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Show THE SAUB LAKE TJttlbUE, SUNDAY MOKNiNir, DEUfcMbEtt 8, 1929. CRITICAL RE YEWS ' OF LATE BOOKS French Struggle Toward Liberty Retold in Novel Colorado River Guild Chooses Artistic Volume Examples of the Rockwell Kent illustrations Voltaire's "Candide," selected as December book Guild patrons. To Bookfellows . ' Has Followed Call of Adventure on Many Unfre- Romance Threads Weave Through Revolution's THE WHIRLWIND. By William Siearns Davis. Publishers, The MacMillan Company, New York. "Suddenly, out of the white mists right before them, out of the. fog -wrapped hedges and the grayer void behind, came buglet, one, two, many. Then a French voice like a clarion. 'Advance!' Then, following the bugles and the command, a roar louder than the cannon, seven thousand voices, rancorous, frantic, all bellowing to- gether: blood-stlrrj- Wat-tiiml- es interesting. IMPORTANT SERIES OF BOOKS OFFERED BY ROERICH 1 PRESS Three volumes inaugurate a new series of publications to be known as the New Era Library, which has been founded by the Rot. ich Museum Press of New York. This series, ac cording to the announcement, is to be dedicated to the heroic deed and thought of the centuries, not limited to any one field, but Including books on art, science, biography and every field Illustrative of the growth oi eul ture and human progress. Tha books issued are: "American Artists." by Ivan Naxodny, which is devoted to contemporary American creators, such as Rockwell Kent. Leon Kroll Oari Melchers. Howard Giles, Robert W. Chanter, Leon Dabo and others, and two volumes of Nicholas Roerich, painter, writer and explorer. These are "Heart of Asia," telling of his Asian Journeys, and "Flams in ChaliC5." a collection of his poetry translated by Mary Siegrist being the first translation of his poems to appear in book form. Plans for the New Era Library are of wide scope, and include pubiica-tio- n of several important series, to be characterised by quality .and durability, and by distinction and beauty of form as well These publications are a part of the activities of the newly opened Roerich Museum founded in honor of Nicholas Roerich. Selecting as its December issue a book that Is both a literary and ar tiste masterpiece, the Literary Guild has followed Its precedent of last year in presenting to Its - patrons something in the nature oi a gut book for its holiday number. This is a resetting of the limited Random House edition of Voltaire's Candide," containing the Rockwell Kent illustrations. in The. Guild edition. ... hand-sGaramond type, has a binding of twilight blue aeroplane cloth stamped In silver, a specially drawn title page, and its jacket reflects the blue of the cover, making a handsome gut volume. Charles Edmund Merrill. Jr., contributes the Introduction, and the Kent illustrations finely interpret the character of the book. Mr. Kent, who is one of the most talked-o- f American artists, presents a wholly American viewpoint in his work. This artist is said to be more highly paid than any other artist of the present time. His whole training has been in America, where, prior to et his success In his art, he taught school, dug wells, built boats, labored on a farm, worked as carpenter and as a lobster-maanything by which to make his living. Finally he" was able to go to Alaska where he could study and work in solitude, and came back with a number of paintings that were sold at once to collectors. His later work has brought steadily increasing prices, and the Metropolitan n, Museum has honored him by buying one of his pictures, which Is unusual in the case of so young a man. The Rockwell Kent "Candide" In the Random House edition sold for $25 a copy, and the Guild edition reproduces all of his illustrations. for a few minor changes, the text is the same. These changes in the translations were based upon suggestions made by Leonard Mac kail in a review of the steclal edi tion, in which he noted that most of the Voltaire translations contained Guild slight errors. Carl Van Doren,no ex f, declares that been text at has purgation of the tempted. Ex-ce- Dt editor-in-chie- Treasury of Facts Concerning Music Now Entirely Revised THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF M U 8 I C AND M U 8ICIANS, Edited by Waldo Selden Pratt Publisher, The MacMillan Company, New York. Newly revised and brought down to the present, Mr. Pratt's volume Is an Invaluable reference work on the matters which come within its scope, and that Is exceedingly broad. If one considers that the information is compressed into less than one thousand pages. It contains the essential biographical Information concerning everyone of note in the musical field, as well as a dictionary of terms relating to music and its performance. The biographical section of the book requires largest space, naturally, and Includes some 7500 musicians of all countries, who have been active within the last 200 years. About 1000 others whose work came before 1700 have been covered In a classified summary which follows the fuller biographies. The first division of the book deals with all subjects pertaining to musical art, together with a wide bibliography. The last section gives in succinct form a mass of facts concerning over the musical organizations . world, and a chronological list cf operas and oratorios that have been produced since 1900. To every mu sician or musical critic the book pre tents an almost priceless treasury of facts, it also includes a ubi oi in terestinc illustrations. Mr. Pratt, who is musical editor of the Centurv Dictionary, is connected with the Hartford Seminary Foundation, and is also the author of other books on' musical topics. Including "A History of Music, AUTHOR IN PREDICAMENT, Paradis Marjorie Bartholomew wrote "The Caddis," giving an add etching of a married money-ma- d woman. And now some of her friends accuse her of lifting the story right out of their personal lives which seems, to the author, to prove that some people have a queer desire for - "Klnf-SpWer,- "- "I would rather be a prospector living on a little bacon and a bit of bread, and feeling that each day would bring something ne w, than be a streetcar man, comfortably settled and knowing exactly what is before him each day," declares Frederick 8. DeUenbaugh, explorer and author. "The prospector is kept moving, on the qui vive. all the time. And." be added. "I never have sat still long all my life." Mr. Dellenbaugh'a several books, based on his activities, bear him out He has covered much of the new country , of the West, the Colorado River region, Wyoming, California, Utah, and the Northwest, and also his adventures have taken him Into the southern American continent. He was one of the hardy men who acPowell's Colorado companied Major expedition tour, and was with the 1899 Harrlman cruising expedition into 81beria and Alaska. It was of this latter venture that he spoke to the Bookfellows at a luncheon held Friday, giving Intimate experiences of the trip. Alaskan Cruise Called "De Laxe" Expedition. The Harrlman cruise, while en- countering hasards as great as did Major Powell's party, was much better equipped, Mr. DeUenbaugh recalled. The railroad magnate's efficient leadershiD. to which ha ave high commendation, made complete equipment lor the cruise a requisite. Mr. Harriman's characteristic being mat, u uung was worm doing, it must be done thoroughly. Thus the "Oeorge W. Elder" was a ataunch ship, fully outfitted, and the expedl- uon m every way one to De termed a de luxe expedition. Of the very congenial party that accompanied Mr. Harriman's family group, were the famous naturalists, John Muir and John Burroughs, familiarly called "the two Johnnys." of which two old friends Mr. Dellen-baug- h told amusing Incidents. One evening when a majority of the party had betaken themselves to the upper deck to enjoy the wonderful glow on the mountains, and Mr. Muir arrived late, mt. Burroughs said to him "You should have been here 20 tnln utes ago Instead of slumbering In your cabin." To which his friend m. totted: "You should have been here i years hack, instead of slumbering uuwn mere on lilt MUOSOn. " Narrow Escapes rrou Danger Detailed. - Among other Interesting event the voyage, Mr. DeUenbaugh told a near shipwreck when the vessel was negotiating the passages between the Aleutian Islands, from which they were saved only bv the cantata' airiu. ful maneuvering, and of a terrific northwest gale off the Siberian coast Again, he told of a perilous passage up a narrow fjord of the Alaskan coast where the glaciers ran down mm ine waters on either side, where no vessel had before penetrated. The pilot, who said, when asked how he avoided the rocks, "I've struck every rock in Prince William Round that'. how I know where they are," declined io venture ana we captain took charge of the ship. Encountering the tide rip at the entrance on their return, It was narrowly that wreckage POET'S PHENOMENA D- - Lewis' biography of Louis XL is the December selection of the Catholic Book Club. Gigll scored a triple triumph In Vienna. The Literary Almanac h announced as the first Incumbent of "Bitter Water," the novel by Hauser which was awarded the the visiting professorship established In at the English university last year. Gerhard Hauptmann prise Germany, Is published in Ameri- He is the author of other literary ca by Horace Liveright "Brackwas-ser,- " volumes, "convention and Revolt in the book's German title, has Poetry and "Of Reading Books.' been praised by Thomas Mann, the on Houghton, Mifflin's list Nobel prise winner. The Archibald MacLeish, who was Hauser served In the navy during the war, and afterward spent another awarded the John Reed Memorial year at sea, which period gave him Prize by the editors of "Poetry." Is to the atmosphere he has recreated in have a new volume of poems issued In the spring by Houghton, Mifflin. his story. In The Tree of life." a unloue of the the author Myron Brlnlg, successful "Slngennann." a recent anthology Issued by the .Oxford UniFarrar fe Rinehart novel, already has versity Press, the "essentials of re two other books completed, "Bill" ligion" that science has left to the and "Anthony in the Nude." One of modern world, are reaffirmed bv these this firm will Issue In the Shaw, Ibsen, George Moore, Thomas spring, but publication of the other Hardy, and 500 others. The editors are Vivian de Sola Pinto and George is to be held until later. NeiU Wright . Thome Smith's "The Stray Lamb," which to our regret did not stray in John Maynard Keynes, the econoour direction, is to be starred on the mist who has asserted that the republishing list of Helnemann's, En- cent Wall Street crash was the beglish publishers, we are told by Cos- ginning of a stabilized market and a Hein-rlc- 1928 stabilization of money. mopolitan Book Corporation, which world-wid- e company brought out the American Is to have a new book, "Money and edition. Helnemann's appear ecstat- Credit" published In the spring, by ic about the book's possibilities. . . Harcourt, Brace. "MisAlso, Ben Lucien sissippi," of which we will have more to say later, is to have an English edition. Edward J. O'Brien, the authority on short stories, says "There wont be a book as good as this out of America this year." Cosmopolitan consider it one of their best Issues this season. Bui-man- 's A new novel by Blair Nlles, who wrote the "Condemned to Devil s Island," Is also on the spring schedule of this house. "Free" Is the new title, and the story Is of the outside the prison walls in French Guiana. ' "King Spider," the 0. B Wyndhara Lewis biography of Louis XI. Is dedicated to Hilalre Belloc,- - with many very complimentary Latin words a reversal of Mr. Lewis' manner tn the dedication of his "Francois Villon," in which he honored all the people he disliked most Coward MeCann have Just published the "King Spi- On the MacMillan list of biographies has been added "The Life of Lord Lansdowne," by .Lord Newton, who has had access to the letters of Lord Lansdowne, and who writes from knowledge gained by long experience In both houses of parliament Lansdowne's public life covered more der." than, a half century, and service In Publication of the three of the most Important posts of the empire, war minister, foreign sec "Coronet" by Manuel Komroff, Is now set for January 1, but with two retary and viceroy of India. editions, the largest of which. 90,000 John Livingston Lowes, whose copies, will compress the story into "The Road to Xanaxlu" was the route one volume, which also reduces to much fame, has found it led also nrice, according to Coward McCann's to Oxford. Professor Lowes has been latest announcement two-volu- me te OF -- TILTED MOONS' LYRICAL Studio Exhibit Holds Interest In Varied Ways MENTION TILTED MOONS. By S. Foster Da mon. Publishers, Harper and uroiners, ew York. Mr. Damon Is one of the younger poets whose voice Is making itself heard above the general chorus. He first drew attention to himself with a critical study of "William Blake." poet to whom his verse owes some what perhaps. But It Is an unimpor tant aeot, since n is distinctly per sonal expression that he puts into nis cook. New rhythms and new. adroit rhyme schemes are Mr. Damon's, and ms verse iiowers with an imagine tlve richness. He knows the music of words, and his employment of them weaves lyric melodies. In some of these poems a genuine emotional ex perlence Is embodied, others express more evanescent impressions that have touched his spirit His outlook is moaern, out not insistently "de sole." he does not look on life hope lessiy. tus ine Moaern Macaoer only: "The pleasant graveyard of my soul . With sentimental cypress trees And flowers is filled, that I may Sale of Keats' Love Letters" and " Tenebris." e Teachei Painter of Distinguished Caro-Una Aothor.v One-Tim- 7 quented Trails. Red Days. 'Allocs, enfants de la pa trie Le jour de glolre est arrive! . .' 'Out of the mists came the impact of men. . . The Austrian works cow were one line of fire. . . Not one shot yet had the French fired. Now the column was scrambling up the slope. Again the head melted away the touch of but, Antaeus-lik- e, Mother-Eart- h seemed to raise it with new ardor. From far back into the awful distance was again coming the song: 'Aux armes, cltoyens! formes i vos batalllonsl Marchons! qu'un sang lmpur " abreuye nos slUonsl' So reads the graphic, story of the French attack at in that October of 1793, which victory locked the gate of Paris on trie Austrian invaaers wno responaea to Marte Antoinette's treasonable conniving. It is but one of the dramatic scenes presented in this ro mantic novel whose background Is the French Revolution. Full Picture of Historic Period Drawn. The story covers the period from December. 1788, berore the assem bling of the States General, to July of 1794, following the downfall of that remarkable person who from a dandified provincial lawyer became head of the Terrorist regime, Robespierre "the Incorruptible." Though there are lapses in the chronology necessitated by the limitations of the novel. Professor Davis' canvas is a crowded one. It gives a glittering, thrilling pageant of the times, re creating the magnificence or the ver sallies court, giving vivid portraits of the Indecisive Louis XVI and the "Shepherdess of Trianon," showing also the turbulent life of .Paris, and carrying us, too, Into the provinces to give us a view of the oppressed Deasantry. Chief figure In the romance woven Into the tapestry, and also playing a responsible part in the Revolution, Is the Chevalier Rene de Massac, a favorite at the Court until he declares intention of marrying Virglnle Durand, daughter of a bourgeois chemist This misalliance opposed by bis relatives, the Queen schemes toward its prevention, requiring De Massac's absence on a private mis sion while the girl is abducted. Aristocrat Joins Cause Of People. The Chevalier espouses the Republican cause, becomes deputy to the States General, leads the Cordeliers In the attack on the Bastille, deserts the Assembly to fly to his sweet heart's rescue, and arrives to save his own cnateau rrom me excited peas ants. During the September hush of 1791. alter Louis had accepted the Constitution, the De Massacs' salon is gathering place for such patriots as Danton, Desmoulins, St. . Just, Robespierre. When the storm broke once more It Is De Massac's part to command the Cordeliers at the Tulleries attack, to lead the victorious brigade at Wattignies, to be Camot's right hand, to see his friend Danton destroyed, to know himself condemned. and to assist the revolt against the Reign oi Terrors It is stirring drama that Profes sor Davis has written of the Revolu tion, and there are exciting under currents, in the plot against Vlr ginie, who proves fit mate for the courageous De Massac, and In the entanglements of Laurent, De Mas sac's reckless Royalist cousin. With all the notable figures that move through his pages, there are two whose importance in the times is but recorded. Mlrabeau and LaFayette, the author leaves to their recent bl ographers, but his interpretations of other leading characters are highly Drawings by John Vassos for new edition of "The Harlofs House and Other Poems" translate poefs "On the CF CREATIVE AfiERICA Vassos Interprets Wilde for Moderns Explorer Talks for for e MUS LITERATURE AR OTREPRETATIONS ; Constituting a very Interesting por tion of the large exhibit of paintings viewed during the week at a studio tea given by the artist, Mrs. Alice L. Oldrtght were the several copies of notable canvases which hang In the Metropolitan museum, done a number of years ago by their possessor when, she was studying art In New York City. Mrs. Oldrtght has paint ed in many parts oi the united States and In South America, and the number of studies in her exhibit Indicate an Indefatigable energy. Mrs. Oldrtght Is originally from South Carolina, where she first took up art and has since studied hi New York and abroad. She was taught tho good drawing, which Is still a salient characteristic of her work, by Miss Una Porter, who was an aunf of . i Henry. Mrs. Oldrlght can boast with a great deal of pride that she was probably the author's first teacher, as, wnue sne was studying witn miss Porter, she took over classes for two small pupils, one of whom wss the young Sidney Porter. Marrying early, however, and go ing to Texas to live, Mrs. Oldrlght dropped her art work for a number of years, later going to New York to take up instruction again, working m , an Independent school and with pri-- , vate teachers. A number of scenes painted in Central park and an Oc tober stuay in Nepers oars; are sou venirs of this period. . r Copies ef Old Artists SbowSalll. Studying the methods of the ma-s- , ten of art represented in the Metropolitan gallery, she made tho copies which are now her prized po- s- J sessions. One of the finest of these ' is the "Arabs Crossing the Ford" of ' Eugene Fromentln, who was known for his interpretations of Algerian life. It is a spirited rendering of animal movement and attitude; nd its sky of flying elouds Is wonderfully alive. Another in which the cocv seems to express the soul of the original Is Arabs on the March." bv Adomh 8chreyer, the German painter of horses. This shows a party of desert Arabs riding toward the city, whose walls and domes rise above., sheik on the dunes. A white-roba magnificent white steed occupies ": the Immediate foreground. Monti- - celll's "Dames de Qualite," a garden with Watteau ladles, like a rich tap estry, ts another that holds one s. in- -. t 3i LOUISIANA SWAMP BLACKS' LIFE DONE WITH MUCH COLOR THE GIRL. By Evans Wall. Publisher. The Century York. New Company, Vivid portrayal of a region which has seldom been employed as background by the novelist, has been done by Evans Wall, a young southerner, whose first, novel this Is. It is in the swamp country of Louisiana that he sets his story, the poisonous sweet wet woods, lush and tnlasmlc, laying a spell upon the human consciousness, breeding disease and lust Here the negro is but an Infinitesimal lota removed from the primitive African, and the white man who "feels" Its charm is lost to civilisation. The atmosphere of the swamp, of "rank growth rooted in decay that never dries . . . The heavy odor or rotting logs. The sharper scent of rotting willow leaves," broods like a dook. malignant personality in ineof those Its story Is of Precleuse, one unfortunates of no race or nation, born of a white father and black mother, tn whom a double set of In' herited tendencies, strongly antago nistic, make living a comnlex thing. In these girls. Mr. wail savs. their white oiooa noias aseen dancv d urine their childhood and that short period they call their beauty veers." unless some extraor dlnarv Influence Is exerted to rouse the Instincts Inherited from their mothers. Thereafter their Beauty takes on a different cast, the skin darkens, and the black Inheritance hannme dominant 8o it la with Precleuse wno. min gling with her mother's people, yet holds herself aloof from their practices until betrayal by one cf her own sex and family gives ner into me rawer of a vicious young "swamp man." Then, from the Cruelty of her black mother, she escapes to me protection of a young southerner of good famiiv. who. having felt the enchant ment of the swamp, has established -himself on a shanty boat for a snort while." Mr. Wall, one may believe, is an authentic reporter in his narration of events in Precteuse's five years' Ufa with Cliff, and its slowly culmi nating tregedy, as well as in the depiction of the people of the region, doctor, the outcast a few other degraded white men, and ut and the negroes, sadistic, lustful, terly without a moral coae. tus rreci euse and her lover, however, appear as examples rather- - than as actual oersonallties. and In that meaeure fall to stir our emotions. But It is a richly colorful story of a section that has strong fascination, and, ugly as is Its theme, it takes ran aoove uie average fictional effort "no-natio- n" -- v In words. For, after all, Wilde's poems are black: and white poems a vivid White figure against the black background of the author's bitterness. And the pictures, like the poems, need more than one perusal. We have yet to find a book of verse where the art and the words are so intersuggestive and strengthening. One. reads a poem, studies the Interpretation, turns back to the poem, and again to the drawing. Both gain by this relationship, and the author supports the artist as fully as the art 1st Interprets the author It Is in these interpretations. In their mystery and haunting rhythm that this volume excels and mikes a necessary addition to any collection of Wilde's work. THE HARLOTS HOUSE AND OTH ER POEMS. By Oscar Wilde. Publishers, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., New York, Every now and again Interest swings back to the poems of Oscar Wilde with their music, their Imag- ery and their pathos and bitterness. This new volume is distinctive in two ways: An effort has been made to Include only Wilde's most lyrical and effective poems and the Interpretations are by an artist whose sympathy appreciation oi the poet give voice to his brush. John Vassos has truly Interpreted, t illustrated, the poems. Striking black and white compositions give us in spirit and line What the verses givs . CLIMBING OLD LAWLESS DAYS A hill Just always tempts me So To reach Its summit fair There may be added beauty VIVIDLY PICTURED woen iget way up mere. I may look down at valleys deep VTOILANTES. By Hoffman Birney. Or plains expanding wide; lublisher, The Perm Publishing It may be Just like this Upon the other side. Company, Philadelphia. As entertaining as It Is educational It matters not what X may find i this history of Montana's earliest When I have reached the goal The from view summit any protective organization, written by to satisfy my soul. Seems Hoffman Blmey, whose reputation MERUNO D. CLYDE, as an Interesting writer was gained Price, Utah, with such fiction favorites as "The Canon of Lost Waters." "The Masked "Worn jr. apparently without any Rider," and other stories of the fron- teaming - .r encouragement extier west cept from each other have evolved While "Vigilantes" is not fiction. their own IdiOm in the quotation and based to some extent apparently mark. . , .Feminine punctuation alone on reminiscences related to the au can make a statistical essay on inthor by old pioneers, it Is told In such surance read like baby-talk- ." WU lively style that It far surpasses In son roiieu in The Bookman. entertainment the western fiction of most contemporary writers. The book laged and murdered until they be has been described as "a concise and came so greatly feared that none faithful history of the creation and dared rise against them Is set forth activities of the organization that in the first vivid Then, as broke the power of the outlaws In conditions becamechapters. the blackest how Montana'V-an- d no mors this than there arose a body of valiant men does it Justice. whose energies were directed toward The central figure In Mr. Blrney's ridding the west of the "bad men," account is Henry nummer, Bannack has been related with exciting decounty sheriff, road agent, and chief tails. : of "The Innocents," the frontier Mr. Blrney's history actually ha Montana outlaw band. About Plum- - to do with the entire west, as the mer, the recital of whose depreda- outlaws' operations spread widely. tions cannot but be horror-fillehas His volume will undoubtedly find a been woven a story outstanding In place In most dusted book racks of criminal anna is. . western history lovers throughout the How the outlaws plundered, pil nation. OF EARLY MONTANA ! ed -- . tercet' , The "Ville d'Avray Near Paris," . a typical Corot. showing a mist ol ., - silvery gray foliage along- a rlver- -i bank; Anton Mauve's 'Autumn," shepherd and his flock In brown r fields; a Rousseau, "The Edge of the Woods," of a monarch oak and a moving sky; a Jacques that is also a M Landscape with Sheep," gray and monotonous: an English landscape ' suggestive of Constable, by William Morris Hunt: a veiasques head; The Bather," a Henner nude of lovely curves, and a forest scene by wyant, the American painter, all these are reproductions marking Mrs. Old- -, right's arduous labors m the gallery. ' Wide Scope In Subject Matter er Canvases. ' Among her paintings from nature'. TocbpUls's high cliffs bathing their , feet in an Indigo blue sea, while fumy wrap their crest. This "Tryst of the Waves" was done on the Chilecoast of South America, where Mrs.' ' Oldrlght passed several years. Other -impressions of Chile are recorded in "Camel Rock," a queer formation . Ilk m. ktiMHnv eunel. mf little Cho-- " " ' rill las house and patio sketches. V Other landscapes range from, Brooklyn parks to Tacoma and Tuc son, Washington forests and Arizona " desert towns giving her several That Mrs. Oldrlght has been busy during her Salt Lake residence Is shown in . quite a nation. . . . No writer has numerous sketches of Dry canyon , yet Included in his grasp 'the and Cottonwood, and an interesting American spirit'" version of the familiar old mill which ..' This holiday number seems to be Is now a country club. the fiction number, and among the rive contributors is jonn neia, ir Winner, Popular Prize whose sketch of college youth, "A At Carnegie Annual Named Man of the World." is ed. Mary Margaret McBride's evl James Chanin. an American art dence on the debatable question of basis' ist has been announced as the win "Marriage on a Fifty-FifIndicates some dissatisfaction with ner of the 1200 prize awarded vote at the 28th Carnegie Inthis new arrangement Robert Hazard's factual story of "Hacking New stitute international exhibition of York" is as lively as any fictive yam paintings. Mr. Chaput's picture was the group, "Em-me- tt could be. George and Ella Marvin." More than (000 votes were cast by visitors REVIEW Or REVIEWS. The changing attitude of the world at the exhibition, which is to dose toward war Is reflected In the dress Sunday. of the warriors themselves, observes Roger Shaw in the month's Issue of Dorothy' Dalton Goes Review of Reviews. He points out Bach to Movie Work " -- d, ' teas , k - Scanning the Magazines -- SCRIBNES'S. , Having read, seventy new biogra phies "of Americans by Americans, Oeorge McLean Harper, in the month's Bcribner's, writes of this method of "Seeing Americans First," ana oi ine total enect gamed from this literary entertainment From these seventy volumes, be says, be Nete Adds School got an idea, such as he could have Training in no other way, "of what Canvas to Its Collection received Americans use to think they are of aims and standards of "the like," Florence Ware's "Rainy Weather spirit" In part, his Tree." a delightful depiction Of an the American old pine beset by the arrows of the impressions are: "On the whole one gets the im- rain, has been acquired by the Stewart Training school, the choice by pression that American life exAn of students. vote the reached higher Intellectual lev- popular hibit of Miss Ware's European and els in the eighteenth century than In the first quarter of the Egyptian paintings was held at the school Monday and Tuesday of the nineteenth. Separation from the mother country resulted, during j past week. a period of thirty or forty years, that: At one time, according to John in mental malnutrition. NEW YORK. Dorothy Dalton. "The glamour of soldiering and Pell, his biographer, two of Ethan "There Is one permanent defl- -. star of Morris Gest'i stage spectacle. of warlike trappings has suffered Allen's friends, as a Joke, dressed in stroll ciency of American life which a serious- - decline. The - soldier - "Aphrodite." and of many . Famoua sheets and thought to alarm him as In meditation at my ease. these biographies make very ev' Players and Thomas Ince films. Is he was riding home late at night nowadays is regarded more as a ident namely the lack of social returning to Hollywood and motion stone Alien reined in nis none, saying, necessary public servant than as I never read upon each fcarven groups drawn together and held pictures after five years' retirement ' a romantic figure to whom speThe name that once was "WeU, If you're angels of light, I'm by Intellectual affintogether - -8he has gone to Los .Angeles and cial adulation is due.: glad to see you, and If you're devils there; ity. While Americans are often Z merely note new blossoms come on home with ine. My wife Is "Before 1914 military Europe " will lorn her husband. Arthur Ham- with one merstein. in California, "Bride M, blown the devil's sister." another. . . .there are fewer inprovided a veritable, blaze of col- Mr. Hammers teta's first film proor. The red of England, the light And breathe the perfume cf stances of deep friendship beduction, will bring Miss Dalton back tween fellow workers, fewer, the air." and Prussian blues of France and Lowell a i! to the screen, which she left after Amy suggestion lips." Germany, the black of Italy, the groups of congenial spirits, than In bis "Case of Miniatures," one both In its form and its text her marriage to Mr. Hammersteln one discovers in reading British green of Russia, were familiar to of "A Decent Girl on a Street Car" Mr. Damon can contrive phrases April 23, 1824. In Chicago. were tourist and Especially every biography. European Is a very gentle thrust at the Purl' of haunting loveliness and some of '" "Another impression. . ,(is so uniforms brilliant, the i cavalry tanism which is the time's derision. his verse, as the opening "Dawn," VASSOS "ARRIVES. unfavorable that I merely menBritish and Germans having An ironic pencil traces the "Family as delicately wrought as the. JapaIn view of the recent award to a with averted face, and tion color schemes for almost Portrait" of Great-AuClarissa. nese hokku. Unusual imagery seems painting hung upside down, John pass on: it is that we are undeevery regiment The practical There is in the Imaglst poem. Tu to be hit gut- Vassos found no cause for annoyance niably a boastful people. Another, but drab service uniform now when, at a tea party at Sherry's given and happily this time favorable. used universally and for all ocin honor of Mrs. Vassos and himself cheerwe are Is that trrepressibly casions, made an initial appearthe other day, two of his illustrations ful and hopeful. Whether a peo- ance' with the Rough Riders of from "Contempo" and "The Harlot's can without detriment to 1898 In their Cuban campaign, Ble House" were also shown in reverse culture deceive themselves and with the British army in the "I Into thinking all is for the best position. Crying dramatically. closing stages of the Boer war. ' There shall be clouds that curtain the land forever. ' counhave arrived." Mr. Vassos expressed in the best of all possible , But it was In the World War ' There shall be clouds, bat there shall be stars and the son. elated. himself "Contempt," their tries and this country own, that Inconspicuous garb came for whichreally There shall be trees, green, by the running water. Mrs. Vaseos provided the .. ... is, however, a question to which into it own, sounding the knell text and the new Wilde edition are Trees that bow to the winds as they shout and run. Y there can be only one answer. of pomp and circumstance." both Dutton dook. "Of course, it is inexact to Secretary of the Interior WUburJ speak of 'the American spirit' Earth shall be born anew through the spring baptism. Louis Untermeyer, the poet, and on H. Frank Slmonds, writer for if these biographies fhow Confessed and cleansed of her sins through the tears of the rain sailed us nothing else th?y reveal affairs: Dr. Albsrt Shaw an editor of Paper Books, has secure Rising refreshed from the winter's desolation cotaooeiUon of our and Fradsia H. Sisson are other con-- ! for Europe, where he plans to 1 To greet the whispering winds from the south again. trlbuiors who talk of pertinent mat-- ! mr nuscripts for further publlcaUonpeople. W are not a race, and UUJ oryutuauui EDITH CHERRJNQTON to "Classmates. until the Civil War ws were not tjrs, ty prize-winni- i ... ' - ... ... ; nt it nt Resurrection , , ' - . inter-natiorr- ah ...r' ng . . , of self-Illust- .10 ... |