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Evening star., 1909-05-22

Art Galleries, on G street.
Twenty-seven canvases are shown, the
majority of which are recent works or
these. all save one are outdoor pictures.
the single exception being a figure study
purposed chiefly as an exposition of
special arrangement in line and color.
There Is refinement, sympathy and poetic
feeling in all Mr.. Nichols paintings to-
gether with an evident regard for the
amenities of truth and beauty His style
is reticent and at the same time individu-
al and his interpretations are almost in
variably engaging. One of the larger and
more important canvases displayed is en-
titled "Moonrise'' and pictures the great
luminous orb making its ascent in
cloudless sky beyond a broad stretch
of rolling meadow. Nothing could be
simpler in composition. nor yet more gen
tly impressive. Besides this hangs an
other summer landscape. very different.
however, in style-treeS and grass seen at
close range, with the sharp contrasts of
light shade observable In the late after
noon. This is essentially a green picture.
the sky being completely screened by the
trees, but 1t is not monotonous nor lack
ing in viriity. To the left again is
winter scene-day awakening to find the
hillsides partly covered by patches of
snow Perhaps some may object that
even in the cold light Of dawn snow does
not appear as blue as the painter has
described it, but none can deny that he
has given excellent expression to the
feeling of early morning and suggested
admirably the spaciousness Of the outdoor
world. There are several wood interiors
studies of tree trunks and leaf-streUn
soil-under varied conditions conduced by
altered light. There are one or two noe
turnes also, subtle and significant But
not the least charming of all is an In
depreciation of a showery day In spring.
a small canvas, lovely in composition and
color-tender. atmospheric and veracfous.
A good many Of these themes have been
found in the vicinity OF Washington, but
some of the paintings date back to
summer spent a year or more ago near
Buzzard's bay, Massachusetts. Among
the latter is one of children on the shore
entitled "A Blue Day"-a work full of
spontaneity and charm. as well as an
excellent little marine and a study, deco
rative in feeling Of two pines Coming so
iate in the season there is reason to
fear that this exhibition may not attract
the attention it deserves, but 1t will be
found well worthy Of note.
THE portrait Of Rear Admiral George
W. Melville. which was presented TO
the nation short time ago, when the So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers was in
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Dutch Church in Schenectady in New
York, and in that capacity was custodian
of a rich collection of colonial and rev.
olutionarv documents. He has in addi-
ton made numerous trips TO Holland and
has conducted an extensive historical re-
search with the result that he is enabled
now to offer a trustworthy history OF
New Netherlands i'm small compass. The
Illustrations are authentic and helpful. DR..
Grifis tells the story simply and with
painstaking care to exclude the unau-
thentic from his narrative.
THE PLAYGROUND OF EUROPE. Ey
Leslie stephen. illustrated. New
York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Although much has been written about
Switzerland. no book has surpassed Les
lie Stephens book playground of Eu-
rope" which was published years ago
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about wages or anything else arising
between the men and the company.
A similar scheme. differing only in
slight details. has been adopted by Lever
Brothers. and affects about 1000 en-
ployes. This scheme involves the crea-
ton of s2,5OOOOO in co-partnershp GER
tificates, and they will be allotted year
ly to the employees, in accordance with
the length of service and the wages
earned. Thus. a man whose earnings are
less than $500 a year, will be allowed
to acquire a maximum Of $1,000 in CO.
partnership shares, while a man earning
$3.50 year or more may acquire s15,OOO
worth of shares. This rule is based on
the theory that if a man has not risen
into a higher position before accumulat-
ing $1,000 in co-partnership shares. lie
would be worth no more than that as
partner TO the concern.
The scheme has also been adopted by
jam makers. shoe manufacturers and
host of other trades. the details being
varied TO suit the particular company
but in the broad lines all agree in max
ing the worker an actual shareholder in
the company which employs him. Every
worker a capitalist is the catchword
of the new movement.
IL is suggested that at the national con-
ference which Sir Christopher Furness
is working to call into being all the ex
listing schemes should BE- submitted and
carefully analyzed and discussed by ex
perts, and that IL possible some standard
be suitable. with notifications. for every
class of business. Employers have hailed
the suggestion with pleasure and s.gni-
ned their Willingness to do all in their
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An Exception Noted.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Il see that in cases where engaged
couples separate a Virginia judge has
handed down the opinion that the engage
ment ring must be returned"
Matte Puffer won't like that
why not:''
Have YOU seen the ring Jim Bingle
gave hcr?''
Yes"
Well, she loaned him the money to buy
it,
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LONDON, May II. 1909.
- ~OPARTNERSHIP, or profit shar-
ing. a solution of the labor
problem. is at present the subject
~ of the hour in England and ar
rangements are now being made
for a national convention of great employ
ers to devise a plan for its universal intro
duction.
Copa artnershp is really in the business
world here no new thing There are firms
in England that for fifty years have
shared their profits, in one form or
another. with their employees: but the
movement is now being taken up widely
as a remedy for the great disturbance OF
industry caused by strikes and as check
to the growth OF socialism. So Tar the
movement has assumed two forms. One
is mere sharing of profits, the payment
To the Uorkmen of "A bonus. calculated on
their earnings in profitable years. The
other and truer form of copartenrshp
takes the form of assigning TO the en-
ployeS stock i'm the company. on which
regular dividends are paid when earned.
just as on the stock of the regular share
holders.
The flrst system has been in operation
for many years in number OF large gas
companies. II was introduced by the lat !,
Sir George Livesey. with the obj ct OF in
dueing the worhmen to economiZe in their
own time and the company's materials,
and il worked SO successfully that the
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Il regard the extension Of the co-part-
nership sytem as the most important in
dustrial or commercial question today"
said Sir Christopher Furness. 1T is
quite as epoch-making as the introduc-
ton Of the limited company. The latter
created host of small capitalists and
enabled the man of small means to be-
come partner I'm the great business con-
Germs of the country. partnerships will
enable the workman to become in reality
his own employer and VII make his in
teIests identioa al with those o. the other
shareholders. from the managing director
down.
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quite free from eccentricites. II is at
tractive in pose and composition and is
beautiful In color. with the rich glowing
yet subdued yeliows shown against the
dull blue OF the mottled background.
There are some pictures of children
notably the Child with Cat and Lady
Ms Daughter. in which the charming
dignity Of childhood is rendered with
simplicity and quite without the deaden-
ing prettifying which is too often the
fate Of childhood as portrayed. The Lit
tie Optimist, with the very clever fore
shortening Of the absurd and smiling
baby face, Is exceedingly pleasing. In
Out of the Past Mrs. Barney has eX-
perimented successfully with pastel on
coarse canvas. and has obtained an effect
which might well excite the envy OF the
modern tapestry workers who seek dill
gently the effect OF the old in the pro-
ductiOn of the new"
TT Is interesting to know that during
the past winter hundreds of persons.
including numerous public and private
school teachers from the smaller cities
throughout Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan, have visited the Freer gallery
in Detroit and shown a lively and in
telligent interest In the collection which
eventually will come to Washingtons Mr..
F'reer sailed for Europe the 18th of this
month, purposing to remain abroad a
year. travelling in Egypt and the far east
in the hope Of enlarging and improving
the collections he has so astutely as
sembled and generously bestowed.
DURING twenty-five days that the col
II lection of paintings by Sorolla, the
Spanish artist, was on exhibition in Bos-
ton it was visited by nearly 10000 per-
sons, the ma jority of whom paid 80 cents
for the privilege, and twenty-five pictures
were sold ranging In price from 800 to
50 4O0-surely a pretty good record. APP
parently there are times when art pays.
A PORTRAIT OF former Secretary
"A Corteiyou has been painted by Mr..
Harold Macdonald for the Department Of
Commerce and Labor. II is three-auar-
ter-length and shows Mr.. Cortelyou seat
ed in a revolving Office chair beside
table. The head is strongly modelled and
good in color. but the figure and aces
donald has done better work.
MIR. ERNEST MOORE has closed his
lv1 studio on Connecticut avenue and
gone to Seattle to execute certain portrait
commissions. In the late summer he and
Mrs. Moore will return to England for
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THE HAND on THE LATCH. BY Mary

session in this city, is now on exhibition
at the national museum having been hung
in the picture gallery where the Harriet
Lane Johnston and other collections OF
art are displayed 1t is the work of Sig
ismond de Ivanowski, who for the past
year or more has been engaged in paint
ing a series of portraits of American
celebrities for the Century Maya zine. and
who is by the way. brother-in-laW of
Mr. James Henry Moser of this city The
portrait OF Admiral Melville is three
quarter length and represents him stand
ing with one hand resting in the other.
Tne pose is easy and probably natural.
but the figure has been rather a.wkwardly
placed on the canvas. so that large blank
space utterly without interest forces It
self upon the observers attention. The
head and face. however. have been charm
ingly rendered with evident sympathy and
rennement of feeling. Back of the features
is real personality. strongly individual
and dominant. but reserved. AS one of
a historical series. this portrait is indeed
a valuable accession.
xH-,. RICHARD G. PAINE of this city
AVA has recently modelled a puma and
a leopard which will in all probability
be cast Mn bronze and later exhibited.
The puma, which Is eleven inches in
length, is called 1.-THE Poacher," and rep
resents a great cat creeping stealthily up
on its prey. The body Is close to the
ground the head and neck extended. the
tail dropped low. and every indication Is
given of alert attention. OF energy held
in leash. 1t is an interesting pose and a
good one. bringing strong muscles into
play and permitting subtle modelling. The
leopard is still smaller. measuring not
more than six inches, as he crouches upon
a rocky promontory completely at rest,
casually observant. The forepaws are
crossed. the head sunk into the shoulders
and the tail, which Invariably gives token
Of the temper OF the beast. lax and i'm
mobile. There is beautiful rhythm in the
lines Of these wild creatures bodies. won
derful beauty in their form, and this
Mr.. Paine has made manifest His mod
cling is not yet as accomplished as it
will be. his massing of light and shadow
less telling. but his conceptions are pri-
marily sculptural and his interpretations
are spirited and good. One or more of his
small bronzes have been recently exhib-
tied at Charleston. S. c., and his lion
Teasing shown at the Corcoran Gallery
this winter, is to be included in the art
exhibition at Seattle of the Alaska-Yukon
exposition.
NN the 1st of June Mr.. E. III. Miller,
~ former president OF the Society of
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power to further the growth of the move
ment.
Captains OF industry in England see
in Sir Christopher's scheme the most po-
tent weapon to check thegrowth of social
ism. They believe that when evehy work
man has an actual tangible cash interest
in the company which employs him. he
will hesitate long time before going in
for political movement whose aim it is
to destroy the value Of that cash interest.
In addition to that there is of course,
the fact that prospective share in the
profits will have a powerful influence in
inducing the workman to do his best to
increase those profits. \ little extra ef-
fort in turning out work and little extra
care in the use of material often means
the difference in a large concern between
a substantial dividend and a loss.
So far the weak point seems 10 be that
no provision is made for the lower grades
of unskilled labor. The employment of
this class of labor is casual and the
population engaged in it so shifting that
il Is hard to devise any scheme which
will include it.
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LEO TOT STOI THE MODERN PROPHET EZEKIEL LEAVITT

Elysum and Isaiahs prophecy that A
wolf will dwell together with sheep is
still far from realization. and therefore
we must bear in mind the proverb III
YOU wish peace, prepare for war;" and
not some of Tolstoi's instructions. which
are unreasonable as an abstract and
would be undesirable II his followers
would put them into concrete form.
After corresponding with Count Leo
Tolstoi for some time very strong de-
sire took possession of me 10 see TINS
modern prophet" and to receive from
him personal answers to numerous prob
lens with which my mind had been tor
tured for many sleepless nights. And in
the year 1899. while I'll st. Petersburg.
finally decided to go TO the new Mecca
to Yasnaia Poliana. near Tula, the an
cestral estate of Tolstoi.
With a letter from my late friend and
teacher Daniel Mordovzev, the great
Russian historian and novelist who. by
the way, was one OF the greatest gentle
defenders of the Jewish rights. reached
Tolstois house.
l came to Yasnaia Poliana in the morn
ing about 10 O'Clock. 1t was a charming
July day. The bright sun poured out
from on high his golden streams and
covered with a magnificent mantle the
trees, the flowers and everything around
me. The birds sang out their morning
prayer and I felt as though they Joined
with me in my happy thought OF seeing
him-Tostoi. Not far from Tolstofs house
tree Of the poor" Near it there is a
bench. on which almost every hour of
the day some of the poor 'moujiks."
Tolstors neighbors. sit and await him;
and near this historical tree I stood a
while in meditation before 1 went to
Tostoi's door.
A middle-aged woman. l suppose
servant. opened the door for me- and
when | asked her whether could see
Lev Nikolaievitch she answered that he
was very busy Il took out from my
pocket my card together with Nor
dovZev's letter and handing them to
her. asked her to take them to Tolstoi.
A few minutes later I was In Tolstois
room, where he prepares his literary
gems. where he makes new plans to bet
ter mankind. where he answers thou
sands of letters in different languages.
and where he receives people from all
the four corners of the earth. who come
to him TO tell him their troubles and
anxieties. their desperate struggles and
doubts. and to ask his advice as to how
to live a proper life.
When / saw Tolstoi and listened to his
talk about life. science literature. etc.
reminded myself of Tantalus, who was
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important speeches by the men of the
period.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE Door.

period.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR.
BY Lucia Chamberlain. author Of
The Coast OF Chance With Illus
trations by Herman Pfeifer. Indian
apols: The Bobbs Merrill Company.
Miss Chamberlain manages to carry her
readers interest to the end of this story
with a minimum of plot The tale is sim
pie; a young San Francisco woman on
her way home from market in the cary
morning sees dead man fall out of
gambling den in which he has just been
shot and then sees man with pistol in
his hand spring out after him and fee.
She and everybody else conclude that the
fugitive is the murderer and she falls I'm
love with him. But he is not the mur-
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0N the 1st of June Mr. e. H. Miller,
~ former president OF the Society of
Washington Artists and dean of the local
fraternity, will remove his residence and
studio to Livingston Heights, Va, where
he will be permanently located. Mr. Mil
Ter is an indef-tigable worker and one
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who perpetually seeks higher attainment.
journeying steadily upward as well as on
ward professionally and finding real de-
light all along the way. For this reason
his latest work is almost invariably his
best work, and each year is a record of
progress In the recent exhibition set
forth by the Society of Washington Ar
lists three landscapes and a portrait by
Mr.. Miller were shown. and during the
past few months he has also made
number of very charming etchings. In
his studio now is a little water color.
which Is but just completed. showing a
sandy road taking its course between
unproductive fields in the pale light of
early morning. The greens are soft and
grayish, the sand almost silvery and
the sky but family illumined by the light
color. tender and appealing. and a work
full of delightful sentiment for those
whose natures are in tune.
A important exhibition demonstrating
various methods of city planning will
be held next week in the banquet hall of
the Hotel Raleigh. The purpose Is chiefly
sociological-to better the conditions of
living-but 1t is also artistic, as municipal
improvements react directly upon citizen
ship. The city beautiful is the city liv-
able. for civic art. to be effective, must
be governed by common sense. The plan
ming of a city is practical art problem,
and as such must be solved City build
ers are no less artists than painters and
sculptors-they merely work with differ
ent tools and materials. The art of the
street is as real and as vital as that of
the picture gallery or museum. Much
has already been done toward improving
conditions by municipal art and village
improvement societies throughout the
United States, but much still remains to
be done. and this is an opportunity for
every one to become better Informed on
the subject There will be lectures every
evening by. we'll known authorities in con-
nection with the exhibition.
MRS A. C. BARNEY OF this city has
lV1 been holding an exhibition OF fifty
or more portraits and sketches in pastel
at the Knoedler gallery. New York. Of
which the art critic of the New York
Times has said: There is very evident
determination on the part of the artist
10 escape the commonplace. and In TINS
effort she sometimes achieves the poetic
and sometimes simply the bizarre Ine
detached portrait faces of G. Il. Chester
ton. Bernard Shaw and others, presenting
the appearance Of colored masks against
their solid slate gray gackgrounos, hlnt
of interest beyond their freakishv effect
The full-length portrait OF MISS GWen-
dolyn Ffoulke, on. the other nand, Is
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derer and she finally wins her way and is
happy Most important in the story is
the reproduction of the atmosphere of
San Francisco during the civil war perod
when the city was wide open. \ very
beautiful color design constitutes the pa
per cover placed over the binding boards
Of the book. This rich color effect keen
~ whets the readers interest in anticipa-
ton.
THE HAND ON THE LATCH. BY Mary
Cholmondeley. author of Red Pot
tage," etc. New York: Dodd. Mead
& Co. Washington: Brentanos
There are four stories In this book. The
Hand on the Latch, The Lowest Rung, :
The Understudy" and st. Luke's SUM-
mer' They are all what Bernard Shaw
would call unpleasant stories. minor
chords in the composition of life. and
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y interesting exhibition of paint
ings by Mr.. Spencer Baird
Nichols of this city is now in
! progress in the Shelby Clarke
Art Galleries, on G street.
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is no living writer, per-
haps, whose name is surround
ed with greater glory and 10
whose words the entire literary
world is more ready to lend an
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an unnatural doctrine. /. e.. the anti-mar-
riage moral. the modification OF the nesh'
etc. 49,. 80,
Pozdnicheff. the hero Of this book,
through whose mouth Tolstoi speaks.
saws: when human passions. especially
the most violent-sensuality-sh have
been suppressed the union (of the lndivld-
ual beings which compose humanityo VII VIII
be accomplished, and humanity. having
attained its end will have no further rea-
son for existing"
with all my love and admiration for
Tolstoi and his great genius. l must say
that his philosophy and his theory "nlch
he tries to develop in his "Kreutzer Son
alta" as well as in his story, 'Family
Happiness" are metaphysical. and Tar
from sound sense. In his comedy, me
Fruits of Enlightenment, he tries 70
show the foolshness of science, the fall
ures Of knowledge and the uselessness of
civilization, and the proofs which he pre-
sents to us, l dare to say. are 1ar, very
far from being satisfactory.
Tolstoi published & also s,dh noVer. eror, the the
artistic standpoint can be considered a
real gem: the same thing can be said OF
Resurrection" many pages OF Wnich re-
mind one of the great Tolstoi, before ne
of which is his production What Is
Arto.J and to give himself up to the care
of the soul and religious feelings.
In his books MY Confession" (Which.
by the way, fa1ntly cCnOeS jean JdSQucS
Rousseau's book of the same name).
my Fate" "A Commentary on the Cos"
pei, etc. Tostoi expresses his views on
the position of people in the world. on
their relations to one another. and SHOWS
himself sometimes q pantheist. sometimes
Buddhist.
The positive side of his philosophy is:
To love all men and to sacrifice even life
for them. The greatest negative law Of
his ethics is: do not resist evil; suffer
wrong" etc.
If Tostoi's positive precepts cannot
always be carried out they are at least
reasonabl while his negative ethics. es-
pecially the above mentioned. are an alb
surdity and an impossibility. for. accord
ing to this theory, we must give full
sway to murderers to kill us. to thieves
TO rob US, etc.
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Williamson. illustrated. New York
Doubleday, Page & Co. Washington
Woodward g. Lothrop.
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THE portrait of Rear Admiral George
W. Melville. which was presented TO
the nation a short time ago, when the So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers was in
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"EVERY WORKER MAY
BECOME A CAPITALIST"

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
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And what. for instance, about the Rus
sian autocracy? Shall we here also fol-
low Tolstoi's assumption. DO not resist
evil" and give free hand to all the brutes
of Nicholas and Plehve's type to send our
best men to the prisons, to Siberia and to
the gallows? No! We are not living in
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THE, LAW OF TRANSPORTATION IN
NATURE OF NATURAL BODIES.
BY Anthon c. Mortensen. Washing
ton: Brentano's.

DIR. Mortensen presents in this mono
graph a condensed study OF the law of
Transformation based upon common sci
entifc experiment. His chief purpose is
TO prepare the reader for more intimate
acquaintance with further work along
the same line, dealing with the trans
formation of universal matter into Its
different forms as found in nature. He
holds that the misunderstanding of ma
ture comes from a desire to explain every
scientific experimental fact by itself, with
out taking the broad view of comparing
those facts with the position in nature
of natural bodies.
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MIR. ERNEST MOORE has closed his
lV4 studio on Connecticut avenue and
gone to Seattle to execute certain portrait
commissions In the late summer he and
Mrs. Moore will return to England for