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which, taken in connection with the face
of the place itself. stand for the elusive
thing that we call atmosphere Sdch
gifts combine here for the achievement
of a deeply satisfying novel that * bound
to stand we'll the wear and tea. of public
opinion.
HOME: 4 Novel. Illustrated by Reg
inald Il. Birch. New York: The Cen
| tury Company.
Do you remember what I used to tell
you? When a man has seen all the world
he must go home or die. This bit OF
dialogue in reafflrmaton of the instinc-
tive homesickness that ultimately seizes
the whole world of wandering men,
stands as the thesis. SO to say, of this
brilliant and absorbing novel An old
New England corner is the home anchor
age of this story. Within it an ample
and gracious neghborhood life has eX-
panded and ripened- And from it radia-
ate the world wide journeyInss and eN-
periences that lift this novel into the
realm of splendid adventure. The anony-
nous writer Of jiofne' has made "A most
competent and workmanly handling OF
his material.
One might reasonably expect. from the
quantity and variety of this material,
something of diffuse and broken effects,
particularly since upon its face it APP
pears to contain irreconcilahle differ
ences and Emergencies. But. in clear
triumph of story telling these converge
upon the home centers in coherent and
orderly and impressive whole. One now
congratulates himself heartily that he
did not choose the waits and suspenses
incident to reading of the serial publi-
cation of this admirable story. but that.
instead he was able to sit up for the
good part of a night In the keen en-
joyment of getting it all at once.
rHORLEY WEIR. BY E +. Benson.
author of The Image in the Sand
etc. Philadelphia: ]. +. Lippincott
Company.
Mr.. Benson's new story is laid in Lon
don and its near countryside. Thorley
Weir. Throughout it thrives in an at
mosphere of art-pictures and painting.
play-making and the stage. On the one
hand. it takes the colors of London
studios and galleries. London theaters
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THE HAT SHOP. BY Mrs. c. s. Peel.
New York: John Lane Co.
THE IRRESISTIBLE INTRUDER. BY
William Caine. New York: John
Lane Co.
THE COLOUR OF THE EAST. BY
Elizabeth Washburn. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND WORDS
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: a Care
fully Revised. Greatly Enlarged
and Entirely Rewritten Edition of
"I2.OOO Words Often NispronOunced.'
Complete Handbook of Difficulties
in English Pronunciation. Including
an Unusually Large Number Of
Proper Names and Words and
BY William Henry p. Phyfe author
of The School Pronouncer." etc
New York: G. p. Putnams Sons
THE CONCISE STANDARD DICTION-
AIRY OF THE ENGLISH LAM
GTAGE, Designed to Give the Or
ing of about 33.OOO Words and
Phrases in the Speech and l. era
ture of the EngIish-speaking Peo-
piles. Abridged from the Funk &
Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary
of the English Language by James
G. Fernald. L. H. D. New York:
Funk & Wagnalls Company.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU
OF LABOR STATISTICS; For the
Year Ended September 30, 1912. Al
bany: New York state department
of labor.
UNITED STATES BREWERS. Asso-
CITATION YEAR BOOK; With Pro-
ceedinHs Of the Fffty-third Annual
Convention. New York: Published
by the association.
EXERCISES FOR WOMEN: Contain
ing Helpful Suggestions on Matters
Directly and Indirectly Related to
Exercise and Development. and an
Appendix with Wider Range of
Work, Briefly TablIlated, for the Use
of Teachers. Fully Illustrated with
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! and plays, and on the other hand the
more romantic hues of Thorley Weir.
The most striking character of this novel.
the one upon whom Mr.. Benson has
put his best work. is the elderly Arthur
Craddock. Craddocb in feeling, appre-
citation and critical acumen is an artist.
In fact. he is a picture merchant. The
artist in him seeks out and encourages
struggling genius. The shopkeeper of
him exploits it. In this double role
Craddock deveops an interesting Ben
son story. \ painter and a play-writer.
, both young, gifted and unknown. with
a beautiful girl to fire the combina-
ton to almost any sort Of hazard and
trouble, are the potentialties chosen to
set out fully the powers and capabilities
of Craddock. Mr. Benson is a self-con-
tanned and assured writer One takes up
his books with confidence and continues
"Thorley Weir stands conspicuous for
its qualities of suavity, spirit. finish.
JOIN WARD. VI. ID. Ey Charles Vale.
New York: Mitch ell kennerley.
DR.. John Ward is a remarkable charac-
ter. And this is remarkable novci-one
of serious intent. of workmanly build, OF
lifelikely bearing, of beautiful and fin
ished writing 1t is besides a modern
allegory and a sermon, with none of the
utilities that commonly attach to either
of these. The first part of this story Is
Arcadia Here Dr. John Ward pur-
sues his calling among the country folks
in single-hearted passion of professional
idealism. Here he lives close to life, gath
ering in its meanings and coming nearer
than most to the impalpable life that sur
rounds and influences its outer manifesto
tons, With the coming of a particular
woman the story becomes Babylon.
The tempest set up in John Ward by the
nature of this woman. his vision Of life
with such a nature as one of its CON
tributory clements are both aptly de-
fined by the name Babylon The last
part of the story. THE Pit is Ward S
supreme remuneration and denial of him.
self in order that he might. so far as in
him lay the power break the endless
chain of decadence by which human life
is bound and thrown. A fine, serious
and beautiful achievement
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OF il acts. and that every minute moving
straight to the inevitable end that was
s"t from the beginning. The purpose and
quality of The Fugitive" open the old
and fGitated question as to whether this
KIND OF play should. or should not. be
acted upon the public stage. And this
Gnes back. naturally, 10 the unsettled
question Of the purpose and influence of
the stage itself upon the various aspects
of social life.
PLAYS. BY August Strindberg. author
of There Are Grimes and Crimes =
etc. Translated from the Swedish
with an Introduction by Edwin
Biorkman. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Bren-
tanos-
The half dozen plays Of this volume
arc: SWAMI hite." ''Simoon.' .'Dcbit
ami Credit. Advent The Thunder
storm" and After the Fire" Taken
together. they give dramatic expression
ia one or another Of StrIadhcrgs manifold
scIf-absorptioas. Therefore. Oh the one
hand. they may be said 10 cover Il part
of the spiritual autobiography of this
superb esoist and self-analyst and. on the
other TO disclose a phase OF Strindbers' :
development as a dramatist Swan
white is a swedish fairy tale a stage
spectacle of the folklore of Sweden, sug-
gested to its author by the puppet plays
Of Maeterliuck. 1t was written while
Strindberg was looking forward toward
marriage with his third wife. the Swed-
ish actress. Harriet Bosse, for whom the
fsUre of Swanwhite was drawn. The
Thunderstorm contrariwise, was COM
posed under the stresses of looking
back ward upon this unhappy marital epi-
sode. This is the drama of mans de
cline toward dissolution through a series
of resignations- The Sinoon." an Ara
bian play, short and dramatic. reflects
the influence of Edgar Allan Poe. Debit
and credit, grim and gloomy. supports
a Nietzschean superman of the somewhat
lesser sort. The Advent is a maze of
Sw-denb"rsian symbolism This play be
longs To what Strndberg himself calls
his inferno period" a period. in fact, of
seni-nadness. After the Fire goes
back TO scenes of its authors childhood
and youth.
Mr.. Bjorkman is a Strindberg spe-
cialist. one who appears to have bur
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NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

ings which is awakening in occidental
countries evinces not so much the cosmo-
politan spirit as the recognition of the
universality of art The interest shown
in the exhibition gives token of the value
to be placed on the even more important
and extensive collection presented to the
nation by Charles L. Freer. which will
some day come as permanent posses
sion to this city. The Metropolitan Mu-
seums collection contains some rare and
excellent examples. such. for instance, as
a painting entitled Mountain Wayfar-
ers," by kuo-Hsi of the Sung dynasty, a
painting of Sakyamuni the founder OF
Chinese Buddhism. by an artist of the
Tang dynasty. and two very handsome
scrolls by artists of the Sung dynasty.
These are all extremely graphic and
manifest the paradoxical poetry and real
ism of the works of the ancient painters
of China. To those who have seen the
Freer collection, or even that portion of
it exhibited here some time ago IN the
National Museum. this special exhibition
at the Metropolitan Museum cannot fail
to have peculiar interest and significance.
THE. Architectural League S annual ex-
hibition opens in the Fine Arts Gal
leries, New York. Monday. but there was
no lack of good shows during the past
week. Up and down 9Th avenue, in the
dealers galleries. tncfe was n succession
of displays. and in addition to these were
notable little collections on view at sew
eral of the more prominent clubs. At
the Mcdowell Club one exhibition follows
another without intermisSion-exhibitl
managed by the artist exhibitors without
jury or censorship. And excellent exhibi-
tons some have proved TO be- At the
National Arts cub the artist-members
are holding their annual exhibition. AT
the Cosmopolitan Club q collection of
portraits and other paintings by Cecilia
EeauX is on view.
The last of these exhibitions is of spe-
cial interest to Washingtonians mas
much as quite Il number of the paintings
included therein We're shown here Ill the
Corcoran Gallery two winters ago. And
the impression they now make reconiirms
the high estimates placed upon their
merit then. Miss BeauX is one of the
few painters whose works gain in agsre-
CATION. Her strength and caliber cannot
be adequately grasped by inspection OF
single canvas. There are both early
and recent paintings in the exhibition at
the Cosmopolitan Club. Her "Sita and
Sarita,' the young girl in white with a
black cat on her shoulder, shown at
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over 100 Cuts and Halftones. by
Florence Bolton. \. B.. Stantofa
University. New York: Funk q
Wagnalls Company.
THIRTY ORGAN PIECES. For I.e I'm
Christian Science Churches Edifed
by Walter +. Young. organist OF the
First Church of Christ. Scientist.
Boston, Boston: Oliver Ditson Com
pany.
GARDEN OATS. BY Alice Herbert.
New York: John Lane Company
THINGS MOTHER USED TO MAKE'
Collection of Old-tfme Recfpes.
some Nearly 100 Years Old and
Never PubIished Before. BY LYDIA
Maria Gurney New York: The Mac
milan Company.
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING;
Changes in Gold Production and the
Rise in Prices. BY Karl kautsky.
Translated by Austin Lewis. 1hi-
cago: Charles II. Kerr & Co.
DrR.TF: pETwEE~ TOM MANN AND
ARTHUR VI. LEWIS. At the Garrick
Theater. Chicago. ILL.,, sunday. No
Ncmber 10. 1915. Chicago: Charles H.
Kerr x Co.
HOME UNIVERSITY LIB n A r. "
EURIPIDES AND HIS AGE. BY Gil
bert Murray, Ii. D.. D. Lit. r u A
Regius professor of Greek in the
Henry Holt & Co
HOME UNIVERSITY LIB Rf-
NERVES. BY David Fraser Harris:
Halifax Nova Scotia, author OF
SLEEP" etc. New York: Henry Holt
& Co.
HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
SHELLEY. GOODWIN AND THEIR
CIRCLE. BY II. n. Brailsford. NJ A.
author OF Macedonia" etc. New
York: Henry Holt &Co.
HOME UNIVERSITY Lib n RY-
THE OCEAN. 4 General Account
of the Science of the Sea. BY Sir
John Murray. X. c. B., F. r. s. etc.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY-CO-
SHARING. BY Aneurin Williams,
NJ A., chairman of executive of the
International Cooperative Alliance.
etc. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
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National Gallery. This will consist of
portraits and will be assembled and set
forth under the auspices of the National
Association of Portrait Painters. The
York and then here. The National AS
sociation of Portrait Painters was formed
about two years ago Its president Is 5
Montgomery Roosevelt. its secretary Earl
Stetson Crawford. while among its mem
bers are such well known painters as
John W. Alexander, Cecilia Beaux. Louis
Belts. William NJ. Chase. Ralph Clark
son, Robert Henri. Robert Fonnoh and
Irving r. Wies. Portraiture always has
a peculiar interest. the personal element
entering into consideration as well as
that purely of art. An exhibition of fine
modern portraits should not only attract
unusual attention. hut assist in arouslnS
increased interest in art.
=
DAJ-I. WAYLAND BARTLETT, the
1 sculptor has returned to Washington
and reopened his studio i'll lexington
Mr.. bartlett las been in Paris and Glas-
gov since last May, working upon the
pediment for the Capitol and other com
missions. and teaching. He is here now
to continue and probably bring to COM
pietion his work for the >apitol about
which much has already been said and
written.
Mr. Bartlett Is one OF the most proml-
nent figures TO-DAY in the field of Amerl-
can sculpture. lie has done work OF eN-
traordinary distinction-for example. the
Lafayette in Paris. But these conspIcu-
Gus works are no more worthy tndn the
little things which have come from ms
hand and brain-little bronzes done with
the refinement and feeling of Greek. or
am oriental. 1t is. of course. this M
finite capacity for taking pains which
has made the works of the greatest
artists of permanent value and interest
Much indeed. may be expected of Mr.
Bartlett's pediment
nICHARD T.. BROOKS. who X also
IN prominent among American sculp-
tors has come 10 Washington with the
intention of taking a studio and working
here for several months at least. Mr.
Brooks has recently completed a commits
sion for the city of Seattle, Wash. and
he is now preparing to MODEL statue Of
Col Wadsworth of colonial fame for
Hartford. Conn. Among his best known
works are the statues of Col. Thomas
Cass in Boston and of John Hanson and
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would forbid coffee II won't give it up -
she assured herself stoutly. Il won't
"Wel?" repeated Tom, and then he de-
iberatey put his arm around Martha 5
waist
Il haven't told her." Martha mur-
INJURED. Il was AFRAID
We'll. For the lands sake!' said
Toms mother. Why. l thought-Oh. my.
I'm glad, Martha." And then she
dropped the dish of mashed potatoes to
the floor
We've didn't know" said Tom hap
PLY. "just what you'd think
Dear me- pitied Mrs. Grannet few
weeks later. How can you bear it--he's $
marrying servant Lorena is dis
gusted!'
'H'm!' said Toms mother. Don't you
worry. l can bear it,
CTHE END)
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least ten years ago in one of the So
ciety of Washington Artists exhibitions,
is there. as We'll as The Dreamer.
"Dorothea and Francesca" and portrait
of Mr.. Drinker, president Of Lehigh. There
is also the portrait of Miss Perkins, a
girlish figure pictured against back
ground of. sky. we'll as The silver
Box Miss Glider. and the portrait of
Mr.. Glider. so familiar and so satisfy ing
There is. however, one charming can
vas which has not been shown in Wash
ington. a picture of two tiny children,
Philip and Ernesta.' the boy scarcely
facing his little sister. the embodiment
of childhood. with all its dignity as well
as all its simplicity. With the paintings
Miss Beaux shows FIVE drawings, all OF
Italian ambassador the late Weir Mitch
ell. Anne Douglas Sedgwick and George
Arliss-admirable portraits strongly per-
vaded by personality
A y exhibition cf sculpture by Anna
Vaughan Hyatt well known in
Washington through having temporarily
| resided and worked here, is being held at
Gorhans. on 9Th avenue. New York.
Forty-three pieces are displayed, ranging
in size from a panther. full measurement,
to a little goat purposed as a book end.
or, smaller still, a tortoise paper-WelSnt.
II is decidedly an extraordinary showing.
There are horses. dogs. elephants, bears.
monkeys and pigs, even an ostrich, and
all almost ALL equally well done. Miss
Hyatt's work is not faultless. but it is
very spirited and essentially in the right
direction. She interprets the individuality
of the brute creatures and finds as a
rule plastic expression. There is light
ness to her touch We'll in her fancy,
but her work is serious and carries con-
viction. It is virile and original. And
it finds much favor.
A MOTHER strong and unusaal eXhibi-
ton to he seen this week and next
in New York is that of paintings by
George Bellows. who stands high in the
estimation of his fellow painters. Mr..
Bellows is modernist in the best sense
of the word. but he is not among those
who have discarded traditions. One of
the paintings in this exhibition. which is
in the Montross Gallery, is entitled "Clff
Dwellers'' and shows one of the back
streets in lower New York with its rears
of tenements and their miserable inhab-
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itants. Not a pleasant picture. but one
which once seen cannot be easily forgot
ten. The majority of the canvases dis
played, however, are pictures painted on
the coast, presumably of Maine These
are all simple. direct statements. broadly
rendered. almost brutally abrupt. but enor-
nously impressive. There is a sugges-
ton of Winslow Homer, but Mr. Bellows
has Travelled very different road, If per-
chance he may have arrived at similar
conclusions There is very individual
note in all these paintings which gives
them not merely merit but peculiar sig.
nlficance. promise of something even
bigger and better in the future.
A t the knoedler Galleries and at Du-
veens have recently been held. for
charitable purposes, loan exhibitions of
paintings by the great English masters.
While interesting and instructive in them
selves these exhibitions are chiefly not
able as indicative of the wealth OF this
country in really great works of art. y
few years ago comparatively few works
by the great masters of art We're to be
found on this side of the sea. Now there
are many and European students and
collectors are beginning to come here for
profit and pleasure Many of these treas
In the Knoedler exhibition there were
no less than twenty-eight paintings By
Gainsborough and seven by Turner
x
THE Neunier exhibition Is now open in
the Avery Library of Columbia Uni
versity. New York. This comprises a
large and comprehensive collection Of
works in bronze and plaster. drawings
and paintings, by this great Belgian
sculptor the apostle of labor. The col
lection was brought TO this country by
Miss Sage. director Of the Albright Cal
lery. and was first shown in Buffalo. then
in Pittsburgh. Later it will go To Chi
cago, St Louis and other cities.
/, THE io9th annual exhibition of the
! Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts will open next Saturday evening in
Philadelphia with reception and private
view. This is the oldest art Institution in
America. and its annual displays of pain I
ings in oil and of works in sculpture are
well worth a pilgrimage to Philadelphia
to see LEILA MECHLIN.
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Would Do His Best.
From the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
Lady Ito tramp)-Now hope YOU Won't
spend the money I've given You for Vile
liquor.
Tramp-Ill get the best l know about.
mum, but / amt no connysoor.
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Tomorrow" said Toms mother sadly.
as though announcing gathering of pail
bearers. I'VE must begin 20 clean house.
Well take all the curtains down-and
clean the closets. And l guess We better
get a new carpet for the hall. And ]
chine out of that end room and make it
into d den. l hate to. ] don't know
where to put it. spose III have to quit
having such 4 litter when l sew" And
she sighed. Toms mother had never
to be orderly. Toms father
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leave. Mrs Hardy and Martha mopped
up the water. and then, tired and hum
CRY, got dinner. Tom came home early.
He was smiling, but his face was rather
red. He hung up his hat and came out
to the kitchen. "Well?' he grinned
sheepishlX.
Martha was pouring the coffee Mrs.
Hardy wondered friehtenedly if Lorena
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Domestic Science.

lnniaF. Enlna. Nutrition snd Do III -.1,o,n
Iinck II. I. Foed and Flavor. RIO F4a3
Glover. +. H. '-nsme Curtscv'<'' BOOK OF Car
dymakinS. RZ-G5iSc
Grillpn Octave. Modern Practical cum WORK
Manual. 1911. 3Z-GS7Gm
.;rilien; octave. Practical ran Mans Guide.
The Home Cook Book rao. ~ H.as
Letter. Reherrs. and Van Rcrgh. Sarp comps
The Flower city Cook Book laIf RZI-,.s.
Rhodes s r., and Hopkins Il. r. eds The
Economy Administration Cock Book RZ R.;sss
Smith. &. \. The Homemaker. Iaa5. El Sm.,s
wiggin. X. D. :. \ Book Of Dorcss Dishes
1911 EZ-WsSJ
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When Love Is Sure Blind.
he Philadelphia Recort

|
Love is blind, quoted the Wise Guy
II suppose that accounts for the fact
that when 4 fellow is stuck on himself
he can't see his own faults added the
Simple Mug.
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BOOK REVIEWS.

Objected POEMS. Fly Alfred Noyes-
New York: Frederick \. Stokes
Company.
n tFEED MOVES is n re-embod.-
~ rnent Of old England-its avatar,
"A so to say-as lie is. too the en-
4 hodiment of modern England.
Taken hy and large. his poetry
E.r"yes this as triumphantly as it proves
MIN to BE- Possessed Of the genius o. great
UoetrI. Other poets have sung Grandly
~ Tudor Er1glaud-of Elizabeth and Ra-
Ici>h and Drake. Of Ecn .Iouson and Kit
Narlowc. Of I:oh Greene and VIII
Shakespeare But no othtr one has so
s8upIeteIy beer THdor ENGLAND as IS
N',r"d Noyes- THIS spacious day OF
=rsat ElizabetR'' las actually gone into
lis blood coursed his veins. seized his
sririt and fired his aasiuaton. rs 1t has
also winged his words and timed and
't:Ded them. He is himself the lusty
vouth that England then was. He Is
NImseif the ''Merchauut Adveuturer. un-
0uenchahle. and Impa ssioned for high en-
yrise TEc Tales OF the Mermaid Tav-
ern' and Drake" are superb triUmphS
Of poetic r..incarnation. Reading. one
Iea7s jrtv"Iuntarily into one or an"' her of
the sondlv companies assembled here.
hrssIf a-streteh for bold endeavor- He.
700. and quite IN Sl1ltH OF fltNSeiis SINGS
and carols and shouts aloud with the
rest. ej't of the sheer JOY Of young blood
and the pri,!e Of life.
England Is. douot. vastly proud. as
She should be OF this whole-h earted
avatar Not always here is this poet
The England Of high and sioritied ad-
venture. For there ara many songs of
tn. green fields and rihboned hedges and
'eafv lanes of the island. of the homely
,ountrv folks in Nay-day morrice dance
-rd plain everyday quiet living. Wholly
~ a piece with this poet s spirit OF youth
tI,s eXduisitelv fresh. Sweet-srnellinS
'r-'"w@r If Japan and THE Forest of
wild Thvme. 1t is hard. too. to believe
t'st thor" exists anywhere more beau-
-'''' and haunting piece of poetic
'--agerv used To cover the enshronded !
-.-t-4~~ "f mans life here in the world
.ta~ Mist in the Valley" 1t is point
rees however. to cite evidences of this
mower That Is established. His
IS honling to innumerabIe read
IN the two volumes of this edition.
- stokes gives rs all that the poet has. /
s,t published. With Alfred NoyeS
~ present reading from his poems in
,.lffsseut American cities. and with the
--er-}stiiy sppreciative pleasure being
'a'seu in MS work. this publication comes
- hard Just when one is reaching OUT
sor every possible bit Of Mr.. Noyes'
-net4y r.