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even when the net earnings of the
railroad are not sufficient.
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1t has been computed that to satisfy
the present and immediate prospective
demands in Russia there is call for
the construction of one hundred thou
sand miles of railroad. and it is into
this great undertaking it is expected
that much foreign capital will be in
vested
1t is considered not unlikely that
before many years have passed there
may be a through Russo American ex-
grad via Eering strait. Some persons
believe that this train will be running
before that express from New York to
cape Horn gets under way. Only d
strip of water thirty-five miles
separates the continents of America
and Asia. and a railroad link and a
railway ferry will complete the
through rail route from New York to
the capital of the Russias
In the iron and steel industries Rus
STA. though she has made great strides
rags behind even her present neces-
sites. and observers of the Russians
predict that after the war there is to
De wonderful economic and in
shown by statistics that in 1910 the
production of pig iron was as follows:
RUSSIA, 100000 tons; Great Britain
io'5o0.ooO tons. and the United States,
100000 tons. This means per capita
production as follows: Russia, As
pounds; Great Britain. 500 pounds, and
the United States, $50 pounds. The
need OF iron and steel increases very
rapidiy' and these figures show that
thelr production should and must be
i increased al
view
Russia is one of the undeveloped
lands of the world. Count Shulenburg
mas mas SAID that his impression. after
travelling in the United States. is that
great many Americans think of Rus
sla as an enormous. limitless field. Gov
cred with eternal snow and ice de-
serted. almost uninha bited. where Sc
we're winter reigns all the time and
where people can live only when dress
ed in heavy overcoats made of bear
fur
Part of Russia's territory overlaps the
-afctlc circle and there the winters are
coid. put summer also comes once a
year Then the snow disappears. and
IL becomes possible to raise certain
vegetables and grains
NOT All OF Russia is in the far mort h.
me Cflmea has mild. wonderfully
pleasant climate. where snow is almost
unknown and in which grapes and
other warm-climate vegetation thrive
The city or Tlf1is. in the Caucasus, lies
almost on the same latitude with New
York. and Russian midasiatic provinces
lie as far south as the state of Virginia
In the central and southern parts of
Siberia the climate is said to be ex-
dry summers, and where agriculture is
successfully carried on. Now and then
one hears of a Siberian boom and it
may be that in the years to come that
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ROLAND. Translated by c. K. og-
den, NJ. A. Chicago: The Open |
Court Publishing COMPANY


Some Of the letters and essays that
have been written by the author Of
Jean Christophe" during the period of
the present war are gathered up in
this little volume. Though including
many aspects of the conflict. though
written from many points of view,
these essays and letters come together
in unity of treatment that Is ex-
pressed exactly by the title OF this
book. title that serves. also, as the
theme of one of the essays published
here. Whether NJ. ROLAND Is writing
to literary friend-German or other
sderation some phase of the war. or
calculating one or another of its ef-
fectS, whether he is discussing the
philosophy of war or reviewing It's his
tory. he. in every case. takes a stand
sufficiently above his theme to secure
for it the largest truth of relationship
and significance. Yet these essays do
not sum to merely intellectual con-
sideration of the present of Europe in
general, and of France in particular.
The book is certainly highly reasoned
and seasoned outlook upon the pres
ent situation. But it is more than that.
1t is a passionately patriotic express
sion for country. and for the best in
man art that his own country. and
every other country. must stand val
iantly for in this stupendous turmoil Of
the world.
THE WAY OF THE CROSS. By V
Doroshevitch. Introduction by
stephen Graham. New York: G.
L. Putnam's Sons.
Some time in October. OF last year
Russian newspaper printed story of
the flight into Russia of thousands of
Russians and Poles-families and towns
and the whole countryside itself press
ing forward to escape the advance of
the German army. When news of this
movement reached Moscow the writer.
Doroshevitch. left that city and hurried
forward to meet the refugees. Reach
ing the frst-comers. he passed them
and pressed on through the throng.
coming out, finally. at the rear of the
vast body of fugitives. The Way of
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lures and grows more and more per
vasive. All of MIR. Weir's works are reti
cent. hut this is unusually SO, He is one
who never overstates his proposition.
but back Of everything he does one feels
complete competence and entire sincerity.
which is very delightful and reassuring.
The landscape, too, is characteristic and
The Tarbell picture is the interior Girl
Studying, recently shown in Mr.. Tar
bells exhibition here in the Corcoran Gal
ery. from which it was purchased. 1t
is one of this we'll known painters most
recent works.
Earl Stetson Crawford is the chairman
OF the exhibition committee of the Ma
tional Association Of Portrait Painters.
and also active member of the Society
of Illustrators of New York. He is an
excellent craftsman and competent
painter: what is more. his works always
painting which Mr.. Wheeler is loaning
Detroit and Toledo is a representative ex-
ample-a portrait study of young
woman in red cloak or gown-coorful.
good in tone and very decorative.
1t is pleasant to know that the mu-
seums i'll other cities are coming to our
Washington collectors for loans.
MT ISIS BERTHA Z. PERRIE is just
9V1 finishing a miniature of young
woman which is very interesting and
possibly one of the strongest she has
painted. The face is seen almost in
profile, the head is slightly bent for
ward and to the side, the throat is
bare. for the sitter wears shirt waist
of salmon pink silk. Her hands are in
her lap and are beautifully painted
The background is dark, but atmos-
pheric. rich and colorful. 1t is Wig
orous piece of work. very personal and
extremely well rendered. For some
years Miss Perrie has been a welcome
contributor to the annual exhibitions of
the New York and Philadelphia Nina
ture Painters Societies
nsOR three days last week an exhibit
ton of book binding and illumina-
ton was held in Miss Marion Lanes
studio a 1413 6 street. In one room
We're shown examples of Miss Lanes
own beautiful work. books most ey-
quisitely bound with the beauty both of
artistic design and accomplished crafts
nlanshlp which is associated with work
of the golden era of artistic produce
ton in Italy. SO few of the books of
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today seem worthy or.such fine clothes.
so few are produced with the eXpecta-
ton of being long treasured. that the
art of binding, as Miss Lane binds
might well have become lost art but
for q few real artists like Miss Lane
who have kept it alive.
1t was interesting to find. moreover.
that she has apparently quite a number
OF worthy and capable followers, for
the work of her pupils set forth in an
adjoining room was likewise of an ex-
cept1onally fine character. So much of
the sO-ca11ed crafts work has been so
poorly done that one is suspicious. as
one should not be. of hand work. fear
ing to find it imperfect and clumsy.
But this was not so. the youngest of
the binders in term of apprenticeship
having handled her materials with real
Skill. This is as it should always be
Furthermore. the designs were we'll
chosen and suitable, the tooling and
gliding very good. Perhaps if more
books were so bound they would seem
more worth treasuring.
THE Washington Society of the
Fine Arts last lecture of the pres
ent season was given last Wednesday
evening in the auditorium of the Ma
tional Museum and was on Hedges and
Other Features of Landscape Garden
ing. The lecturer was Mrs. William
A. Hutcheson of New York, an accom-
plished landscape gardener
That the same principles which gov
ern the production of works of art in
other fields apply in landscape gar
dening soon became evident and the
close INTERPOLATION of the arts was
again emphasized. The value of beauty
in landscape setting was also we'll
brought out and the need of improve
ment in this direction by those who are
improving" the majority of our towns
and cities was plainly shown
Mrs. Hutcheson illustrated her talk
with over 100 beautiful stereopticon
slides. showing the use of hedges and
arbors in Europe and in this country.
After all. the only difference between
the art of the painter and that of the
landscape gardener is that one uses
pigments and the other things to make
his picture. Perhaps the task of the
latter is the more difficult. as he or she
must create the picture. visnalizing it
FIRST in the imagination. This power
10 create beauty where none actually
exists is. it would seem, almost a magic
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RUSSIA LOOKING TO OUTSIDE,
CAPITAL FOR DEVELOPMENT

~ L-SSIA which is. according to the
TX western European standard of
ON development, relatively underel-
rich promise for American investment.
This should not be taken to mean that
it is land TO which the ordinary
American should go to make money.
but as land for the investment of
American capital Whether much
American capital will flow to Russia Is
a problem and one which only large
American fnanciers have the right to
deal with. No slittering. get-rich-
quick prospects are held out
In the matter of railroad develop
ment it was recently pointed out by
Count S. !. Shulenburg, in an address
before the alumni Of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. that there are
in the great domain of Russia now
$4,000 miles of railroad In the matter
of railroad mileage Russia occupies the
first place in Europe and the second
position In the world. the railroad mile
age of Russia being exceeded only by
the United States, which has a mileage
of go, 900. 1t has been pointed out that
no other country in the world has such
Petrograd and Vladivostok, which ex-
tends for more than $500 miles and
over which passenger may traVei
without changing cars.
But although the railroad mileage OF
Russia is the greatest in Europe. 1t is
small when compared with the great
extent of the country. In European
Russia there are sixteen miles OF rail-
road per thousand square miles OF ter
ritory, and in Asiatic Russia there are
only two miles of railroad per each
thousand square miles Of land. In the
United States there are stxty-five miles
of rail line to every thousand square
miles of territory; in France, 142 miles;
Germany. l1S miles, and Great Britain,
lSl miles.
Per hundred thousand Inhabitants
the mileage of the countries is as fol-
lows: In European Russia. Is miles;
Asiatic Russia, 80; the United States.
259; France. so: Great Britain, SO, and
Germany, 5s. These figures show that
the Russian railroad system must be
increased about three times This
means that about 10000 miles of rail-
road lines must be constructed in the
very near future. The operation of the
Russian railway system at present
gives good financial returns, the net
earnings being, on the average, per
cent on the capital invested.
The demand for railroad expansion
in Russia is said to be shown by the
fac, that during the three years be-
fore the war there was steady an
nual increase in tonnage of 10 per cent
and the prophecy is made that after
the war the annual rate of tonnage in
crease will be greater than before.
Two thirds of the Russian railroads
are owned and operated by the govern
ment. and one-third is owned and
operated by private companies. The
private railroad companies are under
government guarantee. This means
that the government guarantees the
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Showing Her Spirit.

NAMES J. HILL, the railroad king,
~ whom King Albert has asked to re-
organize Belgium. said in Y. NJ e. A.
address in Chicago:
Success is matter of spirit. the
right spirit If we have the right
spirit. We can't help showing il. and if
we have the wrong spirit. we can't help
showing it, either-like the maid, you
know.
A lady engaged a maid. This lady
had a few current scandals in the FAM
lily. and she wanted them kept dark.
So. examining the maid. she said:
And. of course, l can expect you to
be reticentT
",Oh, yes ma am said the maid. Yes.
indeed. ma am And she added eagerly,
What is there to be reticent abOut""
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS RE-
GENTLY ADDED.

| The following list. arranged by sub
| jects. includes some of the latest ad-
ditions to the Public Library
The lists which appear in this column
| each Sunday are reprinted. at the end
of the month. in the library's monthly
bulletin. Copies of this may be OBJ
tanned free at the library or will be
sent by mail for Is cents year
Economic and Social Questions.
Science. National Industries and the Federal
Government. HEs3-A ms1u.
CONWAY. Sir w. NJ. The Crowd in Peace AMI
,;ohinea,i. ]. A.. Com,e Dc. The Inequality
Of Human Races. HACI:53.E.
Martens. a. ii: & Co. Canada as /. Field ~
Investment and Entcrprise Hcs2 M3ss.
rrnman; J; s Poverty The Challenge 10 m"
Scigman, Z. II; \: rrincrles of Economics.
Trssk. h J. W. Vital sa s Ssfst'' 1911 HISS
T69!v
The Negro.
ment in virginia. lss,.G7. 1910 HIN Mrs5n
Miller. Kelly. The Primary Needs of the
Panama Canal.
Miller H. g.. and rrcehoT. j. {. The Panama
caual Tolls Controversy. 1914. HJs N.t3p
Si.'"rs. W L.. aud Stevens. j. +. Tl- Con
sirm"ton OF the Panama Canal. HJC sis.
Public Utilities.
Holmes. = l.. GoerIatan % &aiiraad. ana
FGhIi'' l1ili,i"> IN Wisconsin HlK H735r.
Nearing, SOFT Anthracite. HIM MI.
Social Work.
Coleman 6. w. Cd. Democracy IN m"
Making. !-Ci,2i
i~aly wiiIiam. nonssry; III H3''g;
Wrecks lal. I;slIN R7I7
~, th"inI'S'n T. y Earnest WORK foe Earnest
Wald l.. H. rh~ House Oh Henry street.
iAS-W WISH.
latIon. iCI wc7;
Insurance and Savings
Hne , s., ) $ LIZ lnsalaneS, II,is7.L
MacGrrgor. 7. u. The Book of Thrift III
Midget Il d. III" Total Disability Provision
Mssir ''''' '''' ILL.,
Education.
Adams. John. Making The Most of on.'.
p AIRES s.h L. r. ,Sp MAY Health Work in the
r, ranny' , I, s College Sons and c0llrs.
Charters W. w. Methods of Teaching. Re
vised and Enlarged 1872. Ip-C3s7ma
Converse. Florence. The Story OF Wellesley.
INS3WE-C76.
Cubberley L. r., and Elliott, L. G. State and
County School Administration. ". IKs}
CS9ss
Forbusl W. Il. Child Study and Child Train
ing. IkIF743.
Gauss. 4. r. Through College on Nothing
Year. IXs3-Go37t
Hegand. Martin. The Danish Peoples High
School It-50 H364.
Hoke. X. J. Placement Of Children in tho
Elementary Grades Hosp.
jenkins Frances. Reading in the Primary
Grades. IP-J41Sr.
Kindergarten Training Schools. rs K57s.
MrMurry. e. 4: Conflicting Principles in
Monehan. A. {. Free Textbooks and State
Uniformity. IkPT-MT43.
Palmer, L. A. Adjustment Between Kinder
garreu and First Grade IkH-Pls3
Thorndike, +. l.. Education 1912. liz 1899.
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gift. But such, indeed is all creative
ability-and of unmeasured worth.
:.
a T the Moore gallery four paintings
by Miss Marion Howard are now
on exhibition. one is a picture Of Il
Boston street seen from one of the high
buildings. one is a picture of trees on
the edge of a salt meadow, two are
small pictures painted abroad. typical
windmill and some colorful old roofs.
All are very creditable and attractive
Miss Howard is Offering them for sale
for the profit of French and Belgian
soldiers.
A "EEEDLE AND BOBBIN CLUB"
has been formed in New York
which is distinctly a unique organization
and has members in this and other cities
The objects of this club are to encour-
age and maintain interest in handmade
fabrics: to promote these industries in
the United States and to afford oppor-
tunlties to meet and discuss lace and al
lied subjects. The members are to be
and to visit private collections or see pic
lures of distant collections. Miss Ger
trude w. Whiting is the president and
Miss Frances Norris of the Metropolitan
Museum corresponding secretary.
G JEROME tHL. formerly a resi-
No dent of this city and well known
as an artist. died at his home in Gin
cinnau last week. Mr.. Uhl was seventy
four years of age.
IT HE Art and Archaeology League held
its fourth studio meeting in the
studio of George Julian Zonay yesterday
afternoon. Mr.. Zolnay upon request,
spoke briefly on the subject of his scuIp-
lures for the new Central High School,
y
4 Asst Monday in the Toledo Art Mu-
u scum William Bruce Leffingwell of
this city gave a lecture on the Yellow
stone National Park. illustrated by mo-
ton pictures and stereopticon slides
LEILA MECHLIE.
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NonSenSicaI.
a NAVAL officer said in naval argu.

a NAVAL officer said in naval argu-
ment at a Washington reception:
Some of these naval critics show
such appalling ignorance of the sim
pest sea .terms-their criticisms be-
come III consequence such arrant non
sense-reaily. it reminds me of the re-
cipe for shirred eggs
Inc humorous recipe for shirred
eggs runs:
Shirred eggs: Take six eggs, peel
careluilN. remove the yolks and haste
the whites with No 40 cotton. Cut
yolks into quarter sections and sew
them to the white at regular intervals.
fastening with knots of orange silk
Gather Pp edge with pink Irvine and
gas jet" p
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Only on the Surface.

~ HARTMAN BURNETT of the COM
" mittee on immigration was talking
Indignantly about Japanese picture
brides, 1,S00 of whom entered America
qast year.
These proxy or picture weddings"
said Chairman Burnett. Took very
romantic on their face, but at bottom
they are sordid enough
They remind me a little OF the
young fellow on the pier who stood
on an ash barrel waving his handk err
chief frantically at a departing ship
come on. Let's go to lunch
friend said. looking, up at the chap
on the barrel. You've waved enough
Come on"
No. | can't painted the waver, and
he Mapped his handkerchief harder than
before.
Cant? Why not?
She's got field glass"
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HoSarth. with his satirical paintings.
and later still the great Cruikshank
In thistcountry the pioneer cartoonlst
was Thomas Mast, who was born in
Bavaria in 1870. but was brought to the
United States when he was six wears
old. He began his career as an illus
traitor for Frank Leslies and Har-
per's Weekly. and it was for the
latter publica ton that many of his
most brilliant political cartoons were
made. AS political cartoonist he is
said to have eNerted wide influence.
his work having ingenious distortion
and subtlety that made him Il dreaded
opponent. His most trenchant cam
paign was directed against Tammany.
Clifford X. Bergman was born in
Kentucky. and lived in the country
until he was about seventeen years old.
He was always interested in illustra-
tons. and especially delighted in the
pictures in Puck and Judge. For
time when he first came to Washington
he attended the night class at the
Corcoran School when Mr.. Andrews
was the director. but the artificial light
was trying to his eyes and he gave it
up. He is, therefore, almost altogether
self taught. But this does not mean
that he is unframed In fact, it may
harder. At any rate he has studied
and ne has that infinite capacity for
taking pains which is proverbially
ascribed to genius. For what seems
almost an indefinite period of years as
time is now reckoned. Mr. Bergman
has made a cartoon every day without
exception. That all have not been
equally successful goes without say
ing, but that high average has been
maintained the collection now on view
in the Corcoran Gallery of Art bears
witness.
There are about two hundred car
toons in this collection. something more
than half years work, reckoning one
day. and they have been selected
from those published during recent
years. There is no need of a catalogue
each explains itself. and as a whole the
collection sets forth in very graphic
form an engaging history of national
political events in our own time and
city. 1t is a unique and very enga ging
exhibition. and il will be on view until
the 4th of May. Tuesdays. Thursdays
Saturdays and Sunday afternoons the
Corcoran Gallery is freely open to the
public On other days small admis-
sion fee is charged.
A PORTRAIT of Lincoln painted by
~ George H. Story of New York has
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Gallery by Mrs. L. II. Hartman. Mr..
Story was in Washington from 1899 to
the early part of the sixties. occupy
ing as studio room in building on
Pennsylvania avenue and 9TH street
which he rented from Brady. the
famous civil war photographed, In 1851
he received commission to paint a
portrait of the President. but declined
unless he could have sittings.
Through the Presidents secretary,
Mr. Nicolay. it was arranged that on
three successive days he was permitted
to enter the private office and watch
the President at work. making pencil
sketches and mental notes. 1t is from
painted more than fifty years later.
This portrait which is temporarily
hung i'll the room on the main floor of
the museum in which the model of the
Lincoln Memorial is exhibited. shows
the head and shoulders of Lincoln. He
is represented without a beard. The
color is strong and clear. 1t is a like
ness-the Lincoln head which has be-
come familiar through repetition: that
plain. rugged homely face which was
significant of character that to many
it will always seem beautiful. The
likeness is here. but not the spirit: it
is the mask. but not the man. And
how could it be otherwise painted from
memory and a few pencil notes half
The wonder is that it is good as it
is and that it goes so far toward carry
ing conviction. In the background there
is a suggestion of this city and of
the Capitol with it's bubblelike dome
at the far end of Pennsylvania avenue
No doubt this lends historic interest,
but it rather initiates against the ar
tistic worth of the picture, leading the
attention away from the subject.
ITO al exhibition of cotemporary
American paintings to be held in the
Art Museum in Detroit in May, and later
in the Art Museum in Toledo. c. v
Wheeler of this city has lent four very
notable paintings. two by j. Alden Weir.
president of the National Academy of De
sign, one d figure and the other a land
scape: one b. Edmund G. Tarbell. and
the fourth. figure painting. by Earl
Stetson Crawford of New York.
The figure painting by Weir is an ex-
ceptionally fine example. 1T represents a
Young girl of interesting expression but
rather plain type in simple white gown
against d gray background At a glance
one might pass ii by, but once seen ii has
an inherent subtle loneliness which al