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Charles Carroll Of Maryland. The
record shows Carroll attended III
days, arriving on April 18th. and for
this attendance he received s1,026.
AS he was 480 miles from the seat Of
Government" he is likewise credited
with sl44 travelling expenses.
The Senator farthest away from the
seat of Government was James Gum,
who had to travel 2,094 miles to attend
the sessions For this he received
1928, and as he attended 165 days,
received 1890 in salary. William Pew
had 2.076 miles to come, and received
s623 for travelling expenses. Having
attended l8l days. he received a salary
of sl,086. Rufus King, registered as
"at the seat Of Government" naturally
received no travelling expenses, and as
he attended but 81 days, was paid but
s4o2 for his Senatorial services. Ths
lowest salary was paid Philip Schuyler.
who received $500. The highest WAS
$3.50.
There Is more OF value In these
priceless old volumes than could
possibly be recounted here. They are
TO be retained for time In the Capitol
until the Senate Library. under tbs
direction Of the Secretary Of ths
Senate, can conduct certain eompar-
ative researches in connection With
them. Comparisons will be made of
the many changes that have occurred
In the forms in which the journals of
the Senate have been kept. and other
historical research will be made before
the records find their way eventually
to the National Archives for perma-
nent safe keeping.
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Story Of John L. Hodge Was
Typical of American Ac-
tivities Abroad.

Hodge. jr.. May 10, 1869. The record
book further states that the head was
bought from Canova by Col. John
Hodge" This is probably a clerks
error.
COL. JOHN L. HODGE, JR, was
the nephew OF John l.. Hodge. sr :,
the son Of his brother. William Led
yard Hodge. The younger John l..
Hodge was born in 1886 and died in
1902. So it was impossible for him
to have bought bust from Canova,
who died in 1922.
There is only one flaw in this charm
ing story Of Eow young American
business man secured valuable art
treasures at critical period of his
tory. John l.. Hodge was not Consul
at Marseille in 1915, as the inscrip-
ton on the bust at the Army War
College states. According to the State
Department records. Stephen Catha-
Ian was Consul at Marseille from 1905
to 1877. John L. Hodge was appointed
Consul June al, l849, and his sue
cessor was appointed July 6. 1859.
This, however, need not affect the
story.
At this time the American Govern
ment placed a great strain upon the
honesty OF its representatives In foreign
countries by giving them great re-
sponsibilities and at the same time
paying them beggarly wages. A good
deal Of the correspondence Of Stephen
Cathalan, = Frenchman by birth, with
Madison and Monroe had to do with
money matters. In one letter he bess
that he may be allowed q thousand
dollars = year salary. In Hodges
time the Consul received only about
$l,400 \ year. and Hodge. . bachelor,
lived rs suited the position of United
States Consul by drawing 81 500 to
$4,000 . year from his estate in Phila-
delphia.
We may believe. then, that Hodge
was acting temporarily ~ Consul in
1915. or he may have received the
Consurs aid in getting the bists, or,
since the local petty authorities were
readily purchasable, he may have
handed them . few francs to obtain
the unwanted busts.
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One at War College Legacy
From Days of Turmoil
in Changing France.
BY Leila Sellers.

1NHE most conspicuous object In
the rotunda Of the Army War
College is a colossal head OF
Napoleon I. Emperor OF the
French. by Canova. 1t is mounted
on nuted wooden pedestal, about 4
feet high
The inscription on the metal plate
on the left-hand side reads. ION
this side, sitting under this bust of
Napoleon in 1917, Marshal Joffre
explained to represe entatives OF the
U. s. War Department that only
American man power could save the
Allies from military defeat in the
war with Germany"
On the right-hand side is this leg
end: This bust was one of five or
dered by the imperial government for
nve great provincial cities of France
Delivered at Marseilles after the bat
tie OF Waterloo, the local Bourbon
government ordered them cast into
the sea. The U. s. Consul at Mar
seilles. Mr.. John L. Hodge, obtained
them under promise Of immediate re-
movsl from France and gave this COPY
TO his sreat-nephew, the donor, in
1862. One copy WAS lost at sea, the
others are now in Corcoran Art GAL
lery, the Metropolitan, the Phila-
delphia Academy OF Fine Arts"
For some 20 years the bust OF Ma
poleon was loaned to the Army War
College by Rear Admiral w. L..
Rodgers, the great-nephew Of Mr..
Hodge. In 1929 he consented to re-
lnqush his claim to it and it WAS
formally presented to the college on
November of that year.
The fve busts referred to in the
legend were made when Canova was
At the height Of his fame. He had
LED the revolt against the trivial and
pretentious baroque sculpture of the
late Renaissance period and had be-
come the founder of the modern
classical school, Byron wrote, "Eu-
rope, the world has but one Canova." I"
But Canova, in his turn, went to
great extremes in his admira ton for
antiquity. He represented Washing
ton ~ Roman senator, Napoleon s
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Busts of Napoleon Saved by American War Trader

mother in the attitude OF Agrippina
and Napoleon himself in the garb Of
a Roman emperor. Although he was
undoubtedly the greatest sculptor OF
his time. he impresses us today as
somewhat artificial.
IN 1902 Pope Plus VII appointed
him chief curator OF all Roman
works OF art, but before he could ac-
cept the appointment he was sum-
moned to Paris to model a portrait
OF Napoleon Bonaparte, then first
consul. He completed this study in
1903 and executed from it two colos-
sal statues, one in Carrara marble and
the other in bronze. The marble
statue was sent to Paris to the EN-
peror in 1911. Later it became the
property of the Duke Of Wellington
and is now at Apsley House, London
The bronze cast is in the court Of
the Bura Palace. Milan.
This celebrated statue represents
Napoleon as a Roman emperor, nude,
with long staff in his left hand and
in his right a statue of victory. The
figure is not SO good, but there Is not
a more successful work OF the kind
than the bust, which, despite Its he
roic character. preserves resem-
blance to the original.
Canova went to Paris a second time
at the special request OF Napoleon. in
1910, when Marie Louise was a bride.
The result of this visit was 4 sitting
statue Of the Empress. natural size,
with the attributes Of the Goddess
Concordia.
Many copies OF the Napoleon were
made, and with great facility; for 1t
was Canova who introduced the prac-
tice Of using mechanical aid to re-
duce the labor OF the artist. He en-
ployed inferior workmen to do the
rougher work, putting in himself only
the characteristic finishing touches.
The Hodge family account OF how
. young American in business at Mar
seille acquired five busts OF Napoleon
and one OF Marie Louise at one fell
swoop belongs TO the year 1915.
On his return from Elba, Napoleon
found he must win again the hearts
OF the French people. They were, in
deed. dissatisfied with the government
OF Louis XVIII, but they knew that
it had given them more liberty than
the empire. They also realized, after
the first enthusiasm. that Napoleon s
return meant the certain renewal OF
war. The first election returns re-
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f1ected public opinion. Out Of cham
Der OF 629 deputies there were 80
Bonapartists. 1t was a time, there
fore, OF many promises of liberal gov
ernment and Of much courtship Of
the French electorate.
A CCORDING to the family story,
Napoleon gave order to Antonio
Canova to make five busts Of himself
which he might bestow on the five
great provincial cities of France. In
cluded in the order was one bust of
the Empress Marie Louise.
When the busts were completed and
shipped from Genoa. Napoleon was
still in power, but before they arrived
at Marseille Napoleon had met
Waterloo. Naturally, the restored To-
cal Bourbon authorities did not want
the busts and ordered them cast into
the sea.
John Ledyard Hodge came to the
rescue. This Philadelphian, although
only 81 years old. was a successful
business man with taste for art.
He had made fortune at Marseille
supplying the French army in Spain
during the Peninsula War. he was a
collector Of old coins, some OF which
are still in the family and he was 4
great admirer Of Napoleon.
Hodge offered to take over the con-
signment Of busts and WAS told he
might have 1t II he would remove 1t
Immediately without landing it. He
was fortunate In being able to place
1t at once on board an American YES
sci, which already had obtained clear
ance papers and so was free from
further inquiry. So the six busts ar
rived safely in America.
For while they were kept In
storage. Then Mr.. Hodge parted with
his first Napoleon, shipping it to his
brother Andrew. . planter living in
New Orleans. The ship on which it
WAS freighted was lost with everything
on board.
Another Napoleon he gave to his
sister, Mrs. Austin l.. Sands OF New
York, together with the bust of Marie
Louise. This Napoleon and Marie
Louise are now in the Newport home
OF the Sands family. A third Ma
poleon was loaned by Mr.. Hodge to
the Philadelphia Academy OF Fine
Arts. where it still is.
A fourth Napoleon Of this group Is
In the Corcoran Art Gallery. Accord
ing to the gallery record book. 1t
was purchased from John Ledyard
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Book Reviews
Continued From Page B-7)

revolted at her husbands untruthful-
ness; she longs to flee to her parents
comfortable home, but her pride for
bids her. She stays and takes her
place among the farm hands Of the
rich. She is insulted, persecuted,
driven and robbed-sll a. part of
the treatment which a poor woman
should expect in these delightful
Aland Islands. She has four children.
she grows old and dies.
In the first part Of the book. as
said. the reviewer thought that the
author had simply drawn on her own
memory of poverty to form a story
which, though 1t seemed 10 be q
good story, had no significance be-
yond itself In the latter part of
the book. however when the author
tells of the emotions OF the old
woman for her children and her fool
ish husband-she reaches a level Of
universality. These pages are full of
the sorrow Of all life. not merely of
life in the Aland Islands. To read
them is to remember the tragedy
Of all brave souls grown old and weak
in whatever surroundings. They are
unforgettably poignant, and they lift
the rest of the book into their own
sublimity.
Katrina" therefore is recommended.
The prize which 1t won. incidentally
was the Helsingfors novel prize Of 1896
NAVY WINGS. BY Lieut.. Harold
Blaine Miller. u. s. N. New York:
Dodd. Mead Ss Co.
THE dosged perseverance, Of hand
ful of aviation pioneers. Who dug
into their own pockets to keep naval
aviation going in q day when ofhcial
indifference provided an almost IN
surmountable obstacle to the Develop
ment OF flying in the land Of it's birth.
is extolled in this engaging and read
able history of our flying Navy
Tracing the growth Of our naval
air force from the beginning. Lieut.
Miller points out tha heavy cost TO
the Nation in the past of the lack Of
definite aviation policy and pleads
for adoption Of the most far-seeing
possible program for the future. He
takes the optimistic view that some
Of the lessons Of the past have been
well learned and predicts that never
in the future will the United States
f1nd itself in the same condition of
aerial unpreparedness that existed at
the beginning of the World War, even
in 4 relative sense.
The author writes with . pardon
able enthusiasm Of the exploits of his
fellow officers of the flying service
and Of the contributions made BY the
Navy to sea-going air transportation
as exemplifled in the trans-Pacific
service OF Pan American Airways and
the proposed transatlantic service,
now in the pioneering stage.
Navy Wings" is a graphic and ap-
parently an accurate account Of the
birth and development of the seaplane
and, with it, of the aerial Navy which
today includes airplanes of all the
coo1bat types, from small single-seat
lan(plane fighters to great lons-rangs
patrN flying boats capable OF span
ming he greatest seas--J. o. z.
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Miss Clara Saunders. who has sue
ceeded Miss Custis as chairman of
the Exhibition Committee of the Arts
Club. paid visits on Long Island and
in New York early in the Summer. but
has been in town for some time,
supervising the remodeling of . new
home in Georgetown. Edith McCart-
ney has lately returned from a Sum-
mer in the country and established
herself in . studio apartment erected
and once occupied by Richard Merry
man, at SIS Twentieth street.
Fine Rugs and Tapestries
To Be Seen Again
In Tertile Museum.
THE Textile Museum Of the District
Of Columbia, 1880 s street, closed
during the Summer. reopened Sep
tember IS, and may be seen on Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday, from J
to pm, on presentation Of cards
obtainable at the Office of George
Hewitt Myers, 1870 Fifteenth street.
This museum contains rare rugs,
tapestries and other textiles OF the
Near and Far East.
American Art Seen in Europe
During the Past Summer.
MUCH praise has been accorded
the exhibition Of handicraft by
American craftsmen, to which prom
inent place has been given in or as
a part OF the Paris Exposition this
past Summer. The collection was
assembled, at almost the eleventh
hour, by the American Federation OF
Arts under a grant from the Rookie
feller Foundation. The actual work
Of collecting, registering. cataloguing
packing and placing on board the
steamship Normandie was accom-
plished in 10 days. But the committee
in charge was not unprepared for the
call and the $50 objects collected are
said to be fully representative of the
best Of our American craft product
Included were examples Of cOntempo-
rary work in jewelry, glass, pottery
stained glass, porcelain and metal
weaving, wood carving, batik. etc
as we'll as the crafts of the mountain
people Of the Appalachian ranges and
that of the Indians of the great South
west. Among the craftsmen repre-
sented are Lydia Bush-Brown, for
merly of this city, who contributed
silk murals; Charles Connick. Joseph
G. Reynolds. jr., and Nicola d'Ascenzo
distinguished workers in stained glass
Dorothy Warren O'Hara. Ami Mall
Hicks and other well known potters-
to mention but a few.
The building in which this exhi-
bition is housed (the exposition is still
grounds. in a group developed by the
Commission Artranale near the Port
Maillot. 1t is 4 permanent structure
Of pleasing design, and to the Ameri-
can section was assigned the most
important position at the center OF
collection returns to this country
IL Will be circuited by the American
Federation OF Arts to 4 limited num-
Der of American museums.
Collections Of American pottery and
OF American prints, the former under
the auspices Of the Syracuse Museum
OF Art and the latter sponsored by
the Society Of American Etchers, have
been exhibited in several Of the cap
ital cities OF Europe this Summer
Besides this. American museums and
private collectors made generous loans
to the exhibition Of French art held
at the Paris Exposition, to the Frans
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Bulletin of
Exhibitions

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART
Permanent collections, Amer
lean paintings and sculpture:
foreign paintings of the nine
tenth century; the w. A. Clark
Collection, paintings, rugs. tap
estries, lace etc; Barye bronzes.
etchings and engravings; spe-
cial exhibition Of dry-point
portraits by Cadwallader Wash
burn.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, NATION
AL ART COLLECTION-The
W. T. Evans Collection of
American paintings. the Gel
lefty Collection of paintings and
objets dart, Harriet Lane
Johnston Collection and Ralph
Cross johnson Collection of
paintings by the 'old masters,
miniatures, Herbert Ward COL
lection African sculpture, etc.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
DIVISION OF GRAPHIC
ARTS - Exhibits illustrating
graphic art methods. Special
exhibition of color wood block
prints by Walter J. Phillips of
Canada.
FREER GALLERY OF ART
Permanent collection shown in
changing exhibitions, Oriental
paintings. bron5es, sculpture
and potteries, etc. Paintings.
drawings and prints by Whis-
tier: the Peacock room, paint
ings by other American artists.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, d.
VISION OF FINE ARTS-Ex-
hibition OF prints by con-
temporary printmakers. Lith-
ographs by Joseph Pennell, IL
hetrations by American Illus
traitors. Other prints upon ap-
plicstion.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GAL
LERy--Permanent, changing
collection OF paintings by mod
srn artists and great masters.
Special exhibition of draw
ines by Pierre Bonnard and
drawings and etchings by Arts
tides Aafllol. Also new dec
ofations by Augustus Vincent
Tack and eAnvsses by other
ven-known artists lately ac-
| QriYed.
STUDIO HOU6E-Exhibition ar
ranged by Raymond and Ray
mond. showing process OF max
ing color reproductions Of
works OF Art. In several in
ssanoes the original painting
viii be shown beside the print.
Opening October 4.
ARTS CLUB OF WASHING
TON Annual exhibition
washington Landscape Club
| oils. water colors and prints
| opening October 3.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY-Ex-
| hibition of reproductions--for
| the most part in color--of mas
| erpieces of painting in the
| Mellon National Gallery COL
lection.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GAL
| LERY OF ART-Exhibition of
| Graphic Arts by the America n
| Artists Group--to October 2.
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Local Artists Return
From Summer Jdunts.

HE local artists, who have been
widely scattered during the past
Summer, have, for the most part, re-
turned to Washington and resumed
regular activities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leisenring have been
cruising in the far-from safe waters
OF the Mediterranean, visiting the
various countries whose shores are
washed by these waters. Edward B.
Rowan. superintendent of the Paint
ing and Sculpture Section of the Pro-
curement Division Of the Treasury De-
psrtment. and Rowland Lyon have
travelled independently, to Mexico. but
upon his return, the latter found more
hazardous adventure awaiting him In
Provincetown, Mass. Miss Critcher.
Summering in New Mexico again. has
returned TO reopen her school on Con-
necticut avenue. Mr.. and Mrs. Weis
motored to Canada and were en-
chanted with the beauty of the coun-
try and simplicity of the life they
found there.
Miss Eleanor Parke Custis has been
in Gloucester the greater part Of the
Summer. but has taken time of
for two very successful exhibitions Of
her water colors, one at the Vose
Galleries. Boston, the other in the
Currier Gallery, Manchester, N, H.
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both art appreciation and owner
ship. Still more. perhaps. our own
provincial writer who published the
opinion that, America. being 30 rude
country. 1t would be centuries ers
the muses. would erect their affairs on
her unsocial plains"
Evening star., 1937-10-02

Hale exhibition held in HARLEM. and
to other special shows This is
pleasant reversal of the old order
and one which would have greatly
surprised visitors from Europe, even
in Mrs. Thackerys day, who COM
mented frankly upon our poverty in
Evening star., 1937-10-02
BY Leila Mechin.

w YITH the coming of October
M the art season of 1878
" " may be said to open.
Glancing ahead, the pros
pert for this season here in Washing
ton Is most promising. In addition to
the all-the- year-round attractions
there will be numerous transient ex-
hibitions. among them some of no.
table character: and new gallery
that OF the Museum of Modern Art
Is scheduled TO open in November.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art has
en Its schedule OF transient exhibitions
fhis season three of outstanding i'm
portance. as we'll as a number less in
scope but perhaps equally significant
The three referred TO are a historical
exhibition assembled and sponsored by
the National Committee on the Cele-
nratlon OF the Sesqui- Centennial of the
Framing of the Constitution, which
will be held in November: notable
exhibition of sculpture by Anna Hyatt
Huntington, which is now making
tour of the leading art museums in
this country, after having been shown
last Winter in the American Academy
OF Arts and Letters, New York. and
an exhibition of Swedish art sent to
this country by the Swedish govern
ment to commemorate the Booth an
nlversary of the founding of the New
Sweden" colony on the banks of the
Delaware in 1888. The last two of
these will come to Washington in the
Spring of the year The Huntington
exhibition has been on the Pacific
Coast for the past three months and
has attracted exceptional attention.
In Los Angeles the attendance exceed
60 $4,000 in less than three weeks. The
Swedish exhibition, which consists of
paintings and works of the decorative
arts. many of which have never here
tofore been seen outside of Sweden.
arrived lately in New York and is now
on view in International House.
Rockefeller Center. 1t, too, will 90 on
tour after having been tremendously
made welcome.
Among the smaller exhibitions an
hounced by the Corcoran Gallery of
Art are dry-point portraits by Cad
vallader WaShburn. scheduled for this
month. and water colors by Mrs. Har-
IAN F1ske Stone to follow shortly.
PhutfpS Memorial GALLERY
Reopens With Additional
Attractions.
Il HE Phillips Memorial Gallery re-
opened yesterday for the season
with, among new attractions. two dec
oratlons by Augustus Vincent Tack.
lately completed, now on view in the
Music Gallery with works bv other
American and European colorists:
sno, IN Gallery E, "A Bull Fight" by
P1casso; Polo" by Raoul Duffy mem
Der OF the Carnegie's international
Jury this year,, and oils and water
eolors by Marin, Dove, Klee. Maril
and Knaths.
In the Print Room, from yesterday
10 November IL, may be seen two en-
eagng collections, one of drawings
by Pierre Bonnard. and the other of
drawings and etchings by Aristide
Nalllol. the well-known sculptor, also
of France.
The Bonnard drawings are supple
nentary to the group shown in the
same gallery last April, and likewise
brought into existence as illustrations
Tor "Histoire Naturelle" by Jules
Renard; hence, birds, beasts, insects.
nshes, set forth with lightness and
gajety OF touch appealing not only to
children, but to those of mature years.
The works of Bonnard as a painter are
well known through the frequent ex-
Evening star., 1937-10-02

Mr. Calfee was born in Washington
and is a graduate of the Central High
School, He spent four years studying
under Miles. the great Swedish sculp-
tor at the Cranbrook School at Bloom
field Hills, Mich, then went abroad
and gave year to painting. For
nine months he served as instructor
in wood carving and painting. in con-
nection with the Governments re-
settlement project at Cumberland
Homesteads. Tennessee, and liked it.
But, as he says, just about the time
the instruction began to bring results.
it was time to leave-the project
ended. Then came the commission
for his mural given by the painting
and sculpture section of the Procure
ment Division of the Treasury De-
partment, through open competition.
Mr.. Calfee has exhibited with other
local artists in the Phillips Memorial
Gallery. His studio is over a garage,
built within the square bounded by
Fourteenth and Fifteenth, T and u
streets.
The International at Pittsburgh
First OF Important
Out-Of-To1Dn ShoaUs.
EIRST Of the important out-of- town
exhibitions Of this season will be
the International Exhibition of Paint
ings to open in the Carnegie Institute.
Pittsburgh, October IA. continuing to
December S. In this exhibition there
will be 470 paintings from 13 nations.
OF these, 800 will come from England.
France, Germany, Italy. Spain, Po-
land, Belgium, Czechoslovakia. Swe-
den. Holland, Denmark and Norway
and ITO from artists in the United
States.
The Carnegie International is the
only annual international exhibition
OF paintings in the world All the
painting will. it is said, be represented
in this exhibition in proportion as
they have position in different
countries. and notwithstanding diff
culties-political. social. economic or
artistic-confronted in European
countries today, each will have
representative group of paintings on
view.
In this exhibition large cash prizes
are annually awarded. and, according
to custom, the jury OF award is made
up Of foreign and native artists This
years jury will comprise Raoul Duty
OF Paris, Ferruccio Ferrazzi OF Rome,
Henry Varnum Poore of New York
City and Judson Smith of Woodstock.