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6HHREE very interesting collections
of prints have been recently
placed on exhibition in the
Library of Congress under the auspices
of the division of prints. These con-
sist of etchings by Charles II. Wood
bury of Boston. of Autographs by mem
bers of the Senefelder Club of London
and of mezzotints by the leading mezzo-
tinters of all schools.
Mr.. Woodbury. is much better known
as painter than IS an etcher-lndeed,
many who are familiar with his paint
ings will be surprised to know that he
does etch. but this collection now on
exhibition places him among the fore
most etchers of our time if not of all
time There are fftysix prints in this
collection and the majority of the SUP
jects set forth are to be found in the
neighborhood of Ogunquit. Me-. where
the artist spends the greater part OF
the year and at which place in sum-
mer he conducts a school OF outdoor
painting.
wears been Mr. Woodbury's >favorite
themes. There is kinship between
these two great manifestations OF ma
ture both in sense of vastness ana
felt very keenly and interpreted in his
paintings. 1t is this same feeling
which is to be found in his etchings
and even in more impressive form
An etching always seems to De the es
sense of things felt but unsaid, and
thus these etchings of Mr.. Woodbury's
are really eloquent. He pictures the
stern rock-bound coast of Maine with
few lines and gives an adequate I'M
preston of it's bold grandeur; with a
few more lines he brings before our
vision the open sea and awakens the
same sensibility that the limitless, rest
less waves themselves may have stlr-
red: he gives a picture of the noun
tain tops and the observer is bound
to comprehend their lofty stateliness:
or he presents a scene on the beach
and instantly one is transported to the
gayest center of an American summer
resort.
And what is most interesting is that
all this is accomplished with rather
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out to the big city to make herself
ready for this amazing career. That she
after all, did not even set out along
this road to fame is hardly a matter
for surprise. That she did draw I'M
mediately upon her good stock of COM
mon sense and right-about- at once
to the job that was at hand waiting
for her furnishes the point from which
the story starts in to be genuinely
good one. Girls will like this book,
for it at the beginning is about every
girls own story. And when it ceases
to be this they will like the courage
and gallantry of Lotta Emburys pc
culiarly queer way of deciding what
her career should be.
Astronomer of Thorn.
BY Otto Carl Gsantner, jr. Wash
ington: Hayworth Publishing House.
Here is five-act tragedy that press
es back into the time when both the
church and the world looked with dis
trust and disapproval upon knowledge
in general, and especially upon such
knowledge as marked the dawn of
science. The play has to do with the
menace and finally with the, persecu-
tion and death of Tolternicus, astron-
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small museum which invites alike the
art lover and the art explorer and con-
serves treasures for both-in other
words an institution for the people, a
bulwark in civilization. an oasis IN
life
The position of director of an art
museum or gallery is important. and
there are comparatively few who have
the qualification that Mr. Minnegerode
possesses for this kind of service.
wHE portrait exhibition comprising
works by members of the National
Association of Portrait Painters has
closed and in its place will be installed
the Washington Water Color Clubs
annual exhibition. This will open with
a private view and reception in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art on Thursday
evening, December 30.
NNE painting. and perhaps the most
w important. shown in the portrait
painters exhibition at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art will remain in Wash
ington This is the picture of young
woman and dog by the late John w.
Alexander. which has been purcha sed
by c. V. Wheeler of this city. 1t is a
very characteristic and interesting ex-
ample of Mr. Alexander's work and a
possession which all might covet. AS
a composition it is extremely decora-
tive and it shows. Furthermore. Mr.. AL
exander's characteristic sweep of line
and delightful scheme of color.
THE Army and Navy Club has re-
Gently acquired by purchase a por-
trait of the late Commander William
b. Cushing, who rendered distinguished ed
service during the civil war. 1t is the
work of Miss Grace Mckinstry of
Minnesota and was painted from pho
tographs and daguerreotypes furnished
by Mrs. Gushing. Miss Mckinstry has
taken a very active part in the de-
velopment of interest in art in the
northwest and her work finds its way
from time to time in the prominent ex-
hIbitlons LEILA MECHLIN.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

GEOGRAPHY. BY Har-
mon B. Niver, A. NJ, author of "A
School History of England" etc
New York: Kinds. Noble & Eldredge.
THE b C OF NATIONAL DEFENSE;
What the Army and Navy Would
Have to Do in War. etc. By J. w.
Muller. author of 1.-THE Invasion of
America New York; E. P. Dut-
ton & Co.
A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY: of Books
in English, Spanish and Portuguese
Relating to the Republics Common
Iy Called Latin-American, With
Comments. BY Peter H. Goldsmith,
director of the Pan-American divi-
sion of the American Association
for International Cancellation. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
ITALY IN ARMS; and Other Poems.
BY Clinton Scollard. New York:
CONNIE & Marshall.
ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE
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FOR 1915, and Year Book OF Amer
lean Poetry. Edited by William
Stanley Braithwaite. New York:
CONNIE & Marshall.
NEW RUBAIYAT FROM A SOUTH
ERN GARDEN. By George Frederic
Viett. New York: Sturgis & wal
ton Company.
TEACHING; It's Aims and Methods.
BY Levi Seeley, Phi. D.. professor of
Pedagogy in the New Jersey State
Normal School. New York: Kinds,
Noble & Eldredge.
THE CREATION. THE REAL SITUA-
= TION OF EDEN AND THE ORIGIN
OF THE CHINESE. By Use Tsan
Tai. With portrait. maps and tables
Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh.
RED HEAD AND WHISTLE
BREECHEs. BY Ellis Parker
Butler. author of Pigs Is Pigs"
etc. Illustrated. New York: The
Bancroft Company.
SOME STORIES BY FAMOUS MEN.
New York: Hearst's International
Library Company.
SAFETY FIRST FOR CHILDREN. a
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favor until, on an exhibition trip, rar-
rying party of editors and civic
notables. near Baltimore, ii ran INTO "A
COW which chanced to be grazing on
the tracks. The COW was but little
da mayed, but the car was knocked OIL
the track and wrecked. while IT'S pas
sengers received a thick coating of red
clay. No one thought it advisable to
build another.
Several forms of horsepower" locomo-
ton were tried one, which proved so
popular that it won a ive-hundred-doilar
prize offered by the South Carolina rail-
road, consisting of a treadmill, with a
row of seats on either side, the whole
being set on wheels A horse worked the
treadrnill, slave standing on a small
platform behind him and whipping him. or
slowing him down, as the case required.
A more popular form OF horsepower. how
ever consisted merely of car fitted with
shafts like a pIesent-day carriage,i in
which the horse was hitched. Tracks
made it possible for a srg,e horse to pull
as high as five tons alta rate of eight. and
sometimes ten. miles an hour. For many
years this was generally considered the
acme of travelling speed and comfort.
y
Save for few inventors. generally
considered bit "off in the head no one
gave any thought TO locomotive engines.
Stationary engines were considered time
and again. it being planned to place the
engines at frequent intervals along the
tracks and draw cars back and forth by
means of chains. The great fault with
this method lay in the fact that some
integral part of the chain was continually
breaking, thereby tying up the whole sys-
TEN.
In England numerous inventors had
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rugged lines and almost rude simplic-
ity. This is something more than
skill; it is mastery and of a kind which
is rare. Here is a man with the art
lists vision who has something to say
and knows how to say it. His way is
his own and his message is very worth
while. This is modern art and art
which is essentially American; it is
vital, forceful and sincere. In one of
these etchings no larger than a mans
hand there is as much as in painting
many feet in dimensions-indeed. much
more than in most paintings
Mr.. Woodbury. was born in Lynn,
Mass, in 1854 and studied first at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and then in Paris. He has received
numerous medals of honor, among the
latest of which was a gold medal for oil
paintings and medal of honor for
water colors at the Panama Pacific ex-
position. In the Corcoran Gallery's
most recent exhibition he was awarded
a prize for superb painting of the
sea showing a rainbow in the mists of
spray.
The etchings now on view at the Lii
brary have been lent by the artist and
will only be on exhibition for a limited
time. But even SO it is a privilege to
have them here.
TT HE Autographs by members of the
s@eneIeiHer tiup are part OF d COL
lection recently sent from London
which is to be exhibited in this coun-
try during the next few months under
the auspices of the American Fedora
tion of Arts. The entire collection COM
prisas about 100 prints and of these but
thirty-one are on view at the Library
owing to lack of space for display.
Fourteen or fifteen artists are repre-
sented, including the president, Joseph
Pennell.
Lithography as an art has suffered
much through commercialiZation-s
much, in fact. that the duty on litho-
graphs is reckoned not by value as
on other works of art, but by weight at
a few cents per pound. But as me-
dunn in the hands of an artist lithos-
raphy is no less artistic than etching
and perhaps quite as flexible if not
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Panama canal are well known, is best
represented by THE Harbor-Genoa,"
drawing made obviously from a
height looking down upon the forest
of masts and giving an impression of
the loveliness of that busy mercantile
haven tranquil with all it's hustle in its
charming setting.
This collection also will only be on
view few weeks, going to the Carne-
gle Institute. Pittsburgh, the 1st of
February.
IT HE mezzotint engravngs which
constitute the third collection re-
Gently placed on view at the Library
of Congress outnumber both the other
collections. comprising over $50 prints.
This collection has been assembled
chiefly from the Gardiner Green Hub
bard collection, with additions from the
T. Harrison Garrett collection and the
collection gotten together by the Ii
brary. 1t is exceedingly comprehensive
and interesting and will well repay
careful examination and study. 1t will
probably. however. be on view for some
time.
NREAT satisfaction has been express
Minnegerode as director of the Corco-
ran Gallery of Art. For several years
Mr.. Minnegerode has been assistant di-
rector, and during that time he has
had opportunity to demonstrate his
fitness for the position. He has the pc
culiar qualification for this kind of
work-a love and knowledge of art,
executive ability, rare tact and dis
elimination and broad vision.
With the support and cooperation of
the board of trustees, which undoubt-
edly he will have, Mr.. Mnnegerode
should and will not only uphold the
Corcoran- Gallery's traditions as an in
stitution of rare singleness of purpose
the advancement of American art
but increase its value to the people of
Washington. The large opportunities
of the future are not alone for the
great museum with enormous wealth
and much gallery space, but For the
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Hard BY the John Bull" on the first
foor Of the old museum building s'aHos
a smaller and even more Srotesque en-
gine, which at first glance. seems 10 De
q weird conglomeration OF ooiiers'
shafts and smokestacks set on iouF
wheels II is an exact model OF the
..Stourbridge Lion the rightful posses
sor of the honor wrongly given the
John Bull
It is small wonder. however. that the
gallant little '.Stourbridge Lion. built
in Stourbridge, England, and painted
To resemble the animal Tor which II
was named should have been forgot
ten by all save those at the museum.
Although it's advent signalized the de-
capitation of distance and the joining
together of east and west ana horth
and south by rods OF steel. the engine
itself never hauled a passenger. nor
even an empty coach. indeed, II never
made but one trip, and that one only
a trifie more than three miles. 1t was
not the fault of the locomotive. how
ever. The fault lay with the road
builders The tracks laid for the
'Stourbridge Lion" were not strong
enough to bear its four-ton weight.
The Lion" was brought to America
by Horario Allen, assistant engineer
Of the Delaware and Hudson Canal
and Railroad Company. Previous to
its arrival all sorts of methods of To-
comotion had been tried. including
boat shaped car set on tracks and
equipped with a monster sail This
dry land ship, according to musty ac-
counts in the Congressional Library,
could run either forward or backward
and sometimes attained speed as
high as fifteen miles an hour. Natu-
rally. however. il one wished to travel
in one direction and the wind chanced
TO be blowing in another. there was
nothing to do but wait until the wind
changed. Neither could the sail car
take a curve. nor could 1t be stopped
until the wind died down--or the end
Uf the track was reached.
Nevertheless. IT found considerable
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IN\U of historical birthday down
II NJ in the big sun-lit corridors
- " of the National Museum, but
do they have one as preg-
nant with import to all civilization as
that which will be celebrated during
the coming week. Tomorrow MARKS
the Tooth birthday of steam locomo-
tion. For il was December u, 1919,
that George Stephenson, an English
man. took out. after years of failure
and ridicule, the first patenton the first
railroad locomotive operated as engines
are driven today.
Few subjects of such recent origin
have been more involved in uncertainty
than the inauguration of steam trans
portation, especially in America. Fol
lowing Stephenson's success in Eng
land three Iron horses as they were
called. were brought to this country
within a few months of one another. and
for more than half century the ques-
ton of which was the first. TO be
operated was disputed by railroad
authorities. II is only a comparatively
few years back that the matter was
settled by the National Museum
The general belief. Throughout the
country, according TO museum oficials
is mat the first locomotive trip on an
American railroad was made by pecu-
liarly shaped iron monster. resembling
a modern pile driver more than any
thing else, and known as the John
Bull" The museIin boasts model OF
the "John Bull" pictures OF which have
even been published in schooibooks as
the locomotive pioneer. But it is mol
the pioneer.
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DEARLY every day is some sort
MI of historical birthday down
Nj in the big sun-lit corridors
" of the National Museum, but
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BOOK REVIEWS.

EVE DORRE: The story of Her Pre-
cariOus Youth. BY Emily Viele
Strother. Frontispiece in color by
Grace Cochrane Sanger. New YORK:
H.. p Dutton & Co.
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land Marvin, author Of Love and
Letters etc. Boston; Sherman
french * 60.
oae volume OF Mr.. Marvin's essays is
med "I;xcursions of Book Lover"
title that serves 10 define the char
acter bf a considerable part OF his
We ! AS aa essa ayist Familiar with
the open highways of literature, he
possesses many al intimacy besides.
with uHfrequeUtej corners of IL where
:u . deal OF fascinating book k-stuff
hides away from the hurried and the
incJriulis. il is from this fun source
that the book in hand is drawn. The
atmosphere ot ease and tranquility
yereaGes these coutemplations OF one
Eaa another aspect of life~and litera
ture. Seasoned thinking and tenn
pe-ed bat vigorous manner OF saying
wnat he has to say give to the book
tie double value OF substance and
charm. The Loneliness OF Genius.
"MauEassant and Poe. Minor Poets.
'f:oniance and Symbolism OF Animal
Lite and "HGmaa Dereiicts" are
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-25
Jess Willard Says
He breads His Tour
Around the Country

While II has always happened that
fistic champions, even in the newness Of
the thing. thrill with pleasure at the
thought of a theatrical tour, the clamor
and noise Of such trip and the pleasant
rustic of the uniutelligent currency that
ambles in, comes reports that Jess VIII
lard breads his cross-country jaunt
breads is the word that is used, too. He
wants to go, so tbs said, TO see Mrs Jess
and the little ones. and does not like 10
hop about the country i'm Pullman cars.
The champ has theatrical engagements
booked until August /. 1t is said, and
then his managers intend TO plan a trip
10 Australia and South Africa and South
America. While. perhaps, Jess may not
want the money. his managers are vast
ing no time. Jess has said, however, IL
he goes on any foreign tours the entire
Willard family will go right along be-
cause he has been away from them long
enough as it is. He is at the Gayety
this week.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-25
IT ALL COMES OFF TODAY
Desperate Battle Between Bee and
World Herald Teams at Miller
Park This Morning.
LINEUPs ARE ANNOUNCED

A combat which bids well TO be a crucial
turning point in the history OF Omaha
is carded for Miller park this morning
when two alleged base ball teams. repro
senting The Bee and world-Herald adver-
Using departments, will cash in a most
desperate fray. Dick Darlington and
Walter Lamb are tho responsible parties.
Twas this pair OF previous advertising
sharks who promoted the game and then
organized the teams and kidded Joe Hum
mel into taking a chance and letting them
use his park.
Grover Cleveland Alexander Crawford
Is booked to heAve for The Bee team. 1t
is not known with which wing Crawford
1t doesn't cut much figure. Lamb. who
says his name should have been Walter
Johnson instead Of Walter Lamb, will
chuck for the hyphensted contemp down
the street.
Two very important details of the battle
are yet to be arranged. The selection OF
an impartial and neutral umpire is caus-
ing the most trouble. There have been
many applications for the Job, but IL Is
thought there are very subtle inspira-
tons behind each application with the re-
suit that one manager or the other
kicked. The other detail is the matter OF
paraphernalia Nobody in the crowd owns
bat. ball or glove. Any kind and philan-
thropic citizen who can furnish any OF
the above Is invited TO attend the game
The lineuPs viii be as follows. providing
everybody shows up:
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-25
JESS WILLARD IN OMAHA
Human Dreadnaught to Demon
strate Just How He Put the
Big Smoke to Sleep.
SEVEN TIMES WILL HE SHOW

Instead Of waiting nineteen months.
Omaha has only to wait nineteen days
from the date Of the big battle at Havana
before seeing In the flesh Jess Willard
the man who brought the worlds heavy
weight pugilistic championship back TO
the white race. for with the wreath OF
victory on his massive head the new idol
of sport lovers will begin a three-and-a-
half days engagement at the Gayety the
alter this afternoon. appearing twice each
day in conjunction with the Great Beh-
man Show.
All last week the new hero OF the ring
appeared at Hammerstein's vaudeville
theater in New York City at . salary OF
$1,000 for the week. and, although that
theater has a tremendous capacity. there
was nowhere near the room TO Accommo-
Date the countless thousands anxious to
pay homage to the big Kansan. The New
York theatrical men have offered tempt
Ing inducements to Manager johnson OF
the Gayety. Omaha. in an effort To get
him to release Willard from his Omaha
engagement. and. although 1t Is costing
the Omaha man $500 In salaries and
transportation from New York TO Omaha
anu IeluTh ioF the entlIe Wllaru party
Manager Johnson has stood pat. believing
the new and popular champion would be
of far greater interest next week to the
people OF this section OF the country than
though twelve TO eighteen months should
elapse before he came west This will be
| Wizards only appearance in the middle
west, as he Is booked for many months
! I'm the big eastern cities, after which q
European tour is contemplated.
| At every performance he will box sew.
eral rounds with his sparring partners
40 shadow boxing and gymnasium work
and illustrate his terrible forty-two-cen-
timeter knockout punch-that terrific jat
that sent the big smoke down and out
/ Let 1t be clearly understood that this IL
not moving picture display. but instead
Jess Willard, personally. himself in the
flesh and decidedly in action.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-25
Games to Be Played
On Sand Lots Today
GREATER OMAHA LEAGUE.

GREATER OMAHA LEAGUE.
A. o. n. WIS w. Alamitos Diets park
bourgeois VS. Armours. Fort Omaha,
blacks Kats VS., Chris Lycks. Lyck
park, $3.50 p. m.
CITY LEAGUE.
Murphys va Mickeis Nictrolas, Thirty
second street and Dewey avenue. $3.50
Nebraska Auto school W. Beacon Press,
Fontcnelle park. east grounds, S;Se 2. M.
Walter q. Clarks W.. Mazdas, Elmwood
park. west grounds, $3.50 D. m.
Brown Parks VS.. Hollys. Elmwood park
north grounds. $3.50 p. m.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Omaha Rubber Co vs., West lscaven-
worth Merchants, Elmwood park, west
Kennedy & Beselins VS. Mandy Ices,
" N"urse st Oils VS. South omaha Merchants,
Thirty second street and Dewey avenue
Ford Motor Co. VS.. Dundee Wooden
Mills. Lakeside. $3.50 y. m.
SOUTHERN.
Riversides VS.. st Francis School, l'eu
p. m, Riverside park
Southeast Improvement CLUB vs. south
Omaha Orpheums, Riverside, $3.50 p. m.
Chereka VS.. Nationals, Fonteneue park
west grounds, l'90 p. m.
Grand Views VS.. James Corr Electrics'
Elmwood park, west grounds, l'So p M
BOOSTER.
Tradesman vs. Merchants Hotel, Thirty
first and Boyd streets $3.50 p. m.
@. A. Nelson's We. Thorpcians. Lyck
park, 1880 p. m.
Central Parks VS.. ]. ID. Crews, Fon-
tenele park west grounds, $3.50 y. m.
Auto Row Va. Williams Pharmacy
Elmwood park, north grounds. 1880 p. m
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Browning-<ings vs.. Florence Athletics
Fort Omaha, l:N y. m.
Fontehelles VS., RRmblers, Fontenelle
park, east grounds, 80 p. m.
INTER CITY,
Trlmble Brothers vs.. South Omaha