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pocket flask and dried it for general
inspection
My God" he protested tremulous-
ly. 1T was accidental, gentlemen. Do
you think I'd try to get away with
anything like that"
Quintana coolly showed him aside
and with the barrel of his. pistol he
pushed the fiat pile of gems into
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-01

QUINTANA COOLLY PICKED
OUT THE FLAMING JEWEL AND
POCKETED IT.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-05-05
BE GENTLE WITH ELEC-
TRICITY

Four boys putting ~ a'-'A. w-r'S t"r
\ radio receiver. lc, them fall over =
|hiSh-tsnsdon electric ga, w!'c. not
thinking Of the danger. r." i'EA; wire
was insulated. but the s'rap."r of the
radio wires back and forth w"ro "r the
insulation Suddenly th"-" WIS a
Lbltndlns fash and TWO >oys fell I" the
rround. one dead and The other serious
rs shocked and burned The father o.
he dead boy. running ouI seized the
wire and was killed
| This Is the second accident OF the
hind reported lately. Z is q reminder
|bt tho extreme care that must always
be taken IN any kind = worn or ex-
Instrumentation connected VIII electric
4ty. Boys particularly. IN their o"thusI-
asm for radio as Wei a. FOR climbing
hight poles and taking chances In dan
SSerous places, need to snow something
Sbout voltage and It's pe-tla-
knoV about rSctrlc:ty." flvc-y"ar-
remarked proudly TO his mother.
+Yoa have to Do gentle With rec'r:o.;y. e
fHe had the main point Be gentle WITH
Electricity. and IT win be- gentle with
you.
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HOW he ESCAPED

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tho League OF Nations which Is doubt
less competent. There IA tho League
Council too. Tho League now embraces
nearly al tho European nations ex-
cept Germany and Russia which are
tho TWO biggest trouble makers actual
and potential. From Iris distance It
,o"is lrke tho logical tang 10 take the
remaining outsiders into the LesS'r.
and then Let that body handle tho
boundary disputes. It was for such
work that il was created, and !t9 most
eNacti"e work so far has been along
that llne
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Letters to i he
intelligence

Letters for THU column should De
as brief SIS possible. lntelt!goncer
readers are invited u send commu-
nicaiions upon any timely subject
Names Of authors must accompany
gil letters. The In;e.liEencer Will
not agree to PRINT letters upon con-
t-overs:al subjects. and especially
c, II crniag differences in matters OF
:eHEl,n.
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pror'an probably
him
NM drinks Is
egctsto the quar-
odfa
cIIcKory that n
the world
dun, hnScl: as ar perfection
ud,.atol by
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{RIPPLING RHYMES
FOOLISH KuaKY.

ABy W 1T n A S 0 N


I've
Abnsr Jnanons Blue
~een 70
no
aounded hands Tha, boob Will break MS NECK
faster than the law So"
sd
appointed into the
defyns all the trah'c laws
In
Of
andn
wright George
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-05-05

A. Eovo-idre breaks into politics
aCa:n IN Indiana in this moro or lCss
dry year there is a natural curiosity
rs 10 whether hos hard or soft
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-05-05

Tho !rSurrcn;a IN Ireland ar" lo"rn;
banks over here, We call them
bandits and yecEs,
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--No-n a-e only g" norso0e =, Franco
Nth ~ 'rcor'~ or moro than s7T.nnn 7
yoar A. present evCharco.
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PARAGR a HIS
AAAABy ROBERT oUILLENAAA

another panato Of free s"curlcS
iIrn'7 man'"S'
Of propagation
Of good dGeaon also do
shows moro wear than "
autou
And perhaps wou,l thing establish
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know that tho Russian commoners are
Got to ,;arre.
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That electrician who can make a
thunder storm at Will can he OF service
when the fifth inning fnds the homo
team hopelCssly behind.
Oh. very well. Let femInIsm have
It's way: and then some day there VIII
be a war 10 establish freedom OF the
he's
II I.erine is really sick. there Is
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Ns o. tn"
water that ism shall
rn lot Wh'T
onem aysa a
well 10 heh' - they '"
Greecea and do
prohibition Jokes that ~ Ay" u" "
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Copyright 1922. George Matthew Adans)
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

rtdly great pictures are enough 1Or
the great majority who wish to en-
joy rather than to know. Nobody
need care so much for whom par
ticular paintings were made if their
names do not mean much, if their
achievements did not make any per-
manent mark in history. The i'm
portant pictures are now known
pretty definitely, correctly named
and dated. "The cities Of Europe
have been rummaged from garret to
basement, and most of the forgotten
treasures OF the first rank have been
brought to light" But one point is
much to be regretted-that the pres
ent ownership of many of the pic
lures cited here is not recorded. Col
lections are continually dispersed at
auction, and in stream of works
Of art coming to America individual
pictures are often lost track of.
Thus the author is unable to indi-
cate the present resting place of a
large proportion OF the pictures
which he has studied in their former
homes in the older countries. For
many individual courtesies from
American friends and owners in this
country. for photographs or infor-
nation, he expresses his thanks. He
also expresses his regret that he has
not been able to include as many f.
lustrations as he had intended, since
their cost would make the books
price greater than the student would
be willing to pay. Therefore he has
made careful selection. Well known
pictures have seldom been chosen.
but works difficult OF access have
been preferred to the well known
works Of the famous.
Besides the frontispiece. in photo
gravure. this bulky volume has
twenty-four full page plates. each
containing Photographic reproduc-
tions Of four paintings. Thus he has
packed his Illustrations as closely as
possible. and reference numbers
under each picture refer to the page
In the book where reference to it Is
made. The text lies In thirty two
chapters. the Gothic Age the
-Four Dukes" the Hours of Chan
tiiy.- the Hours Of Turin"e (the
fron;ispsece Is a reproduction OF a
page IN that priceless manuscript
now lost by FIRE. the Hours OF
Miian-1. Hubert van Eyck." John
van Eyck. The Court (Which in
ciades a dissertation ON medieval
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

Ralph ID. Paine, whose latest book.
Roads of Adventure" Houghton,
Mifflin Company. will publish in the
autumn, has just returned from an
equatorial pleasure cruise ON a ves-
sci that ships as engineer another very
distinguished writing man-William
McFee. Mr.. Paine with cheract ,r-
istic modesty has .mortali.ed the
voyage in the following impersh-
able saga:
The critics correctly agree
That Paine cannot write like McFee,
But they got on together
In tropical weather
Across the Caribbean Sea.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
New Fiction in Varied Forms

hfit who turns oat to b the misaid
bcir 70 a genuine dake.ion. From
George. the up and coming fOotman.
&c - metamorphosed into the Duke
q 81 Bcvis. As might BE- suspected.
the process - unsettiing 10 his peace
q mind lie Is a Canadian and has
been n soldier. and he has deeply in
grained ideals OF human equality.
And there was Cynthia. the daughter
OF the house. who had been naughty
10 him while he was a servant.
Cynthia Is also n very unwise
young woman. bound to get into
trouble anyhow. and sure to need
rescuing. Her intermediate adven-
lures. and those of George-now the
Duke-may be skipped to the point
where he satisfactorily rescues her
from the clutches of a base de-
ceiver with whom she has run away.
She finds that the aforesaid deceiver
doesn't mean to marry her after all.
Whereupon enter George and all is
well. The plot somehow suggests
stories We have read before. many
years ago. nor is there any saving
distinction in the authors treatment
of it.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

casionai reminscence of the long
vanished Bowery boy. And his name
is julius +. Hershheimmer. which.
any one must admit. is echt Ameri-
kdnisch. And his favorite adjective,
for any occasion. singularly enough,
is plumb" which he seems TO use
as almost an equivalent for that
British word which is usually printed
as by" He also says by gum'"
Mr.. Hershheimmer sings his mil
lions by the million. At one crisis
he proposes to restage the sinking
of the Lusitania, to jolt the memory
Of certain character. When the
surprised English doctor appears
puzzled, julius exclaims:
whats the difficulty? Hire a
liner"
"a liner," murmured DR.. Hall
family.
Hire some passengers, hire a sub
marine-that's the only difficulty,
guess. Governments are apt to be n
bit hide bound over their engines Of
war. Still, I guess that can
be got over. Ever heard of the word
graft sir? Well. graft gets there
every time. reckon that we shan't
really need to fire a torpedo. II
every one hustles around and screams
loud enough that the ship is sinking.
it ought to be enough for E.
Jane"
II one may borrow, In return. what
seems TO be an increasingly popular
piece of London slang. Julius is
priceless" Remember. he is sup
posed to be a typical. cultured Amer
lean gentleman.
The rest Of the story is fairly well
done. with some clever variants Of
established plots. Mysterious papers
We're handed by a drowning man to
a girl as the Lusitania went down,
and there is a resultant mix up OF
Bolshevik. after-the-war Germans,
Sim Fein and other plotters, and a
general run around after the "se-
cret," conducted largely by two en-
terprising amateur detectives, male
and female. and very mysterious
''Mr. Brown" The suspense is well
kept up. and it will take an expert
enced guesser to anticipate the So
luton. But the gem of the piece IS
Julius. The British characters see
nothing wrong with him, and one of
the deputy heroines marries him in
the end. He alone Is worth the price
OF admission.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

RAVENSDENE cOURT-By ]. S.
Fletcher. Alfred A. Knopf.
IN URING the last year or so it
has been demonstrated that
there are scores of clever
writer's. English and American, male
and female. who can produce fairly
good detective mystery stories.
Never before has there been so large
a percentage of this form of fiction
in a seasons output. But it is also
true that there are not more than
perhaps half a dozen whose
work is more than fairly good.
Among those who stick closely to
the type and do not attempt to merge
il with any other. Mr. Fletcher is
clearly one Of the few master crafts
men. He is immensely prolifc-this
is his third book within a year-but
there is also an astonishing variety
in his stories. They are var iations
on theme. but sufficiently variant
10 be. each one. markedly individual.
Curiousiy. too. one remembers his
plots: the story stays with YOU. which
Is more than can be said OF most
such
This new story Is Cne Of his best.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

record and coordinate all the as yet
discovered facts about painters and
pictures. nor even to discuss the
works of any artist. however great,
nor necessarily any work of every
identified artist of the period, how
ever small. but to open the way for
the ordinary intelligent person to
enter into this particular domain Of
art and there orient himself and find
a solution of such difficulties as are
to be encountered on the thresh-
old. :"
Sir Martin names three great
scholars whose labors have been
fruitful in research in the history of
this school-Mr. W. H. James
Weale, DR.. Friedlander and Prof.
G. Hulin de Loo; and the study was
founded by the first of them. More
than fifty years ago he began to de-
cipher the archives of Bruges, that
ancient city which was the home of
so many artists In the fifteenth GEN.
tury. Among worthy successors and
students of a later time the two
other named are most eminent, and
they have been aided by advantages
not at the disposal of earlier stu
dents. With the vast resources of
photography and in a time of myriad
museum and sale catalogues and
special magazines, in the modern
ease Of travel and communication,
their work could go on much faster
and more satisfactorily. Thus their
progress was rapid and continuous:
the mass Of material collected but as
yet unpublished is very great. and
Sir Martin predicts encyclopedia
works upon the subject in various
details. Both DIR. Friedlander and
Prof. Hulin have succeeded in iso-
iating from the mass OF existing pic
lures whose authorship has been for
gotten groups Of works which they
are able 70 assign with assurance: =
and TO all this material the present
author has had access and has col
laboated with them.
But Sir Martin disclaims any pur-
pose q attempting. In this look. a
eesuplete digest Of that knowledge.
since % the ordinary lover q art
the works Of secoad rate masters
are net important. Owners and spe-
Ciai etudents q such pictures get
their e~n special pleasure from
them. bat the great men and TIE
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
HIS GRACE GIVES NOTICE. BY
Lady Troubriige Duffield & Co.

HIS GRACE GIVES NOTICE. BY
Lady Troubriige. Dufiield & Co.
7 ADY TROUBRIDGE assures us
in PREDATORY note that "the
annals Of great families con-
tain records OF many strange events
of which the world at large knows
nothing. Now and then an
event occurs which is singularIy full
OF real romance. The implication
of reality as to the ensuing story
may have some reference to actual
fact. but it has no other. truer kind
OF reality. This is the story OF a
deserving young man who is re-
ducec. temporarily. when the tale
o<-ns 10 taking job as a footman
Ia the household Of a noble lord.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

Perhaps the secret OF his sound pop
ularity. here and in England, lies
somewhat in his fine sense OF proper
ton. and in his moderation. There
is never anything too much: his &C.
centric people, like the aged but
sprightly Mr. Cazalette OF this tale.
are just eccentric enough. They
stop short of becoming grotesques,
and their eccentricities are naturally
a part Of the plot. In this story
there is mystery in lavish abundance
and manifold variety, but no item of
II is overdone. and 1t all finally dove
tails together into an orderly pat
tern.
This one starts with a double bar
relied murder mystery: Two brothers.
middle aged sailors, are killed in the
same way. at the same time but at
points hundreds of miles apart.
There are no apparent clews. The
chase leads far backward for a real
starting point-as far in fac. as the
sixteenth century and the ccnffsca-
ton of monastery wealth. Tt ere are
also Cinnamon, bank robbery, a
buried hoard. a kidnapping, and
finally a comrehensively murderous
battle Mr. Fletcher frankly uses
all the well known properties all the
good old tricks and familiar stage
settings, but always manages to give
them a fresh, active interest. There
is nothing pretentious about 1t, but
it is really extraordinarily clever.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

IDENTIFY the most artiStlcally gifted or
the four, and every kind of splendid
thing that could then be made was
produced in the utmost possible per-
fection for him. He built numer-
Gus elaborate cEateaux, his manu-
scripts were of the most splendid.
his plate the most sumptuous. The
mere inventories of his goods bewilder
the modern student. +. Only a
small fraction Of this Dukes treas
ures have survived, but each is a
thing of high and sometimes almost
incalculable value measured in mere
money. Greater. however, than the
actual output Of fine works which
came into existence at his bidding
was the impulse he gave to the de-
veiopment of art" Among tie most
notable specifications of separate OBJ
jects and artists in this chapter are
the Book of Hours of Jeanne de
France" (an exquisite miniature is
reproduced, Jacques Bandol of Paris
(whose astonishing miniature Nof
King Charles v. with its enormous
nose is photographed). the pare
ment de Narbonne," the silk hang
ing preserved in the Louvre; the
great Jacquemart de Hesdin (whose
sketch book is in the Morgan COL
lection), Merchoir Broederlam of
Ypres, Jacques Coene and scores
of masters of tie art of miniature
painting; to the Limbourge Broth
ers alone are due thirty-nine large
miniatures, two of medium size and
twenty-four small ones.
So the author brings us. under
standingly. to the first Identification
of the work of a great new master
painter. whole internal evidence"
in his miniatures is overwhelming
Hubert Van Eyck. Tie painter Of
the Client altar piece is the only per-
son capable OF producing the minia-
ture at the foot OF one OF the pages
in the Hours Of Turin" that most
magnificent manuscript. part OF
which was destroyed by fire at tie
Turin Library in 1s0i-some part OF
IL still survives in the Trivulzio
Library at Milan. The same artist
drew the larger miniature on the
same page-depicting the birth of ST.
John Baptist as taking place in
tie bedchamber of n Flemish palace.
This page. with its foliated border. is
reproduced in photogravure as 'front.'
ispiece TO the present volume.
Hubert Van Eyck's younger
brother, John. was his pupil. and
M y pictures were painted in part
by both. Tie greatness of Hubert
was his mastery of atmospheric as
well as linear perspective-far in ad-
vance of any other painter in north
ern Europe. 1T used to be said that
the Van Eycks invented oil painting.
Their method is not wtN modern
artists understand by oil painting,
nor does il matter. :. The
thing that is patent is that the proc
ess was novel. and it came into use
first in pictures painted by Hubert,
while it was carried to greater per-
fection in later days by JOHN. Pic
lures done in the new method look
brighter. richer in tone, more enamel
like in surface. and are evidently
less tender and more durable as well
as more brilliant and jewel-like in
color than those of an earlier date.
Thus Hubert was an innovater in
technique as we'll as in the style and
subjects of Eis art"
Throughout this treasury of a
book the author keeps his interest
unfiagging; each new detail is of it's
own Importance. The volume is a
worthy monument of the veteran
scholar and critic.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

For the title for his latest book.
"The Everlasting Whisper" Jackson
Gregory made use of Rudyard Kip
ling's poem "The Explorer" deriving
the name from the lines which run:
"One everlasting whisper, night and
day repeated-so:
Something hidden. Go and find Il.
Go and look behind the Ranges
Something lost behind the Ranges.
Lost and waiting for you. Go! 4"
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

LOWERS. BY Sir Martin Conway,
II. p. E p. Dutton G Co.
UPWARD of thirty years ago.
when professor of art in
Liverpool, the author of the
present imposing volume delivered a
series of lectures on the work of the
early Flemish painters-the Van
Eycks and their followers-and these
lectures were published in a volume
called Early Flemish Artists" {"
which brought the author a letter of
warm praise from Ruskin. Sir Mar
tin Conway in his introduction to
this important book, remarks that
he has often been asked to repubIish
that early book, but found it "im-
possible honestly to do So" since it
Is now "hopelessly out of date"
During the last thirty years the
whole subject has been carefully
studied in great detail by different
scholars. many new discoveries have
been made and so much that was
then accepted has been disproved
that scarcely a line of the original
could stand. To revise the book was
practically to rewrite it, and time
was lacking for that as well as
Strong inclination.
But Sir Martin Conway notes that
the war has changed many things,
and his plans among them. The
years when war made Il impossible
to travel among foreign museums
were available for going over older
ground; and so he turned to his col
lection Of photographs. TO my old
friends. who lie so quietly there.
Treasured up in the silent and
changeless past-the great medieval
painters OF the provinces which now
form Belgium. Holland and a part of
France" lie dug into his old note
books. and went through his early
volume again ard found himself re-
writing Il. for. as he says. both the
subiect and the writer had changed
Yet the purpose of this new work
AM that old one b the ssme-not 70
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
ceasi-=ea fro~ Precoas.s PAGE.


fn the hands q a competent crafts
man sach as Mr. Raine the lure Of
the Sorth i always eesnDeiiins. The
romano q the great Canadian for
ests and snow swept plains Is mex
haastibic. Mr.. Ralns also always
writes from first hand knowledge.
He gets up" his material cOnscien-
tiouSly. and one Is convinced that
he Is not inventlng or imagining his
detail.
The necessary bad man Is a very
bad man indeed. but he Is not a
grotesaue- So. too. the Indians. tame
and Wild. are pretty satisfying. al
though there Is just little OF the
'.noble red man" about them. and the
young Indian who refrains from
shooting the criminal because he is
a Christian. and who allows himself
to be captured and tortured, does cal;
for a little believing on the part of
the reader
The girl in the case is something
better than a conventional heroine
at times. though she. and the other
minor people. remain hardly more
than necessary background for the
hero himself. who holds the lime
light all the time. The concluding
chapters involve good old fashioned
contest in nobility ard self-sacrifice
by the hero and his friend that is a
little reminiscent of John Alden and
Mics Standish. but II never quite
dops to sentimentality. The book
is a very good sample of its familiar
breed of the romance of adventure.