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half the people one meets are as real as
this shrewd. kindly, quiet Mrs. Thompson.
q marvel of organizing and administrative
power, a wonder Of business sagacity.
Equally real, though much less happily
so. is she in the torrnents of her late love
fervor, precursor Of her fatuous second
marriage. The author unfolds this period
under the most rigid scrutiny. Every
thought and half-thought, every emotion
of this tortured time is ruthlessly opened
for inspection. Not content with telling
the truth alone. the author must needs tell
it all. Not denying the marvel of this
portraying power, one reaches instructive
ly. nevertheless. to cover the woman a
little more decent1y. An uncommon story
of mastery development.
FENELLAs A Novel. BY Henry Longan
Stuart, author OF weeping Cross"
New York: Doubleday. Page & Co.
One sets out here with a prejudice
against the hero, John Ingram. Why
should any one worth being called a
grown-up man. to say nothing of being
a hero of romance, permit the affection
of an uniformed, unprotected little girl
however beautiful and wayward she may
be-when his sole warrant for bare
acquaintance is lifting a heavy library
book for her in some silly schoolgirl
reference work? Why? Upon refiec-
ton, however. this question may be in
elusive beyond John Ingram, suggesting
that he may be intended as a type. The
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lations as to the future and ms to the
use Of the aeroplane in war are interest
ing, and at the same time are not radical
enough to seem at all unreasonable. The
book is not intended for the expert flying
machine designer. but as a popular treat
Use on a very important and iittle-under-
stood subject. 1t is interesting and timely.
MRS. THOMPSON. A Novel. By w. b.
Maxwell, author OF 1.-THE Rest Cure"
ETC. New York: d. Appleton & Co.
Almost any novelist Is abundantly salts
fled If. having created a character. he finds
1t behaving appropriately in any single
set of conditions and events Mr.. Max
well. however. having produced Mrs.
Thompson. requires of her equal fidelity
to both Of two exacting and opposing
roles. Mrs. Thompson as the successful
merchant and Mrs. Thompson as the
middle-aged wife Of a young scamp of
half her years are the modern feminine
phases which this remarkable heroine is
set to develop. The business career OF
this woman is a triumphal march At
the passing of the last Thompson worm
out dynasty of merchants left a failing
concern upon her hands. Ability, courage
and endless work on her part built it up
to the most prideful limit of it's early sub
stance and standing. This author has
amazing skill in obiectifying characters.
Seeing everything, he selects unerringly
just the details of appearance and action
that contribute to complete reality. Not
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bert Adams to be shown are two figures
for the federal building in Cleveland and
a beautiful tympanum for st. Bartholo-
news Church, New York.
Isidore Konti will contribute a photo
graph Of the figure America" which he
recently modelled for the soldiers me-
mortal at Pittsburg. which has great dig
nifty and beauty: Herman MacNeil. the
president of the National Sculpture So
ciety, will show groups from his McKin-
of his Indian groups, the Prayer for
Rain and The Coming Of the White
Man; Cyrus F. Dallin will be represent
ed by his Medicine Man. in Paramount
Park. the first of q series of equestrian
statues illustrating the history of the In
by ]. Scott Hartley, Janet Scudder, Leo
Lentelli, Bessie Potter VOnneh and others;
animals by Ell Harvey and F. G. r. Roth /;
portrait and figure studies. Anna v.
Hyatt will send reproduction of her
Joan Dare modelled last winter in Paris.
and Bella Pratt the Butler memorial and
st. Paul Soldier Boy.
ings will be smaller. comprising only
thirty five exhibits. but 1T will be found
equally notable. The Library Of Congress
was one of the first great public buildings
in this country to be decorated extensive
ly by mural paintings, and it has given
enormous impetus to work in this field.
There is now scarcely a public building
newly erected that some provision is not
made for this class CT adornment. Fur
thermore, the demand Is greatly increas-
ing, so that the outlook for this branch of
art is at present most promising. Edwin
H. Rlashfleld is the president and William
Laurel Harris the secretary Of the Ma
tional Society Of Mural Painters. under
whose auspices this special exhibit was
Assem- bled.
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Death Of little Dorritt.'
rom the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Inasmuch as novelists are accustomed
to take their characters more or less
from life, every famous work Of fiction
contains some human prototypes. usually
T. good many more than are possible under
existing circumstances. 1t is curious
fancy of many persons to imagine that
they are prototypes OF some famous char
acter IN fiction, and this applies to soEae
which are by no means highly creditabie.
1t is said that among artists modes
there Is great vanity over the value of
their services in the production Of g. great
painting. One man in London went SO far
as TO claim with great sust0 that he
loaned pair OF his own trousers to be
reproduced In that famous painting 1.-The
Doctor" 1t has just been announced once
more than little Dorr:tt" Is dead. She
has died almost as often as the eldest
Mason, but this time there are produced
who are without the slightest understand
the lamented lady who has just passed
away in her ninetieth year was third
cousin of the wife Of Charles Dickens.
That settles 1t. There can be no possible
doubt that the original is all she claimed,
and as her friends claimed to see h per-
lection Of portraiture, there Is no use dis
cussing the matter any further. It is also
said that she Is the mother Of Tiny Tim
and Paul Dombey. This Is going 1t little
strong, but rs we cannot prove the con.
trary. u seems as II We must owollow the
situation as best we may.
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4 NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS y =

Monies and other contemporary sculp-
tors. Furthermore. at Kendall Green is
one of Daniel c. F'rench's best works, the
Gallaudet memorial, and in town are to
be noted as of exceptional merit Charles
n. Niehaus' Hahnemann statue and ]. Q.
A. Wards Gen. Thomas, which Is con-
coded to be one Of the best equestrian
statues in America.
statues is small, that in many instances
a work less good than the best has been
secured, and that many of our mOnu
ments do little honor to those whom they
commemorate or those by whom they
were erected. but such mistakes are more
easily made than remedied. This city
with its many small parks and open
squares offers inviting opportunity for
the emplacement Of sculpture. Congress
is generous in this particular and there
Is no reason why this generosity might
not be turned to good account There are
excellent sculptors in America. some of
the best in the world, and If wisdom were
shown in the giving Of commissions we
which We could be justly proud. OF the
utmost importance. therefore. that the
people Of Washington should be acQuaint-
ed with what American sculptors are do
ing and in no better way could knowl-
edge be acquired. except by an outdoor
sculpture show, than by the exhibition to
be held in the hemcycle hall next week.
This exhibition will comprise $50 works
and will fairly cover the field Of cur
rent production.
Daniel c. French will be represented by
his four groups. America" Europe"
ASIA" Africa on the New York Gus
tom house, by his statue Of Gen. Ogle-
thorpe. at Savannah. Ca, by his Alma
Mater" at Columbia University, New
York. and his Alice Freeman Palmer and
Melvin memorials. so well known and
justly popular. A. A. Weinman will
show, among other things. his statue Of
Gen. Macomb, erected recently In De-
troit: his statue Of Alexander ]. Cas-
the new Pennsylvania railroad station at
New York, and his groups THE Des-
tiny of the Red Man and Bowler and
Ball Pitcher Among the works of Her
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lcry OF Art q COleCtAOH VI 1CO
large size photographs of important
works by contemporary American sculp-
tors and mural painters. These photo
graphs have been assembled by the Ma
tional Sculpture Society and the National
Society of Mural Painters to represent
the most significant output in these fields,
and, under the management Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Arts. they will be sent
from place to place. That is, these pic
lures form what is known as travelling
exhibitions" and after being shown in
Washington will make circuit Of cities
in the west and south
OF course, a photograph can never take
the place of an original, but it is OBJ
viously impossible to circulate large
pieces of sculpture or mural paintings,
and therefore photographs are the best
substitute. The exhibition will be held
here in connection with the annual con-
ventiOn of the American Federation OF
Arts, but aside from this 1t should at
tract wide attention. There is no city In
the United States which can boast as
many statues and other works in sculp-
ture as Washington, and none which for
it's possessions of this kind is more fire.
quently derided. Almost every chapter In
the history Of American sculpture IL ex-
emplified here, from the struggles Of
the infant art seen in Greenough's
Washington to its mature fruition In
Saint Gaudens' profoundly impressive
Adams memorial in Rock Creek ceme-
terry Then there are at the capital the
works of Crawford; in Lafayette Square,
Clark Mills Jackson the first eques-
trian statue erected in the United States:
in the Corcoran Gallery, Hiram Powers
Greek Slave; in the Smithsonian
grounds, Story's statue Of Prof. Henry:
at the Library Of Congress. excellent
works by Paul Bartlett, Frederick Mac
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Delaware and Wissahickon rivers Sin its
midst" My experience has been that
when there's q river running through or
close by a city that river itself is the
hottest thing in or around the town in
the hot weather. The Delaware river
always made me feel warm on q hot day
just looking at it: and. to be perfectly
fair. so did the Potomac!
l think the dictum that it's hot every
where in hot weather has the germ Of
vital truth in it that ought to be gen.
orally recognized. People who haven't
been in Canada In the summer take 1t
for granted that Canadas a land where
all hands, in the cities as well as in the
woods. sleep under blankets through all
the long. delirious summer nights.
Nothing whatever like 1t. You'll run
into days in Montreal-yea, and even in
Quebec!Lin midsummer that are as hot
as Santos or Pernambuco, nor are the
nights much different from the days.
In brief, the only American cities that
are not hot, hotter or hottest in the sum-
mer time are the cities on the Pacific
coast. And, somehow, I never found the
summer temperatures of the Pacific coast
cities at all agreeable. There never is
any extreme summer heat in San Fran
CISCO for example. just as there is no
frost there. But the summer climate Of
San Francisco is not one that folks from
this section Of the world can enthuse
over. It's raw there-raw, chilly. mar
Ow-penetrating-throu the summer.
It's the sort of temperature that we get
here in April, when we've been chilled
through a long winter. and are more or
less petulantly waiting for the world to
warm up: when it's neither warm nor ac-
tually cold. and you dop't feel comfort
able with the windows down or up, and
don't know exactly where you stand, eX-
cept that you are not comfortable.
Los Angeles has gummy, humid sum-
mer climate; you feel like a vegetable
after you've been in Los Angeles for a
year or SO. Seattle is too moist: Port
land sometimes has the mellowest sun
shine in all the world but as general
to be quite warm enough.
Summer Is summer, and that means
heat / think Washington has had far
more than its share Of slams over its al
legged ferocious heat In summer. Wash
ington is quite as decent as its neigh
bors IN that respect, and a whole hot de-
center than q good many Of them. One
of the hottest things that ever I saw on
q hot day in Baltimore was that chunk
of Chesapeake bay that BaPmor brags
so much about as a discriminating in
fuence upon its summer climate.
Another thing about the heat of Wash
enough to stay in the house Just as much
as they can when it's hot in Washing
ton; and that's a good deal more than
the inha bitants Of q lot Of other hot
towns that I know about have learned.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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as to situation and traffic, and certainly
a fair spot from which to Judge Of the
heat Of a town. I've felt it SO blister
ing hot on Longacre square that life
was an actual burden; and there often
IL a sort Of sustained ferocity about the
heat of New York. observable at Long
acre square-or Times square. as it
also is called-that 1 never noticed in
Washington at that corner / speak Of
Very often, in the dog days. / find
Broadway, in mid Afternoon. just as
impossible to walk upon with any COM
fort as the exposed side of Pennsyl-
vania avenue. And when it is hot in
New York there is no such thing as
finding relief in the old big park, for
Central Park is. barring none other, I
think, absolutely the hottest. stuffiest
park in hot weather to be found in all
the world. On the hottest Washington
days one always can find a certain
amount of grateful GOODNESS in Rock
Creek Park, because. I suppose. it is a
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federation has now 11S chapters. scattered
throughout the United States, and the
maj rity will send delegates. But be-
sides these there will be special speakers.
such, for example, as John w. Alexander,
president Of the National Academy of De-
sign, who painted the we'll known series
Of pictorial decorations, The Evolution
Of the Book" in the veStibule Of the ro-
also the decorations. THE Spirit of Pitts
burg" in the Carnegie Institute, Pitts
burg, besides many other pictures and
portraits. dorado Taft the sculptor Of
the Columbus memorial for this city, OF
the Fountain of the Lakes" in Chicago.
and the author Of an admirable book on
American sculpture; c. Grant La Fargo,
the son of John La Fargo. and the ar
chitect of the Cathedral of ST. John the
Divine. New York; Raymond Unwin the
great English authority on town planning.
and Prof. George Pierce Baker of Har-
vard who planned and managed last
summer so successfully the Mcdowell
memorial pageant at Peterborough
there will be six. all Of which will be
open to the public, will haye some def
mite trend. The first will be given over
to the work of the federation. the second
Work. the fourth to Art for the Peo-
ple.'' the ffth to art Education" and
the sixth to art and the Citizen" The
federation is, it must be remembered. pri-
marty Iaymen organization pufpOsed
to increase interest in and appreciation
for art Among the subjects Of special
local interest to be discussed at this con-
vention will be 1.-THE Development of the
National Gallery of Art" paper to be
presented by the secretary of the Smith
sonian Institution. Hon. Charles d. Wal
colt. and The Establishment of Ma
tional School Of Industrial Art" which Is
to be advocated by Leslie w. Miller, prin-
cipal of the Pennsylvania Museum School
Of Industrial Art at Philadelphia. Con-
ception in the Hall Of the Americas. the
new Pan-American building. Thursday
evening. to which the diplomatic corps
and others prominent in official circles
will be invited, and at which a few brief
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author has done mastery work here in
creating people. and good work in making
drama. 1t Is not his art at which one
cavils; 1t is the subject. of a sort in es-
sential parts to make one turn uneasily
in renewed affection toward dogs and
cats. In this tale Of one-sided devotion.
with convention often in the background
and never obtrusive, the beautiful nat
ural child, Fenella, wins the heart en-
cages the sympathy and secures gentle
Endorsement. John Ingram, in the fine
brutality of his Indifference to our think
ing, never does make good Even when,
at the last. he again accepts the devo-
ton of this girl, he seems q futile sort,
as one in hopeful and optimistic mood
counts men. However. there is no doubt
about this being a very remarkable story,
full of sustained and exciting drama,
with the SAVIOR Of real life through and
through it.
THE VERY LITTLE PERSON. By
Mary HeatOn Worse illustrations by
Rose O'Neill. Boston Houghton
Mifflin Company
A clever and amusing detail of baby
study which to the uniformed appears to
cover. from the physical standpoint, every
motion both of the voluntary and Of the
involuntary sort possible to the small
unexercised anatomy. The ardent writer
CONSTITUTES the baby, so to speak, freely
and POLITICALLY as to the range and depth
of its emotions and the scope of it's in
reflections. 1t is not easy to conceive
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that anything has been left untold on
this broadly appealing subject. One
fancies this a record to be checked OF
confirmatively, with reminiscent enjoy
ment. by hosts Of new and as yet I'M
habituated parents. Speaking illustrations
delightfully."- executed add materially tc
the illumination Of this subject.
POEMS FOR THE PEOPLE. BY George
Sands Johnson. New York: Broad
way Publishing Company.
This little book of verse Is the gathering
in of the poetic driftings of many years.
In Geographic preface the author sets two
years as the limit of his formal schooling,
So it may be assumed that meter and
rhyme are to an extent his elementary
form of expression. This is where the
chief interest in these verses lies. Not a
few of them contain genuine poetic sub
stance All are serious efforts. the work
of one who deeply respects his medium.
Nature is the impulse under most Of these
songs and a love of nature is obviously
the writer's supreme warrant for writing
in verse.
AN OLD MAIDS VENGEANCE. By
Frances Powell. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
The old maid Of real life and of litera-
ture is so generally accepted as a type
ranging from household angel to family
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natural park. while Central Park is
purely an artificial sort Of an affair.
Taking 1t by and large. and viewing It
with perfect impartiality. New York /
am very certain. Is every whit as hot in
the summer months as Washington: and
sometimes I think that New York; near
ness to tho sea, during the hottest SPELLS
intensifies rather than lessons the heat OF
the burg.
The propinQuity to the sea doesn't al
ways make for GOODNESS by any means.
When there Is q land breeze blowing in
Atlantic City. for instance. it is several
cuts hotter on the Atlantic City Board
walk than it Is in the most crowded
quarter of Rangoon, and with the sea
coming right up underneath the Board
walk. teo. In Atlantic City, by the way.
have often been sympathized with by
natives Of those Absecon sands when I've
told them that I had frequently been
Obliged to spend quite sizsable chunks of
my summers in Washington They asked
me how on earth I stood it, and all that
sort of thing; and at the very moment of
asking such questions they were painting
like Eskimo CANNES suddenly whisked
from Upernavik to New Orleans or some
such place, and the soaring heat of the
land breeze had wilted them to an almost
visible hardness.
1t 10 one Of the boasts Of the folks liv-
Ing in the lake cities that their towns are
Tar cooler In summer than the other
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Leisenring. Mr.. Messer, John r. Key.
William P. Silva and Miss Bertha T..
Perrie.
TINE Washington Water Color Club
i held its annual meeting less than .
fortnight ago at Mr.. Moser's studio. The
following officers were elected for the
coming year: James Henry Moser. presi-
Bertha e. Perrie, secretary. and John c.
Fitzpatrick, treasurer. These with
Mathile Mueden Leisenring. Robert Cole
man Child and Lesley Bush-Brown con-
stitute a board of control. No further
meeting will be held until autumn.
"a
THE Sketch Class. which is made up
Of a number of the local artists. has
evenings in Miss Bertha e. Ferries stu
did, in the old Art Student League build
ing. The attendance has averaged about
twenty, and for every evening q costumed
model has been provided, as well as light
refreshments when the serious work Of
the evening has been done. There have
been good subjects and some excellent
sketches. The model last Monday was an
Indian In costume. About two hours are
devoted to the sketching. This little
class. or club, was started several years
ago by Mrs. Leisenring and 1t has now
become an established institution.
MISS BERTHA E.. PERRIE has ar
AvA ranged to spend the coming sum-
mer at East Gloucester, where she has
taken a studio for the season. She will
not leave Washington, however. until the
latter part Of June. Meanwhile she II
conducting an outdoor sketch class We'd
nesday, Thursday and Saturday after
Moons No one knows the country about
Washington better than Miss Perrie or
appreciates its pictorial charm more.
LEILA MECHILN.