The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11

Ask "the man in the street, wha,
has happened of literary interest il
= 1910, and the chances are he III not be
able to get beyond Poc's posthumous
3 victory in being at last given n niche
D ia the Hall of Fame, and the book
4 ssTeddy" wrote of his African adven
!, tures Actually, as present, day letters
in their worthier ends arc regarded
n these happenings have been but the
sparks thrown out from the fire OF
really important events,
a The twelvemonth which, from the
& viewpoint. of letters, brought with it's
4 closing days word that the Nobel prize
had gone TO Paul IIeyse, the German,
opened with dispatch from the con.
( tinent of equal interest. though of more
unusual sort, A Turkish millionaire
donated $5OO.ooO for the formation in
Coustnntinople Of an academy to be
have hedged about the world-famous
body which sits in Paris, the member
y ship of this latest group to be confined
to twenty-five distinguished men of
Arabia, Turkey and Persia.
Yet not the "latest' such society,
for with March came news that Eng
land had just witnessed the creation Of
vet another academy" designed to
represent in pure literature what the
arts or the Royal society in the sci
euees There are eventually to be forty
British Himmortals' as there are in
France, though only twenty nine have
az vet been named: Alfred Austin, Ed
mund Gosse, Austin Dobson, Thomas
Hardy. Henry james, Maurice Hewitt,
A. C. Benson, Andrew Lang, Arthur w.
Pinero and Lord Morley being the best
known, with the last named elected the
6rst president.
Some Literary "Finds.'
What Clement Shorter, the Shakes
pesrean scholar, calls Zone of the most
remarkable discoveries Of modern
times," was made in London's musty
record Office, early in the year by DR..
and Mrs. c. W. Wallace of the Univer
sity of Nebraska. Amid all but end
less bundles Of official parchments,
some of them four centuries old, un~
calendared and unindexed, these two
patient workers unearthed at last roll
of twenty-six documents, nine of which
mention Shakespeare by name and one
Of which actually bears his signature-
the sixth known The added light thus
thrown on the career Of the greatest
poet Of the language, of whose life 80
little lat best) is surely known, would
make noteworthy any year; of itself it
is enough to make 1910 distinctive
Some other "finds' OF lesser note,
while Of interest and value, are:
February-2oo MSS. volumes, dating
|early In the fourteenth century, dealing
With tho diplomatic relations OF tie lsal- |
Ian cities and the states OF Europe. In
q vault under the Palazzlo Vecchio. Flor
,ence, accidentally opened during repairs
to the building.
February--In the vatican library: MS |
elegy in Latin distichs written by
'Chnrlemegne.
Z February-At Zurich. 600 MSS. sheets
So%n5sns oames of as oethes Tan
May-In the desk OF the late Nine.
ylardot. et Paris: the manuscript OF |
complete and hitherto unpublished novel |
by Tourgepieff.
i July-In the Imperial library. st. Pc
tersburg; manuscript translation of the
1soth Psalm, entitled. 'L Esprit de
David" by Racine.
Augusta Dresden: thirty-two hither-
TO unpublished works of Richard Wagner
.--six poems, eighteen short stories. six
critical essays. a comment on the revolu-
t.onary movement OF ls4s. and dissertn
,tion on the reform of the opera. These
'psere written between 1882 and 1Si9.
!. October-At Wittenberg, Prussia. In the
Gown church; two manuscripts. one OF
the sheets being in his own hand), and
the other. also four pages, in the hand
OF Melanchthon.
The Racine translation of Holy
Writ was paralleled, when 1910 was
hut few days old, by the discovery
by DR.. Rendel Harris of Cambridge
university of the so-called codes of
Solomon Till now found, in an
ancient Syriac version, these early
christian hymns were known only
Through few much mutilated Guortic
fragments in their present form, as
one English critic has written of them,
''They repeat in full chorus the Mes
siahic song before SUNRISE The
opening lines of ode ". may be
quoted in example of whnt they hold:
Thou hast given thy heart to Thy be-
Thou shalt never fell nor be without
fruits:
For one hour OF faith in Thee is better
than all days and years
!, uhHu Ss HI. hast rs given us thy iellowship-
But we that are in dire need Of Thee.
In the Realm of Poesy.
:. Poetry, which figures IN four of
these items, as in the bonoring of
heyse, whose poems are critically pre-
como to the fore many times since
yanuary last. Possibly the most talked
OF event in poesy's realm was Poe IS
Iardy admission TO the Hall Of Fame.
october brought him that long. deserved
position, along with Mrs. Stowe, DR.,
Holmes, Cooper and Bryant, Bancroft
end Motley, to name only the half
dozen successful candidates who stand
LOT letters, Genius is genius, and Poe,
With his wonderful wizardry of words
ana mastery of music, lives and con-
'slnues TO grow In reputation, because