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ALS 1K KAN: NOTES: REVIEWS
A waiting line extended nearly to the end of
the block each side of the entrance, and
finally police assistance was found neces-
sary to avert a possible panic. Up to the
date of going to press the interest in this
purely American exhibition of painting,
sculpture and drawing has not abated.
ART OUT IN CHICAGO
A number of notable exhibits were held
during February at the Art Institute of
Chicago. Among them, Small Bronzes by
American Sculptors, which was organized
by the National Sculpture Society and is the
first of its kind undertaken in this country.
Some of the exhibitors were Frederic Mac-
Monnies, Daniel Chester French, Victor D.
Brenner, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Abastenia
St. L. Eberle, Solon Borglum, Louis Potter,
Chester Beach, Clio Hinton Bracken and
Gail Sherman Corbett. This collection will
also be shown in Buffalo, St. Louis and
Worcester, Mass. Another interesting show-
ing was the fourteenth annual exhibit of
the Society of Western Artists. Over two
hundred paintings and statues were shown
by nearly one hundred workers. The paint-
ings of Joseph Lindon Smith, which were
done in Italy, Egypt, Turkey and Japan,
were also shown in Chicago this winter.
Mr. Smith is an archaeologist as well as a
painter. He has taken an important part
in recent excavation work in Egypt, and in
1907 discovered the tomb of Queen Tiy.
The Egyptian subjects predominated in the
exhibition, and were valuable for the his-
torical interest of the subject as well as for
the painting. The collection of paintings in
tempera methods by George Haushalter,
which was recently exhibited in the Cincin-
nati Museum, was moved to Chicago in
February. Mr. Haushalter has made a
special study of tempera methods for the
past fifteen years, and for ten years has
been painting mural decorations in tempera
colors, and has designed glass windows.
DANA POND HAS AN EXHIBITION
N his "Portrait of Mon. Henry Loz6,"
Dana Pond gives a picture full of vigor,
inspiration and sincerity. It was decidedly
the best of the fifteen shown in March at
the Knoedler Galleries. They all exhibited
the dexterity of Mr. Dana's brush, and evi-
denced a quick grasp of the personality of
the model and a great facility in getting the
point on the canvas. Mr. Pond has had
some fashionable sitters, and so a few of
his pictures include peach-basket hats and
clothes of the latest exaggerated Parisian
cut, which, even when handled with the
utmost cleverness, do not make for lasting
quality or bigness in a portrait, but rather
aid in giving an impression of superficiality.
  In his portrait of "Florence-Daughter
of J. A. Qualey, Esq.," there was none of
these drawbacks, and the result is as charm-
ing a picture of sweet sixteen in a simple
pink gown as one would wish to see. A
number of strong sunlit outdoor studies of
Breton men and women, very solid in han-
dling, were hung, and offered an interesting
contrast to the pictures of more sophisti-
cated folk.
MRS. KINDLUND'S MINIATURES
A N exhibition of "Portraits in Minia-
ture," by Anna Belle Kindlund of Buf-
falo, was held during March in the rooms
of the National Society of Craftsmen, New
York. Mrs. Kindlund's miniatures have all
the breadth of approach to the subject that
any larger paintings could have, and thor-
oughly justify their being called "portraits
in miniature." Many of them combined
with the miniature delicacy a certain
strength and decorative sense quite unusual
in work of this kind.
LOUIS MARK OF BUDAPEST
D   URING     almost all of March the
      National Arts Club, New York, held
an exhibition of paintings by Mr. Louis
Mark, of Budapest, who received his train-
ing in Munich and Paris. Most of the pic-
tures shown were portrait studies, which
seem to be Mr. Mark's especial meti&r.
REVIEWS
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: BY GILBERT
K. CHESTERTON
    HEN Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton
          wrote a book in which he recorded
          with affectionate but merciless
          truthfulness all he knew and sur-
 mised about his friend and kindred spirit,
 Mr. George Bernard Shaw, Mr. Shaw took
 the only revenge that lay ready to his hand;
 he reviewed the book. It goes without say-
 ing that after that review nothing more
 really needs to be written on the subject,
 but it is probable that not many people on
 this side of the Atlantic have read the re-
 view, and it is quite certain that anyone who
 is at all interested in Bernard Shaw, wheth-
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