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IMMORTAL MEMORY."

BURNS NIGHT IN HONGKONG.

of devotion, or even reverence for our beloved "Rabbie Burns." will now call upon His Excellency -who, I might say, has not been feeling too well, but true sports man as he is, has said he came to THE POET AND THE. MAN. do a job and that he is going to do

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOV ERNOR'S SPEECH.

it to propose the Immortal memory of Robert Buras."

His Excellency's Tribute. His Excellency, who was received with loud applause, said that it was Just how many factors, from no more necessary in proposing a barley bree to witty toast, con-health than in writing an epitaph tribute to the success of a Burns to speak the exact truth-(laughter) Night dinner, it were hard to say; but at the same time he was but one thing can be said with bound to confess that he had no utmost truth they were all' pre-fault to find in this case with the sent last night, when Hongkong adjective "Immortal" as attached Scots, with a few Sassenach guests to the memory of Robert Burns including H.E. the Governor. (Applause). It was a common celebrated the Immortal Memory place of literary criticismi with traditional verve and cheer. that a literary man who has Over IT4 sat down to dinner and been over-praised to his life or the gathering must rank as one of just after his death then went the very best the Hongkong St. through a period of eclipse, and it Andrew's Society has yet or was only some time after he was ganized. Which is high praise dead that you could range him in indeed.

his proper position compared with others.

Mr. R. Sutherland, the Chieftain, presided; supported by His Ex-

But Burns had outlived any such cellency the Governor, Admiral depression. He had reached pro- Sir Arthur Leveson, K.C.B., His ably his right level; possibly not Excellency General Sir John quite the high level he would reach, Fowler, K.C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. A. With his usual insight be informed G.Stephen, Sir William Rees his friend in the latter days of his Davies, Sir Claud Severa, Mr. J.life that he would be more respect Raid, Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, ed 100 years hence than he was at Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang, Mr. D. G. M. the time. More the 100 years had Bernard, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, passed and time had only proved Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar, Mr. G. M. the truth of Burns' prophecy. Young, Mr. R. M. Dyer, Mr. W. think we may therefore safely say Nicholson, Rev. J. Kirk that the word "Immortal" is right Maconachie, Mr. G. Hogg, Dr.and that the memory of Robert C. Forsyth, Mr. I.. B. Ross and Burns will endure as long as the Mr. J. Struthers (President of the Scots language, I will not say is Yokohama and Tokyo St. Andrew's spoken, but is understood Society). Amongst other prominent (Laughter and applause) people were the Rev. G.R. Lindsay, Mr. B. Wylie, Mr. D. K. Blair, Mr.

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An honest.niap may like a lass." It was quite possible he may not have confined his liking in either case to a single glass or a single-lass, but after all that was very largely his business (Laughter), and one could not help thinking in reading some of these criticams that the real trouble was that Burns started from the lower social rank: It seemed rather ridiculous to attach undue importance to certain lapses of sobriety and morality at a time when the upper classes of society were corrupt in Both respects,,

The Modern Touch.

I wonder whether it ever occure red to you the great loss to poetry it was that Burns did not go to Jamaica as he nearly did. Cannot you imagine the wonderful poems a man would write who had such great appreciation of the beauties of nature, of the sunny skies, the tropical dawn, the animal life of forests, and then on his return the comparison he would produce be tween Jamaica and Scotland. I cannot quite envisage how it would run, but the lines which occur to me quite clearly are these:

Ye've summer skies, I maun

confess

Out there; the balance to redress, We've bonnier lissies to caress

Than your Sultanas.

We ha'e guid whiskey too, But

Yes,

We've no Bananas. (Loud Laughter and Cheers)

Burna' Sincerity.

The first point which struck him on reading Burns' poems was what Carlyle called "the sincerity of them but what he (the speaker) was inclined to call the simplicity or truthfulness of them-theic absolute fidelity to nature. Buras had got the spirit of the country- D. Harvey, Prof, J. Anderson, Mr. I must make my own position side and the spirit of nature. He Allan Cameron, Mr. A. S. D. Cous-clear. I regard it as a very high was not so much giving expression to nature as allowing nature to ex- land, Mr. G. MacArthur, Mr. A. H.honour to be asked to propose the Ferguson, Mr. McMurray, Mr. A. health of this North Briton, but I press itself through him. (Hear, Any mood ia which Stevenson, Mr. McBean Ross, Mr. feel that it was scarcely fair to me hear). W. Russell and Mr. A. L. Shields. and certainly not to you and more they might happen to be they Over the fireplace behind the especially not fafco Robert Burns, would find Burns expressing the official table was a portrait of Buras because any appreciation of him voice of nature-connected with.. 'draped in the Scottish national must necessarily involve quota- that mood. He found also in the flag under which was a model of tions from his poetry, with which poems of Burns almost every one Borns cottage at Alloway, made. I am afraid, I am entirely incom- of the qualities which have made from an old print in the possession patent to grapple. (Laughter). Scotland and Eagland what they of Mr. D. K. Blair.

You will find the respectable jare. (Applause). He confessed The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie Lowlander whose forbears thought that the independence which having offered the blessing, the the only good, Highlander breathed through the poems ap-

dead, following excellent dinner was was

appearing in apealed to him tremendously-not kilt and not infrequently only the independence which pre- served..

playing the bagpipes, the sound of vented Burns regarding anybody which would have sent his ances-as superior merely because of tors looking for the ancestral guo superiority in rank but the general or claymore; and I find that any independence which made him body who I have normally sup satisfied, which made him con- posed to be of respectable vinced that he was right and that Sassenach blood is finding he had he should do what he considered somewhere a sixteenth quartering right. of Scotch nobility (Laughter.) I Another point which always hasten to explain that I have no struck him in Barns was the abs claim at all to. Scoth blood. I do ence of bisterness, the absence of not even put forward the claim, ill-feeling, which he showed in his As soon's the clockin' time is by." previously put forward on such an poems. Of course, he hit hard, and if he disilked a person he generally said so, but one felt there was no real malice behind it and that the bard would be quite prepared to shake hands after wards. That struck him as a re- markable tribute to the greatness of the man.

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Wi' a' the Honoura An' nuckle din there was about it,

Baith lood an' lang.” Roastif Mutton

Wi' tauties, blled and champit; Bashed neeps and ither orra

greens.

An' anither mouthfu'. Biled Puddin'

·

Sic a graund nicht we're haein'

Dessert an' Sie Like

An' kebbucks, green an' mitey. Barley Bree

There's naething like the honest

nappic. Whaur'll ye e'er see men sae

happy As them wha like-to-taste the

drappie

In glass or horn? Lethalf-stary'd slaves in warmer

skies See future wines rich-clust'ring

rise;

occasion, that l'occasionally wear a tartan tie (Laughter) Ifeel, there fore, it is hopeless for me to try and grapple properly with quota tions from the bard, because I feel like the mouse of which he speaks with such conviction.

Wee sleekit, cow'rin, tîm' rous beastie"

The refreshing thing in these and I cannot even hope that the days of internationalism was the spirit of Scotland will eadow me patriotism of the man. He was, with the art of speaking in the too big a man to be a narrow same way as it did the other patriot and he was expressing his mouse in the story, which is true feelings when he said: probably familiar to all of you. That 'man' to man the warld

o'er

Shall brothers be for a that" (Applause),

"In the words of the bard," he added..

4

...

Frae well kent Scottish Vine-It is an old story and will bear

yards.

repetition. It is the story of a lonely. Scot living in lonely

His Excellency thought "thore lodgings in London. From his native land was sent in January was no one present who would bottle of the national drink of object to that sentiment. Scotiand, which he kept until he partook of a solitary meal on the birthday of Robert Burns He was drinking the wine of his country with his frugal meal and was un- Tak' aff your dram,' fortunate enough in rising to upset to the Immortil. Memory of Robert tlie remainder of the whiskey in Burns." (Cheers) his glass over the bread lying on the table. Coming back a fow minutes later he saw a small muuse nibbling at the whiskey impreg

Their lot auld Scotland ne'er

envies,

But, blythe an' frisky, She eyes her free-born martial

boys

"Whiskey and freedom gang t'gicher

The Lassies." Proposing The Lassles," Mr. B. Wylie said:

Auld Nature. Her prentice han', she teled on

An' then she made the lasses, Ɑ,” They would observe from that

nated in the bread. He made a Tak aff their whisky, noise to frighten it away. The mouse looked up, curled up his After the loyal toast had been wickers, assumed an attitude of honoured, the Chieftain asking self-defence and said ** You can His Excellency to propose: "The bring your cat now" Lond passage, said Mr. Wylle, that our Immortal Memory," said Sir

I apologise for the Ploughman Bird not only followed laughter). Edward had paid the gathering language of the mouse, but it is the Biblical order of creation but perhaps the greatest compliment probably the first time he had come tacitly agreed to the superiority of one in his high position could across Scotch whiskey. (Renewed the other sex. Made last by the confer upon the Scottish com- laughter)

PRE hands of a Master Craftsman, the lovely dears were ever to him "a munity that is, in proposing the

source of inspiration. Through his contact with them we are left with a wealth of glorious song and the spirit of the purest poetry."

(Continued on page 4).

toast of the evening. By po Burns Personality, doing. His Excellency showed his After quoting extracts from two deep appreciation of a poet of re-eminent literary Scotsmen-Pro markable personality, and whose fessor Beattie and Francis Jeffery works undoubtedly occupied-to-show-how much Scotland one of the highest in the owed to Burns for preserving his world's literature. And to native language, His Excellency tonight, Gentlemen, we are spoke about the Bard's personality, afforded the unique opportunity which, he said, had been the of hearing what I know will be the subject of much interfering and well considered view of on does not hall from Old Sco and in consequence is able speak without blask, not having been brought up from childhood

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