Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-14

ut was at the stage, when the
queerness and the fun OF the bygone
time and the present hour were with
him more than any other conscious
compelling influence" Mr.. Sharp says.
that, one day in his Goth year with his
friend Adam Ferguson be went for a
ride by Gilsand moors over by Ma
worth, perhaps, or by Lannercost
Prlory, above the vale of Lannercost,
or by the fragmentary ruins of Trier-
main castle, where Sir Roland DE Vaux
lived and dreamed, as afterwards so
unsteady set forth In The Bridal, or
by Burdoswald farm and the ruins OF
the great wall of Severus and the Ro-
man camp, Perhaps the young poets
heart was longing for love; at any
rate II was at Gilsland, and before he
met Miss Carpenter that he gave TO a
lady, along with some wild flowers
gathered on the fragments Of Severus's
wall, these two all-but forgotten fugi-
tive quatrains:
Take these flowers which, purple wav-
ing,
On the ruln'd rampant grew,
Where, the sons of freedom Drawing,
Rome's imperial standards few.
Warriors from the breach of danger
Pluck no longer laurels there;
But they yield the passing stranger
Wild-hower wreaths for Beautys
hair.
In any case II was on high ground
near Gilsland that, one August day in
1897, Scott and Adam Ferguson were
riding, when both young men were
charmed by the apparitlon Of heauti-
full young girl also on horseback. So
much impressed, indeed was the young
poet advocate that he kept the fair
horsewoman In view till the divided
cavalcade entered Gilsland, and he saw
where the lady lived. Whoever wants
10 know more OF the picturesque de-
tails, where fancy only slightly colors
fact, may turn TO the romance of Frank
Osbaldistone and Diana Vernon, as set
forth In Rob Roy. Well, there was
waiting and wooing and ultimately
pledging by the Lovers stone in the
romantic glen OF Gilsland water and
by Christmas the young couple were
married, and Walter Scott returned to
Edinburgh with much never-to- be-for-
gotten material for poem and tale. and
bride to give color and zest to all he
should do with these
Henry +. Keenan's ideas concerning
the "Theodora" dispute. now raging in
France, are to be found In the March
Era. The name OF the writer IL a guar
antee that his ideas are brightly and
forcefuly expressed.
About the first OF the year the learned
historian, Charles Diehl published
"Justinien ct la Civilization Byzontine,"
little dreaming that his researches were
60 bring about battle OF the books"
as exhilarating as Swift's whimsical
campaign. One Of NJ. Dlehrs chapters
Is on the famous empress Theodore, the
heroine Of one OF Sardou's most pas
sionate dramas. The gist OF the his
torian's studies emphatically disproves
the character Of wanton presented In
the play. and. as Sarah Bernhardt has
reproduced the part at her theater, the
dramatlst calls the historian TO occount,
referring him TO the annals Of the lady
and her doings, as rec'ted In the "Se-
cret History Of Procopius." This open
ing sklrmish has been followed by
broadsides Of immense eruditIon from
most Of the critical columns OF the
daily and weekly press. so that the cur
rent theme Of the town Is 1.-THE virtue
OF Theodore" Theodore and the court
OF Justinlan have become the reigning
actually Of the day and the laymen are
learning more Of the eastern empire
than the colleges ever taught them.
Sardou himself cites authorities and In
cldents indicating that he studied his
Byzantine history with painstaklng
care before he handed his pages over
70 Sarah Bernhard TO create the Orien.
tal Messalina When the disclosures
and II win probably turn out that Thto-