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New-York tribune., 1921-10-15

gear lubricant used where the eUnssruetior
does not allow the use Of a heavy oils Soeony
Pslayiss Csb Grease; Sses@y Psjsr5ns Fibss
Grease; Soccsy PeIosiss CyspAhs Grease.
standardixe ON Soconv Polarine OILS and
Lubricants. Your dealer will be glad to
advise YOU ON your particular needs.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

in any case. since the available supply
tends 20 lessen. And the conditions of
climate in the regions where pearls are
found are not such as to tempt COM
petition from men of other lands.
Although many of the methods are
still primitive. modern science has done
something for the pearl industry. rs
this passage indicates:
I'm 1916 a happy innovation des-
tined TO modify pearl culture greatly
TO its advantage was introduced by
NJ Solomon of New York. He erected
at Ceylon. on the island of Ipantivie.
a large factory for X-raying the
oysters, which is now working with
complete success. Shelves containing
rows of a hundred oysters are placed
on a kind Of moving platform which
passes them in turn under the X-rays
i'm front of a paper specially prepared
for taking photographs. The oysters
containing large pearls are opened and
collected at once. as their number and
position are known beforehand. The
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
American Art Library Begins With Henri

dencies are given an opportunity to
exhibit their paintings
The editors of the present volume
have this to say of Henri as painter:
Taken feature for feature his por-
traits do not give the minute accuracy
of statement demanded of the popular
painter, but they are far more alive
than such stereotyped delineations.
One receives from them the impress
sion that they are the truth about the
persons while Henri was observinA
them. Perhaps another day they
would appear totally different, but the
actual conformation. texture and color
of their features would remain the
same. One feels, despite Henrf's past
experience. the entire absence OF set
formula and an astonishing capacity
to note his sitter's appearance at a
given moment. IT may be the grin on
child's face. the surly side glance of
Mexican or the stolid stare of a
Chinese girl, but it always copvinces.
The grin is slashed across the face,
seemingly with carelessness. actually
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
9n the @ift Of a Great Book
Dou Comspire Mitb @eniuS

But the world does not laugh at Lincoln
He who gives book touches the springs of
life, plays upon the keys of an organ whose notes
will sound perhaps in other lands and in other
centuries.
The giver of books may be conspirator with
genius. Next to the great writer is the one who
finds for him the right reader
Books carry the seed of life. Scatter them
widely in the hope of harvest Plant them one
by one III the most fertile soil you can find
Books are at once the most exquisitely intimate
and the most broadly universal means of express
sion. In them is restoration and repose In
them is the irresistible call to 90 on.
There are plenty of good books and there will
be more. What the world needs is better use
of them.
Business declare that invention and pro
duction have outrun effective merchandising,
that is, bringing the right thing to the right
person. In no field is this so true as in liter
ature.
The mass Of people know by hearsay that there
are such things as books.
In population of 105, ,000,000 a sale of 10000
copies is called good, 100000 is amazing. Not
the sale but the situation is amazing
Part of it is the fault of authors, publishers
and booksellers. But the greater lack is in the
reader or in him who might be reader, or in
him who might create reader by well chosen
gift
Libraries good, but what need is more
individual ownership and use of books-not as so
much paper and ink and binding but as means
Of life
Books are food 10 eat, books are air to breathe,
light for the eyes, path for the feet and
hand to clasp in the dark.
Give books
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

his problems; the simple, yet complete
sequence of lines, the ever changing
modulation of ruddy flesh tones, the
whole painted apparently with single
broad brush stroke which developed
the form in all its details. AS he stared
the light gradually faded and the pic
ture disappeared, but what he had wit
messed remained with him many days.
Later he had access to the granary
and viewing the canvas under normal
conditions found it strangely lacking
in all those qualities it had seemed to
possess; but it had served his purpose.
for in it, achieved and definite, he had
found the truth for which he had
vainly sought. He attacked his work
with a new confidence. the subsequent
ideas formed during the summer estab-
fishing his point of view. His new aim
was an exceedingly simple one; to
achieve the glow of life, and to re-
strict himself only to that means which
best expressed it. And this sense of
vitality of his people is one of the
most notable virtues of his art"
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

II was in 1908 that a group of in
dependent painters. in which Henri
was a leading spirit began TO exhibit
together.
I'm this same year the group known
as the Eight was formed. 1t con-
sisted of Robert Henri. Maurice Prem
dergast John Sloan. Everett Shinn,
Ernest Lawson, William J. Glackens,
George Luks and Arthur b. Davies
An exhibition Of their work was hung
in New York and later throughout the
larger cities. The Eight was in no
sense a society. bu. simply a group
Of men with the common purpose of
exposing their work and of stimulat-
ing the founding of similar organiza-
tions outside the dictates of the estab-
lished societies. They frankly espoused
the cause of the No Jury exhibition,
and their advocacy of the open forum
has had much TO do with developing
tho means whereby artists Of all ten
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
X-Rays Reveal Pearly Secret of the Oyster

pear shaped pearls and irregular or
baroque pearls. Round pearls are
found inside the mollusc, and owe
their shape to their mobility. The pear
shaped specimens lie on the tips of the
valves. and their oval form is explained
by the pressure eXerted on the pear
by the edges of the shell As for the
irregular pearls they are generaty
found close 10 the muscle of the oyster.
and are thus hindered I'm their regular
development. A fully developed oyster
produces an average of ten million
eggs; if it is considered that ninety
out of a hundred molluscs are able to
reproduce, an idea can be formed of
the ease with which they multiply"
The poor. hardworking oyster is not
let off with such work as he chooses
TO do of his own motion The traders
bring him their inferior wares 10
plate" or varnish.
This is the method: After tho
oysters have been gathered they are
exposed to the sun, and as soon as
they open a piece of wood is slipped
between the two valves of the shell
Then a string Of nacre beads is in
serted in the oysters. separated from
one another by some millmeters A
few grammes OF fish scales are added
as the oysters do not contain very
much nacre themselves The piece Of
wood is then withdrawn and the
oyster is left in the water for n year
At the end of this time the beads OF
nacre will be covered with layer OF
pearly substance They arc then de
tached and a layer of well polished
mother Of pearl is applied TO the side
which had adhered to the she'll"
The author. in referring TO the his
toric trade. quotes this passage from
the writings OF an ancient traveller
who observed the primitive sales
methods OF the market:
II will note the somewhat singular
and curious manner In which the In
dams. heathens as we'll as Mohame-
dams transact the sale of all kinds OF
merchandise. The whole business Is
carried on i'm complete silence and
without a word being spoken by anv
one. The seller and buyer are seated
opposite one another like two tailors
and ono OF them untics his girdle
NV NtNFi AhhfH Ait liEnA ilhIl'l VI Nllf
buyer and covers IL and his own with
the girdle, under which. in the pres
ence OF a number of other merchants
who have met together. the transaction
is made secretly without any one beirz
aware OF ts details. For the seller and
buyer do not speak either with their
mouths or their eyes but solely with
their hands which they do in IN
wise:
"If the seller takes the BUYERS whole
han1 that means a thousand. and ac-
cording 10 the number of times NJ
presses IL he indicates so many thou
sand paeodas. or rupees, or whatever
currency Is In question.
"1f he only takes his FIVE fingers that
indicates five hundred and il he takes
one IL means one hundred II he onlv
takes tho half mp TO the middle Joint 70
means fifty, and the tip Of the finger
so far as tho first Joint means ten
This is the whole mystery OF the
method OF bargaining employed by the
Indians"
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

its test; of Bell and the telephone OF
Lake and Holland and the submarine;
of the Wrights and their airplane,
and of some of Edison's contributions.
a score of anecdotes woven in and
about the historical text tend to liven
the volume, which is interesting in
every sense.
Chelsea Curtis Fraser, in Secrets of
the Earth" presents certain phases of
underground treasures and workman
ship. In preparing the volume the
author states that his purpose is not
10 present, a technical treatise on
geology. but rather certain phases of
the subject and its related industries.
The book holds forth for young read
ers such subjects as "The Story cf
Coal" "Oil, the New Industrial Giant"
Iron Ore, the Worlds Richest Min
eral," ''The Wonders of Gold" "The
story of Silver" Diamond, the King
OF Gems" Graphite, Backbone of
Pencils" Little Lumps of Clay"
"Some Rare Minerals" and others. all
of which are at once instructive and
interesting.
Alfred p. Morgan's Boys Home
Book of Science and Construction Will
appeal to every live boy, and to many
girls. It is a specially conducted tour
into the wonderland of science, the
fascinating mysteries of which may
be explored without leaving home, and
at very little expense. The start is
made in the kitchen, miniature lab
oratory if understood, and with the
aid of familiar articles such as water.
to replace calcium huoride, salt in
stead Of Phenolthalen and vinegar in
place of cuprous sulphate, the boy un-
locks the door which contains the Sc
crets of nature and science. The close
relation is shown between great com
mercial processes and the most com
mon activities. But the author does
not stop with chemistry alone. He
goes on further 10 teach boy some
thing of mechanics, liquids, sound.
heat, light, electricity and meteorol-
ogy. The book is illustrated with
plans and diagrams which elaborate
for boys a great variety of mechanical
appliances which they can make at
slight cost. The book is liberal edu
cation in science, and never dry.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

ROBERT HENRI: HIS LIFE AND
WORKS. With forty Illustrations
Edited by William Yarrow and Louis
Bouche. Boni 4 Liveright.
THIS is the first volume in a new
series called THE American
l. Art Library" 1t is almost in
comprehensive that such a series has
not been started before. America
needs it, not only for her own use but
for "the export trade" When France
considers our artists good enough to
be placed in her national collections
we ought to furnish means for fuller
knowledge of them.
Henri was good man to begin with.
He represents both tradition and prog
ress, without the deadly Journalism that
so often attaches alike to "conserva-
tive" and radical" art. AS a teacher
he has been and still is one of the
chief influences for free expression OF
whatever is in painter. He is so i'm
pressive an artist himself that his as
sociates have undoubtedly initiated
him. But that is no fault of his.
Years ago l asked Henri what his
method was. He answered, in sub
stance:
IT never tell young painter how to
begin. i say to him, What do you
want to do? Do it, Presently he is
putting colors together that defeat his
own end / show him how he can ac-
complish the purpose he set out with"
That is the Henri method-to en-
courage the artist to work out his
own salvation. He does not impose an
arbitrary system nor turn aside the
current Of the artists own nature.
Any biography of such man should
be primarily a record of his spiritual
growth-of his finding himself. Here
are some of the facts. external and
spiritual:
He was born of American parents
in 1865. His family, of French. Eng
lish and Irish origin, had lived for
several generations in Virginia. Ken
lucky and Ohio. AS a boy he trav-
elIed through the West, and the youth
full Impressions arising from the vivid
contrast between the primitive life of
Colorado and his experiences I'm Gin
cinnati and New York first stimulated
his interest in these different phases OF
American civilization. He early de-
cided'to be a writer and almost before
he had finished reading his first book
had started writing one of his own"
He went to the usual art classes, in
Europe. But he learned more in such
ways as this:
"One day while returning from work
he passed large granary. His eye
was attracted by crack in one of the
walls which revealed an illumination.
Surprised and curious. knowing that
such buildings were usually kept dark,
and seeing neither door nor window
through which such light might en-
ter, he approached and placing his eye
to the aperture saw that it was occa-
stoned by a direct ray of the sun
streaming through a small hole high
ur in the western wall. His attention,
however. was Immediately focused on
canvas leaning against box. 1t
was the study of a nude. crouching
woman. He watched excitedly. for in
It he seemed 10 see the solution Of all
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Did Noah Save Fabre's Wasp?

the best of reasons. He barely knows
how to cipher: arithmetic rather than
reading is forced upon us by the bru-
talities of life. Having followed the
flag over three-quarters of the globe
he has an open mind and a memory
crammed with "reminiscences, which
does not prevent him when we chat
about animals from making the most
crazy assertions. For him the bat is
a rat that has grown wings; the cue
koo is a sparrow hawk retired from
business the slug is a snail who has
lost his shell with the advance of
years the nightjar is an elderly toad
who becoming enamored of milk-foods
has grown feathers so that she may
enter the byres and milk the goats. 1t
is impossible to drive these fantastic
ideas out of his head. Favier himself,
as will be seen, is an evolutionist after
his own fashion, an evolutionist of
very daring type. In accounting for
the original of animals nothing gives
him pause. He has reply to e/ery-
thing: This comes from thai If
you ask him why, he answers:
"'Look at the resemblance.
1t is probably by some such passage
as the above that the great Fabre
would choose to be remembered. His
passages of ecstatic discovery in which
he bursts out enthusiastically when
the quest of so many years is brought
to a close is on account of the depth
of emotion with which he fights the
theory of evolution. He fights this
viewpoint as scientist because the
poet in him is repelled by it.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

MORE HUNTING WASPS. BY j..
Henri Fabre. Dodd, Mead Co.
TABRE was as many-sided as
X the insect world which he
u loved to describe. 1t is diff
cult to know which one of his quail
ties is the most admirable. He has
the mastery of words of an artist, the
patience of the scientist, the outlook
of philosopher and a bit of SLY hu-
NOR.
One of his enthusiasms was the
hunting wasp. He found this insect
very complex. Each species had a
separate prey. The egg had to be laid
on a very definite portion of the larva
of some insect, which was paralyzed In
order that the food might not decom-
pose before the young had completed
it's growth. At first F'abre had a low
opinion of the hunting wasp. Later
he came to admire her maternal So
licitude.
His studies led him to doubt the
current theories of evolution. He be-
lieved that the survival of the wasp
presupposed the creation of species
with certain predestined instincts. He
saw no loophole for the evolutionary
theory. Speculation on this point
seemed to him puerile. He has several
very effective digs at the theory of
evolution
He says, THE child is the great gen
eralizer. For him. the feathered world
consists merely of birds; the race of
reptiles merely of snakes, the only
difference being that some are big and
some are little. Knowing nothing he
generalizes in the highest degree; he
simplifies in his inability to perceive
the complex. Later he will learn that
the sparrow is not the bullfinch. that
the linnet is not the greenfinch; he
will particularize and to a greater de-
gree each day. as his faculty of OBJ
servation becomes more fully trained
In the beginning he saw nothing but
resemblances; he now sees differences
but still not plainly enough to avoid
incongruous comparisons.
I'm his adult years he will almost to
a certainty commit geological blum
ders similar to those which my gar
dener retails to me. Favier, an old
soldier, has never opened a book, for
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
THE KINGDOM OF THE PEARL. BY
Leonard Rosenthal. illustrated by Ed
mond Dulac. Brentano's.


Leonard Rosenthal. illustrated by Ed
mond Dulac Brentano's.
1 HERE is an adventurous. a ro-
mantle aspect of all commerce.
- though literature has been
slow in expressing it, But the COM
merce in pearls has so many obvious
elements Of the picturesque that the
r0ets have done a good deal of diving
there for their jewels of speech.
The decorative character OF this
volume, with its luxuriant color prints
and beautiful type pages, might lead
one to expect at first glance a text
largely devoted to old poems and
legends. In fact these are not neg
iected though the author doubts If
Cleopatra really dissolved that pearl
in wine, at least during the course of
one dinner II must have been a long
dinner and a strong vintage.
But the larger part of the book deals
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

In an interview at Kansas City,
where Edna Ferber recently gave an
address, she tells young writer's how
to begin.
"If you want to write, you will" she
said. Nothing Will keep you from it
nor nothing will teach you how. We'll
come every sorrow or suffering; every
experience, happy or painful and write
about the things you know.
How else are you to know life?''
she asked. But don't stay there too
long. When you begin to write the
same thing over and over again, when
it's the same Christmas story this year
il was last. then stop"
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Stockingful
For Children

TALES OF TRUE KNIGHTS. By
George Philip Knapp. The Century
Company.
AT GREENACREs. THE QUEER
LITTLE MAN. THE BOTTLE IMP
and POPPY'S PLUCK. BY Marion
Ames Taggart. Four volumes. George
II. Doran Company
ADELE DORING AT BOARDING
SCHOOL. By Grace May North.
Louhrop. Lee & Shepard Company
~ r. KNAPP, who is professor of
English at Columbia Univer-
- sity. has offered modern chill
dren sixteen old English folk tales,
with a brief history of the conditions
under which each Of the various
legends grew up and took form and
how IL was preserved and spread. The
collection includes the most delightful
Of the legends. hero tales and ale
gories Of the Middle Ages which have
come down to us largely through
minstrels and monkish scriveners.
Marion Ames Taggart is known to
young people through her books The
Little Grey House" and "The Daugh-
ters of the Little Grey House. &c.
Now are offered to her readers the
ck-in-the- Box Books in Whlch every
boy and girl will be interested. The
stories deal with four happy children,
their clubs. the mysterious pass words
and country adventures, the play
house in the tree and the dark, dark
attic with all its mysteries.
Here we have the third volume of
the adele Doring Books" Fourteen
year-old Adele, the leading spirit in
the "Sunnyside Club" and her COM
rades find themselves in boarding
school and there continue their good
policy of helpfulness. The club motto
was THE only creed Of which we have
need is the art OF being kind
Each OF these books is written In
language which will be understood
by young people. Here are expressed.
along with the tales of imaginary
children, many Of the young readers
own thoughts and wishes
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

Robert Frost. recently of Vermont,
has established his residence at Ann
Arbor, having accepted a fellowship In
poetry at the University of Michigan.
The founding Of this fellowship and its
acceptance by poet of Frosts stand
ing add recognition and impetus 10 a
movement begun by Percy Mackaye
and President Hughes of Miami. Ac-
cording to the terms of the fellowship
Mr. Frost is to have no academic
duties. but word comes that a club of
young writer's has already grown up
about him
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
~XXIHaa11r a1r,slmn.,,, shnll ! give my friend for
''Do Won mean friend or is it

w ChristmasF"
''Do you mean friend or is it
only somebody you happen to know?I'
''Friend!'
well, nothing is too good in that case Give
a skyscraper or one of the Thousand Islands or
Russian wolfhound or grand piano or grain
of radium.
And with all the rest books
Or if you can t give anything else, give books
For IL hem is the magic that commands all the
treasures of the universe.
Books draw the stars from the sky and the
pearls from the deep.
Before wireless telegraphy was ever dreamed
of books carried the greatest messages of man
kind around the world and across the centuries.
Books anticipate all discoveries and keep the
precious past from the hands of theving Time.
Moving pictures of ancient civilization flash
upon the silver screen Of the reader mind. We
cannot go back and make phonograph records Of
dead singers, but in the old poets the rhythms
of long ago sing to the inner ear.
All the arts and all the sciences transmit their
treasures in print So each new generation finds
the stored material for a continual recreation of
the world.
Roosevelt once told a friend that he could
remember the look Of the page in one of Stan
eys volumes that kindled his faith and fixed,
his will to be the man he finally became. 1t was
in reading Spenser that Keats first knew himself
a poet But even poor stick of a book may
feed the divine fire. Lincoln felt the heart of
American history beat in him as he read
Weems's Washington. The world laughs at
Parson Weems now.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

with present day facts-the methods
Of securing. preparing, valuing and
marketing pearls The first step--or
rather dive--is about as primitive as
II could have been In the time of Cleo
patra, or OF Solomon, for that matter.
Diving is hard on men and is never
likely TO be an overcrowded occupa-
ton II divers were paid in proper
ton to their hardships and TO the
possible length of service pearls would
be even more expensive than they are
to-day.
The price is not likely TO so down
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

~<SN
Company.
ERE are four books. somewhat
out of the ordinary run, for
young readers. They hold
forth interesting facts and figures of
the type boys and girls usually search
the Sunday magazine sections and the
scientific publications for. In Work
a-Day Heroes" we have the romance
of the everyday toilers. men who risk
everything. even death, in their daily
routine. They receive no medals for
their brave and courageous duties,
which require an abundance of re-
serve and courage TO carry them out.
This book tells us something about
the miner digging for coal in treacher-
Gus tunnels; the iron worker perched
aloft on dizzy scaffolds and on a net
work of iron: the steeplejack danger
ously swaying TO and fro on his rope
slung saddle; the humble window
washer, with only a leather belt be-
tween him and eternity To them. of
course IL is all in a days work. And
then, too, some one has to do it!
These chapters are interesting and as
one would expect exciting!
Mrs. Inez N. McFee feels that we
have not stopped to realize or TO mar
vel at the number of contributions TO
the worlds wonders the numerous
developments in science and invention
that are distinctly American. Because
we have not, she saw an opening for
a book on the subject. "Stories of
American Inventions" She writes of
Howe and his struggle to popularize
the sewing machine; of Whitney and
his cotton gin. which was promptly
seized and pirated on thousand plan
tations: of Mccormick and his reaper
of Fulton and his folly" the steamer
Clermont; of Morse and the telegraph
and how a newspaper scoop figured In