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h‘m——_ SUNDAY STAN, Ww}mmwmz—_———?—:——o—— ) NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Washington Sculptor Exhibits Six Figures Which Will Be! Placed in Cathedral—Good Showing by Washington Water Color Club—Other Notes. BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE special exhibition of sculpture by Carl Christian Mose at the| There are two of industrial subjects | Corcoran Gallery of Art unusual interest. place, it is distinctly out of the ordinary, different from what one com- monly sees. In the second place, it con- sists {n'ely of work done for the Wash- ington Cathedral, which, though still incomplete, has become a mecea for visitors. It has been customary ever since cathedral building began, to adorn these | great houses of worship, monuments of which gives the appearance of sim- plicity. ‘ ‘There are a few examples of pure follow this custom, and it is gratify- | landscape— | “Ausable Rives {or sculpture was given to a Washing- |one of the arc | Georgetown Christian faith, with appropriate sculp- ture. The Washington Cathedral will ing to know that the first commission ton sculptor. It was for the full-length figures of 13 saints, seven of which have now been completed. the sent exhibition. Bartholomew, Thomas, James the Less, | Andrew, John and Peter. Each is to have his own special canopied niche 'only skill but vision, and evidences the | THREE OF THE THIRTEEN FULL.LENGTH FIGURES OF SAINTS BE CHRISTIAN MOSE FOR THE WASHINGTON Cuillard, Quebec,” which is likewise im- | represented b pressive. “Grain Elevator” which through the me. dium of the artist's handling have be Yy & painting entitled “Hill | Town in France,” as weil as by a second | canvas, “Sunshine in the Vailey.” There are two charming landscapes, and | painted, coubtless, for the pleasure of | the painiing, by Richard Meryman, vrincipal of the Corcoran School, now on extended leave of absence. One come picturesque and impressive. There shows “Mills Along the Brook, Colfasco, is an interior of a stecl mi'l showing a | Dolomite Alps.” number of men at work in the light of the flame from the furnace doors. a | both show subjectcomplicated cnd dificult in the extreme, buc rendered with that ease | nadian Birches,” end There is a glimpse of | in Mr. Holmes' inimitable style, works of the Key Bridge in | which evidence again Mr.-Holmes' right the other | houses in the same region. | A, H. O. Rolle and Frank Niepold peasant Ocean City subjects well rendered. There are two water colors, beautiful | subjects, by Willlam H. Holmes, one en- | titled “Sketch Class at Work,” the other | "Chestnut Tree and_Milistone.” both painted in the vicinity of Rockville and Georgetown, a picture of one of the | to placement among the foremost of locks, and an excellent rendering of an “Empty Hous This group of water colors by Miss Brown shows her to be an artist of not CATHEDRAL. " before | Six of these saints are included in|which stands the trunk of a great tree | horn, John U. Perkins, They are S8S. | protectingly. | our ‘present-day water colorists. Tom Brown, Garnet Jex, J. C. Clag- J. Schram, Louis 8. Dergans, Newman 8. Sudduth [and ot make worthwhile contribu- tions. Among them all there is little to [ What of Future Wars? (Continued From Third Page.)’ the greatest number and not the in- Aividual of the greatest genius will win the final victory, this is the affrighten- ing prospect that beggars the Lnagin- ation. “The modern soldier must knowingly cut down and murder women, children and the sick; he must, in making a cowardly attack upon them in their sleep, annihilate human beings unaware 1 ir fate.” OA‘:ITI h:w is all this to be done? (Which disgusts, I must admit, the au- thor of "T‘;:“l War of Gases,” but in which, nevertheless, he would be willing to take part, he also admits, should the oceasion present itself.) Oh, in the simplest way. I will quote the English specialist Maj. Nye: “A thousand | bombs,” he says, “would be enough in | favorable circumstances to gas a ciiy like London. The ordinary bomb.” he | adds, “weighs about 5 pounds; it is, therefore, not a case of the enormous bombs of former times. Consequently a modern commercial airplane can carrv 607 of these bombs. Thus we see that zny commercial airplane whatever can now be used for war purposes and that only two of these planes would be able to gas an area as great as that of “London and suburbs.” Effect of Airplanes. The inspector general of German aviation, Lieut. Col. Slegert, says, for his part, in the Berliner Tllustrierte Zeitung: “It is & fact which cannot henceforward be overlooked, a handful ol airplanes is capable of reducing to R ' ashes the metropolis of a great power.” MADE BY SCULPTOR CARL SIX OF THE FIGURES ARE CONTAINED IN AN EXHIBITION OF WORK BY MR. MOSE AT THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART. 40, and in some instances 60 to 80, feet from the ground. Obviously figures of sort must agree in style and char- with the architecture of the build- is Gothic. But to be worthy an of our own : ity on the %» ml;au coti= 48" roquirements. essentially a T Gothic; £ fifg s i | i : : plicity, are Yen with consider- able freedom in spite of archaic aspect. Because of the great height at which they are to be seen the heads in each instance are tipped slightly forward. The hands are somewkat exaggerated in size and length. The sculptor h: taken into account aerial perspective. He has also had to reckon with light do his ing. Some one once said that for the most £ 3 1 i dead sculpture, but some of our young mwn now are proving this charge There is a certain similarity in the treatment of these figures, especially in the Ty, but this is reasonable and right. 'h_saint, moreover, has been represented as bearded and mature in years, which is traditional. But there 1s marked difference in aspect and ex- pression. In each instance some em- blem is held, giving clue to personalit; The Washiington Cathedral sets a splendid zumchale by intrusting a com- | mission of sort to a young and | wm{lnuvely untried sculptor, and the | work which Mr, Mose now shows proves | the confidence not ill placed. | It is an interesting and a significant fact that almost never has a great op- | portunity been offered to an artist, or ts, and the result fallen short of the requirements. Witness, for instance, the epoch-making achievements of the artists called in from many quarters to create the Chicago World's Fair of 1803, lcl?; Jremembered as “the Great White Mr. Mose shows, besides these statues for the Washington Cathedral, some portraits, figure studies and reliefs, Perhaps the best known of these is a little figure of the “Olympic Fencer," lent by Ivan Osiler of Copenhagen, Denmark, shown a year ago when the | great Olympiad was held in Amsterdam in the section set aside for art—a spirited little figure done with great simplicity—vital and yet still. ‘There is a charmingly modeled .little | head of a child, Joanne Campbell, lent by George G. Campbell, and an inter- | esting figure of a small boy seated— | “David.” There are two delightful little | statuettes—one of the sculpior's wife, | very charucteristic both in pose and ex- ; and another, somewhat simi- , of Mrs. Hyslop of London--small but not little. i Excedingly alluring is a head of a Mexican, done while Mr. Mose was working in Lorado Taft's etudio n | Chicago but testifying eloquently, even then, to the sculptor’s plastic sense and sensitiveness of touch | ‘There is in the work of Carl Mose an evident strain of Scandinavian influ- ence, inherited, no doubt, but with it is mingled American forthrightness, evi- dent consciousn: of dirsccion, and that love of sheer beauty from which an artist’s inspiration most naturally 5 exhibition, which occupies the | center of the atrium of the Corcoran | Gallery at present, will through November 17. | * ok ¥ % AT the Arts Club, 2017 Eye street, Gertrude G. Brown is showing a collection of 18 water colors of unusual | size and character. Miss Brown is a| Washingtonian, a new memb-r of the | elub, but has exhibited in the past with | the Washington Water Color Club and | tlsewhere. She has worked under | Henry B. Snell's eriticism and she has | within the past year made broad strides In_sccomplishment. ‘The subjects in the present exhibition have been found in Ceanada—Quebec and Montreal—and in the ,vicinity of | ‘Washington. Almost without exception they are elaborate compositions ren- dered with great simplicity, in strong, fine color. There is one of a row of in Quebec, interesting on ac- count of the length and variety of the leadt continue | O theme admirably “Rue stairways to the high front et Torth. There 8 one of the fact that one can be both modern and traditional without contradiction. * * x ¥ JPHILIP KAPPEL'S etchings are to be seen in the upper room at the Arts Club. There are 23 in all, the majority of which are of boats and the sea. Mr. Kappel finds his subjects in many waters—the Caribbean, off Haiti, off \Blznezuelu. in the neighborhood of the | arbados, as far north as Bar Harbor. ‘They all display lightness of touch. Mr. Kappel's boats under sail have bird-like suggestion. There is inte esting relation of light to shade; re- markable use of strong shadow and no shadow. An especially happy theme is an etching entitled “Cotton for Market aux Cayes—Haiti,” which shows a market cart, dark against the light facades of Haitian houses, delicately indicated. No one who knows good etching and is fond of it could fail to find interest in Philip Kappel's work. * ok ok X "T'HE Landscape Club of Washington is holding an_exhibition at Gordon Dunthorne’s, 1726 Connecticut avenue, consisting of 62 paintings, the majority CARL CHRISTIAN MOSE. THE BESIDE [ HE w. in olls. This is perhaps the most ambi- tious Fhuwinr that this club has at- tempted and it witnesses to steady prog- ress on the part of the members. Quite a number of the canvases set forth are of fair size—studied wevbe: not mere sketches—and in almost every rase they are rendered with eviden. skill and assurance. Taken as a whole, this exhibition is extremely colorful, fresh, vigorous, delightful and an ex- hibition which would reflect credit upon any group of artists. Benson Moore shows an admirable study of the Key Bridgze--gray and at- mospheric, full of delail, but broadly Jandscapes of rendered—as well as in the Spring, Autumn and Winter nearby country. Minor 8, Jameson shows three paint- ings in oil. “Spring Landscape,” “Sep- tember Weather,” “Late Autumn” sym- pathetically rendered. ‘Weisz, a member of the facult; of the School of Art, is wi | ehoose in merit. Each has his own viewpoint. That which is most sig- nificant is the fact that with increased skill these artists are giving more cer- tain expression to the subtle beauty of nature, the effects of light and atmos- phere, of sunshine and shadow, of color —those things which magically turn the commonplace into the beautiful. And this is art. * ok k% T the Washington Club on Thursday of this week, under the patronage of a local committee headed by Mrs. Bar- ron Du Bols, a lecture will be given by A ugh Fisher—"Travels With Pen and Brush in Southern Europe and the Far East"—prefaced by an exhibition of Mr. Pisher's etchings, drawings and sketches. The exhibition will be open free to the public from 10 am. to 4 pm,; the lecture will be given at 4 o'clock ‘and an admission fee will be charged. Mr. Fisher, a British artist, is one of the many-talented few. He is not only an artist but a writer and a traveler, t, eritie, raconteur. At one time e made a tour around the world for the London Times and he is said to have scen practically everything every- where, except America. He is in this country now for six weeks, but not for the first time. In infancy he was brought by his parents to the United States to a Kansas farm on which it was their intention to seitle. The ex- periment not proving successful, how- ever, they returned to England shortly, s0 that Mr. Fisher's American memories are only those of very early youth. And yet it is said that even then he mani- fested his interest in drawing and re- ceived his first impulse toward art by acquaintance with one of his father’s | associates who made sketches in col- ored crayon. Like all etchers, he has a preference | for architectural subjects, but he also |~does animals with especial understand- | ing. In many of his works there is a g’llnt of humor, a touch of the whim- sical ere is nothing, it is said, that Mr. Pisher likes better than telling stories to children, and for children has writ- | ten several books of nonsense rhymes. By those who know him best he is de- scribed as an artist of rare gift and | delighttul personality. * ok % % \ ON Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock Prof. Frank Jewett Mather, jr., Marquand professor of art and arche- | ology at Princeton University, will give |'in the auditorium of the Young Wom- en's Christian Arsoclation, Scventeenth | and K streets, an illustrated lecture on | “Prom Giambellino to Titian.” This is |the first of a series of notable lcotures on art to be given by leading authorities | this Winter under the auspices of the ‘Washington Soclety of the Fine Arts. Prof. Mather is one of the foremost | authorities on Ttalian painting, the au- thor of “Estimates in Art,” “A History of Ialian Painting,” “Modern Painting” and “The American Spirit in Art.” For many years and up to the time of the war, Prof. Mather was the art critic ol the New York Even'ng Post. Dur- ing the war he enlisted and served in the Navy. Subscquent lectures in this same cours: will be by William M. Ivins, jr., curator of prints, Metropolitan Museum ot Art; 8. W. Woodhouse, jr., formerly associate director of the Pennsylvania Museum, and now adviser, d-partment | of industrial arts of the museum: | Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, keeper of | Indian and Mohammedan art, Museum | of Fine Arts, Boston, and Everett V. | Meeke, dean and professor of architec- ture, School of Fine Arts, Yale Univer- sity. | " These lectures are open only to mem- | bers of the Washington Society of the Fine Arts and their guests, | * ok % 'HE Carnegie Institution of Wash- ington has issued invitations to a series ot lecturcs on “Early Civilization in Southwestern United States,” to be | given on successive Tuesday evenings at 8°30 o'clock in the assembly room of Tlhz A<mini-tretion Building of ths in- | stitution, The first of thes» occurs next Tuesday, November 12, and will be | by Alfred V. Kidder on the subject, | “Dawn of Civilization in the New | World; Earliest Remains in the South- | we This wiil be followed on Novem- |ber 19 by a lecture on “Crystalliza- | tion of Southwestern Culture; the Cave People,” by Earl H. Morris; on Novem- ber 26 by a lecture on “The Great Pe- riod; Puebios and CUff Dwellers,” by Earl H. Morris, and, on December 3 by & lecture on “Period of Disintegration And now we have all these assertions confirmed in a report, prudently word- d, no doubt, but sufficiently explicit, resented by Prof. Meyer at the Leaguc 1 of Nations. “There is,” we read. “a very impor- tant aspect of chemical war, viz. the noesibility of utilizing poisonous gases ! against large cities and the centers of {1ife of the belligerents, * * * However | reprehensible such conduct may be, there would no technical difficulty in having bombs filled with poisonous | gases dropped onto places essential to | the political or economical life of enemy | countries.” | What more do we want? Who will | dare to deny the immensity of ths dan- | ger the masses would be exposed to in | the case of & new clash of peoples? ! But “this reprehensible conduct.” to | use the words of Prof. Meyer—is there | no_way of preventine it? | How? Let us see. | Prohibiting the manufacture of pol- | sonous gases? This question was deslt, | with by the war commitiee at the ! League of Nations. A committee was | formed to study chemical warfare, con- | sisting of four members, together witn five highly qualified experts. It was | unanimously admitted that “it did not | seem possible to prevent in a general | way the production of polsonous gases which are now being made.” And ihis | can be understood. These gases are | | current products of industry, or at least | they are the essential intermediaries in obtaining other products in constant use. Prohibition Worthless. | Prohibiting the utilization of these gases for the purposes of war? Alas, we know the worthlessness of such pro- | | hibition. We were able to note, between 11914 and 1918, the perfect contempt | | with which the formal instructions of the convention of The Hague were re- | garded. It will be just the same as ,long as the present general frame of mind continues. Mr. Endres is_right when he says, in the ®ook already quoted: “Considering the state of mind of military governments, the existence the nationalist ideology, I consider it certain that any agreement prohibiting the employment of poisonous gases will not be observed.” If there are no practical means of taking away this power, not of fighting but of destruetion, cannot the civil pop- ulation be protected? Let us examine the question! To protect towns against the fall of gas bombs thrown from airplanes ap- pears _impossib] Every city would and Concluding Summary of Historical Implications,” by Alfred V. Kidder. As the capacity of the assembly hall is limited to about 250 persons, tickets are issued only to this number, and on application. i, B A8 MARTIN KAINZ, an Austrian artist, is to hold an exhibition of his paintings at the Yorke Galleries, 2000 S street, from November 1T to 30. Mr. Kainz studied at the Art Academy in hibitor abroad. His first exhibition in this country was held in New York in March, 1927, and was very favorably received. The collection that he wiil show here comprises portraits, land- scapes and still life compositions. the fiel wi s at all newstands Joday in the collective souls of each nation ef | Munich and has been a frequent ex- | TH GRAMERCY PARK It was the most carefully protected hbuse in all America. To even approach it brought the police.To step on a single stair set off touch a bar of the heavily wired Yet the rich old Fielding is slain lete ete | have to have an enormous army of de- | fense squadrons. And even they would | not be sufficient. Hence this conclusion at which all lists arrive—viz., | that the position for defense would be | s0 desperate, owing to rapidity of sur- prise attacks, and all the other ad- vantages at the disposal of the at- tackers, that the idea of maintaining forces for aerial defense would be very quickly abandoned and every effort would be made to carry out counter attacks over the enemy's territory. There would be a race all over the world to commit murder. “Nevertheless,” the optimist will say, “every poison has its antidotes. Armor ! resists the shell; and during the World War there were masks to protect the soldiers against chiorine, pho: must . It is impossible thal means will not be found to protect the poor people behind the army ainst the dread effect of chemical warfare.” Decisive Proof. Means are bef sought, but they have not yet been found, Messicurs the optimists! Do you want a decisive preof? Here it is: “The international committee of the Red Cross has decided to place them- selves at the head of a vast movement of propaganda with the object of pro- tecting civil populations against the effects of war with gases. On July 1, 1929, they inaugurated a competition with the object of finding the best re- agent to detect the presence of yperite, a particularly formidable gas. “Th* Red Cross will probably insti- tute two other competitions with the | object of finding the best filtering ap-| plirnce or mask to be placed at the| isnosal of civil populations, and the ! best way to supply underground shel- ters for people in places subjected to chemical bombardment with pure air and_watertight underground shelters. “Experts belonging to 15 countries have already been convoked by the Red Cross and have held two meetings, one in Brussels and the other at Rome. Unfortunately they were obliged to ad- | mit that there was very great difficulty in effectively protecting civil popula- tions in case of chemical attacks from the air.” ‘The information given in these lines, taken from a French journal, L'Ami | du Peuple. ardently nationalistic, will give food for thought, I fancy, even to the disciples of Dr. Pangloss, that pro- fessor of “Candide,” whose imperturb- able serenity has been depicted by Voltalre. May Overcome Masks. To dispel totally their quietude of mind I shall quote a profoundly true observation met in an article signed by an eminent expert, published in the Revue des Deux Mondes of March 15, 1929. Gen. Niessel remarks “that there is always a possibility of some gas being discovered which can pass through the masks existing at any | given moment, whenever that may be. There may be the gravest dangers re- sulting from the use of & new and un- expected gas.” have said enough, I think, to give an idea of what might happen some day | when, relations between two countries being strained and war not even de- clared, a small number of airplanes might fiy over a capital—London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfort. They would reach their destination the more readily, thanks to new inventions designed to silence the noise of their engines. One or two thousand bombs, quickly and methodically scattered. would flood the | citv with gas, and men, women and children would suffer. Some, the lucky ones. would die on the spot. and others would linger in terrible suffering. Will humanity allow itself to be led to the slaughterhouse? Will not the crowds make their voices heard? - Will | they not compel those who in any de- gree represent them, from the secretary of the humblest union, the president of the smallest agricultural society, up to the Deputy, the Senator, the minister, the head of the state, continually to repeat and above all to prove by their acts that war is outside the pale of the law? | It must be outside the pale or man | will perish. Science makes the alterna- tive inexorable. | Science, which every day makes a lMttle more change in the world, is fur- | nishing--and cannot help doing so—our | | fellow beings with means for destruction | {more and more murderous, more and more terrible. Unless employment of | these means is abandoned, the human | { race will be wiped off the planet. Some centurles ago Rabelais wrote: | “Science without conscience is the death | of the soul.” Science without conscience | will be. unless we are careful, the death of the body as well as of the soul. i The myth of Prometheus, whom Jupi- | ter chained because he had stolen the | fire from heaven, is a wonderful antici- | pation. If man wants to live he must lrhlin down the Prometheus, Science. (Copyrisht, 1929.) ndish howl of a siren alarm. To ndow meant certain death! in the innermost chamber of his heavily guarded treasure vault, while in the very act of talking to his nephew! ‘The murderer obviously did get in, then out. But how? You may be smart enough to beat Detective Williams to the solution. Try it. Get “The Gram- ercy Park Mystery” at your newstand today. clive Novel REVIEWS OF AUTUMN BOOKS {Paul Wilstach Brings Out a Volume on “Tidewater Virginia,” Following His “Potomac Landings”—Mad Anthony Wayne By Paul t Vernon,” apolis; The TIDEWATER VIRGINIA. ilstach, author of “Mo etc. Illustrated. Indian: Merrill Co. AUL WILSTACH'S “Tidewater Virginia” comes as matter of gourse after his “Potomec Landings,” “Moun ‘ernon,” “Jefferson and Monticello.” The pursuit of these points in Colonial his- fory must have secured the author's close acquaintance with the region roundabout. It is quite conceivable that in some hour of special intimacy the old Potomac confessed to the man that it was not a river at all—not in a complete and exclusive sense. It had X KRR & single ¢ :‘ stream from the western uplands. That, it was well on its way when, in the flattening lands toward the east it was met by a direct challenge of sea tides, pushing and pulling in & persist- ence and power that played ducks and drakes with a mere ri current, and set, down the plain necessity of compro- mise and accommodation. And so the Potomac_admitted 8 sinister strain in its river lineage adding, quite humanly, that it was not the only one, since all the streams of the neighborhood were of this mongrel implication. .Gathered up, these bodies of water, river-and-sea —with their land environment consti- tute "Tidewater Virginia”—a physical circumstance that accounts, in® effect, for the ultimate economic and institu- tional character of the South itself. The tidewater made an open door in- land with settlement and communica- tion its immediate work. The ships were crowded in those early days of the seventeenth century with the discon- tented, the unfortunate, the losers at home, with adventurers with the am- bitious seeking fortune, all crowded in together, high and low. Coupled with this as a significance of development was the custom of big land grants from a remote and unmindful monarch. Here is the “plantation” in embryo. | Climate and soil are potent factors here. Tobaceo and cotton move into the pic- ture. Labor becomes urgent when the vcluntary white slaves coming over have worked off their debts and have become the small farmers of the region. Just then a benign providence, mindful of this favorite tidewater tribe, turned over to it the heat-proof black man of Africa, and slavery as an institution tock root and flourished mightily. It is upon this groundwork that Paul Wil- stach works out the picturesque pattern of early life in Virginia. One minute ‘he is the historian—seriously depend- able in the recording of events that art essential to an understanding of the scope and quality of growth in this line or in that one. The next minute he is the romancer touching the so- cial life of the South with the glamor and charm that jts reality connotes and exacts. Again he is the economist dealing with resources and their use, with imdustry and its mcde of growth, with the achievements of the South as producer and distributor. In swift ad- vances Mr. Wilstach touches the feudal society, the political philosophy, the idealism of the South. He smiles, faintly, at its essential romance and its heroic attitudes, at its sightless faith in its own outstanding eccnomic institu- tion. Up and down the tidewater streams this author goes, painting for each its own city or other center of renown. “Richmond On Its toric Hills,” “Ycrktown Where the Revolu- tion Ended,” “The Ancient Kingdom of Aceomack” (an enchantment of & story), “The Golden Age.” Names and names familiar to the history of this country here take on a new substance and a new vitality. Old manor houses come to life with the revived ac'ivities of ‘their lordly owners. Visitings. un- known anywhere else in the world, are here recorded both in their social sig- nificance and as a common source of ultimate economic distress and dis- aster. ‘There is but one thing to do with this | book. Read it. I have emphasized the foundations of Mr. Wilstach's work here mezely to say that with the romance and glamor and charm cf the story it- self, with the gusto of its spirit and the drama of its projection it is, neverthe- less, the realest of historic st''es given over to readers in the very essence and * WAR BREAKS DOWN DOORS. By men and Flint, N straight line, this is the story of Polack mineworker in Pennsylvania, mov- ing out of this fleld as an Army recruit. of Artillery, So this is a soldler. story. It is a reccrd of of war. It is an ac- count of success by wiez, who refused defeat a hundred to his ultimate tri- umph. War along purpose of huur)‘ lv.s:lf. John N. Greely. Boston: Hale Cush- L Jan Sincowiez. At its opening Jan isa At the end of the matter Jan is a major winning out by way way of Jan Sinco- times on the road the Mexican bor- der, war over in France—these pro- vide the schooling of this Polack miner. They give groundwork, as well, for a war story from thelflgh!\;‘g man'’s real experi- JORN N. GREELY. oce. Therefore, & story rough with immediate danger and with prolonged_hardship of every sort. Rough with a fine good fellowship, too. Through every part of it Jan Sincowlez takes full possession of the reader. This absorption is due in part to the man size of Jan himself, and in other part to the realism of the war action. One doesn't have to be a soldier to sense the rightness of these war movements— at camp, on the march, in the flghllnf itself, in trench, wounded in hospital, whatever aspect of ear is turned out here comes to one as real. And it should, For the writer of the story is himself a soldier—Maj. John N. Greely. Point of honor, so to speak, to keep the military matters straight both for the reader and for Jan himself. Here is a big, raw human being to be forged by war into a man of force and action and influence. At every turn the writer minds his purpose to such good effect that even a pacifist would take part here in a fighting zeal for the case of Jan Sincowiez. A love story of unusual cast goes along with the rest of Jan's education: a love story that has its start in Washington. And this brings out an- other of the high points of the novel— its true picture of Washington life in the blend of official and military glamour that, gives special coloring to society in the Capital, There is a single out- standing count for this novel, sincerity of treatment. Such sincerity, almost expert in its expression, is manifest along two lines, at least. Most conspicu- ous In its war projections. Almost equally marked, though not so vital in nature, is the fidelity of the Washing- ton setting for a part of the develop- ment of the action. There is besides a robust conception of the hero himself, and with this a clear competence in delivering him over to the hearty inter- est of the reader. To be sure, the love story is a fine and upstandln!‘ one of rather unusual manifestations here and there—but love stories are much of a likeness. So the honors of this sub- stantial novel rise out of the quality of its hcro, out of the fidelity of the~war pictures that it projects, out of the Washirgton atmosphere that it so re- alistically portrays and—don't forget— out.of the good story that these combine to produce. .A Washington Army man, Mal. John Greely, son of the famous explorer and fighter, Gen. A. W, Greely. And this “War Breaks Down Doors” and Audubon Are Worthy Subjects. shibboleth for protection and preserva- tion against the ravages of a ruthless age.” These words bring to a close the “story of a great ploneer, artist, natur- alist and man"—John James Audubon. The story begins with the picture of that famillar object “a spoiled boy.” This one, given to mooning about the woods by himself, in a way most dis- couraging to parents bent to the busi- ness of giving their young ones a chance. fickle youngster, trying his hand at this and that, with more ex- cursions into the by-ways and hedges than successful enterprise of any sort could tolerate. And so, always failing, the young man moved from craft to craft, from occupation to occupation— merchant of sorts, painter of nat much account. A worker all right, but a fruitless one—the’ world seems to be full of this boy, or so the fathers and mothers and guiding lights declare. The point of this active and engrossing tale is that the boy was trying to find his job—his, not the one thought out for him by the elders. And finally he did find it—but this part of the story is known to all. However, it is a_ good adventure to read, from start to finish. A genuine adventure—wandering, pov- erty, hunger, a bit of easement and then off into misadventure again. A prodigious worker, when he found th: thing for which he had been seeking, & man of faith as well as vision, a plod- der when it came to setting down facts about the bird life of this country, a traveler for new views, for new facts to set beside the familiar ones—and finally, the great Audubon in whose name every year thousands upon thou- sands go out into the countryside of wood and fleld to make acquaintance with the beautiful bird life that every corner supports, to devise plans for the gmtectinn of this life, to renew the uman heart by fostering within it the bird life of the world. Of course all the Audubon associations possess this book about their great der. Outside of this class the story is one of the best for adventure-loving™youth to read. It is so entirely free from the overgoodi- ness of many books. It is so clear a record of genuine human nature work- ing itself out by way of the neighbor- hood roundabout that it is a delight to read as entertainment. The effect of it takes care of itself without admonition or preachment. Great story, given in s‘gm&lthy nrafl ufndt;rstalndlng. as well as mmand of the facts making uj the life of Audubon, iy s * K * % N MAD ANTHONY WAYNE. By Thoma aghyd.t'lmgcr Nol ‘;’{mmugh the eat,” etc. New ; Charles Seribner’s Sons. i - "THE deserved triumph of “Through the Wheat” must have set Thomas Boyd upon the literary warpath, so to speak. Fired by the emotions that without question went into the making cf that surpassing novel of war, Mr. BoYyd naturaily reached out for a mili- tary figure of the past that. could he have been alive today, would have given an amazing account of himself in the World War. 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