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known as an architect. but he is also
an accomplished painter and etcher.
TTHE Washington Society Of the Fine
Arts will hold its annual meeting
in the auditorium of the National Mu-
scum next Wednesday evening. After
the regular business is concluded an
illustrated lecture on THE Architec-
Prof. A. D. F.. Hamlin of Columbus Uni
versity. Prof. Hamlin is not only an
authority upon this subject. but at all
times 4 most delightful speaker. He
has previously lectured before the
Washington Society of the Fine Arts
on "Old World Gardens" and on Tow
ers of the Old and New World
rFHE Corcoran Gallers's exhibition
u of cotemporary American paint
ings will continue for just one more
week. closing Sunday, January "a. Dur
ing the past few days two more pic
lures have been sold, but the purchases
have not, up to the present time, been
as numerous as in past seasons. The
hours of opening are 9 am. to 4:3O
pm, on week days: Sunday afternoons
from 1880 to 4:30, and Friday evenings
from 8 to 10 pm.
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HOBART NICHOLS. for many years
y numbered among the Washington
painters, but now residing in New
York, has recently been awarded Il
bronze medal for a painting entitled
January Thaw.' shown in an exhibit
tion Of work of painter members of
the National Arts Club in the club gal
Ieries OF Ciramercy Park. New York
The picture is of the woods and show $
patches Of melting snow on the gray
brown ground. In the foreground are
a. group OF trees, sturdy and finely
characterized: beyond the shapes and
forms of trunks and branches arc lost
in the mysteries of blue gray mist It
is a very attractive picture and is
painted with strength and skill. The
other awards in this same exhibition
Carlsen, one for d figure painting. the
other for Il very effective marine.
There were seventy-eight painters
represented, among whom may he
mentioned Everett Warner; another OF
the Washington group: Ben Foster,
Bruce Crane, Rirge Harrison. Juliet
Thompson. Charles W. Hawthorne and
Cecilia BeauX.
HF. winter exhibition of the Ma
tional Academy of Design closes
today. The place OF honor in this es-
hibition was given to large painting
by Emil Carlson, entitled "Ye of Little
Faith" a picture Of Christ walking
upo, the waters. The treatment vas
unusual, not bald and illustrative, but
very subtle and imaginative. The
greater portion of the canvas was oc-
cupied by the sky, which with the
water was enveloped, as it were, III A
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tinl foundation of this study Of life
and character. In its nearest appeal the
book is sympathetic and competent
story of the l.se-of a great. soldier and
a great man. In more remote sense
it is the military history of England
during the Indian mutiny, the second
Afghan war and the Boer war.
STCLTITIA: \ NiELtmar aud an
Awakening. February, 1918.
In one of the Paduan frescoes there
is fat figure of Folly by Giotto The
anonymous writer of "Stultitia" uses
picture of this fresco as a frontis-
piece for his book. And then he goes
ON to develop a drama in four acts. or
"discussion." whose aim is to present
the general policy OF the United States
as a Folly" beside whose rotund self
complaisance Giotto's figure is a mere
puff of futility. This play is. naturally,
staged in Washington. Its scenes shift
from the Office of the chief of staff at
the War Department to Mrs. Maggie
Riley's boarding house. and then to the
White House. The chief persons Of the
play are the expert officials and stu
dents of international affairs at the
departments of State. War and Navy,
These on the one hand. On the other
hand is Il r;,bble of senators and repre-
sentatives, foreign diplomats. Il social
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7 cred and so far as effect goes many of his
| paintings might well be thought to have
been rendered III oils. Whether or not
this is legitimate use of particular
concern themselves with the technicalities
OF art. but by all it must be confessed
that the result he attains is exceedingly
pleasing.
Not least charming of the pictures in
this exhibition is a group of paintings
of the old inn of William the Con-
queror. in Normandy, frequcnted by the
painter. and by him both pictured and
described. Certainly it must be a
charming place. with it's quaint archi-
its wealth of blossoms. There are also
some Dutch pictures in the collection
pictures painted at Dordrecht. showing
its open waterways. its boats and its
the 10Th of the month. very at
tractive illustrated catalogue has been
issued.
TUESDAY January 10, under the au-
j spices of the Art and Archaeology
League, an exhibition of arts and han
dicrafts will be opened. This exhibi-
tion will be held in the parlor of the
Octagou. the permanent offices of the
! American Institute Of Architects, at
18th street and New York avenue,
wherein are also located the main Of
fees of the Archaeological Institute OF
America. the American Federation OF
Arts and the Washington Society Of the
Cline Arts. 1t will be both cotempo-
rary and Retrospective, but limited
completely to objects and articles made
in America. There will be tewelry of
100 years ago and jewelry made today
by tho most skillful art jewelers.. In
the same way will be shown silver by
the leading present-day sllFersniths
and by those of much earlier genera
bits of tapestries. bookbindings and
possibly furniture. The exhibition will
be In charge of members of the league,
and will continue TO the end OF the
week. 1t promises to be both unique
and interesting.
81 HNDL.R the auspices of this same Art
" aud Archaeology League an illus
trated lecture Is to be given this after
noon at the Washington Club by Paul
Wayland Bartlett on the pedinent
group which he recently executed for
the House wing Of the Capitol.
RETROSPECTIVE and in a meas
~ ure memorial exhibition of paint
inss by the late Max Weyl will be
opened Tuesday In the Niepold gal
leries on II street. Some Of the paint
nSs to be shown have not been pre-
viously exhibited and all have been Sc
lcrted with the utmost care as fully
REPRESENTATIVE.
This would indicate an excellent ex-
hibition. for Mr.. Weyl at his best was
very good. His pictures have been
found to hold their own in the company
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0NHE exhibition of recent water
colors by F. Hopkinson Smith.
q which opened in the galleries OF
the Shelby Clarke Art Company Mon
day. is of very genuine interest. This
we'll known painter-author knows how
to both discover and reveal that which
is most picturesque in life and his sur
roundIngs. He goes about open eyed.
full of interest, and with a keen sense
iof enjoyment. His paintings and his
writings are intimate. and reflect
strongly his own engaging personality.
He would be the last to lay claim to
greatness, and it is true that his works
are not profound, but they are fine III
quality, they ring true and they have
much charm.
There is something eminently CHEEKY
about his paintings, even when thev
represent a rainy day, and yet his
statements are veracious and his VISION
by no means warped. OF the many
painters of Venice he seems to have
best interpreted the real spirit of the
place. This is, no doubt, in part que
to familiarity. for it has been MI.
Smiths custom for long whiie 10
spend a part of each year in Venice.
passing whole summers there. learning
it's by-ways by heart and getting fully
in sympathy with it's varying aspects.
About half of the pictures in this eA-
hibition were painted IN Venice, ana
they are all thoroughly delightful-the
Venice of today, the Venice OF the
venetians. not the tourists Venice nor
the Venice of dreams. but a city Oh
enchantmeut, homely. and at the same
time beautiful. crumbling with age and
vet endowed with everlasting youth;
gilded by sunlight, painted by nature
a city in which even poverty and
squalor are for some reason not
offensive and where beauty seems
eternal.
MIR Smith docs not in this exhibition
show pictures of ST Marks or of tho
great Lagoon. but rather of the eide
canals with their contrasts or light ana
shade and eyer-charmins play of color
In one picture to be sure. is seen tho
Bridge of Sighs,-' ''Relic of the Doges.'
and In another is pointed out the place
Where Shylock Traded but obviously it
is the pictureSuueness of the places rather
than the associations which made ana
still makes the initial appeal
One of the pictures of Venice included III
this collection is in charcoal, medium
which Mr.. Smith finds specially salts
factory and handles uncommonly well. II
one would know the potentialities OF this
far from appreciated medium here Is an
opportunity to take note. As Mr.. Smith
employs it there is something very elusive
about 1.-THE middle tints are soft and
clear, the shadows deep and velvety-
there Is no suggestion of harshness nor
s1nuttiness In handling But Mr.. +. Hop
kinScn Smith is n good dra ftsman, his
hand as we'll as his eye is trained. Long
before it was generally customary, he
painted his water colors on gray paper.
mixing body color-Fhinesc wlute--with
his pa AT first and for some time he
left much of the paper bare, allowing its
gray neutral tone to stand for certain
spaces. but now his grounding is well Gov
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last chapter of this profoundly absorb
ing study Indicates the change that is
brewing and defines the causes that
underlie it. Moreover. it points out
some Of the ultimate and hopeful ef-
fects of this change. The most signifi-
cant of these is that the individual, and
not the class. will be the potent fac
tor. the individual with I'll the Won
derful world of progress as his setting
and opportunity and instrument. Jhe
social barriers will fall away. the type
will cease to dominate. differences Will
no longer be looned upon as danger
Gus and fearful. intolerance will be a
crime, the play of personality upon
graded THE habit of. living in lairs
will die out and with 1t the malady
of homesickness. We shall live at
large, truly mobilized. going where 1t
is best for us to be. unperturbed by
novel experiences and not safeguarded
against it. In this society age will not
bully youth nor youth misprize age
"In this society the impulses of sex
will not be restricted in their express
sion to conjugality, nor will conjugal-
ity itself be considered as necessararily
a habit of a lifetime 'In this society
a class feeling, the sense of caste. will
be accounted a han. cap, burden
some limitation, not a source of dis
tinction or propriety." This sounds like
revolution. And it is. But it is not
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list. a labor leader. big business" a
utopian visionary and the President.
The theme is the current one that is
being tossed back and forth by the
fors and againsts an adequate and cf-
ficient army. The small minority here
who are in position to know the
whole situation, not only as it now is
but with a backing of history to ilumi-
nate it. have not the ghost of a show.
One congressman is prodigiously in
terested in a bill for the protection of
waterfowl, another is deeply concerned
over the high cost of living in his dis
trict. One says Pooh! there Is no
danger, and il there is I guess we can
lick anything that turns up against
u.s." The capitalist wants to be let
alone to do business" Labor is ham
lnering capital and the socialist is
, banging away at both labor and capi-
tai. The diplomats are pocketing facts
for their own governments and the
President is waiting. watchfully. Trou-
bles thicken to the south and from
across the water. Final disaster makes
every one good and produces a great
hustle to retrieve the irretrievable. The
play is Of the old lampoon sort. done
by a practiced hand in realistic fashion.
It's intent is clearly to preach peace by
force of arms.
SYRUP OF THE BEES. Translated
from the original manuscript by F.
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Railway Difficulties in China.

From tho LAJuu, Chronicle.
friend of mine has just returned to
town from 4 remote part of China,
where he has been laying a railway.
He tells me the big difficulty was the
graves of Chinamen, over which, OF
course, no railway is supposed to run.
At the outset it looked as If his line.
in avoiding these. would become
''straighter than a corkscreW, put not
so straight as Il rainbow" Then he
conceived the notion OF buying the
graves that lay on the coming line OF
route. The willy Chinese were equal to
him. for they dug up the bones OF
their anco stors and planted them ahead.
right in the line OF advance. My friend
fears that often he paid three times for
the same old bones. but ultimately he
completed the railway. which now runs
in "A fairly straight line, except for the
first mile or two.
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w Balm, translator OF AN Jncarna-
tion of the Snow" etc. New lork:
g, p P,itnaOl'S Sons

W. Balm, translator OF AN Jncarna-
tion of the Snow" etc. New YORK:
G. p. Putnam's Sons.
This is another translation. another
beautiful translation by Mr.. Balm. Of
tho fairy-folk iore OF India 1t is the
story OF a king ensnared by beauty, OF
the lover drunk with his passion, for
getful of the here and the hereafter,
of the king and lover brought to his
undoing BY the snare of love and the
deceit Of beauty. In tho rough 1t
sounds like the story Of samson and
Delilah. and maybe it is a variant of
this tale, an incomparably beautiful
variant. A poet himself. this writer
enters into the wstful and tender
beauty of these Indian fairy stories.
which are always essentially true
stories. with a comprehension OF their
meanings and s grace of Interpretation
that give them an indcscribablc charm.
STORIES IN GREY. By Barry Pain.
New York: Frederick \. Stokes
Company.
The fifteen stories of this volume get
their prevailing tone of gray from the
fact that the rIost of them culminatc
in suicide, and all OF them are tinged
by one or another of the multitude
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John Muir.


iOHi lHe SpTiuRneio IscpuoAitdb.
The late John Muir was one of those
rare spirits vino devote a large part
of their lives to making men acauaint-
ed with the beauties and wonders OF
nature. Besides being gifted writer,
whose words have had a solid attrac-
ton for a fine and sympathetic type OF
minds, Mr.. Muir was I. practical scient-
ist-as a geoosist and an explorer he
has contributed his share 10 the
worlds intellectual resources. The ro-
nance of his career and the mystery
of that special gift which made
glaciers a particular object Of his
studies are matters over which the
average man may well pore with won
derment. 1t is not easy for the person
of affairs to understand the irresisti-
BILE call which comes to certain ma
lures to make themselves masters of
the secrets that lie only half-hidden in
the physical world that surrounds US.
But that some natures receive this call
and respond to it nobly Is the testi-
mony of such career as John Muir's
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2HERE is Ambrose Bierce7

00 7HERE is Ambrose Bierce2
NAV This is the question that has
wv been asked of the State De-
psr;msnt 4 good many times during
the past six months or So. The vet
eran newspaper writer, correspondent
and author missing from his usual
hauuts. missing, indeed, from Wash
ing where he has made his home for
a generation and II half or longer. has
been a source Of anxiety to officials of
the Department Of State charged with
the delicate task Of looking after the
safety and welfare of Americans In
lands racked with war or revolution
Many have been the inquiries at the
big granite building west of tho
White House: many have been the
queries sent from that building to the
neighbor:ng republic on the south.
hut Ambrose Bierce remains among
the missing. Since he left Washing
ton nearly year ago, not one word.
not a single message. has come back
from him. and no faintest trace or
clue to his whereabouts have Ameri-
can officials been able to discover.
Another American who has dropped
out" was the remark of State De-
partment Official the other day when
he was asked what the department had
been able to learn as to Bierce's
" whereabouts. The remark. accompa-
MED by a truly Latin shoulder shrus,
spoke volumes. in the six words and
the expressive gesture.
About year ago the veteran Jour
naIist-becausc Ambrose Bierce, born
in 1882. is, if he still lives. now almost
grips and started south. his announced
destination being Mexico. To few
| close friends he impaired the iiforna
| ton that he WAS going TO join the revo-
| lutionary army of Cen. Francisco Villa
| But those to whom Bicrcc told this set
| his statement down to the vagartes OF
more or less testy age
! At any rate. he departed for Mexico
From that day to this no word or It'd
ings of any kind have come back to let
his friends know where he IL. whethe,
| or not he IL well, or. indeed. II he still
| lives.
| Ambrose Bierce simply dropped out
| disappeared, vanished from the face ol
! the earth.
! Six mouths or SO ago Washington
| friends of the Netcran--Veteran soldier
ns vel AS journaiist--began making
! inquiries. at first of the state Depart
and representatives of the various fac
tions in Mexico.
\ Washington agent OF Gen villa
learned, through one of those mys
terious sources, underground. wireless
or grapevine" by which revolutionar,
organizations keep In touch one will
another. that Bierce had been heard o
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of works ! the great artists of the
past, not riyt.lirIS them. but in harmony
with them lie was simple, straight
forward and individual-a real artist
at heart and In feeling, loving nature
and loving art. His most successful
paintings were of themes found close at
hand In the country just beyond the
outskirts of Washington Sometimes
he painted on the flats by the river,
sometimes in the region of Rock creek,
occasionally he would go as far atield
as Rockville or Marlborough, but
wherever he went he found abundant
material and material much to his lik-
ing. He did not always paint Just what
he saw. indeed, it was his custom to
rearrang" his compositions. but the
basic facts were always there the es-
sencc of tho thing seen, the real mes
sage of nature. IT is planned to con
tinue this exhibition for about two
weeks
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the broken old man who, doubtless dis
appointed and embittered at his re-
lection as Il soldier, allowed his still
that enc more cautious would have
refrained from speaking.
The State Department doesn't know
with all its resources. all its secret
emissaries. all its ramfications, it has
been unable to find out.
Personal representatives of the Mex
lean revoutionistS themselves have not
been able to learn anything more about
him than that the "old gringo. of a
temper of the most quick" had been
heard of in Chihuahua.
Search as they may, neither the State
Department nor the agents Of the
revolutionists can learn more than this.
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WASTED SOLDIER MATERIAL

Hf7HE military and semi-military
colleges of the United States are
every year Turning into the great
non military population stream OF
excellent material for officers and non
commissioned officers o. militia or
volunteer troops. This potentially val
uablc material drifts out into civil life
and drifts away from arms and mill
tary studies ard practices. Little or no
effort is made to conserve it. to hold
it together, or to keep it where it
might be Immediately available in the
event of national need.
The names of officers of the United
States Army, on the active or retired
list, detailed by the War Department
as professors of military science and
tactics at educational institutions
! makes a long list in the army list and
directory. These officers are detailed
under section l22. of the Revised stat
utes AS amended by acts of Congress ap-
proved September 70, l%sS: January l3.
1891, and November ). lSa%.
Inder the provisions .! general on
drrs No. 23i of the War Drpartncnt'
November IL, 1909. In" institutions to
which officers of the regular army are
/, detailed as professors of military
science are divided into i've classes.
Class \ comprises schools or colleges
whose organization Is essentially mill
tery, whose students are h;Lbitually IN
uniform. in which military discipline Is
constantly maintained and one whose
leading subject is the development
Of the student by means of military
drill, and by regulating his daily con
duct according to the principle of mill
tary discipline
Glass |; comprises state Land era mt
or agricultural colleges established
under the provision Of the act "i CON
Srcss of July >, 1862, ard which arc
required by said act to include 1nii'-
tary tactics III their curriculum.
class ia ,omprehends ANY college of
class b which attains the state of efli-
ciency required for schools or colleges
Of class a." Glass G. includes "a1l
schools or colleges not essentially mill
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
GEORGETOWN ORCHESTRA COL
LECTION.

The list OF the orchestra collection
presented TO the Public Library by tho
Georgetown Orchestra. which was be-
gun or last Saturdays book page. in
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NTARoLD MACDONALD has just COM
u pleted 4 portrait of Justice Hag-
ner. which is an excellent likeness and
u. very creditable piece of work. It
pictures the justice seated in n arm
chair by q table holding an sttrac-
lively bound book In his hand. The
volume is closed. but from its cover
the observer will be assured that 1t
is not a legal treatise The head Is
we'll modelled and characteristic, the
pose natural and easy and the painting
as a whole vigorous and colorful- Mr.
Macdonald is now engaged upon a
portrait of John 3. Lurnsr.
A COLLECTION of ctch.rgs by
S1A Charles A. Plat was placed on
exhibition at the Library OF Congress
the last of this week. Mr.. Plat is best