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There was something about Mr.. Lemuel
Porter that made men accept his dictum.
and without further remark Mr.. Monroe
called the next witness, Mr.. Roswell
Randolph, and tall man with an in
tellectual face came forward.
While the coroner was putting the for
NAL and preliminary questions to Mr.
Randolph. Parmalee quietly drew my at
ention to a whispered conversation 60
ng on between Elsa and Louis
If this girl had tainted instead of Miss
Lloyd l should not have been surprised,
or she seemed on the very verge of
nervous collapse. She seemed, too, to be
accusing the man of something which he
Vigorously denied. The girl interested
he far more than the Frenchman
though of the simple. rosy checked type
f German. she had an air of canniness
md subtlety that was at variance with
as far more clever than most people
bought. and Parmalees whispered
-ords showed that he thought so too.
Something doing in the case Of Dutch
lisa, eh?' he said; ''she and Johnny
-Frenchy have cooked up something be-
-ween them,
Nothing of any importance. 1 fancy
returned. for Miss Lloyd's swoon
seemed to me a surrender, and 1 had
little hope now Of any other direction in
-hich to look.
But I resumed my attention to the
oroner's inquiries of Mr.. Randolph.
In answer to a few formal questions,
re stated that he had been Mr.. Craw-
ord's legal adviser for many years, and
lad entire charge Of all such matters as
tequired legal attention.
Did YOU draw up the late Mr.. Craw-
.ord's will?" asked the coroner
Yes, after the death Of his wife-about
lwelve years ago."
And what were the terms OF that
will?''
Except for some minor requests, the
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Seph DaVol, but on the whole the group
is representative and very satisfactory.
A T the Shelby Clarke Art Company's
galleries on G street a collection of
water colors by Miss Florence Robinson
is now on exhibition. Miss Robinson is
pupil of Pierre Vignal, Harpignies and
DaSnan Bouveret. and is a member of the
Societe deS Aquarellistes of France Eight
months in the year she lives abroad four
months she spends i'm the United States
Her pictures are painted in Spain, Italy,
Holland and France, and show some
thing more than mere artistic perception
They are exceedingly clever. clear cut
strong and spirited She uses pure color
with great dizziness, retaining and using
to good effect those qualities peculiar to
water color as a medium. This is I'M
| usual and agreeable. for so many water
colors today might, so far as effect goes,
quite readily be mistaken for works in
oils or pastels and after all why use a
medium if it cannot be used frankly?
All Miss Robinson's work is not equally
good. but this is true of almost all artists,
and in some instances she attainS an
ceptional plane of accomplishment. The
old church tower in We're. Holland, seen
against the sky, is d brilliant piece of
StTdiSHtiOi'WdTu painting. the Market
Place. Verona" is charming in color and
effective in treatment; there is a Venice
doorway which is especially well rem
dered and several bridges which have an
interest peculiarly their own. For the
most part the subjects are familiar, yet
they are SO rendered that they take on
fresh significance. For example. pic
ture of Notre Dame, not as seen from the
front or from across the Seine, but from
a side street and to the rear, related to
its environment. part" as some one
has said. "of the teeming Paris world
and not in isolated grandeur Or again
a view in the Luxembourg gardens not
the central plaza. the great fountain or
the hong walk, but bit off to one side.
very typical and very pleasing. The Al
hambra pictures are likewise Individual
istic. and carry conviction as the usual
prescriptions do not Oddly enough,
when the French government purchased
one of Miss Robnson's paintings for its
national collection, picture of wind
mill in Holland was selected and one
painted rather broadly in somewhat the
Dutch style. This is subject which
presumably would have been required of
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE TUDOR SHAKESPEARE-TH
COMEDY OF ERRORS. Edited by
Frederick Morgan Padelford. Phi. D..
professor Of the English language
and literature in the University OF
Washington. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
THE EDUCATION OF SELF N'EDU-
CATION DE SOI-MEME). BY DR..
Paul Dubois. professor Of neuro-
pathology at the University OF
the Mind on the Body" etc. Au-
thorized translation by Edward G.
Richards New York: Funk & Wag-
nails.
THE RELIGION OF DEMOCRACY. by
Charles Ferguson. Revised edition.
New York: Mitchell kennerley.
THE EARNING POWER OF RAIL
ROADS, 1912. Mileage, CaPitali1a-
ton. Bonded Indebtedness, Earn
ings, Operating Expenses. Cost Of
Maintenance, Fixed Charges, Com
pa. ative Statistics, Investments,
Dividends, Guarantees, Etc. Com
piled and edited by Floyd w.
Munday of James H. Oliphant & Co.
New York: Moody's Magazine Book
Department.
IN QUEST OF GOLD: Being q Ro-
nance Dealing with the Remark
able Expedition Of Ferdinand de
Soto and His Cavaliers to Florida
in the Year $3.50. By Charles Z.
Knowles. illustrations by Howard
NJ. Nesmith. New York: John Lane
Company.
FREIGHT CLASSIFICATIONs A study
Of Underlying Principles. By j. +.
Strombeck. Boston: Houghton Milf
fin Company.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LECTURES
THE GENIUS OF THE COMMON
LAW. BY the Right Honorable Sir
Frederick Pollock, Bart, d. c. L.,
Ii. D., Of Lincoln's Inn, barrister at
law: Honorary Fellow Of Corpus
Christi College. oxford. New York:
Columbia University Press.
GOD AND DEMOCRACY. BY Frank
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preference stand in the shadow look
ing into the sunshine. OF the four large
pictures which center the four walls
on which this exhibition is set forth,
one is loaned by the Brooklyn Institute
Of Arts and Sciences and another is
that purchased more than a year ago
by the Corcoran Gallery. Snow Clouds"
as good a picture as Mr. Symons has
painted The others are likewise win
ter pictures. where Brook and River
Meet" a bold composition admira bly,
handled, and THE Covered Bridge" a
hOmely theme admirably interpreted,
each element in the composition taking
it's place tremendously. OF the smaller
canvases the paintings of the sea and
those of southern California require
special mention. The former are de-
lightfully colorful. the latter peculiarly
colorless. but both may well be de-
scribed as portraits of place.
That such brilliancy of effect as is
seen in Mr.. Symons' coast scenes can
be got with simple. traditional methods
stands as a rebuke to those Of the ex
treme new school. who claim that for
such results the beauty of surface fin
ish and fine drawing must be COM
pletely sacrificed. The falseness of this
position is again shown in The Turbu
lent Brook" an excellent piece of direct
painting, which is as brilliant as one
could desire. decoration. aecolor COM
position and something more, "A literal
transcription Of nature There is much
to learn from Mr.. Symons' paintings
as well much to enjoy in them.
They are eminently SOUND and strong.
X x
A COLLECTION of paintings Of dogs,
together with some sheep pictures
by Percival Rosseau, are now on exhibit
ton at the Moore galleries on 18th street.
Mr.. Rosseau is an American. his family
for several generations having lived in
Louisiana, but for a number of years he
has made his home in France. He is a
sportsman as we'll as an artist and many
of the dogs he has pictured are those
with which he himself has hunted. His
dogs are always seen Out-of-doors taking
their place in the landscape, and though
his paintings are purposely portraits,
likenesses of the dogs, some being famous
prize winners they are also pictorial COM
positions, and must primarily be regard-
ed as such. To those who are fond of
dogs these pictures will undoubtedly APP
peal, for they painted not only we'll
but sympathetically. The dogs are alert,
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bulk of his fortune was bequeathed to
Miss Florence Lloyd"
Have you changed that will in any
way drawn a later one?"
1t was by the merest chance that l was
looking at Gregory Hall as the lawyer
gave this answer.
1t required no fine perception to under
stand the look of relief and delight that
fairly flooded his countenance. To be
sure. it was quickly suppressed. and his
former mask of Indifference and preoccu-
patton assumed, but l knew as we'll as if
he had put it into words that he had
, trembled lest Miss Lloyd had been disin-
herited before her uncle had met his
death in the night.
This gave me many new thoughts. but
before L could formulate them 1 heard
| the coroner going on with his questions.
did Mr.. Crawford visit you last even
ing?"
Yes, he was at my house for perhaps
half an hour or more between 8 and 9
i o o'clock"
Did he refer to the subject of chang
ing his will?'
"He did, That was his errand. He dis
tinctly stated his intention of making a
new will, and asked me to come to his
office this morning and draw up the in
, strument.'
But as that cannot now be done the
will in favor of Miss Lloyd still stands"
,, 1T does said Mr.. Randolph. land 1
am glad of it. Miss Lloyd has been
brought up to look upon this inheritance
as her own, and while I would have used
no undue emphasis, / should have tried
to dissuade Mr.. Crawford from changing
his will"
But before We consider the fortune or
the will we must proceed with our task
of bringing to light the murderer and
avenging Mr.. Crawfords DEATH"
'I trust you will do so, Mr.. Coroner,
and that speedily. But / may say. if al
lowable, that you are on the wrong track
when you allow your suspicious to tend
toward Florence Lloyd
las your opinion. Mr.. Randolph, of
| course that sentiment has some weight,
but as a man of law. yourself, you must
thof Av,in he
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ume. in the best Of methods. covers the
legal aspects Of the modern field of Ia
Dor employment.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: Modern. Rv
u II. MAR. NJ. A. The Home Uni
Versity Library of Modern Knowl-
cage New York: Henry Holt & Co.
A singuiarly uncluttered survey of Eng
hsh literature. In the best sense, an out
lne OF the subject, striking only the high
places of literary achievement including
only the truly significant writer's of the
period under examination. The advan-
tage of this boldly defined and simple
scheme VIII be felt by readers, too COM
monty compelled to Gull for themselves
from a litter of names and works of every
degree those that stand pre-eminent, while
the remaining ones straggle behind in
motley Of confusing inconsequence. An
other count for this study is that the
author. pOintedly and persistently. makes
literature an inseparable part of the life
surrounding it. stressing the fact that
the matters of common vital concern
shaped literature, as they did society,"
government, occupation and the other
whatnot of national life. This view
sources inspirations. interprets meanings
and defines the forms of literature.
The study begins with that wonderful
period brought about on the one hand by
the revival of classic learning, and on the
other by the discoveries and inventions
that opened the oceans as thoroughfares
of exploration and adventure. This
amazing era keyed England to the glories
of EliZabethan letters. From this point
the author traces the changing current
of national thought by way of its CORE
spending adaptations of literary essences
and forms. The study closes with an ap-
praising survey Of the present in it's
characteristics and tendencies. which
mark a neglect of poetry, the expansion
of the novel. and the revival of the drama
An intimacy of acquaintance, keen pen
etration. critical insight and a profound
feeling for literature point obviously here
to lifelong adventuring in letters. An
admirable point is that the author ap-
proaches this matter and treats it in the
full manner of the modern man-capably
and stinlulatingly. One of the best of
books to set the reader right before the
subject of modern English literature.
SOUTH AMERICA OF TODAY: A
Study of Conditions, Social, POliti-
cal and Commercial, in Argentina.
Uruguay and Brazil. BY Georges
Clemenceau, formerly prime minis
ter of France. New York: G. P.
Putnam'S Sons.
Amazing spread and color mark NJ.
Clemenceau's impressions of South Amer
lea. This vivid and comprehensive ac-
count of a three-month tour of the east
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Crane. author Of Human Confess
sions." etc. Chicago: Forbes & Co.
THE FIGHTING DOCTOR. BY Helen
Reimensnyder Martin. author OF
The Crossways." etc. New York:
The Century Company.
MODERN WARS AND WAR TAXES:
A Manual of Military Finance. BY
w. r. Lawson. author Of Canada
and the Empire etc. London:
William Blackwood & Sons.
HART sCHAFFNER 4 MARX PRIZE
ESSAYS-SOCIAL VALUE, 4 study
Constructive. BY B. NJ. Anderson.
jr.. Phi. D.. Instructor OF political
economy Columbia University. Bos-
ton: Houghton Miffiin Company.
OUTING HANDBOOkS-THE HORSE,
HIS Breeding, Care and Use. BY Da-
vid Buffum. Illustrated with dia-
grams. New York: Outing Publish
ing Company
FATHERS OF MEN. BY T. w. Horung.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Washington: Brentano's.
THE WIT AND HUMOR OF COLONIAL
DAYS U607-lSOOl. By Carl Holli-
day, acting professor OF English.
Vanderbilt University. author OF "a
History OF Southern Literature"
etc. Philadelphia: j. Il. Lippincott
Company
FARM BOYS AND GIRLS. BY william
"a McheeVeT, professor or pnflOSO-
ply, Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
MORE LETTERS TO nv son. BY Win
nifred James. author OF Letters to
My Son." New York: Moffatt. Yard
& Co.
THE LIFE OF SENATOR DAVID G.
FREDERICK. n senator of the FIJI
ties. By jeremiah Lynch. author OF
Egyptian Sketches" etc New
York: The Baker & Taylor Com
pany. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
A LOCAL COLORIST. BY Annie Trum-
bull Slosson. author of "Fishin'
Jimmy. etc. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington:
Brentano's
THE HOUSE OF HARPER: 4 Century
Of Publishing In Franklin square.
BY j. Henry Harper. With por-
traits. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
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a Dutch painter rather than from an
American residing in Paris. but of course
subject only signifies to an extent. 1t
has been said that water colors have gone
out of fashion, and to a degree 1t is true.
The sales in the large water color exhi-
billions today are not one-tenth what they
were some years ago. but the fact is that
the purchase of low-priced pictures has
gone out of fashion. prints of various
kinds taking their place. And yet in a
way this is great mistake. for no print
can ever really take the place of an
original work. and nothing can be more
keenly artistic than a well rendered water
color. Fashions pass. however and it is
to be hoped that the day will come when
the value of water colors will be more
justly appreciated. Certainly such work
as Miss Robinson does goes a long way
toward establishing a precedent.
x
THE exhibition Of paintings by Gard
/ ner Symons, which opened in the
Corcoran Gallery Monday, will continue
until the Sd of April. 1t comprises
twenty eight canvases and makes a
most excellent showing. When Mr..
Symons pictures were exhibited at the
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn a well
known landscape painter of New York,
knowing that they were to come here.
wrote to- a friend in this city, You
have q treat in store for you in these
paintings" and it is true that they
have unusual merit.
There is something very big and SIM
pie in Mr.. Symons' treatment Of land
scape and something very attractive in
the way he brings each composition to
definite conclusion. Though he paints
broadly and eliminates detail as far as
possible. his utterances are not frag-
mentary, but exceedingly complete. His
pictures are grave and dignified. but at
the same time strong and convincing
At times he lays on his color lavishly,
and always his style is his own, but
the medium rarely intrudes upon the
attention of the observer and the art
Of the painter is forgotten in the re-
suit. Each painter must of necessity
have his own viewpoint, and almost
all have predictions peculiar to them
selves. Apparently two of Mr.. Symons'
predictions are for high horizons and
Swallowed fairgrounds. and 1t cannot
be denied that both conduce to in
terest in effect. Normally the horizon
is high and as a rule one would by
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changed his intentions regarding Flor
ence."
Miss Lloyd thoroughly believed that he
intended to carry out his threat last
EVENING"
'She didn't say so to me. but Mr.. Craw-
ford spoke SO decidedly on the matter.
that I think both she and l believed he
was really going to carry out his threat
at last
when Mr.. Crawford left the house.
did you and Miss Lloyd know where he
was going?"
I'VE knew no more than he had said
at the table. He said nothing when he
went away
How did you and Miss Lloyd spend
=, the remainder of the evening""
1T was but a short evening. We sat
| in the music room for a time. but at
about 10 o'clock We both went up to our
rooms
Had Mr.. Crawford returned them
Yes, he came in perhaps an hour
| earlier. We heard him come in at the
| front door and go at once to his office"
You did not see him or speak to him p
1--WE did not. He had a caller during
| the evening. 1t was Mr.. Porter 1 have
since learned"
| Did Miss Lloyd express no interest as
! to whether he had changed his will or
! not?"
Miss Lloyd didn't mention the will or
her engagement to me at all. We talked
entirely Of other matters"
| WAS Miss Lloyd in her usual mood or
| spirits?''
"She seemed a little quiet. but not at
all what you might call worried
WAS not this strange when she was
| fully expecting to be deprived of her en-
tire fortune?"
1T was not strange for Miss Lloyd. She
rarely talks of her own affairs. We spent
an evening similar in all respects to our
usual evening when we do not have
guests
And you both went upstairs at TO- Was
| that unusually early for your
We'll unless we have guests, we often
go at 10 or half-past TO-
And did you see Miss Lloyd again that
| night?'
ayes; about half an hour later I went
| to her room for a book I wanted
Miss Lloyd had not retired?'
mo; she asked me to sit down for
while and chat
did you do so?''
"Only for a few moments. I was in
terested in the book had come for, and
wanted to take it away to my own room
to read
And Miss Lloyd, then, did not seem
dispirited or in any way in an unusual
mood?'
mot that 1 noticed. I wasn't quizzing
her or looking into her eyes to see what
her thoughts were, for it didn't occur to
me to do so. 1 knew her uncle had dealt
her a severe blow. but as she didn't open
the subject, of course I couldn't discuss
1t with her. But / did think perhaps she
wanted to be by herself to consider the
matter, and that was one reason why
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lis. Raphaels. Cimabues. Giottos. making
it small wonder that rich and art-loving
Americans browse persistently about
Rome. The talk of this story is its best
feature-a bright. natural. stimulating
to-and-fro of ideas, mainly on the sub
ject of art Its picture Of high society
appears faithful, certainly in the direc-
ton Of modern marital cross-currents.
Barring loose planks in the building OF
this story, 1t stands as one of uncom-
mon dramatic movement and color.
MODERN FISHERS OF MEN: Among
the Various Sets. sects and Sexes
munity. BY George Lansing Ray
mond. New York: G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
twenty-five years ago a village picture
Of scope and realism included two CEN
ters-hostile centers-each thrusting sem
sorry absorbing tentacles out into the
community life roundabout. These, the
church and the saloon. were then, as they
small-town affairs. At that time the
church held itself righteously aloof from
the frankly concrete methods of the sa-
loon. Since then, however, the church, in
order to maintain respectable place in
the. competition for possession Of human
ity, has found it necessary to learn some
things from it's materialstic adversary.
And an awakened church. schooled by
the world, IS making Its appearance. A
distinct surprise lies in this little story
now in its third edition. Its first issue.
however, bears the date of 1879, yet the
story might have been spun yesterday,
with the modern. athletic. institutional
church as its stage. so strongly does it
partake of the outlook and aim of the
new church Of today.
An unmarried cleric. a young soldier
doing yeoman service in the Sunday
school, some nice girls, and the common
odds and ends that go into the makeup
of small community. move this engag-
ing story In realistic fashion along dis
tinctly modern lines of practical service
and plain usefulness. While the author
holds the church as the chief instrument
in spiritual concerns, he does not forget
that 1t forms the simplest and most direct
Of matrimonial agencies, and that it
serves as the field where neighborhood
animosities and jealousies reveal them
selves syly in the interludes Of religious
ceremony. A clever and good-humored
picture of real.life.
HONEY-SWEET. BY Edna Turpin. IL
Illustrated by Alice Beard. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
Honey-Sweet is a rag doll. who shares
the heroineship of this pleasant story
with her mother, Little Anne. The doll
comes to a sad end. Near the close OF
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this adventure-full tale she is one day
sent lothly, by Anne to SIT with sick
chlid who refuses to take her medicine
without Honey-Sweet." On this very err
RAND or mercy the poor doll falls VIC
tim to the worrying teeth OF that low
down Flanagan dog" Little Anne is
saved to happier fate, though the early
ups and downs of her small life warrant
Mysteriously abandoned on. shipbo ard by
her uncle. who. flying the law, retires in
deep disguise to the steerage.. Anne falls
TO the uncertain care OF kind-hearted
strangers Such an altogether winning
child as Anne is bound, however. to come
sooner or later into fair sailing. And so
she does, after the reader has followed
her in anxious sympathy through many
changes. all to be borne so long as Honey
Sweet bears her company. 1t Is, however,
the tragic death o. her rag doll that dis
covers Anne to her real friends and leads
her into permanently happy refuge.
Given a little girl and a doll as material.
an appreciative writer is able to make
many interesting things happen. This one
does.
YANKEE FANTASIES: Five One-act
Plays. BY Percy Mackaye, author of
Tomorrow" etc. New York: Duff
field & Co.
These are little things. picked up here
and there from Puritan soil and crystal
lied into the sharp definition of dramatic
action. This is a distinctive Soil-rnostly
bone and sinew-with lean grace of its
own, a bitter-sweet tang of humor, d
clean grip on realities. an ascetic vision
of idealsm. Touches of these Unborn
traits. these ways of seeing and doing
are the things that Mr. Mackaye catches
and holds here in the fine mesh of these
little one-act plays. Skilled in play-mak-
ing, the author shapes these trifles hand
lily to the uses of both reader and actor
Through purpose and treatment. these
tiny mirroring dramatic surfaces join the
main current Of the present recrudescent
drama, bedded upon living conditions Of
modern life and directed commonly by
serious purpose of portrayal.
LIVING WATERS: or, Rivers to the
Ocean. BY Charles Brodie Patter-
son. author of 1.-The Will to Be
Well" etc. New York: Funk &
Wagnalls Company.
In the hurly-burly of existence this
book gives one a chance to sit down
apart somewhere, for the sake of find
ing himself, to ask where he is going and
along what road. A thoughtful and
leisurely book, digging about the roots
Of the laws of all life to the end that
one may come into a fuller knowledge,
into more capable use of the laws of
his own life. A simple book, presenting