Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1929, Page 48

NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Unusual Woodblock Prints on View at the Dunthorne Gal- leries — Paintings at the York Galleries and Etchings at the Smithsonian. BY LEILA MECHLIN. N event of unusual character, as well as interest, will be the exhibition, opening Wednesday of this week, at the Gordon Dunthorne Galleries, of wood- block prints in color by Miss Lillian Miller, daughter of Ransford S. Miller, American consul general of Korea. Miss Miller will be present at the opening and during the course of the exhibition she will wear native costume and will give fiva déionstrations of the art of making and printing woodblocks. These will be on Thursday, November 21, at 8:30 in the evening, and on Saturday, November 23; Monday, November 25; Wednesday, November 27, and Friday, November 29, at 4:30 in the afternoon. Miss Miller was born and reared in Japan and received her entire artistic training under native artists. She is regarded there as a representative Jap- anese artist and has had the unique experience, for a foreigner, to be al- lowed to compete in exhibitions open only to native Japanese. She has, moreover, been awarded one of the five ocoveted “golden scrolls.” To some extent Miss Miller follows in the footsteps of Helen Hyde and Bertha Lum, California artists, who visited Japan, acquired extraordinary skill in print meking and produced work of lasfing value. But on account of having been reared in the Orlent, Miss Miller's point of view is perhaps | cleser to that of the great masters of | the Ukio-Ye school. The value of her work, it has been truly said, is in- “PORTRAIT OF LUISE,” BY MARTIN KAINZ. CONTAINED IN EXHIBITION AT THE end in them cne can find much to ex- cite admiration and confidence. The etchings by Luise Kainz, ex- hibited in the upper gallery, are mod- est ventures done with evident interest and pleasure on the part of the artist end with consclentious effort to ac- curately set forth things seen. Mr. Kainz is still under 30. His en- tire development in art hes, therefore come since the great war, in a period of greet confusion, and that, in spite of this handicap, he has prospered and progressed is greatly to his credit. * ok % | | from our own great West, is ex- | hibiting in Washington for the first time etchings and water colors, bein on view in the Smithsonian Institu- tion, spensored by the division of graphic arts of the United States Na- tional Museum Bom in Denver, Colo., 33 years ago, Paul Whitman studied first in St. Louis. {then with Armin Hansen of Monterey. Calif. Three years' sorvice in the Army durtag the war broke into his career. but did not alter his choice of a pro- | fecsion. | Mr. Whitman is primarily an etcher and painter of the sea end boats of | the West Coast with its wind-blown | trees and its interesting old missions His etching is sensitive rather than especially strong, but it is extremely | artistic, and it iilustrates most admir- ably the fact that beauty is not in the thing itself, but rather in its interpre- | tation—a matter of light and shade, of atmosphere, of form, modified by con- | | YORKE GALLERIES. creased by the fact that she does the entire process herself—makes the draw- ing, cuts the blocks and prints them— and in so doing achieves genuinely persona! expression. Elizabeth Keith, an Eng c artist who has attained great reputation #s a maker of wood- block prints of Eastern subjects, and whose work to quite an extent Miss Miller's resembles, does not attempt to cut her own blocks, but has them cut| fer her by Japanese craftsmen. 1t was the Japanese prints by master print makers, brought over by the Dutch from dJapan with other mer- chandise, that strongly influenced Whis- tler, both in his painting and in his etching, and through him the art not only of his day, but of ours. The woodblock prints of Helen Hyde, brought back from Japan, awakened interest in the art in this country, and further impetus has been given by the work of ‘Bertha Lum and Elizabeth Keith. There are today in America a number of woodblock print makers producing work of extremely fine quality portraying American subjects—landscape and fig- ures—work which has been said to be more representative of America, both subjectively and in the manner of treat- ment, than that in any other medium. And now Miss Miller comes to us| from Korea with & new interpretation of Orfental subjects and a full com- prehension of the potentialities as well as the limitations of woodblock print- ing. Undoubtedly her exhibit and her demonstrations given here and else- where will reawaken interest and at the same time give impetus to further de- ‘velopment, A notable feature of Miss Miller's ex- hibit will be certain blocks printed in’ two different color schemes, each print- ditions. For this painter-etcher, has chesen to interpret many commonplace themes, and in each interpretation he | has manifested beauty. One of the most interesting of Mr. Whitman's etchings shown is of a group of wharves—unlovely in them- selves, but made charming through the artist’s interpretation. Mr. Whitman, furthermore, has both etched and painted the traditional pig sty, and in such a way that it is by no means un- attractive. In like manner Sargent cnce painted a clothes line hung with that no one can see such a sight again without realizing its inherznt beauty. Mr. Whitman's water colors are shown unframed and in cases, for the most part horizontal, excellent for etch- ings, but by no means good for works purposed td be seen at a distance. They contrast interestingly, however, with his etchings, being broadly rendered and extremely simple, whereas the former are intimate and rather complex. Last year Mr. Whitman received an award from the International Socicty of Etchers. Local collectors will find | by Virgin'a. | T white clothes fluttering in the wind, so | ment of photography as an art and lmnae of the best work is done in Eng- and. Mr. Symes, whose work is now on ex- hibition here, is & fellow of the Royal Fhetographie Soclety, famous through- out the world. x ook THE Washington Water Color Club will hold an informal exhibition at the Arts Club, opening today and ccn- tinuing for a fortnight. A. H. O. Rolle will b2 host at the tea this afternoon which marks the opening. Announcement has been made again UL WHITMAN, etcher and mm‘"jnl a competition for posters for the | Arts Club Bal Boheme in January; | that on January 6 a selection will be { made of three prizes to be s'warded the successful competitors at the ball. * & Xk X ‘THE second concours of professional | artists will be held at the Abbott | School, 1624 H street northwest, this also 1l be | week, November 19, at which Henry B.| § | 8nell of New York will criticize work | in any medium. i | as a water colorist and & painter in ofl, | but as a teacher. His Summer classes, | both in this country and abroad. are | extremely popular, and among his past | pupils are numbsred some of the lead- ing printers of today. That he can b* persuaded to take one day a month out | of his tusy life of production and teach- ing to com* to Washington end con- duct these concours is subject for con- gratulation. * ok ok x 11\1155 HATTIE E. BURDETTE has lately painted an exceedingly fine miniature of Dr. Willlam H. Wilmer, | formerly of this city, now of Baltimore. 1“" painting represents Dr, Wilmer in | military uniform, with a row of decora- tions for distinguished service on his |1eft breast. It is an excellent likeness |end_has met with the fullest approval of Dr. Wilmer's family and friends. | Furthermore, it is -dmlnhli‘ painted, | the warm tone of the ivory showing, as | it shculd through the transparent color, giving a glow to the flesh and lending the charm of fine texture of surfaces, Miss Burdette is perhaps better known for her paintings in oil and tel— portraits, figures and flower subjects— than for her miniatures, but there are comparatively few today who achieve better results in this branch of art. so ntimate and so demanding of skill in technique, than she. Among the most treasured pecsses- sions from the past are the miniatures painted by the early masters—those in England and in Colonial America. But it is not always understood or realized that works of equally fine qual- ity are being produced today—works which doubtless witl be no less cher- ished by succeeding generations. * ok ox x AN exhibition of original drawings by the late John Ross Key, for- merly of this city, is being held at ‘the | Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Novem- | ber 10 to 24. The collection is similar | to that shown in the National Gallery of Art last year, but (‘omgfl!ek chiefly landscapes painted in the Berkshires, in the vicinity of Washington and in near- * X X% E American Academy in Rome an- nounces its annual competitions for fellowships in architecture, land- scape architecture, musical composition, | painting. sculpture and classical studies. In architecture, the Daniel O. Burn- | ham fellowship is to be & music, the Frederic A. Juilliard fel ship, and in classical studies, the Jesse B. Carter fellowship. The competitions are open to unmar- ried men (in classical studies, men and women) not over 30 years of age who are citizens of the United States. The stipend of each fellowship is $1,500 & year, with an allowance of $500 for transportation to and from Rome, and, in the fine arts, $150 to $300 for ma- | terfals and incidental expenses. Resi- ' dence and studio are provided at the academy, and the total estimated value of each fellowship is about $2,500 a year. The term of each fellowship in the fine arts is three years, and in classical studies two years. Fellows have oppor- tunity for extensive travel and for mak- ing contacts with leading European artists and scholars. The Grand Central Art Galleries of New York will present free membershin in the galleries to the painter and sculptor who win the Rome prize and fulfill the obligations of the fellowship. Entries for competitions will be re- | ceived in the fine arts until March 1, in classical studies until February 1. Cir- his work of interest and will bs glad to acknowledge indebtedness to the Na- ing to be regarded as an edition. Those who have followed the development of | the textile industry in this country know how various silks of the same de- | sign printed in different colors may be. | Equally varied and unlike one another, though similar in composition and line, are Miss Miller's woodblock prints | in two editions. More than anything else, this should demonstrate the im- | portance of the artist doing her own printing, and at the same time prove the autographic character of the prints. Miss Miller’s exhibition will continue TR to December 4. THE exhibition of paintings by Martin Kainz and of ctchings by his wife, Luise Kainz, which opened at the Yorke Gallery November 11, will continue for another week. It comprises portraits, figure studies, landscapes and flowers and it is modernistic in style, Teu- tonic in character. When one departs from traditicn it s difficult, oftimes, to determine direc- tion. The aim of the modernists orig- inally was to get away from realism, out of the realm of the so-caMed spa- tial arts, into that of pure expres- slonism. But painting is a visual form of expression—it is something to be seen, not heard or felt: therefore, form in reality cannot be completely disre- garded. And for many painters the “journey's end has been, as in the case of Mr. Martin Kainz, back to Holbein— that s, in the matter of portraiture. Mr, Kainz is a long way yet in the matter of draftemanship from the great court painter of Henry VIII—one of the greatest portraitists who ever lived—but e does show in gome of his portraits | that appreciation of line, that simpli- fication of mass, which are the distin- guishing characteristics of Holbein's work. Most interesting, perhaps, of all of the portraits shown is the portrait of | the artist’s wife, who is in this instance & fellow exhibitor. Mr. Kaing's flower paintings are, in- teresting, especially one, “Autumn Flow- ers,” in which threce violent colored sunflowers have been so placed as to give decorative effect to the composi- tion. His color is not always agreeable end in his landscapes his technique is fumbling, at times weak and again without decision. But in his charccal drawings of landscape subjects there s both strength and good “NINO'S BOAT,” ONE OF THE WHICH ARE ON EXHIBITION AT THE cular of information and application blanks may be obtained by addressing Roscoe Guernsey, executive secretary, ETCHINGS BY PAUL' WHITMAN SMITHSONIAN. | | | tional Museum for this introductory showing. | | * K ok ok T has become customary for the conian Institution to set forth each | season & series of exhibitions of pic- | torial photography in the Arts and | Industries Building. The first of the | series this season consists of 50 bro- | moil transfers by Chris. J. Symes of Birkenhead, England. Mr. Symes is one of the oldest work- ers in bromoil, and he has written a book_on the subject, *Perfection . in the Pigment Process” which has had | wide circulation These prints by this | process have the double merit of per- | fection of detail with depth of shadow | and breadth cf effect. Good photographs are sometimes the | result of happy accident, but the best, undoubtedly, are made by .those who have instinctively or otherwise artistic | the camera not as a mechanical device, but as a medium of expression. By some it is thought that photog- raphy has had a detrimental effect |upon’ the art of painting. But, to the | contrary, the widespread employment { of photography by the masses has un- | doubtedly done much to awaken an ap- | preciation of belut{ in Nature and in | outdoor art. The leading museums of the country now recognizz photography as one of the arts, and in quite a num- ber annual exhibitions of pictorial photography by so-called “cameraists” are ".m“ln held. The English have been in the fore- front of the movement for the develop- photographic division of the Smith- | | knowledge and who are able to employ | 'Amfl'l(‘ln Academy in Rome, 101 Park avenue, New York, N. Y. % % %k A UNIQUE exhibit, but one well with- in the realm of the arts, is a group | of dolls, made by Mrs. Nina Bonner Albritton, ncw on view at Jane Bart- lett’s, 1603 Connecticut avenue. They are made of cloth, or cotton, shaped and painted, and are beautifully dressed in costumes especially designed by Mrs. Al- britton. All are about of a size, and | each represents a distinct individuality { from fact or fiction. There is one, for instance, of.the Baby | Stuart. ‘There are a number nursery rhyme lore—Little Bo Peep, Lit- | tle Boy Blue, Mary, Mary, Quite Con- | trary—piquant, charming. There is a | little Dutch couple. There is a splendid, | old-fashioned black Mammy keeping guard over the troop. | Mrs. Albritton began making dolls some years ago during an enforced idle- | ness while recovering from an injury | She has gone on making them because | of the delight found in the work. | " To model live little people out of cloth and_cotton is as difficult, if not | more so, than to model them with clay. and the result is no less a work of art. Quite & number of our museums have thought it worth while to assemble col- lections of dolls because of their signifi- cance artistically and cthnologically Perhaps some day one or more of these made by Mrs. Albritton will find per- manent home in such an assemblege. But meanwhile they are meant to be plaved with and loved. The collect! fon will remain on view at west, this 3 Mr. Snell is not only distinguished “LUXEMBOURG—THE PRISON,” SYMES. IT IS CONTAINED IN AN MUSEUM. A PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS J. EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL (Continued From Third Page). acquired furbelows. So they hied them- selves over to see thelr great ally, Uncle Sam, and 5mmn,l themselves into his presence, gre im as he had greeted them when the war had made brothers of us all. But Uncle Sam was awfully busy. He had gone back into politics for one thing and business for another. Look- ing over his spectacles at littie Cuba, he could only dimly remember ever having been introduced. While he wasn't ab+ rupt or anything, he couldn’t quite see how he could support the Cuban suga: market without starting another war. And a 1ot of persons who called them- selves allies had not yet paid him for the last one. Furthermore, he was obliged to call Cuba's attention to the | fact that he had his own sugar indus- try to protect and that, as much as it hurt him, he felt compelled to levy a | duty on Cuban tugar, which was ob- viously a foreign product, Not only many Cubans but all Latin American countries ¢an see that there are advantages to be derived from look- ing upon the United States as a big brother. They all like social functions, and get much pleasure out of visiting good-willers from their neighbor to the north. They admit the force of Ameri- can methods, innovations and up-to- the-minute industrial efficiency. They know that the more they encourage the investment of American capital in their countries the more prosperous the countries become. Oppose Intervention. And yet there is something about these people which prompts them to guard the atmosphere in which their forefathers have existed at the risk of appearing backward and less modern in habits and customs. There are those with whom the writer has talked who have admitted that they pre- ferred to be misgoverned by thelr own leaders than to experience interven- tion on the part of the United States with the possibility of more efficient government. A lot of them doggedly cling to the institution of revolution in place of the ballot box. They al- most prefer to be ruled by a colorful dictator than by a man elected by the people. Some of them even point to the fact that the United States itseif came into existence with a revolution. Others view with distrust such American evi- dences of efficiency as prohibition ard the merging of industry, finance and labor into a more and more solidificd form. TFhey like their little enterprises even though, from the viewpoint of an efficiency expert, these little enterprises lack enterprise. One of the big problems of American vested interests in Cuba is to teep the place looking like a foreign country. Even though it is a boat ride of only a few hours from Key West to Havana, and not any great journey from New York by boat, the American tourist is paying his money for a complete change of atmosphere, such as can only be had with a visit to a foreign land where one speaks a foreign tongue and does things in a manner that is not in any way reminiscent of one's home town. Of course, wide-open drinking places that cannct possibly be mistaken for soda_fountains help a long way. But the Cubans have heard so much of the American language that they have in- corporated into their conversation, even among themselves, such phrases as “aw | rite,” “go-bye,” “puncherd tire.” Lift Base Ball Slang. When it comes to base ball, which is played on every vacant Ict in Cuba by native-born Cubans, our entire base ball slang has been lifted bodily, so that the | American passerby, stopping to watch the game of his forefathers, gets a shock in hearing Spanish interspersed (inter- spersed hardly expresses it) with the| latest bleacher talk right from the Polo Grounds or the Yankee Stadium. ., This sort of thing must not go on if | 'Cuba is to be kept Cuban even on the surface. Cock fights and the lottery have eo far survived the Americai influence. Although prize fights have pretty well crowded out the former. Dicking the right horse at the races affords a certain amount of competition as against hunches and premonitions as to what number will win a fortune in the lottery. The more humble class of Cuban has ailways loved to dress up, but princi- pally for fi=stas, holidays, weddings, etc. and not for the routine of every-day existence This was until the Ameri- cans took charge. ‘The American authorities felt obliged to issue regula- tions as to the minimum of dress to be considered within the realms of de- cency, and so they added to the pants a shirt. There has been comsiderable outery lately that graft has brcken out in the national government of Cuba to such an extént that Congress (United States | Congress of course) is going to investi- gate. It is this sort of thing that makes even the most Americanized Cuban sors. He contends that Cuba should have privileges at least equal to those afford- ed Chicago, Philadelphia and othe American_cities. He points out t| graft would have to thrive to the point where it would be a menace to big busi- in, say New York cr Philadelphia. | until the 25th of this * kK X IDO}\SEY DONIPHAN will show his recent paintings and drawings at his studio, 1462 Harvard street north- afternoon from 4 to 6. Many Natives of Cuba Resent Attitude Of United States in Island Goyemment before it would be investigated by the United States Federal Government. In short, Cubans believe that their little vices should be included in what is known as their political freedom of action. . Jugoslav Navy Visits Mediterranean Bases American ports are too far away to permit the Jjugoslav navy to return visits which many American warships have made to Split and brovnik, hospitable harbors on the Dalmatian coast. But the young Jugosiav navy is on a cruise to French and British naval bases in the Mediterranean. Of course, the fleet cannot compare with Italian nor with French war ves- sels, but the Jugoslavs have the begin- ning of a fine fleet. Under command of Vice Admiral Dragutin Pritcha the flagship, the cruiser Dalmacija: six small destroyers from the first division and two new submarines, the Hrabri and the Nebojsa, with the submarine mother ship, the Hvar. May 15 the Dalmacija led the small fleet out of the Boka Kotorska, the Cat- taro Bight, past the high mountains dominating this natural harbor. The first visit was made to Corfu, where Greek ships acted as hosts. Ceremonies were held where the Serb soldiers are buried, those who never came back to the mainland after their famous re- treat. 2 May 22 the fleet sailed to Malta and May 30 to Bizerta, to visit the French. Argostoll was also visited, with the fleet terminating its first cruise June 16. Jugoslavia has also a respectable merchant marine, about 300,000 tons. Most of thes» ships ply in the Adriatic and the Mediterranean, but some also carry cargoes to North and South America. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions to the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Kings and Rulers, Anthony, K. 5. Queen Elizabeth. F4549- ng Angs. Bowen, Marjorie, pseud. William, Prince of Orange. F4556-B67 Eulenberg, Herbert., The F47Pr-Eub3.E. Napoleon I, Emperor of France. ‘Memoirs Comptiled from His Own Writings. F30442-N 16m.E. Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia. The Letters of the Tsar to the Tsaritsa, 1014-1917. F5466-N51.E. Hohenzollerns. Voyages and Travels. Freeston, C. L. Continental Touring. GD-F873. Hangon, C. L., and Gross, W. J., eds. l’l‘l’!vel Sketches of Today. G12-H 105¢. Harlow, V. T., ed. Voyages of Great Pioneers, G12-H226v. Harper, C. G. Motoring in Scotiand. G43-H23. Howell, C. F. An Irish Ramble. G42- Ha3. Joche!son, Waldemar. Peoples of Asiatic Russia. G64-J58. Langdon-Davies, John. Dancing Cata- lans. G40-1.253. MacDonald, Claire. Lake Tahoe, Calif. G941-M 14. Trego, F. H. Boulevarded the Great Southwest. yan Cleef, Eugene. Finland. G537-V27. Vandercook, J. W. Tom-tom, Dutch Guiana. 1926. G987-V28. Villisrs, A. J. Falmouth for Orders; the . Story of the Last Clipper Ship Race Around Cape Horn. G12-V7l. Old Trails in G937-T" Plays. Balloon. YD-C728b. Colum, Padraic. 1921, Craven, Frank. The First Year. YD-CB421. Granville-Barker, H. G. The Voysey In- heritance. YD-G766v. Pinero, Sir A. W. A Private Room. YD-P853pri. Silberer, Geza, Caprice. Y47D-Si32c.E. Young, F. B., and Armstrong, William. The Furnace. YD-Y88f. Vocational Education. Brewer, J. M. Cases in the Adminis- tration of Guidance. IP-B750." Bruce’s Specification Annual, Industrial Arts and Vocational Education, 1928- 29. IKT-B833. Lee, E. A, ed. Objectives and Problems tion. IKT-L51 9. , F. M. ance and Educa- ticn of Prospective Junior Wage Earners. IKT-T773. ‘Wright, J. C. and Allen, C. R. Efficiency in Vocational Education. IKT-W934. Transportation. Healy, K. T. Electrifi~ation of Steam Railroads. SYG-H34. Hungerford, Edward. The Story of the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad. 2 V. HJR-HB8094s. Splawn, W. M. W, Government Owner- ship and Operation of Rallroads HJR-Sp58g. Wcod, W. V. Rallways. HJR-W853. Fiction. Benson, E. F. Paying Guests. Eiker, Mathilde, Stranger Fidelities. Millin, 8. G. The Fiddler. Parrish, Anne. The Methodist Faun. Phillpotts, Eden. Tryphena. Schindel, Bayard. Golden Pilgrimage. Scott, J. R. Beatrix of Clare. Undset, Sigrid. In the Wilderness. IDA GILBERT MYERS. HE newspaper constitutes & world- wide expv,:filun course in educa- tion. No examination, or other institutional formality, is "eeded for enlt‘rln:: wd th_?h !:lcnda:‘ll; ly the abilit: read. , 3 'lnz"edgor !lrln s d stand, there d curb an awaits this reader the activities of the earth around. Indeed, the private and personal behaviors of the gumc itself are made matters of record also when these are of :nllefln effect upon the human element. The daily lesson Bheet spreads the great sum of all enterprise for every man’s examination and study. Worlds and governments, war and peace, politics and finance, industry and commerce, rel , the arts, philant] , crimé— all here in recurrent accountings of the visions and dreams, of the nightmares and awakenings, that beset peoples and individuals wherever these are to be found. A mighty agency of informal in- struction, the press—practical supple- ment to the formal institutions of learn- ing, probably more potent than these, However, this is another matter. The prime golnb here in respect to the news- paper is that to it must be accorded the distinction of ‘being the most efficient and adequate school for developing the art of writing. Here is an institution that functions day by day, with the certainty and regularity of the sun it- self. Time is its hardest task-master. News to be uthered speedily, to be as- sembled, to organized and projected in a reality, not only of the special fact itself, but in an actuality of color and tempo and impact. No leisure here for recasts, for new polishings, for added tints and shades. The necessity is to seize the matter hard, to hold it fast, to deliver it in a racing action against the clock. An amazing school, this. And its graduates, all over the world, are vertising its high quality. For, ong the best of the novelists, short story writers, critics, essayists, gubucuu. economists, biographers, are t| Wh were trained in the newspaper school. An interesting trail to pursue, and it is a true trail as you will Here is a clear case in point: THE BOQK OF POE: Tales, Criticisms, Poems. Edited by Addison Hibbard, dean of the College of Liperal Arts, University of North Carolina. In- troduction by Hervey Allen, author of “Israfel.” New York: Double- day, Doran & Co. EDOAE ALLEN POE was, at the out- set, a newspaper man. Much like any other young fellow of that tribe he went out to find news, to shape it into readable records of Current events, ks to be reviewed, a poem now and then to be run off—some- thing like this was the order of his reportorial deys. But with such tasks there developed certain theories of writing in his mind—a philosophy of literary structure, a theory of compo- sition, & science of criticism. Gradu- ally Poe came to be an editor and a journalist. A critic of ingenuity and substance emerged. A surpassing writer of mystery tales ¥ut in his appearance. ‘The poet himself was already in the open. Much of the work of that pe- riod was scattered, as newspaper print- ings are sure to be. Some of it was forgotten, mislaid, unrecovered. And by such losses, or delays, the man him- self was, In a measure, hidden away from a full measure of either appraisal or appreciation. “The Boock of Poe” is aimed at the correction of this mis- fortune, Belrc? and research have brought to light a large body of the Poe output in those days of current writing. Much that is new appears here. And that which is familiar is here presented in its true context of time and achievement. This is the prime value of the book in hand. | Another decided point of value rises | from the fact that here Poe, developing his theory, say, of criticism, becomes concrete, takes the actual matter in hand, {llustrating his thought by way of this poem or that story. Both Longfellow and Tennyson are, in their | poems, called to account here in dem- onstrations of their true genius or, on| the other hand, in proof of certain fallures to make good in the inspira- tion aura with which posterity has pro- vided them. These are true object | lessons, the positive thing in hand— | real, and as a rule, convincing. | Here are the two outstanding values of “The Book of Poe.” Its inclusive gathering up of many hitherto un-| known parts of Poe's work. ‘Its con- crete treatment by the poet himself of the various literary theories either developed by him or accepted and em- phasized by him. Poe is even yet mis- | understood, The man himself has been hard to separate from his minor errancies. Any man is that, since er- raneies are so much dearer to human curiosity than is the ingrain of any degree of excellence or possible genius. It seems to me that this admirably rounded view of Edgar Allan A American genius, who has contributed richly to American letters, will be of deep interest and value to students | and to readers. That it will be, in clear measure also, a sort of shining| light now and then to a young fellow who, by the newspaper road, is moving along toward the supreme art of ex- | pression by way bf words, useful words ' and words of magic as well. | At any rate, here is a more comFMe‘ outlook upon Poe, a more intelligent -offering of the man—since it gives Poe himsely—than has ever yet bcen made. R ISLES OF ROMANCE. Allan England. York: Century Co. ANY spot, isle or mainland, sea or shore, spells, romance to a writer like this cne. For he himself is ro- mance—young, lusty, seeking and dreaming—from the moment when he leaps into this adventure till it is end>d and he is casting about in heart and spirit for another out-faring of glamour and promise. Even before one decides to go along with him, that one has ad- | mitted the special beauty and implica- tion of the island over the mainland. 8o, not much iIn the way indueement is needed to complete the getting ready. No great distances involved here, no unusual hardships. 8o, if you are looking for endurance tests to make record of, don't come along with us. Just down Caribbean way, where pirates have made enchantment of the islands, and then up to the St.'Lawrence where cooler, and chaster, islands invite to acquaintance and friendliness. How- ever, it is the man himself who turns the trick of unalloyed enjoyment here. Speaking sest—why, Gusto that man's real name. And within this flood of genuine partaking we explore | the Dry Tortugas—that scared us 8o | boautifully under the stories of our grandfather—and Sable Island and Isle of Pines, and then on up to ths| North and Anticostl. Listen to George | Eng'and himself for a minute: “These | past years I've taken to hunting islands, | running them down and shooting them with note-book and camera, bagging them as other men bag game. Any By George Illustrated. New Experience. and all just for fun and unending hilarity. Splendid. * ok x % WINGS ON MY FEET: Black Ulysses at the Wars. By Howard W. Odum, author of “Rainbow Round My Shoulders.” Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Co. 'HIS is no story. This is the real thing itself—life. A black man’s life in the war. Talking, always talking to himself as he marches or digs or car- ries or fights—or whatever war may be engaging the hands and feet of this fellow, forever telling himself the sf as it comes along with every day Here is war seen rather felt through the skin and exud- ing from its pores in a mutter and mumble of words such as this man would use. A long soliloguy, & child’s of ting or getting ready to fight. O s see through the eyes there were nothing around but make-believe with which children and innocents engage themselves. But 1t is tremendous in effect, terrifying in the baldness of its truth. Truth has to be decorated to make it endurable. Here it is stark naked and frightening. “War an’ me is buddies, fightin's my middle name. What you see in the books an' papers I can tell you ’bout an’ mo’, cause I was there. Yes, Lawdy, Lawd, I was there, comin’ an’ goin, startin’ an’ fallin’, diggin’ an’ fightin’, unloadin’ an’ haulin’ an’ Lawd, Lawd, stayin’ there, too. I'm magic black boy, rainbow round my shoulders, on my feet. ;War never got me, never will. Got my blddies, never got me.” And &0 the thi runs from beginning to end. No word save that of the black boy. After :. while you will tire of this me- dium, so monotonous, th eye. is what you say. logue. Rather, you kee) mmsnn and the mu misery, and this crooning, fellow at your elbow. Great! ing, besides. mumbling Haunt- * xR K THE MAN WHO RANG THE BELL. ByMMuwlm Kennedy. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Ca. Tfll elsewhere proved, the alibi einched mdm criminal ;ccuuen lt:or‘l becomes legally innocuous. mystery hl‘e?“ ‘Murder in an apartment house, Alibis are the hysterical pur- suit of the inmates of that house. This particular kind of abode—a huddle of petty jealousies, suspicions, resent- ments—must be the despair of the de- tective when crime centers there. ‘Well, as for me I was all right. That very night 1 was alone, reading under the best, of shaded lamps, and there seemed to be an unusual quietude through the halls and neig! flats. Then my telephone rang. Speaking to & friend by way of it, she interrupted with: “There goes your door bell.” “Hold the line a minute,” said I—as I went to the door. There, slumping down at my feet was a man. Sick? Fainted? I couldn’t tell, but taking hold of him, I found the answer. The man was dead. In- stantly I called for help, and the help came. But who rang my bell? Surely not the dead man. ‘That was the question which for days took possession of the house and the neigh- borhood and the officers of the law. Well, I could not fail to smile in relief at the clear case in my favor—provided eny case could arise against a pe: ful resident like myself. 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