The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-07
WON 1T FROM THE WORLD.
4 Columbia Young Lady Carries on Lit
erary Prize.
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Especial to the News and Coufier.1
COLUMBIA, S. G., April 229.-Oue o
Columba's young ladies has carried OF
first prize III a competition opened to
the world by the Times. OF Manchester,
England. That paper offered prize for
the best composition on the subject:
''rhe best book, and why | like IT,"
There were competitors from France,
Germany, Canada, the South American
States, Mexico and the United States.
Miss Jessie Sudlow, OF this city, won
the prize for the senior division classlfl-
cation, that is, the highest order OF lite
rary merit. Miss Sudlow is only Il years
of age, and is :; pupil in the public
schools of Columbia, a very gratifying
additional fact. Miss Sudlow's subject
was "Ivanhoe," and she has promised
a copy of her essay to this office. 1t
has not yet been published, but the
official announcement of the award OF
the premium pas been made in the
Times.
Miss Ethel Sudlow, sister of the prize
winner, has been commended highly
for paper contributed to the Junior
division OF contestants.
Miss Sudlow's Essay.
The "Wizard of the North" has cast
his spell over the young people OF two
generations and many lands. The in
cantation which bound me is not of
Scotland, yet still of the North, and
though ''IVanhoe' had the great ad-
vantage Of being first to fall into my
hands, I still think it the book of all
others that I would choose could l
have but one. We have two copies.
One, mine, was given me by my uncle
when | was II years old, and the con-
dition it is now in (it was only paper
coyeredl testities to the frequency with
which | consult it. 1t has grown to Ge
my standard of comparison with other
books, its characters my standard WITH
which to measure other characters
when not utterly dissimilar. AS to
why like it, never inquired of my
self Because / like nature, | suppose.
Now | will try to scrape the roseleaf to
find the color since that is in the bond.
We all know the measured sweep OF
the cOuplet:
And Tweed 5 fair river, broad and deep.
The whole Of "Ivanhoe" moves TO
the same majestic music. The Saxon
Frankliu's the Norman tournament,
the austere tribunal of the Templars.
each strikes different chords, but all
produce divine harmony. Each and
every character is many sided, full,
life-like, and acts from personal motive
or under circumstances that, affecting
them alone, still impel them to take
part in the development of the whole.
The encounter of the faithful Gurth
with the Miller, while Robin Hoods
band looked on at the sport, is told
with the same charm and spirit as the
contest between Cpur-de-Lion, as LIE
Noir Faineant, and AthelStane, with
the beauty and nobility of England as
spectators; and we completely forgot
tnat Robin Hood is an outlaw in re-
n.embering with King Richard that he
is the "Prince Of good fellows" The
woodland life, suggested rather than
described, is as embracing as the forest
of Arden, while not being in any sense
a copy. And Rebecca, the beautiful,
higl- :pirlted Jewish maided. 1t is she
who is the real heroine, she who
moved through the pages with the
piety of Ruth, the courage of
Judith, and the self-denial of Jeph-
thah's daughter. She compels at
once our love, our reverence, and our
aching sympathy. However many
times we have read it another perusal
but impresses the lesson, that at all
stages Of the worlds history there were
men "leal and true" not to c king
only, but to the noblest instinct Of that
which I for one do not believe
is extinct-true knighthood. The
Guild is, I trlst, training cadets who
will be belted knights some day. Let
them take up crusade against wrong,
and never forget the rose on their
sleeve.