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Cod coast started the making of Old Sandwich
glass. Sand of Just the right grain and strain,
SO hard to find Deeu forests of special wood
nearby for firing. handy little river for coast
reach. Workers in glass, one, two and three.
And the village of Sandwich became a busy
fact. Ultimately Old Sandwich glass took high
place in that mysterious art Of ancient line
The legend runs, that certain Phoenician mar
liners in that long ago day anchored their ship
laden with nitrum on the banks of a little
stream at the foot of Mount Carmel, in Pales-
tine. Finding no stones to rest their cooking
pots upon, they used clods of nitrum for this
purpose These, fused by the fire with the sand
Of the river bank, produced liquid transparent
stream. such was the origin Of glass"
Now let come back to an old garnet in
Sandwich where, in the traditional dust and
cobwebs and general litter Of ga-rets everywhere,
we're discovered old account books of Charles
Waterman in which were pasted clippings of
The Sandwich Review" This litter in bulk
contained the transactions of the Boston and
Sandwich Glass Co. Contained in outline, the
story Of this lost American art, the making Of
Sandwich glass.
For Frank Chapman looking out Of that attic
window high among the elm trees the
nearby town and the beach, its breakers
frothing in; saw, too, a shining thread Of
glass stretching across the sea from far Phoe-
nicla to Cape Cod, crystal thread uniting the
ages and the interests of man. poet you see.
So he went on quest Of beauty. In New Eng
land vernacular he ransacked the country for
cherished specimens of Old Sandwich glass He
made fine use of his camera, precious possession
Of modern man. He revised and arranged the
records of that attic so that it became con-
nected tale of achievement in both industry
and art. Names of noted promoters find place
here. Advance in the industry is recorded
Definite contribution to American art is cited
Records of exhibitions of Old Sandwich glass
nd bere az
scribed- Here, all in all, is charming record
Of the lost CD American art of glass making
An exciting adventure that Frank Chapman has
carried out In a manner Of deep pleasure, and
instruction, to many a reader in America.
THE MEMOIRS OF BENvENUTO CEILINI.
Translated by Robert Hobart Gust. Illus
trated by James Daugherty. New York
Dufheld g. Green.
CARLY in the list of Best Sellers of the
l. Ages" James ODonnell Bennett places Ben
venuto Cellinis Autobiography. He also cites
Mark Twain, "a searching man not given to
taking his opinions ready made" as counting
this book second in the best four of its class
With the Cellini itself, John Arlington Sy-
mond's translation has carried off the highest
honors. A strain Of mild dissent, however, has
here and there penetrated such general accept
ance. Literary judges agree still that Mr. Sy-
monds, by way Of translation and interpreta-
ton, has produced a marvelously beautiful and
understanding re-embodiment OF both Cenini
and the Renaissance. which he SO clearly iliu-
minated and so truly expressed. But a few,
bold ones, suggest that the deeply refined
suavity of this work has, in some measure,
translated Cellini out of himself into the purer
mold OF Mr.. Symond's scholarship.
These are placing Mr.. Gusts literal transla-
ton Of Cellini with shade of challenge beside
pages OF man, the whole man. "A human doc
ument" in its fullest sense. Here that genius
Of half thousand years ago records himself,
almost day by day, among his fellow men,
among the interests that engaged them at the
period. Vigorous and lusty days, when work
and play were. in spirit. no doubt, pretty much
what they are now. Different manners, differ
ent ways Of speech, different mental and moral
approaches. But, the same rivalries and lusts
and over-reachings as exist today. These. all,
Mr.. Gust permits Cellini to set forth without
restraint A very natural man, sort Of boy
man, ardent, impetuous ready with the rapier.
jealous Of his art envious Of competitors, child
ish in his resentments and ready over-lookings.
A wonderful figure self-revealed. His auto
biography, clearly, Celni's greatest work of art.
1T enchants the reader with the endless variety
of its incident it holds his attention spellbound
with its headlong rush"-then it stops in sud-
den dramatic climax, as If at the moment some
great TODD from the outside had summoned the
ever-ready Cellni to action.
A beautiful volume, this bit of the printers
craft Its illustrations are notable, cast quite
in the key Of the robust tale itself. A treasure
for book lovers, THE Memoirs of Benvenuto
Cellini," and JOY to readers of literary bent.
THAT AMERICAN WOMAN BY Alec Waugh,
author of Hot Countries" etc. New York:
Farrar and Rinehart.
A N English lion of literary stripe in the
\ jungle Of New York society Now this
young Briton had well as a novelist by