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of battleship, or fortress or something
which isn't specified. Want Of money
makes a lot of fellows over yonder go
crooked and sell their country-debts. or
race horses or actresses. Thank heaven.
we don't have traitors in our army, who'll
sell the United States for q handful of
gold. Wonder what this Russian fellow
disposed of-and what particular kind of
frozen hades they'll send him to-"
l unused a moment, for the newspaper
item had awakened a train of thought in
my mind.
Curious. now. I'd forgotten all about
my map" ! said.
'Humph-map." Billy was but half at
held.
"A map, exactly. I happen to be the
possessor Of secret map Of German
fertilization"
Back to thine oxen. dreamer" he
scoffed.
retorted. This is a straight tale"
Somehow l can't see the connection
between a German war map and the
Texas cattle ranch where you've been,
yet it may be so. Give me the yarn
This map was in the trunk Of q rene
gade English army oflicer. a scoundre
who was shot at a mine In the mountains
| where l happened to be present. I've the
| chart in New York"
And it's the real thing? What forts"
named. But the chap who made it evil
IDENTIFY slipped into some fortress. It's
perfectly executed, showing to scale en-.
trance gun pits and disappearing guns
| range finders. searchlights. water system
/ telephone system, ammunition cellars
underground galleries and all the score
| of other features-in fact, the fort COM
plete."
by joyce" Billy exclaimed.
"And US explained in foot notes writ.
ten In German script" added.
THAT settles it, said he. "A copy, OF
course The man could never have got
| into the fortress in the hrst place; in the
| second. he could not have secured exact
| data, and in the last. they would have
caught and skinned him alive. It's a pity
though. he didn't tag it with his name"
THAT would make 1t dangerous for
him." said l.
Dangerous! As IL such q map weren't
dangerous any time. named or unnamed "
do you think so?" I asked, q little
startled.
MANY man would cut your throat iH
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started of into the world to enjoy 9
legacy making her way to Monte Carlo
and there taking up the gayest OF gay
hveS, and becoming in q few hours the
object OF universal attention? Certainly
the condition which Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
hanson thus present is sufficiently inter
esting to compel q continuance OF this
their latest story. after it has been be
gun. This is unlike the usual Williamson
tale. In that 1t does not involve Ions
with life at Europes most famous gam
bling center. presenting vivid pic
ture. and including the introduction
of a number of entertaining types
A handsome young Italian prince be.
comes the lover-in-chief Of the YOUNG
Englishwoman who enters thus blithely
and innocently upon a career which con-
POUNDS every observer. There Is con-
siderable plot. with much of the mechan-
ism of villainy. but finally all the
problems are solved and the romance
comes to an ultimately happy conclusion
AS a description OF the feverish Monte
Carlo existence Tho Guests Of Hercules
is a most successful performance. The
book il artistically presented with color
cover in a chromatic combination which
cannot fail to attract attention.
THE LAST TRY. BY John Reed Scott
author Of 1.-THE Colonel Of the Red
color by Clarence r. Underwood
Philadelphia: J. b. Lippfncott Com
pany.
In 1.-THE Princess Dehra" Mr.. Scott in
troduced his readers to the kingdom OF
Valera, a perfectly substantial national
entity to be easily found on the roman
tic map of Europe If one looks closely
enough. That story established young
American on the throne as husband TO
Princess Dehra, but he neglected to nm
ish his task and left alive the man who
had the strongest reason 10 wish MN
out Of the way. Consequently. 1t becomes
incumbent upon Mr.. Scott to write an
other story, which tells Of the later
Vaccinations of the Duke OF Lotzen to
wrest the throne from King Armand.
These endeavors start in washington,
where the king is spending short time
incognito, and take the form at the out
set Of trying to run the royal parsonage
down with an automobile on Massachu-
setts avenue. This device falling, 1t Is
necessary to carry the story back to
Valera, and the plot thickens until 1t Is
tremendously involved, and finally every
thing works out. but 1t Is due to Mr.
Scott to say that he does not let the
king kill Lotzen until the last page
THE NAMELESs THING. BY Melville
Dayisson Post, author OF The
Strange Schemes OF Randolph Ma
son." New York: D. Appleton q Co.
What is 1t that determines the issue
between life and death, that betrays muir
derers, that shields the innocent, that
checks criminals on the eve Of enter
prises certain to be fruitless, that In
wolves upright citizens in destructive cir
cumstances? 1t is the ''nameless thing.
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c., which il to be hung In o hospital In
that city, and he had made study In oils
Of Abdul Bahai for which he was fortu-
nate enough to be given a sitting. MI
and Mrs. Smith will probably spend the
early part of the summer at one OF the
New Jersey seaside resorts, going later to
the mountains.
IT has been learned with much interest
that the painting of Pittsburgh by A.
W. Sparks, formerly of this city, which is
included in the current exhibition of the
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, has been
purchased by George A. Hearn OF New
York a we'll known connoisseur and col
lector. Mr.. Hearn has done much toward
advancing American art by his judicious
purchases and his munifcent gifts to the
Metropolitan Museum. Whether or not
Mr.. Sparks painting Is destined for the
Mr.. Hearn's private gallery is not known
But in either case the purchase is nc
small compliment
A the Public Library there is now on
"A exhibition a collection of arts and
crafts work done in the Philippine
schools-an exhibit, prepared by the bu-
reau of education and first shown in
Teachers College, Columbia University,
New York This comprises woven fab
rcs, embroidery, lace, baskets, mats.
slippers hats and other useful articles.
They are for the most part we'll made
and attractive in design.
The little report which accompanies
the exhibition gives the following inter
esting explanation:
THE manufacture Of articles in the
household gives to Philippine industrial
education a practical point of view not
found in other countries. The proportion
of population employed in factories Is
very small. Cloth, furniture, kitchen
utensils and the like are made by the
family for it's use. Hats. mats. slippers.
cloth and similar materials are made in
the homes and sold to the brokers, en-
tering into both domestic and foreign
trade. There is much room for improve
ment in the manufacture of these prod
ucts and for the enlargement of the field.
so that industrial education has for it's
object not only the training Of the hand
and eye. but also the betterment of the
articles made in the households for home
use. and wider range~of material man.
ufactured for foreign and domestic USE.
This is really the only excuse in any
country for the teaching OF Industrial
art, and IL We do not take care our is
land possessions will outstrip US in this
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Of the war between England and her
American colonies. the author does Justice
to this country while maintaining loyalty
/! to his own. George III and Charles Fox
are. OF course. prime factors in the affairs
OF which the book treats, but there are
many chapters devoted to other men Of
| history who shared in the revolution that
lost America to the crown. One gets q
vivid glimpse into the personality of the
king, who "lived very sparingly-a consci-
entious ascetic. amid a society which
| sadly needed examples Of temperance.
! who had hearty way with sailors
and neglected nothing which could put
heart into his people and teach them to
meet the threats Of the foreigner in a
spirit Of gay and chivalrous defiance .
Fox is so actively identified with his
times that his career runs through the
DOCK like thread holding together nearly
great soldiers of the revolution. for and
against, walk across its pages with the
realism of motion pictures. and final chap
tiers chronicle the conspiracy that resulted
IN the death of young Andre and the
immortal dishonor Of Benedict Arnold.
who sailed for England pursued by a
blast OF execration almost strong enough
to propel him across the Atlantic" A
general map OF the revolted colonies at
the outbreak OF the American rebellion
is given. and second volume, which will
carry Fox up to the moment which, 50
FAR as personal success was concerned,
proved to be the eliminating point of his
whole career" will soon be ready for the
press. This final book will likewise con-
time and conclude the authors History
OF the American Revolution"
THE BROKEN BELL. BY Marie Van
Worst. author Of First Love-" etc.
Illustrated by Frank Craig In
dianapolis: B0bbs- Merrill Company.
The tragedy Of international marriage
Is here presented in its most forbdding
aspect. Where the alliance is solely a
question of convenience between the pos
respectable title one can feel only pity
for the sacrifice for mutual advan tage
But when love is invoked on either side
and the marriage takes its usual course
Of deception and profiigacy and extrava-
gance the pity becomes acute. In The
Broken BelP' is told Of such a marriage
told with unusual effectiveness and force
Two men love the American woman who
Ia the wife of one Of them. The better
man IL he who is not her husband. III
timately he joins a monastic order and
she returns to him whose name she
bears after a turmoil of spirit which
gives her strength and purifies her soul.
Some vivid descriptions OF Italian scenery
accompany this narrative.
THE GUESTS OF HERCULES. BY C.N.
ana A. M. Williamson. illustrated
by A. Leone Bracker and Arthur H
auckland. New York: Doubleday
Page & Co.
Could a more startling situation be con-
ceived than the spectacle of a young Eng
lish woman who. after spending nearly
all her life in a Scottish convent, had
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the remainder of this problem has been
shown to be really one Of mental dis
ease" Accepting the doctrine of deter
+, minism-the determinisrn of virtue and
| not of vice-he points his study upon a
| scientific basis and scientific treatment
| Of the phenomena OF criminahty and
crime.
Milton, Virgil, Montaigne, Shak-
spere. BY George Edward Wood
berry. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
The power of criticism for which Mr..
Woodbury. is SO justly respected and
studied does not manifest itself in this
volume OF essays to the extent one has
grown to expect from the habit Of this
scholarly writer. Nevertheless. 1t is an
admirable and useful set of studies. large
ly Geographic in character, for general
and somewhat unframed readers. The
author here stresses the ordinary why's
and hows of literary externals. How
Cervantes came to write the book Of
Spafn,' and why the whole of Scotland is
gathered up in Sir Walter Scott's ro-
mances. The facts and extent Of Milton
influence are examined, the quality OF
Montafgne's confessions and Shake
speare's seizure of the whole wide world
through the single essential of action.
virgil appears in this company. rather
the poet whose verse had most power in
the world" The personality of these es-
says Is easy, original. delightful, like that
of every bit of Mr.. Woodberry's work.
A CHAUTAUQUA BOY: In 81 and Att
erward3 "Reminiscences. BY David
B. Parker. Edited by Torrance
Parker. Boston: Small, Maynard
& Co.
This amazingly graphic and vivacious
set of recollections covers that part OF
the civil war In which this author had a
place, and beside this includes many of
the interesting and important subsequent
cies Of that event A soldier at eighteen.
Mr.. Parker after the war was first made
United States marshal for Virginia and
later appointed chief post Office inspector.
Upon this groundwork of active Official
experience in an excited and overwrought
time 1.-The author. gifted above all with
what Is called temperament and person
ecdote and incident Inside happenings
and outside appearances consort in
strange but convincing company. Per-
sonages come to the door in stocking
feet and shirt sleeves, so to say. The
whole is an intimate but at the same
time a big and coorful view, to which
Albert Bushnell Hart makes admiring
and whole-hearted introduction.
GEORGE THE THIRD AND CHARLES
FOX, The Concluding Part Of the
American Revolution. BY the Rt.
Honorable Sir George Otto Ire
velyan, Bart. o. NJ, author of The
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay."
ETC. In two volumes. Vol. /. New
York: Longmans. Green & Co.
In his review Of the concluding events
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suggestion OF space well conveyed. Mr..
Key has also been making some studies
at Van der Werken. in Virginia. besides
which he is simplifying in his studio
more ago in Virginia and in the Berk-
shire Hills
D LIE GRAND JOHNSTON has in his
~ studio in the Lehman building some
Interesting little pictures which he has
painted lately. One Is a study OF sheep
in an open field Drowned by autumn !:
another picture Of small flock of sheep
seen at close range as they are homeward
driven by moonlight. These were both
painted entirely with palette knife and
from memory, but they are charming in
tone and very effective. 1t should be re-
membered that back Of works of such ap-
parent spontaneity lie years of study. to
say nothing of abundant talent One of
the most interesting pictures on the walls
OF Mr.. JOhnston's studio now is a can
vas painted fifteen or twenty years ago
a landscape with flock of geese in the
mellow in tone. 1t was such studies as
this, thOughtfully and conscientiously
wrought, which led the way to more swift
and slight production Mr.. Johnston is
at work at present upon a snow picture
which was begun during the winter out
Of doors. There is group of small
houses to the right. trees to the left, and
crossing the foreground a little half-frozen
stream. The hour Is late afternoon and
the last rays of the sun fall caressingly
on the snow-covered roofs and ground
GORGE B. MATTHEW'S, who is to be
~ numbered with the Washington paint
ers, though he spends little time In
Washington, was in the city this wee {,
having just returned from an extended
tour through the south In Atlanta Mr.
Matthews painted a number of portraits
of members of THE Old Guard of At
lanta," among them one of Col Burke.
Mr.. Matthews has also spent some time
at the University of the South, at Sewa-
nee, where he has painted portrait of
the Rev. DIR. Du Bose.
KHAX WEYL has been making a
AVA number OF outdoor studies, which
he has now in his H street studio. One Is
Of blossoming fruit trees in grass
grown orchard beyond which a CLINT Of
water is caught. This Is delicate in col
oring. subtle and very poetic-less broad
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In treatment than Mr.. Weyl's studies are
as rule, but very strong and character
istic. He has also painted path through
a grove somewhat reminiscent Of the Bar
bzon school, but from purely personal
standpoint. All of MIR. Weyl's pictures
have quality and tone derived from an
individualistic style and deep love OF
nature. Whatever he does has distinc-
ton.
MRS. MATHILDE MUEDEN LESSEN
AVA RING has just finished an exceed
ingly clever portrait sketch in pastels of
little lad of about ten years of age in
sailor blouse. and is at work now upon
a full-length portrait of a lady seated on
an upholstered stool before an old rose
curtain. The pose is unusual-the figure
Is turned from the observer and the face
is seen in profile. The head is beautiful
ly rendered. the dark hair coming softly
against the face, which in turn Is nicely
related with the background. The fea-
lures are delicately modelled but express
sive, the whole vital. fine and significant.
The lady's gown Is of pink and yellow
with a touch of dull green, and 1t Is so ar
ranged that the train settles in long
decorative folds in the very front Of the
canvas. A decorative note pervades the
whole composition. and, though the work
is still far from completion, 1t would seem
to be an assured success.
THE Arts and Crafts School will hold
its annual exhibition of students
work next Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday at the school, I'LL New York
avenue. The exhibition will comprise
work in leather. wood and metal. basket
ry and weaving. The exhibition will be
open to the public.
L CARL SMITH Is better known for
his paintings of the Dutch peas
antry than for either landscapes or por-
traits, but he has produced from time to
time quite q number of both. On the
wall Of his studio. on upper 18th street.
are fifty or more charmingly colorful lit
tie sketches made in California last year,
which collectively form an attractive mo-
sale and Individually reward close scru-
tiny. These are what would be called
thumb box sketches none being larger
than would fit into the paint box designed
with the purpose of being carried on one
thumb. Mr. Smith has recently painted
q portrait of Mrs. Tuomey of Sumter, 8.
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~ NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS II

particular The exhibition ID in many
ways an object lesson.
-
MONDAY, Tuesday and Wednesday of
AVA next week the fourth national con-
ference on city planning will be held
in Boston Tho sessions will be held in
the lecture room Of the Public Library.
and there will be a special exhibit of city
plans. This conference deals with the
big and little problems Of city planning.
housing reform, traffic regulations. ETC.,
and the Improvement OF the city's aspect.
1t is in the last that art becomes promi-
nent, but all together conduce to the
same end. Within the past few years the
meaning Of the word art has been broad
ened SO that it is no longer understood
to mean merely painting and sculpture.
but architecture; landscape gardening
and even city planning as we'll. This
gives it a robustness and significance
which for several centuries it had lost
Among the speakers at the conference in
Boston will be Frederick Law Olmsted,
Arnold Drummer and J r. Coolidge. jr.,
well known here A number Of promf-
nent citizens have been appointed by the
Commissioners to represent the District
Of Columbia.
THE board or trustees OF the Ameri-
! can Academy in Rome has voted to
establish a chair Of fine arts in memory
OF the late Francis Davis Millet its chief
executive officer. whose studio for sew
eral years was in this city. 1t is thought
that there could be no more fitting tribute
than this, and the board expresses the
hope that a fund OF 100000 will speedily
be raised. Both large and small cOntribu-
tons from friends and acquaintances are
invited, and the names Of all contributors
will, 1t is understood. be inscribed in a
memorial volume. The treasurer of the
fund is William A. Boring, 80 Broadway,
New York.
AS previously announced. 1t Is proposed
to erect q memorial tablet in suitable
form on some public reservation In this
city to Mr.. Millet and Maj. Butt, both
OF whom were officers Of the government.
This memorial will also be erected by
private contributions, and the treasurer
Of this fund is Charles j. Bell Of this
city A third appropriate memorial to
Mr.. Millet would be the gift of one OF
his paintings preferably wandering
Thoughts" which was shown at the Pan
American exposition. later at the Franco
British exposition, and is still In the pos
session of his family to the National
Gallery Of Art. LEILA MECHLiN.
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drawing to a close, but this
does not mean that there is a
cessation of activities in the
studios. The fact is that
spring. summer and autumn are harvest
time for the majority Of artists, and that
during this period most of the pictures
which appear in the winter exhibitions
are produced. To be sure this applies
more to landscape than portrait paint
ers. but even the latter make good use
Of the months between May and Novem-
Der. In another six weeks the major
ity of the local studios will be deserted,
the artists exchanging them. as 1t were.
for studies at the seaside resorts and in
the mountains. At present however
they are without exception open and oc-
cupied.
4
A BOUT a year ago Mr.. Bush-Brown
= built a spacious studio in the rear
of his residence. on G street between 18th
and 18th streets. Lately he has added
to this large brick stable adjacent to
his property. In the former he is mod
cling an equestrian statue, a soldiers
memorial, and some portraits. In the
latter he is showing his imposing buffalo
group, which occupied conspicuous
position at the Chicago worlds fair. This
is In plaster, but is an enormous COM
position. representing buffalo charging
an Indian mounted upon Texas horse.
The scale is more than life size. The
great buffalo. with head down, is plung-
ing forward in furious rage; the horse
has reared in fright on his hind legs
and stands poised above the angry crea-
ture; the Indian clings to the horses
back and takes accurate aim with his
arrow: the outcome is left to the imag-
ination-none can say which will be VIC
tor 1t Is dramatic moment, boldly
portrayed.
The group was modelled in the early
ninetieS at Mr.. Bush Browns former
home at Newburgh on the Hudson.
There. having large grounds, he got as
models buffalo. an Indian and a Texas
horse. Day after day he studied the buff
falo, watching it's motions. making note OF
it's anatomy. following with his eve each
characteristic pose. The horse and In
dian were put through various exer-
cises. and thus the group gradually took
shape being altered here and there as ad-
ditional knowledge was gained, until 1t
was declared complete. II is a difficult
theme, and has rather tragic significance
There is something kingly about the
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House-Cleaning Time.

From the Boston Transcript.
Woman of the House answering taird
ring)-Are you trying to pull the house
down?
Book Agent-Beg pardon, madam, but
have you the Life OF Grant,"
Woman--No; but IL / was a man I'd
have yours in just about one minute.
(Slams the door,