The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-30
Of
THIS COUNTRY
National Institution of Arts
and Letters Selects List
of Forty.

Philadelphia, Jan. 29.-Tllc forty
immortals Of America, chosen from
among tho greatest living American
National Institution of Arts and Let.
tors.
The forty immortals are chosen
along the lines that govern member.
ship in the world famous Academic
Franchise. the first of the five acede.
mics forming the Institute. of France.
The French academy, the members OF
which arc known as the immortalS. is
the chief tribunal of questions relating
To the niceties of the French language
and OF grammar, rhetoric, poetry and
classification of French classics.
The list OF the immortals was an
nounced yesterday by Harrison s
Morris. vice president of the National
Institution of Arts and Letters. Mr.
Norris was commissioned general from
the United states to the recent art en-
h!h;tion in ONE. In addition to his
membership in the National Institute
of Ats and Letters. Mir. Morris is ar
officer OF the National Academy of De-
sign in New York.
Former President Theodore Roose.
Volt and Governor Woodrow Wilson
Of New Jersey arc included in the list
one Philadelphia is included. He
IS Dr. I~iorac" Howard Furness
Siak"spcarean scholar.
Mr.. Morris said that a bill now
pei!dine before congress. introduced by
Senator Lodge. will. if passed this
Year, make the National Institute OF
Arts and Letters a national institution
lodge is himself named among the
~'nmortals. and the bill has the back.
ng of a number of statesmen in Wash.
%ington.
The immortals included i'm the de.
partment of literature in the Amer.
lean academy are as follows:
Charles Francis Adams of lincoln
Mass.
Henry Adams of Boston.
Henry NJ. Walter of New York, editor
of Harper's.
w. c. Brownell of New York, au.
thor and student of the classics.
John Burroughs Of New York, nat.
liralist and author.
Nicholas Murray Butler of New
York. publicist and author.
George W. Cable of NORTHAMPTON
Mass, author and former newspaper
man.
Basil t. GiIdersleevc of Baltimore
editor. author and phtlologist.
Arthur Twining Hadley, president OF
ale university.
William Dean Howells of New York
author n editorial contributor to
Harrer's Magazine.
Henry James, author and editorial
writer,
Robert Underwood johnson of New
York. writer and editor.
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu.
setts. editor. author, lecturer and Unit.
ed States senator.
Thomas X. %Lounsbury Of New Hav.
en-. Conn. author and professor al
Yale. "
Abbott Lawrence Lowell. presiden,
or Harvard: author and scholar.
hamilton Wright Mabie of Summit
N. j.: author and editor.
Alfred +. Mahan. New York. real
admiral United states navy retired:
author and editor.
Brander Matthews Of New York
author and professor of literature al
Columbia university.
John Muir of California. theologist,
explorer. hatura list, editor and author.
Thomas Nelson Page Of Washington,
author and lecturer.
Bliss Perry of Cambridge. Mass,
ward university.
James Ford Rhodes, author and for.
mer president of the American Histo-
rical society.
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier
William NJ. Sloane of Princeton. N
a." professor at Columbia university:
author and editor.
p H%opkinson Smith of New York,
artist and author.
Henry Van Dyke Of Princeton, N. J..
author. poet and lecturer.
Andrew Dickson White Of Ithaca,
\. T.. educator. dipiomatist and au.
George E. Woodberry Of Beverly,
MASS. author and professor Of litera-
ture at Columbia u%niyersitx.
Included in the department of art
are the following immortals:
John W. Alexander Of New York,
painter.