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‘THE BUNDAY BSTAR, WASHINGTON, D. Exhibitions in the City—Portrait Studies BY LEILA MECKLIN. N unusual number of exhibitions, all interesting, each of varied character, are opened, or open- ing, at this time. At the Phillips Memorial --Gallery there is ‘tm—nm“n ’s]hgw ;u‘nri sisting of 10 paintings oil by «JXnaths. who uses a mode of expression ~essentially his own and who commonly ‘would be classed with modernists. . Karl Knaths was born in Wisconsin 1892 and studied at the school of the Chicago Art Institute. Later he Aassociated himself with the Province- town painters, attracting attention by whimsicality of a predilection for barnyard and a palette of buoyant, colors.” He is certainly a simplification and one who and Caricatures. those who thys make acquaintance with the modernists will wish to strengthen be by to the Phillips Memo Gallery at 1608 Twenty-first street, which is now open every after- noon from 2 to 6. * ok % ON Thursday afternoon at the ‘Woman's National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire avenue, an exhi- bition of paintings by Theo. J. Mor- gan was opened with a reception and private view. This is the first showing that Mr. Morgan has made in Washington for some years, and it is extremely impressive. To say that these paintings decorate the rooms in which they are shown, creating an environment which is de- lightful without intruding unnecessarily upon the visitor's attention, is to give them high praise, for after all, a work of art should be a source of pleasure of | held in reserve, not a loud trumpet de- per box, peering inquisitively at a ‘workman's love on the ground. subjects are “Cabbage 4nd ," “Banana and Grapes,” ‘Peaches” (a whole basketful of them on 8 plain wooden chair), “Cop- ,” “Wicker Basket,” his own “Studio Table,” all homely and plain ‘. enough at first glance, but upon ""study manifesting beautiful nuances of color, color in what commonly would Be called pastel shades, color invariably mixed with white, of frosty coolness but never muddy, color as seen through atmosphere and that is not ofly nor _Teeking of paint. ‘There is & frank simplicity of mind evidenced by Mr. Knaths' paintings, a Daive satisfaction with things as they are, an evident delight in tnkrgmu- .tion. His sense of color is undoubtediy fine; his works are structurally strong. the painting of the “Cock and ,” for instance. With a minimum has told his story; with a of color value he has given 's red comb and yellow beak, brilliant blue-green to off- the tail feathers. In his “Peaches” and “Banana " he has luscious color and dicated form. Occasionally remind one of Braque, but nn“mu;z an imitator. - r. Phillips, in the first “Mumber of his bi-yeariy publication, Art and Understanding,” has the fcl- 1o say: “Karl Knaths is neither prolific nor consistently suecessful as a painter. ‘When, however, he is at his best there are few if any of the younger Americans s FEagEa-eqag A ] th & big brush which dry, and a few colors i 14 ¢ £ best birds and animals. What ven to the sub- extraordinary axfziny g‘hlfluo.m ps because of, caprice. “Paint,” he declares, “is Karl Knaths' natural language, but, of course, he be ired and in the 1f justice.” * ¥ % x IN ORDER to extend both influence and opportunity and to increase the educational value of its exhibits, the Phillips Memorial Gallery has lent five important paintings by contemporary artists to the public library for exhibi- tion. these five is the “Geranium in Pot,” by Knaths. With this is shown ical Prendergast—“Autumn”; a paint of “Pont Neuf” by Halpert; Augustus Vincent Tack’s grave “Cruci- fixion” and a little portrait of Renoir in his studio by Andre, one of the great iters of France today. five pic proper studied at leisure. Undoubtedly ““A GAME OF CANFIELD,” ONE manding attention. Since Mr. Morgan exhibited here last he has made broad strides. His works have received numerous awards and much favorable notice. technically and in assurance. paintings are toneful, rich in color, imaginative in quality. It is not the things that he has painted that signify, but the way he has painted them. They are not portraits of place; they are records of an artist's reaction to nature. Many of his canvases are loaded, it would seem overloaded, with paint, in & heavy impasto, but the ef- fects produced are pleasing. The most interesting of his subjects are those found near the sea—boats, water, twi- light skies, strong contrasts of light and shade. He is a prolific painter, and it is reasonable to suppose that some of his themes are memory notes. This exhibition will continue to De- cember 30. * % % % T the Yorke Gallery to December 14 may be seen landscape and flower paintings by Florence Gibson McCabe of Oregon, and pictorial photo~ graphs by Bertrand H. Wentworth of Gardiner, Me. Extremes meet. Mrs. McCabe's landscapes of great Western scenery are a bit photographic —more photographic, by the way, than the photographs by Mr. Wentworth. At a first glance they suggest the Hudson River school, in their minute imitation of nature. She has painted net only what she saw, but what she knew, and she has been satisfied to read into her vision a certain poetic “PATH OF THE MOON,” A PAINTING BY tistic expression than this accomplished master craftsman of Maine. * k% % A‘l‘ the Arts Club, 2017 I street, are to be seen for another week a of water color paintings—portrait studies, by Clara R. Saunders, and a group of caricatures in ofl by Charles Dunn. The_latter greet one upon entrance, being hung in the lower reception room, and Include extremely clever and amus- C., DECEMBER 38, ’ PORTRAIT ON VIEW IN NEW YORK One-Man Show at the Phillips Gallery—Other Interesting! ing_caricatures of President Hoover, of | ex-President Coolidge, of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, of ex-Gov. Alfred Smith, and of Arts Club members— Felix Mahony, H. K. Bush-Brown, ffiun Comins, Edgar Nye, not to name all. Caricature is at best an amusing and & cruel art, and the question invariably is whether it is more amusing than cruel, or vice versa. There is one thing certain, however, which is that a cari- caturist can never be clumsy. His pen- cil or brush must be as quick and clever as his wit or he fails. Mr. Dunn is one of the few genuinely successful caricaturists of today. His drawings made for The Nation's Business are poignant, exceedx%ly original and in- variably clever. e portraits now on view at the Arts Club manifest his skill but not, perhaps—as do his illustrative drawings—a sense of something more than humor. In utterly different vein but likewise strong in characterization are the water | colors by Miss Saunders in the upper lounge. These studies, 17 in number, were done in Brittany last Summer—a remarkable achievement in so short a space of time. To paint a life-size portrait in water color, even sketchily, is by no means a simple task. Miss Saunders shows in these sketches her extraordinary com- mand of medium. Using transparent color on white paper, and very wet, she has, through sureness of touch, pro- duced effects both significent and graphic. These portraits are genuine character studies. Those she repre- sents are essentially French, essentially individual, interesting personalities. And manner of rendering makes the portraits genuine works of art. ‘With these portraits Miss Saunders shows two groups of sketches of Nas- tasket Beach—notes full of vitality— engaging. sk ok k% "THE second of the Winter's series of print exhibitions in the Smithso~ nian Bullding consists of 54 etchings by Dwight C. Sturges of Boston. This ex- THEODORE J. MORGAN, WHO IS EXHIBITING HIS WORK AT THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB. delicacy, in spite of the bare bigness of the things she has had to paint. Her flowers are more interesting, more artistic, more significant. Here she shows not only her joy in painting, but & real understanding‘of artistic effect. Especially when she works in gouache is she happy in her result. One of her paintings of a bough of blossoming rhododendron is delightful and most skillfully rendered. Mr. Wentworth's photographs are for the mrn::uym of the coast of Maine vividly the paintings of Winslow Homer. They are superb i terpretations of nature seen under vary- ing conditions of light, of fog, of rain. In his snow scenes Mr. Wentworth has interpreted what the Japanese call the paucity of whiteness. None, it may be well believed, has ever used the camera more knowingly as & medium for ar- HIBITION OF THE ETCHINGS ;BY DWIGHT C. STURGES WHICH ARE ON ITION AT THE MITHSONIAN, g hibition which opened December 2, will continue throughout the month and will well reward the visitor. Mr. Sturges is one of the leading etchers of our day, and he has re- ceived at the hands of his confreres numerous awards. He shows in this exhibit both figures and landscapes, the one extremely bold in treatment, the other-reticent and mild. There are compartively few today who make a specialty of etching figures and portraits, in fact there have been comparatively few such etchers in the history of the art—Rembrandt in the past, Zorn, Heintzelman, Washburn and Auerbach-Levy, to name only those who are most successful, besides Mr. Sturges, There are those who see in Mr. Sturges' figure etchings a reminiscent note of Zorn. Probably Mr. Sturges has been EX- R |/ umns of this issue of The Star. | * kK K OF WASHINGTON. NEW YORK. influenced by Zorn's etchings, but he has a way quite his own. That which is most typical of Mr. Sturges’ figure etchings is the fact that almost in every instance he represents his subject in action. For example, the judge is represented delivering a de- cision—"The Court Rules"; John Kirch- mayer, the woodcarver, is represented at work; “The Violinist” is playing; the “Old Lady” is taking a cup of tea or hanging out the clothes ‘“Monday Morning”; “The Cobbler” cobbles; “The Scissors Grinder” grinds— and so it goes. Even “A Game of Canfield” shows the player active, the cigar in his mouth smoking, the card in his hand being moved. ‘Whether 1t is possible to thus represent suspended motion and produce a work which does not become tiresome on long acquaintance is a question, a question which each indi- viduel may settle for himself. Mr. Sturges is primarily, in this respect, an {llustrator, an illustrator of today, one who uses the etching needle with amazing skill, a skill to which other etchers pay highest tribute. H To an extent Mr. Sturges’ work hasy the technique, as did Zorn's, of peni and ink, but his line, as was Zorn's, is of very different quality from that pro- duced by the pen stroke. re etchings all of his bition there is none more successful, artistically than that of “The Scissors Grinder,” in which the head is beautifully etched, the figure barely indicated. Again, in his etching of his own mother, there is evidence of sympathetic, sensitive touch. Among the landscapes “A Woodland Road” is particularly pleasing, and & marine, “Home from the Banks,” espe- cially appealing. WL . . UN‘D!‘R the auspices of the Wash- ington Soclety of the Fine Arts William M. Ivins, curator of prints of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is to give an illustrated lecture on “Print Collecting” in the auditorium of the Young Women's Christian Asso- clation next Wednesday evening. Mr. Ivins is not only an authority on this subject, but in writing and lec- turing sets forth an original viewpoint, being one who does not follow tradi- tional paths. Arrangements are being made to exhibit, at the time of the lecture, for the benefit of the members of Wi Society of the Fine Arts and their guests, a small collection of notable prints. * ok ok * TH! regents and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution have is- sued invitations for the formal open- ing of the exhibition of paintings pur- chased by the National Academy of Design under the Henry Ward Ranger Bequest in the National Gallery of Art, Tuesday evening, December 10, from 9 to 11 o'clock. This exhibition will consist of over 70 paintings and will occu) the three main galleries in the series ordinarily occu| by the permanent collection of National Gallery of A rt. ‘The National Gallery Commission will meet in Washington, December 10, and five members of the council of the National Academy of Design will come to Washington to attend the reception in the evening. This promises to be a notable occasion, as well as an im- portant exhibition. * k k x AHONG the exhibitions in New York attracting attention this month is a one-man show being held by Hobart Nichols, formerly of this city, at the Grand Central Galleries; and an exhi- bition of portraits, at the Ainslie Gal- lery, by Margaret Fitzshugh Browne, I‘Hch includes, it will be remembered, her lately painted portrait of John Hays Hammond of this city. Miss Browne expects to hold an exhibition in Washington next Spring. 'HE Washington Water Color Club opens its thirty-fourth annual ex- hibition this afternoon in the Corcoran | Gallery of Art. A review of this exhi- bition will be found in the news col- THI ‘Washington Soclety of Arts and | Crafts announces an exhibition of handmade jewelry. leather, weaving, etc., at the Dunthorne Gallery from | December 8 to 15. |Pope Follows Mussolini In Personal Charities| Mussolini’s private acts of charity which have endeared him to many people in unfortunate circumstances, are now being approached in num- ber by P Plus. Acting on the sug- gestion o?eAu‘hMlhon Pujs, the Holy Father recently announced that he would give 15,000 lire (approximately 18750) to destitute families in the Scor- dc region of Calabria who lost their homes during a_recent big fire. This amount presumably will be used to fur- nish food and clothing to the unfortu- tunates until the J'oevemmznt 1s able to take a hand in matter. I1 Duce's acts of benevolence have generally been in favor 3f families with large numbers of children. In many cases people with almost no money at all have contin- ued to rear children at an astoun ing rate, inspired by the governmen propaganda for large families, only to discover upon the arrival of the eighth or tenth youngster that children eat spaghetti as well as grownups. This has caused some dissatisfaction on their part and Mussolini has done all in his er to make life easy for them. ow the government feels about having the Pope make private contributions in the manner of for speculation. RECENTLY COMPLETED PORTRAIT OF JOHN HAYS HAMMOND IT IS THE WORK OF MARGARET FITZHUG BROWNE AND IS NOW ON VIEW AT THE AINSLIE GALLERY IN THE SNOW CHILDREN. By Hattie Adell Walker. Illustrated by Ludwig and Regina. Chicago: Beckley- Cardy Co. AMELIARANNE AND THE MONKEY. By Constance Heward. Pictures by Susan Beatrice Pearse. Philadelphia: David McKay Co. THE FAIRY CARAVAN. By Beatrix gg"fir. Philadelphia: David McKay THE LIFE OF CHRIST. A Map of Those Things Which Are Most Surely Believed Among Us. By I S. Hunner, New York: The John Day Co. MAP OF CHILDREN EVERY- WHERE. By Ruth Hambidge. New York: The John Day Co. TRAVELING SHOPS: Stories of Chi- nese Children. By Dorothy Rowe. Pictures by Lynd Ward. New York: The Macmillan Co. POEMS; Selected for Young People. By Edna St. Vincent Millay. Illus- trations and decorations by J. Paget-Fredericks. New York: Harper & Bros. SWIFT WATER. By Emilie Loring. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co. HUTTEE BOY OF THE JUNGLE. By Mabel Spicer Gill, author of “Santa " Claus, the Grafter.” Illustrated b Paul R. Carmack. New York: George Sully & Co. HEDGES. By Elizabeth Stancy Payne. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co. AMERICAN FOLK AND FAIRY TALES. Selected by Rachel Field. Drawings by Margaret Freeman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, A VAQUERO OF THE BRUSH COUN- TRY. By J. Frank Doble, partly from the reminiscences of John Young. Illustrated by Justin C. Gruelle. Dallas: The Southwest ess. JANET'S TEA HOUSE. By Josephine gsi’bnrn. New York: D. Appleton & THE GOLDEN GOAT. B{ Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell. Illustrated by the authors. New York: The Mac- millan Co. PUDDIN’ AN’ PIE. By Jimmy Garth- waite. Tllustrated by the author. New York: Harper & Bros. THE TWINS IN FRUITLAND. By Gladys Jay. Illustrated by Ludwig Beckley- A and Regin Chicago: Cardy Co. CITY AND COUNTRY SERIES—THE STORY OF MARKETS. By Ruth Orton Camp. Pictures by Elmer Hader. New York: Harper & Bros. THE MARK OF THE RED DIAMOND. By Josephine Chase, author of “The Green Jade Necklace.” Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co. THE SONS O’ CORMAC: An' Tales of Other Men's Sons. By Aldis Dun- bar. Illustrated by Ferdinand Huszti- Horvath, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. LITTLE CHRISTMAS; Or, How the Toys Come. A Story of a Little Boy, Far Away, Long Ago, and To- day. Pictures by Zdenek Guth. New York: The Macmillan Co. JOHNNY REB; A Story of South Caro- lina. By Marie Conway Oemler, author of “Slippy McGee,” etc. New York: The Century Co. THE CROOKED APPLE TREE. By Cornelia Meigs. Illustrated by Helen Mason Grose. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. THE STORY OF PIERRE PONS. By Francis de Miomandre. Translated by Edwin Gile Rich. Illustrated by Paul Guignebault. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. BIG FELLOW; The Story of a Road- making Machine. By Dorothy Wal- ter Baruch. Illustrated by Jay Van Everen. New York: Harper & Bros. THE CAPTAIN. By Arthur Stanwood Pler, author of “The Coach.” Il- lustrated by Prederic A. Anderson. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co. TEACHERS ARE PEOPLE; Being the Lyrics of Virginia Church. With a Foreword by Rupert Hughes. Illus- trated by Eulalie. New York: Wal- lace Hebberd. THE COW NEXT DOOR. By Marion Bullard, author of “The Travels of Sammie the Turtle,” etc. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. TOUTOU IN BONDAGE. By Eliza- beth Coatsworth. Illustrated by Thomas Handforth. New York: ‘The Macmillan Co. THE STORY OF THE WEATHER. By Eugene Van Cleef, professor of geog- raphy in the Ohio State University. Illustrated. New York: The Cen- tury Co. AMUNDSEN; The Splendid Norseman. By Bellamy Partridge. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. TN Of 514 restaurants in Manila, P. I, Wwhich were inspected recently by the Philippine health service, 426 were con- sidered unfit to continue business be- cause they constitute a menace to the health of the city. A modern, provocative novel about people who come as close to the reader as those he has seen, touched and lived with for years, EOPLE 1929—PART TWO. THE SEASON’S WAR BOOKS Germany Makes a Contribution in Fiction—Foch and Haig and Their World War Work—One Writer Sees a “Different Germany.” IDA GILBERT MYERS. OR the past 10 years an inc; harvest of war books has ;Im i upon the roach of each No- H vember. e past month was Armistice month, month of world-wide rejoicing and remembering. , The time, too, when countless irreme- | dial personal griefs are memorialized anew. Sons dead. Other sons living as part of the vast wreckage of war. | “Tired of war books?” We must not | tire of these. “Want to forget the war?” “If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though popples gTOW In Flanders fields.” i _ Yes, remembering is clearly our part. So we must accept the reminders that h books and even incident. For in- | stance, last week three soldiers came home to lie in Arlington after waiting for 10 years. in the frozen soil of Northern Russia. Those three draped caissons moving slowly through the rush of traffic revived the Great War itself, making us pledge ourselves anew in support of the splendid work that is now going on in behalf of & world co-operation to offset old international rivalries and ambitions with war as the common means of arbitrament. But, let us go back to the war books. It is interesting to find a change com- ing over these. The first output of war literature came from those high in au- thority—from military leaders, war ex- perts, political wise men, brilllant press correspondents, occasional propagan- dists. These plled up a vast body of war literature, academic in compre- hensive knowledge, invaluable for its historic content. That period, not closed entirely, is being superseded by stories from soldiers themselves who tell about the World War as they met it, as it met them. Here are accounts of the men who had the rough end of the job—Tom and Dick and Harry, in the trench and on the march, under attack from long range and short, com- ing to grips with tangles of barbed wire and bursting shell, getting about through dirt and slime and the mess of wounded and dead men to be crawled over or around. Many of these stories are coming out nowadays, re-embody- ing the war itself for the uses of pos- terity. And even the great ones, the leaders, their lessons of pure instruc- tion practically completed, have settled into a greater simplicity of narration, into a closer contact with the bodies of soldiery around them. Here is & notable case of exactly such ltnlxht sl‘mpllclty, of such intimate - closure L2 FOCH: My Conversations With the Marshal. By Raymond Recouly. Translated by Joyce Davis, B. A. New York: D. Appleton & Co. I‘!‘ is the comradely quality of this book, its free intimacy, that consti- tutes its first striking effect. These two men are just talking about the war. Naturally, what else is there for them to talk about? Forgetting the cere- monials of supreme leadership, or ignor- ing them, here Marshal Foch goes back over the long months of strife, sum- ming the character of its outcome and pointing here and there to certain out- standing crises in its development. Foch talks and his friend listens, gathering along the way the direct action of the marshal’'s mind, his straight course to any desired end, his sincerity and sim- ple disregard of interfering ranks and precedents. In such mood and manner Marshal Foch tells how he came to be appointed to the supreme command and what this high office entailed upon its representative. Especially interesting to us is his estimate of the American Army. In a growing intimacy he tells of his various disagreements—with Clemenceau, with the English—how these differences arose and how they were settled or not settled. Step by step through one and another phase of the struggle Marshal Foch gives, frankly and fully, his views. “Foch on the United States” is an interesting chap- ter to us—a sound summary of t! people and the form of government un- der which they live. “‘The Drama of the Peace Treaty” provides a section, of reminiscence and conclusion which in- volves more than one critical moment and faces upon at least one tragic sit- Ghe NP P AN SN 2 P/ S P SN e NN N e A N X (Y, WILLTALK By Marsaret Lee Runbeek Rellly & Lee, Chieago b 22 TS Terfect Gift/ uation. A third part of this book of reminiscence deals with many topics. The most interesting of these are the estimates of various famliar figures— Poincare, Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and others. He rounds up the new Europe, and takes an outlook upon the new world as well. Anything really new in this war book? Oh, yes. There is the newness of the intimate disclo- sure on the part of one who certainly knew as much about the war in its sources and conduct as any one in the world knew. There is the freshness of the individual man’s outlook, of the free and unprofessional handling of the great subject. There is, besides, a rev- elation of the Foch method, whether war or peace be the particular en- gagement. Here is the direct course, the rejection of every irrelevance, the indifference toward obstructive oere- monies. A plain, straight man, who out of great achievements remains, still, the plain, straight man. An invaluable war book for the patriotic and intelli- gent reader who desires, and needs. & true and interest survey of this tremendous matter from the hands of a great soldier and leader. * ok kK FIELD MARSHAL EARL HAIG. By Brig. Gen. John Charteris, C. M. G., D. 8. C.. M. P, With a foreword by John Buchan. Illustrated. York: Charles Scribner’s 3 AB ONE by one the great leaders of the World War forces pass and their blographies are written or their memoirs are published, the mosaic pattern of the military conduct of that struggle becomes more perfectly outlined. In case of PFleld Marshal Haig the contribution to the history of war is of particular importance, inasmuch from the went_over New ing Mgt th the first of m;“mti &S & COrps COMmMAN an remained with the colors until the arm- istice. One of the few British officers of high rank thus to complete the period of the war in active service. Gen. Charteris writes as an admirer and a friend, but he writes well and judiciously. ~His admiration for his subject, evident in every chapter, Is qualified by discrimination. He paints Halg clearly, with the result that the British commander stands forth from the canvas a vivid personality. ‘There is necessarily much of con- troversial nature in these pages, for Halg was the center of considerable official turmoil during his four and a g‘u;rur years of active duty. There were erences with French military chief- talns and with British military and Mfi:filfl,flm ludg}’;l AT Gen. tel story, 's judgment was cor- rect in all these difficult situations. The outcome of the war was a vindication of his military policy. Lord Haig died in January, 1928, honored and beloved by the people of Great Britain, admired and respected by all others, friends and enemies alike. He now rests at Dryburgh Abbey, “Scot- land's greatest gentleman and greatest soldler,” as big blographer characterizes him, lying by the side of Scotland's greatest man of letters, Walter Scott. —Q. A. L. * ok kX ZERO HOUR. By Georg Crabenhorst. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. H!Rl: is the story of a young Ger- man soldier in the World War. It is the -mr{not Hans Volkenhorn, who appears to have been cut out for a poet, a scholarly young fellow of good family, whose future was to be one of dignity and usefulness—maybe & scholar, prob- ably & writer of poems and plays. Hans was not the only lad, however, with whose bright future the war took mon- strous and wanton liberties. And so the story of this youth turns out to be & war story. It is hard to convince one]; I';rlttu '.hnt thl;e particular theme coul out a beautiful story, but it is. See for muf“y ird- h!:lm brutalif Atin ships, brutalities, fighting, homesickness, fear—such are the ele- ments of which the adventure is made. But it is the nature of the boy him- selt that transforms hideous things into some semblance of beauty—com- radeship, finding gentle souls under hard exteriors, meeting a royal act in the grime of war, digging under the crust of many to the sound hearts of these, looking at life with new eyes, learning men all over again, The gift that expresses so well the sinc wishes of the giver: e a lifetime. The “Supreme Authority”. WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY The Merriam-Webster is praised by hundreds of Supreme Court Judges as their ing Universities Colleges; over fifty years as standard by the Government Printing Office ington and indorsed by high officials in all branches of the Government. at Wash- A Library in One Volume in dictionary form, equivalent in type matter to a 15.volume encyclopedia. In its 2,700 pages there are 452,000 entries, ::IlfiFMMNm: 32,000 geographi- jects; 12,000 bi tables; over 6,000 illustrations. Constantly kept up to date. Get The Best Look for the Circular Trade-Mark. It identifies the ;Slme Authority” and assures you that you are getting C;:wuiel.udw&.&m entries; 100 valusble nndum?mivquly'nlhe [T\~ “lli‘ many years more, for it is the o internacionsl striving to conquer despair with dreams of a world not al lost. 8o, this story moves along through the literal warfare of each day's providing and yet it moves forward in a way transformed by the simple heart of this poetic boy. A soldier with the best of them—yet seeing everything intensi- fled by virtue of his own gifts of mind and heart. Not so long ago another remarkable war story came to us, “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Essen- tially like this one—that is, like it in its sharp {llumination, like it in its wholly believabe picture of war as the fighting man saw it and lived it. Yet, the stories are unlike since the two chief figures in them are unlike, Neither of these young warriors had any special :snlmusltym wfi-m r'.{hn: vague antagonist over the line. Hers was a job to be turned out—hideous, but to be done. And so they went at it. Of all the war accounts that have been written, the average reader—man or woman—could get along, richly, with just these two. Hans Volkenhorn is & lovable youth, brimming with an early enthusiasm, sinking into misery and disillusionment—just a growing youn fellow who, like tens of thousands of others, becomes entangled in the vicious net of “patriotic duty.” Translated from the German, this story is that of a common soldier on the side of the Germans. Not a shade of partisan animosity about it. But, instead, there is the beauty of a fine character mu ing its way through the savagery of & great war. The spirit of “Zero Hour is its great trilumph and its great gift to readers as well. * ok ok SEEING GERMANY. By E. M. New- man, author of “Seeing Italy,” etc. Tllustrated from photographs. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co. TH! waywise traveler is a great and useful institution. And Mr. New- man is certainly the waywisest of them all. With him, traveling for the enter- tainment of the wide world is both & profession and an art. Just what to select along the way of discovery, just what blends of the vital and outstand- ing to make with personal and intimate thipgs—he knows exactly what to do and how to do it. He proportions his- tory and legend most fitly. He links legend with romance and adventure in- vitingly. The fair measure of current matters—politics, economics, changes—with the past of these is one of his prime concerns. And so, confi- dent, we go along with him through the new Germany, through that new repub- he so energized and dauntless, toward lis own new future. It is in the spirit of this renaissance that we, with Mr. New- man, visit the old familiar places— Munich, Nuremberg, Dresden, Berlin and on up toward the north. The old scenic wonders of the land have lost none of their beauty and grandeur through the loss of an empire and the gaining of a republic. The old stories are still old and enchanting. The same celebrities—poet, composer, story teller —are all here. The art is still deeply cherished for the benefit of the whole world of artists. The people, both of the common and the uncommon variety, are the familiar Germans of the warm heart and the welcoming hand. I read “Seeing Germany” this way. For a whole evening I went along with the pictures of this book, 300 of them, and more, from original photographs, showing the same selective skill as does the text itself. Pictures of historic castles or, maybe, of a child by the wayside. 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