Show HAS A RIVAL Is alio of this new universal LanK uiKo esperanto is not the name of a new liquor or of a new appetizer nor that 0 a comic song im it is the name of an artificial language which is fast gaining adherents in france and that is already able to boast of many fol in europe hie united states and even in some parts of africa among those most proficient in the language is a frenchman bearing the aristocratic name of DEys he says that esperanto ia by no means a new language nor even a recent discovery this international language has been in existence nearly ten years and ahto are at least adherents in different parts of the w orid the author or originator of esperanto is a bussian gentleman dr hof of warsaw he says that one may learn its grammar in un hour and a its of words in a bev da the official organ of alie tho is utterly opposed to the organ for it has literary tendencies the fact is esperanto hopes to dethrone altogether may be written in it and translations of the iliad and hamlet have been published like all artificial universal lan grages the roots of esperanto are derived from the best known of modern tongues english an fn and german these the least difficulty to students |