The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-19

Sin WAITER ScorT.-Commenting on
the centennial anniversary Of Scott, the
Mobile Register furnishes the following
particulars df his lie:
Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh.
on the 10th day OF August, It'll. He
was educated for the bar, applied him
self to his profession with conscientious
diligence, though ever delighting in poe
try, tradition and romance, and was
made sheriff, Tor, perhaps more proper.
~, ''sheriff-depute,'1 of 'Selkirkshire,
when still young man. His first lite
rary efforts were metrical versions from
the German, published in 1896. Other
| poems followed from time to time, but
his reputation Us n poet was achieved by
the clay of the Last MINSTREL" which
appeared in 1905. .'Marmion" appeared
in 1908, and ''The Lady OF the Lake"
two years alterward. These poems, with
''RokeSy" and .'The Lord Of the Isles
neither Of which met with as much ia
vor as the established SCOTS re-
putation us one of the very first poets Of
the age. But Scott was to achieve vet
more brilliant reputation in q new field
"Waverley" appeared in 1914. when lie
was forty-three years old. and was fol-
lowed by that wonderful series, tho no.
vels "by the author of Waverley," which;
IN the course of the next seventeen years
creatod new era in fictitious literature,
and achieved success, the like Of which
had never been known. and which was
as marvellous as anything in the Ara
bian Nights. His life of Napoleon, and
his various miscellaneous works, diversi-
fed the astonishing labors of the lntter
part Of his career. Scott was married
~ 1797 to Miss Charlotte Margaret Car
peG>sr, by whom he had several chill
dren, had whom he survived several
years. he died on the 21st Septem Der,
1882, ut Abbotsford, lis residence, which
he had erected from the proceeds of Ills
pen, and which is now owned, we be-.
lteve, by the husband of his grand.
daughter, his only surviving descendant
Honored be his memory by this and oil
future generations, as long as true ge-
MUS, creative power, moral elevation.
and genial love and sympathy for ali
mankind shall command love and reye-
renoe.
Referring to his literary productions,
the Louisville Courier-Journal pays the
following deserved compliment to the
deceased author:
Take it for all in all, the career of Sir
Walter Scott furnishes tho most sntisfac-
tory lesson which the moralist can find
in the annals of brilliant achievement.
and for this reason, if for no other. the
| world does we'll to celebrate the hun
dredth anniversary Of his birth. Extra
ordinary literary gifts have been. unhap-
PLY, too often associated with some
striking weakness which has put it's ugly
marks upon the 'scutcheon of many of
the most eminent men Of letters. Vol
taire and Goethe, and Byron and Burns
Ito go no further bnck-raise up before
the minds eye vision of beauty and
glory, but also of deformity. Scott was
d godly no less than famous man-so-
Der enough, indeed, to have been tho
roughly mediocre-nnd the contempla-
ton of his story gives strength and en-
couragement to the better part of our
human nature. There is nothing in his
record which ono would have otherwise
He lived long and sumptuonsly; was at
once successful and of good behavior,
and died lamented and respected by ali
Christendom. His last words to Lock
hart wore, "Be good man. my dear, -
aud the Injunction, as we peruse it, ia as
| otAouS IA uiS ACblOuS US III Ills uLternDCo.
lie had the gentleness of Addison Joined
to the power of Fielding; was steady
and industrious ut his work; pursued
poetry and fiction with the diligence and
regularity with which he might lave pur-
sued law or commerce, and proved him
self the most realistic romancist, and the
most romantic realist, who ever lived.
ln this imaginative mnttcr-of-fuotism,
Goethe WAS his peer to the extent of his
literary performances. But there was a
screw loose i'll Goethes moral nature
which we do not have cause to regret in
Scott. In our day. wo have had a num-
Der Of most successful men of letters
who led blameless lives; but the success
OF no one of these-not oven tile success
OF Dickens-can be measured by that of
Scott, who was for thirty years without
II rival lord Of the ASCENDANT II sort
OF monarch i'll his state and in tho CON
sideration in which Ae was held.
The present generation of readers a,,-
preciate but feebly tho impression which
the Waverley Novels made upon the
world. They created now realm, full
OF splcndors, ont Of barren waste;
they laid the foundations for all that has
been created since in fiction; and. even
| D0xy Ua aI,unaot TINT tI,ax.