The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-07
shows Rere BookpIates.

To commemorate the tercentenary In
ternational celebration of the meeting
of the first American legislative as
sembly. the Mayflower Compact and
the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,
which mark the beginnings of free in
situations in America, and under the
auspices of the Sulgrave Institution.
the American Bookplate Society. in CO.
operation with the American Antiquar-
ian Society OF Worcester. Mass. and
other leaders has assembled Il collee-
ton of Colonial bookplates that is UNI
doubtedly the finest ever shown in New
York city.
The exhibition is being held in the
National Arts Clubs galleries in con-
nection with the fifteenth annual exhio-
ton of the books of the year as shown
by the club. The bookplates, which
number more than three hundred are
grouped around the eT librts of George
Washington, and the plates of many of
the sieners of the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence are likewise displayed. Groups
Of bookplates as designed by Paul Re
we're (1735-1S1s), Nathaniel Hurd (1730-
IT'D and their contemporaries are
shown upon the gallery walls.
The present collection is notable from
the fact that IL contains a large number
Of the very rarest bookplates, Of which
bat three or four copies are known to
exist and some OF the exhibited plates
are absolutely unique, being the only
known copies. The collection of early
American name labels while lacking in
beauty is nevertheless characterized by
extreme interest to all those who lows
bookplates OF the olden time. Two ex-
amples of the name label bookplate Of
Patrick Henry are In the Arts Club
showing.
In Mrs Roberts's article upon the art
of Van Gogh in the TohchstOne she
makes some striking quotations from the
famous correspondence between Van
Gogh and Gauguin. in letter TO
Gauguin, Van Gogh spoke OF taking a
rest. during which time, he said. I am
decorating my bedroom. l shall make an
enormous canvas, and all the furniture
will be in white wood. II will amuse me
very much to make this interior prac-
tically out of nothing | shall nave ia;
tints with simple outline. The walls
pale lilac. with the faded sunlight over
them; the bed chrome yellow. the pil-
low and bed covering a pale. greenish
lemon yellow the draperics blood red
the toilet table orange covered with blue
linen and the window hangings green.
intend TO express absolute repose in this
combination of colcrs.'
ivan Gogh's love of Gauguin was so
great that through Gauguin's eyes he
saw the beauty Of Tahiti He writes n
friend OF his anger &c think that the
south sea islands are being overrun
and devastated by white people I can
not bear IT, he says. that the Marquesas
Islands will be overrun by white peO-
pie. and that sooner or later the beauti-
full brown inhabitants will be extermi-
neted. What II these people do eat other
races? Is that any worse than extermi-
mating nation In order to possess the
land? To think that these beautiful
races, these negroes, these Indians. will
All disappear. and that frightful white
people with bottles OF alcohol and bags
of veranol will take their placo--the
white race with It's hypocrisy, its avarice
end its sterility. And these saVages
were so gentle. so sweet. such lovers
We do we'll 20 be grateful 10 Gauguin,
who has saved on his canvases the ex-
Guisite loveliness of these Tahiti women %