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Caller-Times Sun Mar 13 1955 Best Selling Books Listed BOOKS-ART French Art Expert Detects Fake Paintings by Hundreds New York Times Servfee NEW YORK March 13 Following in the list of best pellrr to hr published tomorrow by the New York Times: some American who wants a Car-ot he says It is commonly said that "30000 out of the 3000 pictures Carat painted are in the United are all known and they aren't sold cheaply Couldn't Be Bothered "Above all don't depend upon a signature Many fine artists liavr neglected to sign their pic- Appropriate Books For Lenten Season Arc Recommended But Schoeller has a healthy re- turesA-they eouldn't be bothered sped for American collectors and nd anybody ran fake almost any their collections signature Carat himself used at "Almost all of the most beau-least 14 distinctlydifforent signatures between 1833 and 1874 An expert can date his pictures by the way he signed them But they mean nothing to an -ordinary person "if you have been deceived don't give up Most of the best museums in Europe have large numbers of fakes Even the Louvre keeps on discovering mistakes in attribution "Pay honest prices Deal with honest people And don't be afraid to ask tiful impressionist paintings are in the United States now" he says "You have some perfectly formidable collections If you were ever going to organize a proper exhibition of impressionist pictures you would have to go to the United States Since 1914 you have bought tiie best in modern paintings and during the last 20 years knowledge of art has increased in the United States to a very great degree You have many younger men who really know painting" BY WILLIAM STOXEMAN (Capfilfkt IMA Cklraca naUjr Xml PARIS March 12 Millet's probably the most popular painting in the is a "very bad the worst that Millet ever painted" So at least says Andre Schorll-er who is generally recognized as the world's leading expert on 19th and 20th century French art "because it is dark and sad and lacks says Schocller Schoeller now in his 76th year believes in speaking Ms mind It has become a habit after 50 years of paintings Thousands of Fakers During tliat period he lias detected thousands of fakes among the endless procession of paintings which are brought to him for his expert opinion In doing so he has brought disappointment to countless suckers and has earned the undying hatred of the fakers By the same sign he has brought assurance to countless owners of genuine paintings which he has been able to approve No Bargains Schoeller and Ms son Andre Pacetti who now does much of the expertising have a few words of advice for those who wish to buy good paintings "Don't look for a bargain on Cfclcega Dally Kewa Service CHICAGO March 12 Books of spiritual value are an enduring part of the American publishing picture but all too often they lore the haulline space to the more ephemeral of their the topical the newsworthy or the merely sensational book Each year in the Lenten season they draw the momentary spotlight when the religious publishers group asks a leading Protestant spokesman and a Catholic representative to select 26 outstanding new books for Lenten reading Thin year the selectors are Bishop Gera II Kennedy of the Los Angclre area of the Methodist Church and Dr George' Shunter noted Catholic laymen and president of Hunter College in New York City Only a small percentage of the (Kenedy 1375) The dramatic tory of the French priest who has fought so courageously for homes for the shelterless in the suburbs of Paris Joan of Arc by Lucieh Fabre translated by Gerald Hopkins (McGraw-Hill $5) A new and brilliant life of St Joan by a widely known French novelist The Lord by Romano Cuardini (Regnery $650) Orchids to this Chicago publisher for this excellent translation of a modem religious classic Meditations on life and teachers Pius XII: Eugenio Pacelll Pope of Peace by Oscar Italecld and Jam- Murray Jr (Farrar Straus A Young $-150) The best biography of Pope Pius in a new FICTION "The View From rnnipey's Basso "Love is Eternal" Stone "No Time for Sergeants" Hyman "Katherine" Scton Mankiewicz "Sincerely Willis Mar quand 7 "Hadrian's Memoirs" Yource-nar "Pray for a Brave Heart" Machines "Not as a Stranger" Thompson "My Brother's Davenport GENERAL "The Power of Positive Peale "Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs Aldrich "The Tumult and the Rice "My Several Buck "Abraham Sandburg Day Lincoln Was Bishop "Treadmill to Allen "To the One I love the best' Bemelmans "Have Tux Will Travel" Hope "IH Cry Roth Connolly Frank Schoeller doesn't think that all: the 5th floor of some dusty old of Millet's paintings are bad On says Pacetti Ail PROFESSOR DR EDWIN BOGUSCII his novel about early Texas published today Professor Scores Big Hit First Novel books on their lists went out to and fnlargrd edition It places newspapers generally for review purposes From those on the lists received and examined in this office the following selections have been mads on the basis of merit general interest and availability at bookstores special emphasis on his efforts to eliminate war Stop look and Live by James Keller (Garden City $2) A book of spiritual meditations for eveiy day in the year Father ROACH CONTROL 50 PER GlMNIltMd 1 ROOM Service MSehneie Service Charge fer 5 Reeau er Smeller DYSART PEST CONTROL CO PHONE 2-8801 from the artist himself or go to a really reputable dealer who will still be there tomorrow if you find that you have been fooled Anybody can make a mistake but a good dealer will always make it right Before or after you buy a painting insist upon a guarantee of authenticity expect to find a great painting at the Paris flea market or to get one cheap at an auction If you buy at an auction oily buy guaranteed pictures You may get silver-ra knickbacks at a bargain but the really good paintings Keller is the leader of the Christophers The Stray of Thomas More by John Farrow (Sheed and Ward $350) A short and readable life of this much-written-! bout saint (A more scholarly work is Reynolds' "St Thomas Kenedy $6 which is also on Dr Shuster's Lenten list) Newest Books At La Retama truly our most beautiful collection Newest books received at La Retama Public Library are as follows: "Sunset and Evening "Old Testament and the Fine Arts" (Maus) "Television (McMahan) "Early American Antique (Morton) "Age of (Valentine) "How To Build and Use Your Own Outdoor (Riley) "In the Name of (Mum-ford) "Clerk at (Highet) "Dark Is light Enough" (Fry) "Adventures In (Neu-berger) "Umbrella (Yen) "Art of (Schwartz) Bond of $5000 Set In Car Death Case CaUer-Tlmes News Service Bond of $5000 was set Friday afternoon on a local man charged with failure to atop and render aid in the traffic death of a two-year-old child last Sunday The complaint was filed against Ben Zamora local mechanic as driver of an automobile that struck and killed Joe Ernest Silvas son of Mrs Raymond Garza The accident occurred on FM Highway 774 about 2 am last Sunday The Silvas child was walking along tha road with his parents when the accident occurred Chief Deputy Brawn said PROTESTANT The Darkness by Evan John (Putnam $150) A novel about Jesus fay one of tha better modern masters of historical fiction Immortality: The Scientific Evidence by Alson Smith (Prentice-Hall $3) A summary of modem scientific efforts to explore spiritual phenomena and establish the evidences of Christianity Bishop comment: "I am not sure that the evidence presented here will be convincing but it is good to know that it is being The Journey by Lillian Smith (World $150) A personal narrative in which the author of 'Strange records her spiritual progress Bishop Kennedy finds it "like a quiet walk with a good friend" Smoke on the Mountain by Joy Davidman (Westminister $250) distinguished woman poet finds new meanings in the Ten Commandments This is one ot the better books of personal religious discovery and I recommend it unreservedly A Treasury of the Kingdom by A Blackburn (Oxford University Press $350) A readable and inspiring anthology of Christian experience chosen from the work of the gpat believers The Ways and Power of Love by Pitirum Sorokin (Beacon $6) The best book on the possibilities of human love since Ashley Montagu's Being ever and the smartest and most flattering we have ever shown Import Ere Nouvelle Louie Miller Brandt and many other famous brands those hard to find colors gold yellow pink white navy beige and black Deeper head sizes fra those who like them And all head sizes Prices from $1095 Emporium Millinery III Starr Ph 2-4751 "Hats of the contrary he regards the "Peasant as a fine painter a great man a master designer" He pulls out a volume with illustrations of Millet's paintings end points with admiration to such masterpieces as "The Sick "The First and "The Child's Porridge" Fufi Of Fakes Schoeller had just passed a busy full of fakes On an easel near his desk stood a seascape signed Courbet" To an ordinary citizen it looked like a very handsome picture Terrible Perfectly said Schoeller obvious fake Nothing like In a nearby corner somebody had placed a brilliant little picture with the unmistakable signature of Monticelli Again the impression was that of a fine painting said Schoeller can tell In a second that it is A bright river scene signed GuQ-laumin got the same short shrift from the old master "One dance is enough to show that it is not by he says scathingly Alleged Corat On his desk lay the photograph of an alleged Caret sent by a hopeful character down in Lyons he said "Look at the grouping of those figures How coarse they are And those clumsy strokes in the leafery of the trees And that stupid shading of the tree trunk" In most cases Schoeller can detect a fake or a copy by merely looking at a photograph Schoeller probably has more to do with Carets than with the works of any other painter Out of every 100 Carols brought to him fra his opinion about 70 prove to be falxes or copies There are one or more copies of practically every genuine Caret and there are three or four of his best known pictures Fortunately copies are easier to spot than pictures painted in the style of a painter Almost all copyists give themselves away by their painstaking brush strokes and "heavy A week seldom goes fay without my getting a photograph from HOOFlTiTS AIX2NG IRK LLANO tf Edwin Bg-r aaeh (Tk Naylor Co fui) 4 When Or Edwin BmuKh set out to write his first novel be natunlly drew upon the stories he had heard as a youth for the background and the country he knew as a boy for the setting The characters in this stay Sr Bagusch said are a composite of many people he knew in the Went Tens town ot Muon homo placf of another Texas author of note Red Gipson Along Uaae "Hoqfbeati on the is the tory of Jasoo dukwood a young Texan oiphined while in hie late teens It is the etory of Jaeon's risa to manhood ahead of hie yaara and of Ms growth a leading rancher-businessman of the settlement along the Usno Ha meet Masts the beautiful immigrant gid when aha comes to the llano country after lending at TthMsihU on the eve ot the diaastroui hurricane of 1875 But hit romance is lean succeariul than hii ranching efforts The stay lnvolvea Adolph a German Immigrant who becomee partner and trusted friend Steve Roberta handaome sailor turned randier who wins Maeta then loses hie life fighting cattle rustlers Dr Thompson hie wife Milly Pastor and Frau Mueller Tom Madder and hia spoiled wife Amy Banker Eldon Foster Jasons frifend and advisor Looney Simpson the religious fanatic and Ms son Hunk who dies as an outlaw Loses jDuf Jason's boyish shyness and hia preoccupation with hia respomiMl-itles as randier cause him to loss Maeta to Steve Steve atrtvei to become the leading rancher in the valley and in as doing manages to offend all of the Llano aettlera Ha regain their raped when he taka on cattle-rustling band almost dngic-handedly but he loses bis life In pursuing them 1 From the time Maeta becomes a widow fee book moves along to its obvious ending but not with- out half a dozen exciting adventures Jot Jaeon and his neighbors sung fee Llano Uaassal Hot Navel With such a number of prominent characters the author has mated a stay that amounts to a number of stories -woven Into one narrative It Is an unusual first novel for this reason But Dr Boguadi has manuevered his players so deftly that at no time does the main plot get so complicated as to confuse the reader Dr Bogusch said that the realized hie novel is not considered the form a beginner should use but that he had done It deliberately and had refused to change it at the suggestion of several advisors Dr Bogusch la a native Texan He was bom In Mason in 1905 and has been on the faculty at Terns AAI College it Kingsville since 194L He head the department of Wology at AAL He attended the University of Texas and the University of Illinois and is a PM Beta Kappa and a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Previously he has written scientific research papers in technical journals popular science articles tor Scientific American a laboratory manual for biology and a set of technical keys to Texas wild flowers In addition to his AAI post he has helped Corpus Christl schools in the in-service teacher training program for several years Not Historical Naval Dr Bogusch said his book is not a historical novel although it is based on background id historical iact His paternal grandparents immigrated to this country before the turn of the century His grandfather arrived about 1860 and his grandmother in 1875 She landed at Indianola a thriving coastal port in those days located near where Port Lavaca now stands as a Gulf hurricane was striking The town was abandoned after being destroyed by a second hurricane 11 years later The paternal grandfather was an Indian fighter and was an early settler Dr Bogusch said he spent several years accumulating the material for his lint book but that the actual writing and rewriting required about 12 months Dr Bogusch said he has one or two ideas for other books but that he plans to do neither in the immediate future He said he know what he will write until get the to start another story The publishers say Along the Llano a book with the stoutness and warmth of first the people who lived these events and second of the men and women who retold the tales around campfires and ranch hearths It marks the debut of an important new writer of Texas fiction" We are Included to agree CATHOLIC Abbe Pierre and the Ragpickers of Emmaus by Boris Simon Old San Pat Jail To Be Sold Razed CsHer-Tlmet News Service Sale of the old San Patricio County jail and Inspection of the courthouse for acceptance ot the remodeling addition and air-conditioning construction project from the contractor is scheduled for meeting of the commissioners court County Judge William Nicholas said the court will inspect the contractors work with architect Joe Smyth of Corpus Chris ti for approval of the contract Terms of the contract call for completion of the building six and raw-half months ago and provided for a penalty ot $25 a calendar day for any delay over the contract period Nicholas said the penalty will amount to approximately $5000-The court has asked fra bids on purchase of the old jail that was constructed in 1894 Terms of the purchase would include razing the building and clearing the site Temptation Literary Guild Choice pdfer-TImea Newt Service What profiteth a man if he shall save hia own life but shall lose hia soul? is the Biblical question that inspired Joseph Vicrtel to write Last Temptation" which is the June selection of the Literary Guild "I began to says Vicrtel "whether people who have to devote themselves to surviving improve or destroy their The main story takes place at 'the close of World War II and concerns a wealthy young couple who are confronted by enormous challenges that they are wholly unprepared to meet Joseph Viertel is the author of the 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