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Evening star., 1927-04-24

The first chief of the division of
prints Of the Library of Congress was
the late A. j. Parsons, a great lover
of art, a dillettante. a man of private
means who was willing TO give the
service because of his love of the
work. MIR. Parsons vision was eX-
Ceptional, his enthusiasm contagious.
and as a result the foundations OF the
division were so laid. and early laid,
as to permit expansion and develop
ment such as has now taken place.
His successor. Prof. Rice, was a
lover of fine bindings, rare books,
beautiful prints. For many years he
was the head of a department at Will
Hams College. Upon his retirement,
coming here to live, he was persuaded
10 assume the responsibility from year
to year, temporarily, of chief Of the
division of prints. Since his death
two or more years ago the position
has not been filled, the salary attached
thereto being too small to offer, it
seemed, to one fitted for such posi-
tion, yet the work requiring at this
time and in the future larger measure
of service than could be expected Of
one serving "con amore." The In
come from the grant of $4,000 is
purposed 10 supplement the funds
available from Government appropria-
ton so that the holder Of the chair
0t fine arts. who will serve as chief
OF the division of prints, will be com.
Eensated hereafter to an amount ap'
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This book. published in a limited
edition of 325 copies at a price of SIS
per copy, Is almost the last word in
book making and at the same time a
memorial to the genius of Joseph
Pennell, the consummation of his
many years of labor as an artist and
an illustrator. The water colors are
full of the spirit of New York, yet
each is an individual Interpretation,
spontaneous, free, beautiful as a per.
manent record of passing effect. The
book is also an excellent example of
close cooperation on the part OF the
printer, the writer and the artist-a
consummation, a beautiful result, a
work of art from first TO last.
y X
TWO new exhibitions opened at the
Arts Club April IT, TO continue
TO April 80. These consist of 80 or
more water colors by members of the
Washington Water Color Club, and a
group of 33 water colors by Dorothy
Burt Trout.
The former are in the upper room
and include a charming little Glimpse
Of Nantucket by William II. Holmes,
the distinguisher director of the Ma
tional Gallery OF Art, president OF the
Water Color Club and the Society Of
Washington Artists; two views of Mar
blehead by A. Eo Edwards, two rep
resentadve worksp by Lesley jackson.
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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
Significance of Establishment of Chair of Fine Arts Connec
tion With Division of Prints Library of
Congress-New Exhibitions.

| proximating that which heads Of de-
partments in universities commonly
receive.
The holder of this position will have
an interesting task, a unique oppor-
tunity. He will be not only keeper
Of the collections, with the respon.
sibility of adding thereto, but will be
expected to make those collections
available to the public in such wise
that they may be of the utmost value.
and that, through them, art in this
field will be related to everyday life.
It is peculiarly fitting that a great
National Library should have such a
division Of prints, for the graphic arts
are directly related TO the art OF
literature through the mediums OF
printing and book-making. And in
this connection 1t is worth mentioning
that the print division of the Library
of Congress has a valuable collection
OF reference books on art, collection
which undoubtedly, as time passes,
will be enlarged and so arranged that
students from all parts Of the country
will make resort to it.
The PennelI gift and the establish
ment of chair of fine arts In the Ma
tional Library go far toward the de-
velopment of Washington as an art
center, the art center of the United
States; not perhaps the art market,
but a cultural center of learning and
of appreciation such as the capital
city of a great nation of idealists
should be. The gift of the Carnegie
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BOOKS RECEIVED

THE WHITE LIGHT BY DIR. Leo.
nora Aren't, author of "The Fight
Today" etc Boston: The Christie.
pher Publishing House.
POEMS. BY DR.. Leonora Aren't, au-
thor of THE White Light" etc.
Boston: The Christopher Publish.
ing House.
A POINT OF HONOR; And Misun.
+ derstood BY Judith L. G. Garnett.
Boston: The Christopher Publishing
House.
RETURNING TO EMOTION. BY
Maxwell Bodenheim. New York:
Boni & Liveright.
THE PROFESSORS LIKE VODKA.
By Harold Loeb. New York:
Boni & Liveright.
WHITE WIND. BY Jacob Wendell
Clark. New York: ]. H. Sears &
Co.
UNDER THE BAN. BY Robert
Alonzo Love. Boston: The Strat.
ford Co.
THE SORROWS OF ELSIE. BY An.
DIRE Savignon. Translated from the
French by Reginald j. Dingle.
New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd.
THE DIARY OF ELBRIDGE
GERRY. Jr. With a preface and
Footnotes by Claude G. Bowers.
Foreword by Annette Townsend.
New York: Brentano's.
CRAZY PAVEMENTs. BY Beverley
Nichols, author Of "Patchwork,"
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acteristic water colors, which. OBJ
Vlously go long way toward elevat-
ing the standard of the exhibition, for
though Mr.. Holmes is first q scientist
and a scientist of great distinction, he
is among water colorists one of the
foremost today. That his work should
oe shown with that of other members
OF the Landscape Club is reasonable,
as this club is made up of men who
turn TO art by way of recreation
rather than as a vocation. The ma
1ority of Mr.. Holmes work has been
done during holiday times and leisure
hours, by way Of recreation.
Benson Moore, who has attained en-
viabie reputation as an etcher, is rep
resented by no less than nine paint
lngs, In some Of which Is found a sub
tier note than one has been in the
habit OF associating with Mr.. Moore .
painting. His Spring pictures are
particularly pleasing, though in his
Winter themes he exhibits virility of
treatment. A. II. o. Role, president
or the Landscape Club, is also gener.
ousiy represented. His work is Of a
more ambitious type than heretofore,
and 1T shows marked progress. 1t is
free and vigorous and not without evil
dence OF sensitive feeling.
Garnet Jex shows several canvases,
mostly Midsummer themes, rendered
In rather hot color, but not iIkappro-
prlatee There Ia distinct tndivf Nality
Evening star., 1927-04-24
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

T%HE announcement made last
Sunday in The Star of the
establishment of chair of fine
arts in connection with the d.
vision OF prints at the Library
Of Congress through the muniticent
gift of a fund of $4,000 by
the Carnegie Corporation of New
York was of great significance-
greater, perhaps, than many may De
aware. In the first place, 1t gives
recognition to what has been done IN
the establishment and development or
the print division, organized about
40 wears ago: and in the second place,
il gives indication of future poten-
tialities.
AS the librarian of Congress, Her
bert Putnam, in making the an
nouncement clearly pointed out, the
purpose of this department is to make
available to the public research and
educational material, and the function
of the department is to serve the pub
lie rather than to conserve examples
of technical or even purely artistic
achievement. In other words, the
Library of Congress, which has be-
come the National Library of the
United States, is not trespassing upon
TIA field of the art museum, but is
rakler supplementing the service
which museums offer.
The Library of Congress has facilf'
Evening star., 1927-04-24
Gasoline Tax Scheme
Defeated in Germany

Opposition by interests against the
gasoline tax plan in Germany def.
nitely has eliminated all chances for
the next few years of the substitution
of such a tax in lieu Of the present
burdensome horsepower tax imposed
on automobiles in that country, &C.
cording to reports. The ministry Of
finance has sided with the opposition
and claims that the administration Of
fuel tax would absorb 40 per cent
Of the receipts. For that reason It
has decided to find another basis of
taxation or continue the present sys-
tenn.
The movement to substitute a gaso.
line tax for the tax on horsepower
was begun in 1925 and has been
backed by both manufacturers and
the car-owning public. Due to the
system of taxation, manufacturers
have been forced to produce engines
which are of insufficient power to
compete on the foreign market with
other cars. They recently have be-
gun developing zfX and eight cylinder
engines provided with greater fiexibil-
ity and power through the use of
larger bore and stroke dimensions.
The sale Of these engines, however, is
confined chiefly to the export trade,
Evening star., 1927-04-24
Finds Children Choose
Their Play Activities

"The majority OF children are more
interested in a few play activities than
in any Others" says Harvey c, Leh-
man and Paul A. Witty Of the Univer-
sity Of Kansas. in a report to appear in
Childhood Education.
Rather than arbitrarily select games
for children to play, the authors found
by asking a group of $50 kindergarten,
first and second grade children in Kan
sas City, Lawrence. Bonner Springs
and Moran, Kans., just what play ac-
tivities were most popular. Each In.
dividual pupil was asked by his teacher
what he liked to play most at home
and what play he liked best at school.
Five choices of home play and five of
school play were secured and the
teacher was careful to make no sug-
gestions which might influences the
pupils choice.
Among girls Of years the most
popular play activity was playing
house, next came playing with dolls.
Then came playing with ball, fol-
lowed by drawing and playing school
in the order of choice named. Least
popular Of all with girls of this age
were swinging and cutting out pic.
lures. The boys of years liked base
ball or playing with ball best Of all,
with playing with blocks next in order.
Curiously enough, third choice was
playing house. Least popular Of all
were looking at pictures, playing In
dian or cowboy and running.
Practically the same interests were
fayorites with children up to and in
cluding years of age.
Evening star., 1927-04-24
Duce Is Warned Women
Resent Fashion Edict
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
Napoleon made one campaign too
many. and Mussolini should take
warning. The Duce does we'll to exalt
Italian nationalism, but probably
would do better to find other ways
Of doing it than by forbidding italian
women to fashion their gowns upon
the French models. The Italian wom-
en- are patriotic and the quality of
their Fascism Is not to be question
ed, but If Mussolini wants them to
wear gowns of Italian design and
make, he should first order the Ital-
ian gown designers and makers to
acquire the reputation and authority
of those of Paris. If the Duce can do
all things he ought to be able to do
that. All we can say is nobody else
can.
The italian women are not unreason-
able. We read that they have COM
piled with the order that they should
have one black shirtwaist to wear on
fascist celebrations. This is not a
gown, of course, but a badge and SYM
Dol: it can be worn on occasion even If
1t is not becoming. Few badges are
that, we believe. But when woman
dresses up she doesn't wear a shirt
waist and she wears no badges at all,
unless it be something in the nature
OF a necklace or earring, which are,
we understand, badges of barbarism
but are not, in the eye of the beholder,
unattractive. And for dressing up
purposes it happens that Paris, per-
haps undeservedly. has the distinction
of supplying the best. We say best;
maybe it Is not. What we mean is
that women the world over regard it
as the best, and IL Mussolini thinks he
can change their opinion, let him try.
The truth is that nationalism,
strong as it is, is not proof against
human Vanities. Even Americans,
perhaps the most nationalistic of
peoples-anyway we hope they are
prefer Scotch whisky to their own
domestic corn.
If Mussolini is the statesman he is
represented to be, he won't carry his
nationalistic theories into the realms
of feminine dress. He tried 1t once
before, when he attempted to revive
the classical costumes OF imperial
Rome, and it was failure. We never
heard the reason assigned for the
failure. but it is easily supplied--the
Italian women found the costumes OF
ancient Rome unbecorning to them
If Mussolini wants to turn the
italian women against the French
fashions, the way to do it Is to con
vince them that those fashions are
ugly.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

Providence before returning to his
home in England. He expressed him.
self as profoundly impressed, not
merely by the beauty, but the strength
and virility of the tall buildings in
New York. particularly those erected
since the new coming ordinances have
gone into effect. which require sue
cessive stories to step back in pyra-
midal form. They are, he declares,
the essence OF the city in its true
sense.
A N exhibition of fifty bromoil prints
by Joseph PetrocelH. a member
of the New York Camera Club. who
has lately returned from q long visit
to Europe, is now on view in the
National Museum, department of in
dustrial arts. This is the first show.
ing OF his work outside OF New York
since his return. His subjects are
exceedingly varied compositions, well
chosen, and the treatment fine.
There is no longer any question
that, in the hands of an artist, the
camera can be made a true medium
of artistic expression. If there were,
Mr.. Petrocelli's works would demon
strate the fact.
TN these columns last Sunday were
published reproductions of land.
scape paintings by William P. Silva
of California and Paul Gustin of
Seattle, the former a picture painted
at Runnymede. S. c.. the other a
scene in Glacier National Park
Through inadvertence and error. the
SUBSCRIPTIONS of these paintings
were reversed. 1t is to be hoped that
readers observed the fact and mental
ly made correction. This correction
Is made in justice to the artists.
X X &
WORD has lately been received in
this country that a painting by
Edith Hoyt OF the "Old Manor House
at Bare st. Paul." Province Of Quebec,
has been purchased by the Canadian
government through the Society of
Historic Monuments" OF the Province
of Quebec for the Historic Museum
in Quebec. This interesting old house
was built in 1918 with an unusually
high gabled roof of great beauty.
Unfortunately, it was destroyed by fire
last year. To have painting pur.
chased by the Canadian government
and included in this historic collection
is a great and well-merited compli-
ment to the work of one of our local
painters.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

an admirable and very painteriike
rendering of the "Old North Church"
by l.. M. Leisenring and two portrait
studies in red chalk by Mrs. Leisen'
ring. Annie d. Kelly shows an exceed
ingly attractive study OF roses. Mrs.
Keplinger a charming rendering of a
bowl of marigolds and Susan B. Chase
a colorful and pleasing Jar of Flow
ers." Clara Saunders Theresa s
Bouquet" Is an excellent piece of still
life painting, and there is dogwood by
Belle p. Smith and Emma Deuel. Rice,
the latter showing other floral com
positions.
The place of honor is occupied by a
strong painting of the sea, After the
Storm" by Elizabeth Sawtelle, who
also shows Roman Anemones." There
is skillfully painted ''Cornfield' by
Mary King Porter, a most attractive
picture of a Street in Lucerne" by
Eleanor p. Custis and an original rem
dering of Snowy Rooftops" by Mar.
gerete Lent. Hattie f. Burdette shows
Late Afternoon" landscape, T. Z.
Brown THE. Red House" and "The
Barn" and Roy Clark a subject enti.
tied I'm Dry Dock"
Others represented are Sarah J.
Wright. e. Muhlhofer. Mrs. Francis
II. Combs and Benson B. Moore. The
latter is represented by two dry points
of dogs, Head of Spaniel and
Head of a Terrier"
Dorothy Burt Trout's water colors
are in the lower room and are colorful
and vigorous, sometimes a little slight
Evening star., 1927-04-24

Corporation must be regarded in this
light as more than q nffe-stone-an
event Of the utmost note.
=
INCLUDED in the Pennell memorial
exhibition now on view at the Ii
brary Of Congress Is large quarto
volume entitled THE Glory OF New
York" which came from the press of
William Edwin Rudge of New York
almost the day that the exhibition
opened. 1t consists Of "a hitherto un-
published illustrations of New York
Harbor, water colors by Joseph Pen.
nell painted from the high window Of
his apartment in Brooklyn, reproduced
by a four-color process known as the
Smithsonian process" on rough an
tique paper, one page to each picture,
with the text by Elizabeth Robins
Pennell, telling how certain views had
influenced the artist, and Typography
by Bruce Rogers, one of the leading
aphists of this country.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

ties for, showing prints in its beauti-
ful halls. pavilions and galleries
greater than any other Library in the
world. It's equipment. furthermore.
for the storage and handling OF prints
is exceptional. 1t was these facilities
and equipments, together with the
admirable organization of the division
of prints, which so impressed Joseph
Pennell that he made the National
Library his beneficiary and established
under its auspices a national chalco-
graphy museum, or department.
The Carnegie Corporation has
never, heretofore, made a grant to
the Government or for the govern
mental service. In making this grant,
however. it recognized the fact that the
work to be done was work for the
people OF the United States generally,
was of enormous educational value
and was primarily outside of the ac-
cepted field of approved governmental
appropriation.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

and thin, but on the whole engaging.
Among the best is a picture of Mont
ST. Michel. The majority are foreign
subjects.
* X NJ
THE Landscape Club is holding its
Il Spring exhibition in a gallery pro-
vided by the Rare Book Shop, S22
Seventeenth street, open to the public
from am. to 6 pm. week days,
and from to pm. on Sunday. This
comprises 81 paintings and a group Of
is works in sculpture by H. K. Bush
Brown.
The majority of the works shown
are logically landscapes, and the
larger number of these have been
done in the vicinity of Washington.
There is, in fact. only one figure
study, portrait by Richard s. Mary.
man, principal of the Corcoran School
of Art and an accomplished figure
painter.
William Fl. Holmes is represented
by three very charming and char
Evening star., 1927-04-24
REVIEWS OF SPRING BOOKS
Political History and Growth of Newspaper in Volume
Horace Greeley-"Stories in Stone" by Geoloeist.
New Fiction From Publishers.
c. New York: George H. Doran

etc. New York: George H. Doran
Co
WHITTIER DEMOCRACY? Does
Equalizing Opportunity Create He.
reditary Social Classes? A Specu.
lative Study. BY n. ]. Lennes,
University of Montana. New York:
Harper & Bros.
THE ARDENT FLAME. BY Frances
Winwar. New York: The Century
Co.
THE NEW POOR. BY Clarissa Fair.
child Cushman. New York: Harper
& Brothers.
THE GIRL FROM GRAND PRE-. BY
William Miller Bartlett. Boston:
The Stratford Co.
Men, Women and Great Horses.
BY Bertram Atkey, author OF The
Pyramid OF Lead" etc. New York:
d. Appleton Co.
MORNING. NOON AND NIGHT. BY
Kenneth Phillips Britton. Hart.
ford: Edwin Valentine Mitchell
FEAR: The Autobiography Of James
Edwards. BY John Rathbone Oil
Macmillan Co.
SIh1hE. by w Ill w. w nalens autnOr
Of "The Golden Squaw." etc. Phil
adelphia: Dorrance & Co.
SHAKESPEARE'S sONNETS. Never
Before Printed. New York: Payson
& Clarke, Ltd.
SOUTH AMERICA; Ampnhed to In
clude All of Latin America; the
Vandyck Cruise. BY Franklin II.
Martin, G. M. c., D. s. NJ, M. D.,
ETC., Director General OF the Amer
ican College of Surgeons, etc. In.
PRODUCTION by William J.. Mayo,
NJ. D., d. &c., etc. Revised edition
New York: Fleming H Revell Co.
THE FUN sHOPJThe Mirth Of q Ma
ton. Edited by Maxson Foxhall
Judell. New York: George II.
Doran Co,
LIFE CHANGERS C,dore Twice Born
Mem: Narratives of Recent Move
ment in the Spirit of Personal Re-
llgion. BY Harold Begbie, author
of Twice Born Men" New edi-
tion. New York: G. P. Putnan's
Sons.
THE NEW TERROR. BY CASTOR Le-
roux, author of THE Phantom
Clue" etc. Frontispiece by George
w. Gage. New York: The Macau-
lay Co.
ITALY AND FASCIMO. BY Luigi
Sturzo. Translated by Barbara
Carter, Lic-es L. With a preface
by Gilbert Murray, d. Lift. New
York; Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Evening star., 1927-04-24
VIII Supply Homes.

BY decree of the Italian government
one-third of the profits of the postal
administration will be used in pur-
chasing and building houses for its
employees and agents during the next
10 years. These houses will remain
the property Of the administration,
Evening star., 1927-04-24

Recent accessions at the Public Ii
brary and lists OF recommended read.
ing will appear in this column each
Sunday.
Evening star., 1927-05-30
NOTABLE BRITISH DOGS
ON WAY TO new YORK
Thirty Greyhounds, With Record
for Speed, Valued at $4,000,
Bought by Kentuckian.

By the Associated Press.
LIVERPOOL, England. May 80
Thirty British greyhounds aboard,
valued at $4,000, are bound for New
York on the steamship Adriatic.
Among them are Golden Note and
Merry Master, holders of what is
claimed to be the world record Of 33
seconds for go yards. Thomas Mat
lok of Kentucky bought the grey
hounds at Belfast for electric hare
coursing in the United States. They
were shipped Saturday.
Greyhound racing with electrically
controlled hares, which was introduced
INTO this country from the United
States, has become firmly established
in England in a short time. Many
scoffed at the idea becoming popular,
but the ma jority of these skeptics now
are keen fans and attend the nu-
merous meetings in various parts of
the country.
Considerable space is given to the
racing in all the daily papers, with
betting odds and distances of the
first, second and third greyhounds,
just as horse races are recorded.
Society people not only attend the
racing, together with middle class and
working people, but also own and
race greyhounds. The Duchess of
Sutherland has won several minor
events with her dogs.
Evening star., 1927-05-30
RAT|ON|NC
MAY Be ENFORCED
North Carolina Firm, Hit by
Drought, Takes Conserva-
ton Measures.
By the Associated Press.

> By the Associated Press.
RI CHARLOTTE, y. c.. ,Iay go
Possibility that power users in the
Piedmont section of the Carolinas may
again have to submit to rationing of
power was seen here yesterday when
it became known that that the South
ern Power Co. is operating its steam
plants to full capacity as a means of
conserving water in its great dams
along the Catawba River.
Severe Droughts Suffered.
- While the Mississippi Valley and
some other sections OF the country
have been overwhelmed with heavy
rains this Spring. with the resultant
great floods. this section of the coun-
try has been on the verge of suffer
ing from. lack of rainfall. In fact.
some sections have suffered severe
droughtS. particularly the Cape Fear
{ section of North Carolina. where no
rain fell for SO days, TO the detriment
of the strawberry and truck crops.
= Officials of the Southern Power Co.
said that there was no likelihood or
danger at this time of the company
i having to resort to the rationing SyS-
TEN that has been in vogue for several
wears during severe dry spells. but
: that. of course, if the dry weather
continued it was ~ossible some such
step might come in the future.
Brisk Rain Falls.
The Southern Power Co.. controlled
by the Duke interests and in which
many North Carolina and South Caro-
lima colleges and universities. hospitals
/, and the Southern Methodist Church
have an extensive interest through
the Duke foundation controls the
flow of the Catawba River from the
source in the North Carolina noun
tains well down stream into South
Carolina.
A brisk rain fell here yesterday, the |
first rain of any proportions in ap- |
proXimately 80 days. Truck garden
ers said it would help their crops, but |
1t was not believed to be heavy enough |
to cause any rise in streams.