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of.a different kind did not avail him
against the Roman,
america. he continued, was steadily
evolving IA new national type, which
Could add to the sum OF world achieve
ment only by developing .ts own forms
OF national expression.
we need have scant patience with
artincial development In %nationalism or
shytning else he said. II care little
Ior the cubist school In patriotism tlong
eppiause1 any more than I care for 1t in
ART or IN poetry. The effort to be orig
maj by being fantastic Ia always cheap.
second rate work In second rate work
even II II Is done badly"
This DEPRESSION made the roomful of
writer's and artists and their friends
chuckle and clap their hands.
joel Barlow and III. Epic.
Good joel Barlow ouni we had a
new nation and no epic. He figured to
himself that Homer had s~elf-consciously
written the epic of Greece and he knew
ABOUT Milton. SO he sat down and wrote
an epic OF America couched In the same
spirit that made us put Washington,
naked to the waist and with a toga
around him. In front OF the Capitol. II
vas the same spirit, II our guest will
pardon me, which made some OF the
sculptors put Louis XIV. In a Roman
corselet. Poor Joel Barlow wrote his
Columbiad. I have one OF the COMES OF
the original edition. and ! wouldn't have
1t out OF my library for any considera-
ton-unless i were required to read IT,"
The Colonel said that Americans Of
great wealth had done good by bring
ing masterpieces Of art to this country.
but that all these men together had not
added to the sum Of productive civillza-
lion here as much as that strange,
imaginative genius Marcus Simons. who
was utterly neglected In life, isn't known
III death. but will ~assuredly be known to
the generations that come after us as.
perhaps. the greatest imaginative
colorist since Turner
"The easiest Of all things Is to copy"
Mr.. Roosevelt said later. Ordinary
writer's do not write about what they
themselves see. for they see very little.
They merely repeat what has already
been written In books about what some
body else has seen. You remember
| oliver Wendell Holiness statement that
II took over q century to Danish the
lark from American literature. No
American has ever heard the skylark,
because he isn't here to be heard. But
the average American had read Hogg or
Shelley or Shakespeare. and so when he
thought of going out in the early morn
Ing In the country he thought he ought
to feel inspired by the skylark. So he
wrote accordingly"
studying Foreign Architecture.
1t was necessary TO study foreign
architecture, he explained, but a
infinitely accurate reproduction OF a
beautiful and very expensive French
chateau propped down at the foot of
some~unkempt mountain range. or elbow
ing another imitation shadow OF a
totally different nationality and type. In
some summer capital OF the wealthy.
does not represent any advance In our
taste or culture or art or living.
(Applause.1 1t represents nothing but a
personal inability to make wise use OF
acquired or inherited riches. tApplause.
Similarly" he added. ut means very
little to have an Egyptian obelisk In
Central Park. But 1t means a great
deal to have St. Gaudens's Farragut and
Sherman in New York. 81. 0audenss
Lincoln in Chicago AID 9
KIT Carson in Denver
Winston Churchill. delayed by a New
, England snowstorm, arrived too late Il
read his paper on The Religious Theory
of Democracy" at the meeting. but he
read II at the luncheon. which divided
the morning session from a concert in
the afternoon. A. this concert the
Kneisel Quartet played compositions by
George w. Chadwick. Arthur Foote and
Henry X. Hadley. all members OF the
institute
The final session OF the joint meet
Ing Of ne academy and the institute
will be held at the Ritz-Carlton at 1880
o'clock this n'crning, Yesterday Henry
c. Fr!ck gave a reception to the insti.
tute In his galleries at l East Seven
tieth street. The Hispanic Society OF
America will receive the members OF
both bodies this afternoon at Doth street
and Broadway, and the institute will bt
entertained at a reception given by DR.
and Mrs. Walter Damrosch at l54 Eas'
Seventeen street tonight.
Gold Medal for John Burroughs.
John Burroughs. naturalist. wa
ava: ded the gold medal of the Nationa
Ins dilute of Arts and Letters at its an
nual meeting and dinner last night II
the University Club. Augustus Thomas
playwright, was elected president. Tn
following vice-presidents were chosen:
Hobart c. Chatfeld-Taylor. Pau
Dougherty. Ripley Hitchcock. Hermoi
A. MacNeil. John 6. Van Dyke ant
Arthur whiting. Ashley II. T%horndik'
treasurer.
Twelve vacancies In the membership
Of $50 were filed last night. Thos
elected were Edward Burlingame Hill
, professor Of music in Harvard Cnivers
ity; Frederick Clay Bartlett. mura
painter; Howard Russell Butler. painte
Of sea pictures and portraits Alexande
Sterling Calder, a sculptor whose wor
; was seen'at the Panama-Paciic Exposi
ton Cyrus l.. Dallen. Massachusett
; sculptor Charles II. Niehaus, sculptor
, John Russell Pope. architect PRO-