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a half of time and change; and it promises to continue to be put to the test, and to be found ringing true, at. Burns' Birthdays for agen The gift that came to Scotland on that January night of 1759 was one for which any nation might feel proud and grateful, and Scotamen do well to keep it in perpetual remembrance. But why, It has sometimes been asked, should

a' message of such wazin and thrilling human Interest-a "fery crosa" to awaken and draw to gether the spirits of men-have been sounded first in the bleak and isolated Northern clime of Scotland; and why should the Scots, of all people, respond to It so exuberantly? They are, or their neighbours will have that they are, a reticent and un demonstrative, if not unomotional, race, parsimonious in praise, as in 1,000,000 other things. Without stopping to Inquire whether and how far this estimate le founded on knowledge or on ignorance, it may be said that while Robert Burns' message was for the whole world, it was in the first place for his own countrymen, it came, or the most precious and charateristic part of came through a vehjele of language, or of dialect, which they alone were fully qualifled to under- stand and take to heart. Further, Scotland was, perhaps, the place

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THOUGHT AND LANDSCAPE.

One's own Point of View.

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Ever since reading George Dar- scend from the mountain tops to Icy's "Silvia, or the May Queen" revolve this scheme and that for the I have been haunted by those ex-buttering of the government of na quisite lines spoken by young tions. Why Geneva was Romano, the hero, as he sits upon thought so persistently that, after a little hill, looking out upon a noon I cannot tell, neither can 1 tell sunny glade. In those lines the why the great cliffs of the Alps of poet touches upon an interesting crystal white and blue, their sheer topic: the part temperament and and dreamy beauty, of the fabulous, the disposition of our innermost fair hills of glass in a favourite thought may play in our meditative fairy tale. Nor can I tell why outlook upon beautiful scenery. Excelsior (a poem that is no Romano has been wandering free favourite of mine) in this mood. 65 air in a country of delights and took on a peculiar beauty yet, looking across a gien of flowers haunted me in my paradise of blue he can exclaim:

"Tis as Lamartine said, I suppose, Thickets, and knalls, slopes, lawnk "the spectacle is always in the cyo

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I was glad that my point of view view." Thinking it over afterwards, had allowed me this much cheerful- ness, that the thought-horizon bounded by those mighty cliffs was gay and the evening view down the

the bright ones.

But now that was all far past and I understood what the poet meant when he said: "But sweet sweet though purchased by Horrow." I was grown-up) and:

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To which Sylvin, a sweet shop-lake ended, in assurances of peace and happiness. For it had not been ever so with me, oven when Perchance your fortunes are not of gazing down on beautiful Lac Leman. In schooldays, for ex- And then it seems to mock them-ample, I can remember making my evening cutsey and then, oppressed by some paasing cloud, going up- stairs and looking out toward Ge This question of the effect of

unresponsive" feelings. · consideration. Raskin touched on Indeed what I seem to have thought upon landscape is one worth, the Alps, or the sunset, with it more than once, and so have achieved upon those last, happy other. great writers. Thomas: summer afternoons is the replace- Traherne, already" in the seven-ment of grave thoughts with gay, teenth century, observed that; "A in the presence of my lake. For It is notified for general informa- very little grit in the eye des- sonichow, carlier days have colour- tion that until further notice, and troyeth the sight of very heavened my view of Leman for many in the absence of any special a very little malice, ont vera year and coloured it too darkly. arangement, the charge for using world of joys." If the point were was such a melancholy, youthful where,

the Commercial Section of the not conceded and one desired to be exile when I walked first upon its convinced by witnesses of this margin; heard the waves clap in eighteenth century the period Government Aerodrome at Kow- curious tendency of ours to render November on a dreary little strand; when, an arousing and thrilling loon Bay, including any buoy the earth dreary and to let our persaw the grey gulls flying and "the belonging thereto, will be $1 for sonal historics becloud the very bise" driving the shrivelled plane note, from the deeper soul of each period of the aircraft's visit fairest scene, literature will supply leaves helter-skelter, hither and abundant evidence. In "Delay Has thither. Memory had somehow en- nature and of man was most need-to the Colony. ed. Literature, and, most of all,

It is notified, under section. 6 Danger," the poet Crabbe, after shrined the gloomer aspects of those Scottish literature, had for gen- the lines begin- Chartres Incorporation Ordinance, erations been held in thrall by 1916, that satisfactory evidence of Oft had he stood before, alert and Arnheim's Orchestra SATURDAY JANUARY 25, 1970'| form; the old ballad fire had gone the appointment of Mother Mar- Shilkret-Victor Orchestra

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relighting, guerite de Saint Paul, Nuss, to the office of Mother Superior in "this The High Hatter®

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social ideas and habits, had be- cession to Sister (or Mother) which deal with a young man's happy; the lake was blue; the moun come subject to hard convention. Felicic, in the said Ordinance happy reverie in the presence of stains.beckoned; the red roses glow. named, deceased, and in her stead, rural scene, goes on to give aed; the little waves came dancing A year or so ago the homage so

Burns voice was not the first that has been furnished to His Ex masterly description of the same to the quay: four dazzling swans widely paid to the genius of

broke the spell. But it was the cellency, the Governor by the said scene viewed in autumn by the floated by and it was wonderful to Robert Burns, marked by the com-

father Marguerite de Saint Paul. anme onlooker; but with just that reflect that even pensive hours can strongest, the clearest, the sweet

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one wry tendency present in his be made to shine and flower; if one memoration of the Poet's Birthday, est, the most "understanded by the

thought which is capable of turning is bent on sharing a landscape of was decribed in a London journal-

general." It set in motion or gave The offices of the Supreme Court the swallows twittering flight, the the thought. G. T. In the Christian Dying Cult." The as "A

Cult

will be open daily from 19 a.m. to emity harvest field, and distant Science Monitor, stimulus to forces and movements1 p.m. during the Chinese New misty huts across the fen, to things The health bulletin of Eastern. seems to be still very much alive, that have not cessed to operate Year Vacation, except on Public of pathetic import and melancholy Ports, issued by the Medical and After more than a century of since, and whose powerful in- und General Holidays, when the presnge.

Sanitary Services, for the wock offices will be entirely closed, celebration, there is as yet no sign fluence and effect on national

subject, however, to the provisions it would, of course, be easy to ending January 18 shows the fol- that the impetus is going out of history, and national character are of section 6 of the Supreme Court multiply quotations of this kind, lewing cases of infectious discoses (Vacation) Ordinance, 1928, no for poets have been much given to and deaths therefrom: Plague, the movement by which his fellow-beyond calculation.

far as it relates to the Criminal following the example of Shake-Rangoon 1 case, Colombo 3 cnaes 3 deaths, Semarang 1 case 1 death, countrymen and others Neck Baris spoke to "spirits in Sensions. The Chinese New Year speure's Jacques, rouming through and Enigon 1 death. Cholera, annually 16 testify the love and bond"; and the outburst was Vacation commences on the 30th the forests of the world meditating Calcutta 44 cases 28 deaths, Ran- admiration hey feel for the Na- where the restraint was

January, 1930, and terminates on on the bitter, blowing, wind, the most the 3rd February, 1980, (both day's freezing sky and man's ingratitude, roon 2 cases 2 deaths, Tuticorin 3 tjonal Bard. To the Burns severe, and where the powers held inclusive),

Sometimes, too, they have, with cases 1 death, Bangkok 2 cases, Federation alone there are affillat-in galling restraint were strongest.

pathetic unreason, transferred their Saigon 2 cases 1 death, and Pnom Penh 2 cuses 2 deaths, Small- own melancholy to nature and sung pex, Berbera 2 cases 1 death, ed some four hundred clubs, most. In the jargon of the new paycho- which the most Inspiring speeches

"O Willow, willow," or, "Why does from heaven it makes its moan." 33 deaths, Calcutta 41 cases 28 the Twenty-fifth of January to "inhibitions," imposed in excessive less, there is no reason to suppose But what is more interesting to re- Karachi 7 cases 2 deaths, Madras deaths, Cochin 58 cases & deaths, that the delegates have encoun-member is the strange truth that pledge' his memory and to sing and unnatural form and degree oft

tered unforeshadowed stumbling all our experiences in the presence cases 2 deaths, Rangoon 1, death, 19 cases 3 deaths, Moulmein 3 his praises, largely in the form thought, expresson, and conduct. blocks. On the contrary, it is be of natura aro conditioned by Vizagapatam 2 cases, Batavia 1 of quotations from his own im- If he did not always speak, any there that so much time is belag pointed out, clearly underlio all our case, Poom Penh 1 death, Saigon

thought Thoughts, as Ruskin mortal verso. There is no slacken- more than he always neted, with occupied in preliminaries. ing, rather there is swelling. Inwisdom, it was

moods and responses to nature.j because he was, Prime Minister, with the full "Our delight so far from being Shanghai 5 deaths and Dairen 1- the flood of oratory; and it grows through and through, a man, with accord of the leading foreign dele. without thought, is more than half

gates, is determined that the Con- in warmth, while it penetrates into his full share of a muin's passions ference shall not go the way of the made up of thought, but of thought| namamsawm

in so curiously languid and Geneva Conference through lack neutralized a condition that we can- WHO WAS. difficulties are to be got out of of preparation. The worst of the not always trace it." the way before any attempt in

But one can best speak of these made to thrash out points of detail things from out one's own experi- blems of adjustment are in open

conference. The

pro- once.

Not long ago I sat for hours com gazing from an Alpine village at plicated by the fact that avea distant landscape wherein palest Powers are interested. The first cliffs of aerial blue arose from a plenary meeting, held on Thursday, sweet forget-me-not lake. Those was confined to statements by the rugged peaks, I knew, had I crossed various countries regarding their the lake and set out to climb them, naval needs. The proceedings would have proved to be clothed passed off perfectly smoothly, with dark pine forests, cut by deep There was no hint of hostility; ravines, often and sombrely over- no querying of the claims of any shadowed, crevassed and bowlder- of the countries. Yot the problem cd. But, from my vantage point viewpoints definitely protruded. passed for the frontier peaks of greater, there is none other Bo hood,

Italy is prepared, says Signor Fairyland. Grandi, to cut its navy to the The horizon line" before me, popular, so widely and so warmly

lowest point acceptable to the however, so High in. the sky, so appreciated by all sorts and condi.

Naval Prestige.

strongest Continental Power. This lone and wild and lovely, closed up implies that any figure set by with a flat finality that would seemed, who have an answer ready tions of his fellowmen, Judged

Both President Hoover and Mr. France as a Lonnage limit will be to have indicated the end of even by the number of languages, into

Ramsay MacDonald have taken acceptable to Italy. But France Fairyland. Indeed it was difficult which his works have been trans-occasion to urge the public to endeavours to make out a case for to imagine any obverse side to those lated, by the host of memorials in patience in the matter of the pro- a big navy and, on the face of wall-like castellated summits, and his honour that have sprung upgress of the Naval Conference, things, will do anything except one's thoughts lingered rather all over the earth, by the body of standing of the many difficulties been urged upon the French Gov- the blue and white clouds and appealing for sympathetic under-assent to Italian parity. It has amongst the pale purple rocks and discussion--in specch and which beset the negotiators. Al-ernment that If Italy persists in shadows on this side; travelling up writing-to which his genius, his ready it is obvious that their cau- the demand, the limit should be ward, like the youth who would any tion was well founded. The flood placed at 804,000 tons, France's naught save Excelsior, and think: character, and the events of his of propaganda from every interest maximum, need, requiring an in- ing to come into a fair uplifted too brief life continue to give rise, ed source, the several dramatic superable effort if Italy desired Jountry of the imagination.

It was on a terrace overlooking there is no singer of his own or gestures mapired by a desire for to catch up. This is entirely re

an equally dramatic response, the pugnant to the spirit of the comLeman that I sat, and presently the of earlier or subsequent times who high hopes expressed, the atmos-ference, and it is to be hoped that sky to westward changed to pale has awakened more personal in-phere of cordiality, the clearly ar neither France nor Italy will main lemon and I saw the sunset's glory terest, or has had a fuller response preased determination of every tain fixity of attitude. Mr. Mat- begin to crown the day, Geneva delegation to discover success, Donald's dictum, that needs must wards. Whereupon I came down to to his thoughts and words brought have all conduced to public ex-be related to security, strength earth again, remembered the many hack to him from the great heart pectancy, Where It has been always related to risk, should hopes contred in that city and be of humanity. The quality and highly developed, the apparent guide these delegates into less con, thought me how I inhabited no failure to get, down to business troversial paths. Prestige, seems fairyland but a continent immersed

in political problems, where men de atrength of his song have been must have fallen like a wet blanket, to be the bugbear.

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