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ITS and 1876

Seventy five years ago impress
sive events celebrated the Decla-
ration of independence voted 8
hundred years earlier.
A small exhibition of historical,
prints podding briefly to both
years OTIS and 1870 is on view
in the reading room of the prints
and photographs division, Library
of Congress.
It begins with Savage's engrav-
ing of Congress Voting Independ-
ence" painted by Robert Edge
Pine, the outstanding item in the
show, from the esthetic stand
point. The most entertaining Ito
me) is d large color Autograph
entitled Centennial Mirror 1876"
which makes some odiouS COM
parsons between the advantages
of living that year instead of 1776.
Nine pairs of illustrations smugly
contrast candle and lamplight,
harsh and benevolent fathers,
scrawny ana sleek livestock, reap
ing and threshing by hand and
by machine, sailing vessel and
steamboat, and various other as
poets of advancing civilization.
What seems to be attracting
the most attention in the show
is a stereoscope, and several hun
dred cards with double pictures
Many people can "see the Cen
tennial" in three dimensions in
this gadget which will carry them
back to their childhood, no doubt
My grandmother had one of these
in her parlor.
In ADDITION to the Centennial
1876 is famous for Clusters Las
Stand" depicted in an old litho-
graph full of action; and for the
disputed election between Hayes
and Tilden, represented with cam
paign posters Autographed by
Currier and Ives.
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Question Is What to
Read on That Vacation

Vacation reading, like every
thing else, depends on the indi
Ividual. Some constant reader
simply stock up on movie maya
zines and let the rest of the bool
world go by. Others, dizzy from
the pace of modern fiction anc
troubling non-f1ction, seek refug,
in the classics, and dutifully each
year pack up War and Peace
determined they, will have mas.
tered it before it's time to e
home. Very often it comes bacl
unopened.
A kind of vacation ambition
amlctS some elements of the
population, notably women. They
are overtaken by a kind of dis
torted vision which causes them
to see the Observation-Disclosures
stretch out as an endless vista OF
cultured leisure, during which
they catch up on a years reading
and thereby make themselves the
very life OF the articulate cocktail
party. They need many rainy
days to achieve their goal.
The vacation needs of the
young in this field are most solicit
tously seen to by the National
IWildlife Association, which pro.
Ivides the child traveller with little
booklets to show him how he MAY
preserve the scenery which he en-
joys on his summer jaunts.
Under the general title of "Youl
Land, My Land" the association
has prepared four booklets calico
Would You Like to Have Livec
Then?";; "Raindrops and MUDDY
Rivers; plants and Animal.
Live Together" and Nature.
Bank-the Soil" Since 1941, they
have distributed some 100000
copies of these illustrated book.
lets, which are earnestly sought
after by school groups and sum.
mer camps.
Aimed at making little Thoreau.
Or at least little conservation.
ists-out of the coming genera.
ton, the booklets map out nature
studies for the young and en-.
courage such research as a toul
around the yard after the rair
to discover whether it has soaked
into the ground and II it ha.
carried away the soil.
The series was revised in 1874;
and will undergo another revi.
sion as events demand. Associa.
ton officials try to explain natur,
to city children as we'll. The,
say that the next edition may
even attempt to justify the Wash,
ington's starlings, which, it seems
are devouring Japanese beetles il
exemplary fashion. Probabl,
won't please District Commute,
members. though. They will
doubtless just point to it as an
other example of two wrongs no
making O right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
By Florence S. Berrymon

Of 143 portraits of men and women
who contributed to the develop
ment of the capital city, lent by
66 institutions in many states. :
Fourteen important groups and
one-man exhibitions crossed the
Atlantic ana our northern bor-
der in 1850, and several were
shown iii Washington. The Gull
benkian collection of 40 master
pieces of painting, which opened
last November at the National
Gallery of Art, will remain in
definitely. The National Gallery
also had the initial display of an
exhibition of nearly 100 paintings
exemplif wing the main trends in
Canadian painting during the past
half century.
The Phillips Gallery showed the
depressingly-t titled Last Fifty
Years Of British Art" brought over
by the English Speaking Union;
and the def1nitive exhibition OF
paintings and graphic arts, by
Norway's expressionist Edward
Munich, most of them lent by the
Oslo Municipal Museum.
In order to preserve the his
toric character Of it's streets and
residences, Public Law 808 decreed
an area to be known as "Old
Georgetown with new building
construction to be referred to the
National Commission of Fine Arts.
The autl enticity of this "Georg-
gian jewel" in our city makes it
a museum exhibit" of the finest
kind, and it is hoped the public
will support the efforts of civic
leaders who would keep it intact
These anu many other happen
ings, recapitulated in The Ameri-
can Year Book, make absorbing
reading.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

Here bathos and overwriting are
marked.
A wonderful air of freshness,
however, pervadeS the story from
the first moment that Lockhart,
the free-lance journalist, reports
to the skipper of the corvette,
Compass Rose, one of the small
est ships in the Atlantic during
wars worst days. Chunky and
graceless. mot much more than
Ia floating platform for depth
charges" and manned almost ex-
Iclusively by amateurs, she is
nonetheless, through commission
ing and trial runs. trained into a
fighting ship, ready to take on
U-boats during those days when
conveys had little more than a
fighting cnance to get through.
The captain thought with pride:
The sea in their blood meant
that you could pour Englishmen
any Englishman-into a ship
and they made that ship work and
fight as if they had been doing ii
all their lives, catching up, over
taking and leaving behind the pro-
IfesSionals of any other nation"
But Comdr. Monsarrat more
than justifles these brave words.
In those days convoy to Gibral-
tar lost IA out of 81 ships. A kindly
man like the captain had to be
la hero, when his instruments
showed a U-boat in an area full
Of hopeful survivors and he must
order a depth charge. The Com
pass Rose in time gets hers, a
torpedo off Iceland. A sister ship
finds them, several daWnS later
half dead on two RATS while
round them in the water were
the same attendant f1gures-a
horrifying fringe of bobbing
.corpses with their meaningless
faces blank to the sky and their
hands frozen to the ratlines."
A new ship. a frigate. is bigger,
but provides interludes equally
narrowing.
Comdr. Monsarrat, himself a
wartime corvette skipper, re-
lieveS himself of several out
spoken opinions on such matters
as Irish neutrality, Americas de-
layed entrance into the war
propaganda experts and the like
Most of it's humor comes from the
occasional wit that sparkles in
| signals exchange at sea. The
characters are not truly memoir
Iable-studied as they are, only in
their relation to the sea and the
war. Against the cruel sea they
are all in league together-even
sometimes with their enemies. But
this is not book about fear. 1t is
a grim, realistic, marve1ously told
story of brave men fighting in a
good cause against unspeakable
odds.
If only for it's idealism 1.-THE
Cruel Sea" would be memorable
among war novels. but it has
much more than that.
MARY McGRORY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

Is only his second novel. Mean
while, the great majority Of read
ers, who would rather enjoy a book
than worry over its significance
can open this one with the assur-
ance that they're in for an exciting
time. The ship that plays such
an important role is not once be-
Gained, nor is the narrative.
1t is an elemental story of some
men who badly need money and
for that reason take a chance on
a highly dangerous scheme. They
are simple men, who wreSt a
meager living out Of the sea, and
they are as capable in a moment
of kindness as of savage fighting
Such ingredients have gone into
some of the great stories of the
sea, so it will not do to brush this
one aside as superficial melo-
drama.
The scene is the Caribbean and
the ship is a small, stanch schooner.
The men net turtles for the trade,
but prices have gone so low it is
no longer worthwhile. The cap
tain and owner of the Guarina,
Jed Simpson, is a likely young
man, brawny and skilled in the
navigation of the West Indies.
They had put in at Key West
and there in a saloon Jed was
offered a considerable sum II he
would carry some guns and am
munition to the harbor of Belize.
This involved a grave hazard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Russian Educator
Exposes Red State
TOWARDS AN
UNDERSTANDING OF THE

| UPWARDS AN
UNDERSTANDING OF THE
~. S. S. r.
BY Michael T. Florinsky. Mac
milan; s3.)
Don't be misled by the title Of
this authoritative book. It may
sound like an apologize of the So.
WET government. 1t is anything
but that.
DR.. Florinsky. an assistant
professor of economics at Colum.
bia, was born in Russia anc
fought for her in World War I
He was educated in Russia, in
England and in the United States
taking his Phi. D. at Columbia
This book, a complete revision o
a work first published in 1899. il
"a careful study of the Sovie'
Union-roots, trunk and branches
The author explains the aims Of
the government as avowed in it.
constitution and in various dec.
Ilarations of the Communist PARTY
and by officials. He then shows
how these professed purposes have
been f1outed to keep the people ir
line and increase the power of the
dictatorship.
Commenting on Russia since
World War II. he says: mo new
idea and no new leader of any
stature have emerged from the
great upheaval. The striking
contrast between the spreading oil
Soviet influence throughout The
world, ca the one hand, and what
may be called the inner sterility
OF communism, on the other, is
perhaps the most arresting feature
of the postwar history of the
U. S. S. R."
He points to the spread of edu-
cation, which has been wide in
deed, and the counteracting evil
of making it conform to Soviet
ideas. Since the death of Maxim
Gorky $780," he states, Rus
sian literature has produced no
author of comparable stature. It
is not, however, the absence of
great masters-no political or So
-cial system can produce them at
Will-but the uniform mediocrity
of the general level that gives the
measure of the decadence of Rus
sian letters"
DR.. Florinsky concludes that
through its rule by government
fiat, the Soviet regime is the con-
tinuation of a tradition that has
been the curse of Russian history
since the unification of the coun-
try under the Grand Dukes OF
Moscow and perhaps even earlier
The book is scholarly and OBJ
Jective. It's findings against the
slave state are all the more devas-
tating.
CARTER BROOK JONES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
New Books
FICTION.


THE PEASANT BOY WHO BECAME POPE
BY Harriet Latin. Henry Schuman;
The biography of the humble FRENCH
boy who became Pope sylvester II
THE VALLEY OF, THE DRAGON. By
Olive Price with Illustrations by John
Moment (Bobbs-Merrill.l story oil
the times of Kublai Kahn. Sc. So
HUDSON OF HUDSON'S BAY. BY J. M
Scott. Henry Schuman) The story OF
explore. Henry Hudson and his son
The 1oh Toy S sSoIb1ER. By Donald c. Reaser;
Exposition Press.) This collection OF
verse was awarded q prize in the HOP.
wood contests at the University Of
Michigan. 81.
NON-FICTION.
PUBLIC FINANCE. BY M. slade Ken:
drick. (Houghton, Miffin.) Principles
THE ROAD is YOURS. BY Reginald M
Cleveland and s. T. Williamson. tGrey-
stone Press) The story OF the auto
mobile and Of the men behind It: So 20:
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SHELLS SF
OUR ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTS
BY Percy A. Morris. (Houghton. MI
fin.) Profusely illustrated. One OF the
Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide Series
LET 9EPRs TO BENvENUTA. BY Rainier
Maria Rilke philosophical Library
Letters Of a poet to a Viennese woman
who was drawn to him by volume OF
stories. S2.75.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Art in Washington, 1850

In the field of art, Washington
had a humber of events of ma
tional interest and Importance
which are mentioned in articles
on painting, sculpture, architec-
ture. music and other subjects
adding another permanent record
Gin brief to projects which most
of us will always recall with
pleasure
The great exhibitions arranged
by the National and Corcoran
Galleries of Art as part of the
Sesquicentennial celebration of the
establishment here of the Federal
Government, were viewed by
many local art lovers, and large
numbers Of visitors. Both galleries
received funds from the National
Capital Sesquicentennial Commits
sion. A special grant of 100000
enabled the Corcoran to assemble
its extensive exhibition of his
torical art requiring many months
Of research and travel by staff
members who secured loans from
seven foreign countries as well
as all parts of the United States.
American Professional" COM
posed oil 311 paintings, prints and
drawings, covering major periods
in our history from 1892 to 1900
was on view nearly six months.
The catalogue was only an Incl
dental part of the lavishly illus
trated book on the show, with an
excellent text by Elizabeth Nc
Causland
The National Gallery's special
Makers of History, in
Washington, 1900 to 1850" on view
nearly five months, was composed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Three Keiths Who
Game Home Are
Back in Far East
WHITE MAN RETURNS


BY Agnes Newton Keith. AT
ldntic-Little, BroWn;: 81
Never again" about summed up
Agnes Newton Keith's feelings
towards the Orient in 1915. She
and her husband and little boy
were finally back in North Amer
lea after almost four years in
Japanese prison camp. Yet when
her husband, six months after his
liberation, and just barely recu-
perated from the rigors Of cap
Itivity, accepted an offer Of his old
job as a forestry and agricultural
expert in North Borneo, she could
see that return was inevitable.
A great believer in human
dignity and individual rights, she
said valiantly: "A woman is
always hurt. yet always proud.
when her husband chooses honor,
mot her" For both of them it was
Ia voyage Of rediscovery - North
Borneo, a country they knew and
loved well, seen anew through the
eyes of their son George. who was
just 2 when dragged off to slav-
cry by the Japanese invaders.
Despite the memories which as
sailed them in the hilltop house
rebuilt on the site of their old
home, overlooking the shattered
city of Sandakan, it was a good
life and reWarding one. A Smil-
ing exception to the smoldering
unrest in Asia, North Borneo,
Justly administered under an out
NODDED British charter rule, is
peaceful and prosperous.
Actually the kindly Keiths are
an example Of colonial exploita-
ton in reverse. Instead OF vic
timizing the natives, they are
themselves cheerfully exploited.
Harry appears ever ready with the
advance" that is inevitably re-
quested during the course OF call
from the aborigineS. Agnes, dis
pensing penicillin and good will, is
tirelesS in her efforts to lure leery
native women to the British hos
pital. George loves his little brown
friends like brothers. They are all
resigned to the vast corps OF native
servants who walt on each other
and live in the back quarters.
| It was in many cases a resump-
/ ton of war-tried friendships. With
no condescension she describes
procession of people who were char
acteristically "improvident, child
i ish and incompetent IMPROVE
dent and shortsighted enough to
risk their lives to smuggle food to
us: childish enough to help our
prisoners of war escape: incom-
petent enough to face firing
squad and give up their lives in
our name"
| Yet from this pinnacle of mu-
tual love and understanding, Mrs.
Keith does not advocate lmme-
diate self government for the
Bornese., "It is not their skins,
but their minds and manner OF
thought and their values which
must change"
Mrs. Keith's book, with its ten
der recitals of the adventures OF
children and natives and animals,
lis full of charm and humor. Her
prose is matched by drawings that
have equal simplicity and clarity.
1T is, above all, another installment
Iof her testament of faith in the
brotherhood of man that was be-
gun in Land Below the Wind
and most severely tested in Three
Came Home" She is a woman
who has learned the hard way that
| life is eminently worth living.
MARY MrGRORY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Young English Writer
Won Over, Stuys in U. S.

For those who like to see man
stand by what he writes. we have
the case of Kenneth Harris, a
personable young Englishman who
wrote a favorable book about the
United States and then came to
live here.
A member of the Oxford debat-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Epic of War at Sea Comes From
Ex-Skipper of British Corvette
THE CRUEL SEA
(Alfred A. Knopt;; 81

BY Nicholas Monsarrat. (Alfred A. Knopt; 81
of the come
of this other Suued with vaung pride of service
and unabashed patriotism deceny clothed British under
aemen produces effect of tremendous and dignity
The named quality generally conspicuous wartime fiction
it's absence achieved for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Entire Work of
Lawrence Surveyed

.IHE LIFE AMI WOhho
OF D. H. LAWRENCE
BY Harry T. Moore. (TDayne
Publishers; $4.50J
Reviewed by Edwin TribbIe
The justification for the ap-
pearance of this latest of many
books on D. H. Lawrence is the
completeness with which it sur
veys his prodigious output. Mr.
Moore is a warm admirer of the
great English writer but his en-
thusiasm is carefully restrained.
The book is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
acknowledgements and the
biographical facts, well known, it
is true, are almost too casually
thrown in. AS literary criticism. it
is undistinguished, but it does
contain a great deal of informa-
ton about Lawrence'S numerous
novels, short stories, poems and
essays. Each is described ade-
quately if not brilliantly. There
is an excellent photography.
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Current Exhibitions

| Wi ICIU LNI lIOltlOIt 10
NATIONAL GALLERY, OF ART. Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings. sculpture by masters.
Gulbenkian collection OF Egyptian
Paintings and SCULPTURE acquired
by Kress Foundation, 1945-1951.
American paintings from the col
lection. through August.
! NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col
lection of Fine Arts, Constitution
avenue and Tenth stree-Ameri-
can paintings and old masters.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, Division
of Graphic Arts, Tenth street and
Jefferson, drive-Early lithosrsphs
to Smithsonian.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint.
ings and etchings by Whistler and
other American artists; changing
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street between New York
paintings and sculpture.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
i nssS and Prints. Exhibition By
Bernice Cross; modern French and
AuCA1Sd1 pdAhgllle lAh1D4eAO4o W
Gates, Maurer and Weber.
DUMBARTON OAKS collection. 1908
Thirty-Second street N.W.-Early
Christian and Byzantine art, Tues
days through Sundays, 2-5.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Capt.
tol and First streets.-Prints and
photographs.
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHI-
TECTS. 1741 New York avenue
N.W.-Joint exhibition of Artists
Guild and Washington Sculptors'
Group.
| SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY,
9216 Flower avenue, Silver Spring
Summer exhibition, paintings
| and sculpture.
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
ARTS, 1922 New York avenue NV,
Exhibition by students.
| TRUxTON-DECATUR NAVAL MU-
scum, 1910 H street NV
Naval Aviation" to September.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY. 127
Randolph place N.W.-Summer
group exhibition.
PAN-AMERICAN UNION, Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue
N.W.-Exhibition of photographs.
THE NEW GEORGETOWN GALLERY,
1928 Prospect avenue N.W.-Sum-
mer group show.
COLONY RESTAURANT, 1887 De
Sales street N.W.-Exhibition by
students Of James Cupol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Reading and Writing
Hord-Boiled Marines Realize Claims
Of Literature, Defer Reservist Writer
By Moy McGrory

Ieahernecks they be- but hearts awake to the claims
literature the United States Marines
Of William Syron they displayed artistic
they will be outdone consideration Army
write to mother
Mr. styron white hope of the Bobb Merrill fall list
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Books in Review
Story of Caribbean Adventure Should
Make You Forget Heat for an Evening
SAILORS CHOICE
lie. little, Brown;, 49,
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jone

This novel not be literature but it's corng
and it offers promising relax evening forge,
the humidity
I'm not too not turn out to be literature Of
Bome has published pundts
perhaps decide that he had something all Sailors
Evening star., 1951-06-01
.S.PoIicyFoiIs Reds,
Gold Star Wives Told
By Oscar Ewing Here

American foreign policy has ''up-
set the timetable of the Soviet
schemerS in Korea, and it has
given them setback after setback
in Europe" Federal Security Ad-
ministrator Oscar r. Ewing today
told the convention of the Gold
Star Wives of America.
Mr.. Ewing was the principal
luncheon speaker at the conven-
tion, being held at the Wardman
Park Hotel.
The administrations foreign
policy has worked steadily and
firmly" and "has preserved the
shaky new nations of Southeast
Asia from crumbling under Red
propaganda" he said.
But he added that no policy can
guarantee peace while the Soviet
Union retains its aggressive de-
signs"
Mr.. Ewing told the Gold Star
Wives: Our country's debt to you
will never be fully repaid"
I'VE still have long way to go
before we have provided ourselves
with the full measure of social
security that America ought to
assure its citizenry-but-in say
ing that-we must remember that
we have gone very far already,
he said.
The Gold Star Wives are sup
porting a bill to provide higher
education for children of men
killed in World War II or Korea.
In addressing the convention
last night, Erie Cooke, jr., national
commander of the American
Legion, said he will send a tele-
gram of commentator to Rep
resentative Rankin, Democrat, of
Mississippi. who introduced the
measure May 81.
The bill would allow $500 a
year toward education when the
children became of college age !
They would have to take adj
vantage of the proposed measure
before they reached a., The bill
now has been referred to the