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branches of art, it is the men who have
most often scored success. Saint-Gau-
dens was of the belief that women less
than men are endowed with creative
are, on the whole, less able to give
their undivided attention to any crea-
tive art, being commonly under the
necessity, when they enter this field, OF
playing a dual part.
FHE announcement which has come
this week from San Francisco, to
the effect that the directors of the
Panama Pa cific exposition have deter
mined, in response to numberless re-
quests. to keep the Fine Arts Palace
open until next May, will be found of
interest to all. but more especially to
those who expect to visit California
during the coming winter and spring.
All of the works now on exhibition in
the Fine Arts Palace, both American
and foreign, which do not have to be
returned for imperative reasons, will
be retained, and to supplement these
others will be secured. In almost every
instance permission will be given to
retain the paintings and sculpture, as
the extension of time will not only en-
able thousands of persons to visit the
exhibition who have not already seen
1t, but may lead to the establishment of
a permanent museum of art in San
Francisco.
Since the exposition opened last May
the sales in the fine arts depa rtment have
rs per cent have been works by Ameri-
can artists. This means more than
patronage, for it gives evidence of real
appreciation and the distribution of
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Some Shower.

From the Springfield Republican.
Some of the meteorological manifesto
tons have been quite uncommon, and
the electric phenomena often spectacu-
lar. One storm of a fortnight ago was
magnificent in its swift and strenuous
leys and its fringes swept over the
plains. but il was mountain born, and
the fierce heart of the ancient hills
throbbed in its mad turmoil. 1t had
been a hot day. GREATNESS, seethinG,
stewing day. Clouds, big, brown and
ominous, gathered and scattered and
their Soma, the drink of Indra. the
Sun-slayer Warning winds partook of
the potion. sprung to the call and
crowded in conflict, and when they met
and grappled the tempest burst in fury,
and the trees swayed and tossed in the
vicious grip of the elemente. Until tho.
We're one with the clouds Vertical
lightnings pierced the u, .oao ,--.,
bling wreck. revealing vast T"ats and
vanishing canyons in the rolling va
pors and the thunders rumbled contiE-
uously, while the fountains of waters
broke +Aeir seals in torrents responding
with madden turbulence to each mighty
dart of the arrows of the Almighty.
The quiet brooks swelled to foaming
yellow cataracts white-crested and
splendid, shining back TO the splendid
lightnings, and roared over their rocks
in wrath. Every roadside drain became
flood. and every place where water
could halt became whirling pool or
rapid to be forded.
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R1HE first Art Talk" of the season
was given at the Corcoran Cal
lery of Art last Monday afternoon
by Richard n Brooke, vice principal OF
the Corcoran School. This talk. which
took on a little more formal character
than usual was given in the new audi
forum and marked the opening OF this
excellent little lecture hall.
Ralph Adams Cram, in his recently
published and interesting book, The
Heart of Europe" calls attention to
the value of limitations, and what ne
SAYS is exceedingly true. for whereas
opportunity opens way limitations
spur endeavor. The new auditorium is
charming to a degree. but is little
awe-inspiring and would seem to de-
mand something big and formal rather
than to invite friendliness and lnti-
macy. The old schoolroom with not
enough chairs or stools to go around
was by no means an ideal lecture hall,
but upon more than one occasion IT
was filled by audiences from the stu
dent body of the school which Were
really inspiring. But the new audito-
rum is of course. more fitting.
The subject of Mr.. Brookes talk was
Self Expression" but it dealt very
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good examples of modern works in
many American homes.
A catalogue de luxe of the fine arts
exhibition has been recently published.
the compilation of which was largely
done by Miss Helen Wright of the
prints division of the Library of Con-
gress, who gave her summer to this
work in San Francisco.
A PPRECIATION of art sometimes
~ manifests itself in a way not alto
gether laudable. A short time ago a
thief entered the arts and Crafts
Studio on 18th street and possessed
worth Of handwrought silver. Perhaps
he had a sense of humor. for he left
behind in the center of the table on
which the silver he fancied was dis
played a single little salt spoon look
ing very lonely and forlorn. If so, he
may find cause for mirth in the knowl-
edge that he unwittingly left behind
jewelry of ten times the value-a
transient exhibit gone on now to
another city. It-was altogether a curl
Gus theft. for the value of the silver
lay chiefly in the workmanship, and to
dispose of it to those who would ap-
preciate its worth would disclose the
owners guilt Obviously, an art lover
mon thief do with a work of art? It
was clumsy piece of work and no
doubt the thief will be found out.
good many years ago small
Barge bronze disappeared from the
jolly little bear that any one would
like to own. There was no clue to
the mystery and in time the loss was
almost forgotten. One day, without
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which have unusual interest and dis
tinction.
To an extent Mr. Holmes has used oil
colors much as he was wont TO use
water colors. thinning his pigment 18th
a medium and applying it in a manner
both broad and at the same time direct
This was somewhat the method en-
ployed with such eminent success by
the late John w. Alexander. AS MI
Holmes has worked, however, the quail
tiles of the new medium as well as It's
possibilities have been discovered to
him. and he has found certain desired
expression possible which he could not
previously secure.
All of the subjects of Mr.. Holmes
pictures he has found in the neighbor-
hood of his summer home at, or rather
near. Rockville and his paintings go
to prove conclusively that there Is no
dearth of themes provided the painter
has the artists vision.
In his oil paintings as in his water
coiors Mr.. Holmes shows a natural
kinship with the landscape painters
OF the English school-constab BILE, Tur-
ner, Cox, Alfred East Like them, his
pictures are not merely bits of nature,
but compositions, and for some reason
or other they always suggest the pres
ence or proximity of man. To be sure
ne most often introduces figures in his
LANDSCAPES. not so they intrude. but to
give an element-of human interest. But
whether the figures are there or not
when he paints such pictures as of the
country around Rockville. They are es-
sentlally Inhabited by men,.
His coloring, moreover, is fresh and
ms color schemes are engaging. To
the novice the effect is paramount, but
TO the painter or lover of art the way
the work is done is of much interest
me enormous cleverness of Sargents
canvases is half their fascination for
the initiated. In like manner. If in less
measure. the skill with which Mr.
Holmes handles his subjects lends much
to their charm.
One of Mr.. Holmes recent paintings
(Which. by the way, literally picture
the unfolding of the season beginning
in the spring when the chestnut trees
were in blossom) shows screen of
trees rich in autumnal coloring. In
the foreground is meadow and beyond
to the right the vista leads across open
fields to wood. The coloring is rich,
but not blatant. a golden light baths.
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sound in it's conclusions as it is keen
of observation, as broad in suggestions
toward a wiser way as it is conversant
with the worlds way. That's Her
Business is here the story of kath-
crime Davis of the Bedford Reforma-
tory, and certain other women of like
business" THE Talkative Woman is
n striking bit of the psychology of edu-
ba by All of these essays are album
dainty worth while to the woman who
wants to get her bearing in this tu-
multuouS woman age.
A LONG LANE. BY Marion Harland,
author of "A Gallant Fight" etc.
New York: Hearst's international
Library Company.
In "A Long Lane" Marion Harland
opens up a new corner of the country
to the uses of such transcriptive fic-
ticn as. say for example, Mary Will
kins has done in her tales of New
England Northern New Jersey, with
its lovely landscape. it's background OF
scenes, and its still long
or perspective of Dutch settlement and
Knickerbocker tradition, is the place
chosen for the purposes of this neigh
borhood chronicle Using such eSter-
nal conditions Of living as prevailed
fifty and odd years ago. the writer
sets within these realistic record OF
the common joys and sorrows that al
bless and afflict the small ard
isolate community. The common round
of local affairs gains focus here IN
the food of misfortune that overtakes
the family of sturdy and once pros
Derous old John Van Dyck. a misfor-
tune that reaches its height in the
birth of a fatherless boy to pretty
Sarah Van Dyck. Here is mystery
past finding out, for never breath OF
suspicion has turned toward sweet ana
,rettv Sarah Van Dyck. And the girl
refuses any information,
save that this is her boy. The van
DyckS die out or move out or the ola
,Ia,a 90 by twenty and one.
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(the New York avenue entrancc) De-
cember 90 and "a. Entry blanks and
further information may be obtained
from the secretary. Miss Bertha E. Per-
RE, sos 18th street northwest.
THERE are comparatively few paint
ers who give their entire time to
their art who accomplish as much as
William II. Holmes, who is scientist as
well as artist and has charge of one of
the most important branches of the
scientific work done by the govern
ment-the division of anthropology in
the National Museum-as well as being
curator of the National Gallery of Art.
Mr.. Holmes began his study of art
years ago. when he first came to Wash
ington, and has carried it on in con-
nection with his scientific work ever
since To his painting he has given
his Sundays and holidays and his long
summer afternoons. He is practically
self taught, yet among water colorists
he ranks with the best Indeed, there
are few as skillful technicians as he.
Recently Mr.. Holmes has been paint
ing in oil colors and with much success.
He began his experiments in this me-
dunn more than year ago and has car
ried them on with energy and persist
ency. The result is series of canvases
painted in a manner quite his own.
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ORGANIZATION of American Com
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TRUE STORIES OF GREAT AMEHi-
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BY Francis Rolt-Wheeler. author Of
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THE CHILD. And Other Verses. Ey
Mary Louisa Anderson. New York:
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THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO BE IN
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BILL TO STEVE.
BY RING W. LARDNER.

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Then one day Sarah Van Dyck's boy,
young man now, comes back to the
old home. 1t is here that the long
lane of mystery turns into the high
way of open avowal. For, all over
again. from top to toe. in look and
manner and spirit, the boy is Norman
Lang, the good young schoolmaster of
that earlier today, now the son-in-iaW
OF rich and overriding WilhelmuS Cor
lear. In this dramatization of the ever
lasting fact that the mills of the gods
are still in prime working order and
that their grindings are quite up to the
old standard, Marion Harland has writ
ten touchingly human story, as she
has portrayed, also, in believable and
entertaining fashion a sum of local
events that give out the savors of old
New Netherland custom and outlook.
BELTANE THE SMITH. BY Jeffery
Farnol, author of THE Broad High
way etc. Illustrated by Arthur e.
Becher. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co.
Jeffery Farnol has outdone even him
self in this beauteous romance of the
greenwood. Farnol is in love with
out of doors. He is in love with youth
and beauty. with the kind of romance
that is said to have lived in the days
of chivalry, with the order of adven-
turs that waits on manly courage along
the ways of some high quest. And
matching these various loves of his is
the gift of words, words glowing and
poetic that weave themselves into rich
patterns of daring deeds set upon a
background of bewitching greenery.
In .'Reltane the Smith" an illimitable
greenwood is the setting. Here. on the
one hand. is many a feudal lord with
his men, all bent to deeds of cruel OPP
preston. On the other is Beltane with
his outlaws of the wood turned to faats
of succor and relief. very beautiful
love motive gives rise to the greatest
of the ardors of this tale, to the might
lest of it's achievements. In a splendor
of color and combat the tale sweeps
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

ABE MARTINS SAYINGS AND
SKETCHES. BY Kin Hubbard. In
dianapolis: Abe Martin Publishing
Company
THE NARROWING OF PEGGY. BY
Agnes McClelland Daulton. author
of THE Capers of Benny and Bar
bic" etc. illustrated by w. Louder
back. New York: D. Appleton q
Co.
THE sTIRRUP LATCH. BY Sidney
Mccall, author of Truth Dexter
etc. With frontispiece by William
Van Dresser. Boston: Little. Brown
& Co.
SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS. BY
Irwin S. Cobb. author of Back
Home" etc. Illustrations by Tony
Sarg. New York: George H. Doran
Company.
JOYFUL STAR. Indian Stories for
Camp Fire Girls. By Emelyn New
comb Partridge, author of STORY
Telling in School and Home. etc.
Illustrated. New York: Sturgis u
Walton Company.
DANNY THE FRESHMAN. By Walter
Camp, author of Danny Fists" etc.
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largely with the new so-called mod
ern movement" in art. He described
first the cave dwelier amid his primi-
tive surroundings, cutting upon the
wall images of men and beasts which
to us today represent the first glim-
mers Of art. He told then how art has
come down through the ages. evolving
slowly yet certainly step by step, UNI
I'll today we had as our heritage the
glorious traditions made by the mas
tiers of all time. And then he pictured
the artist of today casting all this
aside and endeavoring to go back to
the beginnings and initiate the work
Of primitive man. He pictured the
cave dweller's surprise and made him
say: Il did well as ] knew how, but
had ! had your knowledge ] should
surely have done much better Yes, l
was sincere, but you are merely an
imitator.
And certainly this is very true. for,
though much is said in both defense
and praise of the extraordinary efforts
of the so-called modernists, none can
believe that progress can be made by
going backward.
This was a very timely warning, for
though the movement will not live il is
extremely insidious and it's doctrines
most harmful when introduced into
~. art school. What we need today.
NJ Brooke said. was more reverence
both for beauty and for art--for that
beauty which is found in nature and
sor the art of the past as well as the
present.
He admitted that truths might be
discovered by the explorers upon un-
charted seas and that so some good
might come, but he deprecated the loss
of tradition.
IL is said that in France since the
war began the modernist art mas dis
apneared France is no longer in need
II sensation, and, as of old, has turned
rom ugIiness to beauty for inspiration
and even consolation.
< =
tn HE, annual exhibition of the Wash
! ington Water Color Club, of which
r.. Holmes is president. will open in
le new gallery of the Corcoran CAL
'-% Of Art December 80 and will con-
aue until January 20. Exhibits will
C received at the Corcoran Gallery
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wei boxed, by express. whence
none ever knew. Did the borrower in
this instance tire of the piece Or sud-
wise. perhaps. after a while. the crafts
mems silver will come back. 1t is to
be hoped SO, for these craftsmen are
hard workers and none too well paid.
1t means real loss to them.
THE portrait of President Wilson
painted by S. Seymour Thomas has
been engraved on wood by Timothy
Cole, the eminent American wood en-
graver. The portrait hangs in the
White House, and it was here that Mr..
Coles engraving was made, for he in
variably works directly from the orig
ina1.
An EXHIBITION of paintings and
fA drawings by William II. Holmes will
open in the Moore galleries, 18th street,
Monday, December 6. and continue for a
fortnight. Included in this exhibition
will be a collection Of small sketches
made from time to time in many lands.
x *
A UNIQUE exhibition is being held
~ in New York at this time-an ex-
hibition of art associated with the
child. There are not only all kinds of
toys but many articles of utility, fur
niture, china, books. clothing. decora-
lions. playhouses-even a model gar
den, with sculpture by Janet Scudder
LEILA MECHLIN.
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play-making soliloquies shy so far
away from the common. Stiff ointed,
sharp-elbowed bodies of writing known
as essays that they deserve some new
name to indicate their fresh vitality
and sturdy hold on common things.
their easy grace of approach and ap-
peal" Now this is just about what
one would like to say concerning
More Jonathan Papers" To this
opinion one must, in justice add, how
ever that the second volume does
show a years growth in friendship for
the spacious ways of living set up so
happily in the earlier book Here in
the midst of her garden that is doing
its level best at growing and produc-
ing flowers here and vegetables over
there. with the spasmodically docile
Griselda in the stable, and broods of
yellow fluff in the coops alongside.
with tribes of nomadic turkeys to trail
and herd home Of rainy nights, with
the patient and compliant Jonathan to
show what queer things men will
do" and incidentally to bring out some
of the odd points of the other side of
the house-with all these. this writer
makes us a book Of refreshing quail
ity.
THE NEUTRALITY OF BELGIUM. By
Alexander Fuehr. New York: Funk
& Wagnalls Company.
This is study of the case of Belgian
neutrality from the viewpoint of a
German. Taking up the question under
the double heading of political history
and international law, the writer makes
three claims. citing treaties, official
documents, legal authorities, press ar
ticles and affidavits in their support
The first of these claims is that Bel
GUM was not neutral territory when
the German army invaded it," The sec
ond one is that, according to the law
of nations, the treaty guaranteeing
Belgium's neutrality has been void for
many years and has been considered so
by Great Britain, prior to the war.
The third claim is that, even il the
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forward. carrying the reader on in a
whiri of excitement And if this reader
has not utterly forgotten the time when
he. too. was serf to. some feudal lord
he will find himself irresistibly joining
in the fealty cry of Beltane's men
Arise! -Pentavalon"'-and as
with them he will rush to the next
hazard and the next victory
HONESTY: \ Study Of the Causes and
Treatment of Dishonesty Among
Children. By William Healy. In
dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Com
pany.
This study is in addition to the
"Childhood and Youth Series" edited by
NJ. V. O'Shea. 1t is an expert investiga-
ton of that particular phase of dishon-
esty among children that expresses it
self in stealing. DR.. Healy, director of
the. Juvenile Psychopathic Institute,
and adviser to the Juvenile court of
Chicago, addresses this discussion to
parents and teachers on the assump-
ton that honesty in its aspect of re-
spect for the property of others is
product of careful training. The aim
of the book is to show that. by an adj
iustment of conditions to the life of
the child. stealing may on the one hand
be cured. as it may on the other hand
be prevented. This is concrete study
involving innumerable cases that have
come under the observation of this in
vestigator and have become subse-
ouently a part of the fiber of his con-
clusions The discussion is non-tech-
nical in form. as it is pointed and
practical in its suggestions and recon-
mendations.
MORE JONATHAN PAPERS. By
Elizabeth Woodbridge. author of
1.-The Jonathan Papers" Boston:
Houghton Miff1in Company.
The book cover of this volume re-
minds us that the Washington Star
said in review of THE Jonathan
Papers" that these clever fun-loving,
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give warmth of lovable personality to
the character of woman who did 50
much and said so little as to seem
asters with which Clara Barton's name
is forever associated are reviewed.
each in its reference to her work as
nurse or Red Cross head, the whole
making over four hundred pages Oh
keen interest, either for the history
lover or his less studious neighbor. the
general reader.