LOSSES TO LETTERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1681, 22 February 1913, Page 9

LOSSES TO LETTERS.

i ;EUblishes a' 'dentli-roll-'df autlicrs, for /tho'" year; Of, tho sixty-eight ihen "laiid ■ women included some wcro primarily scholars, others editors or publishers, and others touched . letters even more incidentally. Perhaps scholarship suffered the grea'test loss. In America tha'imposing figures ?<r r, ora f e Howard Furnesi: and William W. (.loodwin no more. England was deprived of vV, W. Skeat, who, next to lliomas Wrignt, was the most learned in the ways and traditions of medieval England; of Andrew. Lang, if that manysided man may be classed mainly as a scholar; of Edward Aber, Icnown throughout the world, for his reprints of early English documents; of 0. W. Verrall, the Cambridge professor; of E. ,W. B. Nicholson, Bodky's librarian,' that man 'o3 brusquo exterior, but of .most generous heart. Spain Kcords the death of Ifercelmo Menendez . y Pelavo, one of the most learned ,men of: Eurooe. Giovanni 1 asooli, Carducci's .successor in Italian li'eratiire at the University of Bologna,' and llraodor Gomperz,. the .: Austrian' Philosopher, comnlete tho list of scholarI.v names. William T. • Stead, editor of tho Lomlon; Reyiow of Reviews/' who went .down ,otf tho Titanic; Henry. Laboucherc, th« quixotic editor of-"Truth"; William Blackwood, who carried on a familjr tradition of long standing; Alexis Suvorin, proprietor and. editor of tho Novoo Vremya;". ah other outstanding figures. Among such should also be placed Baroii Takasaki, "Chief 'of Poetry Offico in Japan, Johann Schloyor, the inventor of Volapuk. - ; .Of these more closely connected.-with ,creative literature, who died diiring the. year, first . pla,ce; should., perhans jbe' givci> Strindferg, the Swedish dramki, ! tist, poet, hnd.'storj- writer,'Wausfe of lus tremendous, if wayward, vitality. Others are; Anatolo'iLeroy-Beaulieu;' re-' membered ; fo'r his social stndfe, especially of ~Russian; . ',lifei:,'{Histitl!'' r MfCai , thy•: Zia- : tovrhtsky, -tlio "riov'eli.rt: ''Alexaridet- Slow-, acki, tho Polish publicist,..using the.pen namo "Boelaiis Frida, !Aiistrian poet, dramatist, and historian of h'S native Rahemia; Justo Sierra'. : the Mexican poet; Homer 1 Lea, the self-ap-' pointed liberator of China; Jacques Futrelle, who perished with the'Titanic;'the Abbo-Loyson, who, under the name of' 'Pere. Hyacinths," fought for religious freedom; Gottfried \Traeger, the author of many volumes'of Gernmn poetry; Margaret Gangster, .woetess:'. Rosamund Mar;ott VVatson and Bradford Torrey,'who' in different Way's got; their-subjrat's-frhm nature: dramatists Gamlillet' .and Bisson;, arid the W!«t -J«'on.'Jlfrnf Robert Barr, the novelist; Bram '{iW. hain SfnVer. .the parent of, "Draculi"; nally, Alfred Tennyson Dickon:!, son of Charles, Dickens, and nnthor of reminiscences. • - • ■ '