The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-12

last or these attributes, philanthropy,
there was but little resemblance between
Burns and Byron. Their resemblances
were In the unlovely traits OF our fallen
human nature. They were ankle victims
TO their own unTeslrained passions and
appeutes. for 1t was largely due 10 these
/ excesses that the lives Of both came
to a premature. and in a certain sense,
I TRACE end. the one dying lew months
/ before and the other a few months after
/ the completion OF his thirty-seventh
/ year.
Since tho story Of Otway's death from
/ his frantic ealclACaa ln swallowing a fui
while in a state OF starvation. there mas
/ been nothing sadder in English Literary
] bto-rapnv IMAM tAe Cnd Ol luese ms
! gulaed children OF genius The one oied
iu abIcct restitution 300 Miserable Ayr
/ shire novel. l.c 0tntr ptlianeu lh lHe
marshes o. M-sJ.onsll, the lone watcher
/ at his pei U.lus has servant i Ie'ene'.
q he one iu las Le4.ilum uttelcu curses
upon the traucsman wac was pursuing
/ hun Tor deut. the Other with MS eAplr-
/ iug breath threatened % haunt the leIiF
/ fed Fletcher II he did not correctly car
/ IS hs uu4ulcllgiOle, ana we may uoPo
! rcpcutant mcesa5es To- bis VIE ino emu.
/ l.0r0 byron wnJ. Twins ana dead, did
J
/ and OF ours than any other man OF ms
/ generation, has yet 20 be- ueait win more
/ tenaeily than the NiscOunt OF st. Al
/ bans the IRISH orator. or Tie ploughman-
/ poet They, m their different Stations
/ had all the nelp that comes from worthy
| parentage and good training. but LORD
/ Byron nad every difficulty that worth
/ lcssness and folly In parents can entail
] upon their offspring The rank that he
; so over-yllucd came 10 him polluted and
/ ois-Iaccd oy crime Oh one soc aud folly
/ on the other. His mother, through whom
/ De claimed descent from the greatest and
+ best OF the Stuarts. James ]. OF Scotland,
I was thousand times better than Mad
Jack as bis worthless and unprncipicd
4 father was called: but get 10 would be
/ hard 90 md IN history or fiction better
4 picture of the typical foolish woman than
was afforded by her as Miss Gordon of
! eight. or as wife AND widow OF the
I icnobie descendant OF tho scandinavian
/ Vikings. ON the poet proudly counted
among his ancestors. lJscn, in his terri
4 bile drama of Ghosts" pictures moth
/ er's efforts 20 oItwit nature. by bringing
/ uD her only child iu Che belief THAI his
/ dissipated and wicked father had been
model of an manly virtues
Iu the drama. alas nature conquered.
/ Buf Byron had not even this chance Ills
/ mother was equally UurCa-onaDle 90 her
/ l0vc and her anger. ln her paroNysm5
/ 0f rage she would oNclam: An. YOU lit
! tie dog. You are "a Byron all over. You
! are as bad as your father on VIII
grow mp 20 be n scomdrel IKE your
/ father" Perhaps Within an hour she
/ would m0rtlfy his boyish pride by beg
! cling him. with tears. as he was setting
| out for walk with hls schoolmates 90
/ take cave Of himself as he was an she
/ had on earth 90 love.
Nor was il alone M the hands OF his
| mother that ne uttered. for as Macauiay
/ expresses IL. Gle CaWo into tho world
and the world treated him as his mo her
/ had treated him. sometimes with fond
/ ness sometimes with cruelty, never with
/ Justice
I'm spite. however. of his defects o.
| nature and by training Byron had aitrac-
! tive qua ifics and We End that some OF
| the friendships which Doe formed. both al
/ Harrow and the University, lasted
through life. Among these schoolmates,
/ however Walter Scott was not one as
/ stated by Mrs JIM ia Ward Ione in the
/ Atlantic Monthly fOr January. and t'i5
/ FOR the two-fold reason that Scott
| school days We're over before Byron was
/ born there being a difference OF more
/ than sixteen years in their ages and
/ that Scott was never az Harrow OF any
! other Eurieh school
pURNs RECOGNIZED
Burns. 90 spite OF bis humble birth. his
! poverty. ana jas Maynard courses. was oil
less unhappy man tlau Byron. ie mad
fewer uaoea auI more true friend nlpat
I il he sluucd against those 90 whom a.
0Hcu most. hc Iep.uteI ana was t1r-
siyon and lo,eI TO the last Ii the fruits