Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1929, Page 36

{BER 24 'NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS The International Exhibition of Paintings in Pittsburgh. New York Galleries Are Making Unusual Showings—Local Notes. BY LEILA MECHLIN. NE of the most natable exhibi- tions held in the United States from season %0 season is the International at the Carnegle Institute, Pittsburgh. compris- ing paintings by eotemporary artists of all the leading nations ahroad as well as within the United States. Originally these exhibitions were held in the Spring of the year, but for some time how fhey have beén set forth in the Fall, and after six or eight weeks' show- ing in Pittsburgh the American section has besn dispersed and the foreign ssc- tion sent on a tour of leading art mu- | s2ums. The current showing, which is the | Twenty-eighth International Exhibition of Paintings held under these auspices. | opened in Pittsburgh October 17 and will centinue to ember 8. It con- sists of 392 paintings from 15 different nations and wus seleeted by a jury eom- prising three Aistinguished artists fram abroad, three American artists, and the direetor of fine arts at the Carnegie In- stitute, Homer Saint-Gaudens. One of the American members this ear was Felicie Waldo Howell, former- | v of this city, who, now, however, has | her studio in New York. To be invited to serve on this jury is one of the high- | est honors an artist can attain, and | that it should have come to Miss How- | ell so comparatively early in her career (for she is still in her early thirties) is indeed a great compliment. Not only was Miss Howell on the jury | % of selection and award, but shc was also one of those invited to contri:ute a group of p-unmr: to this exhibition. This group camprises two pietures of New York, “Broadway From Bewlin Green" and “The Corner—Wall, Broa and Nassau Streets,” and two interiors, both of luxuriously furnished private residences, one th: dining room of Mrs. Jackson E. Reynolds of New York. Miss Howell began her career by painting pictures of stveets and houses in a simple, straightforward, almost poster-like manner, showing rather thin color and strong outline. In recent years her style has completely changzd. | and her works have more depth and | show greater mastery of medium. Both | of her paintings of New Yark now omn view in Pittsburgh are extremely elab- orate and complicated compasitions, bub velous exhi- . the Secre- Mellon, had to Ameriea than this ma bition, tg which, incidental tary of the Treasury, Mr. made g:enerous contribution by loan of examples from his own private callection. It was to be noted with in- terest in this exhibition that one of the chief lenders was none other than Mr. Ringling of th: Ringling Circus, who has of late brought to this country many masterpieces to be shown later in a splendid gallery which he has srected in Florida. * * A * % SUPERB collection of paintings by Renair. for the mest part borrowed | from _private collectors, and therefore not ordinarily known or to be se:n, is on view at Knoedler's. Every picture in this exhibition is reproduced in a handsomely printed catalogue purchas- able for a dollar. But to fully appre- ciate Renoir one must see the original works, luscious in color, vital with per- sonality. No picture in this exhibition, however, equals in importance the “De- jeuner des Canotlers.” by Renoir, in- cluded here in the permanent collec- tion of the Phillips Memorial Gallery. e AMERICAN artists are to be sten perhaps at their best in the Grand Central Galleries on the top floor of the Grapd Contral Railroad Station. These arc galleries beautifuliy appoint:d | and admirably conducted. ~There the annual m<mbers’ exhibition is now in progress, including representative works th> foremost Amcrican painters, chiefly those regarded as conservative n style. * ok x K AND this recalls the fact that at the Kraushaar Art Gallerles there is now on view a collection of so-called “Decorative Inventions” painted by Augustus Vincent Tack for the Phflllpi Memarial Gallery. Mr. Tack is one of “he few cont:mporary painters who have been able to produce purcly abstract works of dominant beauty. No one who | has visited the Phillips Memorial Gal- lery can fgil to recall with delight Mr. Pack's painting entitled “The Voice of Many Waters,” which has hung as & center back of the splendid Egyptdan | head, which this gallery owns; or his | other paintings depicting nothing that is definite, but much that is imagina- tive—lovely in colar, inter:sting in form, are rendered with apparent direciness and ease. In “Breadway Prom Bowling | Gresn"” she gives an excellent \mpres-‘ sion of one of the titanie office build- | ings towering against the sky, huge in bulk and mass, and in contrast the canyon-like street crossed by light and shadow from other )'m“.nI lt.;rc ures to the left—New York in mast impres: sive and unbelievable aspect. | Her interiors ari inted with equal | fidelity to fast and with an apparent keen sense of beauty of design and ar- | rangement. It is a nice conceit to have the portrait of one's house painted, either its exterlor fage or its interior 1ivability, and in such work as this Miss Howell has succeeded admirably. * % k¥ ON! cannot see these interiors by | Felicia Waldo Howell without re-| calling the work of two other well American artists—Walter Gay, jefly in Prance, and Boston, who, by the tonian by birth and ing his home here. way, is ‘ux.leum“ is this Winter mal ‘Walter Gay is also represented in the Carnegie International by four paint- is Walter Gay's paintings — atmosphere, suggest] i Sl nterest.. nial rest. For the past three years the Carnegle Institute has been putting into effect & e DA L ik year & tional 3 LoTiain number of artisis have been in- vited to show net one, but & group, of canvases, but no artist has been invited but nm:&t Th%;:',‘:;l get survey of cof abroad, it is umnr;nto consider not merely the eurrent & wln*h.hut with it the two previous nm:. experi- ment has rounded out year and will not continue in effect. The Carnegle Institute's International Exhibitions have in recent years been regarded as primarily radical, but such radicalism as is seen in the present dise play is of s mild sort compared with the Belgian exhibition now on view in the Goreoran Gallery of Art. There Is, to be sure, in Pittsburgh a cublistic ren- dition of railroad tracks through a sky- scraper city, entitled "“The Soul of & Soulless City,” by C. R. W. of England, who before the war was one of the leading exponents of gubism: there is a strange painting by Willlam Roberts, also an Englishman, entitled “The Prodigal Sets Out,” which resem- bies a mechanical pussle made up of parts of machinery; there is much that is homely and commonplace, but there is little or nothing that is vulgar er positively offensive, and there is much that is indicative of a new point of view and virile power. Besides which, one finds here and there a Teal mas- terpiece, such as “A Court Seene by Louis Forain; interior by Edouard Vuillard and a landscape, “The Pear Tree,” by Edward Bruce, to mention only & few. An exhibition such as this is purely transitory—here today, rm tomorrow—but for the moment = stimulating. PR IN New York the art season is in full 8 . At the Metropolitan Museum of Art there is a special exhibition en view at the present time of glass and rugs, an international showing collected in Europe and in America during the past Summer by the American Pedera- tion of Arts under a special grant from the General Education Board—an ex- hibition the purpose of which is to stim- ulate our own artistic industries and at the same time call the attention of the public to the value of design in articles of everyday use. Much af the glass in this exhibition is of interest. The rugs, largely hand-woven, more than the glass, show the influence of modernistic design. In the dealers’ galleries an Pifty- seventh street and up and down Fifth avenue there is an endless parade of works of art—paintings and sculpture by both old and modern masters. And from all appearances, despite the recent collapse of the stock market, these hibitions are well patronized and many sales are made. * % x % A NEW Museum of Modern Art, spon- sored by a group of well known New Yorkers,. for the most part men and women of largc means, has been lately opened on one of the upper floors of the Heckscher Building, pending & building of its own. This new museum, cansisting of a series of well lighted galleries and showing at the present time in its insugural exhibition paint- ings by Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cesanne and Seurat, was so crowded on & Bat- urday afternoon by interested spectators that it was difficult to see the paintings. On the other hand, there was alsc & attendance at the exhibition of paintings by old Flemish masters, a really great and extraordinary loan collection held for the benefit of the Free Milk Fund, in the Kleinberger Gallerles, to ‘which the Mnflle admission charge was $2 and of which the {llustrated cata- logue was priced at $6. But both ad- mglnn lns catalogue weve worth the cost, for an amazing feast was thus set before the visitor and permanently memorialized. Nothing could better have demonstrated e . wealth of and appealing primarily to the be- WOOD FIGURE OF ST. AUGUS. TINE, CARVED BY JOHN KIRCH- MAYER FOR WASHINGTON CA- THEDRAL, hojder’s imagination. The arrival of his newest “Decorative Inventions” will be awaited with keenest intercst. * x % % THI Phillips Memorial Gallery has undertaken a new venture, the publication of a magazine to be issued twice a year, in the Fall and in the 8pring, entitled Art and Understanding, and devoted chiefly to articles on artists and their works in the Phillips Me- marial Gallery, but containing also ex- cerpts from the writings of well known autherities on art in the abstract. Qf it Mr. Phillips himsclf says: “We have the | | early days of the church. Amnna1 the Kir |ing exhilits of the Phillips Memorial | Gallery. expressing the philosophy of | open-mindedness and tolerance which ves to the collection its greatest cnificance.” has on its eover a reproduction of "“The | Strong Mgn” by Daumier, with Dau- “Uprising” as a frontispiece. The contents for the most part is text by Mr. Phillips, essays on “Art and Under- standing,” on_“The Many-Mindedness of Modern Painting,” on “Manet’s ‘Ballet Espagnol,’ " on “Derain and the New Dignity in Peinting,” together with a note on “The Baroque in Painting” and notes op El Greco, Cezanne and | Picasso—thoughful and though pro- ’vukml articles which should lead to frujtful discussion and better apprecia- tion of the works discu: * ok kK FORTNIGHT ago attentien was called to statues of saints modeled | by Carl Mose to be placed, when cut in | stone, on the exterior of the Washington Cathedral, on Mount St. Alban. Now there comes to attention & no less in- teresting statie of 8 saint earved in oak | wood in the style of the so-called Amer- |ican Gothic by John Kirchmayer, for the interior of this same cathedral. Kirchmayer is a native of Oberam- | mergau, and qualified as a wood carver while living in that famous little tow taking part in the great “Passion Play.” | For years now, however, he has lived |and worked near Boston, and some of the finest cnrvlng in the churches of this country is the work of his hand. For Christ Church, Oranbreok, near Detroit, Mieh., Mr. Kirchmayer carved an exquisite reredos with many figures. His carvings are to be found in the Rogers Memorial Church, at Fairhaven, Mass.,, and many other places. It is a matter of great congratulation that our own cathedral in this city is to be enriched by the work of this master carver, who works with no less reverence than skill and who holds his art as sacred as did the masters in the master craftsmen of today John ch- mayer looms large because, not only of mastery of tools and medium, but on account of his simplicity and sincerity, his splendid personality. * % ok ¥ NOTHER master craftsman from Boston will exhibit in Washington next week. This is Frank Gardner Hale, who will show again his hand- | wrought jeweiry and enamels at Jane Bartlett’s from November 27 through December 7. As designer, metal worker and enam- eler, Mr. Hale has few equals. Further- more, he is one of those who are keenly interested in the extension of knowl- edge, and has cheerfully traveled from end to end of this country giving dem- onstrations and awakening interest in the crafts. Mr. Hale is one of those who_believe that, though we live in a machine age, handwork will never be equaled by machine produet and will never cease to be wanted. He will be personally in charge during his exhibi- tion here. * k¥ ok AT the Arts Club, 2017 T street, & miscellaneous fll’()vu’p of water colors by members of the Washington Water Color Club is now on view. There are good names in the catalogue, but few of the exhibitors, unfortunately, are repre- sented at their best. * %k * DORSEY DONIPHAN exhibited his recent paintings and drawings at ® tea at his studio last Sunday after- noon. His work showed pleasing variety of both subject matter and medium. Among the paintings in olls, ane of the “Brick Capitol” of 1814 held the atten- tion most persistently, as- it was an appealing presentation of & historic old structure soon to be demolished to make way for the new United States Supreme Court. Mr. Doniphan has painted (chiefly in water color) many fine buildings in Washingtan; a series of the embassies on Sixteenth street, several of the Capitol, the Lineoln Memorial and other public buildings. Most of the subject matter for his exhibition, in fact, had been found in and around Washington. There were charming views of Rock Creek Park (partieularly “Woeds in Fall”), of the cherry blas- soms around the Tidal Basin, and humorous sketches of the animals at the Zoo. Still another type of work shown was a series of illustrated coats of arms. Mr. Doniphan also exhibited portraits in oils and red chalk. His porirait of Curtis D. Wilbur, former Secretary of the Navy is owned by the Navy De- partment. * ko ¥ THE exhibition of woodblock prints in don Dunthorne's, which was given in these columns last week, has praved an event of note. The unique features of this exhibi- tion are that various editiéns are shown in several instances of ope and the same block and that the artist, Miss Miller, daughter of Ransford 8. Miller, American consul general of Korea, is giving, {n connection with the showing, demonstrations of woodblock cutting and printing. The first of theae took place on the evening of Thursday, No- vember 21, the d yesterday after- noon at 4:30. ‘Subsequent demonstra- tions will be given tomorrow, Novem- ber 25; Wednesday, November 27, and Friday November 29, at same time. As has been said before, Miss Miller does all of the work in eonnachiry with her woodblack prints in color herself, tried to make it a unique and stimulat- ing review of art containing essays and llustrations relating to the ever-chang- American jvate eollestions or the ‘ movement o‘;fl masterpieces from ;«Npfi I\ “THE SCREEN,” A PAINTING BY WALTER GAY. When it is known thai to jc. . single print from 10 to 60 printing: The introductory number, just luued,l color by Miss Lilian Miller at Gor- | advance natice of | “THE CORNER—WALL, BROAD AND NASSAU” THIS PAINTING BY FELICIE WALDO HOWELL, FORMERLY OF WASHINGTON, IS CONTAINED IN THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CARNEGIE INSTITUTE'S n TERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, IN PITTSBURGH. New Era in French Politics (Continued From Pirst Page.) and America,” from which the opening quotation of this article was taken. Qnee more, then; as in the case of Clemenceau, France has a premier gradunted from the ranks of journalism. Only in 1914, just before the outbreak of the war, did Tardleu turn to pol- fties. He was elected deputy, but scarcely had he entered the Palais Bour- bon than he left it to enlist as an officer in the 44th Alpine Chasseurs. Later he suffered from seriqus cerebral congestion, which barely escaped heing fatal, and was compelled to return to Paris. In May, 1917, Premier Ribot named Tardieu high commissioner to the United States, at once one of the most difficult posts and one of the most tre- mendous responsibilities held by any French statesman during the entire war. On Tardieu's youthful shoulders—he was then only 41—was thrust the en- tire responsibility for obtaining supplies, ammunition, food and materials of every description for the French nation, which was then in drastic peril. If this belp had failed—even if it was unduly delayed—the war would be lost before the force of American participation could be put into play. Great Obstacles Overcome. It was at this moment that Tardieu gl‘uvafl himself as few Prenchmen could ave done. Only those associated with Tardleu in his task of directing the French High Commission and thase officials in Washington who strove, argued and worked with him durtng this period are qualified to tell in detail what he achieved and in face of what almost superhuman obstacles it was achleved. Perhaps it is sufficient to state that from May, 1917, until No- vember, 1918, the French High Commis- sion handled $3,000,000,000's worth of supplies and shipped them to France, and that over 50,000 cable méssages were exchanged between Paris and Tardieu's office in Washington. It was a stupendous task; it was a task extremely well done. We must stress this period in Tardieu's career because in a brief 18 months he came to know America and Americans as few if any Frenchmen today know us. The force, the co-operative spirit, the great organizing genius of the United States smote Tardieu’s brilliant mind and drew Tesponsive sparks. In those 18 months, one may say without any discredit to the man himself, Tardieu in some meas- ure became Americanized. But the significant thing is that Tar- dieu to a degree became Americanized because there was in himself that vast driving energy, ability of adjustment and sense of order which commanded immediate respect’ of the Americans n whom he relied for support. In 17, as in 1929, dressed in a business suit before the French Chamber, he was big_enough to strip outworn traditions ize the enormous attendant technical difficulty. All of the prints shown in this ex- hibition are admirable and give insight into the espect And life of Korea and Japan. Owing to the precise require- ments of the medium, it is interesting to note that in not a few of the prints the artist has interpreted mood as well as form and effect. For instance, she shows six cuts of Diamond Mountains, Karea, under the titles “Spring,” “Sum=~ mer,” “Autumn,” “Autumn Evening," “Winter” and “Spowy Morning.” There is much to be learned from these cuts, as well as great enjoyment to be found in them. ‘The exhibition continues at Gordon are required, even the uninitiated can real-' Dunthorne’s until December 4. ONE OF THE PAINTINGS IN PITTSBURGH'S INTER. NATIONAL EXHIBITION QF PAINTINGS, | methods Briand has employed in from thelr places and to deal with actualities. Upon Tardieu's return from America in 1018 it Clemenceau, the man who first inned faith on the bril- liant young journalist, who called Tar- dieu to act as his right-hand man dur- ing the glacg treaty negotiations. Again it was Tardieu who wrofe pages u pages of the treaty itself. From t close association with the making of peace Tardieu became so inspired by the letter of the Versailles Treaty that his insistence upon it almost ruined his fu- ture political career. He became Ver- saflles’ ardent defender. He aecused first Briand and Poineare—curiously enough, the men with whom he has re- cently eollaborated most cordially—of mutilating its application. For s time he was even more nationalistic and ex- tremist in his views than Poincare at the time of the Ruhr. And this ve- hement adhesion to the Versailles Treaty became so pronounced that Poin- care himself once declared: “You have only to mention the Treaty of Versailles and Tardieu jumps to his feet and says, ‘Present!’ " Already Marked Man. Byt already Tardieu had become 8 marked man—marked as a man who knew his own mind, From 1914 to 1924 —with the exception of the two years he was in the Clemenceau cabinet—he mained doggedly in the opposition. He refused an offer of & portfolio in the Millerand cabinet. He refused the presideney of the Reparations Commis- sion. ‘He refused to enter the Briand cabinet and in 1822 turned down @& similar offer from Poincare. He was, it seemed, sharpening his personal power, hammering the will within him upon the grindstone of the deputy on the out- side. If that was his purpose, he sue- ceeded. Pinally, in 1924, the rise of the cartel~ ists resulted in Tardieu's defeat for re- election, and he withdrew from politics, quietly but firmly announcing his de- cision to let that experience end his pa- litical career. But the scent of baftle and the need of decisive leaders in the Chamber proved too much for Tardieu. In the Spring of 1926 he re-entered the lists at Belfort, and in 13 days he had swept 117 public meetings before him, and despite Socialist cartelist opposi- tion was overwhelmingly elected. Here, then, was the man ‘who had been in the Chamber but a few months during the catastrophic avalanche of cabinets and the franc, to whom Poin- care immediately turned in the crisis of July, 1926—and who this time consent- ed to accept & portfolio. He was a man of no party, an outsider, & maverick— yet his presence was felt mdllxn!l le. It has soon shown to he so. r Tar- dieu, umg‘ored by his two years of pri- vate life, his observation of the dangers to France and the follies of the O ber of Deputies, had lost much of his youthful ~extremist disposition. As minister of public works the merchant marine and liberated regions, Tardie went swiftly, decisively to work. His post was not an outstanding one, yet he made it so. Early in 1997 a dispute between miners and mine owners in Narthern France after six manths of controversy threatened to result in a strike as seri- ous as that which had just shaken British industry to its foundations. Tardieu stepped into the breach and acted as negotiator between mine own- ers and workmen. He secured increased pay for the miners and averted the strike in brilliant negotiations which attracted nation-wide attention. Work of Reconstruction. In the reconstruction of liberated regions his direction was equally note- worthy, and it was no surprise when the cabinet was reshaped a year ago that the nation saw Tardieu as the new holder of a r&pomiblegfl —the min- ister of the interior. that day to this it has been only a question of ‘Yme when Tardieu would be ealled t the premiership. Throughout the Na- tional Union ministry's tremendous lahars of reconstruction, it was Tardieu who always stood as_middleman be- tween Poincare and Briand. It was Tardleu who with these two formed a powerful trinity in the Chamber which time and again killed budding moves for the overthrow of the {'nvemment, It was Tardieu whom friends and enemies alike recognized must even- tually come to power—yet he himself never moved to ten that moment. Even on the evening he was called by Doumergue & few weeks ago to farm a ministry, Tardieu expected Briand be called, and in justice to him it must be sald that he would have preferred it. ‘But once called, Tardleu did not turn back. He accepted the task, went energetically to work and rrmnled France with the most concise, most thoroughly rounded out and at the same time the most shrewd ministerial declaration that has been read in the Chamber in 30 years. Here was a man, !w‘z:&l duu memfih Wnrklnlmun,mwho carry out any program et himself to achieve, b It is quite &mble that Tardieu's ministry will shortlived. But of greater interest is the fact that Tardieu stands as a man and as a chgsen leader of the Chamber and will remain un- | touched by any premature fall that may come to his cabinet. If his present “"’"Z""JE‘.'. falls nTwm in no umhbo a rel upon Tardieu, but rather the Chamber's. condemnation of the ing his policy relative to the c“l:nc plan and the Rhineland evacyation. Thus it is ised in France that the’ of the first Tardieu min- istry will be but a prelufle‘:‘u the real place the man will France's 1929—PART TWO. The Annual Event Comes to a Close Today—Wide Variety of Books for Boys and Girls—OIld Volumes IDA GILBERT MYERS. N snnual fair — children’s hook week—comes to a close today. All over the country, for the past seven days, bookshops and other stores besides have set off corners and booths and stalls of gay in- vitation to children to “come in and make themelves at home.” Here every sort of bookware for the young ones is on display. More than that, these books and these visitors are free to get together. And they do. That i a main point for the whole enterprise. 8o, year by year, the “Book Falr” grows, both in the number and quality of its books and in the crowds of children that make use of it. For each year leading up to this event writers and artists, bookmakers and publishers and merchants are in close partnership for tea its success. Then parents and teachers, uncles and sunis, have been drawn out to praise it. children are themselves taking it o‘v‘zt;a‘:d t;nkz s as it should be. eir week. ""I‘heu are their books. A feeling that is, in the main, l'%lmdldly lugxzflr\ed by those having the business in hand. Reading, you know—that is, & love of ding, is & delicate and sensitive mat- ::.Y, L'!k! any other love, the slightest and have gone each year the more and more v g“)l:ll 'a. nf:l ? ldes, conse a8 re n e y I.hey are th:t as mn' :iln this “h"i.r“" veye't becomes any part of the organized sys- tem of eduuaan. why, right then it is gone. Looking in upon any one of these book corners under the free chojce of the boys and girls sitting around tables, it is interesting to see how many of the old books are before them—those that you read when you were little, that your mother read, your grandmother, too. Pretty fine, for the book. to have such self-sustaining powers. But, there are new books by new writers—oh, thou- sands of them — beautiful, enthraliing books—for_every year of life past three or four. Little books and hig ones on every theme that has its roots in yeung it | minds and imaginings. One of the famiilar and beloved books _that I see as I look over 8 hoy's Shoulder | 154\ Fernane dog ploris. (Ha Ts), AN ‘erhune £ ..u.',?' and the rest, puiulh.?by the same house. The deeply sensitive an- imal stories by the du writer Dhan -Neek,” the igeon Herd” (Dutten). grant first place, I thi story about animals—to sympathetic and divining stery them. Boys are pretty sure to agree to this, especially if the animai is the dog, that other part of the boy himself, Across I see “Alice in Wonderland” (Dutton). A new dress for the heli- days, but the same aderable young one that Lewis Carroll found for us mHv in & corner of his own domain, the enchanted garden of childhood. Em- barrassed and unhappy over so much of forced neglect in this rich fleld, I cannot, simply eannot, fall to mention a new book by Thornton Burgess, & seashore book this time, to ‘a with his “Flower Book” and his “Bird Book,” all of these published by Little, Brown & Co. Graywing, the takes this sea tale in charge, tel the news about crab and whelk and lebster, about sea urchin and star fish and many another of the sea tribe people. Really if the Burgess “Bed- to give out, I don't see how many of us could go to_bed at all. “A Pieture Book of Sculpture” and “The Goldsmith of Florence” (Ma Millan) combine in & pictorial history of art on the one hand, of the erafts at their sur g point of finish on the other. I'd like those books. So¢ would you, youna“!euov. “Stamps; An tline of Philately,” by Kent Stile, is a Harper publication made for that point in & boy's life when collecting stamps is his consuming business. A very complete and usel book, this one, illustrated and ug o the moment in its attention to theé air mail, to World War stamps, to those of commemorative ta:i historic mean- ing. A fine book both in its own sub- stance and in its keen appreciation of the readers to whom by it {t belongs. There is no place to . Literally here are hundreds of hooks for younger Teaders that are substantial in theme, or entertaining, or of otherwise good report. And so0 beautifully dressed are these, in holiday raiment, that they naturslly look straight toward Christ- mas. To be sure, these books vary lmon' themselves as an equal gathe: ing of people would, but, even so, they round to a measure of such werth and charm as to meet, at one point of their value or another, every boy and girl in the country—little and not so little, then quite and grown up. Sorry past expressing, but this is the ——————————r—————— | future affairs. He is the strongest man in the French Charuber today, He will remain za a8 lon‘lhn Foincare's {liness bars him from the Chamber. And if Poincare never is able to return Tardieu will inherit—as in large substance he ;lor‘l"ldv h:;.lnhaflui: lfiu mumu of eare, mantle of a & man TR T oo woul s mistake oon- cluding te overlook the of Tardleu's rise as related teo America. For the first time ainee Clemeneeau was named premier, late in 1017— perhaps even for the first time in twe decades—France has a premier wha understands America. Read his “France and America” and you will be farced to believe that he knows America far better than mest of us de, faults and virtues alike. As those who have read his know, Tardieu is no flatterer, o a friend of the United States he eriticize frankly the weaknesses of the American people. “One often hears the United States blamed for its brutal plain speaking," he says. “I hald after many negotiations with Americans that | MR. such plain speaking is healthy, on com- dition that ons aks plainly, too." One expect, then, in Tardieu's present tremely realistic rest of Europe and toward States. If the basis of Hoover's foreign policy is realism and %und 1l unswayed b;’unumem. surely ardieu is the one Frenchman highly qualified to treat with us on lgnu grounds. We shall not find him unde ugmn g us. Neither will he over- esl 3 consider these sharply penetrative but perhaps not as as at first they may sound: “With Americans nothing is ever final; everything is always in p! h That is what gives us the if we are nury to recast our ideas, re- form our methods. . . . They move far- ward, these champions of the gol ndard and of moral righteousness, xious to teach all the warld the les- sons of their success, impatient of eon- tradiction, which would be only a waste of time. Without in any way diminishing the greatness of the United Stated it may be sald that for Ameri- cans to play the role for whieh fate cast them they must first become more hi man.' wmmnmagum.a wmqfllfldhw ‘ln‘:t !uhl-r:.: n‘m'h U M"I ‘h.\; muwmi nkindly Time Stories” were | THE AD' | YOUNG PIONEERS ON right hm’o. a0 d | K. in New Dress. best I can do with the swarms of books that have rushed in upon me out of excitement and gayety of “children’s book week.” And 6o, here they are, all in a row, simply for you to taste the titles: BOOKS REVIEWED CHUMASH INDJANS; A Story of Ad- venture for Young People. By Gale Ewell. Tlustrated by Campbell Grant and Channing Peake, San Francisco: Harr Wagner Co. WAR WHOOP AND TOMAHAWK; The Story of Two Buffalo Calves. By Ernest Harold Baynes. THlustrated from antoglphl. New York: The Maemilian Co. COCKATOO. By Gladys Hasty Car- roll. Illustrated by Robert Crowther. New York: The Macmillan Co. MY GRANDPA'S FARM. By Mary Wolfe Thompson, author of “Farm- town Tales,” etc. [llustrated by Edna Potter. New York: Frederick A, Stokes Co. THE BSIAMESE CAT. By Elizabeth Morse, Illustrated by Ruth Sey- gmur. New York: E. P. Dutton & ‘0. LITTLE BOOK OF ‘NECESSARY NONSENSE. Compiled by Burges Johnson. Illustrated by Elizabeth hadncximlry New York: Harper & ros. CARMELLA COMMANDS. By Walter 8. Ball. Tllustrated by Prederie Dorr Steele. New York: Harper & Bros. OCTOBER'S CHILD. By Donald Joseph. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. Buchnell Ames, a and Chukkers,” ete. New York: The Century Co. I GO A-TRAVELING. By James 8. ‘Fippett, author of “I Live in a City,” etc. Illustrated by Elizabeth Tyler ‘Wolcott. New York: Harper & Bros. IN THE ZOO; Representing Twenty- seven Years of Observation and Study of the Animals in the New York Zoological Park. By W. Reid Blair, D. V. 8e., . D. Poreward by Madison Grant. Illustrated from Phnmn:gm by Elwin R. Sanborn. New York: Charles Seribner's Sons. KALEIDOSCOPE. By Eleanor Farjeon, suthor of “Itallan Peepshow,” etc. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. LITTLE MAID OF SOUTH CARO- LINA. By Aliee Turner Ourtis, author of “The Little Mald” series. Illustrated by Hattie Longstreet Price. Philadelphia: Penn Publish- g QI~PPER SHIPS; Done in Cork Mod- els. By Peter Adams, author of sns&- and How to Make ustrated by Madelaine New York: E. P, Dutton Kroll. & Co, ARABIAN ROMANCES AND FOLK- TALES. By H. 1. Katibah. Illus- trated by W. M. Berger. New York: Charles Seribner’s Sons. LARRY OF LONESOME LAKE. By Harold Bindloss. tokes Co. Them.” New York: Fred- erick A. St 3 THE _MYSTER!' LODGE. )y Ruby Lorraine Rad- ford, author of “The Mystery of venture Island,” ete. Illustrated Charles Ha . Philadelphia: 'enn Publishing Co. GO%D FAIRY TALES; Irish Ones. MeMahon. _Tlustral Author. New York: E. P. Dutten & Co. CHICO'S THREE RING SCHOOL. By Stella Burke May. Tllustrated by Bernice Oahler, New York: D. Ap- pleton & Co. 'VENTU OF TOMMY. By Wells, Illustrated by the goew York: Frederick A. suthor eof “Jeanng Gray.” Illus- trated by Bess Goe Willis. Philadel- WE‘I“R Penn Publishing Ce. THE ADMIRAL'S STARS. By Warren Hastings Miller. New York: SKA-DERGE (Beaver nge = (Beaver for Revenge). B, Loumn author of “The o¥ the Alders.” Tllustrated by the Author, New York: Harper & Bros. GREEN-PIPES; Poems and Pictures. afl J. Paget-Fredericks. New York: The Macmillan Oo. - A BUSY DAY. By Beatrice Sylvia Tbtgou. New York: E. P. Dutton MANY 'SNOWS AGO; Staries by ! y Frederick 4. Stokes Co. | O C WESTERN TRAILS; = Young Explorers’ Staries of Auva{:tun l.n'?he %7\': known West. By Qrville H. Kneen. Illustrated with frontisplece and A map. New York: Frede 8«&- Co. T THE LAND. OF THE LITTLE COLONEL; Reminiscence and Auto- blography. By Annie Fellows Johnston. Boston: L. O. Page & Co. SALLY GACBIE AND THE FAIRIES. By Miriam Clark Potter. Illustrated by Helen Sewell. New York: The Macmillan_Co, THE SUN'S DIARY; A Book of Days for Any Year. By Elizabeth Coats- worth. Decorated by Frank Me- l&.tuh. New York: The Macmillan BURNING BEAUTY. By Templ Bailey. Philadelphia: P«n’nl’uhl-lfhg < In‘ Co. BOYS' BOOK OF ASTRONOMY. By Goodwin Deloss Swesey snd J. Harris Gable. Tlustrated & Co. WINNING HIS KNIGHTHOOD, or ‘Thy Adventures of Raoulf de By H. Turing Bruee, by L, Parker. Boston: & Co. GIRL AT THE BATTLE WILDERNESS. By Alice Curtis, author of ‘“The Yankee Girl” books, ete. Tllustrated by Hattie Longstreet Price. Phila- delphia: Penn Publishing Co. WO AND NORTH AMERICA. B Lieut. Col. F. E. Whitton, Wi -‘t- and {llustrations. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. . HERMIT CRAB; A Tale for Chil- dren by a Child. By Mimpsy Rhys. Introduced by Mary lizabeth Barnicle. Ilustrated by Helen Sewell, New York: The Macmillan Co. . LITTLE BLACK STORIES FOR LIT- TLE WHITE CHILDREN. By Blaise Cendrars. Translated from _the French by Margery Blanco. New & Clarke, Ltd. 3 y Hoffman Birney, Drawings by Charles Hargens. Phila- delphia: blishing Co. Americans can well-affard ta| A CKS. By Walt Coburn, au- thor of “Ring-Talled Rannyhans.” New York: The Century Co. QRTH, YOUNG MAN! B Courtney Ryler Cooper. munuud'. Boston: Lit{le, Brown & Co. ASPERIE'S ADVENTURES. Josephine Siebe. Translated g Florence Gelser. Illustrated by Frank Dol N ‘The Macmillan Co. York: THE AZTEC TREASURE HOUSE FOR BOYS. By Thomas A. Janvier, Dlustrated by Ben Kutcher. New York: Harper & limthe.rm KRISTIN. By Nella Gardner White, | 28K Ilustrated by the author. New York: Herpes & Brothers. ALAANA. By Helen Coale Crew, Esley. New Little, TIGERS AND THINGS. By Andy and His Little Sister. New York: The Macmillan Co. STORIES OF OUR NAVY; Retold Prom St. Nicholas. New York: The Century Co. THINGS ANY BOY CAN MAKE; The k of Homemade Grey. Tustrated . New York: A VOYAGE TO TREASURE ISLAND. By Anna Curtis Chandler, author of “Pan the Piper,” etc. Ilustrated by Hazel De ard from Works of Art, New York: Harper & Brothers, I THE PUBLIC LIBRARY | Recent accessions to the Public Library and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. In the Sociology Boom. American AMIII¥ of Political &nd Social Science, . Law and So- clal Welfare. IGP-AmS 1. Burton, W. H. The Nature and Bie vection of Learning. IKI-BSSn. uel i Marsh, J. 7. Teacher Outside the IQP-M35t. O'Grady, John. _An Introductien to Procter, A. W., Work. 1G-Og72l, and Schuck. A. A, The Financing of Secial Work. 1926, 1G-PM3L. Struck, F. T, Methods and Teaching Problems in Industrial Edueation, IKT-St88m. Walker, 8. H. -Soclal Work-and the Soclal Werkers. Economics. Carnegle Endowment for International Peace, Division of leou-hlqolnld History. Economic and Soels! His- tory of the World War (Japanese series) ingten nunc l’;‘l‘ Recent Economie Chan Economic Cha in States, 2.v. HC83-CT6. : Principles of Ecenomjes, Hamilton, 3{ H. Economies (reference, does mot circulate). HC-H 185e. ln_;.ll;u. D. Industrial Persons, W. M. The Construction of Index numbers. HCV-P43, Civilizatien, Ellweed, C. A. Man's Secial Destiny in the Light of Science. FE-E1 58m. Fay, Bernard, and Claflin, Avery. The American w-m. &35, Jones, 7. J. tials of Civilisatien, Libby, Walter. Introduction to-Contems porary Civilization. FE-L61. ‘Well Known Wemen. Astin, Marjorie, -Mrs. Pepys, Her Book. E-P388a. o - A er Hundred le.ulm" Mrs. Eddy.' E-Ed27d. ?_uur of the of Fine Arts, Bl 1, ed. Oheyne o Eheiten Ohina and Fotiery Green, Piishigh. The Piim Pinds s Beek 1038, Hi8o, Redfield, John. Music, & Sclence An Art. VWB-R24. 20 Treadwell, J. H. A Manual eof Pet- Porcelain for Ameriean Borden, A. G. The Investment Trust Service of Life Insurance. TIL-Be47, Bowers, E, L., ed. Selected Articles an Compulsory Automobile Insurance (veference, 'does neot cireulate). AU-B67. Shattuck, M. A. The Living Insurance Trust. IIL-Sh28. Woods, E. A. The Sociology of Life Insurance. TIL-W867s. Woodward, W. H. Profits in Insurance Stocks. HR-W8Tpl. Fieti Beach, Mrs. W. H. Shuttered Doors. Cele, G. D, H, and , M, . The Death of & m e Heflmzwly. est. A Farewell to ‘ms. Hough, Emerson.- The Breken Giate. by the | E¥ New York: E. P. Dutten |py, raton, Yorke Gallery 2000 S Street EXHIB}TIQN PAIN:TINGS y MARTIN KAINZ | November 11 to November 30| WEBSTERS NEW INTERNATIONAL ‘DICTIONARY 8ol N, Ihflufi aythor of lm; Vanilla,” ete. T Now Vork: - Rarper %