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haps loveliest OF all, little nude in
a sylvan setting, pictured in the half
light of dawn with that exquisiteness
of feeling which invariably finds its
way into Mr.. Hassam's best works
For one who has had such a voge It
is not surprising that now and again
he has done less well than his best.
The wonder is that the source of in
spiration is apparently so inexhausti-
BILE and that he has had, as this ex-
hibition amply testifles. so much TO
give.
x *
MO little excitement has been caused
in art circles this week by the pub
lication OF the will of the late Senator
Clark, from which we learn that
there is possibility of his art
are left, as every one knows, to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, which
has until July . to decide whether or
not to accept them under the coudi-
tions named. II the decision is ad-
verse then the Corcoran Gallery of
Art may claim them. but under pre-
cisely the same conditions that they
are now offered to the Metropolitan.
These are that well lighted gallery
pancy of these works OF art, to be
designated the w A. Clark collec-
tion, shall be provided by the museum
or gallery and that the collection in
its entirety shall be accepted and
shown.
These are difficult conditions to
meet. 1t is a very large and varied
collection comprising not only paint
ings and works in sculpture, but
rugs, tapestries. porcelains and many
sorts of objects of art. They repre-
sent the taste of the collector and each
has it's measure of beauty in itself
but museum as a trustee of the
people has to consider not merely ac-
QUESTION and display, but serviceabil-
ity to the public, and the acceptance
OF that which can never be changed,
can never be correlated, can never
be moved is, according to some mu-
scum officials who have given great
thought to the matter, a doubtful
benefcence. Yet at the present time
1t would be difficult to forecast the
decision to be made by the trustees of
the Metropolitan or of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art.
The Corcoran Gallery is at present
greatly in need OF additional space
1t is overcrowded and when the great
exhibitions such as the biennial OF
cotemporary American painting are
shown therein it is necessary to re
move to the basement the entire per
manent collection. Those who have the
interest of the Corcoran Gallery at
heart and appreciate the admirable
service it is rendering to the com
munity have long been hopeful that
funds might be supplied for the
building of a new wing by some gen
erous donor. The gallery owns a large
piece of property which would make
the addition of more than one wing
possible. 1t would take not one, but a
series of galleries to properly set
forth the Clark collection, and once
placed. these galleries would be per-
petually so occupied. From every an
gle it must present a tentalizing
problem.
DURTIS BAKER of the Corcoran
- School of Art is holding at this
time a one-man exhibition in Boston
His painting, Interior with Figure
which received one of the Clark
prizes when shown in the Corcoran
Gallery's most recent exhibition OF
cotemporary American art, and was
included in the American exhibition
in Venice last Summer, is reproduced
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in a recent number of La Fiamme, a
monthly review of the fine arts pub
lished in Rome.
A the annual meeting of the Wash
"A ington Water Color Club. held
Saturday, April 4, at the studio oil
Mr.. and Mrs. Leisenring, the follow
ing officers were elected for the COM
ing year: President, William II
Holmes: vice president, Lucier
Powell: secretary. Mrs. Susan b.
Chase; treasurer, Miss Mary X. PoT-
ter; members of the board, Benson
3. Moore, chairman; l.. Morris Leisen-
ring, Cameron Burnside, Miss Eliza :
beth SswteiIe and Miss Elizabeth
MuhlhofeT
A. the Arts Club Marguerite c.
"a Mum is exhibiting upstairs, and
group of four Baltimore painters
Anne Chandlee, Mary drummer. Mar
garet NJ Law and Louise West
downstairs. Miss Mum has shown bet
ter worr in the local exhibitions from
time to time, and of the four Bslti-
more painters only Louise West
makes much of showing. She ex-
hibits a number Of charming little in
terioTs and several sunny outdoor
themes, notably The Club Pergola. =,
There is a certain cleverness in the
works of her three confreres, but
the works are all slight.
X X x X
MRS. LILA CABOT PERRY. the
IL able secretary of the Boston
Guild of Artists. and both a painter
and writer of distinction, has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Grew. at
Beauvoir. during the past week, hav-
ing spent the Winter in Charleston.
She brought with her a number of
her Charleston sketches, some Of
which are fair-sized canvases and
very characteristic OF the aspect and
lure of that fascinating place. Par
ticularly happy was Mrs. Perry in
her interpr etation of the warm
Charleston sunshine. with its cool
lavender shadows-the dreamy illu-
sion of sunlight through mist. And
yet Mrs. Perry is perhaps better
known as a painter of portraits than
of landscapes. She is an indomitable
worker, one who has travelled much
and lived a full life. In recent years
much of her time has been given to
the advancement of interest in art.
1t was through her cooperation last
Summer that the American Fedora
ton of Arts was enabled to assem-
BILE a travelling exhibition of works
by Boston artists. which has gone the
rounds this Winter and proved, wher-
ever shown, of great interest.
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Notes Of Art and Artists
Notable Work of Permanent Addition at Corcoran
Gallery of Art-Changes Freer Gallery-Paintings
By Childe Hassam at Phillips Memorial Gallery.

great Adams Memorial in Rock creek
Cemetery and the superb Lincoln Me-
mortal in Potomac Park, il creates
for those who see it a. beautiful ST.
lence, eloquent with great thoughts
unspoken. In memorialiZing Mr.. Eus-
It's ii memorialiZes those traits OF
character which represent the no.
blest in manhood, and it should serve
not only tc hold him perpetually in
high esteem. but to induce emulation
on the part of those who look upon II.
1t is beautifully done, very direct in
treatment and sympathetic in the
matter of expression. The material
is Caen stone, which is warm in color
and of soft texture. The velvet drap-
cry covering the bier hangs in lovely
folds, and suggests weight and rich
ness. In short, MIR. Gregory has sue
Ceeded in producing a work which,
while new, seems old; a work which
one feels has not just been created,
but rather has always been and could
not be different - a great achieve
ment. 1t is a most difficult thing to
produce an illustrative work with
out making the literary aspect out
weigh in significance the artistic
merit, but this. too, Mr.. Gregory has
succeeded in doing. The Corcoran
Gallery is fortunate in having ac-
work of art.
x X =
4 MOTHER and quite different me-
mortal, the work of a Washing
tonian, was dedicated yesterday and
deserves more than passing notice.
This takes the form of wrought
iron arch and gateway to the Nir-
ginia Episcopal Seminary, near Alex
andria, a memorial TO the late Rev.
DIR. Charles Minnigerode. 1t was de-
signed and in part executed by his
great-grandson. Eliphalet Fraser An
drews of this city. the son of the late
l.. F.. Andrews, for many years prin-
Cipal of the Corcoran School of Art
portrait painter of distinction, and
Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, also
an accomplished artist.
The gate consists of two brick
posts, surmounted by lanterns and
Joined by a wrought-iron arch. The
design is symbolical, representing
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words from Sir Ector's famous la
ment, found in the last chapter of
Sir Thomas Mallorys "Morte OAR
thur: And thou vert the courteoust
knight that ever bare shield; and
thou vert the truest friend that ever
bestrad horse" In the center of the
panel is a niche or blind window. on
which is carved a cross in a circle.
Both knights are in armor; Sir
IaunCelot wears his helmet with
visor raised-beautiful in death as in
life. sleeping the long sleep-the
ideal representation of gallant Chris
tian manhood, suggesting in his
serenity the triumph of life over
death, giving the assurance of life
hereafter; the figure of his brother is
in interesting contrast. his rugged
countenanCe full of sorrow, his figure
vitally alive and yet suggestive of
suspended motion; in his very atti-
tudc seeming to carry a load of
sorrow.
1t is very quiet work Like the
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ture of Washington Arch painted
about 80 years ago, when the ladies
wore crinoline in their sleeves and
did not show their ankles, when a
line of trees bordered the Avenue and
led the eye directly to the Arch. Be-
sides, there is a charming picture of
the North Shore, Cape Ann, which Is
employed as setting for as lovely a
little nude as ever was painted.
There is a wood interior and a sea-
scape, to say nothing of a mountain
picture and a little jewel of a water
color. again of houses and a street.
What an enormous output Mr.. Has
sam has to his credit. One recalls
with pleasurable sensations his
paintings of the rocks and sea, so
colorful and iewel-like, which peri
odically appeared in the exhibitions
a quarter of a century ago; his pic
lures painted at Lyme of the old
church and of the church towers of
Gloucester to say nothing of it's
wharves and harbor scenes and, per-
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BY LEILA MECHLIN.

4 NOTABLE work in sculpture
and very beautiful room
n have been added recently to
4 the Corcoran Gallery of Art S
assets. Both are memorials
the late William CorcOran Eustis.
: audson of the founder of the Cor
an Gallery and himself for many
rs a member of the board of trus-
*, The sculpture takes the form
large panel in high relief, and
a." room is that wherein for many
, RS the Barye bronzeS have been
rl played. This collection has not
' IN displaced. but the entire room
been done over, not only to afford
able setting for the memorial
- mel. but also TO set q standard in
%; museum display. 1t was rather
dreary, cluttered room heretofore.
IN the exhibits arranged on shelves
Ike steps around the wall. 1t is now
. room which satisfies the most
thetic taste in its expression OF
iiarmonious beauty. and yet it is
walls have been hung from ceiling to
Hrbase with velvet of a soft gray
Town; the shelves and the old tapes
eS and cases have been removed;
our new cases. perfectly simple. have
nCn brought in. These are of glass,
thout frame. and stand on the
uplest sort of brown wood table.
ach has one shelf and the smaller
oronzeS are beautifully displayed
herein. These cases are placed at
Ne four corners of the room, with
mple space TO pass around them,
hile between, at either side, are
ong Italian refectory tables on which
and three large bronzes each.
Tho Hnnr~ Mt ha u rlnGad RI
he visitor makes entrance from the
djacent gallery. Opposite this wide
communicating doorway and, hence,
Immediately facing the visitor, is the
memorial panel set in the wall,
Xecuted by John Gregory, the well
.uCwn sculptor. for just this par
icular place. It depicts Sir Ector de
Taris looking upon the dead body of
lis brother. Sir Launcelot, in the
'hurch of Joyous Gard. On the chapel
vail to the left are inscribed these
Evening star., 1925-04-12
Reviews of Spring Books
Late Offerings of the Additions the Pub
lie Library-Short Stories Of What the Authors Are
Providing for Readers During Coming Year.

a land OF simpIicdties and whooping
cowboys. where everybody can quick
ly be labeled good" or bad" where
everything is black or white and there
are no half tones. If any one still
thinks that SO subtle and insidIous a
thing as the spirit we call modern
ism" can be baked by a physical bar
rier, even so majestic q barrier as the
Rockies, he will find The Crooked
Mile" illuminating.
One understands from publishers'
notes that this is a first novel. Ap-
parently youth has again shown the
way. 1t is to be hoped that others
VIII do for the South what Bernard
Devote has done for the West.
NJ B. w
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Remarkable Statistics.

A GERMAN newspaper with a love
Z n for statistics has collected the
following data on the German pop
ulation: Ten out OF every 1000 men
and 3 out of every 1000 women are
idiots. On the other hand, out of 1000
men there are 10 geniuses, whereas
among 1000 women there is none
When it comes to average intelligence
the women are ahead, sos out of 1000
being in that category. while only $50
out OF 1000 men thus qualify,
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THE CROOKED MILE. BY Bernard
Devote. New York: Minton
Balch & Co

Balch & Co.
MTASHINGToNLANS have an especial
w right to resent the sort of litera-
ture which reduces whole sections of
America to local color" because
Washingtonians have by actual con-
facts learned that the ideas bubbling
under the Western sombrero are not
very different from the ideas quietly
sleeping under the Boston silk hat.
A majority of our authors. il one
is to judge from the books they
write, prefer to believe that large
areas of our country are inhabited not
by flesh-and- people but by
types" The two sections which
have suffered most from this literary
practice are the West and the South.
The cowboy and the Southern planter.
Indian and African dialects, the ready
moose and the quick trigger-what
boons they have been to the lazy
novelist
But, though you might never guess
it from our fiction, both the West and
the South are facing the same modern
problems which confront the rest of
the country. The jazz age and the
speed demon do not recognize such
boundaries as the Mason and Dixon
line or the Rocky Mountains. All the
subtleties of our complex civilization,
our postwar spiritual exhaustion,
our fatalism, our cynicism and our
struggling faith-all of them exist
today on the prairie and in the cot
ton field. In fact, they are the reali-
ties and the cowboy and the simple
old oad-hatted planter are mere
ghosts of the past.
A few writers are beginning to rec
ognize these conditions. And one
novelist has made his recognition the
basis for rather remarkable study.
In THE Crooked Mile" Bernard De-
Voto has achieved something really
notable. He has given US the picture
of the Far West of today, a study of
life on the old frontier as it is lived
by a generation three times removed
from the pioneers. The old spirit
still lives, but subtly altered, refined,
weakened IL you will; beating it's
wings against the frontiers of moral
and intellectual demains, now that
there is no physical frontier left to
conquer. THE Crooked Mile" is peo-
pied with characters who live and
breathe. who have human doubts and
human weaknesses. The Western at
mosphere is present only as it modi-
fies the reaction of these characters
to life. But there is no attempt to
make believe" that the West .is still
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Through nature to Cod" the seven
sprays of roses in the arch typifying
the mystic number of perfection.
The lights represent the Light of the
World, the clover leaves in the design
the Trinity-three in one. The three
crosses, one terminating the arch, the
others terminating the lanterns, rep
resent repentance, atonement, abso-
luton. The iron work was executed
by Mr.. Andrews and Mr.. Buckheit at
the shops of the Southern Oxygen
CO. It is a piece of solid welding,
without a bolt or a rivet, and is a
fine example of craft work in this
medium. Mr.. Andrews also did the
Tucker memorial lamp in st. Mar
garet's Church.
x x !: !:
A NUMBER of changes have been
n made recently in the exhibits in
the Freer Gallery of Art. These are
in the galleries that have been de-
voted to the work of American paint
ers other than Whistler. In galleries
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] and there is at present an eN-
hibition of prints by James McNeill
Whistler, comprising 38 Autographs
and 80 etchings, selected. for the
most part, from the sets published as
the Venice Set" and the set of 26
Etchings." Many of these bear in
pencil Whistler's mark as printer as
well as the etched signature. In
galleries and the paintings in oil
by several American artists include
five which have been placed on view
for the first time, namely, a portrait
of himself, by Whistler; Drying
Sails" by Twachtman: The White
Lilacs' and The Old Church, Deer
field" by w. H. Metcalf, and Portrait
in Blue" by T. w. Dewing.
Two newly acquired Chinese
bronzes, d vase and a libation cup,
both of a high order of design and
workmanship. are on view in the east
corridor. Fuller mention of these
will be made later.
= + x =
THE exhibition at the Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery has been changed
again in the small room. The Ernest
Lawsons have been taken down and
replaced by a group of paintings by
Childe Hassam. Mr. Hassam Is usu-
ally listed as the chief exponent in
this country of French impression
ism, a close follower of Monet, one
who habitually has used the French
impressionists' method of painting in
pure color laid on in little dots or
short strokes, with a rather dry,
small brush. Thus the Impression
lists aimed. it will be recalled. to re-
compose the illusion of light.
The group of Mr.. Hassam's pic
lures now on view at the Phillips
Memorial Gallery are not, however.
strikingly in this method: some are
not rendered after this method at
all, but are painted rather solidly in
fiat tones or broadly with a simpli-
fed palette. They demonstrate dou-
bly, therefore, Mr.. Hassams versa
tility. They are extremely varied in
subject and style. For instance, one
is a figure painting picture of
woman at a piano, life size: another
is street scene in New York-a pic
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Normal Longevity.

A T birth an American may expect to
"A live SO years; in Australia, 55
in Germany, As: in India, only %.
And when a person in the United
States has lived to So years he has
a. further expectation of 81 years.
This estimate is based on figures of
the 1920 census.
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u,
of Aliette Brunton," etc. New
York: The Century Company.
A HOST of young and generally ca
n pable writers of the male persua-
sion would, 1t is conceivable, have been
sadly put to it for theme had not the
modern girl broken loose from her
moorings and set sail in her lone
little craft upon that uncharted sea
whose name is living her own life"
An epochal exodus from the parental
roof-tree that must have been, If one
may Judge from the prodigious activ-
ity which the movement set UP in the
writing hand of each one belonging
to this army of presumably husky,
able bodied young men; for 1t is these
chiefly who are stocking library
shelves with this subject, whose pro-
lection from every possible literary
angle they appear to accept as their
particular mission field of high serv-
ice. They run according to formula,
these stories of the emancipated girl,
written by the still traditional boy.
After much to 90 out in the open
this varying according to the inven-
tive ingenuity of the writer-the girl
invariably turns tail and scurries
back home to get in out of the
weather, or, better, into the arms of
some honest man offering her the
ancient and honorable sanctuary OF
marriage. Being at heart the same
old woman that has f1ourished or
yithsred since Eve. the girl In ever
Evening star., 1925-04-12
BY IDA GILBERT MYERS.

THOSE BARREN LEAVES. by Aluous
Huxley, author of Chrome yell
low" etc. New York: George H
Doran Company
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Recent accessions at the Public
Library and lists of recommended
reading will appear in this column
each Sunday
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09
ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK


So. St. Paul, Jan. 9.-(U. S. Dept.
Agr.)-Cattle receipts 1900. Steady.
Killing quality plain. Few yearlings
early $500 to $500. Bulk steers
yearlings $3.50 to $500. Fat She
stock steady with Thursdays dull
close, bulk 1926 to $5.25. Better
grades upwards to $500. Gamers
and cutters $3.50 to $500. Bologna
bulls largely $3.75 to $4.25, slow,
weak. Few heavies up to $3.50.
Stockers and feeders in light supply,
bulk steady. Calves receipts 1900.
so cents higher. Mostly $500 to
packers.
Hog receipts 10000. Desirable
butchers mostly Is to 25 cents high
err. Bulk good and choice grades
weighing around 200 pounds and up
$1,000. Few loads of choice weighty
butchers held higher. Lighter
weights steady to strong. $50 to
18O-pound averages $3.50 to Ss.75
mostly. One hundred forty to $50
pound kinds $3.50 to $3.50. Packing
sows 1925 to $3.50. Pigs around
$3.50 to $6.75. Average cost Thurs
day 9.43. Weight 204 pounds.
Sheep receipts 1900. Slow. Few
sales fat native lambs $170O. Looks
25 or more lower. No fed westerns
or sheep sold.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09
MARKET NEWS
Wire Murkets BY
Associated Press
WHEAT GOES
UP TODAY
Advances in Liverpool Are
Reflected Here

Chicago, Jan. 9.--In sympathy with
an advance at Liverpool and an up
turn in Sterling exchange, wheat
here ascended with considerable Wig
or today during the early dealings.
Reports Of enlarged shipments from
Australia and Argentina failed to
check the rise, being offset by in,
dications of better European call
for breadstuffs and to improved do
mestic milling demand. Offerings
scored an all-around advance of
about two cents. The opening, which
ranged from Nc to l cent higher,
with May SITS to 1kc and July $1.53
y was soon followed by material
further gains.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

Chicago, Jan. gu. S. Dept. Agr.)
Hog receipts $4,000. Generally
steady to 10 cents higher. Medium
and strongweight butcher hogs aver
aging 200 pounds downward mostly
10 to Is cents higher. Early top $lO.-
90.
Cattle receipts 5000. Beef steers
and yearlings slow. Steady with
yesterdays close. Bulk $8.0U TO 1913.
Sheep receipts $4,000. Fat lambs
around 25 cents lower. Bulk $17.75
to S18.25; top $3.50.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09
MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN

Minneapolis, Jan. 9.-Wheat re-
ceipts 226 cars compared with 1873
cars year ago. Cash No. 1lnorthern
$1.73 1-2 to SLIT 1-2. No. dark
northern spring, choice to fancy $1.98
1-2 to $2.11 1-2. Good to choice $1.S5
1-2 to $1.98 1-2. Ordinary to choice
STA 1-2 to $1.84 1-2.
No. hard spring $1.75 l-2 to $2.11
1-2; No. hard Montana on track
$1.76 1-2 to $1.98 1-2; to arrive $1.76
1-2 to $1.98 1-2.
July $l.73; May $1.75 1-2; Corn No.
8 yellow 1.2O 1-2 to $1.22 1-2; Bar
ley 70 to "a cents; rye No. 2 SLAB
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09
POOR FARM IS SUGGESTED

Lisbon, N. d., Jan. 9.-Suggestion
has been made that use as poor
farm be made by Ransom county of
half section Of land few miles from
Lisbon, which, were decided to the
county as settlement by bondsmen
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09

fare Of Is or 20 pfcnnigs to give the
conductor tip of five pfennigs,
which he is supposed to divide with
the motorman.
The street car and bus men receive
S25 to $50 month, according to
length Of service.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09

for the some $4,000 of county de-
posits tied up in the closed Rsnsom
County Farmers bank. While the
number of poor in this county is not
large, officials say, it is believed they
will be taken care of on farm just
as well rs under the present system,
and with perhaps less expense.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09
MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR

Minneapolis, Jan. 9.-Flour un-
changed to 10 cents lower. In car
load lots family patents quoted at
$3.50 to $9.40 barrel in 98<pound
cotton sacks. Shipments 32,163 bar
rels. Bran $31.O0 to $4,000.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09
PEARLS WORN

Long strands of pearls are very
fashionable, particularly those with
sections of brillants or emeralds at
regular intervals.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-01-09
MISCELLANEOUS

SMOKE-Commercial Club 10c cigar,
Little Billy's &c cigar. Cigars of
Quality, same as first class work
manship. Manufactured by w. r.
Erlenmeyer, 423 Third Street,
Bismarck, N. D. fJ-E