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A\ OLD-FASHIONED SENATOR) Orvllle
H. Piatt of foBBfctlcn)) The
Story of a Life VnaelSahly DcrotN
to the Public Service. By Louis A.
Coolidge. New York: G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
LOPIS A. COOLIDGE here turns
his powers as writer and student
of men and affairs over to the
biographic service of Senator
Orville Piatt. In the author's
judgment, a iudgment ripening now these
twenty years, Mr. Piatt by his life ami
Influence translated into a distinct idea.
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career is the materialization of the idea
of disinterested service in its most nearly
perfect measure, a pattern, imitahle.
Inspiring, ideal; a challenge to the patriotic
historian and a warrant for place
in the permanent annals of a great repyblic.
By way of public service, therefore.
and in the nature of an apprecia.
tion, Mr. Coolidge sets out the life of
this senator whom Ins own Connecticut
people, for reasons good to them, affectionately
,call "the Abraham Lincoln
of New England." In this complete and
discriminating study more than twentyfive
years of the political and legislative
history of the United States are presented
both in review and new view, with
Senator Piatt in tlie midst of large and
constructive measures to which lie contributed
initiative, or co-operation, or
sup iort. The author, familiar with his
lield. keen in interpretative power, expert
in the discovery and use of facts,
forceful and brilliant in literary means,
fills this study to the measure of its intent.
adding to the literature of history
thereby, this excellent biography, the
warmest and niost illuminating form of
histciic writing.
TH?: KOMAXCG OF THE AMERICAN
V\ % ? i Aa Embodied In the Stories
o? Our Public and .Private Armed
from 1775 to 10411b By Frederic
Stanhope Hill, late United States
Navy, author of "Twenty-Six Historic
Ships." etc. Illustrated: New
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ington: "Woodward A: Liothrop.
Gathering up the hundred and thirtyfive
years .hat infold our four greatest
jrars, Frederic Stanhope Hill draws out
a wonderful roster of men and shipsIIomeric
men and ships?upon which he
builds the gallant story of America on
the high seas. Daring, heroism, patriotism
of unsurpassed splendor srstain
without blemish this long and brilliant
adventure. From revolutionary days and
I'l.mmodore Joshua Barney down to the
present and Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans. from the little fighting schooner
Enterprise to the peaceful pageant, of sixteen
monster battleships rounding the
world, is a long and thrilling past-age .of
national achievement. This story <?longs
in the school as well as in the library.
RECOLLECTIONS OF A VARIED LIFE.
By George Gary Eggleston. New
York: Henry Holt & Co.
Of a nature made for feBowship. George
Gary Kggleston. writer, literary editor,
lawyer, soldier, rich in the faculty of attraction
and selection, rich, too. In range
it experience and gift of rocital. here sets
up his easel. Upon a canvas, years long
i.i i wide, he spreads in mellow tints anecdote.
incident, scene, ail brightly informing.
many genially humorous. Per-onalities
and localities hero glow in the
i^bt of intimate knowledge and comprenen3ion.
Edward Eggletton. Frank
Stockton. Mr. Howells. Mark Twain, John
Hay, Thomas Bailey AJdrtch and Mr.
Bryant are among those who in this
genial companionship step o?ut from beefnd
their works, concrete aeid personal.
^Newspaper experiences, newspaper appraisement
along many lines, methods of
work and critical estimates are among
:he waymarks of this delightful volume
it recollections. , ~ i
THE \M ERICA X PUBLIC LIBRARY.
By Arthur E. Bostwick. Ph?D? president
American Library Association.
New York: D. Appleton & Co.
This interesting account summarizes the
American library and presents it as a vital
force, a highly organized and useful
t. .siituuon aeveiopea ior punuc service,
keenly alive, even wholesomely aggress.
e. in .is relation to the educational and
so 'al needs of its community. Much of
t>:is discussion is addressed to the stuttnt
of library plans and methods, yet
t..o whole of it is well within the interest
of the general reader. Among the
b? st chapters, where ail are good, are
those describing the means and results
of bringing the child and the school, the
business man and the mechanic, into a
working use of the public library.
THE: THEORY OF THE THEATER:
And Other Principles of Dramatic
Criticism. By Clayton Hamilton, author
of "Materials and Methods of
Fiction." New York: Henry Holt &
Co.
Among the many accomplishments of
Brander Matthews is that of having
fired a group of disciples to emulation of
his own methods in his own field of professional
effort. Under the stimulus of
this admired teacher's personality a crop
of theater studies have ripened to the
harvest. By means of original.investigation
and scientific method the theater Is
measured and weighed and balanced.
From cavern beneath and dome above,
from side and front and rear, the mechanical
stage as such is investigated
soberly end reported upon gravely. From
this process deductions of serious import
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with every other part of the theater in
Its account >rith the drama. These experimental
studies make excellent working:
patterns; they make also extremely
dry reading. One admits joyfully that
the present volume is Juicier than the
most of theee, but even here method and
travail outweigh effects. Analysis, theory,
principle, definition, imagination, attention.
suggestion, intellectual measurements
and other psychological aspects on
both sides of the footlights, and In the
box office as well: modern mechanics and
conventions, these combine in a volume
whose artlsanship surpasses its art.
WILDERNESS PETS AT CAMP BITCKSHAAV.
By Edward Breck. author of
"The Way of the "Woods." With illustrations
from photographs from
life. Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company.
One stops a while over the soft gravand-silver
outside of this story book,
and a longer while over the enjoyable
pictures. These loiterings come quite
in the way of a fitting foretaste of
these bright out-of-door stories for
Ixjvs and girls, with a delectable camp
for housing and a group of intelligent.
thinking animals of the delightful
nature-faker sort to furnish adventure
and instruction in the ways of wilderness
folks. The author, with a couple
of exceptions, conscientiously noted,
vouches for the truth of his stories,
citing camera and notebooks in evidence
thereto.
SOCIAL A\D INDUSTRIAL* CONDITIONS
IN THE NORTH DURING
THE CIVIL. WAR. By Einerson David
Fite, Ph.D.. assistant professor
of history in Yale University. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
As a corrective view in behalf of the
historic integrity and usefulness of the
period under observation, Emerson David
Fite here presents an authoritative and
deeply interesting study of the social and
industrial conditions of the north during
the civil war. To the minds of both
historian and general observer the war
aspects of tills period have excluded a
consideration of the pursuits of peace.
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A FULL-LENGTH, life-size portrait
A of Washington, by Charles 111Eon
Peale. which has an interesting
history, has been loaned
to the National Gallery of Art
by Dr. George Reullng of Baltimore. It
represents the commander-in-chief of the
continental army standing, in uniform,
beside a small cannon on which he rests
his left hand. In his right hand, which
is placed on his hip, is his three-cornered
hat, and across his breast is the blue
sash ribbon which was the insigna of his
rank. British standards are on the
ground at his feet and at the upper part
of the canvas, drawn back like a curtain,
is a blue American flag. A landscape
forms the background, and in the remote
distance ore may discern some troops
marching, and a building, readily to be
identified as old Nassau Hall at Princeton.
This portrait belonged at one time to
Gen. Lafayette, and was purchased at
the sale of his effects at La Grange,
Prance, by Mon. Marsllle, a collector of
Paris. After Mon. Marsille's death in
1857 the portrait was bought by M. Duhamel,
who brought it to America the
following year. At the Duhamel sale the
painting was secured by Judge Tlssot of
New Orleans, from whose estate the present
owner acquired it. It is supposed to
have been a present from Gen. Washington
to Gen. Lafayette, but this is by
no means certain. In the Duhamel catalogue
it Is stated that it was a gift from
Washington to Louis XVI, by whom it
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seems exceedingly improbable.
It was the custom in those days, and
especially in America, for a painter to
make many copies, or replicas, of his
successful portraits, and in the instance
of the present portrait this was undoubtedly
done. There are several renditions
of this subject almost identical in every
respect, all of which are conceded to
have been the work of Charles Willson
Peale. Which was the original is not
positively known, nor d<^es It greatly matter..
One of these portraits, and one of the
best, if not the best, was discovered by
cliance a few years ago in private ownership
in Dublin. According to affidavits, it
belonged originally to Joseph Wilson, a
wealthy merchant of Philadelphia, and at
one time aid-de-camp to Washington,
who owned large properties in Ireland,
and? upon returning to his native land
was made consul to the United States.
The tradition in the family was that the
painting had been presented to Joseph
Wilson by Oen Washington, who had it
painted for him. Certainly the picture
was highly prized, and for three generations
was' handed down from father to
won. From the great-grandson It was secured
by Charles A. Munn of New York,
in whose possession it is at present.
The existence and absolute authenticity
of this portrait lends interest and throws
light upon the one recently loaned to the
National Gallery. The former is a larger
canvas than the latter, and leads to the
belief that the portrait owned by Dr.
Keuling has at some time In its history
been cut down to fit a frame or panel of
less dimensions than was the original intention.
For instance, in the Dublin portrait,
to the right of the general, appears
an orderly holding a horse, while in the
Lafayette" portrait but a portion of the
horse's head and the man's arm are seen.
That the artist would not have deliberately
painted only the arm stands to reason.
Furthermore, in the Dublin portrait
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CARE OP TREES IN LAWN,
STREET AND PARK. With a List of
Trees and Shrubs for Decorative
Ise. By Bernhard E. Pernow, dean
of the faculty of forestry. University
of Toronto. Illustrated. New
York: Henry Holt & Co.
Appreciation of the trees has spread so
far among the people of this generation
that a new literature has come into being
dealing with the subject and placing the
principles of forestry within easy reach of
all. Dr. Fernow has been called the
father of forestry in America. To him
has been given the credit of developing a
national sentiment in favor of tree culture
on a large scale for the benefit of
future generations. It Is. eminently appropriate
that he should have been chosen,
therefore, for the production of this volume
of the "Amer'can Nature Series,"
and what he has to say regarding the
treatment of trees will be accepted as authoritative.
His suggestions are practical
and not unintelligibly technical. He addresses
lilmself directly to the main po'nt
of interest, which is that of the averagj
tree lover who desires to prolong the lifo
of every growth and preserve whatever Is
of value in every tree. A chapter on the
characteristics, structure and life of trees
lays the foundation of useful knowledge,
lead'ng naturally to the generalities of the
diseases and death of trees, followed by a
specific discussion of particular diseases
and the methods of coping with them.
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PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHIXGT
the blue flag draped over the general's
head bears a circle of thirteen stars,
whereas the Lafayette portrait shows the
banner plain blue and unmarked. There
are other differences, but trifling, which, far
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CHAPTER III.?Continued.
"It was your dear mother that caught
the colonel. Addie; you are pretty and
you like clothes and you know how to
wear them, but you haven't your dear
mother's strategic mind. Oh, you were
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Tou are so satisfied with your own virtue,
and you are so pained by my degradation!
Let's see where you come out."
He continued to mutter to himself as
he refolded the letter. He grinned his
appreciation of the care which had
caused its author to avoid the placing of
any telltale handwriting on the envelope.
"I'm a bad. bad lot, colonel, but there
are traps my poor wandering feet have
not stumbled into."
He glanced hurriedly at the packet of
letters that he had found with the photograph
and then thrust this latest letter
in with the others and locked them all in
a tin box he found in one of the drawers.
When this had been disposed of he
pulled the desk out from the wall and
drew from a hidden cupboard in the back
of it a ctuart bottle of whisky and a
glass. The sight of the liquor caused the
craving of an hour before to seize upon
him with renewed fury. He felt himself
suddenly detached, alone, with nothing
else in the world but himself and this
Then como directions for the control of
physiological diseases and the treatment
of mechanical injuries, together with the
general care of trees, the prolongation of
tho life of aged trees by surgery and hole
plugging. Another chapter deals with the
control of parasites. Important suggestions
are given as to care in planting
trees, the principles of esthetic forestry,
and, finally, care in the choice of plant
material. One of the most va'uable features
of the book is a selected list of trees
for shade and ornament, of shrubs and of
plant material for special purposes, these
simple directions forming nearly one-half
of the volume and placing within easy
reach of any reader a well arranged mass
of reliable informat'on. Photographs and
diagrams add materially in the elucidation
of the principles laid down by this
eminent forester.
DANBURY ROOD. AVIATOR- By
Frederick Palmer. Illustrated. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Washington: Ilrenlano's.
Mr. Palmer was one of the first in tho
field of the new fiction of aviation, with
a. series of short stories in Scribn^r's, telling
of the experience of Danbury Rodd.
In the light of recent developments with
the airplane the adventures of Rodd are
by no means preposterous, although Mr.
Palmer has undoubtedly idealized the art
or sport or science of air gliding, whatever
it may be called. Added to the particular
interest of tales about the new
accomplishment of man there is a distinct
charm about these stories as romances
of an intensely modern type.
CHILDREN'S GARDENS; For Pleaaare,
Health and Education. By Henry
Griscom Parsons, secretary and
practical adviser of the international
Children's School Farm League, etc.
Illustrated. New York: Sturgis &
Walton Company.
Mrs. Henry Parsons founded the famous
children's school farm in DeWitt
Clinton Park in New York city, which
established the principle in the metropolis
of giving the youngsters something practical
to do with the soil. It has been
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prove its authenticity.
Peale was not a great painter, but lie
was an exceptionally good painter for his
time. He was born at Chesterton, Md., in
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bright fluid. It flashed and sparkled alluringly,
causing all his senses to leap.
At a gulp his blood would run with fire,
and the little devils would begin to dance
in his brain, and he could plan a thousand
evil deeds that he was resolved to
do. He was the blotter, and a blotter
was a worthless thing, to be used and
tossed aside by every one as worthless.
He would accept the world's low appraisement
without question, but he
would take vengeance in his own fashion.
He grasped the bottle, filled the glass to
the brim and was about to carry it to his
lips when the clerk whom he had passed
in the outer office knocked sharply, and,
without waiting, fiung open the door.
"Beg pardon, but here's a gentleman
to see you, Mr. Cralghill."
With the glass half raised. Wayne
turned impatiently to greet a short man
who stood smiling at the door.
"Hello, Cralghill!"
"Jimmy Paddock!" blurted Wayne.
The odor of whisky waf keen on the air
and Wayne's hand shook with the eagerness
of his appetite; but the fool of a
clerk had surprised htm at a singularly
Inopportune moment. He slowly lowered
the glass to the desk, his eyes upon his
caller, who paused on the threshold for
an Instant, then strode in with outstretched
hand.
"That delightful chauffeur of yours told
me you were here and I thought " I
wouldn't wait for a better chance to loolc
you up. Had to come into town on go
errand?was waiting for the trolley?
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tion has been of the utmost value in not
only offering healthful occupation to
large numbers of city-bound children, but
in directing the attention of the educators
and municipal authorities to the
need of stimulating the natural love of
soil culture inherent in man. Mrs. Parsons'
son produces the present volume,
descriptive of the work in DeWitt Clinton
Park, and carrying out in the form of
general principles the lessons there learned.
Mr. Parsons'addresses himself largely
to the teachers who are charged with
the responsibility of bringing the children
into the open air.
THE BLACK BEAR. By William H.
Wright, author of "The Grizzly
Bear." Illustrated from photograph:
by the author and J. B. Iverfoot. New
York: Charles Spribner's Sons
Washington: Brentano's.
A glance at the frontispiece of this volume,
showing a portrait of Ben and the
author, suffices to lead one on to an increasingly
enjoyable reading. The story
of Ben, which opens the work, comprises
about one-third of it and appropriately
leads up- to the general discussion of the
black bear, the result of direct observation
of that interesting creature in the
wilderness. The story of Ben tells the
life history, so far as the author know:
it, of a black bear captured as a cub in
1890. Ben was then about four or five
months old. He became a close friend
and companion of his captor, but, as Is
the case with.all wild animal pets, Ben
grew up into adult bearhood and became
a problem. He was finally the cause ol
such a serious neighborhood disturbance
that his owner was obliged to give him
to the manager of a traveling circus, and
at last accounts the grown-up Ben. whose
appealing baby face in the frontispiece
makes friends for this fascinating book
was on the road entertaining the public.
THE TAMING OP RED BUTTE WESTICR.V
By Francis Lynde. Illustrated.
New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons. Washington: Brentano's.
Only a man with an intimate acquaint
ance with railroading could wrrite such x
story as this. It deals with the flnallj
successful efforts of an easterner to brinj
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lar cleverness and versatility. He is sab
to have been able to make a harness, s
clock or a silver molding, and traditioi
has It that he stuffed birds, extracted am
repaired teeth and gave popular, lecture;
before he turned his attention to art am
went to London to study under Benjamii
West. At the outbreak of the revolutioi
he Joined the army and commanded j
company at the battles of Germantown
Trenton. Princeton and Monmouth. Hi
had, therefore, singular opportunity ti
make studies of Washington, and it is be
lleved that he painted more portraits o
the general from life than any other art
ist.
Pea'.e's portraits of Washington are no
uniformly successful. The type given ii
the portrait at the National Museum nov
is, however, an interesting one. Between i
and the "Father-of-His-Country" type
set forth by Gilbert Stuart, there is grea
divergence. Washington here is shown ii
the prime of life, dignified, alert and com
manding?a definite personality.
As has already been said, there are otbe
renditions oi this same composition, nota
bly one in the Metropolitan Museum. Nev
York, presented by the late C. P. Hunt
ington. One is at Shirley on the Jame:
river. There is one in the Palais at Ver
steillps. . The Earl of Albemarle owns ?
copy which was captured on the high sea;
many years ago by one of his ancestors
and one hangs at Quiddenham Hall. Eng
land. There is one In Independence Hall
Philadelphia, which was brought to thii
country not long ago from Spain. Thoraai
McKean of the same city owns one, an<
there is another in the Capitol. The las
was included In the list of art objects be
longing to the National Institute which ii
1862 were turned over to the Smithsoniai
Institution. In some strange way thii
wandered to France In the early days o
the republic, and when it was brough
back to America was purchased bi
Charles B. Calvert for *200. In 1882
however, after the picture had helongec
to the nation for twenty years, Congres:
appropriated *,"?,000 to satisfy a clain
brought by Titian Peale, a son of th<
painter. It was at that time that the pic
ture was transferred to the Capitol, when
it now hangs.
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AMONG the artists represented in th?
forty-third annual exhibition of.th?
American Water Color Society, which is
now in progress in New York, are James
Henry Moser. Miss Bertha E. "Perrle,
Everett L. Warner and Miss Ellzabetl
Muhlhofer, all of whom are members
of the Washington Water Color Club
Mr. Moser Is represented by three paintings,
all cloud effects in the mountains
Miss Perrie shows four of her studies
made abroad last summer and exhibited
in January in this city. Mr. Warnei
sends five recent works and Miss Muhlhofer
one, a study .of jonquils. This is an
exceptionally fine exhibition with representative
w;ork from a majority, of th
foremost water colorists. Works by Sargent
and WInslow Homer have beer
borrowed from collectors; a large group
of paintings by the late James D. Smillie
Is shown, and quite a number by Augustus.
John, an English artist of ability, il
eccentricity. The prize given annually by
William T. Evans was awarded to a
wood interior, "June," by R. M. Shurtleff,
who is represented in both the Corcorcan
Gallery of Art and the National
Gallery.
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The glass was at last safe on the desk
and Wayne, still dazed by the suddenness
with which his thirst had been defrauded,
turned his back upon it and
greeted Paddock coldly. The Rev. James
Paddock had already taken a chair, with
his face turned away from the bottle,
and he plunged into lively talk to cover
CraighiU's embarrassment. They had
not met for Ave years, and then it had
been by mere chance in Boston, when
they were both running for trains that
carried one to the mountains and the
other to the sea. Their ways had parted
definitely when they left their preparatory
school, Wayne to enter the "Tech,"
Paddock to go to Harvard. Wayne was
not In the least pleased to see this old
comrade of his youth?there was a wide
gulf of time to bridge and Wayne shrank
from the effort of flinging his memory
across it. As Paddock unbuttoned his
topcoat, Wayne noted the clerical collar
?noted It, it must be confessed, with
contempt. He remembered Paddock as a
rather silent boy. but the young minister
talked eagerly with infinite good spirits,
chuckling now and then in a way that
Wayne remembered. As his resentment
of the intrusion passed, some reference
to their old days at St. John's awakened
his curiosity as to one' or two of their
classmates and certain of the masters,
and Wayne began to take part In the
talk. ,.
Jimmy Paddock had been a homely boy
and the years had not improved his looks.
His skin was very dark, and his hair
black, but his eyes were a deep, unusual
blue. A sad smile somehow emphasized
the plainness of his cleanuhavan
Com s no If f> with a curious
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rapidity, the words jumbling at times,
and after trying vaguely to recall some
idiosyncrasy that had set the boy apart,
Wayne remembered' that Paddock had
stammered, and this swift utterance with
its occasional abrupt pauses was due to
his method of conquering the difficulty.
Behind the short, well knit figure Wayne
saw outlined the youngster who had been
the wonder of the preparatory school
foot ball team for two years, and later
at Harvard the hero of the varsity
eleven. There was no question of identification
as to the physical ir.an; but the
boy he had known had led in the wildest
mischief of the school. He distinctly
recolleoted occasions on which Jimmy
Paddock'had'heen caned, In spite of the
fact that he belonged to a New England
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order out of the chaos of management and
undiscipline prevailing upon a western
: division of a large system, the result of
faithlessness on the part of trusted ofll- ]
i cials. Mr. Lynde brings into sharp and
' effective contrast the elements of dra
matic opposition, a refined man of ideas
and initiative, and the crude, rough spirit
i of the frontier. He offers an interesting
' psychological problem in the case of
' Howard Lidgerwood, who is a coward at
' heart in regard to physical danger, and
i who abhors himself for his weakness. Yet '
in the supreme moment of crisis Lldgerwood
meets an emergency with a cool
front that wins for htm his ultimate victory
and gains him a wife. There is
an undeniable atmosphere of the west in
1 this narratiVe.
. GOLF) For Be*leoers?amd Others. Bv
Marshall Whit latch. Illustrated.
New York: Outing Publishing Company.
Mr. Whitlatch confesses in his introduc,
tion to an early disregard for the game of
, golf amounting to contempt, and it is in
. the light of ills early Inexperience that he
. has offered this volume for the>guidance
. of all who take up the game with the
> same inadequate equipment that he did.
> He recognizes the fact that little errors
1 at the beginning make the later acquisi\
tion of correct form and the development
i of good golf difficult, if not impossible,
i and consequently his suggestions are 1
, painstaking. His directions are couched
in the vein of direct personal address,
; with a breezy informality that compels
s attention and carries conviction. The
t diagrams are especially effective, being
I reproducfd from photographs taken espe?
elally for this purpose to illustrate the
> main points of advice and warning of,
fered by the author.
: BOOKS RECEIVED.
1 THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE. By E.
7 Phillips Oppenheim. author of
\ "Jeanne of the Marshes," etc. IllusD
ARTISTS.
- as delegates, the annual convention of
i the American Federation of Arts.. This
i convention, which will assemble on
l Tuesday morning, will, bring together
1 practicing artists, architects, art teachers,
s museum directors and city planners and
1 builders, from all parts of the country?
i as far west as California, as far south
i as Texas and Louisiana, as far east as
i Massachusetts and as far north as Min,
nesota. Among the speakers will be
e George de Forest Brush, whose painting
5 "Mother and Child" is one of the most
- notable in the Corcoran Gallery's permaf
nent collection; Eld win H. Bashfleld, the
- distinguished mural painter: Cass Gilbert.
past president of the American
t Institute of Architects; Ralph Adams
i Cram, the well known architect; Dr.
' James P. Haney, director of art, in the
t high schools of New York; J. Horace
? McFariand, president of the American
1 Civic Association; James L. Slay1
den, member of Congress from Texas;
- P Allan Wh1Mn?r serretftrv nf the Na
tiona League of Handicraft Societies,
r and Percy M&cKav.
The convention will be opened by the
r Secretary of the Treasury. Franklin
" MacVeagh, and the delegates will be
s received by the President at the White
" House on the closing day. The sessions
1 will be held morning and afternoon on
3 the 17th, 18tli and 19th in the red par
lor at the Willard Hotel and will be open
~ to the public. On Wednesday evening a
reception will be given in honor of the
3 delegates at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
3 by the board of trustees, to which about
a thousand invitations have been issued.
*
\ * *
i ni'KL PARDEE TO DM AN has been
s holding an exhibition of his paintings
^ at his studio, 1517 H street, this week.
k- Thirty-two pictures were shown, cover.
ing the work of about six years. Some
1 were portraits, others subject pictures,
3 and yet others landscapes. The majority
3 were painted in the vicinity of Wash
ington and manifested on the part of the
2 painter a keen appreciation of the pictorial.
Mr. Tolman is a member of the
faculty of the Corcoran School, an instructor
in the night classes. For the
past year he has been largely engaged in
painting, as a commission, portraits in
miniature of the Presidents of the United
States, in each instance making an accurate
copy of a portrait by some able
painter. These have been executed on
parchment of the finest quality and have
been rendered with great skill.
*
* *
A POSTER competition will be held at
the Business High School next Tuesday
afternoon, the posters entered in
competition being by the students of the
school. Their object is to advertise the
annual excursion and the competition Is
instituted by the Alumni Association.
Miss Annie M. Wilson and Mrs. L. M.
Leisenring will act as judges. A similar
competition was held before and with
marked success, arousing much interest
among the pupils and bringing out some
excellent work. The prizes offered amount
in ail to $10.
*
I * *
* UCIEN W. POWELL has returned
A* from his trip to Egypt and the Holy
Land, which from first to last was attended
with great success. The trip
occupied between three and four months
v. i
family of wealth and social distinction.
Paddock, with his chair tipped back and
his hands thrust into his pockets, volun- !
teered answers to some of the questions
that were in Wayne's mind. 1
"You see, Craighill, when I got out of
college my father wanted me to go into ?
the law. but I tried the law school for 1
about a month and it was no good, so I J
chucked it. The fact is. I didn't want to *
do anything, and I used to hit it up oc- 1
casionally and paint things to assert my *
independence of public opinion. It was *
no use; couldn't get famous that way; J
only invited the parental wrath. Then J
a yellow newspaper printed a whole page j
of pictures of American degenerates, sons 1
of rich families, and would you believe *
it, there' I was, like Abou Ben Adhem. *
leading all the rest! It almost broke my I
mother's heart, and my father stopped 1
speaking to me. It struck in on me. too. *
to find myself heralded as a common 1
blackguard, so I went into exile?way up 1
in the Maine woods and lived with the j
lumber-jacks. Up there I met * aul Stod- 1
dard.. He's the head of the Brqthers of <
Bethlehem, who have a house over here 8
in Virginia. The brothers work princi- 1
pally among men?miners, sailors, lumbermen.
It's a great work and Stoddard's
a big chap, as strong as a bull,
who knows how to get close to all kinds
of people. I learned all I know from
Stoddard. One night as I lay there in my
shanty it occurred to me that never in
my whole stupid life had I done anything
for anybody. Do you see? I wasn't converted,
in the usual sense "?his manner
was wholly serious now. and he bent toward
Wayne with the sad little smile
about his lips?"I didn't feel that God
was calling me or anything of that kind;
I felt that man was calling me. I used
to go to bed and lie awake up there in
the woods and hear .the wind howling
and the snow sifting in through the logs,
and that idea kept worrying me. A lot
of the jacks got typhoid fever, and ]
there wasn't a doctor within reach anywhere.
so I did the best I could for them.
For the first time in my life I really felt *
that here was something werth doing, t
and it was fun. too. Stoddard went from t
there down to New York to . spend a 1
month in the East Side and I hung on to c
him?I was afraid to let go of him. He !
gave me things to do, and he suggested j
that I go into the ministry?said.my work c
would be more effective with an organi- ?
zation behind me?but I ducked, and j
ducked hard. I told him the truth, about t
what I didn't believe, this' and that and 1
1=3
trated by Will Foster. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
PLAT | CmprMag Claw for the Kladfrgartea
Plartrond, VkaolrMw
and Col lose. How to Coaeh sad Play
Girls* Basket Ball, etc. By Emmett
Dunn Angell. department of physical
education. University of Wisconsin.
etc. Boston: Little. Brown &.
Co.
rHE BOY AVIATOR SERIES?THE
BOY AVIATORS IX NICARAGUA,
or, la Ltagse With the Iaaarseata.
By Capt. Wilbur Lawton. New York:
Hurst & Co.
A DILEMMA t Story of Meatal Per lexttT.
Bv Leonidas AndrelyefT, au
thor of "Silence," etc. Translated
from the Russian by John Cournos.
Philadelphia: Brown Brothers.
rBKDEKCYt The Effect of Tread and
Drift la the Developmeat of Life.
By James K. Vance. D- D. New
York: Fleming H. Revell Company.
HAVERFORD LIBRARY LEt'TlRKS?
. THE GOSPEL AND THE MODERN
MAN. By Shailer Mathews, professor
of Historical and Comparative Theology
in the University of Chicago;
author of "The Social Teaching of
Jesus." etc. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
THE DAUGHTERS OP SUFFOLK. By
William Jasper Nicolls. Illustrated.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lipplncott Company.
MAKERS OF SORROW AND MAKERS
OF JOY. By Dora Melegari. Authorized
translation from the original
French. By Marian Lindsay. New
York: Funk & Wagn&lls Company.
SONGS OF CHEER. By John Kendrick
Bangs. Boston: Sherman, French &
Co.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REASONING.
By W. B. Pillsbury, Ph.D., junior
professor of philosophy, director of
the psychological laboratory. University
of Michigan. New York: D.
Appleton & Co.
and meant almost constant traveling,
Mr. Powell has brought back with him,
however, over sixty sketches which he
will exhibit here, probably early n#xt
fall. Mr. Powell expects to spend "the
summer at his country home in Virginia.
e *
THE closing exercises of the Corcoran
* School, which consist of the exhibition
of the work of the year and the
award of medals and other honors, have
been postponed from the 28th to the 31st
of this month.
9
9 *
MISS BERTHA E. PERRIE is conducting
an outdoor sketch class this
month, taking her classes into the outskirts
of the City for landscape study on
three afternoons each week. Miss Peruj:_
*u? ?_m r
lit; win tiuac iitri MUUIU ixit; IM HI junf
and go to Cornwall. Conn., where for a
time she will visit friends.
m
* ?
THE Capital Camera Club's annual exhibition
closes tomorrow afternoon.
It has been -well attended and much
praised. Photographs obviously make
little display, requiring somewhat intimate
examination, but they make appeal
through their intrinsic interest. The work
shown in the exhibition is of an exceptionally
high standard.
w
* *
ALMOST immediately after Gov. Johnson
of Minnesota died a movement
was started to erect a monument to him.
Subscriptions were solicited, but limited
to a very small sum, a dollar #r less.
Within a very brief time $35,000 was raised,
which was sufficient guarantee to proceed
with the project. The commission
for the memorial, which is to take the
form of a portrait statue, has been given
to Andrew O'Connor, to whom, it will be
remembered, the first award was made in
the John Barry competition.
*
a
THE Metropolitan Museum. New York,
has recently made several valuable
acquisitions. Most notable of these perhaps
is a painting by Rubens, "The Wolf
and the Fox Hunt." a canvas over twelve
feet long by eight feet high, which shows
the hunters closing in around the wolves
and foxes attacked by dogs. Two of the
figures are supposed to represent Rubens
and his first wife, Isabella Brant. It is
exceedingly characteristic and splendidly
decorative in motive.
m *
AT the McKinley Manual Training
High School next Wednesday afternoon
at quarter of 4 o'clock Dr. James P.
Haney, director of art in the high schools
of New lork, will give a lecture on "Art
Problems for Teachers," illustrated with
drawings. This lecture will be primarily
for the benefit of the teachers of the
Washington schools, but will be open to
others specially interested.
*
* *
T'HE competition for designs for the
* Red Star Christmas stamp will be
held at the Corcoran Gallery next week,
the work of all competitors being placed
on exhibition in the hemicycle hall.
LBILA MECHLIN.
so on; but he put the thing to me in a
new way. He said nobody could believe
In man who didn't believe in God. too!
Do you get the idea? Well, I was a long
:ime coming to see it that way.
'It was 110 good going home to knock
iround and no use discussing such a
hing with my family, and I knew people
vould think me crazy. Stoddard was gong
west, to do missionary stunts in
Michigan, where there were more lumber
amps, so I went along. I used to help
dm with the lumber-jacks, and try to
teep the booze out of them; and first
hing I knew he had me reading and geting
ready for orders; he said I'd better
teep clear of divinity schools; and I
ruess he had figured it out that if I got
oo much divinity I would get scared and
jack water. Then I went home and
jroke the news to the family. They
lidn't take much stock in it; they
hnnrht T a-niilH toko n tumble and he a
vorse disgrace than ever. But there was
ilenty of money and I had no head for
lusiness. anyhow, and there was a
rhance that I might become respectable.
10 I got ordained very quietly three years
Lgo at a mission away up on Lake 8ujerior,
where a bishop had taken an in;erest
in me?and here I am."
The minister drew a pipe front his
>ocket. filled and lighted it, shaking his
lead at Craighlll's offer of a cigar.
"Thanks, I prefer this. Hope the smoke
von't be painful to you; 'it's a brand
hey affect out in mj* suburb, but it's
letter than what we used to have up in
he lumber camps. I still take the com'ort
of a pipe, but the drink I cut out
ind the swearing. As I remember, it
was you who taught me to cuss in school
lecause my stammering made it sound so
funny."
(To be continued tomorrow.)
Parricide in China.
Prom the Westminster. Gasettc.
The Pekin Gazette of recent date gives
wo rescripts in connection with criminals
who "on account of madness" have killed
heir father and grandfather, respectively,
rhege words are always added in such
ases, for the crime of parricide is so
letnous that strictly speaking the whole
topulation of the city is responsible; the
tty walls have to be razed and a new
lite must he found elsewhere. In Ssechuan
irovince there Is a deserted city, visible
a travelers from the river, where tkis
aw. was once strictly carried out.
IP
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THEPUBLICLIBRARY
HEW HISTORICAL AHD DESCRIPTIVE
WORKS.
The following hooks have been added
to the Public Library during the Inst
few weeks. Among the titles of into*
est are Misa Laut's work on Canad;
Eggleston's History of the Confederate
War and Chancellor's dencription of the
private palaces of London.
The Jews.
Condor. C. R. City of Jerusalem. rrtU CT".
Hyauisoii. A. M. History of tbo Jewa in Ko*
land. iflOR. FGl-itMlff.
.? vii<jcj?4hiii. p. * riminsi jlinsprvnrncc or u
Aucioui Hebre**. iw*l, KN-X1523.
European'* History.
^ Faligno. Cesare. The Story of Padua. K3*?
MfKIllf, l.vwii. The First Gentleman of Kr
rotw. 1WK5. F4.V14-M497.
Kumhold. Sir Horace. Nth bart. Francis Joseph
and Hla Time. F3633 R*i.
Vernon, K. D. Italy From 141*4 to 1790. |r|
\ 500.
Canada: History.
Bradley. A. G. Making of Canada. ]ftirFKJ-BTaim.
I.aut. A. C. Canada, the Empire of the North.
FS2-L377.
Laut. A. C. Conquest of tbe Groat Xnrtbwes'
Story of the Hudson's Bay Compact. Sr. lay*
FS25-L377.
Lncas. Sir C. P. History of Canads. ITtKHSli*
F82-L962.
United States: History.
Crockett. W. II. History of I,ake Chamtlai:
FS43C33-CS7.
Curtis. Natalie, ed. The Indian's Bn,?k. 1907
FM4-CM4.
Kgglesfon. G. C. History of the Confederate
War: Its Causes and Its Conduct. 2v. Fa;'4
Eg85.
Elaon. II. W. History of the Cnlted Stat.-s
of Americs. 5v. 1908. F8.1-E176hi.
Ewlng. E. W. H. niat.a-y and law of iV
Hayes-TUden Conteat Before the Electoral Com
ulsaion. tbe F'orida Caw. 1K76-77. FM7 2Kw.V..
Macdonald. Wllllatn. l*ocumeiitarr Source Bo,,
of American History, 1600 1 Hi*. FS3-M146J
Italy: Description.
Bunaen, M. I. In Three Legations. G35-BS9S.
Carden. R. W. City of Genoa. 1908. G.18G
C177.
Hutton. Edward. In Fnknown Tuscany. G"Bl
H87H.
Hutton. Edward. Rome. G80-H:t75r.
Johnson. V. W. Lily of tlie Arno. 19:"
G35F-J037.
Jones. H. F. Diversions In Sicily. G35S-J7'.
Potter, l). M. The t'olonr of Rome, iliatorn .
Personal and Ixtcal. Q34-PKTi.t
Tozler. Josephine. Susan in Sicily. G35S T?'
I'nder I'etraia, With Some San uterine*. <13'.
Un237.
Williams. E. R., JT- Hill Towns of Italj
1904. U35-W674.
England: Description.
Bradley, A. G. Romance of Xortbumlierlaa.!.
1905. G45NorB72.
Chancellor, E. B. Private I'alaces of Lonft.ti
Paat and Prcaent. G45L-C3G2p.
Hacktvood. F. W. Inns. A'es and Drinking
Customs of Old England. <145-111131.
Herbert, Agnes. Tbe lale of Man. G45MH418.
I/eyland. Jobn. Shakespeare Country Illustrated.
1900. G45-L596*.
.vitirpny, i. u. iu i. niamuiur r.ngiaira. ? *.>>
M9M1.
Shelley. H. C. Fnlroddon English Way*, lfu*.
G4.VSb45u.
Sytnona. Arthnr. London: A Book of Aspe<:?.
1908. G45L-Sytl6.
Tomlinson, E. T. The British Isles. G449TSW5.
West. Sir Algernon. One Ctty and Many Meu.
1908. G45L-W422.
Asia: Description.
Blakeslee, G. Ii. Chin* and the Far East.
GOS-B585.
Bonlllane de Lacoste. E. A. II. do. Around
Afghanistan. GB39-B0B.
Hare!!. E. B. Beuareg, the Sacred City. 190.-,.
G04-H317.
Headland. I. T. Court Life in China. GOT.
H342eo.
Nerlnaon. H. W. New Spirit in India.
G6?-N4J4n.
Shoemaker, M. M. Heart of the Orient. 1MI.
G60-Sli"3.
Towmsliend. A. F. Military Consul in Turkey.
GflOl-TOfis.
Toungb 11sband. F. E. Heart of a Confines!;
Travels In Manchuria, etc. 1904. G04-TS8.
FOR BOTS ARB GIRLS.
Religion.
A Life of Chriat for Children, prefaced by Cardinal
Gi*aons. JOGQ-L62.V
Serur. ?L B. Life of Christ for Children; tr.
by M. V. Merrick. JCGQ Se37.
Fairy Tales and Legends.
Aunt Naomi. Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables.
, Coe. F. E. First Book of Storlea for the Story
Teller.
Darton. F. J. II. A Wonder Book of Beasts
i Douglas. Sir George. Scottish Fairy and Folk
l Tales. JBF4C-D74.
i Hutchinson, W. M. L. Orpheus With 1L*
Lute. Stories of the World's Springtime. iBZvH972o.
Lang. Andrew. Tales of King Arthur and the
Round Table. JYLL252tk.
Lansing. M. F. Life In the Greenwood. JYLL297.
Zlmmern. Alice. Old Tales From Rome. lt%;.
JBZQ-Z07o.
Work and Play.
Beard. Lina and Adelia B. Little Folks' Handy
: book. JYM-B3821.
Burchenal. Elizabeth. Folk Dances and J^ing
ing Games. With Music. 1VQ-B8M.Y
Corbin. Alice. Adam'a Dream and Two Oth r
Miracle Plays for Children. JYD-C812u<1
1 Higgins. M. M. Little Gardens for Hoy* and
Girls. JRI-H537.
Psret. A. P. Harper's Handy-book for Girls.
1WS-P213.
Pinchot. Gilford. Primer of Forestry, pt. 2;
Practical Forestry. JRJ-Ptfopr.
Rolt-Wheeler, Francis. The Boy With thr.
S. Surrey. JMC83-RB5.
Sltlgwick. Mrs. Alfr?il. and Paynter. Mrs. The
Children's Book of Gardening. JRIS-Sil04.
Biography and History.
Grierson. E. W. The Children's Book of English
Minsters. jWGK-GKTc.
Marcossou. I. F. Autobiography of a Clown.
jE-T8?Bm.
Marshall. II. B. Our Empire Story. JF45
Miwur.
Marshall, H. E. The Child's English Liters
ture. JZYMS.,4.
Stephens. Kate, ed. Stories From Old Oh mm
cles. jF45-St46S.
Stevenson. B. E. Child's Guide to Biography.
American Men of Action. jE-&St475.
DISCUSS KITCHENEE'S FUTUEE
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON. May o. 191?.
Lord Kitchener, who arrived in England
Wednesday, found that his future was
being discussed on every side. Every
one knows that he will not remain long
in the ornamental Mediterranean command,
which he only took by desire of
the king. The question that is agitating
many minds is whether he will go
back to Indian as viceroy, in succession
to Lord Minto. or to the war ottic!
Glittering and flattering as is the po>t
of Viceroy of India, it Is believed not
to appeal to Lord Kitchener, who dl.
likes all the fuss and pomp that are
inseparable from the post. He is.
moreover, a bachelor, which is a dramback
to the social aid o v ce oysl y.
Lord Kitchener's well meaning: friends
here are suggesting that he should fumade
minister for war, but his dislike
of party politics is so well known that
it is doubtful if he would ever identify
himself with a particular parf\
A lesser post than this, but one that
would give scope for the exercise of
his great genius, would be that of
chief of the general stuff, with a seat
011 the imperial defense committee.
This is now the most important post
in the army. The perfect general
staff is the creation of one .. as er mum
?It was so with the first and greatest
feneral staff of all?that of Moltke.
here is no soldier so well equipped as
Lord Kitchener to supply the army of
the empire with a great system controlled
by a single brain.
Immune.
Prom Puck.
Farmer Grayneck?S pose you are goln'
to git the automobile fever, Erry. liks
o very body else?
Fanner Hornbegk?Nope! . I've besa
vaccinated in the pocketbook ftnd it took.