The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-24
SIR Waffle
Rambler Club Discusses SCOTS
Character and Heroines-
Great AS Novelist and
Man.


The Rambler Club met yesterday after
noon in Hasbrouck Institute to discuss
the life and works of Walter Scott. 1t
was the first regular meeting of the sea-
son.
Miss Myers conducted the discussion
of Scott's life. She said in introducing
the subject that Scott is the petted son
of his country, whose will is still law.
1t has been said in speaking of the love
of the people for him thai Scotland might
well be spelled Scotland. Miss Myers
told several incidents of Scott's life, II.
Illustrating his chief characteristics which
were goodness of heart, sympathy,
Imagination, personal charm or
magnetism, integrity and nobil-
ity of character. She told
of his struggle to pay the debt in
CURED through his publishers and said
The struggle to pay this debt, with
q heart broker by grief, is one of the
most pathetic n most heroic in ali
literature. His journal covers this per.
iod. There are words written here
that no one car read unmoved. The
lessons which his journal teaches are
honor and duty. The profound sadness
of Scott's declining years seem a terrible
" LII dQll ~ lIlNldl, vet
great as he had been in prosperity he
was still greater in adversely"
Miss Myers considers the Characters
tics of Scott's writings to be truthful
ness and hea%lthiness, and the clear pic
lures of Scottish life and character.
HIS KEEN SENSE OF HUMOR.
"Humor is hts prominent character
istic," she said. "All the whims and
twists of tender nature. the turns this
way or that of the mind and fancy, the
fun, the jest, the entanglements of the
serious and the ridiculous, the droll as
pect which gravity itself puts on, the
ludicrous predicament of circumstances,
these were never lost upon him. Passion
has little to do with his themes; if it ap-
pears 1t is the passion of patriotism,
OF love for a cause, rather than for an
Individual. Love is TO him, dutiful, ten
ger, devoted, but never an overmaster-
After a general discussion by the RAM
blers of Sir Walter; Miss May N. shafer
reaa a paper on SCOTS Heroines."
characters are unquestionably. less ex-
ceient h the male characters" she
said, being weak and uninteresting. OF
true, but there are several striking ex-
re .KeSsssa e Y2Tk:' Mes MsrrIIes,'
names are! Meg's jovianty, wildness
and enthusiasm are described by a mas
ter. She Is a creation Of genius. Among
most romantic with her loyal heart and
that fiery natural ~eloquence which, as
Scott truly observed, does exist ready
's'l's' POOH ANY RoRsART.
Poor Amy Robsart! The pity and hor-
we remember how beautiful and true,
how proud yet how tender, was this
derful Contrast to her Stands Stands her great Tesit
rival, royal Elizabeth. Her gracious
condescensdon to the man whom Amy
Moasinppso When enr s RssSi Discovery waaaihi iss de.
ceit, are different from the self-sacrifc-
ing devotion of the unhappy Countess.
stands. Jeanne Deans. When Scott steps
out of his own rank of life and feels
himself unfettered by the CONVENTIONAL
as good as his men. It Is because Jeanne
Deans has not exactly the ordinary po-
sitiI9n ST the heroine that he succeeds SO
from life, her proto-type being Helen
aIsd bon DpesFtB Bee gne viii She ever insp Re loy Sir
Walter Scott to describe the noblest
ABBOTSFORD AND DRYBURGH ABB
Miss Anna Fl. Borden gave . short
talk ON Abbotsford and Dryburgh Alb
bey. She sail that Abbotsford at the
time Scout bought it was but a snug
gentlema,'s cottage. with something
The whole front was overrun with ever
greens and Immediately above the portal
a pair CT elk horns branching out
cottage h look of a hunting lodge. From
a house to a mansion. from a mansion
{. a castle, Scott gradually made his
home on the Tweed, buying one piece of
land. after another TIL castle is known
Miss ii Borden gave a clear description Of
the castle at the present day, minutely
IS about eight miles from Abbotsford,
and. there Sir Walter Is buried Mics
Flarence i. Gritten. both of the class of
's5, and Miss Daisy Higham of the class
;of '93 were elected members to the Ram
bier. Miss Grace Tompkins was elected
an honorary member. The subject for
The next meeting will be Edinburgh"