Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-14

r. j. Campbell, the braIny young sue
ttssor ~ Dr. Joseph Parker at the city
Temple declared IN public address,
that he preferred the ManXman's best
work TO that OF George Meredith, and
during Christmas week another incl
ccut was recorded which testIfes, IN a
way to the potency OF the name Of
Cuine. This was the sale, to fashion
able butcher Of a bullock bred on the
noyelists model farm In the Isle OF
Man, for S242.5O, or $3.50 more than
was paid recently FOR similar beast
reared By the king.
After several years OF literary work
IN London, Morley Roberts, who wrote
Rachel Mari has followed the exam
PIE OF so many OF his confreres and
taken country house where he means
TO do most Of his writing I'm future.
lapplngtou Grange, us It is called, is
near WalsWorth and may De said, in q
way To have literary associations, ale
ready having belonged up TO now, 20
sir George Barham, one OF the family
Of which the author Of The lugolsby
Legends was a member.
one Of the most interesting of Lon
don's literary landmarks rs now threat.
cned with destruCtion-thi being the
house IN Highgate Hampstead, where
Samuel Taylor Col fridge spent his last
years ana where he was visited at diff
ferent times, by Carlyle. Leigh Hunt,
Wordsworth, Charles Lamb and Rob-
crt Southey Tho house, which II IL
hcW intended to replace with modern
building, is no, 3 IN the Grove, Hump.
stead ana formerly belonged to
Or James Gilman. This physi-
elan was the devoted friend OF
Colerldge lie threw open his doors
10 the author Of 1.-THE Ancient Mariner"
When he was suffering most horribly
from the effects Of his prolonged indul-
genoc In opium, and Tor is years safe
guarded him from his dangerous habit,
OF his condition at that time Colaridge
wrote; "Thc degradation, the blight
ed utility almost oyerwhelm me-"
However, while I'm Hampstead he got
back much Of his power and produced
some Of his finest prose-the aids to
Reflection" the two Law Sermons"
and the essay "On the Constitution OF
Church and State The visits of his
great literary confreres to his home in
Tho Grove were especially delightful
TO Coleridge, He sat" wrote Carlisle,
looking down ON London ana It's
smoke-tumult like a sage escaped
from the inauity OF lifes battle, at
tracing towards him the thoughts of
inuumerable brave souls stlll engaged
there-heavy-laden, kidnapping, and
surely understanding man" Colcrldgc
died at The Grove IN July 1894, and
he lies In the yard Of the old chapel at
Highgate, now the crypt Of the new
Grammar school chapel,
Tho governing body Of that suuare
milo Of London known as the "City'
is chiefly devoted TO keeping alive an
Client traditions and customs, ana main
tanning intact at It's civic functions that
most sacred NJ things, the order Of
precedence. This fact lends particular
appropriateness 10 the subject Of the
new fresco by Edwin a. Abbey in the
courtyard Of the Royal Exchange which
was unveiled the other day with much
ceremony II represents "a memorable
Incident in the history OF the Mcr-
chant Taylors' and SINNERS companies.
Between these two ancient guilds there
was much Jealousy and rivalry which
often threatened 20 develop into riot
and bloodshcd as TO which Of them was
entitled 60 march before the other IN
professions within the city OF Lon
don. Titled folk whose inherited re-
noWn constitutes their sole claim 10 dis
tinctlon occasionally stil quarrel bit
terly even now-a days over the same
question Of precedence, The two COM
panios In 1854 submitted their quarrel
to the decision OF the lord mayor ~
that year Sir Robert Billesden, and he
for the "norshiug OF peas (pcaCc) and
love between the masters, wnrdoyns
and feoashlpps aforesaid" rendered
this judgment;
That the masters and wardens should
dine each year together at their re-
spectiye halls, the Tnylors with the
SINNERS on the Vigil Of Corpus Christi
and the SINNERS withe the raylors ON
the feast OF the nativity Of st. John
Baptst and as 20 presidency oaon
W0s 20 have that on each
alternate year, save that the mayor or
either should give that company prcco-
douco in his year Of Office
Tho decree has been faithfully Obj
served ever since aud uubrokon peas
and love- have reignod between the
two "foolashiprs"
The frGsco, the lSjh Of the series re-
vcols am the npurb decorative effect
for which Mr. Abbey Is famous. AZ the
foot or the chair OF state Of tho lord
MAYOR tho two masters are depicted
pledglng one another IN q loving Gun.
Behind them s. gallery hll2d with la-
dies: I'm the LETT for ground Is q herr
ala I'm "a tahard of the arms Of the two
companies, bearing a silded tablet IN
ecrlbed With the toast which for tho
post 420 ycor has been drunk by the
two companies when they dine together
Merchant Taylors and Slinncrs, skin
,.,.., VA fTovtora R0ot and branch