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moral tone Of the beachcombers and
derelicts This is a collection OF short
stories and in them he maintains the
literary standard set in earlier books
from his pen. They are worth the read
ing to those whose fancy lightly turns
to thoughts of far-away isles and love
and adventure in the tropics
ILLUSTRATED SOUTH AMERICA, a
Chicago Publishers Travels and In
vestigations in the Republics Of
South America. With Five Hundred
Photographs of People and Scenes
From the Isthmus Of Panama to the
Straits OF Magellan. BY w. b. Boyce.
publisher of the Chicago Satur-
day Blade" etc. Chicago: Rand.
McNally & Co.
Il did not 60 over the line of the
canal in private car. owned by the
canal commission and used to show
newspaper men around, but follow ed
the big ditch from point to point. in
most part on foot With this pungent
premise the author asserts that while
he recognizes the ultimate good to be
achieved he is fully satisfied that the
canal. as money investment, VIII not
pay, and that it is costing 20 per cent
more than 1T would had it been let to
private contractors under government
inspection. He backs these assertions
with apparently impregnable figures
always allowing That ngureS cannon
lie. In prosperous contrast he notes
that Uncle Sam" is making big money
out Of his employees. while the canal
is a-building: I'm 1910 the company
store cleared over 100000. How is
that for protecting the employees who
are digging the big ditch? The Panama
railway cleared over $4,000. 900 in the
same year.
Everything is shipped in and all food is
from cold storage You eat frozen fish
from the states. and yet the best fish in
the world are taken right here in Panama
bay" He cites that the tropical fruit of
Panama cannot be eXcelled and that
vegetables grow. as it were, overnight
yet everything you get is canned" Also.
that right along the line Of the railroad
is timber enough to make ties for ten
lines like the Panama railway, vet all ties
are shipped to the Zone from New York.
1t is difficult to understand, save on the
hypothesis that somewhere in the opera
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-31

The horse was brought up from Mexico,
a lineal descendant of those once ridden
to the hunt by Indian warriors; the In
dian himself was the least difficult to
procure. \ Hampton student gladly con-
scented to live with the sculptor until the
group was completed.
Fortunately. the wife of Mr. Bush
Brown is a painter, and understands that
neither comfort nor expense must ever
be allowed to interfere with an artist
model Her portrait of the sculptor is a
splendid piece Of painting. The head is
strongly modelled, and the hands COM
bine the suppieness and strength neces-
sary To one who works in clay.
A more recent portrait is of Ellen Day
Hale. daughter of Edward Everett Hale.
which no one could mistake for the PIG
ture of any but New Enslander. This
power to interpret character IS the special
gift OF Mrs. Bush-Brown's genius. and
converts her portraits into Amercan
types that may some day prove of iEes1
Unable value to the historian ana So
biologist. Her miniatures reveal the
same psychic qualities and thus equal
her oil portraits as records Of cotem-
porary life.
The only daughter OF these talented
ability. Many Of he- curtains and table
possesses a remarkable instinct for COM
binations OF color, ami her stencil and
block work, outlined in exquisite shades
of silk embroidery. is productive of most
attractive results in interior decorations.
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romance of the road. Set In England,
two centuries and half away. 1t musters
noble highwayman for its hero-Sir
Richard Yelverton. now Dick Broughton.
gentleman OF fortune It's heroine is
Mistress Margaret Trevenna flying in
fear from the hostile intent OF wicked
kindred. Both bent upon escape. though
for quite different reasons. the two come
together, Whereupon the man Of the road
becomes the chiyalrous squire OF Mistress
Margaret. Gypsying in and out and
roundabout the English country to avoi4
pursuit. very tender and picturesque
romance springs up to keep them COM
pany. So the story goes on full of flavors
that certainly are not of our day. but
that one accepts as entirely believable
and appropriate in this young authors
hands. Those laundering after the days
when highwayry was more picturesque
business than it is LAST now Will hnd
this a captivating story 1t is. moreover,
a capable and promising one.
HOME LIFE IN RUSSIA, BY A. S.
Rappoport Illustrated New York:
The Macmillan Company.
This is a book of good information
most interesting information about the
Russian al home One needs to know
more. America in particular needs to
know more about the daily, character
making life, not only of the Russians,
but of all the other peoples that are in
undating our land in successive waves Of
what is practically unchallenged fmmi-
grafton. So, the standpoint taken by
this author assures one of the useful
ness, at least, of this study. Dividing the
subject into country life and town life.
the author draws very vivid pictures OF
the essential features of each. The Rus
sian village is described in its common
interests of church and school, In it's fes-
rivals, it's superstitions, its marriage GUS
toms, it's family life. There is the story
of the Industrious peasant, a sketch of
the peasant woman. an account of the
landed proprietor and a captivating chap
ter on those independent adventures, the
Cossacks, who have found ways to pre-
serve their ancient liberties. even though
they have become Russian subjects. The
story of the town. with Moscow as its
type is that of the universities the stu
dents, the soldiery and police. with It's
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honorable mention, Mrs. Myron d. Smith.
Composition class. silver medal. Mr.. A. c.
educ; honorable mention, Mr.. Kimon
icolaides.
Special mention was awarded a delight
full group of red chalk drawings from
the nude by Florence l.. Bryant. whose
mastery Of form and grace of line pro-
claims the true artist
In order to compete for the above hon
ors the pupil must have attended the
Corcoran Art School two consecutive
years, otherwise Miss Maxwell and Miss
Peacock would doubtless have been
among the prize winners.
In the water color group are many
charming studies of flowers and still
life. A blue vase filled with delicately
painted dogwood is especially attractive.
In the composition group Vanity is a
delightfully."- decorative study of girl
and peacock.
Others whose work is deserving Of no.
tice are Mrs. j. Il. Hauze, Miss Josephine
Page. Mrs. Esther Chapman, Mrs S. $.
Daish. Mrs. G. G. Abbott, Miss +. NJ.
dred Hardy. Mrs. Estabrooh. Mrs. My
ron Cole, Mrs. kelplinger, Mrs. Grace
Harding, Miss Mary +. Godding Mrs.
Myron ID. Smith, Miss Carrie l.. Barnett,
Miss Juliet Brent. Mrs. Liverlnore, Miss
Osgoode and Miss Noyes.
Both teachers and pupils are to be
congratulated on the general excellence
of the years work, which reflects much
credit on the school and holds brilliant
promise Of future achievement
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facts or businesses that are getting under
way OUT there or when he is talking
statIstically of population, Of arabic areas
ana ara ones, OF government, education
ana the IKE 1t Is doubly all these
when he is sketching unique corners of
existence, or retelling age-old tales or
describing the all-absorbing joys of the
sportsman Mr.. Underwood modestly
hopes mat this account may be of some
use to the sightseer in Alaska 10 the ex-
plorer, the business man, the adventurer
He appears TO forget the stay-at home
in this genial wish to be of service. Yet
TO the man under the old home reading
lamp as we'll as to the outfarer this will
prove to be about the livest and most
communicable of books on one of the
interesting far corners of the earth
THINGS LEARNED BY LIVING. BY
John Bascom. author of Social
Theory" etc. New York: q p Put
MANS Sons.
At the end OF this volume there is a
list Of the writings of its author. John
Bascom. 1t is a long list of books, SER
mons. essays. orations on grave and schoI-
arly subjectS-psychoIogy. philosophy. re-
ligion political and social economy, his
tory. The volume in hand appears like
a distillation from these broad fields of
knowledge and experience, the essence of
daily life held ont TO everybody's hand.
In mellow wisdom and finely revised eval-
uation. the author writes about the funda-
mental things that he himself has learned
by living. He writes about health, both
in its near and remote bearings upon the
spiritual as well upon the physical
life. and about work in its finest office
and SAVIOR to man. about play. too-those
periods Of recreation to which in one
form or another all lay claim. He
writes about religion in its applica-
ton to the thing at hand, and about it
IN, tic 20 th mi ct a m tHa pirft
Out OF all this he evolves what he calls
a formula of personal life. But unlike
the wooden thing to which we have
learned to attach the name formula"
this is big and plant and exultant in an
unquenchable youth. 1.-The working
formula of our personal life is liberty,
an indefinite power of doing: increasing
strength and inexhaustihle satisfaction in
the thing DONE spontaneous impulse. i'm
perishable hope, rational forecast, a
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y NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS. ~

ton Museum and the Luxembourg,
Paris.
Mr. Bartlett has just been recalled to
Glasgow, where he is director of the
sculpture department in the Glasgow
School of Art. He sails Saturday. but
will return to this city to complete
and superintend the placing of his
pediment
THURSDAY and Friday. June and
S, there will be an auction sale of
pictures by Max Weyl, one of Wash
ingtons Oldest and most gifted paint
ers. The sale will commence each day
at 3 pm. in his studio, corner Of 18th
and II streets. over fifty pictures are
to be sold. affording art lovers a rare
opportunity To purchase paintings by
an artist who possesses the unusual
power to transcribe the loneliness of
nature.
His canvases of early sprinS, when
the landscapes about Washington are
white and pink with apple blossoms of
autumn woods and fields aglow with
gorgeous color, of winter trees or
frozen streams-all are revelations of
a genius that has penetrated to the
heart of nature and represented
through the vision OF a poet her sub
lime beauty. The pictures 10 be sold
are now on exhibition in Mr.. Weyrs
studio They include a number painted
last summer in Gloucester
:. !:
MISS FRANCES LOUISE THOMSON
Iva has a number Of recently finished
oil portraits and miniatures in her studio
OH 18th street, notably very attractive
miniature of Mrs. Fenwick of Baltimore.
Miss Thomson is we'll known In London
and Paris. where she has painted maLy
interesting people, among them Lord
kenWick of England and the mother of
George Lucas. the celebrated art critic
Of Paris. Some of her best known Amer
ican portraits are of Admiral Schley and
jacob Tome, the philanthropist
Miss Thomson studied with Howard
Helmick and at the old Washington Art
League. 1t was through her efforts that
a class in decorative and Industrial art
was started here about fifteen years ago.
1t became one of the most successful
departments Of the league and was later
introduced into all the public schools. Her
work has been exhibited in the Philadel-
phia Academy. the Society OF American
Miniature Painters and all local exhibit
tons.
In the same studio building is Miss
Milicent Strange. whose fascinating jew
elry designs and enamel work are so
well known in Boston, New York and
Chicago Both these artists are working
for the advancement of industrial art
and vocational training. and hope to see
established in Washington a national in
dustrial art school.
A MOTHER world famous art collec-
"A ton, the Steengracht. will be sold at
public auction In the Georges Petit Gal
leries, Paris, June 3. The long-coveted
Rembrandt ''Bathsheba." will doubtless
attract many wealthy American connois-
seurs and art dealers DR.. Bode con-
siders few Rembrandts of this period to
be so finely composed or with such pre-
else modelling and happy color, with SO
luminous a light upon the clear parts
and such vaporous shadows"
Those falling to acquire this costly
treasure can console themselves by pur-
chasing ''The jolly Company" by Van
Steen; Maternal Care" by Ter Borch:
THE Sick Child by Gabriel Metsu, or
a Paul Potter. Albert Cuyp. Van Dyke or
Won Ruisdael.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

VACATION CAMPING FOR GIRLS.
by Jeannette Marks. illustrated.
New York: II. Appleton & Co.
A LADY OF PLEASURE tStrangee
Than FfctiOnb. BY the lady. Paris:
The Vendome Press
THE SHORT COURSE sERTES-THH
NAN AMONG THE MYRTLEs, q
study I'm Zachariah's visions. BY
Rev. John Adams. b. ID. New Yorki
charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Woodward g. Lothrop.
THE SHORT COURSE sERIES-DEHO-
VAH-JESUS. BY Rev Thomas
Whitelaw. d. ID. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
THE SHORT COURSE SERIEs-THE
SESENFOLD I AN. BY Rev. Thoma
MarjOribanks. B. d. New York;
Charles Scribner's Sons Washing
ton: Woodward a. Lothrop.
A PLEA FOR THE YOUNGER GEN.
ERATIONs m Intimate Talk On the
Vital Queation ~ Telling the Tvuth
TO Children From IN Altogether
Human and Utterly UnscientiAs
Point Of View. BY Cosmos Hamil-
ton. author of The Blindness oe
Virtue" etc New York: George Ii.
Doran Company.
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STORIES FOR BEDTIME.
Jerry Muskrat's Big Cousin.
By Thornton w. Burgess.
(Copyrigk 1913, by ]. G. Lloyd.)
Fiddle. PADDLE. feeble, fuddle!
Was there ever such n muddle?
Puddle. feeble, PADDLE, fiddle!
Who is there will solve the riddle >

Here was the Laughing Brook laugh
ing no longer. Here was the Smiling
Pool smiling no longer. Here was d
brand-new pond deep in the Green For
est Here was a wall of logs and bush
es and mud called a dam built by some
one whom nobody had seen. And here
was Grandfather Frog asking Jerry
Muskrat If his big cousin had come down
from the north. when Jerry didn't even
know that he had q big cousin.
II haven't any big consin," said
Jerry when he had recovered from his
surprise at Grandfather Frogs question.
"Chugarum.' exclaimed Grandfather
Frog, and the scornful way in which he
said it made Jerry Muskrat feel very
small. "Chugarum. OF course, you've
got a big cousin in the north. Do you
mean to tell me that YOU don't know
that Jerry Muskrat?''
Jerry had to admit that it was true
that he didn't know anything about that
big cousin. II Grandfather Frog said
that he had one 4 must be so, for Grand
father Frog 10 vsH old and very wise.
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and he knows a great deal. Still it was
very hard work for Jerry to believe that
he had a big cousin of whom he had
never heard.
'Did-did you ever see him. Grand
father Frog" Jerry asked.
No" snapped Grandfather Frog, Il
never did. but | know all about him. He
is a great worker. is this big cousin of
yours, and he builds dams like this one
we are sitting on
II don't believe it, cried Billy Mink.
Il don't believe any cousin of Jerry
Muskrats ever built such a dam as this.
Why, just look at that great tree trunk.
No one but Farmer Brown or Farmer
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Browns boy could ever have dragged
that there. You're crazy. Grandfather
Frog just plain crazy Billy Mink some
times is very disrespectful to Grand
father Frog.
'ahugarum.' replied Grandfather Frog
I'm pretty old but I'm not too old to
learn as some folks Seem to be- and
he looked very hard at Billy Mink. Did
l say that that tree trunk was dragged
here?"
No" replied Billy Mink, but II it
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ducing, transporting and improving the
products of earth. is organized by neces-
s!ty upon the ground of merit alone
There are exceptions. but inconsiderable
1t is only among the professionally
idle that aristocracies (the artificial kind
persist Kings mobiles millionaires, the
endowed those who hold sinecures, sects,
clubs. lodges social sets and the like
continue to cherish the doctrine of I'M
earned goods.
The real people of the world live among
the eternal democracieS or art, religion,
love and work.
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Not Disgraceful.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Il wouldn't associate with him. ] under
stand he's served a term in prison.
That's true. but it WAS for an offense
involving million dollars or more: moth
ing really disgraceful, you know.
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0HE Corcoran Art School holds its
annual reception this evening.

SoISol al s1tIlOOi IlOiOS ltS
annual reception this evening.
in honor Of the pupils work
now on exhibition In the he I
cycle. The pictures are very
attractively hung in groups representing
the different classes. Many of the quick
sketches reveal a power of conception
and dramatic imagination that is most
encouraging for the future. There is al
ways a temptation to the gifted student
To produce imaginative work and neglect
the drudgery of careful drawing, the
foundation stone of all great art.
II is probably for this reason that the
Corcoran gold medal is given for the best
drawing from life and the antique. This
year IL was carried off by young Cana
dian, Percy Goodwin, for group Z Of the
ORA wings. The bronze medal was award
ed group F. by Ashley Law. group c. by
Bertha Gersdorff. receiving honorable
mention. In the portrait class the silver
medal was won by Mary Lockwood and
honorable mention, Annie ID. Kelly.
IN still life Gabrielle Moncure and Ade-
laide G Howell received silver medals,
Iuc.e Lee Offut. Felicie Waldo Howell
and Rose Wagner receiving honorable
mention. In the draped life class the
silver medal was given Miss Alice Miller;
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On to Him.

From the Boston Transcript.
Jones ito wife at nlidnightl-N ell. YOU
see my dear. Brown invited me home ID
take pot luck with him.
Mrs. Jones-Don't lie TO me. It's jack
pot luck you've been taking at that mis-
cradle club
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The Right Kind of Job.

From the Atcbison Globe.
Try to get a job 80 important they will
say you have handed In Your resignation
IL you ret fired.
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The following list Of new accessions
70 the Public Library gives the titles
or many new books of literary history
and criticism. and a number of books
IN Italian and Portuguese
The Washington times., 1913-06-01
COMMENCEMENT IS
OPENED WITH MASS
Georgetown University Will Hold Graduation Events for Two
Weeks-Monsgnor Bonzano Celebrates Pontifca
Service at Trinity College.

Commencement week Of Georgetown
University began today with mass
celebrated at II o'clock in Dahlgren
Memorial Chapel by the rector, the Rev.
A. J. Donlon. The baccalaureate SER
mon was preached by the Rev. Richard
H. Tierney. Of Woodstock College.
At the same hour pontifcal mass was
celebrated at Trinity College by Mon
signor John Bonzano. the papal dele
gate.
A third religious service Of the morn
ing for prospective academic graduates
was a corporate communion at Bethle-
hem Chapel on Mt. st. Alban Of the
young women Of the National Cathedral
School for girls.
This evening the baccalaureate sermon
will be preached to them by Bishop
Harding.
"Commencement week" at George
town University really occupies the best
part Of two weeks. the order Of events
after today being:
Monday. June ?. senior cIas: banquet; f;
Tuesday. June 8, tree planting cere-
monies. p. M: senior supper on coll
Ryan Hall. 7:so o. m; wednesday. June
I. alumni dinner and meeting In col
iege dining hall. 1850 q. m: Thursday.
June s, commencement of the college.
CASTOR Hall. $3.50 D. m. with address
by the Spanish minister: Monday, June
ment. Polls Theater, 4 D. m; Thursday,
June L. commencement OF the hospi-
tai training school. CASTOR Hall. p.
m; Friday. June Is, commencement Of
the medical and dental departments In
CASTOR Hall. 8 p. m.
Attend Mass.
Besides the large graduating classes
Of Georgetown University. Of the college
and professional departments. many
undergraduates, together with faculty
members, today attended the mass In
Dahlgren memorial chapel which inau-
gurated commencement week. These
deans. professors, and students heard q
baccalaureate sermon preached by an
The Washington times., 1913-06-01
Ask Wilson 70 Send
Issue to High Court

Hannis Taylor. counsel for the pe-
titioners who wish to nave the retro
cession act set aside. and the original
ten miles square OF the District 70
stored. has forwarded to President VIII
son copies of letters from Justices OF
the District Supreme Court. and the
District Court Of Appeals, IN which al
the iurists who went on record. favor
the submission of the question os Va
lidity of the retrocsssion act to the
Supreme Court.
The matter Is now in the hands Of
Attorney General McReynolds- The
President has been asked to havs the
Attorney General file an original bill
In the Supreme Court, as In his man
ner alone the validity Of the retroce1-
sion act can be judicially determined.
The Supreme Court in its decision
In the case of Phillips vs. Payne, held
that the District courts could not con-
slider the question of validity. Conse-
quently the only way IL can De brought
before the Supreme Court Ia by the
fiins Of an original bill.
The Washington times., 1913-06-01
Smiths Body to Be
Taken to Atlanta

The body of Foster T. Smith. mag
azine collector and former soldier, who
took his life early last night as q re-
suit Of grief over his marital trou-
bles. will be taken to Atlanta. Ga,
his former home. where his former
wife and a brother now reside. On
telegraph instructions from the broth
er the body is being cared for by q
local undertaken.
Smith drank from a vial Of car
bolic acid early last night on the
speedway at the foot Of Twenty-sec-
ond street. He was found stretched
upon the grass and was hurried to
the hospital by Leslie Guessford. driv-
ing the automobile Of DR.. George
Baker. When he reached the Emer-
gency he was beyond aid.
Smith had. according to his friends.
been despondent for days. He wrote
a farewell letter saying that he was
dying of a broken heart.