The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-09
FORTY AMERICAN "IMMORTALS.

FORTY AMERICAN "IMMoRTALS. -
France has long had an Academy of
Literature and Art with forty mem
bers, these forty being styled "im-
mortals, " by the reason OF the expcc-
tation that their membership in the
Academy viii secure amending fame
for them with posterity. There have
been various attempts In tins country
to emulate the French academy.
Columbia S "Hall of Fame being in
a small way a follower, but on differ.
ent basis.
There has come into notoriety with
in the past month or so a sort Of
hitherto unknown semi-private, semi
public society called ''The National
Institute Of Arts and Letters. " This
notoretv comes to that comparatively
unknown concern by reason of its inn
pudcncc in assuming TO select forty
living American writer's and artists,
copferring upon them, so far as such
an obscure society can do so, the "m-
mortality which has been supposed
90 rest upon the French academicians.
| There has been a good deal of ridicule
beaped upon that National institute Of
arts and letters; but undaunted by
such Habuse, that concern is asking
incorporation by Congress. In the
meantime it may be we'll enough to
note the selections for literary i'm
mortality made by that institute, as
follows:
Former President Roosevelt; Woodrow
wilson, historian ANA Governor of New
Jersey; Horace Howard Furness. Shake
spearean scholar: Charles Francis ADAMS
OF Lincoln. Mass: Henry Adams OF
Boston; Henry NJ Walton of New York,
editor OF ilarper's; John Bigelow OF
New York. author and diplomat, who has
Just recently died. w. G. Brownell OF
New York, author and student Of
classics; John Burroughs Of New York,
naturalist and author; Nicholas Muir
ray Butler of New York. publicist
and author: George w. Gable Of North
ampton, Mass, author and former
newspaperman; Basil l.. Gildersoeve OF
Baltimore. editor. author and phiooGist
Arthur Twinins Hadlcy. president of
Yale university: William Doan HoweIls
OF New York. author and editorial con-
tributor to Harper's Magazine, Henry
James, author and editorial writer
Robert Underwood johnson OF New
York. writer and editor, Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts. editor. author
lecturer and q. s. Senator; Thomas r.
Lounsbury OF New Haven. Conn. author
and professor at Yale. Abbott l.. Law
renee of Lowell, president OF Harvard
Mabic OF summit: n. j., author and
editor: Alfred T. Mahan OF New York
rear admiral y. S. navy. retired author
and editor; Brandcr Matthews OF New
Of
ture al Columbia university; John Muir
OF Martinez, Cal, philosopher. explorer
naturalist, editor. and author. Thomas
lecturer; Bliss Perry OF Cambridge
Mass. professor of English literature az
Harvard university; James Ford Rhodes,
American Historical Society: James
Whitcomb Riley. the Hoosier poet; VIII
liam Nj. Sloane of Princeton. y. j., pro-
fessor at Columbia University. author
and editor. +. Hopkinson Smith Of Now
York, artist and author. Henry Van
Dyke OF Princeton. \. J.. author. poet.
and lecturer Andrew Dickson White OF
Ithaca. y. Y, educator. diplomatist and
author: George i. Woodberry OF Bever-
~. Mass author and professor of lit
erature at Columbia University.
The selections on the art side Of the
list are the following;
John w. Alexander Of New York,
".
sculptor: Edwin II. Blashfeld OF New
York, artist. author. and lecturer on art
at Columbia. Harvard. and Yale; George
Deforcst Brush OF Dublin, \. IL. artist:
William NJ. Chase Of New York artist
Kenyon Cox OF New York, painter and
author: Daniel C. French Of New York,
sculptor: Thomas Hastings of New
York. architect, Chevalier OF the Legion
OF Honor OF France. William Rutherford
Mead OF New York, architect: Francis
n Milct Of New York. artist. John :
Sargent of New York, artist and officer
Of the Legion OF Honor or France. kb-
hott Thaycr OF Nonadnock. " H. ar
list. Elihu Ncdder of New York and
Rome, painter and modcler. and famous
mural decorator,
Practically all in both lists are from
the Atlantic slope. But President
Charles ". Eliot Of Harvard was
omitted because he wouIdu I ioiu the
Institute! Which shows the caiber
Of the whole affair.
few literary persons indicated in |
the above list are publicly known, but
only few. and as TO those who are |
known. 1t is bv no means evident that
they can read their titles clear to
Immortality. On the contrary, our