The Washington herald., 1920-03-03
In the LineIight
BY George Perry Morris.

crease In the pay OF her teachers
does not seem to check the drift out
OF the PROFESSIONAL ranks into other
more lucrative ca1lings. The dean
Of fthe Medical School. DR.. George
Blumber. after ten years service in
that department. retires to become
an expert consultanf. Prof. L.
Mason. OF the department Of Eng
iish literature. has accepted posi-
Prof. Henry Seidel Candy is to be
the editor of the literary supple
ment OF the New York Evening
Post, which IL to be modelled after
similar valuable appendix OF the
London Times. Prof. Candy by his
contributions TO the Yale Review.
by his essays in other high grade
periodicals, >and by his few but
choice books, has caught the at
tention of q reading public, select
but critical, which will follow with
interest his new venture. Work )
ing with and under Prof. Cross he
has done much to give the Yale
Review its present prestige.
The new Brazilian Ambassador,
Augusta cochrane de Alencar. has
quickly got in touch with the State
Department and has had q friendly
welcome quite natural to one COM
ing from a republic that has been
| so consistently friendly with the
United States as Brazil has been. It
is said by those who know that his
knowledge of conditions in other
South American countries is much
more acurate than is customarily
the case with q Latin-American
national" He knows not only the
external possessions but the in
ternal politics and social stratifica-
tions and national ambitions of
Brazirs rivals. II this be so he is
weli equipped for specific duties that
lie ahead.
August Belmont must read with
interest that is peculiar and per-
sonal Of the cessation of traffic on
the Cape Cod Canal. 1t may or may
not last long, but IL is the latest
though not the last chapter in a
history of private speculation in a
public enterprise where Mr.. Bel
mont was the star" IL built,
the canal should have been
built by the State of Massachusetts,
and been controlled by IL. Done as
II was, the job invited all the trou-
bles that have come since, including
the present controversy between
the Federal governemnt and the
canal company as to the price to be
paid for what was a white ele-
phant" in time Of peace, and a ques-
| tionable utility in time OF war.
Whether the final price paid is sS,-
mise sum. IL is Mr.. Belmont who
At the invitation of the japanese
government. Cornell University's re-
firing president. Jacob q. Schur-
man. is to visit that land. BY ac-
cepting the invitation, does he limit
in any way his freedom to criticise
what he finds and report it back
home? The press censorship on
Japanese current hapenings is so
drastic and the obligations OF so
many foreign visitors to their Jap
anese hosts are so great that the
United States lacks realistic" in
terpretations of events in Nippon.
Years ago John c. Van Dyke was
the librarian of a theological semi
nary whose trustees were generous
in permitting him to buy books
other than theological and religi-
Gus. Steadily he gathered about
him a fine collection of works on
art, the contents OF which he mass
tered. In due time, by a series OF
events too long to enumerate here,
he came to be a writer on art, first
for the populace and later for the
critical few, and when he comes to
write his autobiography il will
prove how close his friendships have
been with some Of the greatest
artists Of his time.
That is one side of the man. Years
| ago also, for reasons that were
| partly physical and to do with his
health. and partly to satisfy his
love of adventure he found his way
into the Southwest, and the fruit of
| the visit was one Of the best books
on the desert landscapes of the Uni
! ted States that has been written.
Later other books on Nature ap-
| peared, The Mountain" and the
| opal Sea-" and now he advertises
one on '"rhe Grand Canyon of the
Colorado" This duality Of love and
interpretative skill, for Nature and
| for mans artistry in painting and
in sculpture, is not only commend
able but somewhat exceptional. 1t
connotes high value to the criticism
that is its product.