The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-29
FORTY IMMORTALS
HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
Greatest Living Writers
in America Are
Named.
LIST is HEADED
BY ROOSEVELT
Second Comes Woodrow Wilson,
Governor of New Jersey-For-
tunate Few Make Up Inner
Circle of National Insti-
tutc Of Arts and
Letters.
Especial TO The mes-Dispatch.

tSpecial TO The Times-D Dispatch.
| Phiiadclphla, Pa, January 2S.-The
! Forty Immortals OF America, and moro
particularly of the United States.
chosen from among the greatest lir
ling American writer's have been an
nounced by the National Institute of
Arts and Letters.
! The Forty 1mmortals are chosen
! along the lines that govern member
ship in the ld-famous Academic
Franchise, the first of the Ave acadc-
! mics forming the Institute OF France.
| The French Academy, whose members
! arc known as the immortale, is the
chief tribunal OF questions relating to
the niccties of the French language
and OF grammar, rhetoric, poetry ana
! classification of French classics.
Tho list of the rnmortals was an
nounced to-day by Harrison S. Morris,
F.. vice president of the National Insti-
/ tute of Arts and Letters. Mr.. Morris
was commissioner general from the
United States to the recent art exhibit
ton In Rome. In addition to his mem
! bcrship in the National Institute OF
Arts and Letters. Mr. Morris is an Of
| 'icer of the National Academy of De-
sign in New York.
The Forty Immortals as chosen by
the National Institute of Arts and
1 Letters make up the membership of
I the American Academy OF Arts and
| Letters, which Is an inner circle of the
! National Institute. There nre at pres
| cnt fortysevcn members to the Amer
! lean Academy OF Arts and Letters. The
! National Institute of Arts and Let
| ters has a membership of ESQ IT was
4 pointed out that the present number
/ OF forty-soven would be decreased In
/ the passing years until the number of
forty could be reached and maintained.
/ The ImmortaIs.
| Ono Philadclphian Is included in the
list Of immortals He is Horace How
i ard FurneSs, Philadelphia, Shakespeare
ian scholar. The others follow:
i Theodore Roosevelt. author and con-
tributing editor.
Woodrow Wilson, author and Cover
nor OF New Jersey.
i Charles Francis Adams. of South
Lincoln, Mass, the historical writer and
author
1 Henry Adams of Boston, author and
formerly editor of the North American
Review.
Henry NJ. Alden, of New York, editor
of Harpnr's and wellknown lecturer
and author.
John Bigelow. of New York, author
and scholar.
William c. Browneil, of New York,
author and student
l John Burroughs, of West Park. y. Y
naturalist.
/ Nicholas Murray Butler, of New York
] presideu, of Columbia University
i George w. Cable, OF Northampton,
Mass, author.
Basil L. Gildersleeve. of Baltimore
editor. author and Philolosist.
Arthur Twining Hadley. president OF
Yale University.
William Dean Howells. of New York
author and editorial contributor to
Harper's TaSazine.
i Henry James, the Isle OF Wight au-
thor and editorial writer,
Robert Underwood Johnson OF New
York. writer and editor, member OF the
editorial staff OF the Century Magazine
Henry Cabot Lodge, OF Massachusetts,
author, lecturer and United States SEN
ator.
Thomas X. Lounsbury. of New Haven.
author and professor at Yale.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell. president of
| Harvard, author and scholar.
Hamilton Wright Mabie. Summit.
y. j., author and editor.
admiral OF United States Navy. retired.
author and editor. former president of
the American Historical Society,
author and professor of literature at
Columbia University.
John Muir. of Martinez. Cal, explor-
|
Thomas Nelson Page. OF Washing
Bliss Perry. OF Cambridge. Mass.
professor of English literature at Har-
>@ James Ford + Rhodes. author and for
mer president of the American His
James Whitcomb Riley. tho Hoosier
William NJ. Sloane. of Princeton,
y. j., author and editor.
F. Hopkinson Smith, of New York.
Henry vandyke, OF Princeton. poet
and lecturer.
n Andrew Dickson White. OF Itha ca.
\. T.. educator dipiomatist and au-
George E. woodberry, OF Beverly,
Mass, author and poet.
John ". Alexander, OF New York.
Paul W Bartlett OF New York,
sculptor.
artist author and lecturer on art at
Columbia, Harvard and Yale
George DeForest brush, OF Dublin,
william II. Chase. of Now York, mr.
Kenyon Cox, OF New York, painter
and author.
Daniel c. French. OF New York,
Thomas Hastings. Of New York,
architect.
william Rutherford Mead, of New
York. architect
Francis p. M,llet. of New York
artist.
John S. Sargent. OF New York.
artist.
Abbot Thayer. of Monadnock. ". IT.,
animal painter
Elihn Vedder, Of New York, painter
and modeler and mural decorator.
Two men In the department of music
have received the distinction OF clcc-
tion TO the American Academy They
arc George Whitfield Chadwick, OF
BOSTON, and Horatio ". Parker. OF