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detail possible to obtain. the writers
have paid more special attention to the
builders: Those remarkable charac-
ters have been practically unknown.
even By name, to the thousands of
travellers who every year visit the Cal
ifornia missions. and even to many
residents of California. Yet many OF
them deserve to be household names IN
the land they did so much to civtliZe.
THE Franciscans were never self-ad-
vertisers and the personal element in
their written records is accordingly
very meager. Nevertheless, by cleaning
a little here and little there, one gets
a fair taste Of their quality. finding
them in general very human and
lovable sort" Even of Junipero Sierra.
most famous of the Spanish padres, one
gets but a glimpse, from mission to
mission, of the Franciscan who lived
life of sacrifice and then died. alone.
on one-half of a blanket. having given
the other half away" Each of the
twenty chapters conveys interesting
infornla ton about the mission it treats
of and then portrayS. in essay or story,
some feature of mission life which. ek-
cept in two instances, has for its nu-
cleus some tradition of historic fact
Literature is indebted to the authors
for delightfully."- readable book,
beautifully illustrated and artistically
bound; and for prospective travellers
there are Instructions of guide book
directness as to How to Reach the
Missions" together with q pronounc-
ing glossary Of Spanish words and
phrases.
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Feats of Archery.

TN the days when the buffalo was
found in vast herds on the western
plains there were Indians who, while
riding at a gallop. could send an ar
row through buffalo's body. Re-
markable as this archery was. 1t did
not equal that reached by the archers
1t is of record that the MacRaes of
Gairlock, Scotland. were such skilled
archers that they could hit man at
the distance of 500 yards. In 1894 the
Turkish ambassador at London shot an
arrow in a field near that capital 4lS
Yards against the wind. The secretary
Of the ambassador. on hearing the ex-
pressions OF surprise from the Eng
fish gentlemen present. said the sultan
had shot 500 yards. This was the great
est performance of modern days. but
a pillar standing on a plain near Con-
stantinople recorded shots ranging up
to 500 yards. Sir Robert Ainslie, Brit
ish ambassador to the sublime porte; porte:
records that in 11ss he was presens
when the sultan shot an arrow 972
yards.
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Naval Cutting Tools.

H EXTRAORDINARY results have been
S obtained by the bureau of ord
nance of the Navy Department with
cutting tools produced by a novel
process.
Instead Of making the tool from high
cost tool steel. containing the carbon
and other elements in its entire mass.
these tools are made of soft steel.
easily shaped into the proper form. and
then treated by the so-called Infusion
process, the carbon and other elements
being placed in contact with the metal
in the form of a special powder and
subjected to heat treatment which
causes the soft steel to become hard
ened to such depth as to convert 1t
into cutting material even superior to
the far more costly tool steel.
Milling cutters made by the infusion
process cut deeper, faster and farther
than tools made of the best carbon tool
steel, and fully as well as cutters made
from modern high-speed tool steel of
far higher cost. The infusion process
appears superior to any hardening
process hitherto in use at the naval
gun factory.
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in the full particulars of his second ad-
vent into the world. 1t tells what he
saw first in this free world and how it
looked to him. 1t sets out what he did
and what people did to him. n makes
clear how he conceived and developed
and carried out his new prison propa-
sanda. 1t defines his hopes for the flu
ture in Il better comprehension of the
sources of crime and wiser plan for
the treatment of lawbreakers. The
keynote OF this book Is sincerity and
freedom from any sort of pose MIR.
Lowrie has been somewhere. And now
he is back to tell about that place. and
to point out with the authority of first
hand knowledge that it, and all others
of it's kind. should be overthrown and
rebuilt to conform to the new intelli-
gence and the new spirit of the present.
Mr.. Lowrie is a Photographic writer.
He is master of all the little things
that make incidents and scenes and re-
fiections appear lifelike and impress
sive. So. in all earnestness. and with
out a trace of bitterness. he states the
case of our prisons. This plain story
ought to have. and will have. great in
f1uence in Il matter that is now much
to the front of a general serious con-
sideration.
THE LIGHT ON THE HILL: Ro-
nance Of the Southern Mountains.
BY Martha S. Gielow. author of
"Old Plantation Days" etc. Illus
trated. New York: Fleming H. Re-
veil Company.
Mrs. Gielow scores twice in THE
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61HE American Federation of Arts
has issued this week a prelimi-
q nary program of its sixth annual
convention, to be held at the Willard
Hotel in this city the 18th, 18th and
14th of May. This convention will be
attended by the representatives of art
museums and associations all over the
country and by many persons of dis
tinctfon in the field of art. The ses-
sions will. however. be open to all who
are interested, and many Washingtoni-
ans will undoubt edly avail themselves
of the privilege thus freely accorded
Art education in it's broadest sense
has been taken as the main subject for
consideration at this convention. One
session, at which E. H. Blashfield will
preside, is to be given over exclusively
to the subject of professional Art
Education" Miss Cecilia Beaux, who is
not only an eminent portrait painter,
but an instructor in the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts: will speak on
professional Art Schools Lloyd
Warren. well known as an architect.
will tell how the atelfer system of in
struction in architecture, and most re-
Gently, in mural painting and sculp-
ciety of Beaux Arts Architects; and
Herbert Adams, the sculptor. an ex-
president of the National Sculpture So
ciety and a member of the board of
directors of the American Academy In
Rome, will tell of the value as well
as the dangers of foreign training.
These addresses will be followed by
open discussion.
The next session will be devoted to
the subject of Art Education in the
Public Schools and will be presided
over by P. P. Claxton, the United States
commissioner of education. DR.. James
P Haney, director of art in the hlSh
schools of New York, will describe how
art has been taught during the past
two years to large audiences OF chill
dren in the Metropolitan Museum. New
York, and the Museum of the Brook
Iyn Institute illustrating what he has
those in attendance; Prof. Arthur W.
Dow of Teachers College, Columbia
University. will speak upon the prac-
tical problem of Teaching the Teach
ers." Mrs. H. II. Osgood. supervisor
of art in the Atlanta public schools,
win give an account of this particular
field of work in the south. and Miss
Louise Connolly of Newark Will read
a short paper upon the cooperation OF
the museum in art education IN tlie
public schools, q subject concerning
which she has made special lhVestisa-
tions. . .;.,,
The topic Of the following session
viii be art Educat ton in the Colleges
and I-riversities" and Al this DIR. Mer-
riif =, Gates of this city. ex-presldent
NJ Rutgers and Amherst colleges, VIII
preside The leading speakers will be
prot Pickard of the University OF MIS-
sour. president of the College Art Asso-
citation: Prof. a. v Churchiu OF smith
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:TFFE OBSERVER INTERVIEWS A FEW SPRING POETS

4 movie picture house. Nobody is
safe.
But there is one class who, when
stricken by the desire to write spring
poetry, suffer far worse than all the
others, and that Is the sect who seek
to free all poetry from the restrictions
of meter and rhyme. They are the poets
who believe that If you have some
thing to say you should say 1t without
first digging around in a rhyming die
tionary Their effects are lurtd and
wonderful.
The man who writes futurist poetry
accomplishes something like this:
In the spring
Gardens grow.
There is n feeling OF unrest,
Amounting to ohsession.
WlIic! IL caused
Ry the call
OF spring.
The Observer knows one such poet in
Washington and has always enter
tained the deep and abiding suspicion
that this man steals his little sons
third grade composition and puts in
paragraph marks at unusual places.
In his wanderings the Observer came
across grocer. an unusual type OF
man. who has commercialized spring
poetry, His window was decorated
with this placard:
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE SNARE. BY George vane. New
York: John Lane Company.
GROCER GREATHEART, a Tropical
Romance. BY Arthur Adams. New
York: John Lane Company.
RESuRGAM, Poems and Lyrics. BY q.
n Howard Thomson. Philadelphia.
William NJ. Bains
POEMS: n Collectios Of Royhood
Verses. By John Blacn. Private edi-
tion limited). BROOKLYN: Published
by the author.
SHATTTCk'S PARLIAMENTAR Al
SNERSt Alphabetically arranged
Tor All Questions Likely to Arise sm
WOmen's OrGanixatiOns. BY Har-
rlette X. Shattuck. author of "'rh-
Womans Manual of Paraiamensary
Law. etc. Boston: Lothrop Lee A
Shepard Company.
GIRL OF THE Blue RIDGE. Ev
Payne Erskine. author OF 'Th.
Mountain Girl" etc Frontispiec.
by j. Duncan Gleason. Boston: Lit
tie. Brown e. Co.
THE RIM OF THE DESERT. Rv as,
woodruff Anderson. author of The
Strain of White" etc Frout1spiece
by Monte Crews. Boston; Little
Brown & Co
BOYS WILL. BY Robert Frost. au-
thor of North of Boston, New
York: Henry Holt q Co
NORTH OF BOSTON. BY Robert Frost
New York: Henry Holt & Co
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turn to sand and sentiment" by way
Of Atlantic City and Newport, respect
lively. And going along with these pic
lures is any amount of comment in
the true Huneker vein of sapient and
seasoned appraisal of painting. and
music. and letters, of men and affairs.
of place and tendencies and effects. All
of it is fine and brilliant and robust
and right.
THE CRUISE OF THE GORNORANT.
BY A. Hyatt Nerrill. author of AN
American Crusoe.' etc Illustrated.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
The next best thing to being boy
cruising with the Cormorant from
New York to Barbados is to be a boy
with the same adventure brought to
book and open to hand for reading.
Since one boy alone is but half of him
self. wo go upon this cruise, besides
an uncle in the role of host and gen
eral good fellow And from the moment
that the Cormorant slipped out of the
Narrows into the sea. adventure flew
to meet it and high excitement took
complete possession of the young voy-
ayers. On one day, for instance, they
sighted a splendid ship, and on an
other skirted a mournful derelict. Over
there a whale spouted like a Yosemite
geyser and schools of porpoise played
around them III unending vacation
Strange fish lifted to their lines and
curious birds in shy sociability perch
ed on the rigging of their craft. Even
the climate did turn for them, pass
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lessly, and a moment later regretted
his rash speech.
A baleful look came into the editors
eye. He lifted the sheet of paper
and began to read:
Sweet spring with molten emeralds Of green
And birds that sing and flowers that blush and
bud,
lifting their heads meath winters icy mud.
How 1 do love thy simmer and thy sheen.
The lovely rose-''
The Observer uttered shrill cry.
but the editor who had arisen and was
pacing up and down the floor did not
heed him.
The lovely rose against the wall
doth lean," said the editor, oratori-
cally.
Quit" bleated the Observer. Quit
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The springtime comes bat onre a year.
And new green stuffs are prime.
Try radishes and new spring kaie:
II costs hut one thin dime

Pondering the verses he had heard,
the Observer went home and sought out
an old trunk-a trunk that has been
many places with him and is more of
an old friend than a battered. inanimate
piece OF furniture. He burrowed until
he reached rock bottom. and there un-
earthed a little slip of paper. There
were verses
There came a recollection of a spring
night in other days. The gentlest of
breezes stroked the curtains of the
room and the mum of some little insect
was the only sound that broke the still
ness There were visions in that room
visions which only come when youth
and spring join hands and lead ambi-
tion to the footstool of the gods.
Spring poetry may be mania. And,
again, it may be the futile expression
of the desire for better things which
rests in the heart of every man and
which needs but the call to stir and go
forth and conquer.
BOBBIE HILL.
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ing from midwinter at New York to
spring and summer with the gulf
stream and the tropics. And not long
after. the Cormorant swung In idle
ease at strange ports or darted across
to the is1ets lying outside the highway
of tourist travel. And everywhere the
boys We're seeing new people and
places. History came to life and ad-
ventures of the Spanish Main flourish
ed in the flesh before their quickened
senses one of the fine points of this
captivating book is that It's writer is a
good deal of boy himself. working on
the level with other boys. There is not
a scrap of teaching anywhere about it,
nor any talking down to some one be-
low. The other point of excellence is
that it is a perfect mine of informa-
tion-of information so varied and
abundant. so fresh and substantial and
exact that it is a book that appeals to
grown folks as well as to the younger
ones
MY LIFE OUT OF PRISON. BY Donald
Lowrie. author of MY Life in
Prison" New York: Mitchell Ken
nerley.
This book is. in effect. a continuation
of its authors story of his life in prison,
to which he was sentenced for a term
of fifteen years. Since leaving San
Quentin in 1911 Donald Lowr1e has
been walking the face of the earth"
in the interests of prisoners. This book
is the record of that mission. 1t be-
gins with his own release and goes on
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X NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

known in this city, is now being eX-
hibited in the Farnsworth Museum Of
Wellesley College. This collection was
shown in the Worcester Museum last
summer and has since been successive
ly exhibited in the Toledo Art Museum.
Detroit Museum. Hackley Art Gallery
at Muskegon, Mich. and at the Utica
much favorable comment and interest
Mr.. Closson is represented in the Ma
tfonal Gallery here by painting and
one or more very beautiful wood en-
cravings.
G ONE little time ago prize was Of
~ fered for an original design for a
cover for the 1'Junior Mission Maga-
zine" published by the Women's Cen
eral Missionary Society of the United
Presbyterian Church of North America
at Pittsburgh. Pa. Announcement has
just been received that the winner is
Miss Judith Bourne, pupil in the
Madison Hall School in this city Miss
Bourne is making a special study of
design. and Is considered a most prom
Using student.
TT HE Rt. Rev. D. J. O'Connell. Bishop
Of Richmond, has recently been
elected president of the Art Club of
Richmond. of which for some years
now he has been q member. Bishop
O'Connell is a life member of the
Washington Society of the Fine Arts,
and took an active interest in its af-
fairs when he resided in this city. The
vice president of the Richmond Art
Club Is Admiral Harrie Webster, who
Is also a former Washingtonian.
4
A T the Peabody Institute. Baltimore.
6A there Is now being held a most
interesting and unusual exhibition of
handicrafts, including embroideries,
woven fabrics. wood block prints. pot
terry, decorated porcelain. book bind
ings and the like. With these examples
Of craftsmanship is shown a collection
of small bronzes by American sculptors
which Is also Of high standard. The
exhibition will be open daily until the
end Of the week.
MAY Miss c. c. Critcher and
AVH Miss Sarah Munroe will hold an
exhibition of their paintings at 725
18th street. Miss Critcher's contribu
tions will comprise chiefly figure paint
ings and portraits. whereas Miss Mum
roe will show principally sketches
made in France, Italy and Egypt. The
exhibition will continue for fort
night. LEILA MECHLIN.
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from among the living artists Of our day.
There was something very shocking as
we'll as sad about his death. which was
the result of accident. He was run
over in the streets of New York by
an automobile as he and his wife came
from the opera.
Mr.. Bitter was not yet fifty years of
age and apparently was just on the
threshold of really great achievement.
his lately completed work for the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition being Of a rare
and high order of excellence. Among
his works was the fine statue of Gen.
Sigel in New York. the Angel memo
rial at Ann Arbor and the Astor Memo
rial gates for Trinity Church. in New
York city He was an Austrian by
birth, but had resided in this country
since 1889 His work was robust and
virile, but also refined and sensitive.
His thought was developing along dis
tinctly original lines. but it was we'll
balanced and supported by great tech
nical skill. That his career should have
been so suddenly closed must be re-
garded as a real calamity.
TT HE League for the Decoration of
u the Public Schools held its annual
meeting at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles J. Bell last Monday after
noon. During the past year sixteen
schools in Washington have been deco
rated under the direction Of or by this
league. According to Mr.. Leisenring,
member of the executive council, and
one of the speakers at the annual
meeting, the activities and benefcence
of this organization are only limited
by it's means.
Certainly the work done is both ex-
cellent and widely influential. 1t does
not consist in merely putting pictures
on the walls and placing an occasional
cast or art object, but rather in Great
ing tasteful surroundings and all en-
vironment which will carry it's own
message. In his Introductory remarks
at this meeting Mr.. Marshall. the presi-
rent of the league. called attention to
the fact that the Latin root from which
was derived the words. decent. decor
our, decorate was practically one and
the same. This he said the league tried
to bear in mind. SO it is that the walls
are cleaned and tinted, the woodwork
put in order and other fundamental
things considered before pictures and
work is meeting with success and ap-
proval was testified to by the favorable
and appreciative comment of the
municipal architect, the assistant
superintendent of public schools and
two supervisors. who all spoke at
the meeting. and by letters received
from the principals of some of the
schools which have been decorated.
The income of the league is derived
from annual membership dues oil ST,
which aggregate about $500 year.
Charles J. Bell is the treasurer and
Miss Myra Hendley, secretary.
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w WO lectures were given here last
week under the auspices OF the
Washington Society Of the Fine Arts
Tuesday evening Frank Alvah Parsons.
director of the New York School Of
Fine and Applied Art, gave the last
of a series of six lectures on THE
Decorative Arts which have proved
most instructive and popular. The
Georgian and colonial styles were the
Parsons defined their characteristics
with great clearness. What he had to
say with regard to Chippendale. to-
gether with the Illustrations he gave
of Chippendale furniture in the South
Kensington Museum. dispelled some
cherished illusions, but created an I'm
preston stimulating to independence
of thought that will doubtless be re-
tanned.
This faculty Of Mr.. Parsons for in
ducing clearer thinking and compre-
hension on the part of his listeners
largely explains the hold he invariably
gets upon his audience. He is teach
er primarily, but he thinks with those
announced at this lecture that arrange
ments had been made for Mr.. Parsons
to give similar course in this city
next winter under the same auspices.
The subject, of next winters course
will be practical Problems in Decora-
tion," and will deal directly with ques-
tions of color. material, design. etc, In
housefurnishing and other fields of dec
grafton.
nm Wednesday evening Joseph Lin
W don Smith of Boston lectured before
the Washington Society of the Fine Arts
On "Pageantry." describing the five
pageants over which he had had direc-
ton and emphasizing some of the spe-
cial features of each. OF the utmost
interest was his account of the great
pageant of st. Louis, participated In
by 1900 persons and viewed by more
than 100000, which was given in Forest
Park last May. Mr.. Smith was director
of this pageant. and he spoke as one
who had viewed it from behind the
scenes.
IT HE art talk at the Corcoran School
u Monday was given by Ruel Pardee
Tolnan. a member of the faculty, who
took as his subject Modern Repro
ductive Methods" and told interesting
ly and clearly of how wood cuts. etch-
ings. engravings and Autographs are
made. Mr.. Tolmans account of the
first reproductive work and the begin
ming of wood cutting was especially
interesting and instructive. OF this
particular theme he has made special
and careful study.
A COLLECTION of paintings by Will
~ liam Baxter Closson, who is well
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furnish it completely, showing not only
specimen pieces of furniture, but rugs.
draperies and suitable ornaments. The
Art in Trades Club of New York will
contribute a unique exhibit. showing in
practical manner art in house furnish
ing and decoration by means of photo
graphs Of rooms with samples of actual
materials. The whole purpose of this
exhibition is to demonstrate the value
OF art in design and the possibilities
which have and may be attained by
American manufactures. Through this
exhibition and the convention the hope
is to bring into closer relationship man
ufacturers. artists. art directors and the
on view in the National Museum for a
period Of at least three months. and a
portion of it will later go on circuit
Of art museums through the country.
A MOST interesting and distinguished
A figure In the American art world
was removed by the death Of H. Hopktn-
son Smith. which occurred in New York
a little over a week ago. Though not
perhaps a great artist. he was a true
artist man of extraordinary capabil-
ity and simple nature. one who got much
out of life and contributed largely to the
pleasure and good of hts fellow-men. r.
HopkinsOn Smith was one OF those rare
individuals who are completely un-
spoiled by SucceSS-apparently he mad
the heart and capacity of enjoyment OF
a child-certainly he was always find
ing something to admire and praise in
some one else.
His last illness was a brief one He
was in Boston delivering lectures lit
tie over fortnight before he died. and
was then full of vigor. planning other
work long ahead. among other things an
exhibition of his paintings which was
to have been held in Texas next win
ter So he went in the fullness of his
power. though he had attained the age
Of seventy-six or seven.
He was by profession an engineer and
his sea walls in the neighborhood OF
New York give token of his efficiency
In this line of accomplishment. He was
was painter also of delightful quail
ity. His painting was to great extent
his pastime-writing, by choice. his
vocation. For those who excelled In llt-
erature he had the highest veneration.
But first and last he was the artist see
ing with the artists eye, possessing
the artists temperament, entering into
the artists reward-that of pure en-
joyment in immaterial things. There
was none quite like him-his personal
ity was unique-there is none to take
his place But through his works. his
pictures and his books. more perha ps
by the latter than the former. he
should have lasting and happy remem-
brance.
~ ARL BITTER, the well known
~ sculptor. has also suddenly passed