Show HAS A RIVAL r Ee 1 la the N name a me of this tew new universal language esperanto is not the namo name of anew a new liquor or of a new appetizer nor that of 0 f a comic song but 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 the 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 DEyss autler he says cays that esperanto is ii by no means a new language nor even a recent discovery this international language has been in existence nearly ten years and there are at least feast adherents in different dif parts of the world the author or originator of esperanto is a russian gentleman dr of warsaw he says that one may learn leam it its grammar in an hour and all its Tomb vocabulary of words in a few days the official organ ot of the language the Esperant isto is utterly opposed to the organ for it has literary tendencies the fact is esperanto hopes to dethrone altogether verses may be written in it and translations of ahe the iliad and hamlet have been published like all artificial universal languages an the roots ot of esperanto are derived from the best known of modern tongues english french and german these offering the least difficulty to |