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Show of Autographs
At Smithsonian Has
Historical Interest
By Florence Berrymon

The Division of Graphic Arts,
National Museum, recently placed
on exhibition in the print gallery,
Smithsonian Building, to remain
through September 8. a group of
historical Autographs from the
Fuchs & Lang collection. Twenty
three prints were presented to the
Smithsonian Institution on July
Is by the Sun Chemical Corp,
Long Island, N. Y, of which Fuchs
g. Lang is division. John Devine,
a vice president of the corporation,
presented the gift, which was re-
ceived by DR.. Alexander Wetmore
at the opening.
The Fuchs & Lang Manufactur-
ing Co. began in 1910 to collect
Autographs which represented
high points in the mediums his
tory, both from the technical and
esthetic standpointS. The COM
pany concentrated on the early
formative years of lithography
when it attracted enterprising
publishers and gifted artists seek
ing new avenues of expression.
The nucleus of the collection was
acquired from an English collec-
tors estate. and was augmented
with specimens gathered by
agents in Europe as we'll as in this
country, where early handwork on
stone was particularly sought.
Fuchs & Lang exhibited these
prints in an art gallery in their
Offices for nearly two decades,
when the company presented the
bulk of the collection, nearly 1000
items, to New York University in
1928.
The group at the Smithsonian is
an interesting and varied one, in
cluding a number of highlights in
the history of the medium, by sew
eral of it's most eminent expo
nents.
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Eorly Years of Lithoerophy

Invented py a German artist,
Senefelder, in 1893, lithography
reached its golden age in France,
with important developments in
Britain and our country. The COL
lection has four prints dated 1918,
20 and '21. typical of their re-
spective times and places of or
Iigin. An Interpretation of the
tragedy of Hero and Leander in
a heavy. dramatic manner, is by
Ludwig Wolf (Berlin). one of the
first practitioners of the medium.
I"The Ambush" by Horace Vernet
(France), records a military Incl
dent in a lucid manner; techni-
cally it is freely done but not
sketchy. Two Autographs by Sam
uel Prout Uondon) depict the
charms of English landscape and
the sea.
BY 1920 lithography had
eclipsed the 18th century engrav-
ing. A whole new generation of
students from the Beaux Arts
swelled the army of lithographers;
although most of them were not
great artists. they popularized the
medium in the 1820s. Among these
young Frenchmen was Achille De-
Iveria, prolific practitioner whose
chief interest today is his senti-
mental expression of the Roman
tic movement. He was well suited
to illustrate the romantic tales
of Sir Walter Scott, as is dem
onstrated by two in the present
collection. Richard in Palestine"
and the Antiquarian" both dated
1929.
This edition of Scott had a
number of illustrators, among
them Camille Roqueplan. by
whom there is an illustration I'd
Kenilworth; and an artist greater
than these, Delacroix, who IL
Illustrated "Iyanhoe. Happily, the
collection includes another print
by Delacroix, the masterpiece,
Lion de rAtlas," the high point
Of his work in lithography. This
powerful print reveals his ad-
mirable use of black mass con-
trasted with dramatic lights in
the cave entrance and name OF
the lion, the differentiation Of
textures and subtle gradations of
tone.
The autographic character OF
|lithography makes it a most hex-
ible artists medium, rejecting his
temperamental moods as well as
technical gifts. Here is a cool,
classic Ingres, his "Odalisque'
(1825); a famous lithograph by
Eugene Isabey, complete and full
in use of the medium. breezy in
effect, admirably executed "Retour
|au Port" and a portrait head by
Daumier, one Of the greatest fig
|ures of 10th century France, and
Ia profound influence on contem-
porary Ethographers.
Another facet Of interest in this
gift collection is its representation
|of early photographic firms: Reuter-
|of Berlin, Lemercier of Paris and
three American. A. Hoen & Co. of
Baltimore, who published the PRO
posed Washington Monument"
s(1846l after Robert Mills draw
ing; Childs d Inman Of Phila-
|delphia. represented here by
Mothers Pride" after o portrait
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by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and
Currier & Ives, our most famous
photographic firm. C. & I. litho-
graphs include two prints OF q
decorative Fruit Piece" Q859)
one before and one after colomng
and a sporting subject, "a Chance
for Both Barrels" drawn by A. F
TAFT. one of the firms best artists
The earliest American litho-
graph is Rembrandt Peale's head
of George Washington. published
in 1927 by Pendleton Of New York
OF greater interest to Washing
tonians is Charles Fenderich';
portrait of Henry Clay, published
by him in Washington City" ir
1840.
The facility of lithography
brought about its commercial ex-
ploitation, the medium was de-
serted by original artists and fell
upon bad days. 1t experienced q
revival in the 1905, by artists OF
such caliber as Whistler and Henri
Fantin-Latour, who is represented
in the present group by romantic
scene from "Lohengrin."
Dated the same year is
ACKNOWLEDGMENT made in Gov
Iington, KY, after a painting
"The Old Violin" by William
Harnett, rediscovered in recent
years as an American magic
realiSt."
. The last lithograph on view is
Frank Brangwyn's Homage OF the
Sea-" 1911.
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Village DisIikes
Picture of Itself
THE SPELLBOUND VILLAGE

THE SPELLBOUND VILLAGE
by Julia Truitt Yenni. fHar.
court, Brace & Co.; $275)
Here is a picture of a small towr
caught in the process of doing 6
double take about book about 9
small town. Two River Junction
a backwater upstate New Yorl
community, had reason to suspect
the author, Faith Goodbind, to be-
gin with. She had come from no.
where. bought home and minded
her own business. The last-namec
circumstance was enough to cal
forth all the spite of Rosa Silver
nail, the towns chief newsgatherer
who let fall a hint that the GUS
tomary disclaimer about fictitious
characters at the beginning Of
Faiths novel was just so much
nonsense.
AS always, vindictiveness begets
more of the same, and before long
the whole town is in a frenzy oi
mistaken identification. A pa.
thetic "back street" romance be-
tween an unhappily married
banker and a pretty spinster i.
blasted to kingdom come. A teen
ager taking a cue from the book
starts pursuing her young man al
such rate that he takes to his
heels to preserve his honor. So il
goes, with Faith pushing her way
through wall of enmity" ano
seemingly further away than ever
from her lifelong dream of a per-
manent home. Her publisher anC
a Woollcott-like commentator who
keep reappearing to soak up at
mosphere and information while
the town nearly explodes with ten
sion, add a fine touch of urban
bemusement to the proceedings.
Miss Yenni's novel is light, but
shrewd and arniable.
MARY McGRoRY.
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Joe TumuIty's importance in Wilson
Reqine Brought Out by Bioqropher
JOE TUMULTY AND THE WILSON ERA
BY John Morton Blum (Houghton, Mif7in; $4J

by JOIN MOEOOu D1u1l. tHOUyft
Woodrow Wilson's secretary fol
eight years in the White House
and a term in the New Jersey
Statehouse was so much more
than the word implies that il
seems an ironical understatement
when applied to Joe Tumulty.
The extremely able, hard-work-
ing Irishman was, especially dur
ing President Wilson's first term
when the two men were almost
completely en- rapport an assistant
President in every respect. Mr..
Tumulty prepared drafts of state
papers for the President, planned
legislation, acted as liaison be-
tween the White House and Con-
gress and maintained the neces-
sary contact with party leaders all
over the country. 1t was Joe who
dispensed patronage and kept po-
litical fences in repair. He did
the work a dozen White House
executive assistants now do. He
was a conspicuous and often con-
troversial figure during the Will
son administration.
A sympathetic biography Of this
interesting man long has been
due. This one is excellent. Mr.
Blum not only has caught the
spirit of his subject, Mr.. Tumulty'
remarkable fair for politics and
even for craftsmanship, but has
sketched in a whole transitional
period of American history. Mr.
Tumulty came up from childhood
in a humble section of Jersey City
but he got a good education
which he constantly improved
While he grew up in ward poll
tics, where the machine was su-
preme, by the time he was elected
to the New Jersey Legislature
he was recognized as one Of the
progressive young leaders of his
State. When the president oi
Princeton became Governor ano
was mentioned for President
young Tumulty espoused sincerely
Mr.. Wilson's liberal idealism. To-
gether they planned and pushed
through important reforms ir
New Jersey. In the White House
Joe never wavered in his loyalty
to and admiration for a great
President. But the secretary was
no yes-man. He never hesitatec
to disagree with the President'I
methods, the practical details o.
administration, and would argue
to the last ditch. 1t was joe:
role to be genial, understanding
buffer between the public and it!
elected leaders and a President
of lofty purposes but austere anc
unbending disposition.
The press is particularly indebt.
ed to Mr. Tumulty. He always
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the fight of Texas for independ-
ence from Mexico, that he died in
the massacre of the Alamo in
1885 and that daggerlike knife
is named for him because of his
proweSS with such weapon. AS
a matter of fact, while a good
deal of his life in Texas is known
from records and written remi-
nlScenceS, much of his youth, be-
fore he went to Texas, remains
unrecorded, the source books say.
He was born in Georgia, but it
is not even certain what year.
Much of his life thus was wide
open for historical novelist to
I'LL in. Mr.. Wellman has done
this persuaSively. What he has
imagined could well have hap
pened to Jim Bowie, since what
is known to have overtaken him
was exciting and romantic enough
to fit in with any reasonable en-
belliShment. No man on the
Southwestern frontier has in
pired more tall tales, and some
Of them probably are true.
Mr.. Wellman begins his story
after the Bowies moved to the
Cajun country of louisiana. Jim
and his brothers grew up in the
bayous, working hard to cut and
sell the cypress and other lumber
that abounded and gradually
prospering. We see Jim first on a
business trip to New Orleans. He
seemed to have absorbed more
education than his brothers. The
overdreSsed dandies Of that period
were inclined to laugh at the tall,
homespun figure, but not for long.
He was always ready to fight in an
era when dueling was the &C
cepted way to settle any personal
argument, though he knew moth
ing of fencing and not much Of
pistols. But he was clever and
likable. and a scion of a great
family got him outf1tted in broad
cloth and he soon was accepted as
q gentleman"
Mr.. Wellman brings in the great
naturalist painter Audubon as a
Evening star., 1951-07-29
France of Present
And Past Outlined
THE UNITED STATES AND
I'D AMCE

THE UNITED STATES AND
FRANCE
BY Donald c. Mckay. (Haruard;
S4.)
What is France, and what does
she stand for? How has she
changed in recent critical years,
and what did she mean to us
before, what does she mean after?
A new addition to the scholarly
American Foreign Policy Library
this book provides sound and rea-
soned answers to these questions
which, given the context of to-
days world, were probably never
more important than they are
right now.
+ The author begins at the begin
ming, with an elementary but
necessary description of the land
the people, the government, the
economy and the politics a
multi-party system which has
seemed confusing to many Amer
leans, but won't seem so after
they read Mr.. McKay's lucid ac-
count.
1t is to the books credit that
it combines the information We
used to study in school with fresh
material from the morning paper
This second part, of course, is o1
more immediate interest. If our
relations with France have been
touchy in recent years. the au-
thor reminds us that that is moth
ing new. though it is sometimes
forgotten In our affection for Paris
and the French. There is an L.
Eliminating review Of our relations
with Petain and de Gaulle, the
resistance leader. and a caution
against assuming that de Gaulle
can do as much for us now. when
we don't appear very worried
about him, as he could have done
a decade ago, when we were wor-
ried.
France has come down in the
world, as a political and military
force. But the author thinks she
is on the mend. She is remaking
her army. She has managed tC
understand. though the problem
! is so near to her that she could
be forgiven for not understand
ing, that the vast shifts in world
power require an attitude toward
Germany different from her post
World War I position. She has
evolved the Schuman plan. She
is even learning to outsmart do
mestic Communists.
The book concludes with some
observations made in France as
late as last fall. and with tables
of economic, cultural, financial
political and other statistics.
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dragged themselves away and the
caterers had taken back most OF
the food, Lucy said, "I'll get over
it don't know how, but ]
shall" And in this sparkling novel
the author of "The Constant
Nymph" tells the story Of how
gallant Lucy picks herself up.
dusts herself off and starts all
over again.
The thing about Lucy is that
she doesn't take her shame and
defeat out an anybody else. She
Just endures it from moment to
moment, making no outcry, de-
manding no pity. Without har-
rowing your feelings unnecessarily
Miss Kennedy shows how rugged
it all Is for a sensitive girl, how
numb stiff upper lip can get.
The therapy in Lucy's case. as
with any one grievously wounded,
is work and friends and conSidera-
ton for others. Lucy finds these
elements in a provincial town
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boasting an institute which is sup
posed to make it "the Athens OF
the West" Actually it does any,
thing but, with an apathetic town,
a bumbling council and a con-
niving director. Like all English
lady novelists, Miss Kennedy Is
hopelessly enSnared by the ins and
outs of such cooperative ventures
and the ntramural intrigue which
RACES behind the scenes.
But if these small-town con-
Spiracies are a bit boring for the
reader. they are very bracing for
our Lucy, who gradually arouses
from her emotional lethargy 10
take up the cudgels for a staff
member whose resignation is un-
fairly accepted. The sulky scion
of the benevolent family which
|endows the institute begins to
take note of her: but Lucy, who
knows how cruel true love can be,
still will not settle for anything
less.
Lucy Carmichael is most en-
gagingly written. and Lucy herself
is one Of the seasons most win
ming heroines-very like a Jane
Austen girl in her candor, courage
and humor. Melissa, her friend, is
charming, too, and most delicately
studied, as she tries not to f1aunt
her own happiness before unlucky
Lucy. Some of the minor char
acters have great deal of in
dividuallty. but several personali-
ties involved in the town and in
stitute row are not sufficiently
identified to make any claim on
the readers interest or imagina-
ton. ....
It might be pointed out that the
two high points of the story come
at the very beginning and the
very end--Lucy's jilting and the
appearance of the man she so
richly deserves. Nothing in be-
tween is quite so dramatic, unless
it. be Melissa's wedding. Still Miss
Kennedy's wit and insight and
warm compassion will keep the
story flowing along smoothly.
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friend Of the young backwoods-
MAJ -on-the-make. The novelist,
while naturally sympathetic to
LJwI0, does not depict him as al
together admirable. He accepts
the legend that Jim and his
brother Rein engaged in the lille
gal trade of buying and sell
ing slaves smuggled In from At
Irica. While slaveholding, of
course, was legal in the 1820s, the
import trade had been outlawed.
Lore has it that the brothers
bought slaves from Jean Laf1tte.
the retired pirate, who was living
in seclusion with some of his mur-
derous companions on the island
that later became Galveston. The
novel brings in a visit to Laf1tte,
one of tie more thrilling episodes.
Later the brothers gave up slave
running and took to the more
ethical business of buying up land.
Jim's final days in Louisiana
were filled with CORY duels and
unreturned love for an unworthy
woman. In Texas he settled down
for a time in San Antonio de
Bexar. There he became Mexi-
can citizen and married Ursula
de Veramendi, daughter Of the
vice governor Of Mexican Texas.
So much is history. Jim did
marry this aristocratic beauty.
There follows the involved story
of the aScendancy of Santa Anna
to dictator of Mexico and the
transition that led Bowie to fight
for Texas independence under his
friend Sam Houston. Stephen
Austin. Davy Crockett, Col. Travis
and other historic characters slip
in out of the narrative.
The novel is long, but it never
lags. 1t is worth reading both
for entertainment and as roman
ticized. but not inaccurate, history.
The Iron Mistress" by the way,
is not some ruthless adventures,
but the beloved knife made for
Bowie by a blacksmith who had
a Cellini-like creative skill.
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THE BOOK OF THE POODLE
BY T. H. Tracy. Viking Press: S.
Pav;aved hv Ed,vo,d KaIIv


Reviewed by Edword J. Kelly
Superintendent, National Capital Parks.
In his youth this author served
as a special agent for the FBl,
and, we assume, consorted only
with bloodhounds. Now after a
successful law practice in New
York City he returns to the ken
|nels to unleash his pen in praise
of that snooty Park avenue pooch
the Poodle-which he confesses
has been his part time passion for
a quarter century.
In "The Book of the Poodle, F"
Mr.. Tracy has ferreted out the
innermost secrets of the breed. No
trait or habit escaped his search
and his intimate revelations of its
love life are certain, sooner or
later, to run afoul the close scru-
tiny of the Watch and Ward So
ciety. He buries its origin in an
tiquity, but chases its progeny
around the globe to find it pop
ping up in many lands and bark
ing in as many tongues. Among the
aliases under which he found ii
travelling are "Caniche", Bar
bone, "Kudius", Gao d. Aqua"
E"Perro de Lanas", "Hond", and
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New Books
FICTION.

FICTION.
THE BLIND SPOT. BY Austin Hall and
Homer Eon Flint price Press.) Fantas-
tic mystery. $3.50.
CLAUDIA: the Story Of a Marriage. BY
Rosen Franken. doubleday All the
Claudia novels presented in single
volume as an integrated story. S4-95.
FREE GRASS. BY Jim o'Mara. Dutton.)
Western. $3.50.
NON-FICTION.
BRITAIN TODAY. BY c. F. o. Clarke
tEiarvard.) Review of political and So
cial trends which have given British
democracy its present aspect. So.
LEARNING TO SWIM IN .12 EASY Les
SONS. BY Adolph Kiefer, former world
and Olympic champion and Milton
and Bramwell Gabrielsen, note
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GOLF TECHNIQUES OF THE BAUER
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HAIL. Father reveals how his daughters
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MASTER ART FORGER. BY John Cooley
fWilfred Funk The story of Han van
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN. BY James g. Tip
petit. (Beckley-Cardy.) One Of the For
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MEXICO: LAREDO TO GUADALAJARA.
BY Ernest Knee. tHastings House.) A
book Of unusual photosraphs. 50.
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Crime
By Miriom ottenberq

The Lonliest Girl in the World,
BY Kenneth Fearing. (Harcourt,
Brace & Co.; $3.)
The sudden deaths Of her broth
er and father. the acoustical wiz
ard. left a void in the life Of Ellen
Vaughn. But she had Mikki, a
machine with some vital secrets
buried in its electronic heart
that is, in its 100000 hours of re-
Icordings. Mikki'S gradually un-
folding story skaters a romance.
|confuses some financial manipula-
tions and inevitably explains the
tragic end of Ellen's relatives
Actually, Mr.. Fearing's electronics
fantasy gets pretty wearing for all
tits superior writing and it can't
match the compelling suspense of
Ibis earlier "The Big Clock"
An Ape in Velvet. by Rae Foley.
(Dodd, Meade 81 Co.; $2.50.)
Red Badge.
DR.. Matthews insisted his pa
tients were harmless. but the viii
layers couldn't help eying his
rest home suspiciously when the
Terror started stalking. The Ter
lror seemed to confine his activities
to slashing coat sleeves until the
visiting radio celebrity got her
head Dashed in and an earlier
death-brushed of as accident
was recalled. Enough motives to
prompt a dozen murders are un-
covered by Private Investigator
John Harland before the Terror
stalks for the last time.
i Stairway to an Empty Room, by
Dolores Kitchens. Doubleday 81
Co.; $2.50)
Crime Club.
The little girl kept insisting her
daddy hadn't killed her mother,
|, but nobody paid much attention
until the child and her Aunt
Monica were nearly killed on a
mountain road. nearly drowned
and badly frightened. Then Aunt
Monica. brittle on the dialogue but
not quite as bright as her preco-
cious niece, began to catch on.
New angles that change the whole
pilot emphasis are introduced
somewhat belatedly, but the au-
thor manages to get all her eggs
lin one basket in time for a bang
up finale.
Red Herring. BY Wilson Tucker;
/ (Rinehart & Co.: $3.50.
/ A practical joke that was neith-
er practical nor very funny en-
tangled Detective Charles Horne
in what must be premeditated
murder. Only he and the joker, an
intense glamour girl named Lonna,
knew where Lonna's brother was
the night the joke backfired into
murder. Both Horne and the
police rated Lonna the No. / sus-
pect but then her other brother
turned up missing and it was Just
possible he was the one behind
the lethal screw driver. Horne
runs out of suspects but not for
long in this deftly plotted thriller.