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THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 1929 10 WOMEN PAINTERS LEAD IN CURRENT SHOWS By Mrs. Stellman Foreign Book Shelf Dr. Gerstle Writes of Diseases Sea Saga of Merchant Marine Hoover Good Will Cruise Logged 'By Nadia Lavrova 1 'HE story of the "Three Mus INCE the War of Independ. keteers of the Press" Is one ence and until the Civil War C.F.Lummis9 Last Work Thrills By NADIA LAVROVA ONE can only hope that the latest and last book by Charles F.

Lummls will be read as generally as It deserves to be. He who reads it will come to know more about "the three Americas" than If he had worked his way through libraries filled with Americana. There will also grow within him an appreciation of the continuity of American history, which began when un- 7 -jmm'ym''u 1 Hi sXJm jj Lj lnv jy If I fMA i- 1 I JL 1 IK THERE are many questions referring to general well-being which the patient would like to ask the doctor, and seldom asks. It may be that the physician seems too busy to be engaged in a conversation not bearing directly upon the vlsi- tor's woe; it may be that the visitor does not know how to formulate his inquiry. A young but well-known physician of San Francisco has focused his attention on those matters in which the layman always seeks Instruction from the medico.

In a slender book entitled "The Doctor Discusses Tour Questions," Gerstle, M. Instructor In neuropsychiatry at the University of California Medical School here, at-temps to answer in a terse, but Illuminating way the half-formulated queries which, occupy the minds of many. Problems which he discusses include Infection and immunity, diet and nutrition, drugs and treatment, cancer, sex, social diseases, adjustments and maladjustments resulting from mental processes. His comments, devoid of technical terms, are clear, sensible and helpful. Langley Porter, M.

and Dean of the University of California Medical wrote the foreword. known tribes cleared the Jungle to erect their carved temples, and whose end is not yet For thia book of Lummls Is written from the viewpoint of aa American-American not in the sense of a citizen of the United States, but of a dweller of this continent "Flowers of Our Lost Romance" is the name of the book, completed by the author shortly before his death, and now published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. This lost romance means, of the United States merchant marine held its own on the seven seas. Distant ports that had barely heard of America knew of Salem and thought the two were synonymous. This strong, well-manned fleet had its traditions, formed during whaling expeditions and voyages to the East Indies in colonial times.

Its glory culminated with the clipper ship era, only to flounder after the collapse of the South. The stirring story, too easily forgotten at an age when the brave hulks He dying in ship's graveyards, Is told with fresh vigor In a book recently pub. llshed in San Francisco. "Our Sea Saga The Wood Wind Ship," Is Its title. The volume, compiled and edited by Edmund Ogdftn Sawyer begins with, the account of Colonial shallops, sloops and schooners, runs the gamut of the privateer days, tells of Nantucket whalers on the long chase for the sperm, describes the slave traders, the packets, the making and sailing of clipper ships, and their builders, such as Donald Mackay, who fathered "Flying Cloud," "Lightning," and largest of them all, "The Great Republic." "In view of the proposed agreement naval parity, this volume is of particular interest as It deals with the period when our merchant marine was also on a parity with foreign competitors," says Sawyer.

The general reader will find to "Our Sea Saga" much delightful lore which is fast going the way of ballads and 1 A considerable part of the material used, has been reprinted from issues of Harper's and the Century for the Sixties and the FANATICAL leaders, unleashing passions which they were helpless to stem; calculating politicians watching revolutionary France exhaust itself, and then assuming power; idealists stepping from the tumbril to the guillotine with a witty we meet these In "Figures of the Revolution," Hommes de la by Louis Madelln, now published in America by Macaulay. Their very names recall a raul-' tltude of associations; for, sketched In terse, epigrammatical biographies, are Robespierre and his friends, Marat La Fayette, Danton, Talleyrand, Mirabeau, little Madame Roland, Dumourlez, Barras, the Abee Sleyes. When the latter was asked what he had done under the Terror, he answered; "I lived." Madelln, recognized internationally as an authority on the French Revolution, has shed new light on many old facts and problems. But he Is more than a mere historian. He has a writer's gift of dramatizing his personages and making them come to 1 life.

French' and a lecturer at the Sorbonne his exquisite style is preserved In the fine English version of Richard Curtis. Thus does he in a few mordant words, sketch the pen-portrait of Manon Roland, the soul of the Girondin party. this young woman with her burning, one might say her frenzied, temperament a woman in whom heart and senses and imagination were all on fire felf herself to be doubly weighed down by her life of obscurity and domesticity In the society of her uncouth and elderly husband. In a letter to her friends, the Miles. Canet she describes how she cooks her great man's meals and re-reads Plutarch at the same time: a method of work which must, have assuredly led to very bad cookery.

And all her life with her Plutarch in her hand, of New -Art Energy In S. F. By GOBIND BEHARI I -TUT OMEN painters are in the Wf lead on several fronts. Their exhibitions are the V.aJor current shows. It Is more than a casual coincidence.

It must be taken as a sign and portent of a new art energy here, expressing Itself through women artists. Behind the work of the women painters there is in evidence the management of the art galleries also by women. And, in these days of the approaching holiday pell, the women buyers of pictures play a significant part When any cause is taken up assiduously by women, It becomes as persuasive as popular religion In its effect Perhaps, then, the true democratization of fine art has well begun here. One looks around in vain yet for any conspicuous achievement by women painters comparable to the accomplishments of Edna St Vincent Mlllay or Willa Cathers In the realm of literature. However, there is Louise Janin, for Instance, who has added a fresh note In painting and graphic arts.

And there are some hints that ether women in this city may reach highly individual levels. Edith Kinney Stellman, whose East-West Gallery offering has been already commented upon in these columns, has her studio next to Miss Janin's former studio. And it is indisputable that she, too, has gained new horizons of art expression by her recent European, especially Parisian, visits. One of the striking oil por- traits in the present show is a woman's, in red dress. A keen analysis of compositional values and color contrasts and harmon-" les is evident in it The painting holds together as a living entity.

Some of Mrs. Stell'man's Tninor paintings, sketches of a dog's head, for instance, are very adroitly done. She 'has the talent to sustain representative faithfulness without losing sight of the feeling of the painter. It is in her frescoes that Mrs. Btellman shows her particular craftsmanship.

Painting upon plaster requires a mastery of the material such as is ably indicated here. Mrs. Stellman'a painting of three camels is too literary narrative or something. It is an illustration rather than a paint-, lng, and so much less convincing esthetlcally. of the best stories connected with the President's trip abroad a year ago.

One may read "It in Harry W. Frantz's sprightly account, embodied in a newly published book, "President-elect Herbert Hoover's Good Will Cruise to Central and South 'Described as "a log of the trip aboard the U. S. S. Maryland," the volume Is edited by Lt-Comdr.

H. W. Hill, U. S. published by the Book Press, of 32 Clay street San Francisco.

It' contains gossipy stories by the well known newspapermen who accompanied the presidential party, and who cover in vivid, humorous style every phase of the unusual trip. Many of these yarns wer tapped out In "Mary's Boarding House" the Junior officers' mess hall on the Maryland, devoted for the occasion to the press. The book is copiously Illustrated, picturing the President Mrs. Hoover, Alan Hoover, Ambassador Fletcher and other members of the party, newspapermen, officers and tars galore, several Presidents and other distinguished hosts, and massed crowds waiting to welcome the first citizen of the United States. There is a gay account in pictures of the chastising by King Neptune of the landlubbers venturing Into his realm.

A tribute by Herbert to the personnel of the U. S. S. Maryland completes the interesting volume. Poetry Prize" Eunice Tietjens and Witter Bynner, judges for the Poetry So- clety of America's Undergraduate Contest held under the auspices of "Palms," announpe that the Bynner Prize of S150 is divided this year into three equal parts and awarded to Elder Olson (University of Chicago); Miriam Co-sand (Butler University); Doro-the Bendon (Mills College).

Eight other young poets received honorable mention. Bynner offers the $150 prize again for the coming year. Because of the fact that judges in past contests have frequently made the award to a poet who was not the first Choice of any of them, Bynner will be the sole judge In 1930. sense of pictorial decoration, which even the primitive folks and children have, Is Immediately gratified by such prints as these. At Gump's I Eighties.

N. In Bmille i I lit 4HHHHn y. JHE exhibition of etchings, some of them colored, at Gunrn's has some interesting things in it. Perhaps the most conspicuous of the etching prints here is Brang-wyn's sketch of Albl. It Is in the classic style, set by the great etchers, and Imbued with Italian Influence.

Louis Rosenberg and Sam Chamberlain, both architectural etchers and very much appreciated in England, are represented by several of their prints. For sheer technic, their work seems admirable. Of all of Chamberlain's exhibits, the most skilfully done is a sketch of a rainy day in Chicago. It Is called the "Drizzling Morning in Chicago." Using but very few and faint lines, the artist has yet created an intimate feeling of the wet town. This is the etcher's art at its high mark.

Among California etchers Prof. Roi Partridge is Included, Somehow his etchings do not give one the impression' of etchings. The lines that he uses are monotonous. But they are bold and impressive. In fact they are apt to appeal to the lay public she continued to make a hash of what she undertook, burning her fingers at the same time." In describing Mme Roland, as well as other more important political leaders, the author shows them to have been the victims of their own temperaments, rather than villians or heroes.

"Fl(rnr of the Reyolntlon," hj Lanls MsdPlin. Mscaular. publishers. Price S3. 00.

course, the romance of the first discoveries and settlers. And who were they if not the sons of Spain, Spain which bled herself white in her attempt to conquer and hold a New World. But-if Spain's suzerainty is a thing of the past, forgotten by the Yankees whose English forefathers "discovered" America two centuries after the the influence of the Iberians lingers on. Lummls makes It plain In his chapter on "Indelible Spain," and all throughout the book, which deals with such appealing subjects as "The Virginal Mule-Tamer," "The Trail of the Serpent," "Oranges Three Hundred Years Ago," "The Yankee Smuggler In California," "The Son of Necessity." "When the Stones Come to Life" (which Is an account of archeologlcal expeditions in the Ceneral American Jungle) and "The Last of the Troubadours." Thrilling in Its recounting of former glories, filled with whimsical incidents culled from old Spanish chronicles which for the most part are unavailable to North Americans, exquisite in style, this last work of Lummls is written as a historian who Is also an essayist, a poet, a Spanish scholar, and a naturalist, could write it. A New Englander by birth, Lummis became a Westerner by predilection.

For many years he made Los Angeles his home, where he was the librarian of the Public Library. Incidentally, he says that name of the city dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels should not be pronounced as "Lost Angle Lees." He adds with melancholy that the Middle-Westerners have discovered twelve distinct ways to mispronounce the name. At an age when young Americans begin to turn to Western yarns one would like to see some understanding adult put this book into their hands. For what tre the thrills of an invented "cowboy" story compared to the story of how cowboys came to be, and of the gallant conquistadors and colonizers who preceded them, The San Francisco Association for the Blind at 1097 Howard street has now received a gift copy of the book, "Significant Paragraphs from Progress and Poverty" by Henry George, with Its Introduction by Professor John Dewey, produced in Interpoint Braille. Other copies of this book have gone to various selected Institutions in this country." They are distributed by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 11 Park Place, New York, which is a nonprofit organization, formed to encourage among people of all countries a wider acquaintance with the writings of the great American economist The volumes represent the first effort to make available the work of George or of Prof.

Dewey, in Braille for the blind. Complimieinit The Brutons Sculpture St The death of the greatly beloved T. P. O'Connor, known affectionately through the English-speaking world as "Tay, Pay." ends one of the most notable careers in English political history. Famous equally In the fields of politics and 'journalism, his achievements cover over half a century In active publio life.

Intimate light on his career is shed in "Tiger Tim" Heaiy's "Letters and Leaders of my Day," and he also figures prominently In H. Hessell Tlltman's new biography Ramsay MacDonald: Labor Man of Destiny," both published by Stokes. 1 While Wall Street crashed and American wives saw those visions of the new car and the fall wardrobe vanish along with hubby's bankroll, thousands of American women played Into the hands of Marjorle Bartholomew Paradls and helped prove her case for "The Caddlts," her latest novel on the married gold-digger. Anne Shannon Monroe, the author, wrote the folowlng note to Ethel Whltmire of the Examiner staff: "Your little etchings do, strangely, make me think of my own; though, as you suggest, yours are quite susceptible of being expanded into short stories; I love the short bit of observation; It's as much as most of us have time for. You've struck a very happy note." H( Paul Wilstach, the sprightly traveler and writer, is one American who is making the country history-conscious.

He is lecturing at the moment on his new book, "Tidewater Virginia," which went Into the second edition four days after publication. It Is a beautiful book, written about the "cradle of American history" the tidewater country and is Illustrated with photographs of old Colonial homes, with names that were famous and glamorous In our early history. The portrait of a young woman, and the head of a dog, are among the paintings, together with frescoes, being exhibited by Mrs. E. K.

Stellman at the East-West gallery. The artist combines representative with modern art in bal anced proportion. "The Colophon," a book collectors' quarterly, with offices at 229 West 43rd street, New York, will soon make its appearance. It will have over eighty pages of text, with special Inserts exemplifying experiment and achievement in book design from important American and foregn presses. Contributing editors Include a number of well known artists and authdrs.

The printing will be done by the Pynson Printers. The number of the copies issued will be limited to two thousand, the price of subscription being $10 a year. THE exhibition of contemporary American Sculpture at the Legion of Honor Palace is drawing to its end. It will be wound up on New Year's Day, the authorities of the museum affirm. "The New Year's Day," says an official bulletin of the show, "will be the last to see this great collection.

"Soon the memories of more than a million visitors will keep green Its recollection and the arts of sculpture and architecture will be permanently enriched and advanced by these example of art." California Is 'Spanish Arcadia 9 French and American Relations Brief Art Notes and to whom they owe their very name. "Flnwwt ef Oor lot Romano," br Charlri 1. Lummls. Hnimhton Mifflin Company, Publisher. Price $4.00.

cvn iPANISH ARCADIA" one the nine volumes of "California," which de TrHE three Bruton sisters Mar- garet, Helen and Esther are giving what Mrs. Byan calls "a one-man show," at the Galerle Beaux Arts. A rich variety is presented: Screens, etchings, wood and linoleum block cuts, charcoal eketches, oil paintings. Each of the Bruton sisters has her own bent, her own style. Altogether, It is a winsome show.

The point of view of Margaret Bruton' seems to be the most sophisticated and erudite of them all. She has done a group of charcoal drawings of Pueblo In-' dian women and men. She and Esther Bruton spent a good deal of time in New Mexico, at the town of Taos, studying the Pueblo folks. That their Impressions have been successfully incorporated into art is manifest here. One of Margaret Bruton's deftest o'ls is a depiction of a mud village Taos or something near, it.

Under a recent shower, the mud of the street runs down precipitately. The adobe houses around slump. Ttie very door sills turn awry. It is curious representation of the spirit of primitive living Its charm, its poetry and its misery. Esther Bruton is exhibiting two large wooden screens overworked with lively designs in gold and liver leaf.

Light oil painting, so light as to seem like water color, glows upon the shimmering gold-silver background. As decorative objects, which Is all they aim to be, these screens are originally conceived and faultlessly made. Also, they use the American Indian themes with subtle beauty. Ktlen Bruton, the youngest of ttie group, is particularly gifted in. illustration.

Her linoleum block cuts, and so on, show a pointed talent for decoration and Illustration. One of the side-room -shows It is beginning to pay here to be at the Beaux Arts, 'Maynard -Dixon's, has proved a corking success. The entire collection has been bought off. Prof. Ray Boyn-' ton's water colors and woodcuts also found ready purchasers.

a living artist. RUDOLPH SCHAEFFER STUDIOS AN'NOt-NCK ATf EXHIBmOV OF MODERN DECORATIVE ART DEC. 9th until CHRISTMAS 136 St Anne St. DA v. 6889 Galerie Beaux Arts Xmas Showing of Small Oils, Water Colon and Prints from $.1 $50 166 Geary (Whittell Bid.) 2nd floor VERY CLEVERLY WRITTEN Woman We announce aa Exhibit of Original Blnrk, White and Color Etrhlnfra In the South Gallery Sam Hume will lecture at the Galerle Beaux Arts on Tuesday, December 3, at 2:30 p.

m. Ship models and other interesting exhibits in the nautical galleries of the Golden Gate Park Museum will "be discussed by L. C. Towne in a lecture at the museum at 4 p. on December 1.

On December 4, at 2 p. Miss Helen Gordon Barker will speak on ivory and bronze exhibits here. The sixth annual Hoosier Salon, exhibiting the work of Indiana artists, will be opened on January 25, 1930, and continue until February 12, at the Marshall Field Picture Galleries In Chicago. Boardman Robinson, radical and painter, has stirred up considerable interest by his New York exhibition of nine out of the ten new murals that he has made for a department store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Artist Robinson demanded and was given a free hand as to the subject, style and material.

He showed his modern spirit by delving into chemical research for the best sort of paints. He decided that the best paints were those used in automobile painting. Before painting, he made sculptural models of his subjects so as to grasp the plastlo relations of his figure groups. He studied history to conjure up the story of commerce since antiquity. In his serious murals, which are powerful not pretty, he shows his inclination for both the modern French and, even more, the modern Mexican painting of the Diego Rivera school.

Automobile paints produced ing. results in his wiry. hadSf That the new French premier Is no stranger to the highly controversial subject of Franco-American relations is clearly shown by his recent book, "France and America" (Houghton Mifflin Company), from which the following quotation is taken: "The American, better protected than the Frenchman in his civil liberty and political rights, is less well armed against social conventions. Once outside the legal fortress of the Constitution and the Supreme Court he puts up with anything. By a wave of his hand, a policeman stops twenty thousand people.

A thousand and one petty tyrannies, which in France would lead to riot are meekly borne: blue laws, all kinds of 'don'ts' at all times and places: prohibition, etc. The American likes to agree with the majority, which we love to defy. He thirsts for unanimity; has faith In the wisdom of nations; respects all established customs. Far more jealous of his political liberty than the Frenchman, be sacrifices without a qualm other liberties: those we value most. If we seek the reason, we find it lir the Instinctive and uttsr optimism which takes for granted the unparalleled perfection of American material TheMemoirs of Jacques Casanova, that scandalous and singularly unretlcent old adventurer, have just been condensed Into one wholly satisfactory Modern LI-bsry volume-by Madeline- Boyd.

AS Sums Oa. I San PrsnclM M8-26S Port California pict the romance of the "Golden State, Is now on separate sale, as are the other volumes. This decision of the Powell Publishing Company will be welcomed by book lovers with thin purses. Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez, author of "Spanish Arcadia," has succeeded In giving an entrancing picture of the home life of early Callfornlans In pueblos, on the rancho, In the presidio and In the mission. She tells the inside story of Spanish and Mexican land grants, and incorporates vivid accounts of witnesses Into her narrative.

Other volumes published thus far include "Pathfinders" by Robert Glass Cleland; "Gold Day" by Owen Cochran Coy; "Outdoor Heritage" by Harold Child Bryant and "Oxcart to Airplane" by Rockwell D. Hunt and William S. Ament These will be ready on February 1, 1930: "Songs and Stories," compiled, with a notable survey of California literature by Edwin Markham; "The Great Trek" by Owen Cochran Coy; "Land of Homes" by Frank J. Taylor, and "March of Industry" by Robert Glass Cleland and Osgood Hardy. The books are illustrated with block-prints by California artists.

Like his other books. "The Making of a Merchant" and "The Middleman," Jesse Sprague's latest book, "An American Banker" (Morrow), is full of human Interest humor, plot and CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF DESIGN T.uclrn Lebaudt, Director 5J8 Powfll St. OA rflrla ISM ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN Day end Evening Clause Creative Costume Design and Millinery Stylist Training. Architectural Decorations and Construction Onr Motto; "To copy Is to steal. Re Creative! Be Original." CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS Chestnut and Jones St a.

San KrancUco Fall Term Now ifj Session LEE F. RANDOLPH. Director GKaystone 2ROO Rudolph Schaeffer School of Rhythmo-Chromatic Design SPRING TERM OPENS JANUARY 15 RUDOLPH SCHAEFFER STUDIOS 136 ST. ANNE ST. Between Pine and neat Grant Phone DA Ten port 6980.

FASHION ART SCHOOL Scottish Rite Temple Sutter and Van Ness Individual Instruction In Fashion Illustration Costume and Millinery Design Commercial Art Day and Eve. Classes. Booklet an request By VINA DELMAR Author of "Bad Girl" and "Loom Ladle? The story of Lillian Cory, a gin-buying, ear-owa ing lady of leisure, a middle-class kept woman. The field is uptown Manhattan. Lillian toils not, neither doe she spin.

Events that overtake her are inevitable and her reaction to them is the natural reaction of any lily of the) field. Published by Harcourt, Brace Co. On Sale at Paul Elder's. Price $2.50 Catalogues of Books for Xmas Sent on Request Block Prints A VERY smooth craftsman Is OK dwsy 1126. Director A.

A. Gallagher C0URV0ISIER I 474 POST FT. EXHIBITION of WOODBLOCK PRISTS and SCULPTURE ELIZABETH NORTON November IS to December Elizabeth Norton, whose wood linoleum block prints are on display at the Courvolsier Gallery. She is a Talo Alto artist whose 'work has been successfully exhibited in the East In these simple prints, gaily tinted, Mrs. Morton has conveyed charm.

The EAST-WEST GALLERY nn Putter St. CHRISTMAS PAST0MI.HE Friday Evening. December 2. JOSEPH PAGET-FREDERICKS WEE.