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i SECTION 3 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1930. REVIEWS OF CURRENT BOOKS J. B. Speed Museum I Notes are Childe Hassam, with his well-known ''Willow Gustave Cour-bet himself, with "The Glen at Or-nans." and George Fuller, wbo painted "Pasture With Geese." Mention will oe made next Sunday of the fifteen paintings by George R. Barse.

N.A., and of the recent loan and acquisitions. which Is his customary departure from black and white, Rockwell Kent contributes a smart seascape in "Blackhead Monhegan," as dour a rock' as you could find in a day's junketing. One of the few still life studies in the gallery, Frank W. Benson's "Din-i ing-Room Table" has both charm I and strength, with its sheen of slight-1 ly rumpled cloth, its glossy parrot and glowing fruit, suggesting that still life has its solace beyond the surmise of more sjnimate existence. Hobart Nichols' "The Cascade." is beyond thi ordinary in its spontaneity of falling water; Jerome Myers contributes an absorbing "Dance Fantasy," delightful in color and the placing of the fantastic figures, while Walter Griffin lends three blithe and gracious oils.

Among other painters represented Edited By ROSAMOND MILNER 1 December 7 to 31 Exhibit of George R. Paintings by Barse. N. A. December 7 to 21 Exhibit of Paintings From Duncan Phil lips Collection.

Museum Hoars Week Days, 'Except i Mondays, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays. 3 to 6 P.M. Closed On Mondays. By GRACE D.

RUTIIENBURG. Breathing for the most part an aroma of the half-long-ago, the paintings at the J. B. Speed Memorial Museum this month will bring a sense of security to those who arc homesick for the more peaceful art of eld, as wellj as stirring instances of modern, if hot modernist, derivation. Two exhibits, that from the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington and fifteen pictures by George R.

Barse. a as Xeu as several gifts and pnrirri the well enxnanses of SAFE DOES NOT HARM THE HEART Poems By Jessie Lemont WHITE NIGHTS. By Jessie Lemont. The Mosher Press. Portland.

Maine. Jesse Lemont's book of verse, "White Nights," is assured of a cordial welcome from her many friends in Louisville and elsewhere. The exquisite format lavender covers, print and paper grateful to the sight promptly captivates. The contents match the attractive garb. As the literary recognize, Walter Pater provides title and a foreword from the German mystic: "The red rose comes first." white things being "an afterthought the doubles or seconds of real things." Here then are a poet's white nights, her dreams' recapture of that beauty which for her is a prime reality.

Her sensitiveness to form, color, texture gives her rich inspiration from two worlds from nature and from art. These titles are suggestive: "In the Deep Forest" "Bird Call," "Trees in a ter Night." Like little water colors are several flower pieces in quatrains: 'Moon( Flower," "Water Lily" and "Morning Glory." I lean my length upon the wall And blow my fluted bugle to the morn. I hold my trumpet high while day is passing by; At dusk I lower my closed and muted horn. The poet's mellow cultivation in several arts is recurrently evident. Illustrative is a group of sonnets which depict ideal loveliness: a figure on the pyramids, Botticelli's "Spring," and Arthur B.

Daviess. "A Coronal three incarnations of Beauty, tl3 "Mystic Maid," Evoked from distant pasts by some old claim. She rise like a symbol and a flame. A few years ago Jessie Lemont made a volume of scholarly renderings of the German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, now again recalled in the last pages of "White Nights." These Rilke poems often strike a high spiritual note which the translator attains in her own lines, "The Tree." "Ecce Ancilla Domini," "Notre Dame Chapelle." Either poet might sign Rilke's felicitously rendered stanzas, "From the Book of Pilgrimages: By day Thou art the Legend and the i That hke a whisper floats about all men. The deep and.

brooding stillnesses tnat seem. After the hour has struck, to close again. And when the day with drowsy gesture bends And sinks to sleep beneath the evening skies. So from each roof a tower of smoke ascends So does Thy Realm, my God. around me rise.

A. B. M. Story Books For Christmas Who does not like mysteries? They I FOR COLDS the museum, Outstanding among the paintings, the dean, sb to speak, of American portraits, is the "Music Master," by Frank Duyeneck, the Kentucky sprung whose oils rank with the old masters in breadth of human comprehension as well as in tech nique. The painting, which is valued at $14,000, is mounted on an easel at the right df the arch leading into the main lexhibition gallery.

The colors, for the most part merging browns and ruddy yellows, are as fresh as when they were first applied. The canvas, not large, is broken into beautiful proportions. Duveneck learned in Munich the brushwork which produced the careful unobtrusive surface, free alike from vagary and constraint. Emil Carlsen has "Night at Windham" on the east wall of the main gallery, a spreading mist of grayed green moonlight in which a tree grows more than tree, the 'lighted window a contrast to all that is faerie-stricken. Three other dusky canvases are those of Henri Le Sidaner, who with gypsy wagon and chateau gate achieves an acute sense of existence in place, as well as poignant beauty of two colors, blue and green, played upon in infinitesimal gradations.

Arthur B. Davies represented by two oils, "Rose fsse," a study of two young girls, and another, less pretentious but charmingly imaginative, "Wavering Twilight," which is next to it on the left. Emma Ciardi's "Rendezvous" and "Symphony In restrained and unified, carry a sense of Italian festivity under a semi-tropical sun. One of the unusual paintings is "The Uphill Road," by Augustus Vincent Tack, whose exquisite "Christ At Emmaus" is already owned by the in the quaint toiling figures and the lure of the bent road, lost to sight by the climbing eye. Swerving from the brisht palette Prompt relief from HEADACHES, COLDS, LUMBAGO, RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SORE THROAT, NEURITIS, ACHES and PAINS Recent Fiction DOWN THE SKY.

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and a walnut tree. The more you beat "em the better they be." for she endures the "dark flame" of Eric's temperament to the end. A very "modern," very "sophisticated," jvery "frankly worded" book. "The Silent Witness" is a posthum-ous volume which will be welcome to jthe author's admirers as an example his terse and stringent style. Solonel Braxton recalls to the mind Irwin Cobb's Judge Priest, for he is the central figure in the series of episodes that make up the book.

All scenes are laid in small Virginia settlements where Colonel Braxton something of a tradition, being a mixture of lawyer and detective, with decided tendency to rely upon a Providence higher than that of any earthly court. In each case a mute witness confutes some false testimony breaks down some carefully erected tissues of manufactured evidence, the Colonel depending upon a certain guidance that never fails him. The sketches are dramatic, full of action and written in that clear language dear to the heart of the lamented writer K. W. D.

Andre Maurois is now in residence Princeton University, where he is conducting a lecture course on the French novel. Books Added to Public Library uji to thp Louisville Free Public Library during the past week include- FICTION. Bramah Mirror of Kine Ho Federn Baron Fritz. Ford Consequences. Il in Quiet Street Jones Torch Murder Joseph Lonsf Bonoaae Locke Town cf Tombarel.

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Written By Himseli. Published By George Fowler. Wilderness Road Book Shop, Louisville, i5. An event for collectors, antiquarians and just book-lovers is Mr. Fowler's republication of the narrative of John Robert Shaw, written almost a century and a quarter ago in Lexington, Kv.

So much local interest at taches to the book that its history must precede discussion of its matter. It was printed by Daniel Bradford 01 Lexington in 1807, and received by a list of more than 800 subscribers. Among them, as Mr. Fowler points out in his interesting Introduction, were Henry Clay and Simon Kenton. He deduces that this first and until now only edition was literally read to death, since the fewest surviving copies are known to exist.

The 1930 edition is dedicated to Mrs. J. Henrv Heuser, to whom goes the credit of the "collector's instinct" that discovered and recognized the worth of this rare item. When John Robert Shaw, then a settled man of 45, with a family, rested from his profitable labor as a well-digger in Lexington to write the story of his adventurous life, he had been "five different times a soldier, three times shipwrecked, twelve months a prisoner of war, and four times blown up." The blowings up were the result of his well blasting, not of war's alarms; but they were as disastrous as any of more glorious origin and no doubt helped swell the list of subscribers to their victim's memoirs. And he had previously suffered freezing, wounds and crippling in two armies.

Born in 1761, the son of a Yorkshire weaver. Shaw "ran away for a soldier" before he was lt years old. He evidently made a good one, and in a year or two was sent with his regiment to help subdue the American Colonies. It is an un- I varnished account he gives of the life iof a roistering British private. After a as a prisoner of the Colonial Army, he suddenly joins it.

rather by (accident it seems than from convic tion. When the war is over he leads a vngabond life. For a time he is disabled, but later he works, drinks, and lives prodigiously again. The tests of anv book's value, life and force, emanate from this old. event ful autobiography.

The man must have been a personality coarse, sanguine, bold, courageous and honest enough. The quality of his book jus tifies the publisher's claim that it is cast in the style of the English Eighteenth Century narra-; tive" and is "The first work of hi.cr-arv worth west of the Alleshanies." Historically, the record of a private soldier in the ranks of both armies of the Revolution is uniquely valuable. Nothing has been neglected to make this second edition of the well-digger's remarkable book complete at every point. The original edition is duplicated with its list of subscribers. There are hundreds of names familiar throughout Kentucky, and nearly filty from Lancaster.

Pcnn. Pennsylvania was where Shaw stayed longest before he settled in Kentucky. There is also a list of the 300 1930 subscribers to the book, who were supplied before the trade edition was put out. A careful, accurate index completed the volume. It was the first illustrated book in the West and its prim wood-tuts are not a small part of its charm charm wholly independent of that for the Kentuckian who may see his ancestor appear on the scene at any moment.

The manner of the book is" so surprising for its period in America that it adds immensely to the speculative interest aroused in its astonishing author. R. M. On December 1 Random House issues the trade edition of the Kent "Moby Dick." The book includes over 200 drawings by Rockwell Kent, the same that were used in the limited edition recently published by the Lakeside Press. This Random House "Moby Dick'' is the Book-Of-The-Month Club's selection for December.

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Then, for the very small. Lois I.cnskr.s "Two Brothers and Their Baby Sister" Frederick A. i Stokes Company. New York. and "Bird In the Eush." for 4 to 3 years (Dutton.

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