Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-18
LOVES or GREAT MEN.

Interesting Passages From tho Lives 81
Some Writer'S and Composers- Walter
SCOTS First Love-schubert's Dream Of
Passion-Dandet's Wife. ~
One Sunday young Walter Scott offered his
umbrella to young lady of much beauty VINO
was coming out Of church during shower.
The umbrella was graciously accepted and
Scott fell in love with the borrower, who turned
out to be Margaret, daughter of Sir John
Belches. His attentions to the lady continued
for about six years, when she married banker,
who proved to be one Of scottss most generous
friends when his time of troubles came. The
story of this, his first and only deep passion, is
recorded in the diary that Scott kept in 1877,
from which it would seem that there may have
been some misunderstanding between the
young people.
Probably it was pride which led him to en-
gage himself, within q year, to Mademoiselle
Charpentier or Miss Carpenter, as she was
usually called, the daughter of q French Roy
alist who had died early in the revolution. She
made, on the WHOLE very good wife, only one
to be protected by Scott from every care, and
not one to share his deeper anxieties, or to par
ticipate in his dreams.
Yet Mrs. Scott was not devoid of spirit and
self-control. For instance. when jeffrey, hay.
ing reviewed "Marmion" in the Edinburgh
ReCte0, in that deprecating and onniscient
tone which was then considered the evidence
of critical acumen. dined with Scott on The
very day on which the review had appeared,
Lady, then Mrs. Scott behaved to him through
the whole evening with the greatest politeness,
iish as he took his leave: "Well, good night,
Mr.. Jefrey-dey tell me you have abuse Scott
in de Revieeo, and l hope Mr.. Constable has
paid you very well for writing 1t"
The French writer, Alphonse Daudet, had
Aoka ~. .1.o ~.
was afraid that If he made q wrong step in
marriage he might dull his Imagination; but,
on being introduced to Mademoiselle Julie Al
lard, who loved literature and was charming
writer and critic herself his fear was removed.
The union proved q very happy one, and the
picture of the two at work is an attractive bit
Of biography. ''She has beeu." says his brother,
1.-THE light of his hearth, the regulator of his
work and the discreet counselor of his inspira-
tion. There is not = page that she has not re-
vised, retouched and enlivened; and her hus-
band has borne witness to her devotion and in
defatigable collaboration in the dedication Of
.Nabob,' but she would not allow this dedica-
tion to appear" Once, it is related, he had
sentimental and dramatic scene with his wife,
concerning which he remarked: This seems,
my dear, like chapter that has slipped out of
novel," "It is more likely, Alphonse," was
the reply, ITO form chapter that will slip INTO
one"
The Countess Caroline, an enthusiastic girl Of
great beauty, became the object of Schubert's
romantic passion. His exterior was anything
but that Of an ideal lover. Rude, unshapely
features, thick nose, coarse. protruding mouth
and a shamblfng awkward figure were re-
deemed only by eyes of uncommon splendor
and depth. The inexperienced maiden, belong
ing to naughty family, hardly understood the
devotion Of the humbly born genius, Only
She asked him why he had dedicated nothing
to her. With abrupt, passionate intensity Of
tone Schubert answered: whats the use of
that? Everything belongs to you." This
brink OF confession seems to have frightened
him from any further intercourse with the
family, yet he never forgot his beautiful dream
or loved another woman.
Beethoven used to speak in passionate utter
ances Of certain countess, GiulieJta Guic
ciardi, calling her his Immortal beloved, !" 'his
angel" ''his ALL :" this life" It was to her that
he dedicated his song "Adelaida," which, as an
expression Of lofty passion, Is world famous.
The charming countess, however, preferred
rank, wealth and unruff1ed ease to being linked
even with great genius-if, indeed, the affair
ever looked In the direction of marriage. She
married another, and Beethoven does not seem
to have been seriously disturbed. It may be
that, like Goethe, he valued the love of woman
not for itself or its direct results but as an art
stimulus which should enrich and fructify his
own Intellectual life.
Haydn married hairdresser's daughter,
who had dismal. mischievous, sullen nature.
venomous tongEe and a savage temper. So
intolerable did she at last become that he had
to separate from her,
Almost equally unfortunate was Weber. He
was won't to bay: 'aTo be a-true artist you must
be a true man" But the beautiful singer,
Gretchen, with whom he fell in love at Stutt-
CART, however she may have consoled his
Somewhat arid life, was not beneficial indu-
ence, forshe led him into many sad extraya-
gances and an unwholesome taste for playing
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