| Show author of eluo 01 did you hear that delightful story of the great polish author he Is a great deal talked about just now in parts paris which with all its skepticism lins has devoured his quo vadis with eagerness and delight they are giving a great series of festivities tivi ties in his honor fil warsaw taking advantage of the tact fact that it Is twenty five years since he be began writing and making as it were a silver r wedding of ills his quarter ot of a century union with letters ills fame has spread to russia and it Is even said that the czar has ills his books translated for him for a certain time every evening 1 so BO entrancing does doea he find tho the I 1 poles reconstruction of the stirring dramas of early russian and polish history the academy of letters at st petersburg may have been aged by these facts to send a letter of warm congratulation now Is an ardent polish patriot as well as an artist and he was vas place placeit 1 in something of a difficulty by the receipt of this letter for it was writ written texi in russian and the imposition of oc russian on the poles to the exclusion of their own language Is one of the thai things which the polish patriot ot op all classes most profoundly resents lowicz had to reply to have replied in russian would have been trea son to poland to have replied in polish would have been treason to russia ile he solved the difficulty by send i ing back his answer in latin I 1 london mainly about people |
