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studies is of mountain brook. the
high bank of which rises abruptly In
an intimate and a mature study, such
as some that Wyant made. with the ut
most regard for truth and accuracy. SO
true is 1t that the charm Of the place
is felt, and the artists emotion i'm
parted to the observer. Mr.. Key also
made a very pleasing little sketch OF
one of the mountain roads at sunset,
and yet another Of sunrise among the
Washington. among them the. old Key
mansion, in Georgetown, are being re-
produced in color by a we'll known firm
of photographers
-HE George Washington University
] discontinued the School OF Architec-
ture this autumn because OF lack OF
funds for it's support. but at the request
of the students the faculty is continuing
it. Mr.. A. e. Bibb. who was the dean,
and is now conducting the school, has
taken the studio once used as a class
room by the Art Students League, and
more recently by Mr.. Gerard Barry, the
portrait painter. To it have been moved
the casts and other paraphernalia, and
here the several classes. numbering in
all more than forty students, are meet
ing.
In addition to the usual elementary
work this school follows the Beaux Arts
courses and comes directly under the
supervision or espionage of the Beaux
Arts committee on education. This
means that the work done by the stu
dents of this school is the same as that
done by some Of the largest schools in
the country. and that it is regularly
placed in competition with that of others
For instance. a problem is given out by
the committee in New. York. This is
sent to all the schools wherein this course
is followed. Preliminary sketches are
made and sent to the committee. THESE
are judged and returned to be worked
out, or rendered" Several weeks later
the renderngs are received. placed on
exhibition and impartially Judged. These
are rated according to merit, and men
tons are very genuinely to be coveted.
At the close of the scholastic year GER
tain awards are made, chief among which
is \the Prize of Paris which gives
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the other. No one knows how this en-
perience-because it was most exciting
and absorbing-m have interter.d with
the peace of tire poor girl copfired to the
usual material arts OF allurement. had
not the other woman. the psychic lady,
concluded to go back home to her hus-
band whom she had left. as it turned out.
temporarily. One likes this move on her
part. for the young man OF the story is a
wavering. unconvincing fellow-made so.
more than likely. by those uncanny, in.
corporal fittings of his. At any rate.
the story ends in his marrying the poor
material girl. and really going to work at
his grapevines. which he 1oathed and
which had Suffered greatly by his recent
complete absorption in the matter here set
down. This settling down to his business
is what gives this book its title and COW
ers the lids with pictures OF punches of
grapes. Maybe We are not yet ready for
this sort of revelation.
FLAMsTED QUARRIEs. BY Mary f.
Waller author OF 1.-The Woodcarver
of Lympus." etc. With illustrations
by G. Patrick Nelson. Boston: Lit
tie, Brown & Co.
ITO those who toll
The spirit of the dedication is the
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three years study in that city at the
Ecoie des Beaux Arts and an annual
stipend Of s1.oW. AS architecture is the
backbone Of all art, it seems more than
urgent that the local school. which has
already attained excellent standing
among the schools Of this country, should
be continued and strengthened.
IN London this week a most important
meeting has been held, an interna ton
al town-planning conference. Delegates
have been sent from all nations, and the
Royal Academy has lent it's galleries at
Burlington House for the exhibitions of
drawings and models. BY reques. Of the
English committee. thirty-two OF the
sreat water-color drawings made 10y
Guerin. Campbell and others illustrating
the park commissions plan tor the future
development Of Washington were sent to
this exhibition. as were also certain draw
ings of proposed Improvements in Chi
cago. st. Paul and New York which
found their inception in the Washington
plan. Two Americans only were among
the speakers-Daniel Fl. Burnham. chair
man Of the lately appointed art conf
mission, and Charles milford Robinson.
a well known writer on civic improve
ment. Mr.. Burnham's subject was
'Cities Of the Future
Il Il
THE night classes at the Corcoran
School will reopen Monday. These
are purposed especially for men and boys
who are occupied during the day. Rich
ard n. Brooke is the instructor in charge.
but during his absence Mr.. Messer will
take his place.
HE American Civic Association. be-
lieving Washington to be a strategic
point, moved it's Offices last winter to this
city. and now it has announced its next
annual convention to be held here in De-
cember. The dates are the 18th. 18th and
18th. and follow closely upon the opening
of the Corcoran Gallery's exhibition. The
Civic Associations last convention was
held in Cincinnati year ago, and brought
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spirit of the book. The author embodies
the dignity of labor. the courage of self
sacrifice and the nobility of forgiveness
in heroine who was little Patti OF
vaudeville. and, after that Flibbertigib-
bit of an orphan asylum. before she be-
came Allen Armagh of the Flamsted
quarres. F1amsted itself is a small
village in Maine. with its native life CEN
tered in the granite quarries that give
the book its name. Social and industrial
conditions are presented with forceful
simplicity. and the strong lights and shad-
ows of human emotions, good and bad.
are drawn wildly, from models vino must
have been the real men and women OF
whom the author writes. A strong char
acter of the book is Catholic priest.
1.-The heart Of the quarry who devotes
his life 20 humanity and gives it, at
last, for child. ~
But it is the work of the quarres and
the men who do it that makes the splen-
dor Of the story. and makes it worthy
to be dedicated to the worlds greatest
and best factOrs-the men and women
who toll.
OLD MOTHER WEST WIND. B!
Thornton ". Burgess. illustrated
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CHAPTER TX.
Judson's Joke.

Barton Rufford. ex-distiller of Illicit
whisky in the Tennessee mountains. ex-
welsher turned informer and betraying
his neighbor law-breakers to the United
States revenue officers ex-everything
which made his continued stay in the
Cumberiands impossible. was a man of
distinction in the Red desert.
In the wider field of the west he had
been successfully a lain-jumpef. a rus
tier Of unbra nded cattle, a telegraph op-
orator In collision with gang Of train
robbers, and finally faro lookout the
armed guard vino sits at the head of the
gaming table i'm the untamed regions to
kill and kill quickly il a dispute arises.
Angels acknowledged his citizenship
without joy. 4 cold-boojed murderer.
with an appalling record: and a man
with a temper like smoking tow, an itch
ing trigger finger, the eye of a duck
hawk and catiike swiftness OF movement,
he tyrannized the town when the humor
was on him; and as yet no counter-buliy
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tcopy,isst. 1910. BY Charles serisnsr's sons.)

INTO F1emfsters carefully built Enclosure. "
We'll. what did you see?"
Much or little, just as you happen to
look At 1t. There are half dozen build
ings In the yard. and two Of them are
new and implanted. Sizing them up from
distance. l said to myself that the
lumber in them hadn't been very long out
of the mill. One OF them is evidently the
power house: 1t has an iron chimney set
In the roof, and the power plant was run
ming"
For a little time after Benson had fin.
ished his report there was silence, and
! Lidgerwood had added many squares to
the pencilings on his desk biotter before
he spoke again.
did you make any inquiries about recent
lumber shipments to the Wire-Silver?"
II did" said the young engineer, Sob
erly. $50 far as our station records
show, Flemister has had no material
save coal. shipped I'm over either the east
ern or the western spur for several
months
Then you believe that he took your
bridge timbers and sawed them up into
lumber
II do-as firmly as I believe that the
sun will rise tomorrow. And that isn't
all Of 1t, LidgerwOOd. He is the man
who has your switch engine. AS lave
said, the power plant was running while
I was up there today. The power is a
steam engine, and il you'd stand off and
listen to II you'd swear it was a loco
motive pulling a light train up an easy
grade. OF course. I'm only guessing at
that. but 1 think you will agree with me
! that the burden Of proof lies upon Elem
ister."
Lidgerwood was nodding slowly Yes.
on Fiemister and some others. Who are
the others, Benson
II have no more guesses coming. and
am too tired to invent any. Suppose
We drop IL until tomorrow. I'm afraid 1t
means q fight or q funeral, and l am not
quite equal to either tonight
For a long time after Benson had gone
Lidgerwood sat staring out of his ONCE
window at the masthead electrics in the
railroad yard. Benson's news had mere
~ confirmed his own and McCioskey =
conclusion that some one i'm authority
was in collision with the thieves who
were raiding the company. Sooner or
/ later il must come to a grappie. and he
dreaded il.
! II was deep In the night when he
closed bis desk and went to the little
room partitioned off in the rear of the
private Office as sleeping apartment
When he was preparing to go to bed he
noticed that the tiny relay on the stand
at his beds head was silent Afterward
when he tried to adjust the instrument
he found 1t ruined beyond repair. Some
one had connected it's wiring with the
electric lighting circuit. and the tiny coils
were fused and burned into solid little
cylinders of copper.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE GOLD-GATED WEST, Songs ssa
Poems. By Samuel L. Simpson.
Edited. with an Introductory Pref
ace. by W. T. Burney. Philadelphia;
j. H. Lippincott Company.
THE SEA HAWK. BY Bailey MfiIare
New York: Vessels e. BisscE ,om-
pany. Washington: Ballantyne e.
Sons.
FLLGHTf ARETHIsA. by David
Skaats Foster. Illustrated by Paul
Wilheimi. ilsdclphia: J. r. LIP
pincott Company.
THE HELEN GRANT BOOks-HELEv
GRANTS DECISION. BY Amanda
NJ Douglas. illustrated by AMY
Brooks. Boston: Lothrop.. Lee &
Shepard Company.
WAR FOR THE UNION sERuEs-THE
Young nL0CkADERs, . story OF
the Civil War. BY Everett T. Tom
fnson. author OF -Four BOYS in the
Yellowstone" etc. illustrated by
Frank Nining Smith. Boston: Lo-
throp. Lee & Shepard Company.
THE RIVERSIDE LITERARY SERIES
THE RlSALSi Comedy. Ry
Richard Brinsley sheridan With
an Introduction and Notes by Joseph
Quincy Adams. jr.. Ph. D.. Assistant
Professor OF the English Language
and Literature In Cornell University.
Boston: Houghton Miffiin Company.
THE PRCE BOOkS-PRUE's PLAY
MATES. BY Amy Brooks. author OF
Dorothy Dainty Series" etc. Illus
trated by the author. Boston: 10th
rop. Lee & Shepard Company.
THE TWINS N CEYLON. BY Rcna
Sidney Woolf author OF "ali In
Castle Fair" etc. Illustrated b. A.
y. Jackson. Boston: Dana Estes &
Company.
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. by
Oliver Goldsmith. With Photograv-
ures from Original Designs by Fred
erick Simpson Coburn. New York:
g. p. Putnams Sons.
THE TOWN DOWN THE RIVER, q
Book ~ Poems. BY Edwin Airing
ton Robinson. New York: Charles
Scrihner's Sons. Washington: Bren-
tanos.
THE RIVERSIDE LITERARY sERiES
THE RISE OF SILAS LApWAM.
BY William Dean Howells. With an
Introduction. Boston: Houghtcn
Mifiin Company.
A HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES-Hvs-
ward Thorpe c. B.. LII. D.. r. r. s..
author Of Essays on Historical
Chemistry. etc. In two volumes
Volume II. From 1850 to 1910 Illus
trated. New York: G. p. Putnsm's
Sons.
BY John Maseield. Illustrated by
T. c. Dugdaie. Boston: Little. Brown
& Company.
PRAIRIE ROSE. BY Bertha r. Bush.
illustrated by Griswold Tying. Bos-
ton: Little. Brown & Company.
THE SIDNEY BO0ks-sIDNEYs HER
SENIOR YEAR. By Anna Chaplin
Ray, author Of Sidney at College"
etc. illustrated by Harriet Roose-
Welt Richards. Boston: Little. Brown
& Company.
LAkEPORT SERIES-THE AUTOMO-
BILE BOYS OF LAkEPORT. or q
Ran for Fun and Fame. BY Edward
Stratemeyer. illustrated by John
Goss. Boston: Lothrop. Lee 4 Shep-
ard Company.
COLLEGE DAYS ESSAYS. By Reuben
Alonzo Gibson. LII. 3. St Louis:
Nixon-Jones Printing Company.
LATER POEMS. By John r. Tabb.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley.
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ried conviction but to this she has lately
added touch OF pictorial interest. select
\ little later in the season it is hoped
that Miss Pcrrie will find II possible to
hold an exhibition in this city Of her sum-
mer's work.
KISS ALINE soLOMONs, who also
IVA has studio in the Art Students
League building, has likewise recently
returned to Washington. She did not
work during the summer, but is now
painting a very attractive still-life
study--a picture Of q brass jar filled
with marigolds. which stands beside an
table. A piece Of tapestry forms the
back ground, and with the color Of the
flowers, jar and book lends decorative
charm. 1t is an interesting study. and
Miss Solomons is rendering it with the
utmost skill.
r CCIEN POWELL Is at his summer
- home at Airmont. Va. and will not
open his studio in thu lehman building
until November 8. He is not idle. how
ever. In fact. he has had more work
than he could execute an summer. as
a result Of his trip to the east. This
week he sent off five water colors. which
had been ordered. one to California. an
other to Minnesota, and the others to
less remote states. He has orders for
others from an art collector in Switzer-
land. and from another in Venice These
are all Of scenes in the Holy Land. and
are painted, or to be painted. from
sketches made while there. Mr.. Powell
will not dispose of his original sketches.
but he proposes to exhibit them in
Washington this autumn. He returned
from Egypt and Palestine. it will be
remembered, only the latter part OF
June.
IOHN r. KEY spent the summer, or
J at least the greater part Of it. at
Luray, where he made numerous studies
Of the mountains. These he brought
back with him this week, and will use
as Ptudies for larger canvases. One
Of the most interesting of Mr.. Keys
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Poetic Justice.

IT was in one of those cafes patronized
= principally by women, where, when a
man inadvertently strays thereinto he feels
something like the way Q woman must
feel when her back hair falls off as she S
strolling along the Avenue during the
rush hours. He was all the way in be-
fore he saw where he was, and he decided
to stick, rather than run the gantlet of
a score Of pairs of feminine eyes in
escaping. So he sat down. drew his feet
as far under the chair as possible and
gave his order to a giggly waitress who
seemed to be having a lot Of fun about
something.
AS he was finishing his soup an elderly
dame-one Of the kind whose mouth
draws down severely at the corners and
who looks at you through a lorgnette as
though she was examining a specimen
took the chair opposite. She picked up
the menu card. raised her lorgnette and
studied the young man over the top of
the card. her expression saying, as plain
ly as words Now, who left the door
open SO he could get in here?" With
bowed head he busted himself with his
soup fitting his plate for the final spoon
full.
The elderly dame. raped on the table
with the handle OF her spoon, and remark
ed. In tones Of chilling dispieasure:
Young man. don't you know that it is
the height Of bad form to tilt Your soup
plate that way?"
He sasped. turned a deep salmon pink
and stammered his excuse-ilis intentness
upon capturing a last bit of noodle-very
sorry-beg a thousand pardons-etc., etc.
And as the remainder of his lunch was
on the table. he decided to brave IL out
and finish. Little did he know how the
gods were working for him. and how he
was to be, in a few brief minutes, an in
strument Of perfect poetic justice
The elderly dame was eating her rolls
the crisp, crusty. pocketbook sort, You
KNOXVILLE waiting for her lunch
Breaking Off a particularly brittle bit and
bending ii so as to put a bit of butter
within. the morsel slipped from her
fingers. and the spring Of il carried II
across the table, where it struck with a
ping" squarely in the middle OF the
young mans plate. Was he quick-wit-
ted enough to take advantage Of the
situation? Well. was he!
Strengthening in his chair and assum-
ing an air OF outraged dignity, he said,
In absolutely frigid accents:
Madame, you reproved me a moment
ago for the manner in which | took my
soup. Do you think II IL any worse form
to tip ones soup plate a tribe than il is to
throw bread across the table, in a public
cafe. at a perfect Stranger
The elderly dame looked, elared. gasp
ed, spluttered and at last fiounced out
OF her chair and out Of the room, oozins
rage with every rustic OF her black silken
gown. while the siggfy waitress, who had
seen and heard 1t all, fed, to the kitchen
and didn't come back for 1ve minutes.
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Scribner's Sons Washington: Bren-
fonn'c

Sportsman and naturalist will alike ma
thrills of excitement in the adventures
with which this book abounds. Bob
Leach is only boy. hut he develops a
mans courage and certainly a man.
experience In his encounters with mighty
marine monsters OF the Florida coast.
The giant ray, for instance: Charging
furously. il sprang clear Of the water.
outspread like a gigantic bat, its enor-
nous mouth distended and its two great
ieshy fins tapping AS Bob and the
professor spranR overheard the ray Tell
upon tho launch. smotherirg IL and beat
ing it's broken timbers under water,
which is merely hint OF as exciting a
fish story as any Walton would want to
read. There is a ride under the waves
on the back of a huge turtle. that went
down with a rush that tore white streaks
through the water" and by way OF va
riety Bob's experiences as deputy war.
den in pursuit OF unlawful hunters OF
eeret plumes and wild turkeys. As a
climax there il Q hunt for pirates gold
buried on a deserted Island. in which
Bob and his boy chum and two despera-
does-but that would be telling.
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by George Kerr. Boston: Little
Brown & Co.

There may be naturalists too narrow
minded to accept Grandfather Frogs eX-
PLANTATION as to why he has no tail, or
Jimmie Skunks ancestral reason for
wearing stripes. but naturalists do not
know everything. AS q helpful guide TO
knowledge they should read about Old
Mother West Wind and her bagful Of
Merry Breezes. and of the wonderful
times they have in the Green Meadow
and under the Great Pine on the hill
The eadow is playground for all the
little animal creatures of the woods and
fields. but the Great Pine is a tribunal
where Old Mother West Wind dispenses
justice in odd times when she isn't turn
ing mills or blowing ships to sea. George
Kerr must have played with the Merry
Bfeezes in the Green Meadow for how
else could he have made such exact pic
lures Of Peter Rabbit and Joe otter and
of Johnny Chuck. and of that dear, in
dustrious Mrs. Trout, as she started out
to get some nice. plump flies for dinner?
By REEF AND TRAIL, Bob Leach's
Adventures In Florida. BY Fisher
Ames. jr. illustrated by Charles
Livingston Bull. New York: Charles
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NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND Ar

commepdable and noteworthy. There Is
holiness. freshness and spontaneity
about 1t which promises much when cou-
pied with sound principles. This exhibit
ton was primarily for the benefit of the
students of the Corcoran School who are
working along somewhat similar lines.
4
TN the loan collection OF the Corcoran
/ Gallery has recently been placed a
marble bust OF Milton Y. Allies, jr., which
is the work Of Rudolph Evans And an
excellent piece OF work it is in truth. The
little lads childish features are beauti-
fully modelled with touch both light
and assured. The expression is vital and
charming. and the whole effect wonder
fully engaging. Mr.. Evans has succeeded
In infusing life into the marble and in
Interpreting not only the gufse' but the
spirit of childhood. This bust is one
Of the latest and without doubt one OF
his best works. Mr.. Evans was wash
ington boy. and the model Of his Nor
ton memorial. his first important commits
sion, was executed here. But for several
years now he has had a studio in New
York.
KHISS BERTHA E. PERRIE has re-
AVA opened her studio in the Art Stu
dents League building after an absence
of nearly four months. The early part
Of the summer Miss Perrie spent in New
Hampshire. the latter part at East Glou-
cester, Mass. From both places she has
brought back with her many interesting
pictures-the most interesting that she
has painted for several years. Where she
stayed in New Hampshire the country
was hilly: long vistas were closed by
the uprising land: there were pine groves.
open meadows and little brooks screened
by masses Of light foliage.
At Gloucester there we're the picturesque
old wharves. the fishing schooners and
the dazzling water Of the sea. All these
she painted. and with unusual strength
and feeling. Her interpretations of the
wood interiors, low toned and rich in
color. are no less true than her transcript
tons Of the Gloucester sailing craft seen
under the brilliant light Of the open sky.
nor are they less charming. There has
always been solidity in Miss Ferries
work, a sound veracity which has car
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in the advancement Of its art and in civic
betterment. Bringing these people 70
Washington is another step toward estab-
fishing ii ats an art center.
TT is not generally known that the United
States forest service is sending out
travelling exhibitions" or. more properly.
a travelling exhibition. This consists OF
forty-four photographs mounted on eleven
folders. which illustrate the work and
aims Of the bureau Of forestry. Pictures
are given Of the forests in various parts
Of the United States and of the various
uses to which they are put. They are
and in not a few instances genuinely
artistic. This exhibition is sent to public
schools and libraries. and. though bu,
lately assembled, has Travelled far.
A BRIEF description and several very
"a handsome pictures of the fountain
designed and executed by Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney for the International b.
reau of American Republics are given in
the October issue OF the international
Studio. This is a peculiarly interesting
work and one which should be reckoned
is not only intrinsically meritorious. but
especially adapted to its place.
-
" G. FISCHER, who has been abroad
W all summer. is expected to return to-
morrow. He is bringing with him, ii is
understood. some very fine works Of art.
paintings and art objects. In the V. G.
Fischer galleries an interesting collection
Of drawings by the old masters is now on
view. +t--
MIR. MAN WEYL has reopened his stu
4vA do on II street. but is still spending
much of his time in the country sketch
ing. Mr.. Weyl has built a studio for him.
self just outside the city on tthe 9TH stree;
road extended, and has painted there ali
summer. LEILA MECHLIN.