The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-23
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Salem Celebrates Centennial Anniversary
OF HaWthorne's Birth Today emorIais
to Be Erected at Salem. Concord and
6oWdoln coIlege-Theodore =. Munger's
Estimate OF Hawthorne's Place In Liter
4 ature-HoWelIs Is a D. C.. L.

Nathaniel Hawthornes birthday falls on
July 4. The people Of Salem, Mass, and
vicinity, however, are celebrating the
event-the Tooth anniversary-today. A
joint observance is being held by the Es-
sex institute and the Salem city council.
The principal address of the day will be
by Rev. Samuel M. Crothers, D. D., pas
tor Of the First church at Cambridge, ac-
cording to a program published by Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. A trustee Of Bowdoin
college will speak Of Hawthorne college
days. DR.. Edward Waldo Emerson of
Concord will speak Of his life there. Rome.
where he lived some years, will be rep
resented by a letter from DR.. Fredirigo
Gerlandi, professor Of English literature
In the University of Rome. American lit
erature will be represented by letters
from Edmund G.. Stedman Of New York
and Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Of
Newburyport; while English writers will
be represented by letters from Mrs.
Humphry Ward, James Bryce, writer on
American affairs; J. M. Barrie, the Scotch
novelist, and Henry James; while from
Germany will come an estimate of Haw-
thorne by Professor Andrew f. Schoen-
bach Of the University Of Gratz. Joseph
Choate, United States ambassador to
England, who has taken great interest in
the event, will send letter. Invitations
have been sent to many distinguished
men, including President Eliot Of Har-
Miss Hildegarde Hawthorne daughter of
Julian Hawthorne and a granddaughter
Of the novelist, will be present
A handsome souvenir program has been
prepared
Memorials to Be Erected.
The city council will mark the site of the
Old Town pump, whose ''rilp' was made
famous by Hawthorne, by placing suit
al 1u In foh ar in l,e IF
Town House square.
In celebrating the Hawthorne centenary
Concord has followed the date Of his ac-
tual birthday July 4. On the afternoon
of that day, memorial stone for him will
be unveiled on the hill at the "Wayside."
One Of the most interesting celebrations
Of this centenary will be at the Bowdoin
| college commencement, on June ~, when
| Bliss Perry, editor Of the Atlantic Month
| ly, will deliver an grafton. 1t is proposed
| to erect on the Bowdoin campus a statue
representing the great romancer as it may
be imagined he appeared in young man
hood, and subscriptions for this object are
now being received.
HaWthorne's Place.
| The Century Magazine for July, pays
| special attention to the Hawthorne ami
versary. Hawthorne High Place" is the
subject of an article by Theodore T. Mum
ger in which is. this:
| But Hawthorne has wider claim upon our
| gratitude namely, the fact that he has set the
seal of glorious achievement in letters upon the
moral laws of nature. The greatest things
done in literature have often been Of this sort;
they are alone, from Job down, are remembered
and cherished in the ages Hawthorne is our
only exponent Of genius in this field, and how
superbly has he filed it! His message is that
| of Dante and st. Paul and all great mora1sts-
/ whatever a man does to another he does to him
4 self, whether 1t be good or evil. Men will
forever dwell on this truth, and will never for
| get those gifted souls who it clearly and Sc,
it forth in perfect forms of literary art.