The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-02
LITERARY GOSSIP
OF THE OLD WORLD
Queer Theory About ''Reve-
lati0ns" Evolved
SPEAKS FOR TURKS
Queen Carmen sylvia" of Roumania
Says Humanity Is Losing a Lot
in Turkey-Sudermann Play
Condemned by Papers
BY BERNARD Aston

St Petersburg. February Nicholas
Morosoff. the terrorist-scientist has
published remarkable book on the
Revelation of st. John the Divine. M.
Morosoff is a great mathematician and
also a teacher OF chemistry at Moscow
technical school and on the basis of
astronomical calculations he declares
that the whole book OF Revelation is
merely yelled description of a terrific
storm and earthquake which overlook
Patmos between the afternoon Of Sep
tember 80. and the midday of October
/, In the year ss5. The figures in the
book are merely personifications OF ele-
ments and of the sun. moon ana stars.
Morosoffs calculations show that at no
time before or after the date mentioned
could the heavens have been exactly as
they are given in Revelation.
Morosoff worked out this elaborate
theory during "a years which he spent
in a dungeon OF the st. Peter and Paul
fortress in ST. Petersburg. He was ar
rested in 1881 after the assassination OF
Czar Alexander III of Russia sentenced
10 death, and then let off with life i'm
prisonment In 1905 he was released.
What part Morosoff took In the plot
to assassinate Alexander no one knows;
but as he was then a chemistry student,
il is assumed that he was connected
with the preparation of the bomb
wilhelm II this year celebrates the
twenty-fi fifth anniversary of his acces-
g. sion to the throne, and hundreds of
literary men are compiling books about
him. Most have begun by asking per-
mission to dedicate their books to him,
and Wilhelm gave some permission.
L. 4. I. ~I,r1r fao1
with requests that he has decided to
give no more permissions In Frank
furt a group of literary men proposed
that Germanys writer's should present
Wilhelm II on his Jubilee with an ad-
dress thanking him for his encourage
ment of letters during his quarter of
centurys reign. Germans of note In
literature mostly declined to sign the
address, and now the project has been
abandoned.
Maxim Gorky has published an article
dealing with the extraordinary number
of uneducated Russians who take to
literature in the hope of success. In
this they are encouraged by Gorky' $
own history. Gorky says he is over
whelmed by letters from young writers
asking for advice. In one year he read
400 manuscripts Among the authors
were many peasants, also car drivers,
even women of light character. One
such woman wrote to Gorky that she
looked upon literature as the thing
destrined to save her.
Gorky says that the great majority
of literary Russians are moved by an
ambition to save Russia or humanity.
All think they have a mission, One
peasant WAS so sure of his ideas that
i he walked from Irkutsk in eastern ST.
beria into Europe, and then produced
a, short, illiterate article about the i'm
portanoe of love in human affairs.
When told that love was of no impor-
tance in the world of publishers he
broke down and wept.
The will of the lately dead Swedish
authoress, Letten von 1<raemer. leaves
the sum of $250000 for the formation
of a fund for encouraging literature
in Sweden. A quarter of the annual
interest is to be accumulated until the
capital reaches 100000. Among the
nine executors of the funds are Selma
Lagerlof and Ellen Key. The president
of the fund IS Prince Eugene Berna-
dotte, a brother of King Oscar. Ap-
parently Sweden is rich in authors who
want monetary encouragement. Within
a week of the bequest being divulged.
the executors received demands for help
from 1900 budding authors.
Several new poems and new short
story by Heinrich Heine have been
brought to light They were published
by Heine in 1921 in the "Abendzeitung,
journal of Dresden which Heine
afterwards laughed at as the foolish
organ of a group of vain dilettanti. In
the "Abendzeitung," however, the youth
fu Heine had published one of his own
Dream Pictures and lie later pub
lished there \ short poem called '"rhe
Night Butterfly" in which he limited at
mis- unhappy we for his cousin. Anleiie
Heine. Heinz q short story bears the
title, The Sxton's Holiday Evening"
1t is a sentir. initial tale describing how
an old sext refused to be parted
from his del wife, and followed her
to the grave,
Now that the Turk Isl down on his luck
il is a woman, not man, who has
good word to say for him. The woman
is Queen Elizabeth of Roumania other
wise Carmen sylvia" The queen writes
quite nicely about the Turks in a preface
to the dramatic poem "Macboule," by
kermie HonpuIn. Kerimie Honoum is
the German wife of Lieut.. Gen. Hobe
Pascha. who is we'll known as poetess;
and has profound knowledge of the Turk
ish language and culture.
Queen Carmen Sylvia" SAYS that when
a country is in such peril as is Turkey
it is a good thing that voice should
be raised in its behalf A voice needs
TO be raised TO show humanity what IL
is losing in This perishing country, and
how well it is worth While to raise the
hidden treasures of Turkey and bring
them TO Light.
European c9ilization and thought make
progress in Ne Balkans. The Ssrvian
poet, Milan lrcin, has translated into
his native toRGQe Netzsche's '"rhus
spake zarathu2 The book-in SER
Wan 'Tako je govorfo Zarathustra' '-is,
says Belgrade paper being diligently
studied by our soldiers in the field" Milan
Curcin is professor of German at Bel
grade university, and vhe has written a
book OH THE .Servian volk-Song in Ger
man Literature" The Bulgarian literary
event is the arrival N r'Baj Ganju," the
creation of the famous poet, Aieko Kon-
stantinoT. .'Isaj Ganju" is described as
THE Improbable Adventures of a Bull
garian of Cur Day." and the hero is a
sort OF Slav Tartarin de Tarascon "Baj
Ganju" is described as the only humorous
book in Bulgarian literature.
Gerhart Hauptmann, who has been in
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