Metcalf

Said the late Willard L. Metcalf, famed artist (TIME, Mar. 23), in his will: "I instruct my executors to destroy any paintings which, in their judgment, they may deem for the best interests of my estate to have destroyed." Accordingly his executors, Architect Charles A. Platt, Illustrator Wallace Morgan, Art Dealer Albert Milch, last week burned 17 pictures which they regarded as below his best standard, set aside 12 others for future destruction. No adolescent attempts, experiments, unfinished work will mar the reputation of Artist Metcalf, as they do the fame of so many artists, musicians, writers.*

--Said The New York World, referring to this fact: "Only recently there has appeared a volume of Joseph Conrad's early stories which bears the stamp of immaturity and which Conrad himself might well have wished unpublished." The unmentioned publisher of this book, Tales of Hearsay, is Doubleday. Page & Co. The book contains _ one story, The Soul of a Warrior, which is in the famed author's finest manner, three others are mediocre. In presenting the first story, the publishers have rendered an important service to literature; by presenting the others, they have somewhat soiled the immaculate fame of Author Conrad.