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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Four Interesting Mural Hangings Placed in Constitution Hall. Photographs on View at Library of Congress—Other Exhibitions and Notes. A ings painted by J. Monroe Hewlett of New York as decorations for the back of the stage in Constitution Hall. ‘These hangings were placed less than a fortnight ago and greeted the eyes of concertgoers for the first time when the latest of the series of philharmonic orchestra concerts was given. They occupy the entire back of the stage, ‘Where previously were dark-blue hang- , and they beautifully complete, enrich and unify the general decorative scheme for the hall. The appearance is of looking out through long windows at people and buildings, not too near nor yet too far. The figures have the appearance of being life size, the dued, the effect atmospheric. not intrude. These panels are painted on coarse linen in tempera, a medium much used in Rovelutionary days to produce “painted tapestries,’ which are now known by the name of “fracture paint- ings” 1In old descriptions of interior decorations of the Colonial period such paintings are frequently referred to as tapestries, but, of course, a real tapestry is woven, not painted. The four panels in Constitution Hall represent, frem left to right, four Colonial cities — Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Charleston—and show that through similarity of architectural design these cities were harmonious. The first panel to the left represents Boston. In the foreground are & group of figures representing Dr. Joseph War- Ten, . Samuel Prescott, Samuel Adams, William Dawes, Paul Revere, Miss Dorothy Quincy (fiancee of John Hancock) and Hancock himself. As a background in this panel the old State House appears and in the distance one sees '-Y':‘b harbor ship) il;l}g‘, ‘g:)hm]u.‘tul suggestive glimpse of the Boston tea party. W panel a tablet bears the date April 19, 1775. ‘The second panel is of New York. ‘Here the foreground group of figures includes Rogsr Sherman, Gen. Knox, | Wi Irving as a child aged 6, ‘Washington, Sec! of State Otis, Charles Livingstone, John Adams, Alex- ander Hamilton, Baron Steuben, Rich- ard Henry Lee and John Jay, assembled for the inauguration of Washington as the first President of the Republic, April 30, 1789. At the background is depicted Federal Hall, at the head of Wall street, upon the balcony of which Washington took the oath of office. The th-d panel represents Philadel- phia, with idependence Hall given | conspicuous placement. Thomas Jef- ferson is shown reading to a group draft of the Declaration of Independ- ence. rTepresented are Mrs. Morris, Edward Rutledge, Mar. tha Washington, Robert Morris, child of 6; John Hancock, Oliver Wol cott, Benjamin Franklin, Lewis Morris and Charles Carroll. The fourth and last panel is of Charleston. The are Mrs. Eliza Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Rebecca Motte, Arthur Middleton, Col. Moultrie, receiving congratulations upon his triumph at the battle of Sullivan Island, subsequently the site of Fort Moultrie; Henry Laurens, Prancis BY LEILA MECHLIN. acter and exceptional interest has lately found permanent place here in Washington. This is a series of four mural hang- | The, WORK of art of unique charac- | | jectively and artistically; secondly, be- general tone is xug-- reasons. Because, primarily, of its in- trinsic interest, which is great, sub- cause of what it may lead to, and T thirdly, on account of the fact that it is the first exhibition held under the newly formed division of fine arts, of which Leicester B. Holland has lately | become head, being the first incumbent of the chair of fine arts established some time ago by gift of the Carnegie Corporation to the Library of Congress. e photographs in this exhibition were made at the instance of Mrs. Dan- iel B. Devore of Chatham, one of the most beautiful old historic estates near Fredericksburg, through her desire that |a record shall bs preserved of the | charming old town as it is today, and of | estates in iis vicinity. In commission- |ing Miss Johnston to undertake this | the studies shown are not mere photo- graphic presentations, but works which interpret the spirit of the place, works rendered through the medium of the camera with maximum artistic feeling and suggestion. Miss Johnston has long been known as one of the leading photographic pic- torialists in this country. In fact, her work is considered by many that of a | pioneer. Undoubtedly few have ren- | dered larger service than she in demon- | strating the possibilities of the camera as a medium of artistic expression and | &t the same time as a faithful witness ito facts. ‘The hundred or more prints now on view at the Library of Congress have graphs, but rather of photogravures, be- ing printed in soft gray on paper with a slightly rough surface. The effects that she transcribes of sunlight and shadow, of atmosphere, even in some instances of color, through nice adjustment of val- ues are extraordinary. It would seem as though she had invariably secured co- tion from inanimate things and imatic conditions. Her photographs of little houses are charming to the far- thest degree and her presentation of the dignified old homes, especially of Chatham, with its exquisite setting, are no less sympathetic. Miss Johnston shows us both small and great, interiors as well as exteriors, so that one gets from this display a real sense of the flavor of place, of the life that was lived in the past d is lived today; and therefore her works are not only pic- torial data, but historical documents. It is interesting to ol 've how clev- erly Miss Johnston has in many in- stances introduced figures in her pho- tographs as incidental to composition, adding not only to the possibility of judging scale, but also to the human in- terest. A delightful and most artistic record. And now the desire and hope is that this record may be extended to other cities and towns of equal historical im- portance in other parts of the country. Surely there must be others who realize, as did Mrs. Devore, what such a record will mean in the future. If so, the work will go on. Meanwhile Miss Johnston has most generously deposited in the safekeeping of the division of fine arts at the Li- brary of Congress not these negatives, which are Mrs. Devore's property, but between 5.000 and 6,000 other nega- tives which she has made and which will henceforth be available to the pub- lic under certain restrictions. These Marion, John Rutledge and Christopher Gadsden. In the background is shown | the old Custom House, now headquarters | of the local chapter of the Daughters | of the American Revolution. The date beneath this panel is January 28, 1776, | that of the battle of Sullivan Island. Above the panels is a frieze contain- ing the names of the 13 colonies ar- geographically from North to th to correspond with the subjects delineated below, and above the cornice is a painted lunette portraying the various revolutionary battle flags, some of which were instrumental in the adoption of the design for the National ensign. In Constitution Hall will be held not only gs of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution but concerts generally, and this beau- tiful and significant painting will per- manently add to the pleasure of those he: music in this hall. It is &, valuable acquisition to Washington. | Mr. Hewlett is distinguished not only | s a mural painter. but as an archi- tect, & member of the firm of Lord & New York Architectural League and the Society of Mural Painters. The beautiful pageant, held at the time the ' American Institute of Architects’ gold medal of honor was presented to Henry , designer of the Lincoln Me- morial, on the steps of the Memorial, ‘was planned by him, and in matters of try or decoration his services are much demand. Among his best known works are mural paintings in the Carnegle Tech- | nical School, Pittsburgh: the Cornell| Theater, Ithaca, N. Y., and the Colum- | a University Club, New York City. * ok % % {AT the Library of Congress there has lately been placed on view in the | South curtain hall, on the second floor, | & collection of photographic studies by Frances Benjamin Johnston, constitut- | ing a pictorial survey of the archi- tecture and gardens of old Prederics- burg, old Falmouth and other nearby Virginia places. This exhibition is notable for several include among others Miss Johnston's wonderful series of photographs of Italian and other gardens, and of many subjects of great import. In a way the placement of these negatives in the “BARBARA,” BY MARGARET FRENCH CRESSON OF WASH- INGTON. safekeeping of the Library of Congress parallels in a measure the purpose of the Museum of Chalcography estab- lished by the will of the late Joseph Pennell under the same guardianship. A museum of chalcography permits the reprinting of etchings, engravings, etc. from Government-owned plates pur. chased from or contributed by the ar- tists. The collection of negatives which Miss Johnston has deposited with the Library of Congress can be treated in like manner. Here we see, therefore, the beginning of an effort which promises much in the future, initiated as a result of Mrs. Devore's interest and foresight, Miss Johnston's artistic skill and generosit, “THE FAN SHADOW,” BY ALFONSO_GROSSO OF SEVILLE. THE SPANISH PAINTER IS GIVING . AT THE YORKE GALLERY, AN EXHXBI;“ION OF HIS WORK pictorial survey Mrs. Devore did well, for i not the appearance of ordinary photo- | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., FEBRUARY 9 1930—PART TWO. {and the vision of potentialities on the fpl!t of Mr. Hnlllnl?.o | * x % | 'HE Phillips Memorial Gallery an- | nounces the extension of the exhi- | bition set forth in its two main galleries | Jast Autumn through this month and a ! part of March, and at the same time the | opening of an exhibition of a greup of {lyric painters, to be shown through | ‘f‘cbrunry and March in the Little Ga ery. “This exhibition,” Mr. Phillips e: plains in the folder listing the pain! ings shown, “is an experiment in han ing together in one small room pictures in both oil and water color by 12 ar- tists of marked individuality and no common allegiance to any school or | rule. The bond which exists between | them and the atmosphere of congenial | give and take which will pervade the Little Gallery while they are in it is the inevitable affinity of all true artists | and [oopec ‘:lf‘ tl;ou whose work is crea a spirit of lyric poetry.” “Lyricism,” he contlnuel,p'?len a paint- | er means that quality of his mind and | eve which gives him emotions he can only communicate by the touch of his brush, by the choice of his lines and colors, by the selection for his subject of things he has loved to lcok upon | and of the special lights in which they were seen It may mean that he is aware of what is going on in nature and that he is somehow enabled to | share in cosmic forces. It may mean | only that he has felt the natural magic of trees and fruits and flowers or of little rivers and of little rooms which one intimately knows. The try of a painter may be a matter of finding synthesis for space, or hinting at one’ | intuition of & universal quality, in some | chance observation perhaps, of a moun- tain at & muted moment of shadowed radiance, or of a fishing craft at anchor riding the waves, or of tall masts state- | |1y in a harbor. There are many vivid | moments of life recorded here without any pretense that the records are im- portant. And yvet important they are. because true sensibility is rare, and the fact that modernity, in spite of its con- cerns with engines and complex organi- zations and new theories of space and the atom and the subconscious mind, can still produce a group of artists who can see and feel so simply and never- theless with such exquisite subtlety and | charm—the fact that our standardized world can still boast of such individuals —-is news of the most cheering and of the most vital consequence.” The painters represented in this ex- | hibition are Rousseau, Vulllard, Bon- nard, Sickert, Roussel, Marin, Demuth, Tucker, Coleman, Zorach, Olive Rush, Marjorie Phillips and Clairin, A full review of this exhibition will | bz given later. Meanwhile it is well to that the Phillips Memcrial open eve | | remember , Gallery is | Ty afternoon, Sunday included, | from 2 to 6 o'clock. * K % % AT the National Gallery of Art a i special exhibition of works in sculpture by Signor Edgardo Simone, announced in these columns last week, opened vesterday, too late for review, and will continue to the end of the month, This exhibition, it will be recalled, will include portraits of quite a num- ber of distinguished persons well known here in Washington, as well as world | celebrities. Next Saturday a of portraits by Edwin in the National Galle: | tinue” for six weeks. | ].ull!!l l‘l!end e;hlbltini - H., and his work is highl > mended by fellow painters, R foean, * % ok x ‘AT Jhe Arts Club three new exhibi- ons open today, one of | by Mildred B. Miller, )on of lhcprlfi!"r‘{lll.:f‘ tors at the Pennsylvania Academy | School, at Chester Springs, wife of Dr. D. Roy Miller, director of the school. | Mrs. Miller won the Mary Smith prize, | Pennsylvenia Academy, 1920; she s & | member of the fellowship of the Penn- | sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the | Plastic Club and other professional organizations and was holder for two | years of the Cresson traveling scholar- | :};igml'lr:mam uude!nhu clt: the Penn- & Academy. e has not ex- | hibited in Washington before. | ,The second ibition will _consist | of oll paintings by A. H. O. Rolle, a , the Society | of Washington Artists and presi | the Landscape Club. SRR |, _In connection with Mr. Rolle's paint- | ings will be shown a group of statuettes | In clay of “the 1930 Senate,” by Barks- | dale Rogers of Greenwich, Conn., whose | drawings and statuette reproductions a) At"Lhm Life .l.lrlx: Judgeé. e opening tea this afternoon Mr. Rolle, Mrs. Chase and Mrs. Al- lender will be host and hostesses. L AT the Yorke Gallery a Spanish | painter, Signor Alfonso Grosso of Seville, will exhibit from February 10 to 22. or Grosso has received many medals of honor, among them a bronze medal in the Paris salon last year, One of his paintings has been ac- quired for the Luxembourg, and he has been represented more than once in the Carnegie international ot Py lonal exhibitions Among the works to be shown here |are his portrait of Senorita Trini 0s, famous Spanish dancer, who has attracted so much attention in New York this Winter. He also will show canvases depicting gay Spanish life, * x % X TH! Misses de Hellebranth, Hungarian artists who exhibited at the Yorke !Gallery earlier in the season, have a studio now in the La Salle, on Con- necticut avenue, and are executing a Dumber of portrait commissions, among them portraits of Mrs. Nicholas Long- | worth and her little daughter Paulina. i * Kok A FRENCH artist, M. G. Ignon, is in ‘Washington at the present time executing commissions for portraits of the French Am or, M. Claudel, and the Ambassador of Spain. M. Ignon has for six years had a studio in New York. He studied under leading Prench masters and at the Julien Academy. | He will hold a one-man exhibition in New York later in the season. | * ok ok ROF. NICOLA MICHAILOW, the { Bulgarian artist whose works were {lately exhibited at the Mayflower Hotel junder the patronage of the Bulgarian { Minister, has painted portraits of the Vice President of the United States and his sister, Mrs. Gann, both of which are thought to be excellent likenesses, * ok ok % [AT the Corcoran Gallery of Art there opened on Friday to continue to | an_exhibition of etchings in color by Willlam Meyerowitz of New York. As an introduction to the cata- logue of etchings an_interesting com- ment made by Royal Cortissoz, art critic |of the New York Herald Tribune, is given. Mr. Cortissoz says: “These are true etchings in color, the fruit of a technical process beautifully mastered.” * ok ok % LOCK prints and etchings by Francis H. and May Gearhart of California, | original in character d extremely | interesting, are to be seen at present at {1534 Connecticut avenue—*Amerita.” * ok X % U NDER the auspices of the Art :’mmmm"n." clulerhleno flml‘lwm ?l recent, pai . lorgan is being shown in mz mezzanine of the Cariton Hotel, opening yelumu and continuing throughout the month. An exhibition of mfig and art work by junior members, the Art special exhibition B. Child will open Ty of Art to con- Mr. Child has at New London, | P | i PORTRAIT BUST OF JUSTICE THIS PORTRAIT BUST OF JUST! BY EDGARDO SIMONE, ITALIAN ON VIEW AT THE NATIONAL GALI ICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, ULPTOR, HAS BEEN PLACED Y OF ART. THE SCULPTOR IS GIVING AN EXHIBITION OF H ‘WORI\. Peace ’i‘hrough Mixed Claims Bodies Credited to Cromwell, British Leader ___(Continued From Third Page.) manent Court of International Justice,” including the establishment of the court, is contained in the document. It also provides the names and address2s of pri- vate societies in Great Britain with peace programs, in all 41. cation of selected arbitration treaties of Great Britain are a valuable part of the document’s reference material. “During the year 1910 President Taft opened negotiations with Sir Edward Gray, British secretary of state for for- eign affairs, for the purpose of conclud- ing & new arbitration agreement of & broader scope than the one which had been signed two years before. On Au- gust 3, 1911, identic treaties were signed by the United States with Great Britain and France, respectively. They stipu- lated that all justiciable questions should be settled in the future by arbitration, either in the Permanent Court of Arbi- tratlon or by special tribunals to be created. New Treaty Advances Peace. “On September 15, 1014, Great Brit- ain and the United States signed a new treaty for the advancement of peace. It called for the creation of a permanent international commission of five persons to deal with all disputes that might arise between the two contracting parties for the sgettlement of which no agreement had yet been mnde in other treaties. “From September 15, 1924, to April {18, 1918, covering the greater part of | | the World War period, England signed only one new arbitration agreement. On November 16, 1914, a treaty was signed with Portugal identical in its provisions with the earlier one of 1904. There were in addition several old pacts which were renewed during that interval of approxi- ely three and a half years. “The t-war period has witnessed the conclusion of a considerable number of new arbitration pacts among the na- tions of the world. Negotiating New Pact. “One of the most interesting treaties of arbitration which Great Britain has ever negotiated was signed with Uruguay on April 18, 1918, and has not been reg- istered with the league secretariat. “It is understood that the govern- ments of Great Britain and the United States are now negotiating a new arbi- tration treaty, which will be modeled upon the Franco-American pact signed on February 6, 1928. Such an agree- ment would provide for the conciliation of all disputes which do not (a) come within the domestic jurisdiction of one of. the parties, (b) involve third parties, (¢) affect the Monroe Doctrine and (d) affect the obligations of England under the covenant of the League of Nations. “Any controversy of a legal nature which the commission of conciliation deals with, but cannot settle, would be submitted to ths Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. Pledged Not to Resort to War. “On April 4, 1919, England signed with Brazil a pact in which the parties eed ‘to submit to the investigation of a permanent commission, which will give the report thereon, all difficulties of an international character which may arise between them and cannot be directly resolved by diplomatic means and which do not fall within the terms of arbitration convention in force be- tween the two countries. They further agree not to declare war the one against the other, not to commence hostilities, until the result of such investigation shall be submitted.’ “A conciliation agreement also was formed by Great Britain with Chile and signed on March 28, 1919. “From the foregoing discussion it appears that England has not been a party to extensive treaties of arbitra- tion and conciliation. She has, how- ever, been foremost among the nations in the frequency with which she has submitted ~ controversies to pacific processes of solution. We may conclude, therefore, that the attitude of England has been highly favorable to arbitra- tion and conciliation, a policy that has'| been revealed primarily in her treat- ment of specific disputes as they have occurred rather than by a comprehen- sive system of treaties with other ns. ‘'The signing of the optional clause of the World Court protocol in 1929, to be discussed in the following chapter, marks & new departure in British policy, involving as it does an impor- Promoters’ Club was shown in the patio of the hotel yesterday afternoon from 4 to 7 o'clock. Included in this group were paintings by Hildegarde Hamilton of Lexington, Va. n, * ok ok % MR.. AND MRS. GORDON DUN- ‘THORNE have issued invitations to a tea and a talk on “Early English Color Prints” tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at 1726 Connecticut avenue. ok ok ok A’!‘ the Grand Central Galleries, New York, on Tuesday, an exhibition of ait sculpture by Margaret French of ‘this ity wall open, 1 ‘The publi- | tant commitment to submit to inter- national tribunals in advance of the ‘ developments of disputes.” |Horse Saves Rider, Bitten Badly by Snake ‘That old movie theme in which the return of the riderless horse warns everybody that the hero is in danger | and paves the way to the thrilling res- !cue in the nick of time was translated |into real life at Barberton, Transvaal, recently. Dr. Watts, director of important timber plantations there, was riding through the property on which his house stands when he encountered a snake and was badly bitten in the leg. He lanced the wound at once and applied permanganate of potash, which he car- | ried in a pocket snakebite outfit. De- spite the application, he became semi- consclous, and he was unable to mount his horse to go home. His horse, think- ing that it must be somewhere near the ‘ nosebag time, went off alone and on his | arrival at Dr. Watt's house search par- ties were sent out. Dr. Watts was discovered lying on the veld in the early hours of the morning | in the last stages of exhaustion after his bite from the deadly mamba. He was | hurried to hospital and is no | the way to recovery, ‘ PUBLIC LIB Y ! | | Recent accessions to the Public | Library and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column every | Sunday. | Poetry. Alken, C. P. Selected Poems. YP-Ai43. Bogan, Louise, Dark Summer. YP- B6324d. Cade, D.“Vfifg. Dream Cargoes. 1928. | Coppard, A. E. Collected Poems. YP- well on | IDA GILBERT MYERS. LN. By Emil Ludwig, author of LIP!%?NIN“‘” ete. Illustrated. Trans- | lated from the German by Eden and | Cedar Paul. Boston: Little, Brown | & Co. | APOLEON, “BISMARC! 6 “LINCOLN." 1If these tit constituted evidence—which | they do not—the bulk of it | tion that Emil Ludw is of| ;‘:’l’l‘l‘&mt tendency. But—wait & min- | ute. True, that Napoleon stands high | {among historic conquerors. Yet, the conquest definitely made, Napoleon be- came at once the political organizer, | bringing order into the new territory, | enacting just laws for its development, | promoting peace and its arts. In a| word, at such juncture, Napoleon is| known as the statesman and wise law- giver. So, Bismarck. Famous as a sol- dier and commander, Bismarck's dream, | nevertheless, his single goal, was to unite the looss confederation of German | states into the German Empire, an issue | for which he was more definitely re- sponsible and more greatly to be hon- ored than for all of his high military skill and repute. ‘Therefore, it is to these heroes as builders, unifiers, statesmen, organ- izers that Emil Ludwig pays final due and homage. And by this token it Is, 11 of & piece, 8o to speak, that he places beside his studies of Napoleon and Bis- | marck that of Lincoln, who, in life| and in death, was dedicated to the pres- ervation of the Union ,to the complete solidarity of the United States. From such point of view all three of these men stand as builders, not as destroyers. * K K ¥ ’READD(G Ludwig's life of Lincoln i one comes out from it with two prepossessions concerning the work. These two striking impressions are de- {rived from a common source—the in- | tellectual power of Ludwig himself. The trained mind of the indefatigable re- search worker has delved here into the Lincoln impress any reader with the scope and depth of an enterprise that has brought to the surface many a faet not hitherto discovered by other students in this fleld. Not great facts, maybe, these fresh finds, but so patently of service in | completing the man, in rounding him | to a full and immediate vitality as to be marked, indeed, and to be valued in high measure. A scholar's preoccupa- tion went into this part of the work. The second outstanding effect of - the great book is the author’s sympatny with the man in whom he is absorbed in experiencing, in himself partaking of the life of Lincoln in the great degree to which this is possible with the right- | ly gifted author. Of course, we all | realize that that word “sympathy” has fallen upon evil days, often connoting an excess of feeling at the expense of truth and reason. That brand of sym- pathy can be summarily dismissed from the matter in hand. Emil Ludwig “feels with” Lincoln, not primamily for him. He quite literally enters into the trag- edy of Lincoin’s own great responsi- bilities and immediate problems of the war period; in a sense he, for the time being, is Lincoln in a reality of effect that no other writer on this man's life has quite so fully succeeded in secur- ing. And herein lies the power of this biography—in the intellectual equip- ment of a man who works, actually digs like & demon of industry, and at) the same time feels with the depth of an angel of light and divination. And 50, in an immediate and actual follow- ing, we come to live the days of Lin- coln for ourselves—the early days of the frontler, the kindly days of the oung man_growing toward political | stature and partaking, the later days of official politics and the great d: of the war wherein this man, loneller than Tever man was before, feels the sinister | | shadows of misunderstanding and | hatred, but yet never for a second re- laxes from his unalterable idea of a whole Union, of an unbroken Common- wealth, It is this, the supreme trag- | edy, Abraham Lincoln, that steps out from this book to walk with every American, every man anywhere, as the deliverer of his country, as the brother of his highest purposes and ideals. A beloved man, so re-created in truth by the genius of this German liberator of (huufht, by this great artist in souls. Gratitude, deep and unalterable, must €0 to this writer of such power and of such true feeling, to this man gifted to seize and re-embody human life at its high and {lluminating moments and days and years. * ok R X YP-C | . | Christy, Arthur, tr. Images in Jade. Y66P-9C47. | Drinkwater, John, and others, eds. ‘Twentieth - Century Poetry, 9D836t. Gould, A. L. Flotilla. 1925. YP-G727f. Mc(;:r;;s.bmbecu Bitter Sweet, YP- Manning, C. A, and others, eds. An Anthology of Crechoslovak Poetry. Y58P-9M3.E. Ridge, Lola. Firehead. YP-R433f, Manners and Customs. Barbe-Marbois, Prancols, Marquis de. Our Revolutionary Forefathers. G83- B23.E. Haward, 'W. I, and Duncan, H. M. Vil- lage Life in the Fifteenth Century. G45-H268. Mahmoud Khan Saghaphi, Mirza. In the Imperial Shadow. G635-M27. Visit India With Me, H. A. Meet the Germans. G47- P54m. Rothery, A. E. Central America and the Spanish Main, G961-R74. Ethics. Ayrxs.nc. E. Holler Than Thou. BM- y27. Dunham, J. H. Principles of Ethics, BM-D2p. 3 . It's Not Our Fault; Why We Can't Be Good. BM-H 157. Wright, W. K. General Introduction to Ethics. BM-W936. Mental Tests. Foran, T. G. A Study of Trait Varia- bility, BII-F7ds. Franzen, R. H. Health Education Tests. IKI-F859. Park, M. G. Problem-Outline in Pri; ciples and Techniques of Educa- tional Measurements. IKI-P21 p. Wood, E. P. The Educational Achiev ment and Intelligence of Independ- ent School Children. IKI-W855. Lives of Authors. Fay, Bernard. Franklin, the Apostle of Modern Times. E-F85fa.E. ‘l'fhllh. Bhelley-Leigh Hunt. J u, Rhodes, 8. A. The Cult of Beauty in Charles Baudelaire. E-B329r, Russell, Phillips. Emerson, the Wisest American. E-Ema3r, Smith, Robinson. The Life of Cervantes. 1014, E-C337s. Ten Outdoor Men. Speed, James. E-9Sp33. Trombly, A. E. Vachel Lindsay. E-L643t. Wagenknecht, E. C. The Man Charles Dickens. E-D55w. Fietion. Benson, Theodora. Salad Days. Kaye-Smith, Shella. Three Against the World. Komroff, Manuel. Coronet. Ossendowski, F. A. The Lioness, Snaith, J. C. Cousin Beryl. Vring, Georg von der, Private SBuhren. Walpole, Hugh. The Prelude to Ad- venture. West, Rebecca, pseud. Harrlet Hume. wh-ung.n, Edith. Hudson River Brack- LY | ye-| T SAM HOUSTON. By Marquis James. Tllustrated. Indianapolis. ‘The Bobbs-Merrill Co. 'HE hope has been hinted that the author of the biography ‘“Sam Houston” will pull down a Pulitzer prize. It is all right with this reviewer; he never read a better volume of its kind_and, moreover, he learned a lot. To him Gen. Houston had been a vague, far-off figure, described by his aged grandfather as characterized chiefly by wearing a Mexican serape for an overcoat, by over-constant whit- tling, tobacco chewing and (Shhhhh!) dram drinking, and the use a condor quill instead of the conventional goose feather. It seems he did do all these things and lived with the Indians to boot, and cussed and fought and spit and raised many a rumpus, political and personal. Yet he was governor of two States, twice president of an in- dependent, _ albeit somewhat comic opera, republic, United States Senator | from & vast commonwealth and held | military ranks varying from ensign to full general. Also he was a Cherokee chief, a fair poet, an elegant letter writer, & loyal friend, & highly enthusi- astic friend, a disadvantageous enemy. a dangerous duelist, a tender husband, s wise and loving father—no use to use more adjectives now, but better to let an army of other readers supply & few. When tall and turbulent Sam was & youngster he donned his dead mother's wedding ring. Through all his subsequent vicissitudes and triumphs he never, under any circumstances, re- moved it. When his towering body was stilled at last his widow took it off and found engraved on its inner circum. ference. the single word, ‘“Honor. There is no doubt that Samuel, or “Sam” as he preferred to sign himself, lived up, in so far as he was able, to its injunction. He left the bride of his youlh because, quoth he, to do so “comports with my notions of honor. His notions may have been erroneous, but no one will deny that he lived up to them. Only this Nation, indebted to him for possession of Texas, and only this Nation in its early days could have produced such a figure as he was. We all are the better for his production and will be the better for reading of its detalls, details to obtain which his blographer seems to have spared him- self no possible pains. R.M.K. * K ko “IT'S A GREAT WAR!" By Mary Lee.| Boston: Houghton Miffiin Co. A BIG book—800 pages big. Too big? expected to deliver a Worl o yefil of slaughter and the collateral pages o; accounting. Most of the writers on this paramount theme elect to take a definite fighting area, possibly & single point, and there with a han of sol- diers’seek to remedy the whole devas- tation by way of this limited portion of it. But, in this case, the writer is a woman—therefore daring. Nothing but the whole of the conflict will satisfy her wide and zestful design. And did she bring it off—the whole monstrous per- formance? It would take an army of would not be worth while. Here, in- stead, is a panorama of warlike pattern, a spreading, out-reaching, diversified, world of human activity, whose glorious aim is the destruction of human life. ‘To manage in any degree of plausibility so gigantic a movement, and so sinister a one, calls for a superlative organizing | gift coupled with the power to hold the | human element—or the unhuman if y?,‘ will—to its real vitality, to its belie: lean toward the as- Wworst. And Mary Lee has, clearly, done | et B s And so0, after the first few pages, | A this, you deliberately “go to war” with Mary Lee. And not long after you, too, at this point of crisis or that one—now a real crisis, now a trivial turn—shout aloud with the rest, either in wry laugh- ter or in an agony of lamenting, “It's & Great War!” as you march off, to hos- pital, or the front, or to wayside attend- 2nce upon the dead and dying, upon the “shocked” and fear-paralyzed. there is play-time here, and a deal of love making, a bit gruesome and ghastiy all of i'—but youth cannot be served bv fighting alone. Vivid, every line of it, hateful every phase of it—unreadable to many in its regular order. And these roam about within the story, moving into this forward section or that one, looking for some easement of the ter- rible business, but it is not there. And so they move on. Here, a surpassing confusion of artificial hatred is used to throw the world of men upon one an- ther in a lust of murder. There is no order, nothing but a tumultuous actjon toward cxtermination. And it is just this that Mary Lee delivers to reade: in an epic effect of the world gone t war. It begins as simply as a bed-time tale. Two children, brother and sister, maneuvering for ?e in an old swing. Then the years leap forward and_the war comes. These two go to war. It is out of this experience that the girl, Anne, writes one of the great war storie: Not vital, but certainly interesting and important that the book is made from the woman’s point of view. A woman's point of view. Anne is a better man than a lot of the males around her. So, there is no flabby sentimentality about this story. It is true war stuff, man stuff, woman stuff—all at its best, or is it its worst? 1In either event, here you have it to hold till you have absorbed it from first to last. * Xk X % GRANDMOTHER BROWN'S DRED YEARS: 1827-1927. Harriet Connor Brown. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. THE clever and original device of an upstanding young woman took shape and issue in “Grandmother Brown’s Hundred Years.” There was the material at hand—grandmother herself, in whose lon was a clear memory of eventful years in the his- tory of this country. Almost a hun- dred of these years. And grandmother liked to back into them, bringing forward from the adventure innumer- able facts of the daily life of the set- tlers, their makeshifts for existence and a shade of comfort, just how they HUN- meet. Not so very long, before this young in-law, a granddaughter, realized that here was a treasure of frontier life in almost every one of its aspects that should be caught and held from nmnlnx away into silence and forget- ting. And, so, this woman encouraged grandmother to talk talk. To be sure, there came the weeding—not over much of this—the ordering, the putting together into a book tha sents “youth,” “middle N age” of Grandmother Brown. Like a romance runs the recollection of days Wwhen “I was youn like this” when the stories were not of a World War, but of the War of In- dependence instead, when generals had other names and statesmen had other “programs.” The days of young love and marriage and getting a new start in life crowd forward here in an eager zest for renewal in the mind of this woman whose youth was of a different texture from that of the youth of the present. “And what then, Grand- mother, and what next, and then what hlpgened’l" Such is the part played in this long dialogue between the young woman and the old one. And this is the time to say that the self-effacing attitude of the 'youn[ ‘woman is one of the triumphs of this notable book. It would hdve been so easy to push a lit- tle here, to FM gently there, to re- mind of possible omissions, to pat into new shape right there—but this did not happen. The invaluable process of let- ting well® enough alone is paramount here. And out of this inspired attitude comes from Grandmother Brown, at first hand, innumerable pictures of pio- neer life in the Middle West, out where today “the tall corn grows” and where many other tall things have matured in contribution to the big Nation as a whole. I like the picture—and so do you—of these two women so plainly having a “good time,” grandmother holding the middle of the stage, to her obvious en- joyment, the younger one in full sym- pathy with such stellar role, aiding and supporting it in a fully partaking spirit. | Then, the telling done, there came the work of delivering this unique history to the hundreds of readers who are still reaping from it authentic and pic- turesque patterns of the earlier life of the country. There could be no single disagreeing voice in the decision that awarded honors to Harriet Connor Brown for the originality of plan, for the competency of execution, for the artistry of fuifillment that produced this unusual book. One of the best things to say about it is, I think, that its quality is such as to insure not one reading alone, but to give guaranty of many returns to the century-long story of the United States delivered straight from the personal recollections of Grandmother Brown herself. * x K MOTHERS CRY. By Helen Grace " g&rlule, luthorY ol’k"see How They un.” New York: Harper and Brothers. A STORY that runs stark naked. Something like this: And I told Mama that I loved Frank and Frank loved me and Mama said that would be all right, Frank and I could be married if we wanted to, and so we were mar- ried. In the same level way the re- 0Tt goes on with four years of wedded the blessed state. Thereafter, it is a very busy accounting of the thousands of mother-acts in behalf of a family of children—good children d that other kind which, inheriting—from God knows where—strange trends and out- breaking unruliness, pack down the mother-measure of patience and love to its brim and then to its overflowing In this even telling that, no matter how plercing the facts may be, keeps to its there are set the tragedy and comedy of everyday life with the poor family whose le_indulgence appears to be more children. but the children were coming on and so could help, a little. They were all good children. Of course there was Danny, the oldest. Danny was different, harder to keep along with the others. Oh, I never could have been made to believe that Danny would one day be sent to the electric—Oh, dear! life is sometimes hard, but I try to think it is all for the best. And, now Jenny is married to a nice man and Jenny is going to have a baby—and so the story, now facing upon the endless chain of reproduction, gzes on till finally it stops. Why go farther? Just over and over, Patient, loving, enduflnfi pod—umi love the woman, all of her! that gees to the bottom of truth, feel- Ing—the story that is being lived every day by countless women. One man calls statisticlans and researchers to deter- mine this—and’ even then the work 1t an ly powerful And | used to do this and that t6 make ends | when “it wasn't |t Y | NEW LAMPS. { ite and four children as hostage to) low pitch of unemotional statement, Kl ‘Then Frank was killed, you know,| REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS | Emil Ludwig’s New Book on the Life of Abraham Lincoln: Author of “Sam Houston” May Win Annual Prize. Another Book About the War. woman will add to that “a completely shattering book.” And then she'll take the baby out of its crib, warm its milk, and go right on—not to Banny; oh, not to Danny! The rest of us must look out against that! » ¥ DAWN. By J. Fowler Wright, author of “Deluge.” New York: Cosmo=- politan Book Corporation. THOROUGH-GOING novelist, J. Fowler Wright. If, as many de- clare, the art of the novel is that of creation itself, why, then, not accept it as just that? And he does. Con- stituting himself a force of nature, Mr. Wright, for the making of the story leading up to the one in hand, pro- duced a “deluge,” drowning out the | world, staging again the ancient drama in which Noah played star role. A creepy tale that one read in seconds | of genuine fear as he caught at up- | cropping roots of trees or other land debris to prevent being swept away in the drowning tide. A most competent performance was “Deluge,” dealing with a situation of the least likelthood imaginable. Then, you remember, when the dove came back with its “All's well” for the tribe of Noah, there was the landing and a general “picking up. of the pieces,” so to speak. And Lhfi is the point at which “Dawn” gets on its . Here 1s a handful of people saved from the flood. The waters still, in the main, cover the earth. Everything is scarce—food, shelter, clothing. Among the few people remaining there is no organization, no union of forces. Only faint reaches toward forgotten ways make shift for order and any degree of strength. Women are scarce—and there comes the main danger. Echoes of the classic tale of the Sabine women come floating into the sma'l commu- nity. “Such is the material with which Fowler Wright re-enacts the drama of organizing a pattern of primitive life upon the foundation of these fragments of a lost world. In a series of believ- able situations the business of living advances,to the stage where one man— a leader, as you can see—finds himself | possessed of two women, one the lawful wife of the pre-flood period, the other a reminder of the Sabine incident. It is here that the adventure strikes its true pace, the adventure of two women and the men—with both women in rec- ognized possession. The finest possible chance, outside of Mormonism or some Oriental cult, for making realistic study of woman as she is. Here is a chance to go to almost any length of invention. Mr. Wright, however, keeps well within the limits of plausibility, developing a series of situations that gradually sum to a philosophy of life based upon the new creation with which these men and women are faced. Indeed, at the very last, the good story takes a turn to- ward the parable of dife—but this is held back from interference in the en- Jjoyment of a well conceived and well worked out romance. * X x X% THlEflnGOLPm: His Origin and His ish. By Russ Edwards. Wash- Published by the Pireside | | ington: Golphers, LITTLE book, but deep. Not more than a half-hour need be expended upon it, though you will give it more than this. Even ignorant people will be able to gather much benefit from ft. I'm of that sort, not having a ghost of & notion of what a “mashie” may be or a_ “niblick.” Yet, so ramifying is any branch of useful knowledge that even' the -dus t—that is my name— is able to find within its covers points hat touch his own case, or state—any case or state—as the prick of a needle would. But, permit me to name a few of the chapters, just to let you see the diffusive power of this study—“A New Science Is Born,” “Exhib't A and the | Office Conference.” These two alone ikl\‘e you ths cotemporancous character of this treatise—the conferences, the getting together around the table, the exchange of ideas and proj- eots, the true community of all inter- ests. Such, in substance, is this re- search expedition upon the great Amer- ican pursuit. Gayety mingles with the heavy sobriety of the investigation and th's is good for us who are wholly un- taught in the intricacies of the great game itself. 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