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

1T was at the stage, when I'll,
queerness and the fun OF the bygont
time and the present hour were with
him more than any other conscious
compelling influence" Mr., Sharp saws
that, one day In his 26th year, with his
friend Adam Ferguson, be went for a
ride by Gilsland 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 poet
heart was longing for love; at any
rate 1t was at Gilsland, and before he
met Miss Carpenter, that he gave to
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 wsv-
ing,
On the rulnd rampant grew,
Where, the sons Of freedom Drawing,
Romes imperial standards few.
Warriors from the breach of danger
Pluck no longer laurels there;
But they yield the passing stranger
Wnd-fower wreaths for Beauty's
hair.
In any case II was on high ground
near Gisland that, one August day in
1877, Scott and Adam Ferguson were
riding, when both young men were
charmed by the apparition of a beauti- |
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 |
csvalcade entered Gllsland, and he saw |
where the lady lived. Whoever wants
TO know more Of the picturesque de-
tails, where fancy only slightly colors
fact, may turn to the romance of Frank
Osbaldstone 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 GIsland water; and
by Christmas the young couple were
and Walter Scott returned TO
Edinburgh with much never to be-for-
gotten material for poem and tale. and
a bride to give color and zest to all he
should do with these"
Henry f. Keenan's ideas concerning
he 'Theodora' dispute, now raging In
france, are TO be found in the March
era. The name Of the writer is a guar
Intee that his Ideas are brightly and
orcefully expressed.
About the first OF the year the learned
lstorian, Charles Diehl, published
Justinlen ct la Civilization Byzontine"
tile dreaming that his researches were
D bring about a battle OF the books" ,
$ exhilarating as Swifts whimsical
ampaign. One Of NJ. Dehrs chapters :
on the famous empress Theodore, the
eroine OF one OF Sardou's most pas ,
onate dramas. The gist OF the his
'rian's studies emphatically disproves
ne character OF wanton presented I'm
he play. and. as Sarah Bernhardt has =
produced the part at her theater. the
calls the historian TO occount a
ferring him TO the annals OF the lady
nd her doings, as rec!ted In the "se. c
ct History Of Procopius" This OPEN
q sklrmish has been followed by
Of immense eruditlon from
ost Of the critical columns OF the s
lily and weekly press. so that the cur
MT theme OF the town is 1.-THE virtue b
Theodora.' Theodore and the court
Justinlan have become the reigning RI
tuallty Of the day and the laymen are
lrning more Of the eastern empire
an the colleges ever taught them.
rdou himself cites authorities and in NJ
Tents indicating that he studied his T.
'zantine history with painstakng -
re before he handed his pages over nj
Sarah Bernhard TO create the Orien.
Messalina. When the disclosures
q II VIII probably turn out that Thee. &c