Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1935, Page 53

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 10, 1935—PART FOUR. F—3 NOTES FROM THE REALM OF LITERATURE AND ART MANY LOCAL EXHIBITIONS Paintings and Etchings by Chauncey F. Ryder at Arts Club. Preparations for Corcoran Gallery’s Great Biennial Show—The Work of John Kane. KINGS, WRITERS AND CROOKS New Books of the Week Include Life of Francis I, a Review of Dante’s Genius, and the Story of 10,000 : By Sarah Bowerman. FRANCIS THE FIRST. By Francis Hackett. New York: Doubleday, Doran, & Co. ENRY VIII of England, Francis I of France and Charles V of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire among them occupied the headlines of Europe dur- ing the heart of the sixteenth century. ‘They were born in the same decade, died almost in the same decade, Henry and Francis in the same year. ‘Throughout their reigns they were almost continuously engaged in in- trigues against or with each other, and Charles and Francis indulged in four wars. Francis Hackett has already written a thorough and striking biog- raphy of Henry VIII. His “Francis the First” is a literary event long antici- pated, often postponed. Will he next turn to Charles V? Early in this biography of Francis I he calls atten- tion to the similarity of his problems and those of Henry VIII—troubles with neighboring states, their own nobles, the church and mistresses. ‘They handled these problems differ- ently, in the French way and the English way. Mr. Hackett indicates that had Francis married his mistresses and then cut off their heads, as Henry did, he would have had more publicity. In drawing this life-sized portrait of the most gifted of the Kings of France, a typical Frenchman, whose | counterpart may be found on the boulevards today, Mr. Hackett has | done no hasty or superficial piece of | work. He has taken years in its prep- aration and the result is a remarkable characterization, so vital that Francis I seems more alive than the French statesmen who are today struggling with the problem of national security. As always, Mr. Hackett’s original style, full of color and unusual turns of ex- pression, combines with his skilful se- lection of the right material and its dramatic co-ordination to produce, we should say, exactly the effect at which | he aims. He begins his study with a | description of the background against which Francis I, a member of the minor, or Orleans, branch of the royal family, played such a prominent part. It was a background in which the in- trigues of that wily monarch, Louis XI, were still influential. Then follows a subtle analysis of therelations of Francis and his mother, Louise of Savoy, for he was “above everything, the son of | his mother.” She had made herself central for him, and this dominant | little woman could not let go.” In his | maturity his sister, Marguerite of Na- | varre, divided this influence. The accession of Francis to the throne, the struggle for Italy, his life after Pavia and his later years form the subjects of divisions of the book. Prancis I was only 53 when he died, two months after he had sadly shaken his head over the news of the death of Henry VIII. He was not contented over his heir, his only remaining son, Henri II, whom he warned, “signifi- cantly, not to be dominated by a | woman.” Though his life was not | long, according to modern ideas, he had lived in his half century through one of the most important eras in history, when the Middle Ages had ended and the Reformation and the | Renaissance had brought in the | modern age. And he lived the lives of many men. He was a gallant and successful soldier, a lover of many women, a patron of the arts, re-| sponsible for some of the finest archi- tecture in France, a diplomat of no mediocre talent, and, above all, a daz- zling King. “He had lived fully, this royal rascal, as he himself huskily confessed on his deathbed, and he had savoured his existence. * * * But this | tolerant and practised human being, J this man without iron prejudices, was | yet a member of an iron caste. His | school was soldiering. * * * In thelast resort he would prove a friend to no one, not even to his mignonne.” TEN THOUSAND PUBLIC ENE- MIES. By Courtney Ryley Cooper. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. L CAPONE, Clyde Barrow, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Dillinger, “Baby Face” Nelson, Harvey Bailey, - “Machine Gun” George Kelly and all the other notorious leaders in crookdom have their day as big news. In this book | by Courtney Cooper they become soci- ology. J. Edgar Hoover, who writes | the foreword, speaks warmly of Mr. Cooper’s fitness for the task of writing of American crime of the present and the efforts of the Division of Inves- tigation of the United States De- partment of Justice to catch and punish the criminals whose acts bring them within its jurisdiction. He says: “Certainly, to my mind, there is no writing man more thoroughly equipped | for this task. His interest in the | Division of Investigation long ante- | dates the spectacular events which, within the last few years, have brought this enforcement arm more fully into public view. * * * Beyond this lies a quarter of a century of | studious interest in the crime prob- lem. * * * I look upon him as one of the best-informed writers on this subject in America.” Because of its full description of crime conditions in this country since the beginning of the century, with specific exam- ples, and the views expressed on the | crime problem and deductions as to causes and remedies, which are the result of the author’s long experi- ence, this book by Mr. Cooper should be included in the collateral reading for criminology in all sociology courses. Others than students, who have become thoroughly alarmed by the prevalence of crime in the United States, will find much in the book to shock them, but also much of hope in the recent success of the methods employed by-the Division of Investi- gation to comhat crime. ‘The stories of all the chief gang- sters of the past few years are told in brief by Mr. Cooper, but those are already more or less familiar to read- ers of the newspapers. One of the most interesting parts of the book is the detailed description of the work of the identification unit of the Di- vision of Investigation, through its fingerprint files, now containing nearly 5,000,000 fingerprints. The fingerprint method of identification of criminals has through its greater simplicity and accuracy almost entire- ly displaced the old Bertillon system of photographs and measurements. In connection with the vast numbers of fingerprints on file in the Division of Investigation, the query naturally arises how they are classified so that an individual fingerprint sent in may be readily matched from the files. This is done by a code based on ridges, whorls and “deltas,” clearly explained by Mr. Cooper. Taking as an example the case of a man arrested in St. Paul on an insignificant charge, Mr. Cooper shows how through refer- r, Public Enemies. time proved that he was a man who, under another name, was wanted in Tulsa, Okla., for murder. When the fingerprint expert went through the files to check that fingerprint, he found a “thrill” Many other similar stories are related. CLASHING TIDES OF COLOUR. By Lothrop Stoddard. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. MONG the students of interna- tional affairs who have traveled widely and have applied the experi- ence of history to current problems, Lothrop Stoddard is one of the clear- est of thinkers and clearest and most interesting of writers. He has previ- ously discussed the world situation produced by twentieth century forces, culminating in the World War and leaving a menacing aftermath, in his books—"“The Rising Tide of Color,” “Reforging America,” “The Revolt Against Civilization” and Realities in Europe.” He begins this new volume with a description of “a world in disintegration,” the result of Armageddon. In this world old certitudes are lost, Western white supremacy has declined, nationalism is rampant and a clash of races seems imminent. Mr. Stoddard asks: “Is adjustment possible?” and the ob- ject of his book is to consider the question from many points of view, especially those of the Western world, China, Japan, India and Islam. Some of the forces which have dis- rupted European white solidarity are the economic withdrawal of Russia and her turning toward Asia, the aloofness of the United States, the state of flux in South America, French colonial policy, the hypertrophy of nationalism in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. All of these elements pre- vent a true comity of the West. Meanwhile, in the East “an entire order of life seems to be pasing away. Francis Hackett, author of “Francis the First,” & new biography. “Racial | < pleasant labour I fell compelled to address a prayer to him. I ask him to pardon me if I have been, it may be, overbold in weighing and measur- ing his soul; to pardon me, above all, it I, of so little worth, did not know how to speak worthily of the noble greatness of his genius.” Papini is already known to English and Ameri- can readers through the translation of his “Life of Christ.” SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE. By his Daughter, Laura E. Richards. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co. THE Howes have been a famous family. Samuel Gridley Howe, a doctor and a philanthropist, was a pioneer in the ecucation of the blind, founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, teacher of the deaf, dumb and blind | Laura Bridgman His wife was Julia Ward Howe, philanthropist, early leader in the woman's suffrage and woman’s club movements, poet, au- thor of “The Battle Hymn of the Re- public.” Of their six children, five grew to maturity and two are still living, Maud Howe Elliott, author and lecturer, and Leure E. Richards, be- loved of children for her “Captain January” and many other stories, and the author of this biography of her father. The publication date of “Sam- uel Gridley Howe” was timed for the 85th birthday anniversary of Mrs.Rich- ards, February 27. Serene in her old age after a life full of achievement, like her father’s and mother’s lives, Mrs. Richards lives in & big, square, old house in Gardiner, Me. She dedi- cates this book to her nine grandsons. ‘Twenty-five years ago Mrs. Richards arranged and edited for publication “The Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe,” the second volume of which she was able to place in her mother’s hands on Julia Ward Howe's 90th birthday anniversary. From this * * * All is in profound ferment. This ferment arises not from within, but from without. Its causes are exter- nal, foreign. * * * Herein lies the full gravity of the situation. Acute though our Western crisis may be, it is less serious than that of Asia. For our problems are fundamentally those of adaptation to changes engendered by ourselves and possessing a logical con- nection with our past. The peoples of Asia, on the contrary, are suddenly compelled to rebuild from the ground up an edifice continuously shaken to its foundations by strange new forces.” Mr. Stoddard’s explanation of “Asia’s fivefold revolution”—political, eco- nomic, social, cultural, religious— with his forecast of what may happen if it gets entirely beyond control is the most lucid and impressive discussion of the subject we have seen. His final chapter is given to the color problem in Africa. DANTE VIVO. By Giovanni Papini. Translated by Eleanor Hammond Broadus and Anna Benedettl. New York: The Macmillan Co. DANTE literature—biography, criti- cism, translation—fills enough volumes to stock a small library. It is a library to which the general reader rarely goes, however. Barbi, Toynbee, Fay, Lord Vernon and Panizzi are for the scholar. Giovanni Papini writes of the man Dante, “Dante vivo,” as he walked about the narrow streets of Florence, worshiped Beatrice dei Bardi from afar, was the friend of Guido Cavalcanti, fought at Campaldino, married Gemma Donati and fathered children, was banished from his native city as neither Guelph nor Ghibelline, but an opponent of Pope Boniface, condemned to death, wandering from castle to castle and from town to town, dying in exile at Ravenna. Papini says that he writes a “book of an artist about an artist, of a Catholic about a Catholic, of a Florentine about a Florentine.” There is in the book much of the rhapsody, the ecstasy which this description of his own would lead us to expect. Dante is to Papini “an eagle who was forced to content himself with the com- panionship of sparrows and barnyard fowls”; not only a writer, a philosopher, a moralist. He is a demiurge, a sort of rival of God.” In spite of such panegyric, Papini weighs the character of Dante and finds in it human faults. “The gospel enjoins chastity, and Dante was given to love affairs not altogether platonic and poetic, and, according to his own son, to sensuality.” Also “we must admit that in his works we do not find accents of tenderness for his fellow men in general” and he had a “habit of praising himself and the qualities of his genius more often and more freely than befits so lofty a spirit.” Using the measuring rod of the seven deadly sins of Catholic doctrine, Papini finds Dante guilty of three of them—Ilust, wrath and pride— and free from three of them—sloth, gluttony and envy. Most of the de- ductions about the character of Dante and some of those about the facts of his life must be made from his works— the “Divina Commedia,” “Vita Nuova,” “Convivio” and “De Vulgari Eloquen- tia”—and Papini has evidently made a thorough study of all of them. He divides his work into five parts— “Prolegomena,” “Life,” “Soul,” “Work" and “Destiny”—and concludes with an ence of his fingerprints to Washing- ton it was in a very short space of - appeal to the soul of Dante. “And suddenly at the end of this my - Hei work she has gathered the material for | the present brief record of her father's life, intended for readers of today. One is impressed in reading it by the number of subdivisions of sociology and education to the literature of which the story of Dr. Howe's life contributes—refugee relief work, the education of the blind and deaf mutes, the care of the insane and feeble- minded, prison reform, public sanita- tion, public charities, the abolition of slavery. Descended from old New England stock on both sides, Samuel Gridley Howe attended Brown Uni- versity and Harvard Medical School, from which he received his degree of M. D. when he was 23. He almost im- mediately went to Greece to assist as a surgeon in the Greek War of In- dependence. ‘There he also adminis- tered American relief funds. While traveling in Europe to study methods of teaching the blind, he was im- prisoned by the Prussian government for aiding Polish refugees. Returning to America, he founded the Perkins Institution and discovered Laura Bridgman and began the work with her which made him famous throughout the world. With the tire- lessness of an intensely vigorous per- sonality, he turned from one activity of social value to another, never with- drawing from one as he took up an- other. His home, whether in his wing of the institution or at Green Peace in South Boston or the cottage at Lawton's Valley, Newport, was always hospitably open to foreigners visiting this country to study social and edu- cational methods. Dr. Howe lived to be 75, and lived every moment, walk- ing from his home to the Perkins In- stitution and driving to the School for Feeble-minded, of which he was founder and supervisor, to within a few days of his death. MING YELLOW. By John P. Mar- quand. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 'HETHER or not the China pic- tured in “Ming Yellow” is one of the many real Chinas will make little difference to lovers of a good yarn for its own sake. This is one. ‘The intrigue begins in the first chap- ter and continues, with surprises, until the last sentence. The principal characters, with the exception of the war lord, Gen. Wu; the bandit chief, Chi, and his lieutenant, the Golden-haired Rat, give every inti- mation of what they are going to be like also in the first chapter, and their peculiarities have much to do with the development of the plot, which is as it should be. The title comes from the famous imperial Chinese pottery, Ming Yellow, used exclusively for imperial religious cere- monies during the Ming dynasty. It is so rare that Mr. Marquard believes not over fifty to a hundred pieces are in existence, of which he was so lucky as to acquire one during his recent visit to China. Edward Newall, American mil- lionaire, is in China for a rest (a strange place to select) because his specialist has told him that without it he will probably not live a year. But he has never learned to rest and he has another motive in Peking, to collect as many pieces of Ming Yel- low as he can before a rival New York millionaire, Rose, gets them. He is accompanied by his daughter Mel, a self-sufficient and rude young woman, and Paul Steuben, a junior “Rainbow,” an etching by Soderberg. Smithsonian * Building. _— Mel, 100 per cent reliable, but so stupid that he seems purposely con- structed to merit no sympathy from readers in his failure in love. Almost as soon as Mr. Newall arrives at the Hotel de France et China he has two visitors, Rodney Jones, & news- paper man after an interview, and Philip Liu, a young Chinese educated at the University of Pennsylvania, a nephew of Gen. Wu, who has heard through the grapevine intelligence system of China that Mr. Newall is interested in Ming Yellow. ‘The stage is now set for the caravan journey far into the interior of China to the walled town of Ho Hsien, where Gen. Wu at his headquarters has mysteriously come into possession of a fine collection of Ming Yellow which he wishes to convert into immediate cash. Rodney Jones happens to know a bit about Ming Yellow and is asked by Mr. Newall to take charge of the party, which he does, with the invaluable assistance of his No. 1 boy Liang. Philip Liu is the guide, | later to conduct negotiations with his uncle. Then begins a more or less silent struggle, sometimes breaking out into the open, between Rodney Jones and Philip Liu. Rodney sus- pects Philip of sinister motives and Philip knows that Rodney is trying | to thwart him. Scenes of great tense- ness occurr at the stag dinner party of Gen. Wu in his secluded garden at Ho Hsien and at the ruined temple near the Pool of the Seventh Prince, where, against all Rodney's protests, the whole party goes for a picnic. Gen. Wu is a violent person, but has certain scruples with regard to Amer- icans; the bandit Hei Chi is not a nice person at all; the Golden-haired Rat's only desirable characteristic is |that he is not as clever as Rodney Jones; Philip Liu is the slim, cour- teous, subtle, rather pathetic villain. Of course, Rodney Jones, sulky from secret fears during most of the trip, is superior to them all in when the denouement comes. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE POWERS. France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Soviet Rus- sia, the United States. By Jules Cambon, Richard von Kuhlmann, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Dino Grandi, Viscount Ishii, Karl Radek, John W. Davis. New York: Coun- cil on Foreign Relations. THE papers composing this volume originally appeared in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. A group of emi- nent statesmen write of the foreign policies of their countries, naturally with reservations. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, says in his introduction that the prob- lem set the writers was to explain “how far national policy, despite zig- zags and ups-and-downs, conforms to a pattern dictated not by personal in- spiration or sudden manoeuvre, but by continuing material and phycho- logical factors.” He admits that some of the authors have in places departed from the main theme and emphasized the necessity of certain policies of the moment, but for the most part the broad lines of general policy have been outlined. Jules Cambon, French Ambassador in Germany during the eight years preceding the World War, explains that France in attempting, like other nations, to realize her destiny has, because her frontiers are open to in- vasion, put her trust in military power. Dino Grandi, former Italian foreign minister, now Ambassador in London, says that Italy’s greatest problem is to provide space and means of sub- sistence for her growing population, in a territory only “half the size of Spain and Germany and lacking raw mate- rials and natural resources to meet its vital needs, pent up, moreover, in & closed sea beyond which its commerce lies, a sea the outlets of which are owned by other nations.” He also gives considerable space to the failure of France to understand the needs of Italy and “errors” of French states- men in the Peace Conference. Vis- count Ishii, former Japanese foreign minister, gives as a primary motive in Japan’s foreign policy that “she shall not be made the object of dis- crimination and derogatory treatment by any of the nations with which she Books and Their Authors DR. JOHN W. STUDEBAKER, United States commissioner of edu- cation, advocates in his new book, “The American Way,” the use of Federal funds for the support of a Nation-wide system of public forums, such as he organized and directed in Des Moines. John Masefield, poet-laureate the new edition of his “Collected Poems,” to be published by Macmillan in April: “I first felt the real delight of poetry in & room in Yonkers, N. Y. It was there that I decided that I had rather write verse than do anything else in the world.” Little, Brown & Co. announces The Story of a New England College,” by Claude M. Fuess, author of “Daniel %ebswr" and “Carl Schurz.” It will cover both the history of the college and of the men who made it. = 'l'h:!Doubledny, Doran Story-Magazine Prize has been l';‘l!ded jointly to Edward Anderson for his first novel,"‘Hunxry Men,” and Dorothy McCleary for her novel, “Not for Heaven.” Both books will be published the first of May. In his two-volume work, “Biology for Everyman,” Sir J. Arthur Thomson asks and answers the questions: Are wasps intelligent? Are and moving plants? What are the oldest liv- there | Bay Co. was determined to wrest it | finesse | <@ Included in exhibition at the has relations.” He also states a Japa- nese Monroe Doctrine, to the effect that it is incompatible with the se- curity of Japan that any third nation or group of nations should establish “an imperium in imperio” in China. The discussions of the statesmen of the other countries covered in this volume are equally interesting and valuable and it would be desirable to quote from them all, wére there space. THE WHITE-HEADED EAGLE. John McLoughlin, Builder of an Empire. By Richard G. Montgomery. New York: The Macmillan Co. N THE first half of the nineteenth | century John McLoughlin, em- | ploye of the North West Co., rival of the Hudson's Bay Co., married an In- dian half-breed of superior abilities and character and with her help be- came one of the most important fig- ures in the fur trade of the Northwest. The struggle between the two great fur companies centered in 1819 on the possession of Athabasca, which the North Westers had actually held for some years and had found there some | of their finest furs; now the Hudson's | from its rival. Dr. John went to Lon- | don to work for the interests of his company and succeeded in bringing about a merger between the two com- panies, to the advantage of both, for if such action had not been taken Parliament would sooner or later have intervened in the quarrels. Dr. John's task was now a diplomatic one, to reconcile the North Westers to what was practically their absorption, and through his skill harmony was soon By Leila Mechlin. HE exhibition of paintings and etchings by Chauncey F. Ry- der, which opened at the Arts Club last Sunday, to continue to March 22, is one in which all may find pleasure and many profit. ‘The work shown is both charming and good. Among our landscapists today we have none better than Mr. Ryder. Born in Danbury, Conn., in Febru- ary, 1868, he studied first at the Art Institute of Chicago and then in Paris under the best masters. He was & hard, earnest student, but he pro- | gressed slowly, and it was not until| about 1900 that he had his first one- | man exhibition. He was a modest man, slight of figure and appearing younger than he really was. What he wanted was to paint, to which end ex- | hibiting and selling seemed to be toy him merely contributing factors. He has always kept himself in the back- | ground, living for the greater part of each year at a Summer home in or near Wilton, N. H,, in the vicinity of which he has found his best subjects. “Prosperity Increase,” a painting of 26 and here March 4. The jury of | selection will meet here tomorrow after meeting for several days in New York, and the work of hanging will shortly begin. All of the American galleries on the second floor of the gallery have | been cleared of permanent exhibits | and closed to the public. Therein the | Biennial Exhibition will be shown.| ‘The jury of selection and award this year has as chairman Jonas Lie, president of the National Academy | of Design, and as members George | Harding of Philadelphia, painter and illustrator; Victor Higgins of Chicago | and Taos, N. Mex., painter; Henry | Lee McFee of Woodstock, N. Y., and | Richard E. Miller of New York. McFee is the only modernist in the | group. Lie is a landscape painter, Higgins a painter of figures, chiefly out- of-doors; Miller, of figures, indoors or out, bathed in sunlight, enveloped in atmosphere; Harding is best known for his illustrations and mural paint- ings, in which many figures are often brpught into a unified composition. It would be difficult to foretell the trend of judgment that such a group would form. The matter of the prizes, ' Pittsburgh, by John Kane. “PAINTING A PORTRAIT BY ‘WAYMAN ADAMS” is the sub- ject of a three-reel film to be shown under the auspices of the Washing- ton Society of the Fine Arts in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K streets, next Wednesday at 8:30 o'clock. This moving picture was produced and will be lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It was made in Mr. Adams’ studio and, beginning with the sete ting of the palette, shows successively each step in the painting of a por- trait. Mr. Adams has given these demonstra‘ions personally before large audiences in New York, and they have been found very entertaining and instructive. Mr. Adams, who is vell known as a painter of portraits and figures—one of his best known portraits is of Joseph Pennell—is spending the Winter in Mexico. This film is one of a series produced by the Metropolitan Museum to dcnmion- strate various arts. Its showing here will be briefly prefaced by an ac- count of the widespread and effective work that the educational department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art On exhibition at the Department of Labor. In 1907 he received an honmb‘e!w generous in size, and the much- | is conducting under the direction of mention in the Paris Salon. In 1914 | coveted medals is indeed in the lap | Huger Elliott. he was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design, and four years later he was made a full academician. Prizes began com- | ing to him in 1915 and have kept it effected. He became chief factor for the enlarged Hudson’s Bay Co. and | put in many years in the fur trade in | the Columbia River region. He founded | |a trading post at Vancouver, where | | his autocratic but benevolent rule | contributed a glowing chapter to the romance of the Northwest. His name of the White-Headed Eagle was given | him by the Indians, who loved and | trusted him because of his kindness | and justice. Later in his life, when the Oregon controversy brought into | question the control of the Columbia River and the claims of the Hudson’s Bay Co., he again played a diplomatic part. His life ended in tragedy. His biography tells the story of one of the | most heroic and able figures in the early history of the West, and Mr. Montgomery, who has gathered his materials for it from Hudson's Bay Co. records and other original sources, has done his subject full justice. Books Received Non-Fiction. IF LINCOLN HAD LIVED. Addresses by M. Llewellyn Raney, Lloyd Lewis, Carl Sandburg, William E. | Dodd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. PARTNERS IN PLUNDER. The Cost of Business Dictatorship. By J. B. Matthews and R. E. Shallcross. New York: Covici-Friede. SOME PHASES OF LABOR RELA- TIONS IN VIRGINIA. By George ‘Talmage Starnes, Ph. D,, and John Edwin Hamm, B. S. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co. POLITICAL HANDBOOK OF THE WORLD. Parliaments, Parties and Press. As of January 1, 1935. Edited by Walter H. Mallory. New York: Council on Foreign Rela- tions. A NATION TERRORIZED. By Ger- hart Seger, Member of the German Reichstag in the Fifth, Sixth, Sev- enth and Eighth Parliaments. Chi- cago: Rellly & Lee. MORTALITY RATES IN THE UNIT- ED 'STATES AND CERTAIN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. A study of the Effects of Variations in Assignment Procedures, Defini- nitions of Live Births and Com- pleteness of Birth Registration. By Elizabeth C. Tandy, D. Sc. Bureau Publication No. 229. Wash- ington, D. C.: Children’s Bureau, United States Department of Labor. of England, says in the preface of for publication in March, “Amherst: ing individuals in the world today? What is, perhaps, the most useful animal in the world? Is courtship published on his 80th “Autoblograpny of John Hays birthday anniversary, a safe adventure of a spider? Hammond” will be March 29, by -Farrar & Rinehart. It will be in two volumes, {llustrated. member of his firm, in- love with up quite continuously ever since. But, what was better still, his paintings | and etchings were not only honored, but purchased, and they are today to be found in the leading public and private collections, not only here, but abroad. The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in Lon- | don all own examples of his etchings, | as do our own Library of Congress, | the New York Public Library, the | Art Institute of Chicago, etc. Within the last month the Montclair Mu- seum, Montclair, N. J,, has acquired through purchase one of his large oil paintings, “Indian Summer.” He is equally well known as a painter in oils and in water colors and as an etcher and lithographer. As will be seen from his works | now on view in the Arts Club, Mr. Ryder is at his best in pictures of mountainous country, “decorated” by trees—quiet, lyrical scenes typical of that portion of America in which he lives and paints or etches. There is a sense of dignity and restfulness in his pictures in whatever medium, a feeling transmitted by the artist that nature is impertutbable and ever- lasting. Especially well does he por- tray trees, drawing and painting their trunks, branches and foliage with consummate understanding and evi- dent admiration. To him trees have the individuality of people. Often Mr. Ryder introduces into his pictures a barn or farm shed, possibly to give a touch of human interest, but even more likely to fulfill a need in the composition. He has etched snow scenes extremely well, but his paint- ings are usually made in the Summer. Let not it be thought for a moment that these pictures are portraits of nature. Far from it, for they are in fact interpretations, telling the ob- server not only what the artist saw, but what he felt, manifesting for all time beauty, emotionally observed and consciously recorded. It is this fact which gives to these works more than passing value and significance. )N MARCH 23 the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art's fourteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Ameri- can Oil Paintings will open with a private view and reception, which will be attended by artists, art museum directors and others especially inter- ested in art from all parts of the country. The last date for receiving America’s Greatest and Best Loved Poems—The Most Complete Collection Ever Assembled in One Volume. The BOOK of MERICAN POETRY Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM “Dean of American Poets™ 928 PAGES o 348 POETS 748 POEMS Includes the masterpieces of Edna s:?ll{n:.!cem Mllh;{pflmne Field, |f Bret Harte, Edgar Guest, Longfel- low, Poe, Amy Lowell, Sandburg, Hervey Allen, James Whitcomb | Riley, and hundreds more. Cloth $1.50. At Your of the gods. Announcement awards will probably be made in ad- | vance of the opening of the exhibition. on the heels of the Corcoran Biennial will come this year a | “Greater Washington Exhibition,” to consist of works by local painters, | sculptors and etchers, which, opening April 22, will be held for a month in seven or more local department stores. This multiple showing, styled “Annual | Independent Art Exhibit,” is being arranged by a committee, of which Mrs. Eugene Meyer is chairman and W. White, Frank R. Jelleff, Duncan Phillips and C. Law Watkins. There | are, in addition, & businessmen’s com- | mittee, a women's club committee and | an art committee. Each department store sharing in the exhibit will con- | tribute a $100 purchase prize, besides | which additional prizes will be do- nated. Each painter will be limited to | water colors. The works selected will committee, an out-of-town artist serving as judge and jury, passing upon works submitted and awarding | the governing board and co-operating agencies to give every Washington artist a chance. While this plan has some unique features, it is not new, Department | stores in New York, Philadelphia, Chi- [ cago, Los Angles and San Francisco have all in recent years co-operated | in somewhat similar enterprises. | Thomas Craven, in a brief ar- ticle in a New York newspaper recently suggested that “the de- | partment stores undertake the art business seriously,” bringing up the | standard of their stock and creating | on a business basis a market for good current work. To him this is a logical | sequence to the new movement set in | motion by the P. W. A. P. and other | agencies such as the municipality of New York, and now in full swing. | Rightly handled, it undoubtedly has possibilities. But, as Mr. Craven him- self remarks, there are dangers at- tached to trafficing in art which must be avoided. However, the more sup- port that is given to local art locally, the better, and despite the Corcoran’s rival attraction—the Biennial con- tinues until May 5—and the lateness of the season, it is earnestly hoped that the experiment will prove a suc- cess, the first of many “independent annuals” in Greater Washington. business and social success. Turn 1o thi mation whenever you need it. and you The sbridgments. It 1s tural information, a Thin-Paper, indezed: Cloth $3. Pigskin, dark blue or natural, $8.50. Purchase nd remittance di se 7 and re Game—Free. An interesting Bookstore or the Publishers, Wm. H. Wise & Co., 50 W. 47 S¢.,N. Y. full information & C. MERRIAM CO., 532 BROADWAY, of | | [N, THE Metropolitan Museum's | of knowledge and your vocabulary for expressing it. WEBSTER’S COLLEGIATE @ Thovndem Tocbstss American wing there is now to be seen an exhibition in which all Wash- ingtonians would take interest. It 'OLLOWING less than four weeks| consists of a collection of prints, drawn from the museum’'s own col- lection, which very nearly duplicates the one that George Washington as- sembled at Mount Vernon. " (Continued on Page on which are Mrs. Samuel A. Swig- | j | gett, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, George three large or five small canvases or | S be distributed impartially by an arti 3 prizes. It is the declared purpose nrl g Stop that pounding — “Ben-Gay" penetrates skin... muscle...joints Kill those neuralgic and head p: with “Ben-Gay,” the original Baume| Analgesique. Just rub on a generous quantity. No matter how far in the pain is, “Ben-Gay” will find it—will stay in the pain area—and rout it! For “Ben- Gay” has a powerful hyposensitizing (pain-relieving) action. It has power to penetrate, power to kill the pain when it gets at it. Look for the red “Ben-Gay™ on the box. RUB PAIN AWAY BAUME BEN-GAY" IT P-E-N-E-T-R-A-T-E-§ WITH The regular use of Webster’s Collegiate improves your chances for handy dictions I rapidly incre or infor- ‘your fund bost abridged dictionary. The largest of the Merriam-Webster .50: Fabrikoid $5.00; Leather $7.00; of your irect to the publishers. Question Booklet of twelve quizzes, sent about Webster's Colleglate Dictiona: RINGFIELD, MASS. seller of ry.