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

! a year ago, but DeMusset and Mrs,
Gaskell. DR.. John Brown and Margaret
Fuller Ossolli, the Germant poet, Frei-
lgrrath, and the Hungarian romancer,
MlksZath; have been fittingly commem.
Grated Paris has heard and read the
new Letters to An Unknown.o
penned by the first of this little group,
ana has, as well, erected monument
20 the man, even as Concord Mass.
has given literary aims to statue of
Emerson, and as the "American col
ony' IN Kaiser Wilhelm IS domain has
! determined to erect IN HeideIbeTp' @ sa.
cred precincts a marble reminder Of
the Clemens who penned "Innocents
Abroad -
The fame of the literary parent Of
Huck Finn and tho HConnecticut
Yankee has been lovingly endorsed
2y ms friends, Howells and Choate,
Iwitchell and Champ Clark and Colo
mel Watterson, in memorial meeting
held In New York as the years sands
ran out, and it is only a question of
time till movement shall be set afoot
to make y museum of this or the other
Of his lifetime haunts. As much has
been already done for the Joel Chan
the Tom Paine homestead at New Ro-
chelle, n. Y, even as Norway would
act in behalf OF the memory of her
/ great Bjornson at Lillehammer, as AK
Balns would do for Lamartine. and
as Irish Lissoy would do for Oliver
Goldsmith
Italy goes yet farther afield, for the
Royal Vergilian academy has approved
proposal to plant on either side of tho
road between Mantua and Pietolc.
groves sacred to the memory of the
poet of the "Acnead.' - Specimens OF
al the trees and shrubs mentioned in
the "Georgics' and "Bueolics' are
TO be represented.
| OF Academic Interest.
| If this lead the reader into the field
Of classics and so meath the groves
Of aeademe, let it here be recalled
that 1910 has seen the University OF
Berlin celebrating it's hundredth birth
day, and the University of Cambridge
taking over the Encyclopedia Britain
lea for the issuing Of an eleventh edi-
tion-a Chest seIlero for 1911 as sure
| ly rs time is time!
Politics have lured Woodrow Wilson
from the cloistered shades of Prince
ton; at the University OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Provost C. G. Harrison has Welded
place TO Edward Smith, and new
heads have been ftly inducted at
gettysburg .(Dr: W. A. Granville) and
Maine R. J. Aley) and Smith CDR. NJ.
Leroy Burton).
In Magazinedom.
A word, In closing, to those all but
endless magazines which cover the
railway news stands so glaringly and
which play SO real a part in American
educa tional development today.
fHarper's Monthly" has celebrated
its si1tieth anniversary with undimn-
ished praise; London g "Cornhill' and
Public Opinion havo passed their
hftieth milestones; "The Century, in
/ November rounded out it's fortieth
birthday, and sEThe DALI still steady
in aim and achievement. has entered
upon its fourth decade under the same
wise management which has in the past
set it so well in the forefront Of purely
literary publications. The other side
Of the periodical medal has witnessed
the passing OF rho lately revived
,al, pntnam nan r.r, merged, since @ Anr,l T
Norden 's' has joined forces with
l"Currcnt Literature.
"Travel,' under new management,
has jumped forward as one Of the most
strikingly aggressive claimants for
popular favor, while n round falf-
dozen newcomers have made their
bows over in London: CT. T. : Mag
azine:" '.The Open Window. "Thee
Beau" (devotnd to the "srience of
pleasure ''The Tramp with an an
peal for the dcvotee 90 the crrn air
md country road. "The FineyarH'
(to "fortify The ancient love of tho
earth at once for its economic ap1
It's spiritual values'') and ihr odd liftlo
" Matrimonial Egg which Droposes
to record society engagements "the
white ~, marriages c'the yolk ard
besides such odd items of fitlv gossiay
sort as might properly GO TO the making
up of n Mavfair omelette.