. Review of reviews and world's work . Swedish home-life. He Is In fact recognized throughoutEurope as the greatest water-colorist in theworld. However, he is also justly celebratedfor his numerous etchings, drawings, andlithographs. The many-tinted optimism of his workwas matched only by the frank cheerfulnessof his versatile personality. The followinginjunction of the artist to his countrymen Istypical of his artistic creed: O Swede, save yourself in time! Becomesimple again and full of true worth; be clumsyrather than pedantically elegant; dress in skins,furs, leather, and wool; make yourse
. Review of reviews and world's work . Swedish home-life. He Is In fact recognized throughoutEurope as the greatest water-colorist in theworld. However, he is also justly celebratedfor his numerous etchings, drawings, andlithographs. The many-tinted optimism of his workwas matched only by the frank cheerfulnessof his versatile personality. The followinginjunction of the artist to his countrymen Istypical of his artistic creed: O Swede, save yourself in time! Becomesimple again and full of true worth; be clumsyrather than pedantically elegant; dress in skins,furs, leather, and wool; make yourself furnitureto accommodate your heavy body, and lay oneverything those strong colors, yes, even thoseof rustic gaudiness, which are so necessary forcontrast with the deep-green forests of fir and thecold white snow; and let your hand unconstrainedcarve or paint the flourishes it will and you will grow happy in the consciousnessof being yourself, things shall go well with you,and your days shall be long upon the PAINTING BY CARL LARSSON. REPRESENTING THE ENTRY OF CUSTAVUS VASA INTO STOCKHOLM in 1523 THE NEW BOOKS WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH Clemenceau: The Man and His Time. ByH. M. Hyndman. Frederick A. Stokes pp. 111. $2. The Grand Young Man of France, havingcheated the assassins bullet, is more than everthe heroic figure among the statesmen gatheredat Paris. In him is incarnated the dauntlessspirit of his nation to which the whole worlddoes homage. Clemenceau at seventy-eight stoodfor months the resolute leader of his people in itsbrave resistance to the common foe of all that theAllies held priceless. It is too early to measurethe value of his service, but this sympathetic andyet frank and unreserved biography by a leadingBritish Socialist goes far in supplying the basisof judgment which in the long run must deter-mine the War Premiers place in history. Clem-enceau had lived a long and turbulent life be-fore the war. Since the autumn of 1917, whe
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