, Watrous, Wiles and Woodbury Tncluded in this exhibition are rep- | —a fairly good balance for extremes, resentative examples of the work of ‘The Arts Coun-ii of New York in foremost modern French potters— | seiting forth this e iticn hoped not Emile Decoeur, Emilo Lenoble, Henri!only to demonsirat~ th> state of con- Simmen and Raoul Lachenal. France, | temporary painting in America but also it is said, continues to lead in these | to Induce the esteb'ishment in New high ventures with her individual | York City of a muszum of cont-mporary craftsmen, but is closely followed by |art corresponding to the Luxembourg the various Danish potteries, which |in Paris. But why a Luxembourg in ( bring to bear the resources of experi- New York, gre the greatest passing The library of Virginia House has governors and their ladles, among which is a portrait of Gov. Giles by Chester Harding. Bowdoin College has lent Stuart’s portrait of Thomas Jeffer- son, & most generous loan. The committee in charge of this ex- hibition is headed by Gov. Byrd and it includes George Cole Scott, chair- man; the British and French Ambassa- dors at Washington, Lady Nancy Astor, Thomas B. Clarke, Robert W.de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and of the American Federation of Arts; Miss Helen Frick, Fairfax Har- rison, Rosewell Page, James Parmelee and Judge JoJm lh'"wn Payne of Wi n and others. .A‘smlit‘i‘et:l)mond is readily accessible to | Washington, both by rail and motor, it is hoped that many will avail them- selves of this opportunity of seeing | unigue Virginia House and this excej tionally important historical portrait exhibition. IN the Smithsonian Building, under the auspices of the division of graphic arts, United States National * ¥ % * tion of etchings by Carton Moorepart, country, for at least a part of the year, his home. are of animals and birds, though a number of portraits are included, for instance, one of Rudvard Kipling, two, rather fantastic, of Sir Harry Lauder and one of Irvin S. Cobb. Among Mr. Moorepart's publications —for he is fllustrator as well as an etcher—are “A Book of Birds,"” “An of Animals” “A Book of , ‘A__Child’s Pictorial Natural |History.” He has also edited and il- lustrated the Liliput series of books for # child’s library and other works. He is & member of the Royal Soclety of Portrait Painters and of the Zoological Boclety of England, as well as of our American Society of Iliustrators. * ok k% ITY'S division of fine arts held its second exhibition of students’ work during the week closing today at the National Museum. Three hundred and thirty-five exhibits were on view, rep- resenting the work of many students in various media. More than half of these exhibits were in the nature of architec- tural designs and drawings, representing a high average for the student-artis! It was of interest to observe the tend- ency toward modernism in the work by third and fourth year students, while that of the first two years was con- servative in character, ostensibly because of the instructors’ more deliberate su- pervision in the beginners' classes. The urge to experiment in young artists 1s manifested whenever they are en- couraged to give their ideas free rein Among the Erujccfi! for which several drawings each were shown was a “Res- taurant in the Air,” in which the stu- dents had taken full edvantage of the npportunlg for color and exotic design. “A Bed Room Suite,” by Eugenie Le Merle, made lavish use of Chinese corn- binations of black, red and gold, and in other ways showed the student’s sen- sitiveness to the modern movement in interior decoration. Among the soph’- more designs, & “College Chapel,' by M. A. Rader, was beautifully rendered, and the design worthy of note. An attractive group of charcoal | studies from casts of antique seulpture included mcre than thirty exhibits. B. Larsen, A. E. Liilie, 8. H. Matthews jand E. A. Weihe contributed some of the best of these. Charcoal stydies from living models were even monf interest- been given over to portraits of Virginia Museum, is now to be seen an exhibi- | a British etcher who now makes this | ‘These for the most part | EORGE WASHINGTON UNIVER- | Basin. The act of Congress directs that “all diversion work and outlets shall be | built in a manner and of a character that will fully and amply protect ad- jacent lands.” The working out of this plan. which sounds simple enough on paper, in- volved tremendous engineering detail and extensive study, weighing the forces of nature against life and death and civilization and man’s inaliznable right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- | pines”—weighed and measured to & mathematical nicety. | Now the engineering studles have been made, and the rights of way and | flowage acreage must be acquired by the Government. This phase of the | great development project comes under | Assistant Attorney General George R.| Farnum. The whole proportion calls | for acquisition of 21,741 acres for rights | of way and 151,430 acres for flowage rights, | The first acquisition of land under | condemnation to carry out the act of | Congress for flood control of the Miss- issippi River Valley of May 15, 1928, will be for the so-called Bonnet Carre spiil- | way, in Louisiana, which is designed when completed to drain the excess water from the Mississippi into Lake | Pontchartrain and adfacent lowlands. Some 35 parcels of land, totaling nearly 900 acres, are sought by the Govern- ment. ‘The second requisition from the War Department is for condemnation for | the New Madrid River bank floodway con the West bank of the Mississippi from Birds Point, opposite Cairo, to St. Johns Bayou, just east of New Madrid, | Mo, Ninety parcels of land are in- | | volved, covering 2,303 acres for rights of way and 132,677 acres for flowage. | Position of Government. | Instructions given to agents ukinz! | for waivers were that the position of | | the Government should be made elear, | as follows: Bince no additional destruc- | tive flood waters are to be diverted | from the main channel of the Missis- sippi River by reason of the protection levees in the Boeuf and Atchafalaya Basins, the adopted project does not afford any basis for payments to owners {of land between the protection levees. Although the law of May 15, 1928, does | not afford any basis for claims by these landowners, the possibility of new leg- | Islation has been mentioned, and op- ! tions or offers to waive “claims for { flowage” are being secured, from land- | owners, in order that the information | may be available. | This tremendous engineering project | | of flood control is in charge of Gen. Ed- | gar Jadwin, author of the plan. He has | as his right-hand office assistant, Col. | omrm——— { ing, among them one of a male figure | reclining, a difficult perspective well | | rendered by A. Stewart. | The students’ valiant efforts with still- | 1ife groups in aquarelle emphasized the extreme difficulty of this medium, sel- dom realized by those who view the work of masters, done with apparent case. The aquarelles were perhaps the least successful of all the groups shown. 8ix ofl studies for mural decoration were shown in the “Advanced Com- position” group, the work of Garnct Jex, a member of the Landscape Club of Washington, who regularly exhibits with that organization. A study for a lunette, “The City,” was most effective, showing skyscrapers in flat decorative colors. Obvicusly few of these young people mean to become attists, but it is grati- ! fying to find so large a number en-' gaged in technical study, for this should give them genuine insight into and, appreciation of art. R | AN Interesting exhibition, witnessing to co-operation between artists and | business men, opens tomorrow at W. B. | Moses & Sons. This will take the form | of a series of rooms fully furnished, in i which paintings by local artists will be | {an integral part. What is more, the |turniture and furnishings for these | rooms have been selected by a group | |of Washington artists at the/ request of the exhibiting firm. This group comprises Miss Edith Hoyt, Miss Cath-| srine Critcher, Miss Bertha Noyes and Mrs. Alice L. L. Ferguson. | | The exhibits will be sct forth on the . second and fifth floors and will b= found | not only representative of the best. but lalso fully up to date, two or threc | rooms being in the extreme modern {style. The exhibit will continue for several weeks. | In this connection it is interesting to ' know that an entire session at the com- ing convention of the American Fed- eration of Arts, to be held in Phila- | delphia May 22, 23 and 24, will be de- voted to the subject of “Art and the | Department Store,” and that among | the speakers will be representatives of scme of the largest department stores . !in New York, Philadelphia and else- | where. | | * ¥ ok i rAT the Arts Club, 2017 I street, the exhibitions chapge today. In the upper rooms will ba seen for two weeks | paintings by Miss Edith Hoyt and sculp- ture by Mrs. Alice L. L. Ferguson; in the lower rooms, minlatures by Miss Natalie Hammond, paintings by Miss Anne Abbott and others and a group of | nary material. Many such suits will be * bust; sculpture by Miss Clara Hill, | | ine issippi Ernest Graves, U. 5. A.. retired, who Commission, created by act of Congress in 1879, which acts in an advisory ca- The on-the-ground work is in charge | of Gen. G. H. Jackson, president of the | Mississippi River Commission, under di- | rection of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the chief of Engineers. The engineer at Memphis is* Lieut. Col. F. B. Wilby, at Vicksburg is Maj. John | C. H. Lee and at New Orleans is Ma). | Henry Holcomb. Millions Are Being Spent. Actual work on the flood-control proj- ect was begun shortly after passage of the authorizing act. Funds available to July 1 next comprise about $27,000,000, of which about $13,000,000 was expend- ed up to January 1. Present expendi- tures are at the rate of $3,000,000 & month. It is expected to place this year about 25,000,000 cubic yards of levee work, costing about $8.500,000. Actual levee construction is under way both on the main river, the Arkansas, the Red and the Atchafalaya Rivers. In general, last year’s levee work was largely devoted to strengthening levees and setting back those threatened by caving banks. It is expected that actual levee con- struction will start in all of the flood- way projects this year and that actual construction of the Bonnet Carre spill- way structure will be begun in the near | future. ‘The new flood-control plan did not modify to any great extent dredging operation methods. About $1,000,000 will be expended during the fiscal year | in this work, THE LIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended readiug will appear in this column each Sunday. Travel. Beston, H. B, pseud. The Outermost House; A Year of Life on Cape Cod. G844-B4670, Prank, W. D. The Rediscovery of America. G83-F85r. Gordon, Jan, and C. J. On Wandering Wheels. G83-G650. Hall, Trowbridge. Egypt in Silhouette. G71-H 148. Lattimore, Owen. The Desert Road to Turkestan. G636-L35. Lowell, Joan. The Cradle of the Deep. 1 G12-1083. nch, J. G. B. The Itallan Ri 3 waS2i-Las. T alter, Ellery. The World G13-W 173w. o e Interior Decoration, Crane, Ross. Interior Dect : :"5}*'2553‘- oration. ackscn, A. F., and Bettina. of " Interior DecornlunLTheWsst?l% 138s. Koues, Helen. On Decoratin House. WSH-K84o0. e g Pll;fi;?’, Lois. Your House. WSH-P Drama. Alexander, H. B. Manito 2 e A Masks, 1925. Bates, E. W. The Tree YD-B315t, of Life, 1922. Poor Little Turkey Brush, D. H. The IYDF-‘BB:HDI . F. The Resurrectios 1925. YD-C616r. i John. Three John Golden 1925. YD-G568t. Kflf"("‘fl;;n, Arthur. Bethlehem. ¥YD- Lonsdale, Frederick. The High 3 YD-L86h, 7 sy Miller, Mrs. A. D. The Springboard. YD-M614s. O’Casey, Sean. The Plough and the Stars. 1927, YD-Oc 12p. Strong, Austin. The Drums of Oude. YD-5t87d. 1926, Automobiles. Brown, E. T. The New Ford Car. SUZI-B816. Bus Ideas. BUZL-E96. Chevrolet Motor Co., Detroit. Instruc~ tions for the Operation and Care of Chevrolet Motor Cars. SUZI-CA2. Motor Maintenance Data Book and Flat-rate Manual. 1928, SUZA- M856. Noble, L. E, and Roenigk, J. A. In- struction Manuals for Automobile Mechanics: Cleaning and Lubricat- ing. SUZA-N66. Politics. Beard, C. A, and Radin, George. The gglflknn Pivot: Yugoslavia. JU594- Edl‘ldréizs. W. H. Heading for War. JU- Hoover, H. C. The New Day; Campai Speeches. JUS3R-HT76n. s ! MacCallum, E. P. The Nationalist Cru- | sade in Syria. JU607-M 12. Conville, Sister M. St. P. Political Nativism in the State of Maryland. JUB3AmM-M 13. Mc gelas. M. M. K. D., Graf von. Brit- | ish Foreign Policy Under Sir Edward Grey. JU45-M76. E. Schneider, H. W. Making the Fascist State. ' JU35-Sch 14. Smith, A E. Campaign Addresses. JU83D-8m52¢. French Fiction, Bernanos, Georges. L'imposture. Y39F-B4546. Cahuet, Albe; Y39P-C 114. Giraudoux, Jean, 1927. Les Amants du Lac. Eglantine. 1927, Y39F-Ga4Teg. Traz, Robert de. La Puritaine et L'Amour. Y39F-T699. Willy, Colette, pseud. La Naissance du Jour. Y39F-W639n. Germans Like Paper aothel. Germans are taking much interest in the new paper clothing which is being introduced by a German manufacture! He claims that it is waterproof, yet can be washed, affords ample circulation of air, does not crease, can be restored to its proper shape by shaking it, and weighs about one-twelfth that of ordi- worn during the‘ coming Summer, dulll” Yes, it does look something like that. But that, you see, is not the| of this story. In the first place is is not the “history on an inanimate thing.” Long before the B. & O. be- came & going concern it was alive with | the vision of dreamers, with the adven- | ture of progress, with the panorama of contacts between the East and the West. Here is the story of men who | have spent their lives in making the vision come true, in turning the ad- venture to ploneering for new settle- ments and homes, in laying the foun- dation of all civiilzations, in_contacts, in doing away with distance. Engineers, financiers, techniclans and plain work- men came together here. And this is plished by this single rallway. Mr. Hungerford has conceived the great story in the terms of human enterprise, of human endeavor. One reads it in the same spirit. From its first out- reachings—only to Harper's Ferry, then down to Washington, then across the Potomac—on to its crossing of the | Ohio River, its penetration into many of the States to the Westward, the rec ord runs. And from such material growth the story tells of the participa- tion of this railway in the various his- toric movements of the country. Here is the record of its work in the Civil War, in the World War and, indeed, traversed by it. Industry has made de- mands upon it. Hard times have regis- tered with it. Its career has been one of ups and downs, like the career of every human, like that especially of the man, of the men, standing behind this railroad pioneer of the new world. Indeed, the history of the Eastern half of the country for the period is re- flected in this story of the B. & O. for the first century of its life. You will find yoursel! reading the story— that is very much alive. beckons it and, always under this spur, it moves swiftly out into the West. Now, if you are of the order of big industry, you will read this book from the standpoint of the financier, of the builder, of the promoter. All of the interests of these technicians are here set forth in a big and sweeping survey of the rise of the rallway in the United States. Such special treatment was, of course, expected. Here it is. That, however, which might not be looked for, is the romance of this gigantic ad- venturing into the West by way of rails and engines that went spying out the land for the use of the past century in its amazing expansion and settle- ment and enterprise. It is not easy to see just how Mr. Hungerford has done this big thing. Not easy to see how he has held so clearly to a thing of many technical aspects, of clear business connotation, and has, at the same time, created the true romance fg railroad building, the romance of the {®Baltimore & Ohio Raflroad. * K x k | “OUR JIM": A Biography. Mitchell Chapple. Boston: Publishing Co., Ltd. { HERE is a forthright and hearty study of James J. Davis. Secretary of Labor. Clear, that Joe Chapple sees no reason why a biography should be squeezed dry of any personal sentiment | on the part of the writer toward the | subject of his study. Nor is there any such reason. But we are a suspicious crew, prone to confuse fairness with partiality. Admiration with faulty judgment. Here is a fine case, none better, to prove the narrow unintelli- gence of such a view. About all that Joe Chapple does in respect to Mr. | Davis is to say over again that which we already know about the Secretary of Labor. The difference is that here the story is told with vividness and gusto, as this writer would tell it if he ventured upon it at all. Moreover, the book gathers as a whole that which is known only in parts by many. And out of it, the writer takes care that the | man himself shall stand in the open. Here is the working man who looks out upon labor in a friendliness that has jno tinge of fanaticism about it. Here is the cabinet officer who through two administrations has served his country like the statesman that he is, with no faint savor of the politician upon any of his attitudes and actions. Here is a worker in the great Lgyal Order of Mocse and, above all, here is the friend of children, bent to the business of se- curing for these a fair roadway to youth and early maturity. All of this is known. Here there is nothing new to say. But there is here a very new way of telling the story—a Joe Chapple way, that leaps up in friendship and admiration for a truly great American —born in Wales, a Welch-American do- ing high honor to his adopted land and to the working folks of that land. Not the least of the work here is that by | way of which Chapple reveals Mr, Davis through some of his own words—a talk here, & speech there. At random, I choose for your reading, “The eulogy By Joe Chapple the late President Warren G. Harding” —a whole-hearted tribute to high serv- ice, with not a single “if” or “but” about it anywhere, We, in the main, are cowards—but nowhere in this book does a timid man, or even a shrinking man have place. A fine story for our refreshment and happiness. * oK K K THIS STRANGE ADVENTURE. By Mary Roberts Rinehart, author of “Lost Ecstasy,” etc. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. S matter of fact this “strange ad- venture” is yours and mine. For, | in effect, it is the adventure of being| alive—of going to bed and getting up.l of slipping out of clothes and into them ! again, of eating and drinking, of work-; ing and playing. Upon this general pattern of existence odd scrolls and | curliques are laid. These seem to give varfety to individual life. Not so, for| these are merely the splotches of love | land marriage, of birth and death. of | fugitive happiness and swift awakening, | of the crafts and arts employed to keep |oln¥~!hls the sceming variety, the actual similarity. But to tell al story one cannot make use of all| creation. The novelist must pick and | choose, both the people and a defined course out of the general monotony. Mrs. Rinehart does this—love, mar- riage, family background of the average kind, social surroundings of the get-| ting-along sort. This is sufficient for | the play of “This Strange Adventure.” ! Family discord, unsatisfied emotional life, yearnings toward some danger | point in the surrounding social land- scape, the gesture of understanding. the nearness of a beautiful hazard, the | this and the that with which eV!f}"l body, almost everybody, is familiar— | and then the ultimate accommodation to | fit personal timidity and general ex- actions. I told you Adventure” is yours. author pushes it away from us, away back to the period of crinolines and les, of slim walsts and spreading skirts, of hats teetering on the unsiable at the same time draws a picture that,| ton & Co. their story as it portrays here the 100 | years of work that has been accom- | the romance I might say—of something, Adventure | of Secretary James J. Davis to his chief, | at heart, is the very spit and image of your “strange adventure” and mine —that of being alive and trying to make & go of it right now in this year, 1929, * ok ok WE FORGET BECAUSE WE MUST‘ By W. B. Maxwell, author of “Spins- ter of this Parish,” etc. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. THE continued freshness and grovi- ing strength of W. B. Maxwell, novelist, derive from the fact that when he sets cut to tell a story he tells a story. With a pattern of actual life | before him he summons to his hand men and women who, out of the in- finite variety of human nature, are spe- | cially fitted to objectify that pattern. | Skilled as a story teller by way of a | score of successful novels, he has learn- | ed to devote himself exclusively to the | characters whom he has selected to work out the theme before them and him. There is no preachment linger- | ing about to lead any one astray. There | is no lesson. no scientific truth, no subtle philosophy, no political idealism, | in this writer's plan, to be sugar-coated | for the reader’s easy intaking. Just |a story, true as life and instinct with |in every movement through the areas |the essential drama of life. And here is another one of them, A couple of generations are involved. Young love | with_its immemorial disappointments. | Marriage with its age-old disillusion- ment. This theme is, you see, universal. The lover is disloyal. Or it may be the husband—or, just possibly it may be the mald or the wife. Not so likely to be these two, however, Here it was the lover with the first of these two generations. In the second one it was the young husband who proved inade- uate. The earlier one offers to the young woman a makeshift marriage. ‘Then, when love came to the wife— why, then, it was the husband who left the narrow path of conjugal recti- tude. So, throughout, there is this out- that pathetic compromise which appears to be the spiritless motive power of wedded existence. And all through the familiar to-do there are forgettings— (to forget this or that, because, finally, | to forget is the single condition upon which life can move forward. A dismal tale? No, not at all. These are in- teresting men and women, recognizable too. Trust W. B. Maxwell for tha‘. He has created many of the human tribe. the dust of the earth. A Maxwell novel, significant with | understanding, dramatic in its make-up | —-an absorbing inlook upon love and marriage, n the essential mirage ol happiness for all. * * K ok SUMMER LIGHTNING. By Georg F. Hummel, author of “Evelyn | Grainger,” etc. New York: Horace | Liveright. {‘IN the jam of novels and novelists, I |, for a time, lost George Hummel. ‘This was a deep regret to me. For of those who were, and still are, creating novels by the simple formula of turn- ing humans inside out and parading them in this stark state up and down the world for all to see—why, of these, George Hummel was, to me, one of the most capable and interesting. Then Hummel seemed to vanish. Not so, at all. Merely a negligent publisher fail- ing to be aware of my loss. And here is George Hummel. I never would have known him. Im- proved? Well, hardly that. Different! The rh\smunl realist is off duty. In his place is an adventurer, plunging off the deep end into sheer romance. It is over Italy—a myserious lady whose eyes are of the siren cast, whose movements, dancing, are zephyrs, float- ing mists, the flight of birds, the sweep of leaping fountains, 'n everything. | And the lady is, when it comes to her | pursuit, of the will-o'-the-wisp order. ;Then the adventure deepens to the menace of political intrigue. And there 1is the mess of Albania and Montenegro and the rest of that corner of Europe, deep in rivalries and projected devil- ment. With the mysterious lady a part of the impending fracas—beckon- | ing, disappearing, shining faintly again in the far away. And following is the besotted young American newsman, forgetting his job and his paper, while he does a turn as knight errant. Then the matter works around, as it would, to a picture of Mussolini and Facismo— and this is admirable! Mussolini turned to the uses of clear romance, to be sure, but a remarkable picture. nevertheless, of the man, of the situa- tion, ot his vision and his kind of per- formance. It is a corking story— glamorous with the romance of a day when there was romance, and was glamor. This is something like—even though it may turn out to be a mere play-day for this young American realist in novel writing. And, no doubt, that is just the way it will turn out. oK K K THE INNOCENT ACCOMPLICE. By Baillie Reynolds, author of *“The Spell of Sarnia,” etc. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Published for the Crime Club, Inc. IT happened in Switzerland, where so many pleasure-seekers go. Inno- cent folks, bent mainly to the great game of “keeping fit.” Among these guileless ones, however, there were others—murderers, robbers, a pseudo- scientist chasing rare butterflies by day and doing death by night. Such is the material. By way of it a great treas- ure in jewels from one or another of the defunct ruling houses of the nearby countries becomes the lure for the prac- tice of no end of original sin. The of-step progression with, at the last, | So he has a facile hand wlthi MASTER DETECTIVE STORIES. Se« lected by Arthur Neale. New York: | Edward J. Clode, Inc. | HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS INSTI+ |" TUT FRANCAIS DE WASHING+ | TON-LAFAYETTE IN VIRGINIA Unpublished Letters from the Origis | nal Manuscripts in the ergm’ State Library and the Library of | Congress. Ealtimore: The Johns | Hopkins Press. OTHER WAYS AND OTHER FLESH, | " By Edith O'Shaughnessy. New | YORK: Harcourt, Brace & Co. | THE INSIDER. By Alice Peal Parsons, | New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, | AH, THE DELICATE PASSION! By Elizabeth Hall Yates. Philadelphial The Penn Publishing Co. OUR RECOVERY OF JESUS. By Walter E. 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Appleton & Co, /Canton’s Exports Branded Inferiox | Fearing a further loss of trade if th quality of exported goods drops lowel {or continues at its present standard, the chairman of the Hongkong Chamse | ber of Commerce has issued a warns ing to exporters and Chinese dealeiy pointing to the fate of Canton as @ tea-shipping center. He specifically referred to the adulteration of wood oil and essential oils, the poor guality of ginger, the lowering of the grand. ard of packing and the quality of vice which he said had peen tne oraer of the day. Such adulteration, the spe er continued, has resulted in tne lisq of prestige and trade. “This is only in keeping with the history of Chinag export trade and calls to mind thy loss of the tea trade to Canton, thg faflure to improve the culture cf and the troubles over the exporl standards of cassia and of almost every other article that can be mentioned* the chairman concluded. standard at a level as to do credit Hongkong and South China. | Poles Xid AnimalsA Hit by Severe Cold Poland's very severe Winter, coldey than any for over 100 years, was fel{ even more by the wild beasts and birdg in the woods than by human beings, The government took energetic stepy in its huge forest properties to fed and protect the game, and in partice ular the rare animals which are i danger of extinction—elk, bears, be: jvers and a number of birds. The a thorities are anxious lest these sharq the fate of the European bison, which survived in Polish forests until in the confusion of war and revolution local peasants exterminated them. It wag found, however, that where the for« ests contained wild boars, the gama needed very little help. These anis mals by constantly rooting with their snouts in the snow laid bare tha ground to such an extent that other nnlmu}:lwere able to find food enough | R TR point of the story, that which gives rise | to a large share of the tenson and | danger, Is the presence of two perfectly | innocent people, who, by one of the | strange maneuvers of chance, look for | all the world like the perpetrators of the most of evil that is being done. By a very skillful series of plausible inci- | dents and scenes these two are kept in | fear until at the right moment the | clouds of suspicion vanish—and there | is a wedding instead. The two inno- | OU have heard of a new and opular book. 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