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of May. 1t is located near the
Champs -Elysees and is modern
home for modern art. This location,
so we'll chosen by Mrs. Garrett, is
accessible to the streams of tourists
and shoppers-as the jewelry shops
and noted dressmakers of the world
are nearby.
The house-for it is a house in
which the gallery is located-is No.
20 Avenue Georges v, and Mrs. Gar
rett has her apartment above the ex-
hibition rooms. She writes that she
considers it great good fortune that
she has enlisted the interest and help
of her friend, the Princess Bassiano,
who is, by the way, sister-in-law of
Prince Caetani, former Italian Am
bassador to the United States and one
of the most popular diplomats Italy
has sent to this country.
Princess BaSSiano, nee Marguerite
Chaplin of New York, and who has
lived for many years in Paris, is
distinguished figure in the world of
art and letters. 1t will be recalled
that she founded and published the
literary review, Commerce, the early
numbers of which are considered valu-
able as collectors reference.
Nine Kochanska. widow of the
violinist, Jan Kochanski, is also an
assistant of Mrs. Garrett, and Nancy
Symington, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Jack Symington of Baltimore, went
over with Mrs. Garrett to help her in
launching the new enterprise.
The American Library Association
reports that there is decided trend
toward books on biography, history,
economic problems, popular sciences
and similar books. Public libraries
throughout the States are making
more careful study of the tastes of
their clientele in order to cater more
efficiently to the public taste or times.
Students, as we'll as children. require
some leadership when it comes to Sc
lecting literature. and it is satisfying
to find in a library a nice, chatty
person to point the way. No superior
highbrow, just one who knows books
and loves them. This kind of a per-
son is lacking in some of our public
libraries.
Prof. Harry Franck, a distin-
guished University of Michigan
man, one of those amateur vagabonds
who has written so charmingly of life
in many countries. is to travel in Rus
sia this Summer with party-not for
study, but for fun. He promises to
introduce them to bloodthirsty bandits,
who pose with knives in their mouths;
three-star vodka, wine from the Gel
lars of the late Gar and other inter-
esting things. His book, "A Trip
Around the World"-not new-was
rather unusual. He started out with
s104 and then made expenses as he
went along. Men of the C. c. c.
camps would tell Mr.. Franck that this
would not be a propitious time to
work ones way around the world and
that he had best take his pocketbook
with him.
Phyllis Bentley, rather an interest
ing person, has been talking to the
Manchester Guardian about the YAM
KEGS. She does not seem quite sure
that she likes them, although she says
"the American mind is much more
flexible and open than the average
English mind" and she admits that
the faces one meets in the street here
are much happier than over there.
Quote: 1T is rather amusing to
notice that there are definite cosmetic
zones in the United States. If we
were to color (she spells it colour
map of the States with different
shades of pink to represent the
amount of rouge worn in different dis
tricts, Boston would appear almost
white, the East and West Coasts rosy,
the Middle West and South a deep,
rich red" But Phyllis thinks her sis
ters across the water curious-evi-
IDENTIFY. But Americans are used to
doubtful compliments from their Eng
lish kinsfolk.
This is neither the time-there is
no time-nor place for dissertation
on book reviewing as an art-it seldom
is-but now and then one comes across
such an original way of handling
story that it is an incentive to start
right off and buy the book and de-
YOUR it from head to tail.
There is an instance of this sort in
recent review of book of travel
by young Italian nobleman of the
nineteenth century.
Count Francesca AreSe, who was an
exile from his native Lombardy for
political reasons and who came to
America in 1887 to be with his friend,
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, then
eXiled by Louis Philippe (who had
also been guest of this country for
his attempt at a Bonapartlst resto-
ration at Straabourg.
Louis Napoleon was recalled to Eu-
rope by the illness of Queen Hor-
tense, and it was then chat Count
Arese began his tour of America,
which took him from New York to
Louisiana and from Boston to St.
Louis. He was delighted with Vir-
ginia; the easy, cordial manners of
the people, the good food the iced
water. of which he seemed to drink
freely and considered a luxury. The
Indians interested him. "A Trip to
the Prairies and m the Interior of
North America" was written in
French, and much of the pleasure of
the book is due to the excellent
translation and annexation by An
drew Evans, for Count Arese's rough
notes must have needed considerable
editing.
The rumor is that the Soviet gov
ernment is thinking of sending a
cultural attache" to its embassy at
Washington He-it might be she-is
to be a sort of cultural rapproache-
ment between the peoples of the two
great republics. This adjunct to the
diplomatic corps would doubtless func-
ton through bureau for the official
interchange or information regarding
the educational and the cultural de-
velopments in the two countries.
Farley to Speak Thursday.