Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Charlemagne and the Two Irish Scholars. [ARTICLE]

Charlemagne and the Two Irish Scholars.

Entering the old Cathedral of Aachen, or Aix-la-Chapelle, you will be shown the great marble chair in which, cold as marble, Charlemagne sat enthroned, sceptre in hand, robed in Imperial purple, ana with diadem on brow, dead. So he sat when, a century and a half later, Otho and his riotous courtiers broke open the vault and stood sobered and appalled before the majesty of death. On that same chair he sat. in similar apparel, but with the light of life in his eyes, the new Augustus of a new Empire, when two Irish wanderers were brought before him In the streets of the city in which he hoped to revive the glory of Athens and the greatness of Rome, they had been heard to cry out—“ Whoso wants wisdom let him come to us and receive it for we have it for sale.” Their terms are not onerous—food and raiment. Their claims stood the test.One, Albinus, was sped to Pavia, in Italy; the other, Clement, had the high honor of superseding the learned AngloSaxon Alcuiu in the Palatine school of the Imperial city. Here he taught the tritium and ouatlrivium —grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, and arithemitic, music, geometry,' and astronomy—the seven arts. In his school sat Charlemagne, under the school name of David, the members of his family each under an

academic name, and with these the members of the Cortege, the Palatines and the Paladines, destined to power and feata of fume. The teaching of the Irish Professors here must have had considerable influence on the literature ythich afterwards took its heroes from their scholars. Their authority was enhanced by the fact that Charlemagne himself worked with his Irish professors at a revision of the Gospels on the Greek and on the Syruie text.—[Contemporary Review.