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Show Ijj X5he tOecKJy Panorama. Fills a Long Felt Want. Andrew Lang, the prince of literary critics in England, has just filled "a long felt want" by announcing the principle that the name of Omar Khayyam Khay-yam la "a kind of shibboleth of cheap culture." Mr. Lang was one of the first to praise the beauties of the immortal tentmaker's verse while the Persian poet was yet "untranslated," save by Fitzgerald. Since that time Omar and his philosophy, as Interpreted by Fitzgerald, have been taken up by the kind of people who organize Browning clubs. Mr. Lang Is not only England's foremost critic, hut is likewise a philologist phil-ologist and anthropologist ot not and ANDREW LANG, a poet- of more than ordinary merit. For many years he was Gifford lectur-' er on natural religion at St Andrew's university, where he was a student before be-fore entering Balliol college. His first published book was Issued in 1881, under un-der the title, "Ballads in Blue China." The bishop of London is an ardent admirer of the classics. He Is credited with the remark that the happiest years of his life were the ten during which he kept to a resolution that he would read no book written later than 1600. , Aged 22. Eleven Children. , One Paris "grand dame" la bound that France shall not be depopulated. i no v lscomiesse De Rochemaille is twenty-two years of age, has been married five years, and Is the mother of eleven boys, of whom the eldest ls not quite four!, years of age. Shre presented her husband hus-band with four pairs of twins in Dfl Bnemaiu., succession and has Just topped off with triplets. The children are all sound ani healthy. James M. Sherwin of Grafton, Vt, has voted at every election in his town local, state and national since 1832. If he lives until November he will cast his eighteenth presidential vote. In League tooith "Britain. Dom Carlos I., king of Portugal, is sending a force of 1,000 Portuguese soldiers sol-diers to South Africa, and the little kingdom in the Spanish peninsula is assuming a new importance. It Is said that a secret treaty exists between Britain and Carlos by which Delagoa bay will be practically controlled by the fore'x office in London. This arrangement, ar-rangement, if It exists, recognizes the annexation of the Boer republics and regards the Boers as mere rebels. King Carlos has never been unfriendly to England. On his visits thither he has been the recipient of genuine hospi- DOM CARLOS, tality. It would not be surprising, therefore, were Kruger and other Boer leaders denied a refuge In Portngnesa Africa in view of the alleged understanding under-standing with Great Britain. The Portuguese king is 37 years old, Hia tra is the Princess Amelia, daughter daugh-ter at the lata Comte a Paris. |