The Washington herald., 1913-08-17
PLACE Of THE
WATERLOO BALL
Duchess Of Richmond 5 Dance
Not Given at Hotel
+. de Vile.
SCENE BYRON DESCRIBED
Held, According to Late Researches,
in Bara-Like Room Used as
4 Coach Wsrehouse.

says in his great panoramic poem. 'The
Dynasts," that the spot Is as phantasmal
IN its elusiveness as lowered Camelot.
the palace Of Priam, or the Hill Of
Calvary. He thinks the absolute site of
the ball has yet to be proved and wonders
that Byron. writing only year after
the event and in communication with
people who were present, should have put
II into the Hotel de Vile.
7 By Implication Byron does SO. for his
lines In "Childe Harold"-"Within a win
dowed niche Of that high hall State
Brunswick's fated chieftain,-well de-
scribe room In the Hotel de Vile. Sir
William Fraser. who has almost made
the problem a quest. tells US that Byron,
when in Brussels in the year 1916. was
shown the high hair' of the Hotel de
Vile.
He may. have assumed that here was
danced the Duchess of Richmonds ball
or he may just have found its aspect
suitable for his glowing pen. But You
will search "Childe Harold" through,
and Mr.. John Murray. a complete Byron
authority. assures me, all the poets
papers, without finding any actual definite
mention of the Hotel de Vile, and SO we
come on a new light.
Mr.. Murray's father published in fS5s
an edition OF "Childe Harold with fine
engravings to illustrate the scenes of the
poem.
Verses that Tell Of Ball.
Naturally there must be a picture to
set into the flowing verses descriptive Of
the ball:
There was q sound Of revelry by night
And Beieium's capital had gatherd then
Her Beauty and her chirslry. and bright
me .s iahaIs shone on fiir women and brave men;
Nh tmGana ' he.i.s oe.t happily. and when
Soft eve. Lot:S love ~ ~ xh;.b -. All,
And all went msrry as a marriage he'll |"
WILL m .r,,s, ,,,,,
tive nictnre "a harn III a,,,,.s ur q" e,n enec
N tbs Heel DE- v,i,s - hn,L
Nnes. anu 'o'h W 'he
Tta NM. run.. vas no"h,he - IN hos has,e the steed.
Went pnnTng tr.b NTH ,mIs,,, na .ne s,hs ud eAf'
And sWiftIy t,,ninr in ,h. -. =, .,
Can tbers he .,v dopb, thu. this Mat.
..sro,.hns -. p..:,,,sI e.. 'S p,a.e'
u os ei'isai sheitof' etcheu py
NooPei -they shoulu nave their due
OF resource-is the thing which definitely
gave a name to the Hotel de Vile as
byrons scene of the ball?
You see In 1t the beautiful building
win It's spldery columns and its elegant
leap upward almost as truly as IL you
were dreaming an hour away beside 1t
IN the Market SQUARE. as l did, writes
James Mlihe In the Daily chronicle. 1T
presents Ihe coming of dawn. though the
,sn.s sun glow from the mullioned win
uo"s, ana the panopiy OF war Is setting
g yut Ior waterloo where the map Of
was 70 De reinane.
Case of Artistic license
..c,,,
.p VIC nave eheh is case
Se auueu 10 poetic incense,
'I'u SO niis sIhuers'andlng which became
pa,h put Ehsnsh researchers In
,,.as,. nneM & mat .he oai was held
IN .t ohiS Where! Under what roof
n I,a II e 1ion Duhe ana tme DUKE OF the
80 .pu luhsMIehers ~ taik "hen they
.hat Napoieoh hao crossed the
nat cehihs, Nauited or NOT.
ns.a.H, ~. spit, .pil VI 'he iears IN hardys
"hisper' as with cold shud-
80
Even as he
For whom thou wesr'st that flial weedey
" vas Ma!nld py my uIssn nine years since.
A. -, ,h So. A' ieei LIE iehuieSs zap \
lou go 10 brusseis 70 pursue nut you
iepositor oi most Keys 10 EngEsh MIS-
loIy. me sehuihe cue 70 me waterloo
n oolh came from d oaughter OF the
Vi i'lcnihohu' Seorsiaha Lennon |
-aus oe nos. She nao' as young
oman oeeh at the pan, talked win the
IN VI NeIIhs'oh ana the osher high
~ aps' uaheeu win the o"cers as
ouns as efsen' anu see" tne gay as
.'i hieI. aMas " me souhu oi tne