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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €. MAY 26, NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS American Etchings on View in London—Gift to Library of | Congress—Many Washington Artists Preparing to I.eave City for Summer. BY LEILA MECHLIN, NOTABLE exhibition of etchings, engravings and lithographs by American artists is being held under distinguished auspices in Victoria and Albert Museum, London. at the present time. ‘Thix exhibition was opened with & private view and reception on the after- noon ot May 14 by Sir Willlam Llewel lyn. president of the Royal Academ: and & shown under the distinguished patronage of the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Esme Howard: the president of the board of educa- tion, Lord Eustace Percy: the director of the Victoria and Albsrt Museum. Eric Maclagen: the keeper of the de- partm-nt of engraving, illustration and design of the Victoria and Albert Mu- seum, Martin Hardie: the keeper of thy department of prints and drawings RBritish Museum, Campbell Dodgson and the president of the Royal Society of Painters. Etchers and Engravers, Sir Prank Short. It was assembled by the American Federation of Arts. our national art organization with head. quarters in Washington, and the Amer- iean honorary committee is headed by Flihu Root. honorary president of the federation. ‘and includes the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon. an honor- ary vice president: Robert W. de For- est. president both of the federation and of the Metropolitan Muscum of Art, and the presidents of seven of the Jeading print makers’ societies in this country. ‘Thix exhibition comprises 432 prints selected by a jury of well known etch- ers, the chairman of which is John, ‘Taylor Arms, from over 1000 contrib- uted by print makers from all paris of the United States. It includes work both conservative and modern, is con- temporary and retrospective. In the retrospective section are etchings by Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Duveneck Blum, Pennell, J. Alden Weir, Henry Wolf, George Bellows and Ernest Has- kell. ' Of contemporary artists the rep- resentation is more extensive and in-, cluded are the works of such well known etchers, engravers and lithog- raphers as Benson, Roth, Arms. Rosen- berg, Heintzelman, Hornby, Webster, Eby. Sloan, Martin Lewis, Kent, Ronne- beck, Wanda Gag, Handforth, Biddle and many others A catalog with an appropriate in- troduction and numerous illustrations | has been issued. The exhibition will remain on view # the north court of the Victoria and Albert Museum until the twenty-sec. ond of June and will, it is hoped, bring to the attention of British print lovers the estimable work of some of our fore- most American graphic artists. | This is the third important exhibi- tion of American prints that the Amer- jcan Federation of Arts has sponsored and sent abroad. The first was shown | i an international exhibition in Flor- ce in 1026, the second at the Bib-| theque Nationale, Paris, last Summer, | * x % % | ‘AT the same time that the American | Federation of Arts has sent exhi- | bitions of American eichings abroad it | has brought exhibitions of the works of European etchers to this country. For example, the exhibition of etchings. engravings and lithographs by French artists assembled under the auspices of the Association Francaise d'Expansion et d'Echanges Artistiques which had its remier showing here at the Library of gress last Summer. This exhibi- | tion has since been shown in the fol- | lowing museums. arousing a great deal of interest at each place: The Cincin- nati Art Museum, the Detroit Insti- | tute of Arts, the Memorial Art Galler: Rochester, N. Y.; the Carnegie Insti- | tute, Pittsburgh: the Toledo Art Mu- | seum, the Cleveland Art Museum, the Art Institute of Omaha, Nebr., and the Baltimore Museum of Art. From this exhibit while on tour, over & hundred sales have been made. It has | been said, and is currently thought, that foreign works of art are less costly | than works by American artists, but | some of the elchings in this collection | are priced as high as $600, and prac- | tically none is as low in cost as Amer. | fean works when first issued. There is & growing public for fine prints in the United States, as wit- | nessed by the fact that the sales from | the Chicago Society of Etchers' recent annual exhibition amounted to over $10,000. | ok ok % i N this connection it is interesting to | note the increasing interest abroad | in American art, tangibly witnessed | recently by the issuance in Paris of a | magnificent catalog in two large folio | volumes of the etchings of Arthur W. Heintzelman, a distinguished American | etcher, with a most complimentary and appreciative foreword by Campbell | Dodgson, one of the greatest authori- | ties today on prints. Also, simulta- | neously, the announcement of an ex- | hibition in Paris of recent etchings by Cadwallader Washburn, for a time of this city, who, though a world traveler, is distinctly an American and an Amer- fcan of rare achievement. A coliection of some of Mr. Washburn's recent works was shown this past season at Gordon Dunthorne’s and has been augmented lately by several of his inimitable dry- point portrait studies. Mr. Washburn | has been spending the Winter at his sister's villa at Mentone, and his etch- ings shown here and in Paris are chiefly subjects found in Southern France. Ok Ex ‘A NNOUNCEMENT was lately made in the New York Times of a notable gift to the Library of Congress—a col- lection of 20.000 or more woodcuts from early illustrated books made by Dr. and | Mrs. Otto H. F. Volibehr in special commemoration of the life and service | of Carl Schurz. This collection is now being catalogued and assorted in the print division of the library. Its many items include not only illusirative wood- cuts but initial letters, head and tail pleces, decorative portraits. etc. The collection has been described by the | Librarian of Congress as “a great “WHITE BOAT,” A WATER COLOR BY JO resource to the student of art and of the development of the book. * %ok COLLECTION of recent water col- ors by John Whorf of Boston is now on view at Gordon Dunthorpe's. There is none today who displays greater mastery of (his medium than Whorf, and none who produces works of greater interest. There is in his skiliful technique that fascination al- most amounting to necromancy which Sargent’s works in oil almost invariably possess—an amazing cleverness amd adroitness which few ever achieve Many of Mr. Whorf's paintings are made from a little boat in the Boston Harbor, but it does not matter whether his subjects are of wharves and sea- going craft, rocks and water or of pure landscape —they are invariably color- ful, direct, delightful to the eye, allur- ing to the imagination. In studying & group of water colors by Whorf such as this now on view at Dunthorne’s, one can_ scarcely fail to recall the thrill of & first inspe:tion of paintings by the great Spanlard. Soroll paintings full of sunlight, spontaneity, Joyousness. Undoubietly there must be a kinship between these two. although in_all probability they never met. 1t is work of this sort. strong, vital full of the spirit of America and of yet at the same time replete with that gives the lie to moder contortions and to the belief that things must be ugly to reflect the spirit of machine-made age. The exhibition of A group of water colors by John Whorf is an event of note whenever it may oceur. R N connection with the mesting of the American Library Association held here last week in (he Auditorium were shown, among other exhibils, the new serfes of color prints lately issued by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. This serles. one of the Metro- politan Museum’s latest adventures in the educational field, consicts of eight portfolios contalning six prints eac reproducing in full color notable mu- seum exhibits. For instance, there is a series on Italian paintings. containing reproductions of works by Fra Angelico. Bellini and de Predis. A second serles is devoted to the American school and includes Homer Martin's Winds,” Windslow Homer's R : “The Red Bridge.” by J. Alden : Sargent’s “Marble QuaiTy at Cai Arthur B. Davies' painting “PONTE FABRICIO. ROM AN INCLUDED IN EXHIBITION titled “Dream” and Allen ‘Tucker's “Blue and Gold.” works for the most part not availabie heretofore in repro- duction. Series three consists of paintings of the Dutch and Flemish schools, includ- ing Memling and Rembrandt. But, perhaps, most interesting of all are the portfolios devoted to the repro duction of art objects. For instance, one of the Near Eastern textiles, Per sian and Turkish brocades and velvets, | beautiful in design as well as in color: tapestries and examples of French and | Flemish work, Near Eastern ceramics, Egyptian falence, Near Eastern minia- tures, works which set a standard and because of intrinsic beauty, delight the eye. These portfolios are priced at $6 each, single prints selling at $150. They are purposed especially as teaching mate- rial for schools of art. libraries and stu- dents of dexign, and they extend the service of the Metropolitan Museum to those of all parts of our country. Coples | of these portfolios may be seen at Dun- thorne’s, 'l‘HE local art season draws to a clos as Summer approaches. The Cor- coran School of Art will have its closing exhibition the first week in June, and t the same time the Phillips Memorial Gallery will close until Autumn. There will probably be no more notable tran- X % ¥ N WHORF. O\ OI'1 AT GORDON . DUNTHORNES, sient exhibitions until Autumn. although ® special exhibit of members’ work wil! be on view throughout months at the Arts Club, and several special showings may be arranged at the Corcoran Gallery of Art for Sum- mer visitors The artists generally are closing their city studios and recking other fields Some will go abroad and others {o th Northern art colonies. The past scason has been extremely full of interest and activity more Washingion is becoming one of the acknowledged art centers, ok ox % OOKING ahead, mention made of an article by may be Duncan | | More and | Phillips, published in the current num- ! ber of Creative Art is made of increased serviee on the part of the Phillips Memorial Gallery, and broadening of its general scope. “Looking back on the ten years of our corporate existence vs Mr. Phil- lips. “T have little to toll of inc wail space and nothing at all to report in which promise ased | | of the building which some day must | be a home for the collection. It hos seemed the wisest course to construct | for the future with paintings and sculp- ture rather than with brick and mortar since it is impossible out of our limited funds to do both at the same time. The day may come when there will be A school for feachers and cr tioning usefully around an art library with the help of the actual paintings. These would be moved about in exhibi- | tion units. in groups of works possessed | of collective as well as individual sig- nificance; moved in whalever ways the director and his teachers might require. from a gallery to a classroom and back to & luminous storeroom. there to hang in good lights and at all times visible to students on sliding screens. “For the present I can only inter- pret.” he adds. “by the wrilten word | those special ideas” which suggest the changing exhibitions. Our | and “bulletins are sent through the mails (o a large mailing list. including any one sufficiently interested to ask us for the service. A handbook and an art magazine are planned for next season. and an extended use of photographs | and slides for educational purposes | The on)y compensation we have for ali | the time and money spent upon fhe publications for free distribution is the improved standard of taste, the greater fituess to appreciate our exhibitions on {the part of those who have prepared CHING BY LOUIS ROSENBERG. AMERICAN PRINTS, LONDON | their minds, and finally the desire of a few to acquire our monographs ahd books of critical appraisal.” In this same articie Mr. Phillips re- iterates his purpose in the establish- ment of this gallery and evidences anew the unique character of his undertak- ing. “The Phillips collection,” he sa: “is based on definite policy of sup. porting many methods of seeing and | painting. Since the encouragement of living artists is one of the important functions of an art gallery, I purchase freely and make frequent mistaki i know that this is inevitable, and 1 am | ready cheerfully to change my mind | whenever I feel that not to change it | would be a symptom of a small mind | and an arrogant stupidity. My only | folly would be not to profit by my mis- takes * * * As I understand my role as | & collector it is to buy, to exhibit and to interpret works of art not merely as isolated objects but not in their histori- cal and esthetic relationships.™ Having no board to consuit. he has only himself to consider—himself and | his purpose. Mrs. Phiilips, he says, is | his constant associate and mentor, his | only adviser. He has no agents among | experts or dealers. His declared policy is painting and the best creative pattern- ing and to open the door-to all works | | of art which seem in any way true or | beautiful whatever HE TICTUE I\ N ENHiBITION func- | catalogues | 1l 1 “to choose the best representative | | Moyer, J. A., and Wostrel, J. F. Radio LONDON EXHIBITION the Summer | “LA MARBRIER.” A HEINT THE WORK OF AMERICAN ARTI FILLE DU tentative, new or old.” In pursult of | this policy he is assembling & perma- | | nent collection of masterpieces, in con- | nection with which he is conducting an experiment’station where new ideas can | be tried out and results tested by the aforesaid masterpieces. His desire is that the public shall see with the art- | ist’s eye. that they shall temper judg- ment with understanding. | Mr. Phillips’ courage in attempting something so new and so different is admirable, and the fact that his ex- | periment is being carried on here at Washington in our midst matter for congratulation. The fact that he is willing to announce his intentions and invites the public to share with him in his experiment makes it the more valuable. "['HEO J. MORGAN. who for some years has been traveling in the Uniled States, is returning to Wash- | ington and will take up his residence | here permanently. During his absence he has been in Texas, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, California and old Mexico, | collecting material for paintings and | data for books. He has not. he writes, | spent an idle moment. Among the honors that he has received during this time are prizes in the now famous | Texas wild flower competitions. The | Witte Museum (San Antonio), the mu- seum at Houston and the Delgado Museum at New Orleans have acquired examples of his painting. *ox oo N INTERESTING fealure of the ex- @ hibition of sculpture now in prog- | ress in San Francisco under ?fie‘ auspices of the National Sculpture So- | ciety is a collection of United States colns designed by American sculptors. | These include the Alabama Centennial | Afty-cent piece, the Grant Memorial gold dollar and fifty-cent plece, the Fort Vancouver Centennial fifly-cent piece, | and the Oregon Trail fifty-cent piece | designed and modeled by Laura Gardin Fraser, wife of James Earle Frxwr| of New York, who, it will be remem- bered, designed the Buffalo nickel now | In_use. | The current half-dollar, quarter and | dime are by A. A. Weinman, president | of the National Sculpture Soclety. The | Panama-Pacific Exposition fifty-dollar | gold plece and the Missour! Centennial | half-dollar are by Robert Altken of | New York and San Francisco. Herman McNeill is the designer and_sculptor | of a quarter shown, Chester Beach of | the Monroe Doctrine half-dollar and | Cyrus Dallin of the Pilgrim Tercen- | tenary coin. The fact that these coins are by dis- tinguished sculptors is little known. | Only in comparatively recent years has ' PUBLIC LIBRARY. * Xk % Recent accessions at the Public! Library and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each| Sunday. Travel. Barton, George. Walks and Talks about Old_Philadelphia. G854P-B28w. King, G. E. Mount Vernon on the Po- | tomac. G863M-K58. Rhode Isiand State Bureau of Informa- tion. New Rhode Island. 1027. GB845-R34. Rothery, A. E. New Roads in Old Vir- ginia. G863-R74. March, Bertha. Bermuda Days. G269- Martn, Oliver. The Chesapeake and | Potomac Country. G857C-M36. Sociology. Bossard, J. H. S._ Problems of Social Well' Being, I-B657p. | Eldridge, Seba, and Clark, C. D. Major Problems of Democracy. I-El2Tm. | Gillin, J. L. and others. Social Prob- lems. 1-G4l14s. | Hill, H. C. Community and Vocational Civics. I-H55co. Landis, B. Y., ed. Handbook of Rural Social Resources. I-6L23h. Lewis, Wyndham. The Art of Being Ruled. 1926. I-L58. Shideler, E. H. Modern Social Prob-| lems. 1-Shé3m. Swartz, C. L. What Is Mutualism? 1927. | T-Sw27w. Wood. A. E. Community Problems. 1-Wes3. ! Radlo. Leutz, C. R. Modern Radio Reception. | TGC-L577m. Receiving Tubes, TGC-M873r. ‘The Radio Industry. TGC-R123. Stewart, Irwin, ed. Radlo. TGC-St48.! Psychology. Dimnet, Ernest. The Art of Thinking. BII-D59. Hazlitt, Victoria. Ability, a Psycholog- ical Study. BII-H35 Hugon, P. D. Our Minds and Our Mo- tives. BI-H8760. ! | Jastrow. Joseph. Keeping Mentally Fit. BI-J315k. Leary. D. B. That Mind of Yours. BI-L477t. | Miller, L. Moss. F. A BI-M857y. { Nixon, H. K. Psychology for the Writer. BI-N65p. Randolph, Vance. The A B C of Psy- chology. BI-R 155 Reiser, O. L. The Alchemy of Light and Color. BI-R27. German Fiction. Psychology. BI-M614g. Your Mind in Action. Baum, Vicki. Feme. 1926. Y47F-B319f | Dreyer, Max. Das Himmelbett von Hil- { _ genhoh. Y47TF-D828h. | Feuchtwanger, ~Lionel. | Herzogin Margarete Maulasch Y47F- | F438h. i | Greinz, Rudolf. Die Stadt am Inn. 1927.! Y4TF-GB64s. Kellermann, Bernhard. Die Bruder | Schellenberg. 1925. Y47P-K285b. | Kurz, Isolde. Der Caliban. 1925. Y47F-| . K968c. ‘ ! Molo, Walter, Ritter von. Die Legende -Vom Herrn. Y47F-M7361, Die Hassliche | | the Villa Borghese, | JOHN, A |To_THE SUN. N ETCHING BY ARTHUR W. LMAN, WHICH 1S INCLUDED iIN THE EXHIBITION OF STS IN LONDON, our coinage been of artistic value. When Augustus Saint-Gaudens, at the request of President Roosevelt, designed and modeled his celebrated twenty-dol- lar gold plece, discarded because the relief was so high that it would not stack, was the new era in coinage ushered in. Then came Victor Bren- ner’s Lincoln penny and the ten-dol- lar Indian head gold plece by Bela Pratt. Today our coinage stands with the best in the world—that of France. *x ok % T THE Corcoran Gallery of Art a group of twenty-four water colors by Antimo Beneduce was placed on ex- hibition last Wednesday, to remain until June 16. These are pure aquarelles, brilliant, clear, vivacious, the fruit of & year's sojourn abroad, chiefly in Italy, and of summers in Gloucester. Among the best are a view of Capri, “Stone Pines,” and three studies of the ocean, “Bare Rocks.” etc., the vitality of the medium being especially adapted to plcturing the ever-changing sea. “Storm Clouds,” 100, is very impressive, with its feeling of vast space. Others of these water colors show aspects of Rome, the Tivoli A gardens and Venice. vigorous mountain and cloud studies. Mr. Beneduce was born in Santa Antimo, Naples, Italy, in 1900. He came to this country as & child, and he has become a naturalized citizen. His education in art has been wholly American. He first studied at the Cleveland School of Art, subsequently at the National Academy of Design and later under Charles W. Hawthorne. Mr. Beneduce has exhibited his work at many of the leading art museums, at the Penusylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn, Newark and Cleveland Museums, not to mention all. He is represented in the current International Exhibition of Water Colors at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was the re- cipient of an honorable mention for water color at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1923, * ok ox % [HE MEMORIAL Exhibition of etch- ings by Warren Davis opened May 19 in the division of graphic arts, Smithsonan Institution, and will re- main on view until July 1. It comprises nearly 40 etchings, the subjects being chiefly poetic and graceful interpreta- tions of the nude figure, dancing and in repose, ” * k ok X FT"HE ANNUAL exhibition of the work of students of the Abbott School of Fine and_Commercial Art will open on Sunday, June 2, in the schoolrooms at 1624 H street, northwest, to continue throughout the week. BOOKS RECEIVED DEAR SENATOR. By McCready Hus- ton. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mer- rill Co. BRIGHT METAL. By T. S. Stribling. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Ine. JOHN, AND HIS SON JOHN; udy in Motive. By Gertrude Capen Whitney. Boston: The Four Seas Co. THE HOUNDS OF GOD: A Romance. By Rafael Sabatinl. Boston: Hough- ton Miffiin Co. THE INTRUDER. By V. Blawco Iba- nez, author of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” etc. Authorized translation from the Spanish by Mrs. W. A. Gillesple. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. DEEP SEA BUBBLES: or, The Cruise of the Anna Lombard. By Henry H. gooles. New York: D. Appleton & 0. THE GOLDEN FLEECE. By John Gunther, author of “Eden for One,” etc. New York: Harper & Bros. NEVERTHELESS THE DUKE. By Elisabeth Finley Thomas, author of “Empty Shrines,” etc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. ! THE WITCHERY OF WASPS. By Ed- rd G. Reinhard. Foreword by L. O. Howard. New York: The Cen- tury Co. Arista Edward By Cosmopolitan Fisher. New York: Book Corporation. SAINT PAUL. By Emile Baumann Translated from the French by Ken- neth Burke. With a frontispiece by Emile_Bernard and_decorations by Rene Pottier. Brace & Co. THE INNOCENT VOYAGE. By Rich- ard Hughes. New York: Harper & ros. THE MODERN TEMPER: A Study and | By Joseph Wood York: Harcourt, a Confession. Krutch. New Brace & Co. THE HAMMER OF DOOM. By Fran- cis Everton, author of “The Dale- house Murder.” Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. GOOSE FAIR. By Cecil Roberts, au- thor of “Sails of Sunset,” etc. New York: Prederick A. Stokes Co. KING HENRY THE RAKE. By Clement Wood, author of “The Out- line of Man's Knowledge,” etc. Bos- ton: The Stratford Co. THE LINDEN WALK TRAGEDY. By Foxhall Daingerfield. New York: D. Appleton & Co. CONQUERING THE AIR; The Ro- mance of the Development and Use of Aircraft. By Archibald Williams, author of “Engineering Feats,” etc. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons. PELICAN COAST. By Alan LeMay. New York: Moubleday, Doran & Co., | Inc. {HIE LIFE OF LORD PAUNCEFOTE. | 2t An;hn_«ndflr to the United ry g the University of Bris- ston: Houghton Miffiin of Hi tol, ete. Co. There are also| New York: Harcourt, | B. Mowat, Professor ' 1929—PART 2. IDA GILBERT MYERS. MID-CHANNEL: An American Chron- icle. By Ludwig Lewisohn. author of “Upstream.” etc. New York; Harper and Brothers. ID-CHANNEL" stands as Ludwig Lewisohn's intimate personal avowal to the wide world. Intimacy is the single_Indispensable quality of the personal disclosure—that is, if the object be to benefit in any way cither the writer or his readers. Well. here is frank and free siatement. Its sum, away over at the end of the book through steady approaches, is a warn- ing, even an arraignment, of the Jewish people as a whole. But, all the time, Lewisohn uses himself in an intimate and personal study, In a frank and free disclosure, as the concrete case of the soul of his race. As a whole the book !is a call to the Jewish people to come out into their own, to deny their local surroundings and practices, to proclaim their racial_tradition and promise—to ibe Jews. Not to be American Jews. nor German, nor Austrian, nor Euglish Jews—but to be Jews. He calls upon {them to throw off the assimilative habits which they have taken on in 4 | these are ultimately destructive of the j Jew as such. And he points upon the loss to themselves and to the world for | spirit of the race in order to gain ease and safety. Throughout the book there is evidence brought out of the gifts which these people have granted to civ- ilization through their Jewish qualities and powers, gifts which they can still give on into some far future, provided only that they save their souls to a Jewish righteousness of life and vision. Yet, in spite of such wide and dynamic spread, this is a very personal mar- rative, Lewisohn begins where we are all at home. He begins with the dear quality of a bit of landscape up in New York State where as a little boy he came to know and love it. Reading here, one’s heart flies to some equally beloved spot that in childhood melted into one’s blood. there to stay forever. So, Jerusalem abides ever in the heart of the Jew. Beautiful and softening and true, all this, in its quiet and friendly moment of reminiscence. Then, for a long time, Lewisohn talks about himself—and that's all right, even though the reader is a bit puzzled over some family trouble whoss odds and ends he is not able to tie into anv plausible whole. Nevertheless. it is all right, for this is an honest and a very engaging man, sure that one is_inter- ested in him. And one is. Things pearance of a lovely healer, named Thelma. and the reader. feeling better, goes along with this personal story in something like a trance of sympathy light over the genuine nobility of the | story itself, not forgetting the pleasure of the ways of the words set down here. Upon occasion here, this is a travel book, wherein a couple of poets live of the beauty and solace of this corner of the world and that one. Now and then the pause is for thespurpose of supporting the Lewisohn theme of the lost and losing Jew as he studies him— now in Germany achieving in this or that, as & German and not as the Jew which he should so proudly acclaim himself to be. Now in Austria, or in Xtaly, or otherwhere, always is he under arraignment for foregoing his birthright for the pottage of security. Lewisohn along the way says some things that we | —conventional folks—will shrink from. | Better not, better read right through for this is a serious. sincere, noble and able book, drawn from the soul of a| man whose vision is clear. whose mind | is keen and in prime working order. One, too, whose: working tools are of the finest steel, pliable, resilient, sharp in thrust, lightning in return, steady in probe, durable and trustworthy. Better | read it. You will not have an equal | chance of this kind today nor to- MOrTOW, * x k% AMERICA'S AMBASSADORS TO ENGLAND: 1785-1929. By Beckles | Willson, author of “America’s Am- | bassadors to France” etc. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 'HE official relationship between America and England offers. | throughout its course, a unique aspect | of dilopmacy itself. Unlike other fac-| tors in the international situation, these two are in essence one. They are iden- tical in blood, tradition, inheritance, | education and outlook. And neither the | Revolution nor Independence has served to eradicate this basic racial unity. Up to this day these two possess mutual | deep-seated understandings that cannot hold among nations wholly alien to one another. Such differences as do arise | between them are in the nature of fam- ily disagreements—often violent and bitter, but never unreconcilable through complete lack of comprehension. A | study of the diplomacy that history has | imposed upon these two kindred nation provides a new and illuminative of the subject as a whole. By wav of | the volume in hand Mr. Be will- | son provides such a study. Here in| order stand the ambassadors who have represented the United States in the Court of St. James. John Adams is the first, Alanson B. Houghton the last. | Each one in the long line is projected | in the midst of such matters as in his day were of common concern to the two | countries. Here in each case one comes upon character, personality, sagac y‘ and distinction, ‘embodied, and working | out toward diplomatic accommodations and settlements. Here is history of a special line, projected in character- | sketch and narrative. The effect is that of the story or, better, of the drama | whose actors have, in each case, lead- ing roles in the theme of international concord. Beside these useful and inter- | esting offices. the volume constitutes an | admirable book of reference upon the | diplomatic Interests of the United States " and England from the origin of this na- | tion up to the present time. Most read- | | able as well as most useful in content. | R | THE ROAD TO OREGON: A Chronicle of the Great Emigrant Trail. By W. J. Ghent. Ilustrated. New | York: Longmans, Green & Co. THIS is said to be the first compre- | hensive story of the great Oregon Trail, phases of which, glimpses of | which, have provided many a writer | with themes of adventure and romance. | | Interesting to find out that it was the | deer and the elk that started the Trail. | The antelope and the bighorn sheep did | | their part, too. Then it was the In-| dian who next made paths in this | region, peace paths to neighboring vil- lages, war trails against his foes. Both animal and Indian, as matter of course. chose the easiest’ ways, hint to the later trail-makers. Trappers came next in this road development, converging from all over the Northwest upon that point down stream that has become, by = ——x| ; Exhibition \ of Plim;ngs & Duwinfis by Forei(n and Local Artists Yorke Gallery 2000 S Street N.W. Mly 6th to Mly 29¢h i i | | i | | the interest of security and peace, since | this too-ready relinquishment of the | ease up very markedly with the ap-| for the revealed facts and in sheer de- | as poets should while one of them tells 1 | virtue of their trade, the great fur de- pot of the West and, maybe, of the world. Then came the Mormor and the missionary, cne seeking a new land for his new faith, the other on the long errand of saving souls. With both came the settlers and emigrants, the restless human tribe ever reaching for that which it has not. Beyond this point of early outfaring the story| comes well within the familiar records of the history books. , somehow. this is & more alive story. one more immediate and appealing. than the old school book could possibly invent. The study sums to & full and comprehensive | story, authentic and vital in its cast. | A readable book from first to last. One. too, that has involved much of original research, that includes much of fresh material, that has. moreover, a way of | its own that is really beguiling. Listen to & few questions whose answers are in this story: “Do you know of a tragic trek on | which respectable men and women be- | came cannibals?” “Do you know how the Mormons went into the wilderness, and how the Lord gave them flour and bacon & thousand miles from civilization?” “Do you know about the massacres of the trail>” “Do you know how many thousands followed the Trail how marriages were made, how chil- | | dren were born, how many men and women died?” A dozen more of such thrilling queries lead to high points in | the story of that march which pro- | duced, finally, one of the great, rich parts of this great country of ours.| History and adventure here in abun- | dance. | * Kk K % | ALL OR NOTHING. By J. D. Beres- ford, author of “Love’s Pilgrim.” etc. | Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. | | A\ SERIOUS novel by an author who | |4 already has to his credit half a| | dozen stories of the same serious brand. | The disadvantage of such writing 1¢ | | that it lacks the wayside lures of sen: tional turn calculated to keep readers | | on their toes, so to speak, to meet the | edge of scandal in which they so de- | light. Not a thread of that sort here— | | but, wait! I'm wrong. There is the; | stuff_of scandal here, but it falls awey | | uncelebrated and unsung in the face | of greater matters. And this brings us | {to the man of the story. He, as a | | matter of fact, is all there is to it. Here | is the story of the rich young man who, iterally, gave all that he had to the poor. Going one better than that rich | man of the Bible who, when Jesus told| him to do that very thing, turned and | went away sorrowful” A study, this, of serious youth looking out upon a world of inequalities and inequities. Impressed with this fact, coupled with |the fact of his own unearned wealth, | the young man slowly enters into (F* | new life of unloading mere money from | himself, of placing it among the real | producers, where, he thought, it be. |longed. Such is the sum of the story | 1t moves so quietly and so sedately that one fails to realize fully the absorbini | business that is going on. There is = | layer of surface work which includes | |love and marriage on the part of this | young man. Interesting, this, by virtue ‘0! the quality of the love given. The woman is unfaithful —more than once, | with more than one lover. That comes |out merely between him and her. It | has nothing at all to do with the love | | that he has given this woman. You see, | he does not mix his emotions. He loves That is the sum and substance of !lish and American. | West. | shuffles and deals his material An American Chronicle by Ludwig Lewisohn — American Ambassadors to England—A Story of the Oregon Trail, and the Newest Fiction. A beautiful voung Nordic woman, something of & £o herself in pattern and heroic stripe erally. You can see at once the puzzie set by this situation. To the nat there must be a restoration of sacred veil. To the others there m be its rediscovery and redisposal for a many different reasons as there a groups of white men concerned in the business. The young woman, prime of o | fender. since it was she who committed the origihal sin of rape of the veil naturally the real point of concern in the hearts af all the men roundabout. But love is held in abeyance for the ti. e being, while the pursuit fares ahead in about every situation of dan- ger that that part of the world has at its command. It is a good stor) It fairly reeks with the atmosphere of the religious and caste world of India. It sets up In picturesque contrast to the underground methods of that region the fist-and-foot method of the brawny In between there is the keen and subtle white man who finally, in an adroit and entertaining manner. as a white man should, and who finally also brings the veil adventure to a successful outcome. What i much more to the point, he subdues the young woman, outwits his rivals, gets married, and, let us hope, keeps that Nordic heroine to heel ever after, for there clearly where she belongs in the interests of peace and comfort. Good story, sub- stantial in theme, exceilent in its build, witty and briliilant in the conception of situations and in the projection of personality. Good story. ey THE LIONESS. By Ferdinand Ossen- dowskl, author of “Beasts, Men and Gods,” etc. New York: E. P. Dut- ton & Co. HIGH romance of the Riff moun- tains. Brilliant in color as its background is, in reality, brilliant, and sharp in action the adventure marches in the spirit of ferocity with which the tribes of this region seek vengeance. A fugitive man under tribal ban supplies the cause of swift action and changing scenes. Escape is but a part of his motive for constant flight. His other hope is to come again upon his beauti- ful wife who, somewhere, is waiting for him. This woman, by virtue of her dar- ing and courage and ingenuity of plan for reunion with her man, names the story, “Lioness.” Haughtily she defies the lawmakers and the condemnation of her mate. Failing here she plies the woman's art of lure and persuasion. An imposing woman, beautiful, proud, unconquerable. Unhappy in its fail- ures as well as in its outcome. the tale speeds along tnrough a maze of intrigue and hazard and escapes that seem to yrepare only for more of menace and janger. Compact in structure, packed { in content, here is a highly dramatio situation—exotic in effect, truly human in characteristic, and tragic out of the essence of its own situation. Two Hawaiian Bird Species Are Revived Hawallan birds that were Two | thought to be virtually extinct are be- lleved now to be on the increase—a possible result of the change of gov- ernment of Hawali from monarchical to territorial. This unique combination | er. | comes & convert. so to speak. Do yor | all four of them, drawing off from him- it all. He seems to me to be some rela- | Of Tesult and cause is due to the fact tion to Jesus. I dont xnow. It is a | that the iwi and the apapane birds— great story—simply great. unshowily | Of bright-colored plumage—were hunted great. It grows and grows as ene reads. | {OF their feathers, with which old-time Only a weak spot in it—the woman,|Hawaiian artisans made the brilliant ST g st et AT Be. | feather cloaks of royalty and chieftains. o | The iwi bird was distinguished for bright red feathers and the apapane | had gay-colored plumage used as bor- | dering for some of the cloaks. Since monarchism has vanished and a terri- | torial form of government has been set | up, the feather cloaks are now museum Life of Alexander Dumas, By J.|TArities or kept only as the heirlooms Lucas-Dubreton. Translated by M. of families. The birds are said to be C. Darnton. New York: Coward- |On the increase in the Hawaii national McCann, Inc. | park, on the Island of Hawaii. HE immortal *“Musketeers” hsvlng! = been brought back to life again by way of the screen, it is to be expected that the story of their creator will itself revive in common interest. And here it is—the life of Dumas, “Fourth Musketeer.” As matter of fact, you, reading here, will find that Dumas was blleve that? Well, all right, whether you do or not, here is something worth the time you put upon it. * % ox % THE FOURTH MUSKETEER: The Limit Put on Passes Over Chinese Railways Only foreign ministers plenipoten= lu?ry ‘who visit Nanking, China’s cap- Self for the one and the Other. of the | treaties wnd Thrie ctatrs who AUTE REW ever-living three. There is another |rajiroad transportation or the privilege reason for the re-birth of Dumas. This |of g special car. Thus has the national is the period of the best seller. For |government reached a final solution to 90 years the books of this man have a problem which has long vexed suc- belonged to this newly risen era of the | cessive administrations. Chinese rail- best seller. The task of the biographer |roads have been losing immense revenue here must have been that of bridling |for many years owing to the Chinese himself. of holding himself away from |predilection for grabbing free rides. the riot that constituted the life of | Troops for years had never paid & cent Dumas. A mad and grotesque career |for train fare, and every time a Soldier that simply revels in escapade, adven- |had a day off he used to spend it hang- ture, change, all in a crescendo of ab- |ing onto the overcrowded coaches. until surdity and gayety. Not all absurd and |the Nanking government put a stop to mad, for here is triumph of the real |the practice. Thousands of Chinese sole sort in play writing as well as in the |diers had never seen a train until they. weaving of fabulous tales. Here is had been shunted half across the coun= fame with an uproar of acclamation. try on active service. Then, too, for= A soldier, too, off to Sicily and Naples | elgners have never been averse to asking with Garibaldi. A lover of immense for and accepting passes on the rails appetite besides, But most certainly roads a worker, else he could not have given | to the world not only the Musketeers but “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “The | Queen's Necklace” and countless other | stories that have died along the way. Through it all, a laughing boy, a ca- pricious child—but he could write storfes! I leave it to you have the honor of presenting to you my father, a grown-up child that I had when I was very small” is the formula of intro- duction used by the son of Dumas in presenting his father. Lovely! I think, | since nobody knows how to play any more. Oh, yes, we caper and cavort, but we do not play. We grimace and we grin, but we do not laugh. So let us get inside this big playboy of France | and go about with him in_mirthful | OU have heard of a new and popular book. 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