New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-16
ARTS ACADEMY
HONORS TWO WIEN
Barrett Wendell, Writer,
and Carl Melchers, Artist,
Made Members

Barrett Wendell, professor Of Eng
lish at Harvard University and a writer
OF international reputation. and Carl
Melchers, an artist whose paintings
hang in the principal galleries Of the
world, have been elected members Of
the American Academy of Arts and
Letters 20 FIJI the vacancies caused BY
the deaths of Henry James and James
Whitcomb Riley. Announcement OF
their election was made at the annual
meeting Of the Academy yesterday in
the Century Club, West Forty-third
Street.
A third vacancy in the membership.
which is limited to fifty. was made BY
the death of William NJ. Chase. the ar
list. but as nominations must be made
at least thirty days before the annual
meeting no candidate was voted on to
fill it, and probably none will be named
until next year.
Owing to the absence Of William
Dean Howells, president of the Acad-
envy. who has been compelled TO remain
in the South because of bronchial
trouble, the meeting was presided over
by Professor William Milligan Sloane,
Of Columbia, chancellor of the Acad-
envy. Others who attended were Rob-
ert Grant. author: j. Alden Weir. ar
fist; Augustus Thomas, playwright;
William Roscoe Thayer. writer; James
Ford Rhodes, author; William I'LL
lette, playwright; Robert Underwood
Johnson. editor; Herbert Adams,
sculptor; William Crazy Brownell, au-
thor: Paul W. Bartlett, sculptor;
George W. Cable. author; Daniel Ches-
ter French, sculptor; Arthur 7. Hadley,
president OF Yale; Nicholas Murray
Butler. president of Columbia; Edwin
II. Blashfield. artist, and u. W. Chad
wick, musician.
Mr.. Howells was reelected president,
Professor Sloane chancellor and treas
urer and Mr.. Johnson permanent sec
rotary. Besides the officers, who are
also members of the board. the follow
ing directors were chosen: william
Rutherford Mead. Thomas Hastings.
Mr.. Brownell and Mr. Blashfeld.
Mr.. Melchers, who recently resigned
as court painter Of the Grand Duchy Of
Weimar. lives at so West Fortieth
Street and has a studio in Fredericks-
burg, Va. He is a member of the Ma
tional Academy of New York, the So
ciete Rationale, the Royal Academy OF
Berlin and other academies in London,
Munich and Vienna. He is an officer Of
the Legion of Honor, and has been dec
GRATED by Prussia, Bavaria and Sake
Weimar. He won the Grand Prix in
1889, has taken the grand gold medals
at Munich, Amsterdam. Vienna and
Dresden and the medals of honor at
Berlin and Antwerp. He has won gold
medals and prizes at Chicago, Phila-
delphia, Washington, Buffalo and ST..
Louis.
Probably the best known work Of
Professor Wendell is France OF To-
day" published in 1907. He first be-
came known through his English Com
position" in 1891, a collection of his
lectures given at Lowell Institute on
the generalization of detached rules Of
rhetoric. His Cotton Mather," which
earned him a membership in the Massa-
chusetts Historical Society. was pub
lished the same year.
A dinner for the members Of the
academy was given last evening by DR..
Butler at mis- home. 60 Morningside
Drive. This was followed BY a recep-
ton to the members Of the National
Institute of Arts and Letters and their
families by DR.. and Mrs. Butler.
The eighth annual joint meeting Of
the academy and the institute will be
held in the Ritz-Csrlton this morning.
I Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill
and ". Gustave Lanson, professor of
French literature at Columbia, will be
the principal speakers. The election
Of fifteen new members Of the insti-
tute probably will be announced this
evening Membership OF the institute
is limited TO $50, and the members of
the academy are elected from among
these. at the same time retaining their
membership in the institute.