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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26. 1923.

sists of a series of vivid and graph. descriptions of the exploits of the. hero King.

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(Continsed inợm Papr 20 him. It is not fair to dwell upon s lapses und say nothing of his

The report of the Directors vi remorses, which were bitter and hest awoke to intense hie the na the Bank of East Asia, Ltd, to be Lautere, For my part 1 tational sentin ats of Robert Burns. presented at the fourth ordinary too often overlooked that the bevel to palace, in King yearly meeting of the Company to grievous and constant overtail of his early yeath prompted a

James I., we seek our next poet.” In be held on Saturday, 3rd February, tion into such coarse pleasures 3:

This Kings Quair" we have vue of states: were to be had. All work and ne {the finest purus in British, Ittera The Directors have pleasure in play may make Jack B

dull boy ture, containing as it does the to submitting the Proft and Loss Ae- jbur quch as Rob they undoubted flation of the surrows attendant on count for the year ending 31st empt into the ranting and reving his eighteen years imprisonment in December, 1992, together with the with which he charges himself England and his love for Lady Jane Balance Sheet at that date.

Accounts: The Prof: for the Think of him: starved in mind and Beaufort. not over well nourished in body. Robert Henryson, a schoolmas- year including $77,521.77 brought conscious et great gifts and the attriter at Dunfermline, chronologi, forward from last year and after (of high ambitions, groping, as he, cally comes next, and it is perhaps deducting all expenses amounts to the Directors ys. like a blind cyclops aroun sufficient for me to say that he $931,472.94 which his cave: remember that with in has been designated by W. E. propose to deal with as follows:

man To pay a dividend of $ủ all he lived on the waste a fe c Henley as an accomplished

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I have not touched up.m

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ran over every note in the gamut. To pay a banua to Direc from religious enthusiasm down! tors, Holders of Founs to berlesgan. Then came Gawin

was the Host dos proj

dar's Shares and the Staff wider fields suggested by the arden m

Write ON Bank social sympathies of put Setter dare a metrical version of angira

Ilten dasse autorik Nork in the Premises Land and rund, for me cannot touch on every

Followed. Sir Balding Accounts British tongue. expression of his marguided pro Lesday a leader of the To Write Of Branch

Sonality Bat here. ta 4 Iwnere men of all races meet in the Intercourse of commerce, it is timing (da remember that our Sulthei hun, had a heart for all mankind and a vision for its future whamn shire twith hope Lonwort all the mal-q uncertainties of sur difficult time.

to Jamas V Reformation. Rober and of whose work Sir Walter) Statt had sai

The Husk of that satirie rage, Which barging In the early!

tace.

Branded the vives of the ace And broke the keys of Rome.

"Then let us pray that some d'In the years that followed only

may,

As come it will for of the

That man to man the world cler Soull be thera te an' a' that."

Rev. Ms. Marcnuchle resumed bis seat amidst hearty applause. 200 the 'bust was biting'y konlured

Scottish Literature. Mr. Stephen then called upon Mr B. Wylie to speak on the subject

Scottish Literature."

Mr. Welle said: "Calzato Stephan, Mr. Severn. and brather iSrus, when you ask me, say a

few words

Soutien literature A Sputte

you have no lin. of what u ters

I tell you the story of the slept.

band whose basmani mus

asked him to grant her a request to take his mother-in-law with pr

the funeral in *

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Jean

I will let the old wome He with

ne in the couch, buy mind şe

all spoof my day." Havneg the same way I might say this bar spoile my sight for me.

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pale glimmer of genins was kept with. Seth, and Fleming who retire, alight in Sertland through somejkat being ebable, offer themselves

for re-eletion, of the minur pets.

FONG WAI TING,

Chairman.

So much for the poetry of these! party days. The prose writers in the early Scottish period were Bekletly Bistatans. Going rightj

W Scott

have Pur writer,

way back, they had John Fordun, Sir Walter

Aberdeen. was wrote a Latin creates Scottish. prose

Then, with although he was at the same time history of Scotland.

a jump over the minor historiansyjna mean hari at poetry. Using ne they came to George Buchanan and is main barkgrund the surring press of the hour and the men. beatures of pest times were tranz John Knox, whose works bore the

nd his native had, his

A Decline and an Awakening.

of 1600, there After the union

tan time ponderous efforts of the prog histonano A4 Cargle back tell upon Stottish pretry a sand- macht all men this muth.j

of tarpor lasting for more than censing. This as largely due

to the pin wal und of the times.

Druga, nd of Hawwerden **

tur bygone ages of the world}

ake Zually AN - with

Burns' work for Scotland

1

an this epich seriously enrarily to revify and vetern wrthy of potrà "During the unate the national sentiment. anduvus, prolonged and successful riod when the feeling of nation stranke of Scotland

thehty was in danger of extinction,) venanting Century apalnet king-

only saved it bot succeeded;

ver-

The Programme. During the course of the evening Excellent musical programme

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by and episcopal domination, our glorifying and idealising it. tfr Cr literature, Mr was truly the National Hard and Wall and.rny not have been to posterity has sustained this rable to our defence of the rights. " (Applausel

neciance and democracy, buta that literature and acwijsper-i the next century, however, with considered synonymous massed a tremendous awakening of course iterature dies get into thehrary and philosophie ability was provided. Mr. McLeod newspapers

Lauzne It was a period remarkably fruitored for his exceptionally fine sometimes. tere). But to spouk on this Ms fl both in prose and prarandering of "There was a Lad," subject of literature will

be at Headed by David Hume, a Scottish and after the Rev. J. Kirk Macos- feetung à quart of whisky luto 4) Buhool of Philosophy was made

gill bottle; or I might say (kx Mp sdble. Hobertson the historian chie had proposed, the "Immortal Memory, Mr. Grey's quartet asking a reporter to write an aphoonged to these days. Boswell's, count of Gibbon's "Decline and Life of Johnsch als falls within Party gave much appreciated Fall of the Roman Empire" this period. Hs

account of the selection. about 2 column and a halt.

great man's life. character

3. T. G. Paterson contributed andi The last time I spoke nere I was i petullarities is stil regarded as an enjoyable song, and Mr. Grey's booed and hosted daughter, asetone of the best places of verbal party followed with another vocal afterwards there was a mun puine¦portraiture in any language. Totem. The pipers were vociferous: round the building looking for meth period also helongs Cruder oftly applauded when they gave **; with a svda water bottle

Chrordance farne, an Aberdeen- rendering of another Scottish air. hand, sa empty ore. (Renewed: hire then, thengs considered, foci Calling upon the Hon. Mr. Claud laughter). That was the result the most part, not quite sane. Severn to give them a few Scots saying the right thing at the wrong Tablas dearre Smollett, a native stories, the Hon. Mr. Stephen men- moment. Laughter).

of Dumbarton, now appears laying tioned that the Colonial Secretary the foundation of the novel in was largely Scottish by descent and Scotland. Henry Mackenzie also 37mpathies. (Applause). deserves mention, ack only for his Hos. Mr. Severa's stories proved

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said to be the by the Rev. Mr. Maconachie and Ferguson and the very fine 5707pais of Scottish | the start of a literature contributed by Jir.

Mi To the man in the street. Wylie proceeded. Senttish litera ture is often sammed up in Sir WalMan of Feeling" but for paving to be very humorous ones, and ter Scott and Robert Euroa. These

the way for the study of German, were much appreciated by the two were transcendant genises which later found devotees in audience. At the conclusion he far apart from other literary Sets Scott and Carlyle." They were both great writers buti

said that as practically the only "Contemporaceous with Pope, guest of theirs that might be felt they were both very much indebted freden and the like in England, called upon to express his apprecia- to the earlier Scottish poets and Mr. Wylie said they next founion of their hospitality, and also of cense writers. They borrowed very Allan Ramsay the author of the the truly wonderful address given targely from them in ideas, phrases "Gentle Shepherd." rustee and manner. Where other literary parent of men suwed they reaped, and what Burns. His

harvest it was!

į movement which influenced Eng-Wylie. He thought they should Let us see, however, just what land, then Europe; in a direction also thank Mr. Stephen for presid-1 was the manner of this sowing. we only literary but at the same ing. They could not have sannot, in the time at my disposal, time powerfully human and reli had a better Chairman. (Applause)., go beyond the period in which these gious. James Thomson, the author He would ask them to drink the

so great authors lived, although, of "The Seasons." was also of that health of Chief Stephen. needless to say, the literature of day. He was perhaps the first of The assembled company respond- Scotland did not stop with their the poets who read God actually ed heartily, the toast being drunk and not merely through nature. with musical honours, followed by: The Oldest Scots Verse.

Towards the end of this century, three cheers and a "tiger." Like most countries, the first they found Robert Fergusson, Ediz. The Rev. Mr. Rorison then kept iterature Scotland produced was, hurgh bora, singling out the pube gathering amused with a num- in the main, poetical. I've heard itliarities of national and local life ber of delightful stories. There aid that the oldest authentic feeling subjects for literature. Baras time-honoured rendering of "Auld and asing Scottish patriotism as followed further, songs, and the f Scots versa fittingly deals with the death of King Alexander III. orerunner in Scottish verse, and proceedings to a close.

tightly regarded him as his own Lang Syne" brought the memorable

going.

and the pitiable state of the counthis no doubt prompted the No. try in that day. Lots of old Scottis tional Bard to place a imple

monument on his neglected grave. Burns and Scott. "And so we come to Burns and Scott," Mr. Wylie continued "Ia

orses descended to us from Thomas the Rhymer who lived in the century, but the first great poem is "The Brus" of John Barbour, al contemporary of Chancer, and-con-|

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