NEW PIECES INSTALLED AT GERMANIC MUSEUM

Among the recent acquisitions which have been installed by Dr. C. L. Kuhn at the Germanic Museum is a large statue called "A Crippled Beggar," which represents the figure of a medieval beggar supported by crutches, and was just completed by the German sculptor Ernst Barlach.

The figure, made out of brick material and baked to resemble artificial stone, was cast twice, the duplicate being used in an outside niche on the facade of a museum in Lubeck. The piece, which was finished last winter, is Barlach's most recent work and considered his most important.

Among the other acquisitions are two dozen pieces of modern decorative art, which have been installed in the north room on the ground floor, forming the only permanent exhibition of this sort in Boston. In one case are six pieces of modern Swedish glass, known as Orrefors "etched" glass, the decorations for which are in reality ground out by a spinning emery wheel. Besides several very thin glass vases, delicately etched, there is a jar, the walls of which vary in thickness and give it an under water effect.

Swedish and Norwegian glass and metal work fill another case, the exhibition illustrating what effect can be produced by proportion alone, without decoration. All colored objects, such as pottery and porcelain, are exhibited separately, and include candlesticks, plates, and a cigarette box decorated with enamel.

In the course of his travels this summer, Dr Kuhn also purchased 40 reproductions of German and Dutch paintings, as well as a 16th century chest made in Westphalia, and an accounting table on which the date 1417 is whittled in Gothic numerals.

At the entrance to the room there is a self-portrait of Hence Sintenic, a contemporary sculptor, who is the only woman ever to be admitted to the German Academy of Art