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nifch ulSpldyS great Tree.
dom as well as skill in his employment
Of mezzotint.
1t is here that his study of painting
has stood him in good stead. His
textures are those of the painter
rather than the engraver; further
more his portraiture has character
the personal equation is well to the
fore. Perhaps there was a chord of
unusual sympathy and UNDERSTANDING
between himself and the great hu-
morist-there must have been and
this undoubtedly enabled him to in
terpret the inner man as have few
OF his biographers. There are two
ether portraits In mezzotint in this
collection, both good, but not as good
- that of. Samuel Clemens-which
1 for all time outstanding.
A large and important etched plate
b one entitled "Peace"-the interior
Of q war-wrecked cathedral, light
streaming through its chancel win
dow, q regiment of men in uniform
kneeling with bowed heads, before
the ALTAR very impressive souve-
mir Of the world tragedy in all its
deep inward significance. Less good
Is the interior OF san Xavier del
Bac," in which q multiplicity of detail
has been allowed to become too in
sistent.
More than q CLINT of humor has
crept into 1.-The Elephants Cake
walk" and Rest Time" "Merry-go-
round" is delightfully."- gay and ad-
mirably indicative of motion. "Coun-
ty Fair"-a soft ground etching in
line-is highly amusing and cleverly
done. Some Of the nudes have q
classical quality, borrowed off hand
and effective-but are not all
equally successful. None could. how
ever, fail to be charmed and won BY
the lovely aquattnt entitled Asleep
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ment of Mr. Frederic A. Delano, head
of the Parks and Planning Commits
sion. They hold their own admirably
here in the company of works by other
sculptors Of distinction.
Ebe1 F. Comins Holds Exhibition
OF Portraits in Boston Under
Distinguished Patronage.
I TNDER the very distinguished pa
- tronage of the Vice President
and Mrs. Garner, Chief Justice and
Mrs. Hughes, Associate Justice and
Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone. Associate
Justice and Mrs. Roberts. Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss, Mrs. j. Borden Hartman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Warren and
others. Eben F. Comins of this city is
holding an exhibition in the Vose Gal
leries. Boston, April 18 to May 7. The
canvases shown are almost exclusively
portraits, the majority OF which are
lent by private owners and semi-public
institutions for the occasion. Included
therein are not only Mr.. Comins' most
recent portrait of Justice Brandeis,
which goes to Harvard University, but
also portraits of Justice Stone, the
late Justice Holmes, Vice President
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Magazines
Continued From Page F-4.)

the minorities in Czechoslovakia viii
cause the next call to arms. Mr.
Fodor charges that the Nazis plan
to take advantage Of the discomfort
among the Sudeten Germans to foment
revolt, after which Germany will "in-
tervene." Both pieces are written out
Of evident knowledge OF the situation
And both are distinctly depressing.
IN THE May Harper's Magazine Mr..
Marquis Childs discusses the Su-
preme Court as 1t Is today and re-
minds his readers that President
Roosevelt may have the making Of
four more appointments during his
remaining time in off1ce. The nature
Of these appointments. he adds. Is
causing the justices themselves con-
siderable worry. But he goes on
to add that this foreboding Is not
50 much based on the fear that the
new men will be extreme radicals as
on the likelihood that they will be
inadequate lawyers. Justice Black,
says Mr.. Childs, has already shown
himself to be untitled in legal compe-
tence for his post.
According to the article, the new
justice has "a lack Of legal knowledge
and experience, deficiencies In back
ground and training thai have led him
into blunders which have shocked his
colleagues in the highest court"
Mr.. Childs also says that the Pres
ident implied In his court-packing bill
that the court was behind with it,
docket. "That was not true at the
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Garner, DR.. Edward B. Meigs. the late
Col. Harrison Dodge. Mrs. Robert Pea
body, Mrs. William c. Rives and Miss
Clara Noyes-to name but few. On
the catalogue cover Is an excellent re-
production of the fuu-length portrait
Of Justice Brandeis.
Summer School and Exhibition
OF Water ColorS Announced
By Eliot O'Hara.
FLOT O'HARA'S recent exhibition
in the Argent Galleries, New York,
proved exceptionally successful both
from the standpoint of appreciative
and commendatory press notices and,
that best test Of approval-sales. He is
at present again conducting. by spe-
cial invitation. an intensive course in
water-color painting at Yale Univer-
sity. Mr.. O'Hara has Just issued the
announcement Of his summer school
of water color painting at Goose
Rocks Beach, Me, which opens July
! for the eighth season, to continue to
September He will have as assistants
this year Miss Eleanor e. Barry of the
design department Of the Boston Mu-
scum School and Milo Kendall Winter,
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ice by opening hitherto closed pages
OF national history It is in the nature
Of an intimate history of the United
States Navy and OF the people re-
sponsible for its being and develop
ment. He shows very clearly the
growth of naval tradition apd the vital
part 1t has played in our national
history.
The author has made use of great
mass Of hitherto obscure and forgot
ten material. much of it in the Nays
files On the basis of data over
looked by or inaccessible to earlier
naval historians he has based a
critical. searching analysis of the
Navy during its crucial and forma-
tive periods. He throws a new light
on a number of puzzling episodes in
naval annals-puzzling only because
the background had previously been
forgotten. His naval history of the
Civil War is perhaps the most COM
plete ever written.
Though he handles a vast amount
of factual material, Mr.. Pratt never
for q moment allows his book to be-
come dull or uninteresting. It is full
of vivid biographical material: bits
of descriptive writing which illumi-
nate like lightning flashes; touches
of keenly appreciative humor. 1t
has, too. the rush Of breath taking
action-all of those things which make
of history a living, breathing actu-
ality.
The volume includes a table show
ing briefly the history of every vessel
used by the United States Navy
how armed, how acquired (by build
ing, purchase or capture) and how
disposed of or lost.
Mr.. Pratt for years has been re-
garded as an authority on naval mat
ters and is regular contributor to
United States Naval Institute Pro-
ceedings. His book you will find
sound and, in these critical days for
the Navy and the Nation, salutary
and helpful.@. s. E.
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Current Exhibitions.

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART
Special exhibitions Of draw
ings by Henry Lee McFee
(closes today. Paintings by
Oke Nordgren. Water colors
by Katherine Langhorne
Adams "opens on Tuesday,.
Sculpture by Hazel Brill jack
son.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GAL
LERY-Permanent collection
rearranged and rehung. Print
rooms-recent acquisitions. Ex-
hibition Picasso and Marin
closes today.
PHILLIPS GALLERY STUDIO
HOUSE-Exhibition of recent
paintings by Bernice Cross and
Julia Eckels.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART,
WASHINGTON GALLERY
Exhibition Of painting of fow-
ers and fruitS-closes today.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-Spe-
cial exhibition of original illus
trations by A. B. Frost.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
-Etchings, drypoints, aquatints
and mezzotints by Frank A.
Nankivell.
ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON
Exhibition Of work by club
members-opens today.
PUBLIC LIBRARY-Main build
ing-water colors by Harold
Lund-Takoma branch-paint-
ings by Washington artists.
Mount Pleasant Branch-wAter
colors by students Of Central
High School.
ART GALLERY. HOWARD UNI
VERSITY-Exhibition, paint
ings by American artists lent by
the National Collection of Fine
Arts. Smithsonian Institution.
LITTLE GALLERY, Georgetown
Paintings by local artists.
and works available in lending
library-paintings and prints.
ARTISTS UNION, District of
Columbia-Paintings, sculpture
and prints by members.
CHHDREN'S FEDERAL ART
Realism in Chill.
dren's Art"-through Wednes-
day.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNI
VERSITY GALLERY-Draw-
ings and paintings by Louise
McCulloch.
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son Richardson. Louis Sullivan and
Frank Lloyd Wright What Of McKim,
Platt and a score of others, to say
nothing Of Bullfinch and Iatrobe?
The selection In the department of
sculpture seems equally arbitrary. In
cluded are Saint Gaudens, Manship
and Barnard, also Frederic Remington,
but not Ward or French or Adams or
Fraser, Anna Hyatt Huntington. Janet
Scudder or others who have largely
contributed to the upbuilding of this
art in America. Instead we find
Epstein, Nadelman, Nakian, Noguchi,
Faggi, Chain Gross, Lachaise, Zorach.
who may be Americans by adoption.
but are in most instances natives OF
other lands and with backgrounds
completely foreign. The contemporary
painting section follows much the
same order.
Among the lenders to these exhibi-
tions are art museums, private collec-
tors and art dealers-the last con-
tributing most largely to the Paris
show. Both the Corcoran Gallery Of
Art and the Phillips Memorial Gallery
of this city have made generous con-
tributions, the former lending to the
exhibition at Venice, Childe Hassam's
New York Window" George Luk's
Woman With Black Cat" Henri's
Indian Girl' and Davies "Umbrian
Mountains; while by the latter have
been lent to the Paris show paintings
by Arthur Dove, Morris Kantor,
George Fuller, Rockell Kent, John
Marin. Maurice Prendergast and Mar
jorie Phillips. Among the patrons Of
the exhibition to be held in Paris are
the French Ambassador to the United
States, the Ambassador Of the United
States to France, the French Minister
Of National Education and the French
Director General Of the Beau-Arts, Is
well as other dignitaries. This exhi-
bition opens on May "a and will con-
unue. only until the middle of July.
The Venice Exhibition does not close
until September.
George Gray Bdrnard's Death
Remoues Striking and
Gifted Personality. :
THE death Of George Gray Barnard
which occurred In New York. "a
ApeU ~ removed a outstandins
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sculpture he was commissioned to pro.
duce for the Pennsylvania State Cap
itol at Harrisburg. But that he had
genius no one can doubt or has
doubted. 1t seems at times to possess
him almost against his will. He had
exceptional taste and judgment in
matters pertaining to the art of the
past; he was an indefatigable worker,
a man of strong emotions, great
idealist. One of his best known and
most admired works is group, two
nude youths wrestling, which he en-
titled Il Feel Two Natures Within
Me-" The original of this is in the
permanent collection of the Metro
politan Museum of Art. All of his
work had both spiritual and emotional
quality. OF it, when he held a one
man exhibition in Boston in the early
years of the present century, William
Howe Downes, then art critic of the
Transcript, had the following to say:
1T reminds us of the gospel that man
is made in the image of God; that his
capacities are Godlike, and that no
matter how far he may stray from the
right way Of life, there is always hope
for him. Also it reminds us that life
Is full Of unspeakable beauty" What
higher or better tribute could be paid
now or. then? The light of q gifted
genius has gone out, but in his work
he still lives.
Water Colors by Katherine
Langhorne Adams and Bronzes
By Hazel Brill Jackson.
THE Corcoran Gallery of Art an
nounces q special exhibition of
water colors by Katherine L.anghorne
Adams to open on May 3 and continue
through the 22d. Mrs. Adams studied
at the Art Students League of New
York and under Dumond, is a member
Of the National Association of Woman
Painters and Sculptors, and has ex-
hibited in one Of the Corcoran bien-
nials and in the Psnnsylvania Acad-
emy of the Fine Arts.
Also, by invitation, the Corcoran
Gallery is temporarily showing In It's
hall Of contemporary sculpture the
seven small bronses by Hazel Brill
jackson Of Newburgh. N. Y, which
were recently. informally. shown In
The e(6eo - the old 1ntsrioe Depart.
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figure in American art and a unique
personality. Barnard was great
dreamer and had he lived until May
10 he would have seen one of his
dreams come true in the opening Of
THE Cloisters." a building erected on
hilltop in Fort Tryon Park. New
York, through the beneficence of John
d. Rockefeller. jr.. as branch of the
Metropolitan Museum, to house its
collection Of medieval art, the major
portion Of which Mr. Barnard COL
lected in France through personal
efforts for sheer love of its beauty.
Some of the choicest examples he
found in pig stys, others in farm
yards and by roadsides. The first
"Cloisters" he built on land to the
north Of the great metropolitan city
which gradually grew up to him and
reached out a greedy hand for his
cherished possession. Then it was
that Mr.. Rockefeller purchased the
old "Cloisters." planned and built. on
more extensive scale, the new ones.
by then, however, Mr.. Barnard was
absorbed in a new dream-a RAIN
bow arch" to be dedicated to peace.
The model OF this was put up in an
old power house near his former home
on Fort Washington avenue, and on
it he expended enormous energy and
effort-practically without result, as
the funds to erect it were never forth
coming.
In one way or another Barnard
was always involved in controversy.
His statue Of Lincoln as a crude, un-
couth man, which was to have been
erected outside OF Westminster Abbey
in London, called forth bitter opposi-
ton and eventually was erected, in
consipcuously, in the manufacturing
city of Manchester. England. There
was trouble in connection with the
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jr., Of the Chicago Art Institute and
the Cranbrook Academy Of Art, Michi-
gan. In connection with his Goose
Rocks Beach School, Mr.. OHara an
nually shows in his gallery an invited
exhibition of water colors by the lead
ing American water colorists This will
open June 19 and continue to Sep
tember II. the exhibits being changed
once, midway of the season.
Exhibitions Change at
Phillips Memorial Gallery
And Studio House.
THE current exhibitions at the Phil
lips Memorial Gallery and Studio
House conclude at this time. The
visiting collections in the former will
be replaced by works drawn from the
gallery's own possession, including re-
cent acquisitions. In the latter, on the
other hand, there will open, this after
noon, an exhibition of recent paintings
by Bernice Cross and Julia Eckel, both
of whom have been working during the
past few years under c. Law Watkins,
director Of the Phillips Gallery Art
School. The exhibition will remain on
view util May 18.
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de Paume. Paris. is many times the
larger, consisting Of over 1000 ex-
hibitS and including in its scope
architecture and sculpture as we'll as
painting, besides folk-art and prints.
This exhibition, furthermore, sup
posedly represents the entire history
OF art in this country, surveying ac-
complishment from the establishment
Of our Republic to the present time
an Herculean undertaking. The COL
lection which goes to Venice is essen
TALLY contemporary and includes only
paintings and prints. This Is logical,
as the Venice Show is recurrent-a
biennial report of progress-whereas
the Paris exhibition is an isolated
event and purposed to emphasize ma
tional achievement.
The character of the two in their
respective displays of paintings and
prints is, however. widely divergent
the show assembled by the Museum Of
Modern Art putting chief stress on
that which is not merely modern, but
modernistic: and that brought to-
gether by the Grand Central Galleries
leaning firmly toward the traditional
or so-called academic" In this sense
they supplement one another. But Is
there any guarantee that Europeans
will to any extent see both? And if
they do, will their respect for art in
American be enhanced and their
praises won?
In both collections Winslow Homer,
Eakins. Inness. Blakelock and Ryder
are represented as we'll as nine-only
nine-living artists. Here are view
points distinctly divergent The archi-
tectural section Of the exhibition to be
shown in the Jeu de Paume includes
"the work of numerous architects
whose names are lost or little known"
but stars as major figures" in this
field Thomas Jefferson, Henry Hob
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Book Reviews
Continued From Page FAY

drinkers, Of great poker players. of
wrecks, of hold-ups. And he tells it
conversationally and colloquially. II
you are social-minded reformer, you
can read his book in a pleasant lather
of indignation If you are just a
reader, you can read it enjoyably, too.
THE CROOKED FURRoW. BY
Jeffery Farnol. New York: Double
day Doran.
GAY. impossible. fantastic. madcap
adventure! Graustark and Dick
ems! Just far enough in the past
for the spice of costume. close enough
to the present to retain sufficient
reality. Complete sentences are too
sober for this book It is not a sober
book. It is not an important book.
1t is an impossible romance of the
sort which hasn't been written since
"The Prince Of Graustark" High
waymen, English inns and innkeep-
ers. jolly sailors, reforming school,
marms, gypsies and belted earls are
all commingled in a delightful tale
which hurries from episode to episode
with never dull moment. Fine Eng
lish of a rather old-fashioned, stilted
sort, rather reminiscent of Richard
son and Smollet. add to the charm of
this story. which is too fantastic ever
to have appealed to the older writer's.
R. r. T.
THE NAVY: A HISTORY. By
Fletcher Pratt. Garden City, N. Y:
Doubleday, Doran & Co.
GROWTH of the United States Navy
has taken place in cycles which,
paradoxically enough, coincide with
some of the Nations greatest periods
Of spiritual development. Periods OF
naval inactivity have been those of
greatest cultural lag and also those
of greatest national danger. All of
the Nations wars have begun in days
Of the doldrums for the Navy. Never,
Mr.. Pratt shows. has this country
been plunged into a war during one
OF its f1tful periods of naval expan-
sion or following one of these periods
OF growth, although there have been
during these lush times in naval his
tory ample causes for war.
Mr.. Pratt's volume is one of those
rare works which performs a real serv-
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time" he notes, "in part because Of
the extraordinary efficiency of the
Chief Justice; but the President now
has it in his power. by the nature Of
his appointments to fill subsequent
vacancies, to put the court behind in
its work. At present the burden on
the experienced members is severe"
He concludes with the comment that
there are those among the Presi-
dents advisers Of course, and particu-
larly in the new folklore school, who
put this (the matter of legal COM
petence) down to kind of capricious
whimsy. Juridical craftsmanship,
they feel, is 50 much nonsense Com
mon sense IS all that IS necessary, and
the presence of lay person on the
court might be very salutary. (What
brand Of common sense is never speci-
f1ed) After all. 1t is merely form
of magic that these old men practice.
One can only reply that it must be a
skilful magic if it is to work. For it
is quite obvious that there are magi-
clans and magicians."
1t Is ironical, certainly, to think
that, after making the charge Of the
court being behind with its work the
spearhead Of his assault upon it, the
President should be the chief instru-
nent Of actually bringing about lag
behind schedule. And that those
"senile" justices. who are so dis
courteously urged to retire. should be
carrying an extra burden as the result
of the Presidents own mans behavior
on the bench.
HARPER'S also publishes this month
one more of its essays On "The
American Way" It will be remembered
that the magazine held q contest some
time ago for suggestions on q way out
Of our troubles which would be dis
tinctly American. Mr.. David Cush-
man Coyle was winner of the compe-
tition and a number of runners-up
have likewise had their pieces pub
lished in the magazine This month
the method of salvation comes from
the pen Of German emigre. Carl Lam
dauer. It, like its predecessors, Is
turgid. general, vague. and highly un-
likely to effect anything. What a lot
of words to be sure! Would any single
phenomenon Of national life have been
otherwise if they had not been writ
ten? The reviewer can not think 50.
It seems q case Of one mans idea being
as good as another's-or, as Sancho
Panza put 1t, "oftentimes great deal
worse"
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BEST SELLERS IN WASHING.
TON WEEK ENDING APRIL
~, 1898.


THE YEARLING. Rawlings.
Scribner.
ACTION AT AQUILA. Allen.
Farrar g. Rhinehart.
THE MORTAL STORM. Bot
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THE DAUGHTER. Breuer. 81
mon & Schuster.
SHIP OF THE LINE. Forester.
Little Brown.
THE RAINS CAME. Bromfield.
Harper.
Non-Fiction.
THE SUMMING UP. Vaughan.
Doubleday Doran.
WOMAN ON HORSEBACK.
Barrett. Stokes.
THE EDUCATION OF A DIP
LOMAT. Wilson. Longmans.
MAN AGAINST HIM ELF.
Menninger. Harcourt Brace.
THE FIGHT FOR LIFE. De
Kruif. Harcourt Brace.
AMERICA GOES TO WAR. Tan
sill. Little Brown.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-18

bismuth, chromium, iron, molybde- mum. nickel, tungsten, and zinc, and such nonmettalic minerals as asbes- tos, barite, clay, garnet, graphite, jade, limestone, marble, mica, stone, and sulphur, have been found in Alaska. Possibly small quantities Of practically all these materials were produced" in the broadest sense of that term, but so far as shown by the records of the Geological Survey the only ones that were produced in quantities worth as much as a few hundred dollars were antimony, limestone, and quicksilver.
 The mining and shipment of con- siderable antimony ore from a property in the Kantishna district in the northern foothills of the Alaska Range was one of the sig nificant new mineral developments of the year The principal antimonJ mineral in the ore is the sulphlde, stibnite The mine is some 60 milsi from the railroad, so that much Of the hauling of the ore is done du- ing the winter, when conditions for transportation are especially favor- able.
 The antimony ore credited to 1887 was mined during the winter ot 1936-37. Limestone from quarries on Dall Island. in the Ketchikan dis trict of Southeast Alaska. was ship ped to the States for use as 0 constituent in the production of cement. Some quicksilver ore was mined in the Kuskokwim region. No petroleum was produced in AL aska in l937, though some new drilling for oil was done on the Alaska Peninsula in the Iniskin- Chinitna district. The marble quar- ries in Southeast Alaska, which have long been consistent producers of stone that is much in demand on the Pacific Coast for interior trim, were temporarily inactive in 1937.
 The foregoing notes are taken from a comprehensive report Of the Geological Survey, entitled Mineral industry of Alaska in 1887" prepar- ed by Philip s. Smith, which will form one of the series of similar reports that the Geological Survey has issued to describe the progress of Alaska mining each year since 1904.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-18
DIZZY DEAN PITCHES WIN
 FOR CHICAGO
Hurler Allows Only Four Hits Has Been on
 Shelf Since May }
(By Associated Press)

Dizzy Dean, pitching because he was ordered to do so after being on the shelf with a sore arm since May 3, pitched four-hitter Sun day to give the Cubs victory over the Boston Bees The Cubs also won the second game of the double contest.
 The Cincinnati Reds were beaten twice Sunday by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
 Pittsburgh lost the first game Sunday to New York and the sec ond game, tie, was called at the end of the ninth inning.
 The Yankees defeated the Tigers by a good score Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-18

The Class A softball league IS now composed of six teams: All stars. Miners, Rockets Business mem. Truckdrivers, Federals and Haida.
 The Class B league is composed of three teams made up of boys IS to 21. From the best players of the three teams in this league is formulated the Allstars which com pete in the Class A league.
 Due to a growing demand, a Class c league Of two teams with boys nine to IA is now being con- sidered and the better players from this group may qualify for competi- tion in. Glass B group, and even tualy work into Class A competi- tion