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 land tenure, limitations upon free speech, monopolies and public utilities.

These books, together with a large quantity of magazine articles and poems, do not constitute all his creative work. This versatile man, in addition to being a soldier, a scholar, a lawyer, a social philosopher, a lecturer, a brilliant conversationalist, a writer and a poet, was a talented artist who painted many pictures in various media. The following condensed account of his exhibit at the Portland Art Museum in the fall of 1913 was written by Edith Knight Holmes and appeared in the Sunday Oregonian of August 31, 1913:

A collection of paintings and sketches by C. E. S. Wood will be on exhibition at the Portland Art Museum beginning tomorrow and extending all through the month of September. . . . There are studies in still life, scenes depicting all the seasons of the year, oils, water colors and pastels. ... A striking bit of still life in oils is a brace of ducks and an assortment of vegetables ready for the duck dinner. The Big-Out-Of-Doors of Eastern Oregon is shown in several fine studies. The plains and fields and the hills beyond are painted attractively with much atmospheric effect in the distance. Mr. Wood has done some of his best work to his skies and his clouds are fleecy and natural. One study shows a golden field with blue and purple in the distant hills, and another interesting study is of fruit trees with an immense fir tree at one side.

In water color some dainty sketches are seen cleverly portraying the every day scenes on our own Willamette River. . . . There are two beach scenes. ... A rich pastel shows the heart of the woodland. . . . Another pastel of Mt. Hood seen in a haze that hangs over the city. An autumnal landscape with hay stacks and half bare trees is hung next to a charming little barnyard scene. One of the gems is a small moonlight in oils. The city's lights are suggested and