Evening star., 1923-02-17

SIX FHEDEHlC KENYON.
Sir Frederic George Kenyon, direc-
tor and principal librarian of the Brit.
honor tonight at a dinner given by
the American Classical League, over
which Chief Justice William Howard
Taft will preside. It will be held at
the Metropolitan Club and many dis
tinguished persons will be in attend
ance. Sir Frederic was the guest of
honor today at luncheon given In
the Congressional Library by Herbert
Putnam, librarian.
Sir Frederic Kenyon is travelling in
this country as the guest of the
American Classical League, of which
Andrew F. West of Princeton Uni
versity is president. During the short
period he will be here he will visit
= number Of colleges, universities
and museums. He arrived in New
York, February 9, and so far has vis-
tied Yale. Harvard, the Boston Mu-
scum of Fine Arts; was entertained
at dinner in Montreal, also In Chicago.
where he visited the University of
Chicago. He visited the art collections
in Cincinnati and was the guest of
Charles P. Taft. He also visited Ken
yon College. Gambler, Ohio. which
was founded about one hundred years
ago by member Of his family.
Will Be Guest in Baltimore.
On February 1S he will attend a
luncheon and reception at the Mary
land Club in Baltimore, where Presi-
dent Goodnow Of Johns Hopkins Uni
Tersity will preside. 1t is hoped that
arrangements can be made on that oc-
casion for him to meet Prof. Glider
sleeve, now ninety years of age, the
venerable dean Of all American classi-
cal scholars.
February 90 there will be a visit to
the University Museum in Philadel-
phia. reception in the afternoon and
II he will be received by the faculty
OF Princeton University in Nassau
Hall. and will attend luncheon
given by President Hibben. That
New York at which Elihu Root will
preside. The next day, Washington's
birthday anniversary. he will speak,
as former president OF the British
building Of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters in New York Feb
Tuary % comes a visit to the Metro
politan Museum of Art, and a dinner
in the evening at the residence Of
President Butler Of Columbia Univer-
xity. February "a he is to sail on the
Celtic for Liverpool
Born I'm London in 1868.
Sir Frederic George Kenyon was
born in London January Is, 1863 His
father, John Robert Kenyon, was
vtnerian professor of law in the Uni.
versity Of Oxford. He graduated from
New College, Oxford, and became q
fellow Of Magdalen in 1888. The next
year he became an assistant in the
British Museum, and after nine years
became assistant keeper of manu-
scripts. In 1909 he became the di-
rector and principal librarian Of the
British Museum. which position he
now holds. During the world war he
served as major and was Temporary
lieutenant colonel in the territorial
forces Gnns Of court) for a period
OF five years with the expeditionary
until 1919. In 1918 he was made ad,
wiser to the imperial war graves com
mission.
His extensive and brilliant work as
scholar in the classics, and especially
on the Egyptian papyri and on
Biblical manuscripts, has won for
him exceptionally distinguished hon
ors. especially from the University of
oxford. Cambridge, st. Andrews and
the University of Athens.
Other Honors Awarded.
Among his other honors are the
following: Corresponding member Of
the Berlin G9oo). Bologna Gsos) and
Bavarian academies and of the
Academia del Licei, Rome Ge1p:
associate member of the Academic
Royale OF Belgium G919). fellow of
~ British Academy G903), president
(1935-5O professor of ancient history
in the Royal Academy G91S), presi-
dent OF the Society for the Promotion
Of Winchester College 5000. honor
able fellow Magdalen College $1,000.
honorable fellow New College, oxford
I91S), president of the Classical
Association U913): redo lecturer
Cambridge G915).
edited special mention should be
made of Aristotle on the Constitu-
ton OF Athens" Poems of Bac-
chylides." "Orations and Fragments
Greek Papyri." Our Bible and the
Ancient Manuscripts" and great
work on Greek papyri in the British
Museum.
Marked Achievement Noted.
II might, perhaps, be supposed that
q scholar SO distinguished and widely
Informed in. ancient literature would
have little time for anything else.
was too wide for this field alone, and
one Of his marked achievements is the
two volumes in which he has edited
the Life and Letters of Robert
Browning" and New Poems of Rob-
ert Browning" one Of the most Diff
cult Of the modern poets to edit. He
has also profound interest In sec
ondary and university eduction, and
has published a great deal of late
on this subject. He has analyzed
with remarkable clearness the funda-
mental arguments in behalf of !classi-
cal education. His testimony before
the prime minister's commission was
given in 1919, and he aided in the
preparation Of the report of that
commission.
His knowledge Of the changes in
classical education in Great Britain
since the war is extensive and inti-
mate. In his conception of the true
nature of the humanistic studies and
the essential place of the classics
therein. he stands in the very first
rank OF present-day authorities. His
ardent belief in the value Of these
studies 10 evidenced by several recent
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