Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03

and Mendelssohn, and the personal MS
tory and characters of those two Won
derful mon will engage the attention
of the Woman's club. and 1t is necessary,
to add nothing to the made
last week respecting the literature which
will be found desirable to consult.
Besides the Seven Years War. of
which mention was made in the previous
paper. the Homer club have before them
the record of Maria Theresa, of Goethe.
and of the subject of the Zoilvereln. An
ambitious programme, n one that can
only be epitomizsd in a single session.
The career of the womanly queen and
the royal woman who proved herself the
worthy antagonist of the great Freder-
lex, gives the other side Of the history
which was considered at the last meet
! ing CT the club. The authorities will. be
largely the same. But in addition the
student should consult Coxe's history of
the House OF Austria n Whitman's
Story of Austria. AS explained by these
books the disputes concerning the settle
ment of the Austrian succession, which
We're thought to have been avoided by
the Pragmatic Sanction, give a good
illustration Of the philosophy of inter-
national agreements.
The German people consider that their
nation has produced two or three
geniuses who are at least equal TO our
| Shakespeare. and the greatest of these
three is probably Goethe. We can not
place anyone on the same pedestal as the
Bard of Stratford-on-Ayon,. as regards
literary Inspiration, though it probably
must be admitted that so far as material
culture is concerned the author of Faust
was a character almost u~napproachab!e
in history. In this estimate it is naces-
sary to emDasize the word material, for
it is hard to find elsewhere such I'M
rivalled ability Joined to such colossal
and thoroughly calculated ~selfishness.
Besides his comma nding position in
German literature, Goethe has 7been the
subject of many a biography.JoH W
wv und Dichtung" is of course
the original authority. But among light
er special books about him the most
suggestive are the symposium by the
Concord writer's. and the essay, by Prof.
Wilkinson in his Classic German Course
in English.
A study of the Zollverein is particular
ly appropriate in these political days, as
it furnishes a fine Illustration of COM
| merciai. treaties and of tariff experience.
Some years ago Mr.. Joseph Cook in
one of his Boston Monday lectures
called attention to the remarkable
number of men, eminent in the annals
of the world, who wed in Athens dur
ig the age of Pericles, or about that
time. He remarked that such an array
of talent had not been exhibited in any
other locality, of such limited extent,
within so short a period. This remark
is suggested to the mind by the subs
jects now before the Atlas club and be-
fore the WOman's club of Anaconda. ii
The former have on next weeks pro-
gramme literary Boston and the latter
the reign of Elizabeth. To say thai
Boston during it's chief literary epoch
produced as great men and as many
as did ancient Athens, would not prob,
ably be true. But in the perspective o.
nineteenth century American history
Boston's record will bea a creditabl,
comparison. If a full exhibit is mad,
of the Bostonian men of talent. it will
be a pleasant study for the club.
But when the age of Elizabeth is con
sidered such a comparison need not b.
relative. Absolutely, when the size o
the city is considered, London had a
remarkable a galaxy of geniuses, ar