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...Nautical Schoolship St. Mary's, the U. S. S. Chase, and, after eight years at sea, in the engineering school at Columbia. He tried for the North Pole with Explorer Wellman in the balloon, America. He helped build the Catskill Aqueduct and was municipal engineer of the Borough of Queens. Then he superintended the New York State Nautical School and commanded the U. S. S. Newport during the War. In 1924, he turned altogether to writing, having already published two sea stories and a textbook. P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter...
...exhibition at Sir Joseph Duveen's Manhattan galleries led to many commissions here, at $5,000 each, for his idealized representations of fashionable ladies. (He had painted Consuelo, onetime Duchess of Marlborough.) He was compared with Gainsborough. His "Portrait of my Mother" looks less like Gains- borough's lacy work, however, than Whistler's calm familiar model by the same name. Only, Madam McEvoy seems not so old as Madam Whistler. In fact one feels she would take a very active hand in life, once she stopped sitting...
...young author of Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo and The Sailor's Return does none of these things. In his matter-of-fact fashion, so quiet that it becomes mysterious, he makes her father a sort of pocket-borough St. Francis of Assisi. He fills her heart with restlessness and her head with innocent resolution, keeps her procrastinating over escape until her father's mania for feeding birds is quite pronounced, until she has a friend and perhaps lover in the grocer's son, until one more village Easter passes and the first nightingale...
...portraiture has icy precision. Epigrams rattle like hail. Southern stuffiness?the scene is Queen-borough, Va.?is snowed under by pretty drifts of poetic irony. It is engaging reading?but the wrong person wrote the book, overwrote it, if these generation-comparisons are to be taken seriously. Miss Glasgow is too merciless to make her Judge bearable; too doctrinaire to know what she means by Annabel. The best character is Gamaliel's twin sister, Edmonia, who lost her virtue young, married four times and loves to tell about...
...second most interesting sale (also to Sir Joseph) was a Gains borough portrait, "Miss Tatton," $231,000, for 30 x 25 inches of Gainsborough's best-Gainsborough who alone of the 18th Cen tury British school put into his work some degree of the character behind the face. There is on record a conversation between Thomas Gainsborough and his Majesty, George...