Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1930, Page 32

AL NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Silk Murals on View at the Corcoran Gallery—Paintings at the Arts Club—Local Artist Turns to Etchings. Other Notes of Interest. BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE silk murals by Lydia Bush- Brown (Mrs. Charles Head) now on view in the Corcoran Gallery of Art are of unique and excep- tional Interest. Primarily, they are beautiful; secondarily, they are fa- teresting as essays in design. The word modern is on every one's tongue today, and more often misused than well used. In the truest sense these silk murals are modern, but at the same time they are also traditional. ‘Their art is of all time; their spirit is of the present. ‘To a great extent the artist has con- ventionalized her themes, but her treat- ment in almost every instance is natu- ralistic. Perhaps it would be nearer the fact to say that she has simplified her subjects, leaving off all non-essen- tials. But never for one moment has she apparently forgotten the fact that she is working in two, not three, dimen- slons, and that her purpose is to create a decoration. And no matter what sub- Ject she chooses—whether it be fish or coral, a blossoming tree, a donkey-drawn cart or the skyscrapers of Manhattan— she renders it with a keen sense of the beauty of line, of the significance of form and of loveliness in color. In other words, she weaves a pattern, and she does it with that simple directness which is the token of real originality. One feels, looking -at these murals, as though they came into existence with- out effort and could not have been other than they are—not that they were made, but that they made them- selves. And, of course, this is one of the highest tests of art. Lydia Bush-Brown has found the subjects for her murals in all parts of the world. Three of the present group were inspired by Syrian subjects. One is of a blossoming pomegranate tree, another of a leafless olive, the third a conventional subject in which a little walled town has chief place. And in each instance there is a beautifully decorative border repeating some motive in the major design. The border which frames the panel in the case of the two skyscraper designs has as motives at the sides of medieval towers, the pro- totypes of the skyscrapers, and at the bottom bridges over land and water, representing the great engineering feats of the past. ‘These designs are to an'extent a kind: of artistic shorthand, certain symbols standing for certain effects. A little bush or a flower represents land, a few waving lines form water. Quite a number of these patterns are of fish d undersea plant life. One is entirely of coral. It is the grace and rhythm of motion which in these instances fascinated the artist, and by her were made patent. An Itallan motive is found in a panel representing the “Tree of Life” with blossoming lants on either side and in the lower rder peasants, a donkey and a typical Italian cart. But it is not what Lydia Bush-Brown has done but the way she has done it doing strong, capable work, as_wit- nessed by her still life and flower paintings and as witnessed also by the construction of her portrait studies. But one is more than a little surprised to find N. C. Wyeth's daughter going off into the vagaries of post-impres- sionism, endeavoring to do something through the medium of painting which is outside of the boundaries of visual expression. Two large canvases in this exhibition, one entitled “The Two Children,” the other ‘“Adolescence,” are both strikingly of this type. The | intention undoubtedly in both in- stances was to express spirit rather than substance, to paint the psychic, but the result is pathetic anemia. One sees in these works an effort to do more than has been done in the past, or to do it differently. Experi- | mentation is always legitimate, and sometimes leads to happy results. But | the great masters of the past—Rem- brandt, Titian and Leonardo da Vinci —did interpret, through the medium of paint, spiritual quality. Every great portrait painter has interpreted soul, but they have done it by painting what they saw, by an art which in it- self concealed art. A portrait by | Rembrandt or Raeburn is much more interesting than the individual painted | because it is an interpretation. Dis- tortion does sometimes serve the same end — for _example, caricature — but when an effect is forced weakness must be_admitted. Miss Wyeth's color in these two ex- perimental works is unpleasant, and her effort to present her subjects in & spiritualized manner conveys the im- pression not of spirit, but of 1ll health, Her paintings of still life—one of dark red tulips, another of zinnias, a third of peonies and one of fruit—are strong and direct and very handsome, but her interpretations of individuals have a set similarity, and they lack that appealing frankness with which she paints inanimate things. Perhaps Miss Wyeth's ‘work would gain.in effect if fewer examples were shown. = The exhibition at the Arts Club is over-crowded and the light in the library is far from good. There is no doubt that Miss Wyeth has something to say, but her work as shown here at this time ?w! one the impression of indecision, of groping for something not yet attained. ok ok k% MARGUERII’B C. MUNN'S exhibi- tion is on the walls of the recep- tion room on the first floor and the dining room of the Arts Club, and is quite different from her accustomed vein. Instead of street scenes and figure subjects done in a somewhat poster-like manner, Miss Munn is here seen in landscape and still life paint- ings—three-dimensional works. Some of her subjects were found in New Eng- land, others in Virginia, still others in Portugal. Her flower studies are color- ful and decorative, and her landscapes afternoon from 2 to 6 o'clock, but is free to the public. Wik ANNOUNC!’MENT is made that Miss Elizabeth Sawtelle, a collec- tion of whose water colors is now on view in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, will conduct a class in water-color painting at the Hill School, Dupont Circle, beginning this week. By way of introduction, Miss Sawtelle will give & talk on painting at the school Tues- day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock to stu- dents and others especially interested. The class will meet twice a week there- after for a period of five weeks. Miss Sawtelle, it will be remembered, has worked with Charles H. Woodbury, one of the best teachers as well as fore- most painters of the sea and mountains of this country. She is not only her- self a capable and accomplished painter E‘n especially well equipped for teach- ¥ * ok Kk JERRY FARNSWORTH, formerly of this city, pupil of the -Corcoran School of Art and later of Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, is holding by invitation, from January 14 to 25, inclusive, & one-man exhibition at the Grand Central Art Galleries, New York. ‘This exhibition embraces 41 works, figures, still life and compositions, One of the paintings included in this exhibition is a portrait of his wife, Helen Sawyer, who is also an artist— & painting to which a prize was awarded when shown here in Wash- ington in a local exhibition, which later won one of the Hal prizes in the National Academy of Design, and has now been purchased by the Ranger Fund and consigned. to the Delgado Museum, in New Orleans. He also shows a portrait of himself in his studio. Mr. and Mrs, Farnsworth since they left Washington have spent consider- able time abroad, where they painted in little known Tegions of the Spanish Basque, Southern France and Italy, covering a wide variety of subjects. Mr. Farnworth's “Three Churches” was bought in 1929 by the Pennsylvania | Academy of Fine Arts, * KK WORD was recelved this week of the death of Gardrer Symons, one of our leading American landseape paint- ers. Mr. Symons had been 4l for about a year, but he was thought to be re- covering, and the end came quite sud- denly. There has scarcely been an exhibi- tion here in the Corcoran Gallery of Art for the last 15 years in which Mr. Symons has not been represented, an% the Corcoran Gallery owns one of his finest works, a Winter landscape en- titled “Where Long Shadows Lie.” Like those of Redfield and Schofield, Mr. Symons’ pictures are open windows through which one' sees a beautiful world, & world in which the play of light through frosty atmosphere lends simplified portraits of place. that charms and will always charm those who behold these silk murals, It is & difficult thing for an artist to change from one style to another, but glamour and charm, He is one of those who have added through their work to thie beauty in the world and to our ap- ONE OF THE SILK MURALS, “A GREEK ISLAND,” BY LYDIA BUSH-BROWN, WHOSE WORK IS ON EXHIBIT! TON AT THE CORCORAN GALLFI OF ART, | whether now in the Corcoran Gallery | of Art or in the homes to which they are going. The medium used is an old | and an extremely difficult one, consist- ing of repeated processes of dyeing ‘These involve the use of liquid wax to| protect certain surfaces and to hold | certain colors within fixed boundaries, which later can be melted and removed. ‘This extremely difficult medium per- mits of no uncertainty on the part of the artist, allows no liberty in the way of error or its correction, but it pro- duces results unobtainable by other | means. The start is always white silk | of absolute purity: the color is not merely applied to the surface but dyed | into the fabric. The picture produced | thus becomes permanent. Lydia Bush-Brown feels, and un- doubtedly she is right, that silk murals are particularly IpEruprhte for present- day homes. It takes her, she says, a month or more to produce a single panel, and in some instances many studies are made before the final com- position is perfected. - They are indeed charming creations, and the fact that they were produced with pleasure, that the artist herself found &elight in cre- ation, imparts itself subtly to the works, adding to their pleasure-giving quality. to make such change is token of preg- Tess. Because of the violent opposition be- tween old and new, the radical changes in ideals and viewpoint, the artist of today finds herself, or himself, oft-times between the hormns of a dilemma, be- wildered which way to turn. But this | very confusion leads to new thought and fresh endeavor, and will undoubtedly in the end prove beneficial. « Miss Munn is one of those who in the midst of con- fusion has maintained a fixed ideal, * % ok * C. CLAGHORN, secretary of the * Society of Washington Artists, and & member. of the Landscape Club, has | of late taken to etching, and has pro- duced some very charming plates, among them one of Mount Vernon. To paint or to etch so familiar a historic building is a courageous under- taking, for it is difficult to escape the guide-book tradition. But Mr. Clag- horn in his etching of Mount Vernon has escaped that which is steorot: |and has rendered a picture true to fact and suggestion of association. It is a small plate, but it is full of nice feeling and very well etched. Mr. Claghorn at the present time is These 16 lovely murals will be on view in the Corcoran Gallery of Art until & week from today and are very satisfactorily shown in the south hall on the first floor, in Which some of the | Corcoran Gallery's permanent posses- | sions—modern bronzes and works in| sculpture—are perpetually to be seei The combination of branzes and wall | [) hangings in this side-lighted gallery is| very attractive. o 'AT the Arts Club, 2017 I street, there | opened last week, to continue until | January 25, exhibitions of paintings by | Henrleite Wyeth and Marguerite C.| Munn. Henriette Wyeth is the daughter of N. C. Wyeth, the well known illustrator, who was a pupil, it will be remembered, | painted of Howard Pyle, and whose work is somewhat in Pyle's manner. Henrlette Wyeth has therefore grown up with arl, and with art bullt on sound tra- dition. Her father is an excellent draftsman and his works have always carried conviction from the standpoint of realism, He is one of those illus- trators who has had due regard for mv,he fact, t:'ihln Lt:uprop; erly illust one must ly rpref the author’s creation—that which the | building quite a large studio adjacent |to his home, near Cabin John Bridge, | and it is his expectation to continue, and on even & larger scale the Summer school of art which he established last season. * ok ¥ % OROTHY ' GATCHELL, a former student of the Corcoran School of Art, who is represented in the current exhibition. of the Society of Washing- ton Artists at the Corcoran Gallery, is holding this week an informal exhibi- tion of her recent work at the Pen Women'’s Club, Stoneleigh Court. ‘This consists of ‘ofl ‘paintings, land- scapes, still life studies and one portrait. ‘The landscapes were for the most part Summer during a four- week stay at the Tiffany Foundation, on Oyster Bay. These are intimate studies—foliage, little roads, lily ponds, done at close range. In one instance, however, there is a broad view, and very well painted, of Oyster Bay, show- ing that beautiful sheet of water with its high wooded shores. Among the still life studies is one of lotus lilies in & turquoise blue bowl, shown in one of the local exhibitions Mwmem time ago and pleasantly remem- reciation of it. His passing is a real loss. of i PROP’. NICOLA MICHAILOW Bulgaria will hold an exhibition of his recent portraits at the Mayflower Hotel this week, opening with a private view and reception, under the patron- age of the Bulgarian Minister, tomor- row afternoon, to which invitations have been issued. Prof. Michailow visited this city last year, it will be recalled, and painted two or three portraits here, among them one of Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann. Since his return to Washington he has Efllnled portraits of the German Am- assador, the Bulgarian Minister and the Albanian Minister, as well as one or two others. TI will be "shown, with & nuniber of- paintings brought from Bulgaria. There will be about 12 in all. Record-SeEng Cow Shatters Own Record Canary Korndyke Alcarta, a 3-year- old Holstein Preislan cow, which a year ago claimed the world's champion- ship as a butter-fat producer with 26,396 pounds of milk containing 1,080 pounds of hutter-fat in 305 days, has broken her own record. The latest record for this marvelous cow, which is a dalry in herself, is 30,801 pounds of milk with 1,336.25. pounds of butter- fat. She got away to.a good start in her lactation period and maintained a steady flow, averaging well around 100 pounds a day for several months, Her best month's production in butter-fat was 114.60. pounds, produced in® M with April, 112.45 pounds, runnping a close second. This cow was bred by Fred V. Heeney, Ingersoll, Ontario, and sold in yearling form to 8. G. Bims Winnipeg, who in turn transferred her to B. H. Thomas, Moose Jaw, Saskatche- wan, under whose supervision she made several records. Last year, after fin- ishing her world's record, she was pur- cHased by the Saskatchewan Govern- ment at s cost of $10,000. Canary Korndyke Alcarta ‘was'sired By King Korndyke Darkness Keyes, and is rated N FARNSWORTH EXHIBITION “HELEN,” A PAINT! TION AT THE GRAND CENTRAL (Continued From First Page.) European affairs he again applied his theory.that knowledge was a connected whole and could not be lald on in pieces like shingles on a roof. Accordingly he made it a practice to make frequent n;lr to Europe and he urged his sub- ordinates to do the same. On these trips he usually stayed at the American embassy and made contacts with the leaders in each country. But let us continue this interlarding of Castle’s past with his present. When the war broke out he tried to enter Plattsburg, but his health prevented him from doing so. He came to Wash- | ington and told the Red Cross that he | would like to organize a bureau for the relief of prisoners and to search for | missing men. Apparently the authori- | ties of the Red Cross did not take his| suggestion very seriously, for he started | the work with an office force of only one' stenographer. So necesasry and successful was this work that at the end of the war Mr. Castle had 600 em- ployes in Washington, 1,000 in Ameri- .can training_camps and 1,500 abroad and he was handling a mail of 10,000 leters a day. When the war ended Frank Polk, | then Undersecretary of State, asked | Castle to enter the department as a spe- | cial assistant. In his work with the Red Cross he had made innumerable contacts which could not be duplicated and he had always had a broad knowl- edge of Europe. Mr. Castle accepted, entered the department as a drafting PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions to the Public | Library and lists of recommended read- | ing will eppear in this column every | Sunday. Lives of Authors. Arvin, Newton, Hawthorne. E-H318a.| Burr, Mrs. A, R. B. Weir Mitchell. E-M6984b. Chase, L. N. Poe and His Poetry. E-P753c. Gorman, H..S. The Incredible Marquis, Adexandre Dumas. E-D892g. Hammerton, J. A. Barrie; the Btory of ‘a Genius. E-B274h. Harris, J. C. Life of Henry W. Grady. E-G752h. a Alice Meynell, a -M575m. Pilloried. E-9St.65. ‘The Di 1860-1891. Memoir. Stokes, Sewell. Tolstaia, S. A. B., grafnia. Wife, and-ten (1853-1865). Zeitlin, Jacob and Woodbridge Life and Letters of Stuart P. Sh man. 2 v. E-8h5397z. Zucker, A. E. Ibsen. E-Ib75s. Books and Reading. Becker, Mrs. M. L. Books as Windows. ZX-B38b. English, T. H, and Pope, W. B.” What to Read. ZX-En35. Felsenthal, Emma. Readable Books in Many Subjects. ZX-F33r. Lowes, J. L. Of Reading Books. ZX-1956. McMurtrie, D. 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Etchings of Today. WQT-G23. Sparrow, W. 8. A Book of British Etch- ing. 1926. WQT-Sp27. Travel. . Anderson, Mrs. I. W. P. Circling Africa. G170-An23. |Edwards, A. C. A Persian Caravan. G635-Ed92p. Flandrau, Mrs. G. C. H. Then I Saw the Congo. G742-F6l1 t. Gilmore, A. F. East and West of Jordan. G61-G42. . Gore, J. H. Holland as Seen by an American. 1899. G467-G66. » Haring, D. G. The Land of Gods and Bar) J. J. 2 as a gold-medal cow, and has produced two sons and ‘a daughter. Following her 1928 record this famous “moo” was the guest of honor at & banquet in author had in mind. One is not sur- prised, therefore, to find his daughter This exhibition is open only in the Moose Jaws Earthquakes. G67-H224. Lucas, E. V. ‘A Wandergr in Rome. 1926, G36-LO6W. Wilsor Vaj H. C. and Mitchell, E. bonding at Fifty., G65-Wedv. WHO ONCE LIVED IN WASHINGTON. | on" auxiliary vessels. R. money BY JERRY FARNSWORTH. THIS ARTIST, IS HOLDING AN EXHIBI- GALLERIES, IN NEW YORK. Our New Envoy to Japan officer, rose to assistant chief of Western European affairs, then to chief and finally accepted his appointment as As- sistant Secretary of State. Extent of Jurisdiction. When he became Assistant Secretary of State in April, 1927, the foreign re- lations of the United States with West- ern and Eastern Europe and the Near East fell under his jurisdiction. As Western Europe includes the British Empire, and as the British Empire in its turn has ramifications everywhere, it can be seen that the scope of his activi- ties was very wide. In diplomacy, of all professions, “no news is good news,” and it is no small testimonial to Mr. Castle’s ability that during his term as Assistant Secretary the complicated business of the United States in these many parts of the world was so effi- ciently and quietly handled. He Inititated many reforms as Assist- ant Secretary, most of them of a kind too special to be apreciated by the lay- man. With regard to all of them he denies firmly that they were his brain- children or his accomplishments. In- stead of trumpeting his deeds from the housetops in the fashion all too com- mon in Washington, he will say: “Oh, no; I didn't put that through. I just preached it to many others.” In diplomacy, of all professions, per- sonal qualities—of appearance as well as of mind—are most important. Mr. Castle is slender, well dresed and has an agreeably low voice. He is a good linguist, for it was he who received the Ministers of several dozen countries and listened to their requests and discussed problems with them. He has an un- usual gift of ltt'.ln¥l his own way in negotiation, because he is so unfailingly patient, smiling and polite. The great- est bore cannot wear him out. And when the time comes for Mr. Castle to speak he can usually make a penetrat- ing point because he has not only studled his interviewer's mind, but has made a searching investigation into the subject. Processes of Opinion, But his greatest gift of all seems to me to be his knowledge of the processes of public opinion—a knowledge found in all successful editors but rarely en- countered in Washington. To the new- comer in the Capital it is strange how rarely one meets this capacity, for it seems so very esesntial. For some rea- son it is not yet realized that the art of explaining ‘complex matters to the public via the press is something more than mere luck. 8o it is that frequently we have cabinet ministers who are so deficient in this art that they dare not see newspaper correspondents at all Mr. Castle, on the other hand, could discuss the most delicate questions with & group of hostile correspondents for a whole afternoon and never make a blunder. ‘The specific problem to which Mr. Castle will apply himself in Japan can only be stated in general terms, because the course of the conference is bound to present unpredictable factors, The pri- mary object of the London conference is to secure limitation of auxiliary ves- sels—crulsers, destroyers and subma- rines. The Washington conference set a ratio for battleships which applied to the United States, Great Britain and Japan in the proportion of 10—10—6. Japan had previously claimed a higher figure than 6, but was persuaded to ac- cept the final result when the United States and Great Britain agreed not to fortify their possessions in the Far East. When the Japanese delegation was in Washington in December it presented Japan's demand for a ratio of 10—10—7 If this means more than diplomatic trading the United States will probably remind Japan that such an increased propor- tion will justify us in fortifying Manila. Of course, Mr. Castle's negotiation will involve other elements more imponder- able than this. There are factors in Japanese opinion which he will have to consider—such as the resentment over the American exclusion act and Japan's ?Mlnl position with regard to China. ut one can certainly say that if the problems he will meet in Tokio are in any way soluble Mr. Castle, of all men, :;n be counted on to solve and adjust em. Top Class Cains in Ttaly Crowded by Pass-Holders Tourists who insist upon traveling first«<class in Italy—the one mode of travel which has always insured some degree of comfort and less congestion than the others—now protest that the compartmeiits - for which they pay dearly are almost as crowded as the stuffy third-class coaches. They could not complain of the conditions with as much conviction were it not for the fact that four out of flve passengers in the ordinary first-class coach today seem-to have “Anne Oakleys,” provided by the railroad administration to those on official business. It is a common experience for a person who has bought a %lh-priced first-class ticket to find five other occupants in his compart- ment by the time he reaches the train, leaving only the hottest and most un- desirable place for him. Were it not for the fact that passage was given free of charge to such a large number of people it is probable that the number of 'first-olass passengers would be cut tremendously, allowing the American or German to receive more in the way of comfort for his lire. The average Euro- pean has never learned to pay good for the privilege of traveling in de luxe fashion. . | | | HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 19, 1930—PART TWO. REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS The Record of a Wandering Spirit in Clemenceau’s “Evening of My Thought”—District Map Collections—Fiction From Well Known Writers. THE knowing ones tell us, now- ave been brought up on And these wise ones, looking back- instant beside us to remark that the he makes tentative overtures toward dling with its toes, so to speak, still an attempt toward probing the infinite appears, goes on with his eating and countless daily repetitions, so remind- in complete rebellion. He storms at ‘What. the pur] and plan, for him, himself to death, nothing more. And himself—the man adventure. Books, it. Books of religion, of many religions, ending “movie” of blended experience has been, and is to be. IN enceau. Translated by Charles TKAT a writer deliver himself, what- consideration. BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. adays, that this man-business has been going on for many millions of years. The most of us the, notion of a few thousand at most. No matter. It is as easy to imagine one of these as the other. ward along this enormous stretch of time and then forward into an even more illimitable future, pause for an man of the hour—you and me and the rest—is, in, effect, at the stage of the baby in the cradle. Pondering his toes, them. But, easily he abandons the en- terprise in favor of a warm bottle. Mankind is still—learning says—fid- grabbing for its warm milk bottle. Mankind has almost nothing, vet, of | eitner knowledge or capacity for even mystery of the seemingly negligible atom himself. And so man, almost of necessity it drinking and sleeping, with working and living and dying. A short story— easlly forgotten, were it not for its ful, so abhorrent. At a rare now and then, there comes this one or that one who takes himself the gate of heaven, he batters at the door of 1l(e—tl’nm:n't\l.hln{1 demanding to know who he is, and wi and why. pose of that hidden future, of this obscured present, of that dim past. Merely beating and bruising and battering so the man moves on and out. Some- times he leaves a record. He calls it A record, of the fruitless adventure of whole libraries of books in thousands, are packed with the great quest—with theories and guesses and surmises about have been sent out in explication of this inexplicable. Books of philosophy, of many philosophies, also. A never- and no-experience contributes to the unconquerable curiosity of the human about himself—about what he is, and 3 * o K % THE _EVENING OF MY ‘FHOUGHT. By George Clem- Miner Thompson and John Heard, jr. Two Volumes. Boston: Hough- ton Miffin Co. “ever the character of the theme— this i€ coming to be sign manual and great seal of that writer's valid claim to George Clemenceau, out of & long life of useful and passionate political serv- ice came to be called “the Tiger.” A name in general use, this one as a rule indicated appreciation and affection. Sometimes it had a different signifi- cance. Always, however, it connoted courage and astuteness. Swift audacity of action, shrewd appraisal of situation | and agencies, blunt disclosure and fero- cious attack. The record of Clemen- ceau'’s political service is a familiar one. The story of his life, so recently ended. is widely known. A celebrated man af influence and power in his own country, strang in_ international questions and conferences as well, “In the Evening of My Thought” is nothing of any ofthese external mani- festations of ~Clemenceau, practically nothing of any of these. It is, rather, the search of the man himself, for himself—that old adventure that the human has pursued since first he stood up and looked around—seeing and feel- ing and beginning, fumbingly, to think upon himself and the world with which he must have henceforth to do. This is the record of Clemenceau's spirit wandering throughout space for the an- swer to himself. To every part of the world he sent this man, this physical man, Clemenceau, bidding him to search the diverse races of men for racial origins in religion, in art, in orders of soclety, in achievements of both material and spiritual content. Beside this life of actual wandering, always searching and always asking, the man probed into wisdom old and new— into old philosophies and' into modern science, often finding the new to be old and the old new. Literature and poetry, those pictures of the heart and spirit of man, were also impressed to service. Even the activities of the day, its polities and social programs, its phil- anthropies and errancies alike came in for interpretations—of what? Of man in his essence as well as in his bodily relationships to all other animate ex- istence, of man in his ultimate destiny. Here is search, and research, that is dauntless before the most blighting of facts. Here is ferocity of pursuit that must quell, first of all, man's agonizing desire to be that which the promises of all time have assured him that he will be. Clemenceau goes crashing through tradition, learning, sophistry, illusion— the “tiger” bent upon wresting from men and gods just what this .George Clemenceau is—just what you and I are. Two volumes of passionate, bril- liant, electrifying adventure sum to the exglorablnn of this fearless man. And where does he come out? What has he for us out of the depth and scope of his Rersonll expedition into the realm of thought and learning and the individual convictions drawn from | such out-faring? The outcome of the whole matter is bound to stir up a most formidable army of friends and foes— but any worth while product of an independent and original mind does that. To come to the special value of this big record of conviction by Clem- enceau that lies, I take it, in its clear and searching illumination of the man himself. Any man, even a lesser man than George Clemenceau or any other famous person, is, when fully disclosed in mind and spirit, a rich legacy in a world where concealment is instinctive and general. Here is full disclosure, fearless avowal, and a herolc fronting upon the Clemenceau inevitable. ke MAP COLLECTIONS IN THE DIS- TRICT QF COLUMBIA. From the Board of Surveys and Maps of the Federal Government. Compiled by a committee of the Citizens’ Advisory Councll. Washington, D. C. 'HIS Map Collection offers fresh evi- dence of the practical attitude of the Federal Government in respect to the legitimate needs of the citizen, both | g as an individual or as part of the col- lective body. Here, drawn from vari- ous departments and bureaus of the Government, is & complete summary of the resources of these for the growing numbers of map-users who are in need of information that only an accurate, exact, simple and well-made map can supply. Published but yesterday, or the day before, this collection of maps is in effect a step ahead of tomorrow and the next day. Tt is & good model of orderly arrangement, a ‘saving of time and ef« fort in its use. A table of contents, alphabetical in line, not orily names the subject, the immediate source of the map-production, but the Federal de- partment as well that sponsored each of these. As general information the book gives the number of maps on hand per- taining to each subject. It indicates those that are free to the soliciting nub— lic up to the measure of the in hand. And the most of these are free. A few bave a merely nominal cost at- tached. to them, There is a long.list of .maps that may be used for reference at the points where these are gathered. To_these, umosl, indexes, files, fully explained, are of immediate practical use. Merely running over the contents book: Airways, agriculture, forest serv- ice and so on through a long list of mapped concerns. Here is one that I like: In the Biological Survey is cited. a bulk of more than a thousand maps about birds and other wild animals— their ranges and breeding grounds, migration routes of . birds—a clear source of delight, and information, for those interested. And so the book runs to an inclusive order of fact, mapped fact, for the use of the general public. ‘We perhaps fail to realize the daily de- mand for guides, routes, short cuts to the huge army of travelers that every day stands in immediate need of such assistance. Industries and professions need such direction also as these maps can give. The whole is a practical pub- lication and one of exceptional excel- lence in its clear and orderly projec- tion. For study or definite use here is authority from the main squrce, the Federal Government, ready to the hand of the public. One more count for the Washington Government in its tre- mendous efforts toward imparting use- ful information to those coming under its care. * kK K PATERFAMILIAS. By W. B. Trites, author of “The Gypsy,” etc. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corpo- ration. IT takes this kind of man to write this kind of story. The father of the family, as you come to think of him, is, whether he will or not, a more or less pathetic figure. A little. to ‘one side, always, never in the middle of things as most mothers afe. When he is all summed up—weighed and all that—he looks exactly like a pocket- book. And that's what he is. ~Yes, T hear your loud disclaimers and your soft “Not My Dad!"—but he is. Often, while handing out for the bills of Tom and Anne and Pete, he is thinking back when he was going to be such whale of a fellow hiriself.” Well, it's all right or he “guesses” it is; He is of the sort that makes one feel soft and pitying, now and then. And so, Mr. Trites who is about half humor and the other half a smiling understanding that never-breaks out into open laugh- ter, is the man to write the story of Dr. Stanton, the paterfamilias in’ the case, Getting along, the doctor," al- most 50—not the famous “physician, not yet. Hardly time to get' ahead— what with the marriage and the steady run of those hostages to matrimony that take so much to feed and clothe and educate—well, he'll have to man- no doubt about it. The father of the and not a bank. is going to be a “touchin * x % x HORSES IN THE SKY. By lLarry Barretto, author of “Old Enchant- g:ent." New York: The John Day 0. WAR story, and in the new man- ner of these. Yes, they are set- | tling, these war romances, to a quieter | and one feels, to a truer sense of that period and, therefore, to"a saner and less prejudiced portrayal of the Great Mistake.. Within the last year the very These are the ones that we need to read. The uproar, the false patriotism, the artificial hatreds, the general ob~ scenity of war are passing out by virtue of their own unreality in the' heart of the fighting man himself. Here is an- other of these best of the war stories. It, like the good company in which 1t 50 clearly stands, deals handful of young soldiers—but these war. It must ever, for its deep effects, take up the individual.- So in Larry Barretto's romance there are outstand- ing only four boys, four Americans. Each one of them is himsel{—Barretto has seen to that. One, at heart, an idealist. One, inside’ himself, a-bundle of fears. One a hard-boiled youngster of business leanings and the other an emotional lad with smile and equally ready ml.mn;sa about the eyes. And these boys made that is, if you call fighting like the devil himself making good. I-don't. But that’s not the point. - The point is that Barretto has let each of these boys react to the monstrous thing in hand according to his own natural and instinctive be- ing. And this is art. No doubt about it. One of the boys is scared—but he goes into the thing, and fights like a hero. And so, each according to him- self, hands in his account. By welding these, by giving to each its own' weight and influence in the picture of war, by setting the whole in its colorful and shifting surroundings of war—why, by all this, you have for your pleasure and appreciation a story of four young soldiers who carried on, as they would, being themselves. One of the late crop of romances of the war, and one of the best of these. * ok kX% ‘THE FABULOUS FORREST: The Rec- ord of an American Actor. By Montrose J. Moses, author of “The American Dramatist,” ete. ' Illus- trated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 'HE world on the one hand. The actor on the other. The drama in between the two. Such,: broadly, aps pears to be the general placements of Montrose Moses in his large literary dealings with the drama itself. In what measure and-significance does the drama_under consideration reflect the world from which it is drawn? And in what measure of genius in the art of acting does this great stage figure or that one embody the high moments of the drama itself as a reflection of life and character? Of course, no compe- tent writer on any theme can be held down to rule and order. But, in the main this seems to be the revealing stand taken by this familiar of the stage and of dramatic literature itself. So, here in the story of Forrest, great actor of his day, one finds the artist objectifying the spirit of "his own day, taking competent part in its general drift of affairs by way of his profession and craft. “To those not completely stage-minded, the picture of -Forrest, the man, is of deep interest. A spec- tacular man—but his day was given to ebullient performances, to showy holi- ays of the Roman stripe, to an ex- pansive’ full-blooded life. Forrest was in tune with his day—not exactly our dav. but an important one that had no little shi in the making of this one. Not an altogether admirable character as Mr. Moses so forthrightly portrays him. - But, there must be irresistible attacks upon the manhood of a genius, | especially a genius of the stage. Vain —oh, quite inexcusably vain, even for a stage man. Jealous—but that is an element in every sort of distinction, or 50 it seems. Cruel—not, perhaps ac- cording to his.lights, rather to ours in- stead. The influence of Forrest upon the dramatic art, both here and in Eng- land, makes a fair and straight piece of appraisal, even if it s not. to the glori- fiction of the person in question. In- teresting, very, to read and study, yet the value of the work lies in the gen- eral aspect of Forrect's reflection of an existent, period of American life, rather than in the spirit of his special work- or in the manner and general mood of its projection. . Here is a substantial chapter in the drama of America viewed by way of an actor who, in his day, was pre-eminent in this country as its: prime exponent, -Word easy.and with | the narrative touch vividly in indicates the interest inclosed in this Montrose Moses makes a deeply inter age the debts somehow. Yes, there is family doesn’t get all that's coming |to him in the way of understanding }‘(hlt he'is, after all, a human being A very touching tory, told in a fine mood of under- | | standing, with no notion at all that it best of the war books have ¢ome out. i a mere | . Press, are enough. These are, in truth. the | SHAKESPEARE | | t mind [ esting story of this American actor and a significant study of the American drama as well.” BOOKS RECEIVED l UNIVERSAL ELECTROMAGNETIC HYPOTHESIS. By - Alpheus J. Roberts. . Boston; Christopher Pub- lishing House. . DUMB-BELL. By Anna B. Montreull. Bostol Christopher Publishing HIFFLE.. By - Carl Van Vechten. New York:: The Modern Library. SIMPLE SUSAN: And Other Tales. By Maria Edgeworth. Tilustrated by Clara M. Burd. New York: The Macmillan Co. DUST TO LIFE; The Scientific Story of Creation; By, Burton Peter Thom, M. D.,-author of “Hygeia, or Disease and- Evolution. Tlustrated. New : E. P. Dutton: & Co. THE LONG, CROOKED. RIVER. By Albert Boardman- Kerr, “Jacques Coeur,” etc. New York: ‘The Knickerbocker Press. BEST BLOOD. By Margaret Hallett- Lang. Boston: The Stratford Co. ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY: America’s. Answer to - Socialism and Com- munism. < By Robert ‘8. Brookings, Founder, The Brookings - Institute, Washington, D. C.- New York: ‘The Macmillan Co. MY HIKE, BUENOS AIRES TO NEW YORK. By Augusto Flores. Illus- trated. New York: G. P.Putnam’s Sons. SPANGLES. ' By -Joseph- J. Quinn. Boston: The Stratford €o. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS, 1929. Edifed by Horace .C: Baker. Boston: ' The Stratford Co: JOLITA OF THE JUNGLE; A Story of the Bush People. - Illystrated by den Peterson. author. Chicaga: “Beckley-Cardy Co. ROSE OF CORINTH. By Mitchell 8. Buck. With decorations' by Frank Felix. New York: Nicholas L. Brown. POMP'S PEOPLE." By Belle R. Har- rison, author ~of' “Poems.” = New THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.- By Paul Hutchinson: Chicago: Wils« lett, Clark & Colby. HUNTING SKETCHES. By Anthony Trollope. Introduction by Cedric Ellsworth Smith. ' Decorations by " Ned King. Hartford: Edwin Valen- tine Mitchell. OLD VIRGINIA IN BLOCK PRINTS. By Charles W. Smith. . With an in- troduction by John W. Rixey Smith. Richmond: The Dale Press: £ A RIBAND ON MY REIN; Poems. By Nancy Byrd Turner. Hartford: Ed- win Valentine Mitchell. | THE JAISSANCE . . OF IRISH POETRY, 1880-1930. By Ravid Mor- ton, author of “Ships in -Harbor,” etc. New York: Ives Washburn. | THE RECORD OF THE LESLIS WOM- AN SUFFRAGE _ COMMISSION, INC,, 1917-1920. By Rose 'Young. New York: Published by the com- mission. THE SWAMPS; A Record of Pioneer Days in the Middle West. By Sigel Roush. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House. P LOWSHIP; The Biography of & Man ‘and a Business” By Albert’ Pield ‘Gilmore; Litt. D. Boston: The Stratford pute 2 3 THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF POST-WAR FRANCE; A Survey of Production. By Willlam F. Otbum‘ professor of sociology, University of Chicago, and Willlam Jaffe, assist~' ant professor of economics, North- western Uniyersity. New York: Co- lumbia University Press. . s AYALA'S ANGELL. By Anthony. Trol- lope. .London: Oxford University 'S IDEALS OF WOM- ANHOOD. By George William Ger- wig, author of “Templed Hills,"-ete. g:l.st Aurora, N, Y.: The Roycroft ops. . 2 THE HEART OF THE CRIMSON CROSS. By Jerry Maurice Henry. Boston: The Stratford Co. o WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT; -The Making of a Yankee Township. - By Edward Coley Birge. With a post- script by .Mary ‘Coley Gage. New York: The Writers’. Publishing Co. ['I'HE IRISH FUTURE; and-The Lord- ship of the World. - By C. J. O'Don- nell, ex-M. P. London: Cecil Palmer, STRICTLY DISHONORABLE; A Com-" edy in Three Aets. By Preston :I'I;:"Ru‘ New York: Horace Live _— Population Campaign - In Italy Intensified Although Italy’s population increases y 500,000 people every year and stu- dents of the situation wonder how the increasing number of mouths are to be fed, propaganda by Fascist authorities for the production of larger families continues uninterrupted. .. The work has been intensified, if anything, Iollo\\'i.nq the publication of vital statistics for the first five months of 1929, which shows a great slump in baby production in comparison with similar periods of recent.years. Only 472,831 children were. born during this time, whereas 494,910 were born in the first five months of 1928, Deaths, on the other hand, inereased :;)1 Sfld Bid from 266,029. Marriages owey lecrease from 122,17 108115.22& ; 173 in 1928 uch figures can be nothing but a dis- appointment for the pres:n Tegime, Which pleads for a I T population, on the theory that it :Irlfe force settlement abroad, and thereby increase Italy's po- tential power among the nations, Prizes and loving cups continue to be offered - by patriotic agencies in an effort to keep the pecgle awake to their duties in this regard. The latest is a hand- some silver trophy, offered by & journal in the districts of d’Abruzzo and Molise, :;::&:n{:ed -m;ul]ly to the commune e greatest number ln%h!he lelsl'flrelthx. o e commune which shows its su- premacy in productivity twice in a ;.;e'- riod of five years secures the ecup for good. Government statistics show that the population of Italy increased by 406.000 during 1928, bringing the total poyuxlt-.!,l’on to 111.‘1173.000. Tgu number ans resident ‘abroa 9300 0 ent ‘al d is now House. I } Fascist Text Books. ROME (#).—New “all-Pascist™ books greeted Italian school ch‘l‘ldx‘el&e fi gxe’;‘sm’c of the second term. Drastic visions were mad tory and considerable i }:}I' s changes tions of Italian literature for grammar ades. L Yorkc Gallery 2000 S Street Ex‘:ilsfitx‘on Portraits "and . * Paintings 7% i Eben -F." Comins January 6th to. Janusry 95¢h x | | 8 H | |