Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1912 — LITERARY HONORS FOR U. S. [ARTICLE]

LITERARY HONORS FOR U. S.

French Recognition of Dr. David J. Hill, Francis Viele-Griffin and Mrs. John Lane. Paris.—A number of Americans have scored here in the literary world recently. Dr. David J. Hill, the former American ambassador to Berlin, has been honored by one of his books being "crowned” at the academy. The book is called “World Organization as Affected by the Nature of Modern States.” It is in French dress, into which it has been put by Madame Bourtroux. Not the academy, but an academician, Emil Fauquet, pays a high tribute to the American poet, Francis Viele-Griffin, in the Revue de Paris. The academician puts the American poet In the same class with the French poets. Griffin, who is a son of the late Generela Viele. of New York, has lived in Paris since his school days, forty-five years ago. He adheres strictly to symbolists’ school of poetry, of which he is the head, and Is one of the few living masters" of Alexandrine verse. The trinity of American literary accomplishment of the week appears in the publication by the famous Bodley Head library of "Footprints of Famous Americans in Paris.” John Lane, wife of the eminent London publisher, originally a Boston woman, and who maintains the best traditions of the Athens of America, writes an anecdotal introduction which goes back to the days of the patriot, Robert Morris, who financed the war of Independence.