The Arkansas banner., 1847-02-24
Brfcf Biography of
RIG HAR Q ENRY WILD

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 The success Of shis gentleman. as law. yer, politician, poet and biographer, may bt relerreti almoss exclusively to his own m. aided exsftions, which received their firs impetus in early boyhood, from the afec. uonate solicitude of his mother. He is be. iseved to be . native of Baltimore, and was born about the year l7S9. Ills parents were natives ol Dublin, and emigrated to Mary land at the close of the war for independence, leaving prosperous business and large capaiai, which, in years, was lost by the bad management of partner. He was taught to read by his mother, whose example gave hin passion for books, to the perusal of which all his leisure hours were devoted.-- Aiter the death of his father, which occurred whsie ne was yet very young, his mother re- moved to Augusta, Georgia. and engaged in small business lnr the support of her lami- Y, and amidst iis drudgery young Wilde thught himself bookkeeping. and became la maliai with general literature In consequence, however, of the failure of the business in which his mother was engaged, he determin- ed to study law, which he did by borrowing elementary books from his friends, keeping his design, as far as possible, a secret. When he had prepared himself for an examination. 90 fearful was he of the result, and the ef- fecis his probable rejection might have on his mother, that, pale and emaciated as he vas, with consumptiye. cough, he sought a distant court for that purpose. Accordingly, in the March term. 1909, he made his ap- pearance, unknown and friendless, at the Greene Superior Court, and was at intervals. during three days, subjected to most rigor- ous examination by Justice Early, whose suspicious had been excited by the circum- siance of his leaving his own circuit; but esffy question was answered to the satisiac. ton and admiration Of the examining con- mittee, and the Judge declared that the young man could not have left his circuit because he was unprepared He was at that time only 20 years Of age.
 Having in this necessarily brief sketch pre- sented bright example of what may be ef- fecied under the most adverse circumstances, by perseverance and true moral courage, il, remains only for us to alIude to the honora- bie course of Mir. Wilde in after life, the foundations of which we have seen were laid by . mothers love and bright example. Al. ter his admission to the bar. he applied him. self to his duties as an advocate, and to the study of bellies letters, and in few years was made Attorney General of the State. In l8l5, when scarcely eligible, he was elected member of Congress, in which station he was greatly distinguished at intervals up to the year 1895. In this year he visited Eu- rope, and during his absence completed work on Tasso, in which much light has been thrown upon the life and writings of the Poet. While abroad, he made the dis covery of veritable portrait of Dante. in the prime of his days, which produced great sensation throughout Italy ', and in whose biography is is said Mir. Wilde has been en. gagged since his return to the United States.
 The following ''Sianzasn and address gro Lord Byron" are beautiful specimens of MT. Wilde's style of poetry: