BORN 100 YEARS AGO.
.The year'l9o9 will.AvitneßS the hundredth anniversary of the. birth of nine of'the jvoqds.;greatest nipn.'„• The year,lßo9 ; must have been m its.way, an'"annus mirabilis"— a wonderful year. It would: bo interesting, it has .been said; to, know:what special influences ..OT, (Combinations—whether astrological; spiritual; Apolitical,: artistic, or merely accidental and physical—produced these men of genius who left their encluring-.nlark upon the nineteenth.century.' ".-',■.' ". .',. Four'of; the nine are Englislimon—Tennyson, Gladstone, Darwin, Fitzgerald. Three are Americans—Lincoln, ■ Wendell Holmes, and 'Edgar Allan Poe; ,' Chopin, .the great composer, .who was also born in this year, was half, Pole and half French; while the kindred and coeval,spirit, Mendelssohn, was a German, 1 ; Jew. . ..,-'■ • ■■■■ ■-.-.•
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 12
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109BORN 100 YEARS AGO. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 12
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