New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-07
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
VENERABLE UNIVERSITY.

ahare Daniel
love noble school all the more because II Is small
Az there are those in America who love Dartmouth
so there are those in Scotland and OUT OF " WIZ
love ST. Andrews and they all apparent! say VIZ"
Professor Knight that 1t is a little university anu
for near five hundred years 1t has always been So
The professor doubts II any single unVers1'! III "e
uorId-Oxford or Cambridge. BOLOGNA. Paris Hhla-
ranca Berlin, or the many colleges OF the Ohte'
States or Canada. has had so mucn write" ~ 10
nraise as St Andrews AL who come wi'h'h i's III
Auence as students 10 be drawn towara II e'
after by magnetic spell They snare WIN .Ni
drew Long and Robert +. Murray the best TWO
modern poets Of the ancient school, tenGer "'enno-
ries OF "the college of the scarlet gown ana oi 'e
little city by the which Arthur Jonis'o" "
sonorous Latin called =.
ITrbs sacra nuper toll venerabls oFp'
Nee fut in toto sanction oroe locus
There must be something in the s'uoious W. "
the place that causes the longing looks which n'e,
Of mature years cast back at ii out OF the tu NUN
Of life Situated rocky cape oVeriooh.'s WV
North Sea II is far from the great centres OF rac
and population. far enough even from the o
lines of travel. One may see other places ny VIZ
WAY but to see St Andrews one must make
tourney for no other purpose Ruins apart "7
,,ace ia still what Il has been for many centuries
and If the works of man are forgotten TOT an III
slant the rugged headand may be reS'oieu m
IMAGINATION just as 1t when wild poars i'ieS'-
ed IL and pious echoes were heard IN that ocean
From midnight TO the dawn of day,
Sung to the pillows sound
IT, ,ocond u not history the tale Of 81. Andrews
goes hack TO the very beginning Of civilization IN
Scotland The Marques Of Butte. with 'ha' ie'ei
ence for antiquity with which he Is 40 srohsi! I'M
bued strove in his address as Rector, the last III
this volume to extract from the chaH Oh inS'"
sucb kernels of fact as contained He looks upon
the history of ST. Andrews as a continual eNp' e'
of and witness the spirit of Scottish ha'ioha'iS
IN the higher spheres of thought and activity Al
hiding to the different liturGies OF the ancient
churches East and West. he supposes 'hat 'ne
forms of Christian worship In Britain Varled ac-
cordng to the nationality OF the Roha" u0op'
ouartered in the island To the last days OF 'he
Roman occupation belongs Patrick Mc'aip"u'"' "
Dumbarton ST. Patrick. who. after studying uhuer
Germanus at Auxerre. where he initiated inc Apo'
tie TO the Gentlles if he did not mbibe the fauIhe
tradition. The doctrine which he preached IN ire
land and the forms Of worship which ne lo"o"e',
were those which COLUMBIA carried back to scotland
after they had been wholly forgotten there t''
liturgy of COLUMBIA whatever II may have been' mas
ner,shed but the idea of national church vi
which COLUMBIA the founder, survives "n"'
ever denomination people belong to- says the Mar
guess of Butte "in Scotland at this day. the! are an
eager with hardly single II any exception ~
cain that they most truly represent the IDEAS OF
Columbia" 1t In the light OF CoiumDa OWN
mission that the Wild Bears Headlahd oecd"e
sacred spct For the ST Rule mentioned IN Scouts
"Marmon" the Regulus OF monkish tradition was
probably a disciple Of Columbia and his name mas
ever since been associated with the site OF ST An
drews Then came the wars unquesuohapis "'S'oi
ic which resulted in the sub1ugation OF "ha' 'ne
Marouess of Butte calls the Joannine Churches 10
tho domination of Canterbury which held St Peter
az na,ron: and finally the Wild Boar Headland be-
came St Andrews with the INFRINGING OF the relcS
of St Andrews The Marques does not INSIST OH t'e
commences of these relies II is enough that 'e III"
cident is true one Around the place IN which 'i'e
.acred bits of bone were deposited there gathered
usion but without the life in common or any usual
features OF mopastc or eremitic Observance i"eS
gave themselves to the care OF the SICK anu u
singing in the religious service. In the MONIES
which they built for themselves the town OF d.
Andrews had its origin: and from their time on
ward the history of Scotland gathered more anu
mora closely around the pace. Nearly every great
name of the nation Is associated Win H. Even wa"
lam Wallace is supposed by the Marques Oh DUO
to have aided In the expulsion Of the Cudees oy 'ne
Augustinians
But the university itself In its origin had some
thing to do with a history broader than that OF
scotland In the schism between the parties IN the
Church one Of which held with Urban VI at Rome
and the other with Clement VII and his successor
penedict XIII at Avignon there time. ow-
ing TO the changes European politics when scot
land stood alone in the support Of the so-called
schsmatic Pontiffs. The Marques or Butte loyal 10
the tradition his country, pronounces euiogy Oh
Peter de Luna benedict KID, declaring tha' doc-
ius,jfy his attitude and that of the Scottish ma
Ior,,v IN the fourteenth century. 1t was Peter de
Lima who as Pope at the request OF Bishop ward
law founded the University OF st Andrews anu
his arms still appear on the university sea- pc
,.,een those of the King and OF the Bishop But.
odds the Marauess 'If you look above the Iaberha-
ole in 6, salvatore Chapel you will that some
I-rbanist fanatic has defaced them" Thus In the
midst of a great ecclesiastical controversy was born
q school of learning which few generations ia'er
was 10 take a noteworthy part In the herce con-
Ac,s OF the Reformation. Singularly enough the
change from Catholicism to Professionalism IL haruly
IN be observed in the usages OF the unYersity-ad-
ditonal testimony the Marques says 10 the
nldness of the religious revolution In scotland as
compared with England. He comedies the number
of only twenty-five persons put 10 death IN cohhec-
,,on with the Reformation In all Scotland Cruelty
awaited In that country the times OF the witches
and the Covenanters But two OF the martyrs Vi
scotland were burned at st. Andrews and II was
there also that Cardinal Beaton met his death IL
was not the Scotch but the English, VINO oes'royed
the venerable structures OF the older times Inc
Marques of Butte will not allow that Johh hhoh,
even was responsible for the ruins when are sun
a feature of the ancient site. This taxes the sung
on, of one of Dr. Johnson's wittcisms. u rsa
Major, had been all about ST. Andrews with Bos-
vve at his heels and the latter declared that john
son was affected with strong Indignation whHe ne
beheld the ruins OF religious nagnhcehce' ros-'
well happened TO ask where John Knox was purien.
81 hone In the highway" exclaimed Johnson i
have been looking at his reformations How IL
would have shocked him TO be told by Lord Butte
that neither to John Knox nor any other Scotchman
as due the blame for these broken piles OF ancient
chitecture but that the devastation was done by
invaders from the South Perhaps the sympathy
for the defeated party In the great Papai quarrel
made the subsequent complete revolt easy In Scot
land The next step from the Reformation to
the Covenant and here again. that is in the sitting
of the Scottish Parliament In 1876. st. Andrews
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varsity and the city fell into the dull obscurity OF
the eighteenth century, from which It's revival was
slow indeed Even last year Lord Butte only ven
ture1 10 say that ne sometimes dreamed of the