Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
NAME FORTY AS
OUR IMMORTALS
Roosevelt and Wilson Included
in List of Greatest Living
Writers.
IN LITERATURE AND ART
Bill Pending Before Congress Plans
TO Make Academy of Letters
National.

hlldutlphlds Id.s Jan. GU ne
40 immortals OF America, chosen
from among the greatest living
American writer's. have been an
nounced by the National Institute of
Arts and Letters.
The 40 immortals are chosen
along the lines that govern member
ship in the world famous Academic
Franchise, the first of the FIVE acad-
emies forming the Institute of
France. The French academy, the
members of which are known as the
lmmortals, is the chief tribunal of
questions relating TO the niceties of
the French language and of gram
mar, rhetoric, poetry and classical
ton OF French classics.
The list OF immortals was an
bounced by Harrison s. Morris. vice
president Of the National Institute
~f Arts and Letters. Mr.. Morris was
commissioner general from the
United States 10 the recent art ex-
hibition in Rome. in addition to his
membership in the National Insti-
( tute of Arts and Letters. Mr.. Morris
is an officer of the National Academy
. OF Design III ne" 9TH.
Former President Theodore Roose-
welt and Governor Woodrow Wilson
OF New Jersey are included in the
list.
one Philadelphia is included He
IS DR.. Horace Howard Furness,
Shakespearsan scholar.
Mr.. Morris said that a bill now
: pending before congress. introduced
by Senator Lodge, will, II passed this
year, make the National Institute of
Arts and Letters a national institu-
ton with a national charter. Sena-
tor Lodge Is himself named among
the immortals and the bill has the
backing OF a number of statesmen
in Washington.
~ DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE.
The immortals included in the de-
partment of literature in the Amer
lean academy are as follows:
Charles Francis Adams of Lincoln,
Mass.
Henry Adams OF Boston.
& Henry VI. Walton Of New York,
: editor OF Harper's.
W. c. Brownell OF New York,
= author and student OF the classics
John Burroughs OF New York,
q naturalist and author.
Nicholas Murray Butler OF New
York, publicist and author.
George w Gable OF Northamp.
ton. Mass. author and former news.
. paper man.
Easil L. Giidersleeve OF Baltimore
editor, author and philologist
Arthur Twining Hadiey. president
OF Yale university.
William Dean Howells Of New
York. author and editorial contribu.
tor 10 Harpers magazine.
Henry james. author and editor.
ial writer.
Robert Underwood Johnson o.
New York. writer and editor
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu
sets. editor. author. lecturer anC
United States senator.
Thomas X. Lounsbury of New Ha
ven, Conn, author and professor a
Yale.
Abbott L. Lawrence. Lowell, pres
ident OF Harvard; author an,
scholar.
Hamilton Wright Mable OF Sum
NIT, n. j.. author and editor.
Alfred T. Mahan OF New York
rear admiral United States navy, re
tired; author and editor.
Brander Matthews of New YorI
author and professor OF literature a
Columbia university.
John Muir OF Martinez. Cal. the
ologist. explorer, naturalist, edito
and author.
Thomas Nelson Page OF washinl
ton. author and lecturer.
Bliss Perry Of Cambridge. Mass
professor OF English literature g
Harvard university.
James Ford Rhodes. author an
former precedent OF the America
Historical society.
James Whitcomb Riley. the Hoo
sier poet
William VI. Sloane OF Princeton
N. j., professor at Columbia univel
sity; author and editor.
F. Hopkinson Smith OF New Yorl
artist and author
Henry Van Dyke OF Princeton, }
j., author. poet and lecturer.
Andrew Dickson White OF Ithact
n. Y, educator, diplomatist an
author.
George F. Woodbury. Of Beverl!