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of Franz Josef Land. and the Northeast
passage; hansen at the "farthest
north: Peary's twenty years of arctic
struggle: and the expedition in which
Capt. Scott of England's royal navy.
conquered the south pole, and in turn
was conquered by death. To this hero
is given the frontispiece honor in the
book.
THE EARTHs ITS LIFE AND DEATH.
BY Alphonse Barget. Translated by
E. w. Barlow. B. Sc. F. r. y. S.
Illustrated: New York: G. p. Put
MANS Sons.
To the unthinking mind-which
means, more or less, the average mind
the earth is immortal, in that it lives
on while human generations come and
GO 1t is only when science turns the
N-ray of analysis on the things that
form the earth: water, ground and sky.
that one is forced to the realization
that, like man, the earth was created
to die: and that for the planet as for
the soul, is held out promise of res
surrection. To read this book, which
represents the work and time of an
eminent savant, is to learn, or to recall.
from previous study. that the earth is
a living. breathing body. that has
known childhood; is enjoying its pres
ent vigor of maturity and Will one day
experience the senility of old age and
decay The author has diagnosed the
earth's condition with a precision
which conveys big facts in the simple
words that mean 50 much more to the
general reader than the technically
CRYPTIC language which only science may
understand. The birth, age, magnitude,
movements and circulation of the plan
ct are considered with a detail which
allows a chapter to each phase. and a
final chapter deals with the old Age
and Death of the Earth"-the latter
event to occur, according to the latest
calculation. made after the discovery
of radio-activity, about 100000 years
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;zK k16eRealmy Literature a"aArte

With twelve illustrations. New
York: T.. L. Dutton x Go.
ARTIFICIAL wATERw OF THE
WoRLD- by \. Barton Hepburn. au-
thor of History of Coinage and
currency New York: The Macmil-
IAN Company.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY CATA-
Logic, 1914 1918. Cambridge:
Published by the university.
VAN ZORN; 4 Comedy In Three Acts.
BY Edwin Arlington Robinson. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
FRIEDRICH >IETZsCHE. by George
Erandes. author OF wv illiau
Shakespeare" etc. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
WAR BRIDES: \ Play i'm One Act. by
Marion Craig Wentworth. Iiiustrat-
ed with photographs from the play
as presented by Nine. Naztniova.
New York: The Century Company.
OPER tTIONS UPON THE SEA; 4
study. Fly Freih~rr Won EdeIsheIm.
In the Service 81 the German Gem
ernl Stnff In 1901. Translated from
the German. New York: The Out
door Press.
ges johnson, author of Rhymes OF
Little Boys etc. New York: G. P.
Putnams Sons.
WILLARD FILLMORE: Constructive
Statesman, Defender Of the dOnsti-
tuition, President of the United
States. BY William Elliot Gritiis.
y. D., L. II. u. Ithaca: Andrus 81
Church.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR: As shown
In His Public lttcrances. BY Chris
tian Gauss, professor of modern
languages. Princeton University.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Washington: Brentano's.
MEMORIES AND MILESTONES. by
John Jay Chapman. New York: Mof-
fat, Yard Il Co.
THE LITTLE MISSIONER By Nina
Wilcox Putnam. author of "The I'm
possible Boy. etc. Illustrated by
+. G Caswell. New York: ID. Apple
ton & Co.
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of history and literature, and as such
it is interesting. Why is it not possi-
BILE to apply this scholarship and pow
ers of Investigation and good method
to nearer-by. more appealing
period of literature than the one out
lined in this study? If the theory is
fitted to hold it will support any
group of novels of definite and seri-
Gus purpose. as well as it sustains the
arid waste of fiction brought together
here.
HEROES OF THE FARTHEST NORTH
AND FARTHEST SOUTH. Adapted
from J. Kennedy Maclean'S Heroes
of the Polar Seas" Illustrated. New
York: Thomas Y. Cowell Company.
The poles, north and south, are so
tremendously vague that most ac-
counts of explorations provide for the
average reader little more than the
thrills which mere fiction may arouse
To quote the classic ad, this book is
different. Written primarily for boys
and girls the author has clearly
visoned for them the ice worlds we
know as the arctic and antarctic re-
eions, and made human the men who
invade the frozen silence of either
heroes, alike. whether they conquered
or failed. With a prefacing glimpse
backward to the year $50, at one Othar,
Norwegian at the court of King AL
fred, who was the first to enter the
arctic sea''--thereby giving to his mon
arch the prestige of being the earliest
chronicler of arctic adventure-the
writer considers. in turn, the expedl-
tions and results of modern explorers
from Sir John Franklin. to Peary,
Shackleton and Scott. Every line of
the 240 pages embodies some incident
in the struggles made by daring men
to rob the poles of their inscrutable
mystery; with special chapters in
which are featured the results accom-
plished by Franklin; the fatal expedi-
ton of the Jeannette: the discoveries
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Mrs. Mottet's outdoor work is brilliant
colorful and sunny
-.
IN the Shelby Clarke Art Gallery, on
G street, a combined exhibition of
sculpture and painting is now to be
seen. This comprises works in sculp-
ture by u. S. J. Dunbar and painting by
Ruel Pardee Tolman and Edgar Nye.
local artists.
The portrait busts in bronze and
marble which Mr.. Dunbar shows
through the kindness of the owners
represent him at his best. Among
these is portrait in bronze of Alex
ander Graham Bell and one in marble
of Mrs. Bell, as well as an excellent
marble bust of the late Gardiner G.
Hubbard, founder of the National Geo
graphic Society, and likenesses of
of Agriculture; Senator Gallinger of
New Hampshire and Admiral Schley.
Mr.. Dunbar shows wall fountain of
pleasing design, of a triton playing
exhibited is that designed and executed
for the Society of Washington Artists.
The majority of the pictures by Mir.
Nye were painted while abroad. He
has been for the last four years in
England, but on account of the war
returned to America. His work shows
marked improvement. THE Bathers"
is rich and warm in color, good in COM
Position ana Oh nluCf interest iS1lH6
Boats is likewise interesting and at
tractive. They are all small pictures.
but very pleasing.
About two dozen paintings and etch-
ings represent Mr. Toiman. large
percentage of these are of local inter-
est, for example. "Pennsylvania Avenue
After a Storm" The Post Office from
the MALI Quiet Harbor" and The
Canal The portrait of Carl Butman
of the Smithsonian Institution has been
likeness.
This exhibition continues until March
10.
HE art talk at the corcoran Gallery
L Monday afternoon will be given by
Miss Bertha E. Perrie. The subjec,
will be IAN Artists Wanderings in
italy
IT He Art and archaeology League OF
u Washington will hold its next
meeting in the Bristol School Satur-
day afternoon. March 10, at 4:15,
when Prof. David NJ. Robinson of Johns
Hopkins University will give a lecture
entitled 'Caricature in Ancient Art.
The lecture will be Illustrated with
stereopticon Views based on vase
paintings and works of antique sculp-
ture. in which the comic motive is the
prevailing feature.
Admission is by card. The latter may
be obtained from Mitchell Carroll, pres
ident of the league. at the Octagon.
LEILA MECHLIN.
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open as follows: Mondays, from IL M
to pm; other week days. from
am. to pm, and Sundays. from 1870
to pm.
A n exhibition of portraits and paint
~ ings by Hattie E. Burdette opened
Thursday at the Niepold gallery.
The place of honor is given to a por-
trait of Senator John Sharp Williams
who is shown seated with one arm
over the back of chair. 1t is broadly
painted, and a very satisfactory por-
trait On either side of this portrait
are smaller paintings. one of young
girl in red brocade, luminous in color;
the other an excellent portrait of w. A.
Slade. There is a very attractive group
of portraits of children. little boys and
girls, each of different type. A por-
trait of Miss Sally Williams is charm
ing in color. the pose is easy, and it Is
an excellent likeness.
There are a number of small land
scapes One showing three young wom-
en- at a fountain is specially attractive
Several decorative heads are pleasing
in color and arrangement. The exhibit
ton will continue until the 18th.
~
IT. HE exhibition of portraits and
paintings, by Jeanne Gallup Mot
tet. which opened at the Moore gal
lery March l, is attracting interest and
winning favor and appreciation from
both artists and the general public
Mrs. Mottet's distinguishing character
istics, strength. careful and free draw
ing, and clear, frank statement OF
| truth as she feels it, make a powerful
appeal to art lovers. In her portraits
she is especially successful. Partfcu-
larly noteworthy is the one of the Rev
Henry Mottet. .. D., proving that man!
accessories can be eliminated to the
advantage of the main subject when il
is painted as simply, carefully ant
truthfully as this portrait is. 1t rep
resents a dignified scholar in clerica
| suit of black, against a solfdly deeI
blue background. suggesting three
notes of color only.
/ Equally good is the portrait of Canor
k Nelson, with it's finely drawn and paint
! ed hands. Madonna Lilies in quite &
different vein, is full of charm, new
| version of the scheme-red, green ant
white "A Ballad in Porcelain" loaned
| by Mrs E. H. Hartman from her col
! lection of American art. strikes still
another note, dainty, fanciful, still life
| In fact. the whole collection is of :
| high quality and worthy Of more than
| passing notice. 1t is not often we have
| here as interesting and varied a col
| lection of pictures depicting so many
| different phases of art and subjects
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tower. in fall and rapid, in arch and
| temple and labyrinth and cave. 1t is,
| besides, the first account of an at
| tempt to take moving pictures of the
| Colorado river with the artists en-
| broi1ed in the rush and turmoil of its
own waters. 1t is great adventure.
terrifying even in the reading of it. 1t
is also a { ne story. Dozens of pictures
define the course of the artists and
the various features of the canyon. The
book is admirable supplement o
the scientifIc records bearing upon the
exploration of the Colorado river. 1t is
Lalso a trst-.lass boo. of courage and
heroism. an adventure that belongs in
the hands of II certain kind of boy.
HOMEBURG MEMORIES. BY George
Fitch, author of Sizing Up Uncle
sam" etc. Illustrations by Irma
Deremeaux. Boston: Little, Brown
x Co.
The particular pattern of George
F'itch's humor fits the Homeburg
stripe of town lis if the two had origi-
naliy been cut ont for each other. But
to enter fully into the good-natured
fun of these memories one must him.
self have been Il native HomeburSer.
No born and bred urbanite can pos
sibly catch the vii ge flavor of these
broad sketches. Ee has never made
the daily trip to the station to see the
train come in. He. along with the rest
of the village. has never stood as first
aid at funerals and tres. he; or IN tnis
case she, has never tusSled with the
hired girl over "waitin on table"
and "settin' down with the family.
Nor has he been part of the thousand
and one other things that make up the
common life of Homeburg. These mem
cries are for the pleasure of the trans
planted villager Blat the Homeburgs
are passing Electricity is picking
them up and stringins them together
into city neighborhoods. and teaching
them city ways. MIR. Fitch comes just
in time to catch them On the wing.
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and great feeling. His Summer
Night" is a subtle and beautiful rendi-
tion of summer moonlight, theme in
the rendering of which this painter is
especially successful. The HAY
Moonrise." hanging in the center of the
north wall, is a work of rare charm
and poetic feeling.
Space forbids a more extended refer
ence to other individual pictures. There
are number of wood interiors. an
other of Mr.. Fosters happiest themes
The exhibition contains number OF
pictures of moderate size, particularly
suitable for private homes.
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be so, one has but to visit Mr.. Fosters
exhibition to be at once convinced OF
the fact that any one who sees nature
in that way and with those eyes must
be a man of deep refinement of feeling
and unusual senSitiveness to her many
changing moods. His pictures are in
variabiy painted with great tender
ness, with profound sympathy and with
deep understanding
The exhibition will continue through
March % and it is safe to predict that
those who visit it once are more than
likely to go again. During the course
of the exhibition the gallery VIII be
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00 9TH Russia and Great Britain
wv fighting side by side in the
w great war whose end no one
knows, it is not embarrassing to find in
the heart of an old English publication
romantic account of the first estab-
fishing of the Russian embassy in Eng
land. The 9th day of February is the
anniversary of the day that the first
ambassador from the Caucasus set
foot on English soil. This was in 1851
in the reign of Ivan. the Russian ruler,
who gave the Judean title of car to
the crowned head of the Slavs, and
Ivan deemed it time to enter CONNER
cial relations with the British.
1t was Osep Napea that he chose for
his ambassador and the ministerial
party came by way of the northern
seas, Napea had crowd of clerks
and servants, sailors and minor Off
Gals, and he brought to Queen Mary
and her consort, Philip. quite strange
and wonderful gifts. There were the
skins of sables, whose like only en-
perors of the steppes had ever worn,
and live sables clawing at their silver
chains, a prize falcon and silver drum
for Turing it in hunting. and there were
large and curiously carven copper
samovars A number of ships started
from the port of ST. Nicholas, but 1t
was many months, and most of them
had been lost and found many times
before Napea with a mere handful OF
his men at last touched soil of the
British Isles
* x
A veritab BILE successor OF storms over
took them while rounding the coast or
the Scandinavian peninsula. More than
half the vessels were blown into the
Arctic region by terrific wind, and
most of those that remained took
refuge in friendly harbor of Nor
way. The pilot of the Edward Bona
venture, having the ambassador aboard.
determined to forge ahead, come what
may, and after four months he was able
to get out of the Atlantic and into the
North sea. His vessel soon had to be
abandoned, however. for what the
writer termed the Boraventure's pink
evidently "a primitive sort of life
boat-and in this the ambassador ana
seven of his men made for land on the
east coast of Scotland, in Aberdeen
shire.
A gale blew them on the rocks OF
Kinnaird Heads, and the pilot and four
men were drowned, while Napea, with
two sailors. escaped and chung to the
rocks until a gang of pirates. always
on the lookout for wrecks, saw them.
While these marauders We're greedily
watching now for valuables tp float III
from the broken-up Bonavs1ure the
squires whose estates lay sdiong the
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Mr.. Foster is essentially one of those
painters whose works possess pro-
found personal appeal. They touch the
heart and arouse real emotion; they
depict, to an unusual degree, the
manifold beauties of nature, the solid
ity of the mountains, the warmth OF
sunshine across open fields and rolling
country, the mystery of wood interiors
and forests. and the tender, subtle
poetry of twilight He shows nature
to us just as she shows herself to him.
There are those who hold the theory
that the personality of the painter is
surely reflected in his work. If this
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PrOhihit;nn.

~ oNDEANING the high prices that
" food spectators have foisted on
America since the beginning of the
war. Thomas w. Lawson said:
=. Russia, thanks to the war, has pro-
hibited the sale of vodka. France, thanks
to the war. has prohibited the sale of alb
sinthe And the United States. going all
these other nations one better. has, thanks
to the war, made everything prohibitive."
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COMPOSITIONS OF EXPLOSIVES
BEING USED I'm THE WAR

, la wing the appearance OF ma"aroni ::
these strings are cut, up into grains
Y hich are sent through Il process iof
| removing and recovering The solvent.
After drying to certain standard q
lot il ready tor proof; ard such proof
consists IN an inspection of the physi-
cal dimensions OF The grains length,
diameter. thickness of web. density,
strength to resist compression n s
well as firing tests to determine its
velocity for certain pressures and
charges, and a laboratory test 10 deter
mine its compassionate proba bic behavior
in storage
Military powders have presented
many problems to chemists and ord
nance experts and these problems have
not yet been settled in wholly salts
factory way, in that the stability of
| the nitro ceilulose ard tlr. nitro-glyce-
| rine powders is not above suspicion,
except for comparatively short periods
under good storage conditions.
! Maj. William l. Westervel of the
| United States Field Artillery. writing
on this subject, says: BY extreme care
the manufacturing processes have been
| brought TO great degree of refine
ment, Investigation has. led to the
adoption of certain sta biliZerS or indi-
Gators Of stability; Fundamentally. how
ever. there are objections to the use
! of nttro-cellulose for service powders.
/ This material is complex and therefore
liable to form unstable compounds; I'M
| der the influence of heat and moisture
the nitro-celluloSe is most apt to de-
compose. The question of re
serve of powder based upon nitro-cot-
ton or ntro-Slycerin is limited by
| their tendency 70 deteriorate, whereas
| the problem of Supplying such powders
| IN time of stress is greatly affected by
| the time consumed in manufacturing
and drying. Manufacturers, inventors
and powder experts have been and are
4 now engaged iii solving the problem
| ~
porter OF combustion has been variousIy
| combined with different combustitles in
] the hope Of ultimately discovering a prop
! er powder"
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Return of the Sailing Ship.

IN HE sailing ship is reappearing on
u the seas The demand for cargo
carriers has become SO pressing and
freight rates in the ocean carrying
trade have risen to such alluring fig
ures that the windjammer has come
out from many a snug harbor and
spread it's canvas to the salt winds.
Old clipper ships and "whalers" and
"sealers' have taken on fresh can
vas, cordage and hope and are careen-
ing over the bound ng pillows. Bark
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| upon the drama of marriage. And so
| he continues after this method in a
| study of the plays of naturalism. sym
bolSm, romanticiSm and realism. The
drama of satire gives Il sympathetic
and penetrating study of Shaw. \
chapter on the peasant plays of Ire
land is eminently worth while. The
focus of this study upon type of play,
with the dramatists contributory and
subordinate, is it's DISTINGUISHING fea-
ture of helpfulness and excellence.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND
THE ENGLISH NOVEL. BY Allene
Gregory. Phi. D. New York: G.. p.
putnam'S Sons.
This study of a period of English
prose literature makes use of a theory
that is commonly confined to a consIa-
GRAFTON of history. The theory is that
all history. in whatever diverse way
it expresses itself, is the result of
economic forces working outward
through various social and political
forms and Institutions. Taking II sim
gle elimination of economic Inequality,
the French revolution. this writer carries
its intellectual and moral influence across
the channel and applies this influence to
the literary impulse of the Engllsh
novelists of that period Miss Gregory,
at the outset. admits handicap in the
measer output of fiction at the time
under consideration and also in the
manifest mediocrity, me unilluminat-
ing character. of the novelists them
selves. There is, however, an interest
ing review of Il handful of novelists
who, inspired by the revolutionary
spirit, embodied their revolt against
the order in which they lived in novels
whose remains, after an early death,
lie buried in musty archives Some
lady novelsts" appear among these
studies, along with an admirable re-
view of the work of Mary Wollstone-
craft. the English pioneer among
, omen for the rights of woman. This
is a book for the :-udent of theory
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from date. The work is too important
to be judged by a paragraph or two.
1t should he studied for the knowledge
it yields and for the pleasure which
knowledge gives.
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1t seems long way back to the days
of the old smoke powder, or the char
coal powder, which was a mechanical
mixture of inter or potassium nitrate,
charcoal and sulphur in the proportions
of seventy-five parts inter. fifteen parts
charcoal and ten parts sulphur. In that
mixture inter furnished the oxygen,
charcoal the combustible and the func-
ton of the sulphur was to lower the
point of ignition and give density to
the grain.
In the matter of the progress in pow
dermaking it is interesting to recall
that IA number of years ago Maj.
Lissak, L. $. A., retired, wrote: mo
marked Improvement WAS made in gun
powder until 1860. when the principle
of progressive combustion of powder
was discovered, and that the rate OF
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THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON
I'NOM WYOMING TO MENICN ~

T. l. kolb. illustrated. Introduce ion
by owen Wister. New York; TIL.
Macmillan Company.
This is straight ana unpretentious
record OF experience. The UNDERLYING
facts, however, are SO startIinglv uu-
usual that the narrative, despite its
Inodesty. sums to quite wonderful
story. The two brothers kolb IL an
pears have lived for many years be-
side the Colorado river possessed by
its weird grandeur, its wild enchant-
nent- And the possession finally grew
into an ambition 10 explore the river
from I'D to end. This is :, record Of
that parilous journey OF LOO miles
whereof river has carved mar
yelous history in wall and rampant and