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and work of women in this movement,
of the resolutions of various con-
crosses. and the influence of certain in
dividuals, also. in this cause. Among
the last are Charles W. Eliot, William
Jennings Bryan. and others, both in
America and Europe. In appendix he
here tells the story of THE Peace Pill
grimage" organized and conducted by
Henry Ford. only few months ago, a
pilgrimage that to the reader, If not
to DIR. Jordan, suggests in it's naive
confidence and youthful faith the chill
dren's crusade of the thirteenth CEN
tury. The theme, the comprehensive
treatment, the clear analysis, the COM
pact organization of this book, and,
besides. the addition of DR.. Jordan's
own views on the subject with which
it deals. make this a study of excep-
tional Importance and significance
THE UNPRETENDERS. BY Anne
Warwick, author of THE Chalk
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gether with recollections of fellow
workers, especially his friend and
teacher. Howard Pyle, who more than
all others helped to found a national
school of illustration in America.
X
A exhibition of old japanese colored
prints opened on the Sth and will
continue until the 18th in the Yama-
naka Galleries. on Connecticut avenue.
The exhibition comprises more than
100 prints by Hokusai and quite num-
ber by Utamaro, Yeishi, Toyokuni,
Toyohiro and other Ukiyo-e artists.
All of the prints shown are interest
ing and in extraordinarily good condf-
ton. but the Hokusai collection is espe-
cially notable. These embrace several
complete sets, and are SO clean and so
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The Ingenious Painter.

ONE day George Jones' r. A. while
W discussing the merits of. Turner's
Bay of Baiae" with traveller who had
recently seen the bay, was surprised
to learn that at least half the scene
was pure invention. Upon this Jones
playfully wrote on the frame of the
picture, "splendide mendax." When the
inscription caught Turner'S eye he
merely laughed. He never removed it.
It appears that Turner not only took
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little discolored by age that one cannot
out marvel how for all these years they
can have been kept. The fact is that
so accustomed are We to the discolora-
prints 8 these in all their freshness is
almost shock, and we feel that time
has In some way been delightfully."- de-
frauded.
Hokusai was not only a real, but a
great artist. He had the spirit of per-
ennial youth: he loved nature. he loved
his art, and he deserves the utmost ven-
Grafton. But without this knowledge
and reason none could see his picture
prints without realizing his genius and
| appreciating the fact that here was
the hand of the master. and from
| study Of his work much is to be
learned.
Hokusai discovered how to reduce an
equation in art to it's lowest terms and
yet not reduce it's value. He was es.
sentially what we call today modern,
! and believe to be peculiar to our own
time. He was keenly alive, he had
comprehending vision and the gift OF
| grasping the essential facts. His pic
lures are much simpler than the paint
ings which served as his tradition. =.
his language was very simple. but it
was adequate. He tells his story. and
he tells it well. but he tells it as an
artist, and he never fails to lay en-
phasis upon that which is beautiful IN
| nature. His was truly democratic
| art. but for this reason he held the
more firmly to that which was fine.
Rarely. if ever. does he deteriorate into
the mere storyteller. Witness. for ex.
ample. his waterfalls. his views OF
Mount Fuji or even his bridge series.
They have in them the elements of
greatness. the significance of the thing
itself. Then there is an interesting
series illustrating famous poems. and
beautifully and decoratively grouped
and pictured. Fortunately. this great
man had a long life, and did not sit
around waiting for inspiration. but
| was continually working in the hope
all the time that each new print would
| be better than the last. if not quite SO
| good as the one to follow it. 1t is not
! often that one has the privilege of see
Hokusais work as is shown in this ex-
| hibition.
! AN exhibition of works by French
~ post impressionists opened last
week and to be held for six weeks in
the Washington Square Gallery, 1421 F
street. has been quite widely an
! inounced. The Washington Square Cal
Ilery is a room on the third floor of a
business building and it contains per-
haps as many as twenty examples of
| the work of such men as Matisse
(probably reproductions of drawings),
Picasso. Harbin, Metzinger. Derain.
Baylinson, Warwick and one or two
Others. These works are the EXTREMIST
of their kind-the kind grown familiar
through the celebrity of the Nude De-
| scending the Stairs or of that worse
kind, msshapened humanity, deform-
| ity. ugliness. Interest in this sort of
| thing is wearing out abroad; the war
itself is sufficiently ugly and unpleas
ant to make such work as this unneces
sary. 1t came as sign of degeneracy
! and in time if the finer things triumph
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final act of DR.. 1sham Trench's WOO
ing of Edith Bridgman-a fine couple,
worth a book all to themselves for the
growth of their romance. Out of the
quality and substance of this novel one
would say that this Is an uncommon
ly clever young man, who. in the chas-
tening course of time, will prove to be
also a writer of uncommonly clever
novels.
CRISES IN THE HISTORY OF THE
PAPACY. By Joseph McCabe. au-
thor of Peter Abelard." etc. New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
This is an inclusive and intensive
study of the lives of twenty famous
popes. Better, it Is study of the
causes and effects of the great turn
ing points in the history of the Cath
olic Church. by way of an examina-
tion into the character and work and
influence of each of the twenty men
who, as head Of the church, have been
most instrumental in the direction and
strength of its development. Beginning
with the early struggles of ST. Callis-
tus and ending with the death of Leo
XII. In 1903, the book includes be-
tween these two points more than If
teen centuries of unparalleled grow tn
on the part of the Catholic Church.
As matter Of fact. the character and
scope OF this development have been
OF such nature as to make any ade-
quate history of the church stand. in
its essentials. as the history also of
the Christian world at large. The pur-
pose OF this writer has been, obviously,
to condense to the limits of a single
volume such an informing study of
these twenty famous popes as shall
trace with fair exactness the rise and
growth, the decadence and revival of
the catholic Church-such study as
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New York: John Lane

f,Ire' 80 .'1"
Company.
Anne Warwick, along with the rest OF
US, has noticed that many important
things are accomplished by people who
make no claims whatever to special
gift or power. With this thought in
mind, she has gone out in casual and
easy way to find in the folks around
her it's concrete application and force.
The result of these little adventurings
is a group of cleverly engaging stories
that fasten her point both convincingfy
and entertainingly. Miss Warwick
makes men and women that are quite
alive. More than that, they are usually
clever They do interesting things and
command a give-and-take quality OF
conversation. And never in the world
would she crowd a person into the cor
ner of Illustrating any abstract notlon
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portion of the congressman's mail.
There are those who ask for things
which they think the government is in
position to give without cost to them
selves. Why. only the other day l had
fellow write me and say that he
lowed as how since the Department
Of Agriculture was preaching diversi-
fed farming, might they not send him
six bushels of corn. three pecks of
peas, five pints OF beans, three bushels
of oats and nine quarts of millet seed.
and Would you be so kind as to go
down to the department instanter? as
he wanted to get his crops in.
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| it will disappear AS it is. however.
it is xcusable-intolerable. Some
have been inclined to regard II as a
joke, but it is no joke. Such work
comes from asylums for the insane and
is the result either of disordered
brain or a degenerate moral sense-it is
repugnant. And it is dangerous be-
| cause it confuses. Some VINO do not
know, say, IF that is art then l. want
none of it" But that is not art.
Art has to do with the Interpretation
of beauty, it tends to uplift and happi-
ness. at least such is the great art of
the past. There may be some who pre-
fer ugliness to beauty. ash heaps to
to monuments. but those who do are
themselves slipping down the scale OF
civilization and forgetting that the
world was made beautiful and that
man was made in the image of God.
We cannot afford to cast aside our
birth right and trade beauty for ugli-
ness; we do not want new art which
is ugly and vulgar no matter now
clever or novel it may be; we want art
which is really fine and not only up
lifts and inspires, but is good to re-
fmember. art which opens our eyes to
the beauties of nature. the beauties of
the world both of work and of play in
which we live. And such art viii be
both traditional and modern. for there
| is beauty as well as ugliness in this,
our own time.
*
| TT HE Society of Washington Artists
u annual exhibition closes today. In
| the new exhibition gallery at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art will be opened
| Tuesday a special exhibition of the
| works of Edward W. Redfield. the we'll
known landscape painter, who has to a
great extent made a specially of win
ter pictures. Mr.. Redfeld has exhib-
| tied at the Corcoran Gallery before,
showing group of his paintings some
years ago in the hemicycle hall. but the
pictures to be shown at this time are
all new and have for the most part but
recently returned from the Pacific
coast, where in the Panama exposition
they were on view last summer
A y exhibition of water colors by Col.
6A Anthony Dyer of Providence. r. T.,
will open in the Moore Gallery Monday.
Col. Dyer is well known in Washing
ton. many of his pleasing water colors
having found permanent homes here.
T HE Art and Archaeology League
will hold a meeting next Saturday
afternoon in Miss Clara'R Saunders
studio. 1909 G street. A paper on
Baskt will be presented. Owing to the
limited capacity of the room the meet
ing will be restricted to members of
the league.
x
TT HE drawings of dancers by Ellen
Graham Anderson and Anne Merri-
man Pecke Fite will remain on view
at the Handicraft School for another
week LEILA MECHLIN.
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Agriculture. and we generally comply
with these. for, even though the seeds
have been 'cussed and discussed
from one end of the country to the
other more than anything within the
government gift, the farmers use
:hem every year. and would be might
ily disappointed did they not get them.
Among the other things which we
are asked TO do. and. which oftentimes
gets US into hot water up to our eyes.
is the Endorsement Of federal building
sites. Every congressman tries to get
at least one. possibly more, federal
buildings in MS district. Well. the bills
Tor the purchase may get through and
the Treasury begins to investigate
sites. Then the tus-ofwar comes.
Every lot owner in the business section
of town thinks his 10: is the best.
Otherwise peaceful communities are
divided into deep-dyed. back biting.
ud-slfnging cliqucs. All the sins of
Satans category are attributed to each
other. These little fights swamp the
congressman with requests to lend his
support one way or another
Just as in the case of postmasters'
selections, which have. retired more
pubiic men in the last century than any
other thing, these matters have to be
handled like a hot potato. We just try
to conciliate and arbitrate to get things
adjusted to the satisfaction of a COM
munity before a final and definite de-
cision is reached. And woe to the con-
gressman who does not adjust such
matters successfully and please the
greatest number Of people.
Every day in the year we receive
scores of letters from our constituents
demanding t h / S
Have to Please that or the other
ooo ooo posi- ition to be
MU,UOO Masters. taken on local
and national questions. Some of them
ask about laws which have been passed
in recent sessions of Congress-; some
ask figures on national finances and in
dustrial developments which takes
hours to dig out; then we have to name
the cadets to West Point and Annapo-
lis; get passports for those constituents
back home who are wealthy enough to
go to Europe or other foreign climes;
labor troubles invariably bring a great
batch of mail; maybe military reserve
is desired; there may be some intricate
question involving oil or mineral leases
which require the approval of the Sec
retary of Interior: like as not. we are
requested to get back of a river project
which we know does not amount to a
hill CT beans. there are public lands
questions, although these are not nu-
merous in the eastern states; there are
the old soldiers who must be cared for
in the way of pensions; in fact, there
are so many things we are asked to do
here that l sometimes think of the En-
glish noblemans funky. Here, James,
This, James, That. James, and James
just keeps chasing about every moment
to satisfy his master James has an easy
time. We have to try to please about
100000 masters.
While a congressman is caring for
the demands from his district he must
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00 WALLACE BRYANT Of Boston.
MW the artist whose works have
w been exhibited here recently
in the Cosmos Club and in the Moore
gallery on 18th street. has just COM
pleted a portrait of the Rev. Roland
Cotton Smith, d. D.. rector of st. John
Church, which is not only a most eN-
cellent painting but a very striking
likeness. 1t pictures DR.. smith seated
by an open desk on which rests MS
right arm, the right hand being placed
upon the face of a book. His knees
are crossed easily and his left hand
rests in his lap. The head is in profile
vet is extremely vital and hfeiike-
one almost expects the pictured man
to sneak, so alert is the expression ana
so vivid the presentation of personal
ity. But the likeness does not cease
with the head-it merely begins there
the whole figure is admirably drawn
and felt. the pose is easy and natural
and the hands are amazingly well de-
lineated.
Furthermore the textures are well
rendered: the black cloth suit with Its
siIken lining suggests just what it is
and is really black but not uninterest-
ing The white collar and cuffs make
fine accents, but lack the blue white
ness of much fresh paint. The back
ground has enough color ana inter-
est to prevent monotony. but at the
same time is ATMOSPHERIC; The light
is especially well handled. coming
from above and helping to emphasize
the modelling of the forehead Ihe en-
tire composition is pleasing m tone
and its treatment is ooen ioreelui anu
atmospheric.
one of the best that Mr.. Bryant has
painted but probably one OF the pest
of this particular time. may be seen
for week longer at the Moore gal
lery.
An exhibition OF pictures by the
EA late F. Hopkinson Smith opened
in the Shelby Clarke galleries March
and will continue until the 20th.
II comprises nineteen water colors
and one charcoal drawing, which is
by no means the least interesting ex-
hibit in the entire display
Hopkinson Smith was a rarely Siited
individual. He had. furthermore. pc
culiarly charming personality, and he
* one that now he is gone the world
sorely misses His art. whether it took
the form of literature or painting. was
attitude toward the world was that of
a trusting child. his soul was always
oyerfiowing with kindness, and 1t is
more of this same spirit we are sadly
in need of today. Lecturing on Ameri-
can music last Monday night Nicholas
Douty said that to the French and
Germans music has been a religion
to EngIishmen and Americans 1t has
always been an amusement-the one
created through his sorrows. the other
through his Joys. and for this reason
we have not as yet any very great
American music. This is true and to
great extent ii applies to much OF our
.,rt in other fields than that of music.
The art of Hopkinson Smith. especially
his painting, is token of playtime and
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lis full of holiday sunniness. 1t is not
great nor profound but it is very ae
| full for it. For that matter Soroila
art is the creation Of his joy-hIs rove
| of sunshine. breezes and youthfui me-
it. too. is not profound. but it is great
| To be sure, Hopkinson Smiths water
colors are not nearly so notable, nul
they are significant enough ana as
enjoyable as they can be-real pictures
of the places where they were panied
seen through the artists own transfg-
uring genius. with an air OF seniaiIS
scapes are not as pleasing as the ar
chitectural themes-other people can
:; do landscapes. but none other than TINS
painter could % so well Pr pieto1re o1d Fpeneb F1e
! inns and the English rose gardens
Mr.. smith invariably used gray paper
and painted in gouYaSehe' S, ns but ne Seet Seel
mite. He loved beauty and he delightea
in picturing it. With the distorted.
ugly things Of the world; the results
i OF evil or accident he had no interest.
| though suffering quickly touched his
sympathies.
There are some excellent examples
of his work in this exhibition at the
clarke galleries. Several charming
and very characteristic pictures of
Venice. a delightful picture Of the in
Courtyard e' rt ae Of the old inn Of William
the Conqueror. where IL We are not
mistaken the old gentleman Of The
Armchair told his tales In L., ils this
bloom occupies the center of interest
Then there are bits of Dordrecht and
Bruges and Chartres. bits which
through special beauty have appealed
to the painter and thus found tran
scription. And there is the one char
coal drawing. the "Palazzo Malconton.
with that experienced craftsmanship
and lightness of touch which this ar
tist could Invariably command.
melancholy interest attaches to this
exhibition inasmuch as we know that of
such works teeming with the personality
of the painter-ths oainter-there will
be no more.
1OSEPH PENNELL, the etcher, lith-
~ ographer and illustrator. was to
have lectured in this city March Is be-
fore the Washington Society of the
Fine Arts. Unluckily, however. he was
una avoidab bly, recalled to London some
weeks ago and has, not been able to
return. though he is making prepara-
tions to do SO shortly, To many who
have looked forward to his lecture. this
will prove a disappointment. but the
Washington Society Of the Fine Arts
announces that 1t has been fortunate in
securing in Mr.. Pennelrs place Thorn
ton Oakley of Philadelphia, who is also
a distinguished illustrator and ac-
complished lecturer.
Mr.. Oakley is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and was a
member of the jury of selection for the
department of fine arts at the Panama
Pacific international exposition. For
his illustrations shown in that exhibit
tion he was awarded a silver medal
He is secretary of the Philadelphia
Water Color Club and is at present in
charge of the classes of illustration at
the School of Industrial Art in Phila-
delphia.
His work is not unlike Mr.. Pennelis
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UNCLE Esq.
IV.-Congress and Con- :
uressmen as Told by
Jerry Denton, N. c..
TO
OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

We may taik about the ethics of
being a Congressman. and all that
remarked Jerry Denton. 81. C.. but
there is one iron-bound requisite for
any member of the House. He must
care for the interests of his constitu-
ents back home. or make them feel
that ne is caring for them. They're
the ones that are sending him to
Washington a"d they expect value
received. It's the congressman who
can hew to the line. keep national in
keep the folks back home in a good
humor that stays in Washington until
he gets a chance to prove that he is
made out OF real stuff and, consequent
ly, gets to position where he can
really accomplish things. not only for
his district. but the people of the coun-
try as whole.
"A fellow has TO wear district spec
tacles. but these should never be per-
nitted to change his perspective of
what is right and wrong from a ma
tional standpoint.
II you don't think that congress-
man keeps in close touch with his peo-
pie just look at that pile of letters.
There's more than 125 there on my
desk. I'll venture to say that more
than hundred of them are from folks
back home. They all came in this
morning. I'll just bet a trottins horse
against an old shoe the one hundred
from my district bear requests of one
sort or another. Now. let's see"
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devote a great part of his time to the
actual national business coming be-
fore the House. AS you know. con-
gressmen do q greater part of this by
attending the meetings of the commit
tee to which they are assigned. This
work is not easy by any. means. We
folks I'm the House don't try to keer
up with every little dinky bill that
ones. We just follow the committee
most of the time. for We generally
know that every measure reported ou,
favorably. generally is good measure
port or expediency. for it has. as a
rule. been thoroughly dissected.
Bad bills sometimes get out, how
ever; and these oftentimes are caught
when they reach
Rad Measures the floor of the
Sometimes Passed. fore pe they hey ar.
passed Some of them get even as far
as the Senate, for there is no use
trying to dodge the issue. there have
been many bills passed in my day
which were approved simply because
the congressman We're afraid to vote
against them, owing to the possible
effect their antagonism might have on
the folks back home. Congressman
in such cases just wink at each other.
whisper under their breath. the Sen
ate will stop it, then vote.
We'll, have been in Congress a
good many years now. have seen all
kinds of men under all sorts OF con-
ditions have watched the House struE-
gle along under favorable circum-
stances and bad. but, after all. a good
deal Is accomplished over there on the
south wing of the Capitol-thinss
worth while.
II have often thought 1 would like
to break away from it all and Just
settle down along the roadside and pc
a friend of man.. But then ! probably
would be like a fretty colt In stake
race, just squirm. fidget and tug at the
reins. When the barrier went up in
December and the bunch. over here on
the hill got off for another heat. I'd
lust have to come down here and
watch them get down the track. sling
ing clods in each others faces and
working for rail position, but all get
ting there just the same.
Then I'd probably go back home and
run for Congress again"
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Wanted to Get a
Settin' O. Eggs.

on right away, she showin' signs o
wantin' to set There are hundreds Of
requests for seeds, which are distrib-
uted through us by the Department Of
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Another one of my constituents had
read magazine story Of how there
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Sure Enough,
There Was Request.

ment and then chuckled: What did
tell you. Sure enough. it's here. Says
something about my great interest in
every woman and child in the district,
and. feeling sure of this interest, the
writer has turned to me, going on to
say: This lady is widow; has five
children. 4 storm came the other day,
and lightning killed her COW. We
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BOOK REVIEWS.

A MASTER BUILDER: Being the Life
and Letters of Henry Yates Satter-
lee. First Bishop of Washington. By
Charles Fl. Brent. New York: Long
mans Green & Co
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Foreign Literature in English.

Chekhov. A. p. The Sea gull. 1918. Y54D-
C41c.E.
Duhamel. Georges. In the Shadow of Statues.
Y39D- DSS2i.E +.
Hsrtleben. o. E. Hanna Jasert. 1918. Y47Ip
H256h. T..
Ludwig, Otto. The Forest Warden. 1913
Y41D- L96e. L.
Roelvink. II. C. ]. The Stormbird. 1913.
Y4SD R62E
Rosenfeld, NJ. J. Songs Of Labor. YslP-
R72sE.
Schinz. Albert. and King. II. NJ. eds. Seven
teenth Century French Rearfngs. Y3p-pSch36
Selections From Roman Historical Literature.
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Here the Hon. jerry took a letter
from the middle OF a large pile, ran his
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Every day in the year we receive
scores of letters from our constituents