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- mmand, hence bringing high prices. " Grafly THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTOM Portrait Busts on Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art—Water Colors by Elizabeth Sawtelle. Other January Exhibits. BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE Corcoran Gallery of Art has recently placed on view in its upper atrium a notable group of portrait busts of well known American artists by the late Charles Grafly of Philadelphia. Obviously these busts have a dual interest, subject and ‘kmanship. ‘They are remarkable characterizations. They will preserve permanently the features. aspects and expression of some of our foremost painters, sculptors and fllustrators. But transcending this sub- Jjective interest and historical value is their merit as works of art. Not only are these portrait busts superbly mod- eled, but tmy are beautifully cast. No greater portraits in bronze have been produced in our day. Mr. Grafly was the sculptor of the Meade Memorial, standing now in what is known as the Botanic Garden, but later to become a part of the Capi- tol Plaza. the terminus of the great axis between the Lincoin Memorial and the Capitol. Other monumental works | stand to his credit, but above and be- | yond all these in importance are his | Pportraits. | It is a simple matter. comparatively speaking. to model a head, placing eyes. | nose, mouth in proper relation—even to secure what is known as a likeness— but of the many heads modeled only a few are vital. only a few live. Gra: always did and always will. And fur- thermore, they are complete entities, not & head severed from a body, not a | mere tour de force. Every inch of the | surface shows the experienced touch of | the sculptor, born. trained. Nothing| has been taken for granted, nothing merely indicated by chance. These works are the result of infinite pains- taking care plus genius, and, as always, the latter has made the former a labor of love, Practically all of these busts now on exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery were in reality from first to last labors of love. They were not orders; they were done for the pleasure of the doing and from admiration of the subjects—a magnificent tribute from artist to artist. And who are they? Duveneck, paint- er and sculptor; Bartlett, sculptor; De Camp, pdinter; Harding, illustrato: Anshutz, sculptor: Clymer, Paxton, Has- sam, Redfield, Schofield, all painters. And what an assemblage! Duveneck has become already one of our American old masters. His paint- ings and his etchings are in great de- Among his works, it will be remembered, is the now famous “Whistling Boy,” owned by the Cincinnati Academy, Wwhere for many years he was chief in- structor. But perhaps Duveneck’s mas- terplege was his singie work in sculpture —the recumbent figure of his wife, modeled and carved for placement over her grave in a cemetery in Florence. ‘This is one of the great masterpieces hot only of modern times, but of all time, a beautiful figure from which the spirit has fled, but eternal in its ance. Duveneck was for' many years a dominant influence in Ameri- can art. Mr. Grafly represents him as he appeared in his late life, robust, The bust of Paul Bartlett is amaz- ingly vital and characteristic, gay and at the same time quizzical in expression, the portrait of & man in beauty, but extraordinarily tempera- mental—one who, like Mr. Grafly, was & great technician as well as a good artist. Harding, er and Anshutz were all: fellow l{:h!uu—mrdmg. 1= painter, one of the younger men, still living and producing: Clymer, painter; Anshutz, for many years head instructor at the Pennsyl- vania Academy—each very different in aspect and all three intensely indi- ‘vidualistic. ‘The late John E. D. Trask, for some years director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, used to say that it was possible to tell from Grafly's busts whether or not the subjects were blonde or brunette. And there is un- doubtedly a colorful suggestion in all of his works. His bust of Paxton, the Boston painter, is particularly colorful and expressive. Purthermore, in this instance the subject is represented as Speaking, the lips slightly parted. The Hassam, Redfield and Schofleld IN THE CORCORAN EXHIBI- TION. PORTRAIT BUST OF WIL- LIAM McGREGOR PAXTON. busts, which complete the group, are all straightforward pieces of work, ex- | cellent in likeness, spirited, vital. | Charles Grafly was self-apprenticed at the age of 17 to the largest stone- carving establishment in Philadelphia, in which eity he was born in 1862. His | first, training, therefore, was with mallet and chisel. ~Accident incident to laoor | troubles gave him opportunity to do larger work, almost at the beginning, than is as a rule intrusted to appren- tices. and he did it well. When he was admitted as a student in modeling Lo the schools of the Pennsylvania Acad- emy of the Fine Arts in 1884 he was, therefore, already a trained workman. His masters at the academy were ‘Thomas Eakins and Anshutz. Later he studied at the Academy Julien and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1890 he exhibited at the Paris Salon a “Dae- dalus,” now in the permanent collection of the Pennsylvania Academy. In the early 90s Mr. Grafly returned to the academy as an instructor in sculpture & position which he held to the end of his life. He contributed largely to the enrichment of the Buffalo and St. Louis Expositions. A well known writer has said that Grafly’s portrait busts “reveal him a master more subtle than Houdon, more sculpturesque than Saint-Gaudens, ri- valing Rodin at his best in delicacy and adding to the sensitive surface model- ing of the great French master re- PORTRAIT BUST OF W. ELMER SCHOFIELD, BY CHARLES GRAF- . IN EXHIBITION AT THE CORCORAN G ’ Mr. Grafly did as a rule the casting and the marble cutting of his busts, only employing workmen to assist him in his larger pieces. Otherwise he felt that much was lost in translation. ‘Some artists,” he once said, “do not care for detail. They say it makes their work look weak. It is not the detail which detracts; it is their false values.” Adding, “Look at nature; how perfect is her detail, yet her work is never weak.” This is exemplified in his por- traits of Duveneck and Hassam, where the modeling in its perfection seems only to accentuate masculine vigor. The finish of these busts, the base upon which they stand, the variety in the modeling of the throat and chest, sets them aside as unusual and extraor- dinary. Mr. Grafly, it will be remembered, was killed within the last year by an auto- mobile, which, appearing, it seemed, from nowhere, leaped up on the curb from which he was about the cross the A terrible loss to American art, to which, however, he had already made large and lasting contribution. He is survived by his widow and daughter, the latter a well known writer on art, * %k X A SPECIAL exhibition of water colors by Miss Elizabeth Sawtelle of this city was placed, simultaneously with the Grafly bronzes, on exhibition in the atrium of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. These water colors are to be seen, and admirably seen, in the cases, being matted but unframed. There are 29 paintings in all, the majority of them done last year on a trip to the West Indies. A few are of subjects found in Sicily; still others are Ogunquit themes, in the immediate vi- cinity, or comparatively near, the art- iat's Summer home. .All are broadly and beautifully painted, with that as- surance and ease which comes only as the result of competence gained through experience, and they testify eloquently to the trained hand as well as the dis- cerning eye. The West Indies subjects are ex- tremely colorful and delightfully com- bine méuntainous landscape and rest- less blue-green seas. The Sicilian pic- tures are painted with equal breadth, but with a little different feeling, sug- gesting not so much nature unrestrained as nature long associated with man. ‘There is an interesting painting in this group of Mount Etna, with volcanic steam and smoke ascending from its snow. at a glance might be thought a blue sea, but in reality is a sea of moun- tains. After all, the artist herself says, wave forms and the undulating lines of hills are not essentially different—nor are they. The Ogunquit group includes two de- lightful beach pictures, gay with Sum- mer folk, indicated very simply but per- on Miss Sawtelle's own property, splen- didly rendered. with a nice understand- ing of varied textures, broken surfaces, biended color. Miss Sawtelle is one of Charles Wood- bury’s pupils, and her work is not w like her master's, but it has its own in- dividuality. It is extremely sincere; it takes into consideration the limitations as well as the potentialities of the me- dium used; it is big in effect, and it man show. * * K X WORD was received last week of the Club and the American Water Color Society, New York, to Margarete Lent of this city. Miss Lent showed in this works—*"Fisherman's passo. Street.” all broadly painted and ex- tremely interesting. The picture to which the prize was awarded will be- come the property of the donor. It is interesting to note that in this instance the amount of the prize exceeded by one-third the artist's asking price. In 1928 Miss Lent received the Helen Wil- loughby Smith prize in this same ex- hibition. Also it may be noted that Miss Lent's “Pisherman’s Haunt,” included in markably vigorous and powerfully fruthful appreciation of the underly- ing logic of nature.” It was his habit to go to the very bottom of lhmi‘s. He worked swiftly. Occasionally he executed a portrait bust in a single day. Yet at his best he is said to have worked “with the eager watch- fulness of the earnest student end perfection. Holding himself always o a rising standard, he viewed his vision from increasing latitudes of beauty.” FRANK DUVENECK, THE ART- IST. PORTRAIT BUST BY CHARLES GRAFLY, street near his home in Philadelphia. | apped top, towering above what | fectly satisfactorily. There is a wood- | land bit in this group—the pine trees makes an extremely interesting one-| award of the Lloyd C. Griscom | | prize of $150 in the annual combined | exhibition of the New York Water Color the group in this exhibition, has been invited by the American Federation of Arts for its annual rotary exhibition and will be shown during the coming sea- son with the 60 best works selected from the New York exhibit, in some of the leading art museums of the country. Miss Lent, it will be recalled, is a mem- ber of the Washington Water Color Club and her work is frequently shown here in local exhibitions at the Cor- coran Gallery of Art and the Arts Club. She comes of a talented family, being the daughter of Ernest Lent. widely known in niusical circles, and the sis- ter of Sylvia Lent, who as a violinist has likewise won distinction, * K ok X THE Society of Washington Artists will open its thirty-ninth annual ex- hibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art a week from today. The jury of selec- tion. consisting of officers and members of the executive committee of the so- ciety. will meet at the Corcoran of Art Wednesday and Thursda: all works to be passed upon must be delivered at the New York avenue en- trance to the gallery Tuesday, Decem- ber 31, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Four bronze medals will be awarded for the best work in portrait- ure, landscape, still-life ?ulnunu and sculpture. The awards will be made by a jury composed of out-of-town artists, Mrs. Charles W. Hawthorne, N. C. ‘Wyeth and Hans Schuler. * X % % the month of December there was held at the National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, New York, a most URING tion of American decorative arts, in which were included four silk murals by Lydia Bush-Brown, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry K. Bush-Brown of this city. Two of these were Syrian sub- jects, one a purely imaginative theme, “The Fairy Castel,” and the fourth a series of murals entitled “The City of Towers,” picturing in .unique manner New York. This series, lent by Mrs. Ehrich, attracted special attention and called forth high commendation both for its decorative quality and extremely skiliful treatment. The exhibition at the National Arts Club comprised ap- proximately 750 exhibits—pottery, wood carving, silhouettes, embroidery, sculp- ture, book ends, andirons and other dec- orative pieces, silver and pewter, jewel- Ty, mural painting, drawings and a few wood-block prints. It was assembled under the leadership of Maud Mason, one of our foremost painters of flowers and still life, who is also an accom- lished craftswoman, and it was most autifully arranged. More and more PORTRAIT BUST OF PAUL WAY. LAND BARTLETT, SCULPTOR, BY CHARI SRA it seems our American painters are turning to the decorative arts, partly for recreation and partly as a medium of expression. It is a hopeful sign. * ok ok K TH!: foreign section of the interna- tional exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, will be shown at the Baltimore Museum from January 6 to February 17. The exhibition opened in Pittsburgh the last of October and remained on view until the early part of this month. The American section has been dispersed, but the foreign section between now and will make a tour of some of the leading art museums, Baltimore being the first on the list. * K ok % TH’E American Society of Miniature Painters announces its thirty-first annual exhibition to be held at the Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, from January 21 to Febraury 2. Works will be received January 13 and entry blanks may be obtained from the secre- tary. Miss Grace H. Murray, 152 West Fifty-eighth street, New York. PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent, accessions to the Public Library and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column every Sunday. Voyages. Andrews, R. C. Ends of the Earth. G12-An28. Ashton, J. M. TIce-bound. G14-As38i. Dl\gflinR. H. Bob Davis Abroad. G12- Green, Fitzhugh. The Romance of Modern Exploration. (Ref.; does not circulate). G12-G82. p.m-nm;,‘ !ancL The Krassin. An Arctic Rodeo. G14-Ct83. Wetherell, J. E. Strange Corners of the World. 1927. G12-W53s, Photography. 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Student Activittes. interesting and comprehensive exhibi- | (Continued From First Page.) structure one hardly dreamed of in the pre-war days. ‘This is so obvious in the political field as to need but little comment. The map of Europe today is an entirely dif- ferent thing from that of 1914, New countries are working out their des- tinies. The three great empires of the Hohenzollern and Hapsburg and Romanoff have disappeared, and in their places new experiments in govern- ment are being worked out, experiments some of them so novel as hardly to have attracted the attention of any serious, responsible statesman in the pre-war period. So many and so vast have been the changes that we can hardly realize the extent of any one of them. Take, for instance, the establishment of the Ger- man Republic. Any one who has lived in Germany in the last few years must come to the conclusion that the Ger- man Revolution of 1918-19 has wrought as great a change in Germany as the French Revolution did in France. When one recalls how much space is given in our histories to the French Revolu- tion we begin to measure the magnitude of the political overturn which followed the Great War. Greatest Event Obscured. But perhaps the greatest political event is one that has been obscured still further because of the fact that we in America hitherto have paid little at- tention to the peoples affected by it. From the Baltic and the Atgean new states have taken their places alongside the old, carving out their liberties in terms of constitutions and injecting a problem into the European state system which is so new that it is hardly un- derstood even by the rulers of the states themselves. Only the wise elder states- man who presides over the Republic of Czechoslovakia has ventured to give it philosophic form. Then there are those states which and imperfect machinery of responsible government as to turn to sterner and more direct methods of action—the Fascists of Rome and of Moscow, with their diametrically opposed philosophy but their political affinities. All in all, it is clear that the political world of Eu- rope has not been reconstructed on any ancient lines, but is moving along toward some new goal. Even if there were no League of Na- tions, the international relations of these states would be quite different from that registered in pre-war diplo- mecy, because the states themselves are different from nations of the past. But with the League to give it expres- sion and coherence, the conception of a United States of Europe takes shape in broader lines from year to year, until its possibilites of co-operation seem at last even to reach the tariff barriers themselves, a fact which M. Briand has The New ew Typewriting been one of the first responsible states- men to discern. It probably is still a long, way from resolutions against ex- cessive " tariff barriers passed by chambers of commerce to the creation of a European tarriff union, but the representatives of business in practically every country of Burope are insisting that the United States of Europe is no longer a mere academic proposition, but one of practical politics, In the economic realm the post-war period is frankly new. A new technique of production is making that of the early twentieth century seem almost as antiquated as the crude machinery of the early ninteenth. Mass production x no longer an American phenomenon. new industrial revolution is . taking place, with inevitable far-reaching re- sults in the whole field of economics. The repercussion of this event has already reached to the farest corners of the world in the search for raw ma- terial and cheap labor. Investments abroad carry our interests within foreign countries and call for the insurance of continued peace in order that the world of credit may continue to bring in its returns.. ‘The international peace move- | ment of the post-war period is, therefore, not the product of a passing phase of sentiment, but the expression of the real interest of the common man, an interest bound to grow from now on, gaining in strength as each new gener- ation places its savings where they will yield their best returns in a world grow- ing steadily less in size as communica- tions increase. Build Along New Plans. To turn from generalities to detail, let us first examine the nature of the European economic reconstruction. the Spring of 1919 I motored for days at a time through the devastated area of Northern France and Belgium. I recall that for two whole days, in an area that had been the heart of industrial France, I saw not more than three tall shimneys with smoke lssuing from them. Such factories as still were standing were mostly empty shells with their machinery destroyed or taken into Ger- many. Cities and towns were almost obliterated from the map, Ypres was a desolation as complete as Nineveh. The best fields of Picardy had been churned by high explosives into the underlying chalk. Except for the temporary frame- work of the Army Engineers, there were no bridges over any streams. What is the condition of this country now? The railway line of Northern Prance, the Chemin de Fer du Nord, which is the trunk line from Paris to Calais and Boulogne or to Brussels, has not merely restored its track on the rough ballast of the pre days, but it has rebuilt the roadway with new gradients and got rid of all its anti- quated installments. There are vast new yards at Amiens and other junc- tion points in the north, built accord- ing to a new plan embodying all the most efficient devices for the rallroad man. The signal man beneath the hill which is crowned by Laon Cathedral, looks down the track through curving plate glass windows. Electric haulage brings a new ton- nage through the restored canals, and the great rolling mills along the Bel- gian frontier have installations of only the most recent make. The coal mines, which the Germans flooded in the Pas de Calals, were recovered by devices unknown to the science of the prewar period, and the new machinery in- stalled in them works with an economy of labor and under conditions of safety for the miners unheard of there before the war. ‘Without in any way withholding from France the full measure of appreciation and admiration for its marvelous effort At economic restoration. the impartial Jbserver must admit that once the ini- tial cost of installation is paid, the in- dustry of Northern France is bound in the future to gain by this forced change in its machinery of production. In spite of all the ecoomic waste of war, we must not forget that there was a certain advantage to the French in get. Are Working Their Way Through School. IX-D73. Greenleaf, W. J. Self-Help for College Students. IX83-G84s. Jordan, R. H. Extra Class Room Ac- tivities. IRV-J76. Roemer, Joseph, and Allen, C. R. Read- ings in Extra Curricular Activities. IRV-R62r. France. Guides Diamant. Rouen et Ses En- virons. 1925. G39R-G94. Hardy, Georges, and Gandllhon, Alfred. Bourges. 1926, W39-H21. ‘Huml;awn, Sisley. Normandy. G39N- Labbe de la Mauviniere, Henri. Poitiers et Angouleme. 1925. W39-L 112. Sedgwick, H. D. Prance: A Short His- tory of Its Politics, Literature and Art, F39-8e23. Fiction. Adams, Isabel. Heart of the Woods. Payne, Mrs. E. 8. M. Hedges. Chase, Eleanor. Pennagan Place. Evarts, H. G. Tomahawk Rights. Mm;u:mery. J. 8. The Virtue of This o v Dorough, A. Bs comp. How Students Wadsley, Oemler, Mrs. M. C. Johnny Reb. Parmenter, Mrs. C. W. Silver Ribbons. Steuart, J. A. The Immortal Lover, Olive. Almond Blossom. have become so impatient of the slow | In | C., DECEMBER 29, 1929—PART TWO D _— - REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS Exploring Strange Fieids With the Nomads—The American Forests and “Some Essays in Understanding”— Decade of Reconstruction ing rid of much of thelr obsolete ma- chinery. Indeed, it is doubtful if any- thing less drastic than wholesale de- struction could have remade so com- pletely the basis of industrial life for 30 _conservative a people. But while this much can be said in explanation of the new vigor of Prench industry, it must not be forgotten that the destruction in human life rests upon entirely different terms. However great an improvement this new machinery may be upon the old, the new genera- tion of France cannot but show a les- sened vigor from its irretrievable loss. Germany has no wasted land, no dev- astated area, but its ability to recover from complete financial bankruptey while still bearing the burden of repa- rations is a fact not less surprising in its way than that France 10 years after the war should be showing signs of greater prosperity than in 1914. I was in Berlin when a postage stamp cost two billion marks, and when a single taxi ride cost nominally as much as the entire revenue of the imperial govern- ment before the war. There were no financiers and economists to be found anywhere in Germany who had not ylelg“d more or less to counsels of de- spair. ‘The memory of Austria's debacle was fresh in everybody's mind. The French were in the Ruhr, holding down the heart of industrial Germany. Every one seemed to feel that Germany could not recover from the blow that had been dealt. The government was inse- cure: taxation was impossible with the shifting value of money; for example, the greatest automobile plant in Ger- many, with over 200 acres of factory buildings, was assessed at a value which the decline of the mark in a short time made less than the cost of a single automobile. Germany Saved by Industry, With these bewildering facts before them, no wonder that the Germans lost heart and expected to see their country still more submerged by foreign domi- nation. Yet a few months later the Rentenmark been established by a great act of h on the part of the German business world. Germany was saved by the fact that throughout the whole period of the financial crisis the Wheels of industry kept turning. When money ceased to be of value, articles of commerce were bartered in its place, and with the return of financial sta- bility, the great new factories that had been built before the close of the psriod of inflation were ready, with & vast in- crease in output, furnishing & new basis for returning prosperity. The Vvisitor to Germany today will find it hard to realize that thers could ever have been a time when the very foun- dations of German economic life were tottering; and yet, that was the case two years after the treaty of Versailles. There after all, one devastated area in Germany—and that was in the harbors of the overseas trade. I recall & scene in the Port of Hamburg in 1922, When there was not a German ship larger than a freighter at any wharf or dock. Before the war Hamburg had been the second largest port in all the world. Mile after mile of warehouses | lined its wharves, yet nearly all were | closed and the great cranes stood rust- ed on their tracks. Today Hamburg is again where it was before the war and | Bremen is once more its rivat for the | pennant of the Atlantic fleet. It is impossible to do more here than | to recall a few isolated pictures of the economic progress of Europe in the postwar period. But it is facts like these which have made possible the business statesmanship of Owen D. Young and his associates. That, how- ever, does not in any way lessen the credit due to those who have finally drawn up the balance sheet between the late belligerents. The ‘“Young plan” is now a fact of history, and too recent to need comment or descrip- tion. International finance has been summoned to undertake a new task, namely, to underwrite not only the losses of the war, but the guarantee of continuing peace. 3 Wages Higher Than in 1914. ‘There is, however, one immense gain which has been made in the economic life of the world since 1914 which is not so well known or understood. That the standard of living for the common man is higher now in European coun- tries than it was before the war—as stated previously in this article—is per- haps more important than any other single thing that has happened. Even in England, which has suffered most {rom the dislocation of its industry and commerce and its unsolved problem of unemployment, wages are higher than they were in 1914. The increase is not much, perhaps, compared with the co- lossal gain in America, but judged by the European standards the gain has been a real one nevertheless. In spite of rising prices, real wages have increased quite generally through- out Europe. Now, this fact is of great significance—and not only in the field of economics; it points the way to a more hopeful future in the whole or- ganization of society and politics, The ‘democratization of wealth” as we term th& process, is sufficiently under- stood in the United States, owing to Mr. Henry Ford's experiment and his defense of it. Contrary to the predic- tion of Karl Marx, who saw only the first effects of the introduction of ma- chinery, it is to the advantage of capi- tal to increase wages in proportion as the machine itself becomes an efficient substitute for human labor. For the Wage earner can then buy the goods he makes and, since there are more work- ers than any other single class in the world, the stability of industry can best be increased by strengthening the buy- NE power of those whose chief needs are the stable articles of commerce. This process of stimulation of pros- perity at home is known in Europe as the “rationalization of industry.” That it has still obstacles in the WAY WAS shown by the opposition of European 'mployers to its introduction into the genda of the international labor office at Geneva: but in Germany, where in- dustry is best organized, the philosophy of Henry Ford is being applied with re- sults similar to that in the United States. What effect this will have ‘upon socialism remains t6 be seen, but the freat argument concerning economic Justice takes on a different tone in pro- portion as labor becomes not merely a g:(?:pneill:ryt:rllbu" ln%lnlclplnh in, the 'y that is produced by the ni Industrial revolution. i Basque Give ]:o_ ice All Sorts of Duties Unique is the miguelete. Every- Where in Spain, from the gates of the royal palace in Madrid out to the re- motest, humblest hamlets, the civil guardsmen have the right of way— except in the Basque province of Gui- buzcoa. The Basques have their own police, called migueletes, who wear a Jaunty uniform of baggy red trousers, & blye tunic with a cape fixed to the shoulders and a red boina on their heads (a contrast to the civil guards’ yellow trappings and gray or black uni- forms and shiny cocked hats, triangu- lar and of ollskin). Although’a soldier, armed and trained as such, the migu- elete, instead of parading about in idle- ness, has many civilian duties. He car- ries all the official mail in the province, conveys lunatics to the modern asylum, inspects the roads, teaches the illiterates to read and write, collects telephone tolls and also taxes. A Basque is always ready with a bet, which is the com- mon way of ending a dispute about hand ball, tree felling, grass mowing, stone lifting, swimming, about w weight his pair of oxen will drag or the fighting powers of a ram from his herd. On every bet a percentage is due and is collected by the miguelete. It is the miguelete also who takes charge of the savings bank accounts, and so great is the confidence he inspires among the peasantry that old and young hand overmth:olr 'hnlrd-‘ellzn.::d reales wlhn: pese red-| cop. a prestige! Indeed, it has been proposed that mfth 'o'L N"‘fi:‘ ;:ud: ”lr'lfls corps with a mal [} organization, ' | IDA GILBERT MYERS. OING somewhere is nowadays one of the prime preoccupa- tions of mankind. Again has the human become a true nomad, moving from place to place, not in quest of forage for his tlocks, but rather in search of satisfac- tions for an uneasy spirit, of easements for an outflaring soul. And today how amazing are the encouragements toward adventure, how winning the wiles of vagrancy. Sails and wings and wheels —indeed, every sort of mechanical in- vention—conspire to lead man away into the far corners of the earth, look- ing for himself, the elusive self that is forever just around the corner beckon- ing to him, hallooing to him, “Here you are. Come find yourself.” Every sort of pretext, or no pretext at all, is enough to set the wheels to turning, the wings to soaring, in pursuit of the great adventure of the individual ego. Game hunting for the good of educa- tion (?), digging up old civilizations to show us where we, too, are going, diving Into the depths of the earth for the wealth lying therein, or under the sea to read the life that thrives there in such a splendid adaptation—or just go- ing for fun and frank enough to own up to that as the only inducement— these and other pretexts keep the grand procession upon its long and unbroken way. Here is a particul one of the vagrants that we all are: ' ENDS OF THE EARTH. By Roy Chapman Andrews, author of “On the Trail of Ancient Man,” etc. New York: G. P, Putnam's Sons. ND what is this man's reason for gathering in the very ends of the earth? Why, Roy Chapman Andrews is a sclentist with exploration as his energizing purpose. So, as matter of course, he takes to travel. China Japan, Borneo, Mongolia—all Asia, in fact—become the exploring field of one who is nothing less than a born adven- turer. This book will prove to you, i you want proof, that Mr. Andrews couldn't have been anything but just this, a world-wanderer. On whaling ships for 10 years, learning the whales by their first names—Moby Dick and gil the others; finding out the ways of life among them, how they manage their own particular economy of existence. ‘Why, they actually play, whales do, and make love and get married and have children and die and—not so different from the rest of us. So Roy Chapman Andrews makes perfectly clear in these stirring tales of his. Once, between whalings, he lived in a Chinese temple that he remodeled to the plan of house- keeping, and many times he went on the longest and most astonishing hunting trips into the interior of Asia, bringing therefrom as trophies of his good faith and skill as a modern Nimrod animals of strange appearance and clearly strange ways of life. Contributions to science, these. However, if there had been nothing at all to go for, no speci- fic errand, this man would have gone Just the same because, you see, his body and soul were keyed to adventure, had been no doubt hundreds of years be- fore he made definite appearance upon earth. That which concerns us here is that Roy Chapman Andrews is as good a story teller as he is traveler. An venture leaps right into the middle of itself and is off, both ways, in a truly electric method of delivering itself over to the reader. A hundred pictures, al- most a hundred, excellent and often really beautiful, help in the bodily transfer of this adventure from the ad- venturer himself to us who, for the mo- ment, appear to be settled for the read- ing of a most spirited and most com- municable book, wherein unusual hap- penings and a big body of useful in- formation keep us racing from page to page in an engrossment of interest. * KX X FORESTS AND MANKIND. By Charles Lathrop Pack and Tom Gill. Illustrated. New York: The Mac- Millan Co. “IBNT the forest situation in Amer- ica something fierce? cutting and burning too fast; something ought to be done about it. Wonder what salary Babe Ruth will draw down next year?” Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Fo estry Association, and Tom Gill have collaborated in issuing & most readable Sure, we're | tq), The Newest Novels. ing England unknown to her. A secret was lost. Some magic which her uncle had known, her father had underatood, of which even Dutch Willlam had par- taken, had not descended to her. She did not feel unhappy, only very | in’zdx‘ * Kk % THE MAN BEHIND THE BOOK: Es- says in Understanding. By Henry Van Dyke, author of *“Companion- able Books,” etc. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. IT is the finely proportioned blend of man and book that accounts, it seems to me, for the satisfying and companionable effect of this volume of studies by Mr. Van Dyke. In so far as the facts of an author's personal life affect the quality of his work to that extent does this critic deal with those facts. The plan results in a higher illumination, a truer interpretation. Some writers exclude the personal life entirely from critical appraisals. The effect is that of an abstraction that makes no appeal. Others deal with this too generously, casting the shadow of pointless gossip over their work. Here, however, there is just enough about the man, or the woman, to ac- count for the direction of the work, for its purpose, for its fulfillment in depth and reach. A thoroughly enjoyable study, & most helpful one wherein Mr, Van Dyke gives sound appreciations of one and another whom we all know— Carlyle, Hardy, George Meredith, Shel- ley, Byron, and another, and another— and gives these in a lamplight, easy- chair mood that is thoroughly dear and distinctly helpful. The last group of studies is—no, not finer than the Oth'- ers, certainly not, but more at one's elbow, so to speak. Here “Death Comes for the Archbishop” and “The Bridge of San Luls Rey” are taken up in a mellow richness of critical judgment that is as stimulating to the reader as it is bound to be a mstter of joy and pride to Willa Cather and Thornton t| wilder. * ok ok ¥ “THE DEATH OF A HERO. By Rich- ard Aldington. New York: Covici- Friede, Inc. I_IERI is a big story, big in both con- tent and DI’OJ!CHOH. ‘The lnclq::: of its origin was a daily commonp! of 10 years ago. A soldier killed in battle. That Capt. George Winter- bourne had elected to be killed, that he had deliberately placed himself within range of the machine-gun bul- lets was the private conviction of his comrade and friend. Such is the foun- dation of the novel, “Death of a Hero. ‘The body of the story goes into an ac- counting of George Winterbourne, The youth himself, his family for three generations back, and the England that these generations represent and embody—this is the course and the scope of a story that by any fair reckoning must be recognized as sin- cere and competent work. ' Almost plodding would have been the effect of this author’s zeal in digging out the truth of circumstance and of indi- vidual character involved here had it not been for the superb artistry that has lifted the solid foundation of fact high up into a sheer beauty of archi- - | tectural design and, adornment. Yet it is a story of great simplicity, con- cerned with matters of common daily import—another reason why this is a great story. And it is a great story— that is, if true insight and clear in- terpretation of the human make & great story. What is there more im- portant than man himself for us to gather a few scraps of actual truth about? Yes, there has been some un- easiness about Richard Aldington and his new novel—too plain, too. free. Never mind! Here is a deeply tragic story, fashioned in sympathy and un- derstanding by way of great writing. Read it in joy that a young and gifted man can help us to see ourselves and those around us—maybe in time to change, if never so little, the sorry course of some things—to see ourselves by way of his genius with words. Nat- urally, Mr. Aldington didn't write this e as & lesson to any one. He was, instead, working like any other artist with the material of his art; in his case it is the human specifically cir- cumstanced. Out of the mass he has worked a unity and power and beauty of design and effect. But readers want the lesson—and here it is, since you and lookable liitle volume titled as | insist, above, which tells the whole story to those who know something ought to be done about it, but aren’t quite sure what. It is replete with facts, figures, interesting illustrations and, above all, pithy diagrams which show things at a glance. Not only forests but forest products are discussed, while the sci- ence of forestry receives marked atte) tion as regards its relations with eco- nomics, with agriculture, with water power and with sport. As in many other of many other sorts, the last chapter, devoted to “The Task Ahead” is the most interesting. “It uires no great gift of prophecy to tell which way a man is headed who spends five times his income,” is its opening sentence. The remedy, or rather remedies, are presented, but “Already we have waited overlong,” point. out the authors. “We cannot de- lay until the forests are exhausted and remedy the situation overnight, or in a few years or even decades. If we started full spead ahead today, there would still be a time of privation, a time of suffering from insufficient for- ests. It is important that we delay no longer with a: program that, sooner or later, we must carry out.”—R. M. K. * ok ok X “ALAS, QUEEN ANNE.” By Beatrice Curtis Brown. Illustrated. Indian- apolis. The Bobbs-Merrill Co. ¥ one of Dunne’s inimitable Mr. Dooley stories the Sage of Archey Road tries to take credit for all the ac- complishments of the age of Queen Victoria, his precise contemporary. When reproached by Mr. Hennessey for his presumption, he declares that he had had about as much to do with it all as had the Queen. Beatrice Curtis Brown, in_her introduction to “Alas, Queen’ Anne,” admits practically the same thing about that stout monarch and her glittering epoch. In fact, after reading this introduction one is at first inclined to wonder just why the author, after explaining the situation, did no! stop right there and decide to let the sketch go unwritten. on through:the pages one's interest in and admiration for this almost perfect specimen of feminine obstinacy is slow- ly aroused. Poor old Anne—she wasn't really old at all, having died at 50—to use modern phraseology, “didn't know what it was all about.”’ One becomes sorry for her, impatient with her and yet at the same time admires and al- most envies her absolutely marvelous mulishness. The reader gets to think- ing more of her, more and more as the tender, devoted wife who nursed so lov- ingly_her great, dumb Danish dragon of & husband; he grieves with her over the loss of child after child until these reach the astounding total of 17, #ll of whom Anne survived. Her passion for her bosom friend Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, is as inexplicable as it is pathetic. Probably the h spot in the book is where Anne ly tells that domineering personality “w] to o ;n“ llol;:;d to Mhlu without ejaculating enough!” Anne, with all her bungling Stuart forbears, wanted to be not only & kind but a thor- oughly able ruler. But first this thing and that bothered and prevented her. At the last she realized she never could fulfill her ambition. “She had lost her way. She had wandered in a e m{fl?n.:' ingiinesn bt o1l iy hope of a , but all ihe while these men, so much cleverer than herself, had taken the glory which be- longed only to kings and had been rul- Yet as one goes | THE * X x X SKETCH OF A SINNER. By Frank Swinnerton, author of “Nocturne,” etc. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. THI! is the story of Lydia—a “sinner” past doubt. For did she not love three different men, all at the ‘same time? A married woman at that. ‘There was first the husband, musty old Sebastian pottering over his second-hand stuff down in the cellar. And Ambrose, the mad boy, mad but most unsettling. And then Gerard, older and calculated to beget visiol d dreams. Such the foundation of the sketch. What Lydia And the story discloses a very profound knowledge on the part of Mr. Swinner- ton of all the Lydias roundabout. The first point coming to the top is that Lydia is not one woman, but at least three, or a dozen. And this is true of every woman in the world, every man too. One of the three loved old Se- bastian and took care of him as if she were his mother, as she was. The gay young girl inside Lydia rushed out to meet the raving ardor of Ambrose. Only & boy and girl together, as they were. Something older, riper and richer, looked across into the eyes, and heart, of Gerard. So, each of these Lydias had her separate love life. And was there open outbreak? Jealousies, possibly a scandal? Oh, nothing of the sort. Lydia was an upstanding wom- an, beautiful, outgoing, a lure to men, but under the lure endowed with a quality of steadfastness that in the long run became a protecting, mother- ing thing toward each of these three. And I rather think that Frank Swin- nerton never did & truer thing than when he so simply and strikingly proe Jjected Lydia, all the Lydias, as, at heart, nothing more than the hovering and homing spirit of the world, the sole means of taking care of all the male infants with which this good old earth is so plainly crowded. L WET FLANDERS PLAIN. Henry Willlamson, author of Pathway,” etc. New Dutton & Co. “I MUST return to my old comrades of the Great War—to the brown and grave-set plain of Flanders, to the rolling down-lands of the Somme—for I am dead with them and they shall live in me again. There I will renew the . By “The | York: E. P. deaths; that human virtues are superior to those of national idolatry; that the sun is universal and that men are brothers, made for laughter one with another”—and that the world must be freed from ideals through which ten million men perished. Such, in sub- stance, the inspiration that gave rise to this revisiting of the war flelds of France by Henry Willlamson. Such the lmgulu that has delivered to us this little book of impressions and reflec- tions. The essence of a new future is here. To P along with this man upon this errand will take no more than an hour or so. d now at the great peace festival of the year Is the time to go. The experience—so packed with scenes and recollections, vital and near—will set you upon a wider outlook over the world, upon a deeper insight into the art of man, upon a sturdier to do whatever in you lies recurrence of war, For mson is that sort of man, the sort that is able by way of words does about herself makes up the story, | AD! truths which have quickened out of their | b® to make you see and feel and resolve, A beautiful writer, so quietly beautiful, that one is taken into possession by him without parade or performance, just taken by right of the true artistry of the matter in hand. * kX W MEMORIAL TO GEORGE: By Him- self. Edited by the author of “Miss Tiverton Goes Out.” Illustrated. In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. FORE-HANDED sort, George, who looks after a memorial to himself while he is around to see that it is made right. Like many another, George makes this testimonial to his own pow- ers by way of words. He simply writes and writes about himself from the day of his earliest recollections up to the latest minute of his conscious career. Little things and big, bright days and cloudy, success and failure, these are blended here in the very engaging ad- venture of being alive. Hard spots ap- pear now and then, but these concern George not at all, for is there not that competent Miss Tiverton to help out at any tight place where editing is the only next step to be taken? Between the two they make a stirring matter of this memorial, one that all of George's friends—hosts of these—will be glad to linger over in affection and apprecia- tion. Fine pictures of George—James Reld took them—accompany the rest of the enterprise of commemorating the hero. Natural as life, the pictures. George's tall never looked thicker and bushier than it does here, curving over his back. His eyes were never brighter. Indeed, George was never more up and coming than he is in this memorial, made by himself and Miss Tiverton, Great friend of yours and mine— George. BOOKS RECEIVED THE BOLT. By P. R. Shore, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. THE SONG OF SONGS. By Hermann Sudermann. New York: The Mod- ern. Library. THEIR FATHER'S SHADOW. George C. Foster. Macaulay Co. HIS OWN PEOPLE. By Leon W. Rog- ers. New York: Laidlaw Bros. SKY HIGH: The Story of Aviation. By Eric Hodgins and F. Alexander Ma- goun. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. WHERE THE EAST BEGINS.. By Hamiiton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs. New York: Harper & Bros, WILD HONEY. By Samuel Scoville, r. With reproductions of etchings Emerson Tuttle. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. THE WAR _OF INDEPENDENCE: American Phase. Bem’ the Second + Volume of a History of the Found- ing of tho American Republic. By Claude H. Van Tyne, professor of history in the University of Michi- gan. Boston: Houghton Miffin Co. OUR CHANGING HUMAN NATURE. 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