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4 TACX NTN'f! sac 0, THE MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE: FEBRUARY 2fi 1023 'J 9 if 'itY'S'SWf i ri 5 3 7 "SZZ 1 ra fit i 1 1 1 rum 1 1 1 mf ii ii Trim i mi 1 1 1 WWmHM "tfTT i. ii til i-wiofcirtr, i 11 i '11 tmA Mm I I Preview of Collection of of the New Tabloid eviews High School Boy Defends OurYo unger Generation in Frankly Written Novel Eighteen-Year-Old Robert S. Carr Justifies Actions of Flappers, Sheiks in The Rampant German Paintings Reveals Excellent Work and Color Work of Contemporary Bavarian Artists to Be Seen in Exhibition Opening at Institute Saturday. 'THE RAMPANT AGE." By Doran Garden City, Robert S. Carr.

Doubleday, New York. By Burt Allen. PREVIEW of the exhibition of the work of contemporary German artists, which opens Saturday at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, has surprised your critic A Reviewed by R. A. Businger.

ONE OF TUB best all round justifications for this so-called jazz-mad, flapper-and-sheik generation we've ever come across. And best of all it's done by one of them an 18-year-old high school boy, a clean cut, frank and wholesome a young chap as you could find. Youth vindicates itself, defends its reputation against the onslaught of the attacks of maturity who in their youth suffered the same lapses, the same temptations as its grandchildren today, and met them secretly, surreptitiously, ashamed of their most natural proclivities not as youth of today open and abovd board for all the world to see. The past generation, who so flagrantly damnn the present, possessed not one wit of the wholesomcness, the generous breadth of mind and judgment possessed by this so-called jazz age. And in this rollicking story of a genuine collegiate sheik, who isn't afraid to speak his mind, who isn't afraid to call a spade a spade, who has a high ideal of the vahies of more than a little.

He has always been inclined, in an accounting of artistic matters, to discount completely the German school. The French school, or perhaps it is the French propaganda, has dominated the field for so long, that he had almost begun to think that there was little or no artistic activity in middle Europe. Of course, the Expressionists have kicked up quite a stir recently, but that can almost be considered a succes de scandale, for they startle rather by their violence and their horror than by any legitimate plastic quality. Yet here is a group of nearly 50 canvases by Bavarian painters, some of them veterans like Franz Stuck and Hugo von Haberman, and others by comparatively young men. They are not great, but then very few paintings deserve that epithet.

But they are excellent. They are colorful and they have in many cases the quality of good painting. To be sure, there is little of the grand and elemental quality of. Germany's great music. That is rare in the plastic arts.

But it ia eminently livable art. Even Von Stuck, who 30 year ago was considered rather diabolical, here mellows into an agreeable painter and seems almost old-fashioned. sloughs off one set of conventions leaving another more binding. It Is tragic because it has isolated itself and flounders without comfort." Jane only laughed at him Tom Mad den has never pursued any woman but Jane she Is the sum and 'substance, of his existence. He could not live without her she smoothes the very world for him that his path might be easier.

But w-lth the advent of Hope Birge into his life Tom Madden bursts from his chrysalis, a veritable cave-man, and three days after their first meeting, elopes with Hope, leaving Jane, she who had borne with him for 20 years, put him at the very heights of fame, with only a passing regret at having to agrieve her so. But Jane did not grieve she knew her. Tom she knew he would come back sooner or later. She knew he could no more live without her, without his workroom, in such wild disorder, than a tree can live after having been cut from the earth that nourished it. So she eat herself down in her salon, enjoyed her friends as before, and wailed for Tom.

If 'a splendid story. The lively dialogue, the character delineation, the amusing and unexpected twists and turns around which Mr. Bur-lingame leads to his conclusions, are done with that fine art that Mr. Burllngame evidenced so brilliantly in hi "Susan Shane" of last year. "THE WAT THINGS ARE." By E.

M. Delafield. Harper New York. Reviewed by R. Businger.

An extremely dull account of the extremely dull existence of a dull and uninteresting English country gentleman, his wife and two eons. One seeks a little domestic Inconvenience In fiction one wants to be amused not reminded of unpleasant things. From the beginning of the book the whole gamut of domestic cares If paraded. The servant problem; the children's persistent colds; no hot water when one wants particularly a good, hot steaming ablution; cold coffee, half-cooked food, and above all a bored and boresome husband hiding behind his inevitable newspaper, answering one's questions with grunts; arous ing to one's attempted conversational flights with maddening rustling of the Times. That may be life it undoubtedly Is but In one's hour of recreation, a desperate attempt to find the unusual if only in the varied Imaginings of novelists, Is necessary for the retention of proportion and balance.

The story opens with Laura, Tem 'Christian IV Story of tke Courageous to of of FOR those v-ho like their art not too modern, this will be an eminently pleasing exhibi Hon. Other painters represented are: Heinrtch von Zugel, whose "Cattle In Sunshine" is In the permanent collection of the institute, Paul Crodel, Julius Dier, Raoul Frank, Walter Geffcken, Constantln Gerhardinger and Leo Putz. II If Lv-i A ple, a one-time beauty, a one-time good fellow, experiencing all the unchanging dullness of marital existence, yet in her heart reaching out for a change of scenery and sensation. Fate puts a chance for real romance in her way, but Laura is too steeped in the dullness of tradition and niceties to depart from the straight and narrow path which custom and society had taught her waa necessary to one' soul peace and contentment. But what Is oul peace, what is contentment In the faee of slow and certain mental and physical stagnation? Thus the story.

It reaches no heights of human emotion, no climaxes of adventure it's just a chronicle of an average existence and laid down in front of your discerning eyes It's anything but pretty see, "A CORNISH DROLL." By Eden JPhillpotts. The Macmiltan Co. At last there comes from the presses a book of fiction that is not one of the significant novels of the year. Not even the publishers make the claim. This is merely the story a droll Cornlshman who ha become very old, and liable to die any minute.

His granddaughter, set to mind him, puts him to writing to secure leisure for herself. The slow-witted fellow Is married to Mercy Jane, a deceitful girl who leaves him three times. Twice she returns when her husband is made the object of fame and fortune, but the last time when he gains the greatest fortune all she stays with her true love. With all her faults there 1 much to be said for the happiness-seeker, curious Mercy Jane. Since William, her first husband, refuses to condemn her, we who have not suffered from her escapades, can hardly "do less.

The tale is told in the pleasant and often musical dialect of old Cornwall, and becomes tedious on only an occasion or two. William Chirgwin, in whose words the story is told, proves somewhat of a philosopher. Perhaps It was at reviewers he was aiming when he says; liked the play and especially sad plays in which terrible things happened if you'm always going to play-acting 'tis the same a if you're always reading story-books. Such things make real life seem a thought tame, and you get in the habit of flying to books, or the theater, like the drunkard flies to drink." He realizes the limitations of conscience In an estimate of Mercy Tells Life Genial and Danish Kin devoted husband and lover. His for him.

Even today they consider Book Jane: "If she'd been born to a higher station of life, 'tis difficult to say how far up in the world she might have climbed, her without a conscience." "JERRY TARBOT, THE LIVING I NKNOWN SOLDIER." By Jerry Tarbnt. Tyler Publishing 410 East street, New York. Reviewed by R. A. Busrnger.

A remarkably well written and unsentimental plea by a "living unknown soldier," for recognition. Jerry will be remembered by many, many people. His ease held the center of attention not so long ago in his persistent attempts to identify himself, or have some one identify him. His story has been believed by some, disbelieved by others, unfortunately. In this book he tells with poignant bitterness such of his war experiences as his shattered memory can recall and of his long, long search for his people.

His view of the war is amazing, his struggles to penetrate the void that befogs his brain Is grippingly stirring, his exposure of the politics that engineers all Red Cross, Veterans bureau and congressional action is illuminating. There is education, refinement and attractive- personality in this unknown soldier, It speaks to you in every line of his book. It Is to be hoped that his search will soon come to an end that he will find the things for which he is seeking home, family and friends, and the recognition that he so evidently de-serves. A bill has only recently been introduced in congress, according to advices from Washington, to give official veteran's statu to "Jerry Tarbott." Representative A. E.

Carter of California is Introducing the bill. A different angle on the horrors of war, the hopelessness of having given one's life for Jerry Tarbot's existence Is a living death for the service of one's own country, only to find that selfsame country turning a deaf ear, a cold shoulder to some little compensation, not monetary, but sheer understanding and help in an attempt to find oneself. It's a story that will stir the emotions and cause one to wonder over many things patriotism in the main. "NEW VOICES." By Marguerite Wilkinson. The Macmillsn Co.

In this new edition of Mrs. Wilkinson' critical estimate of contemporary poetry, which is also valuable anthology, Is a postscript of the very latest that poets have done. Mrs. Wilkinson thinks poetry is like the ancient pool of P.ethesda at Je rusalem, and "until they have been plunged into the eddies of rhythmical and imaginative beauty, many human intellects are, to a certain extent, sick and Infirm." Not bo many years ago she found the waters In this country" still. That condition has passed and In 1318 she finds so as- tute a critic in the matter as John Masefield remarking that poetry, as an art, Is much alive among us.

This book treat of a wide variety of qualities and subjects of poetry. It even Instructs In the craft of making poems. And it Is more than the "introduction" which the modest fly leaf claim. CoDTrirht. IMS, N.

T. Ininf Poit, Inc. College Girl Offers Character Study in 'Not Magnolia "NOT MAGNOLIA." By Edith Everett Taylor. E. P.

Duttop Ne York. Reviewed by R. A. Businger. SAVE for over-indulgence in platitudes, this is a rather charming story of the younger generation.

There are marks of youth, of Inexperience, a certain crudity of expression, but this young Florida college girl has done a fairly good piece of character delineation. Her characters are true examples of lazy, undisturbed and maddeningly calm southern placidity. She deals with untamed, resentful youth, fighting convention, hating tradition, determined to mould life to Its own uses. The story opens with Leigh Monroe, young Tallahassee college stu dent, in New Vork with a Jolly, lik able maiden aunt, Beulah Love Pom-eroy, old In years, but young In ideas, possessing a typical warm, affectionate southern nature, Leigh has been through a terrific experiencean affaire du cour. One of those typical southern affairs, a third or fourth cousin, destined to marry Leigh from their cradle days.

But Stephen has met with a misfortune that has snapped the Joy of living from Leigh. As to Stephen the reader is left In the dark until well along in the story. The truth of the mat ter Is Stephen has lost his reason, whether duo to overstudy In medical school or inheritance, the author does not very definitely state. Leigh Is Inconsolable she does not openly grieve, but goes about in a sort of morose calmness that well-nigh breaks Beulah Pomeroy's heart. She exerts every effort to Interest her niece In something.

She flits about the night-life of New York determinedly with the younger crowd, all from Tallahassee, southernly releted In some way to the other. But Leigh refuses to arouse from her suffering, She return to college after her holiday as disinterested as before. The story goes Joyously on for the rest, each busy with her own particular love affair, school affairs, etc. There's the Inevitable two girls with their overdeveloped "crush" on each other which has gone beyond the bounds of wholesome admiration Mis Taylor handles that phase of her story with rare good Judgment. Back home in college and In her old home she begins to see things differ.

ently. There's Oliver Varn, rising young novelist, a self-made gentle man, who occupies Leigh's thoughts more than she had thought possible, t'nconsclously Miss Taylor has drawn a rather fine contrast between Stephen and Oliver. Stephen, the polished aristocrat, with his Inherent weakness and lack of, stamina Oliver, a waif of the streets, a self- mad gentleman, with his In herent strength and abundance of Btamln. The story reaches its "CHRISTIAN IV." By John A. Gade.

Houghton, Mifflin Boston, Mass. Reviewed by R. A. Businger. A DECIDEDLY interestingly written biojrraphy of Christian IV, the genial courageous king of Denmark, who laid the foundation of the Danish navy, extended the trade of his subjects to the East Indies, introduced a judicious system of finance and founded Chris- i i i HIOII TMt KSDAV." By Roger ISurlingame.

liarles Scrihners Sons, New Vork. Reviewed hy U. A. Iliisinger. A STORY for wives of wender-Ing husbands: a story for artistically Inclined husbands of calm and normal wives.

It opens with artistic Tom Madden and his charming, wholesome wife, who, by the way, had given up a singing career to marry Tom, struggling for a meager existence In Pari. Tom wants to paint, knows he can paint and insists on painting In spite of the fact that his paintings do not soil; that food and raiment there is nor even fuel to warm the threadbare rooms which he and for lack of a better name, call home. Jane views her husband's paintings anxiously, technique Is there but too perfect, line, yes, but Tom Madden' paintings lack Jhat elusive quality that makes for recognition. Seeking for a solution to both problems, artistic and economic, Jane begins to notice the clamor for Tom's opinion from other artists; their joy at his commendation, their dejection at his condemnation, and tcradually roalb.eg that Tom Is a critic a great one and not a painter. And after much suffering, much denouncing on Tom's part, Jane makes him see It too.

She procures orders for his writings, goes over them, corrects them, deletes too radical, too rancid portions, and puts him on the high roa4 to fame. When the inevitable offer comes from New York Tom rants and raves for several days. He will not leave Paris he will not live In New York "I'd rather live in hell!" But Jane ralms him, restoye him to normalcy, i decides for him. And Tom Madden i in an unbelievable short space of time 1 an Internationally known critic his opinion sought from all corners of the globe. Life becomes a luxurious comfortable existence.

'Jane transforms their studio apart-j ment into stately, companionable liv-i ing quarters. Tom has his study, a royal disarray of papers, books and whatnot. Jane has her salon, with its attractive fireplace, commodious sofa with a piece of Chinese embrpi-idery thrown across Its back, its em- pire mirror with Its Venetian red jiaoie, unuer i upon itj iaie-j ly splendor, burned on Thursdays, tall candles in carved silver candle-Iftock. "Hish Thursdays" Jane call- ad them when there was no light but candlelight and the artist coterie dropped In for intimate chats with "the great Tom Madden," when he (jmerged noisily, like a huge bear, from his study, and for a mere opportunity to bask In the light of Tom Madilen'i universally popular, charming wife. It was Into this little group of artists and near artists that Jane Introduced, on a memorable Thursday, Hope Birge, extremely modern, extremely physical, belonging to the modern feminine generation known as the "flapper," of whom Tom Madden had written.

"The Tounger Generation, so far. Is less boring. Its medium is tragicomedy. It proclaims the virtue of living on Impulse and dresses Itself In yards of self-Justification. It thumbs noses at ita parents, at precedents, at tradition, and when reproved, waves the black banner of the war It is comic because it America "THE GRKAT AMERICAN BAND WAGON." By Charles Men.

John Day New York. Reviewed by R. A. Businger. An ironic, at times, amused, at times, satiric, at times, study of American life.

"A Study of Exaggerations." Mr. Merz defines it. He presents for your particular observation, under the microscopic view of his own discerning vision, the radio, flic commercial lathing beauty, the filling stations, secret trunler, golf, moving pictures, prize fighting. He lay his finger pui.se cf Amcriian recreation and IdiosynciacUs, measuring its heart beats with the accuracy of a physician measuring the distance between life and eternity. He is not malicious, he 1 not derlFive.

He is merely humorously appreciative and uncannily understanding. He Is a delicious modern with a well developed flair for realism. He knows us for what we are end holds up the mirror of hi verbal honesty that we might see ourselves as others see us. His explanation or tne raoio is unique sieaklng of the fact that from 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 Ameri cans are listening in on tne ratuo every evening. "This Is our counterpart of the drum the black man heats when tb night is dark and the Jungle lonily, Tom-Tom." And because we have a consuming fear that a great many will miss this humorous look at Americans, taken by one of us and not an Asqulth or a Glen, we quote another price less bit from Mr.

Mcrz's "Young America." which is America and Americans in a nutshell. "This Is a new America. All that It 1b safe to say of it 1 this: It will be a still newer America tomorrow. or we are a restless people, wun a gn-m store of curiosity and an immense reserve of energy, a heritage of youth and a tremendous will to go somewhere. "Show us a new goal and we shall be off ugnin, as we have been off before, on so many other bright, auspicious mornings." Rant and rave if vou please hut way down deep in your heart you've got to admit it's true.

Personally, we endorse' Mr. Men and his book whole-heartedly. The shoe fits, but instead of pinching, It amuses and refreshes our sense of proportion. "THE GREAT MAGDALEN'S." By Hugh Francis Blunt, Marmlllan, Father Blunt, after chapter on penitent hussies of the early Christian stage, carries us from the original Magdalen, unique among her kind did not St. Chrysostom day that when she left the feet of Jesus "she wa radiant with the glory of to Mmo.

Tiquet, than whom "are found few viler women In history," via "Fair Rnsnnv.md," poor Beatrice di Cenci, the I'ompa-dour and others. Owing to the linl-formity with which their peccant heroines enter into grace, these tale vaguely suggest that, after all, the "moral lapse" Is not uch a much. F. H. M.

life, a laid squarely Jnv the blame for hip-flasks and 15 and 16-year-old cigaret stained feminine finger tips THE PARENTS. A N'D why not? Tounor Paul, having flown hlfh. wlje and I handsome who knew a much about life when he was 17 as th average man of 40 In our! dar, chaste grandmother's day ever did, received his best lesson when he, with another boy and two sirls of questlonahl character, hip -flask and ail. prepared to spend a few eventful days together in the sum-! mer home of the second boy. 'A moment after his arrival there, Paul waa followed hy his own! father, the owner of the home and) two women who pljed their trade as bent they might Paul a young until revolted he left his own party without ceremony, tore home t- comfort his mother, only to And her In the arm of another man! Through the conduct of his own parents member of that past generation who look upon the present with horror-atrl'-ken eyes Paul b-Kn to see the beauty of soul, menul and, physical cleanliness.

He pulled up short, sought clean, wholesome com-( panlons both masculine and feminine, and started out on 'he highroad to worthwhile manhood, Just to be different. This young Robert S. Carr show up the older generation with all their false Idea of virtue and chastity he compares their methods, con sciously or unconsciously, with their children's. He shows them hiding I their vires, their silly attempts to be "good-sports." under the time-worn cloak 'well we didn't do that sort of thing when I was younr," while the younger generation hides' nothing. Is ashamed of They dip Into unwholesomeneas but i only dip, mind you, and come out raner, stronger nmre worthwhile for the exper.ence.

rr HIS I his young author sold first work' at the age a of 15. and another three vears later; rrom mat time unun the present evervthlng he has writ-: ten has met with approval and well thev might his English is far sup- erior to thet of some of our maturer authors. He writes wholeheartedly and frankly. He's the best Exhibit-A the youth of today could hav Prosperity "THE ROAD TO PLKNTY." Ry William T. Foster and Waddill Catch-Ings.

Houghton Mifflin Co. An answer to the troublesome question that confront business men, economists and statesman as how to hring about greater prosperity to business and the at large, presented in story form. It Is a thoughtful, sound and significant hook sure to have a far-reaching effect. The chapter headings In themselves stimulate Immediate interest for Instance "In Which the Gray Man and the Three Wise Men Bhow What It Is All "In Which the Kindly Lawyer and the Thoughtful Professor Declare That There Is No Road to "In Which the Business Man Thinks And the Red-Haired Orator "In Which it Becomes Clear That Only by Getting Ready to Prosper Tomor-row Can We Prosper "In Which the Business Man Explains How a False Assumption Has Block, ed the Road "In Which An Understanding Woman Becomes a Comrade of the Quest." A glance at these ia hound tft send you pell-mell Into the book athlrst for en-lifhtment! Best Sellers in Minneapolis. llama, me capnai ox iorwaj, woicn was iiaint-u bilci hum uiu.uuu birth was a great event in the Danish capital.

His father, Frederick II, had long since given up all hope of his wife's ever presenting him with a son. Girls there had been on every auspicious occasion but until the birth of Christian no sons. Consequently when Queen Sophia did give birth to a son the joy of the: king and his subjects knew no bounds. There was feasting and rejoicing and the poor little mite was subjected to the most unheard-of festivities, to which he contributed lusty and persistent vocal protests: At the age of eight weeks he was taken from his mother's arms and sent across, the Baltic to Gustrow castle in Germany where he was to begin to absorb the culture and polish of foreign courts. The protests of his mother that he was too young were of no avail.

Frederick was consumed with fatherly pride and ambition. At the age of six young Christian was being instructed in religious and economic subjects, in the use of arms, and languages. He was served eight courses for his dinner, four or five of which were "particularly well cooked," and wine and beer in abundance. His days began at 5 a. m.

with prayers, breakfast and lessons until dinner time, fencing lessons, and to bed at 9 o'clock. An extremely dull and uninteresting existence for an energetic, healthy, growing boy. But he dreamed his dreamshe dreamed of being a sailor he loved the sea, ships were a passion with him. He delighted in stories of foreign lands and adventures. AT the age of eight Christian became formally the heir apparent to the throne of Denmark and to the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and at the age of 11, through the death of his father, Christian succeeded to the throne.

It was then he began to realize his dreams he traveled from one end of his kingdom to the other, he sailed the seas in his beloved ships. He grew up to be a jovial, happy-go-lucky monarch, beloved by his subjects, of unusual moral and physical courage, reckless and daring on the battlefield, appearing in the thick of battle without his helmet or breastplate, sleeping in his armor, always in the thick of the fight. On one occasion he wrote to a friend abroad: "Though I do not possess the power and might of the kings ROGER P.CRL1SGAUE, llViode novtl, "High Thurtdny" it rrricued in tke tabloid section of png. With the Literati By R. A.

B. P.S. THOMAS WTUKFIN, the 3 year old modern, recently of "Trewlanv of the Wells," now playing in musical comedy, is writing her memoirs. At present they are running seri-illy In a monthly masazine, but Ocorge Doran company will publish them In book form in July. Am.ia.,, it j.i ..4 The Life of Shelly" and "Disraeli," has been decorated by the English government with the order of Com- mander of the Hrltlsh Empire.

Ramsey Benson, novelist and newspaperman (if Wishart, Missouri, ha been awarded the $7,300 prize for the bes't biographical novel offered by The Forum and FrederIA A. Btokes company jointly. The nov. el, "Hill Country," will be published In book form by Stokes in July. John Ersklne, who has exposed the private lives of such famous people as Helen of Troy, Galahad and Adam and Eve, has started out on a three months' lecture tour of the C'nited States.

Just before he left he played the piano for two encasements with the New i'ork Symphony orchestra. The versatile professor of English at Columbia need never look for a job. Professor O. E. Rolvaag, author of "Giants in the Earth," recently sailed from New York for Norway at the Invitation of the association which Is holding the Ibsen Centennial In March.

Michael Arlen, it Is rumored, is soon to wed a Greek countess. According to the London Dally Express, his engagement to Countess Atalanta Mercanti Is to be announced shortly. The countess, a hrunet. te, by the w-ay, is one of the most accomplished skaters and dpneers at St. Morlta where Mr.

Arlen Is now living. i The Literary Guild has chosen "Black Magic" by John W. Vander-cook a It March book. It Is the story of the brief and vivid life of the Negro empire of Haiti. Van Doren to Lecture.

The free illustrated lecture this afternoon at the Institute of Art will be by Harold Van Doren on "The- Art of Our Grandfathers." The Institute' Itself, possessing picture by Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin West, Kensett, and Thoma Cole, will be drawn on for some of the illustra tlve material, hile other slides will be shown covering early American painting from the time of Smibert to the advent of George Inness. Weekly Calendar of the Institute of Arts Today, at 3:30 p. m. "American Art In the Time of our Grandfath ers." Free Illustrated lecture by Harold L. van Doren.

At 3 and 3:45 p. "The Prince of the Ebony Horse." Story hour for children be tween the age of 6 and 12, told by Josephine Olson, museum instructor. Tuesday, at 11 al m. Gallery tallt on current exhibitions by Jean B. McHugh.

Wednesday, at 11 a. m. "The XVIII Century In England: Chippendale, Adam, Hepplewhlte and Shera ton." by Jean B. McHugh. Free to members.

At 3 p. m. general gallery tour by Jean B. McHugh. Thursday, at 11 a.

m. "Whistler Versus Ruskln." Print talk by Marie C. Lehr, Curatot-f Prints. Free to members. At 4 p.

m. "Poussin, Claude and Chardin." II. lustrated lecture by Harold L. van Doren. Free to members.

Friday, at 11 a. m. "The Egyptian Room." Special gallery talk by Jean B. McHugh. Saturday at 11 a.

m. "Iyeyasu, a Warrior of Japan." Story hour for the children of members, told by Josephine Olson. EXHIBITIONS. Fifty paintings by contemporary Bavarian artists. Eeglnning Saturday.

"Americana Prints." Modern dress: silk designs from the Art Center, New York. Until Friday: Victorian furniture and acce. sories. English mezzotints. Print gallery.

Seventy drawings by modern masters from the De Lalttre memorial collection. New accessions: "The Mystery Man," Indian head by Cyrus E. Dal-lin; group of 20 Egyptian antiquities; group of Sheffield plate silver. Loans: Bronze Nataraja, or Dane. Ing Siva, and group of Scythian daggers and girdle ornaments; portrait of General Townshend by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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ARTHUR W. ISCA 1(1 Ponth "nMi Mr-M, Mli MM JOHN A. GADE I the author of "Christian IV," an interesting biography of the popular Danish king. climax with the unexpected return of Stephen from the sanitarium and Leigh's discovery that things had not always been as they should. It's a worthy effort coming from the pen of youth, of Inexperience, of comparative Innocence.

The Vmok gets its name from an old Negro song: "Doan you gib det dead white flowah to me Gib me a red-rose flowah, gib me a yella flowah, But no magnolia." Leigh must choose between tradition and magnolias, or the unconventional and red roses. The Ei assay "ESSAYING THE ESSAY." By Burges Johnson. Little, Brown. This book, Intended as a text for school and college English and rhetoric courses, is elementary enough to be used for first-year work in any state university. The first 50 pages are given over to three short in troductory chapters for teachers and affable suggestions for students, dur ing which there are times whervPrO' fessor Johnson apparently restrains himself by main strength from go- lng whimsical.

In the chapters ad dressed to students, the author give the conventional and quite often fu tile advlre. which include such headings as "Getting Ready to Begin," "Consciousness ot Style," "The Mat ter of Mood," and more of the same sort. The larger portion of the book Is devoted to specimen essays, from those of Montaigne to Professor Johnson himself, all bagged and set out with an eye to the various styles. For instructors whose courses in cludo a beginning study of essay writing, this might prove advan tageous as collateral reading, al though It is doubtful if anything can be gleaned from the first R0 psges which could not be got os easily through a first-hand reading of any i good anthology and a few of the bet-! Irr rurrent muguitincs. F.

L. T. Copjrrlf ht, 1921, Nw Yark Zvtnln Peit, Inc. "(TRIOS1TIES OF SCIENCE." By an Henri Fahre. Translated by Ferry F.

Bricknrll. Century. Fabre is one of the very few writ- ers who have succeeded In making science Interesting to children. This book, however, is not a very example of Fabre's work. It Is too much of a hodge-podge; little bits I about foods, plants, rocks, porcelain, gunpowder and leather; and not very much about any one thing in particular.

Sometimes the sentence are obscure. Monkeys, are told, may be defined as "mammal with thumbs to their posterior members, and sometimes to all four." The Illustrations are atrocious, 1 defy any one to get an idea of whut a Is from the picture on page BC; and of a lion from page 121. And yet even a poor example of a master's work repays examination, I i found myself reading and enjoying some of the later chapters, In which the wlf Uncle Paul tells hi young i nephews, Jules and Emile. storle about writing Implements, coining and tanning, B. H.

of ranee and Lngland, yet I am better off than they, for 1 can drive safely through my kingdom behind my coachman and beside my little dogs. I can spend the night with any of my subjects, be he nobleman, burgher or peasant, and lay down my head and for I know I have with knowledge or intent, done injustice to any one. The kings of England and France must, on the other hand, travel with bodyguards of a thousand men in order to be protected from the knife and the poison cup of their would-be murderers." Christian was a fond father and palace became a veritable children's institution? crowded with his legitimate and illegitimate progeny. And he loved them all. He took every precauton to guard their health, saw to their comfort, took tnem to see the performing elephant when brought to town, and the tightrope walker.

When he learned his children were being maltreated at the hands of his second wife, Kirsten, he rescued them from her influ ence and eventually banished her from his court. In matters of warfare and domestic affairs, Christian was decidedly unlucky. He suffered defeat after defeat in war and his domestic troubles were many. But it disturbed his equilibrium not at all. NE experiences a genuine liking for this stalwart, kindly ruler, I 1 appreciating the Danes' love him the greatest monarch they ever had.

They have forgotten his faults, all they remember are his kind deeds, his good spirits. It is through his fatherliness to his kingdom that he has enshrined him-elf in the hearts of his people. They remember him as the heroic old Viking, In battle, whomhey have put down in song "King Christian stood by the lofty mast In mist and smoke; His sword was hammering so fast, Through Gothic helm and brain it passed; Then sank each hostile hulk and mast, In mist and smoke. shouted they, 'fly he who can! Who braves of Denmark's Christian The stroke Path of the Danes to fame and might! Dark rolling wave! Receive thyN friend, who, scominsr flight, 1 Goes to meet danger with despite, Proudly as thou the tempest's might, Dark rolling wave! And amid pleasures and alarms, And war and victory, be thine arms My grave! "THE GENTLEMAN IN' ARMOR." By Robert J. Casey.

J. II. Sear A Co. Mr. Casey's novel Is readable.

The adventures, amatory and military, of Rene of Provence, who luted while Lorraine burned, are retold on a good and sufficient basis of historic fact save, perhape, where our author ha his "Gentleman In Armor" person? Hy slay Charles -the Bold In the latter' last battle. But much of the charm of a well-told period novel lies In its glamour, and there can be no glamour when fifteenth century life 1 reflected In narrative and conversation In the language and, often, the colloquial-Isms of the twentieth, In Mr. Casey's rnse. His gentleman In ar-mor (14J7) Is a gentleman with an anachronistic duster (1927), disturbing the mold of the centurle with phrases like "sex appenl," "tough citizen," "keep up the morale" and what not F. H.

M. 1 FICTION. -CLAIRE AMBLER." Booth Tar. kington, Dovbhday-Doran. "BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY." Thorpton Albert Charlea Boni.

"A PRESIDENT IS BORN." Fannit Ritrtt, Harper Brot. "JALNA." Majto la Roche, Little Brown Co. "ADAM AND EVE." John Ert-hint, Bobbn, Merrill. NON-FICTION. "DISRAELI." Andre Maurois, D.

Apphton St Co. 'MOTHER INDIA." Kntherine Mnyo, Hareourt, Brace Co. "NOPOLEON." Emit Ludwig, Boni Llveright. "MY hadora Dtttican, r7nm l.ivrright. -BISMARCK." Emit Ludwig, Little, Brown Co, Mr.

Gade's portrait of the Viking-like monarch is vivid and lively, ms description ol the times picturesque and sympathetic..