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THE BURNS NICHT DINNER.

SCOTLAND'S GREAT POET HONOURED.

JANUARY 26, 1931.

Freshness of the Fields.

MUTILATED BODY AT

BLACKHEATH.

BRUTAL MURDER STIRS UP POLITICAL AGITATION.

London, Jan. 24.

|professor propone his memory. Is the poolry in which he inter- But I trust that his inrge-hearted | preted the lives and manners and magnanimity would have prevail- feelings of the Scottish peasant. |ed on him even to stomach that.

Burns' life in a suries of pic tures which are doubly imprinted That his life, was for from joy- on the mind of Scotsnien. We are less is seen in his descriptions of all familiar with the stages those country festivals which neem through which Burns passed from to have died. The freshness of that night when a cold January the open fields, too, breathien

It Is feared that a maniue of the. wind blew, to those last in Dum-through these early poeme.

"Jack-the-Ripper" type is at large FINE TRIBUTES. -

fries. We can see

him in his Burna would not have been

in London. following the discovery youth as an Aryshire peasant. true Scot had he nut been a theo early yesterday morning on Blick Punctuated by appropriate heining his brothers and fathers logical disputer. The manner of heath, of the strangled and ter- excerpts from the works of the on the farmu. poet. ho WHA honouring, the

We can see him taking the lead-his life was bound to bring him ribly mutilated body of an 18- eloquent speech made by Prof. Rt.ing part in the village life. We of the Scottish kirk as it exizieri Steel.

into conflict with the disciplinear-old local servant girl, Louisa Robertson of the

Hongkong can see him gradually finding his at the end of the 18th century, le trafic on the leath, and the fact There is always a great deal of University, was outstanding at the true aphere, gradually realistus resented it intensely and his fery Burns Nicht celebration ay that above all things he was # Scottish residents at Lane Craw type born to express in verse the "pirit broke out in those terrific that numerous pedestrians must

The Holy

Fair," "Holy have of human

existence. uie's Prayer," "The Ordina-noticing the body supports the We can see him after he had left tion," "The Twa ilerdn." But ollee theory that she was murder- for Edinburgh, where he was to Burns was, not at war with mix with the higheat in the land.

essentials

re-

passed the spot without

the

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About 200 were pented when

ed in a motor ear and then flung the Chieftain of the Si, Andrew's Society (Mr. T. H. I. Shaw) said He returns to the land and thonglon, nor even with the kirk as onto the Heath.

he conceived I He fought

There is at present agitation in grace. Behind the head table, de-1 enters into the Government seṛ- corated with illuminated thistles vice as an exeiseman, and spends against hypocrisy and the self- Liberal and Labour quarters over

righteousness of the unco guid. the prolonged absence on

Lord Byng, despite the death of Admiral Sir Charles Commissionar Royda, the Deputy

This of the Metropolitan Police. latest murder mystery has intensi fied the elamour for Lord Byng's resignation and the reorganisation of Scotland Yard.-Reuter.

and tartan, was n portrait of the the closing years of his life in Burna hnd a warm heart: he could Riviera of the Police Commissioner1 ANDRESON MUSIC Co.

that occupation.

WILA

Intense Life.

The influence of Burns' work has done much to

remove that hard unbending rigour which was characteristic of Scottish religion in the 18th century. This may have been not the least of his ser-

heart's aye, the part,

ways did lack silver, it was a funda y no expression of the fin

have propriate that he should consented to give "The Immortal Memory."

ave

II

OBITUARY.

recent

DEATH OF COMMANDER OF US. PATROL.

We record with deep regret the at the denth, which loak place Royal Naval Hospital on Thurs- that day, of Capt. A. K. Schoop. com-

A: Naval Patrol of South China. The body is being taken back to America for interment,

poet. The Haggis was piped in

appreciate aterling worth and with all due ceremony by Pipe

looked

with Inrxe charity u on Major

Mackie, who also gave

kuman weaknesses, of which he Burne

"Address to the Haggis.'

Borns lived his Hic in a most himself was only too fully con Scottish sungs by Messra, J. F. Intense fashion. We may say that "elous; but he hated and despiseri Anderson and G. McLeod, who he lived with gusto. One of the hypocritical censoriousness of also led the community single erities, Raleigh, says that life men who, in their pride and arif contributed to the pleasure of the called to him and he listened. righteousness, revealed the lack evening. Selections on the pipe One of the chief characteristics of of humanity that was theira. were given by Pipe Major Mackie the poet Burns was the readiness and Mesars, Watson, Wilson, and with which he entered into the Nesbit, and the piano accompani

main stream of activities in what menta were played by Mr. G.

ever society he found himself Griables,

Had his nature been much as to Introducing Prof. Robertson. came him to shrink rom life then Mr. Shaw said that a few months the frankness that $5 find vires to the Sealfish untion. ago he had sat with him on lin

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GY" ] has taught us to "gently scan our Currency Commission, and

Proven

unktowa But because brither man, still goutlier sister Robertson had then given a very fe

for

him something wam He has told us in on- able discourse on how to raise the ar A great

adventure. we find forgettable wards that The value of the dollar. As Burgs al-

In his

which we cannot find makes us right or wrong." Yet nader of the United States pluschere, Everything that Bars he never rejected the moral law: did he did intensely and all of the he never justified to himsell the best of what he wrote comes white irregularities of himself or athera, hot from the fire of his experience The hardened free liver will find of life. He is not a contemplative

silence of his conscience. We are Prof. Robertson said that his poet; un poetry has never smelied text in Burns to support the unwary response to the Chirtless of the lamp, Further there not made worse by reading Burus: ain's invitation to propose he is nothing in his work that has we are more likely to be made ic!- Immortal Memory" must he as-ary taint of the artificial, but only ter.

and this cribed to the deep running with what he did and felt which Mr. Shaw approached him. frankness makes his poetry his He first broached the propus-best biographer. When he speaks

the morning succeeding of himself he speaks out. Hogmanay, said Prof. Robertson, does not attempt to cast a veil of It is a morningg on which the rezance over his experience. He straina of "Auld Lang Syne" are had no illusions about himself still ringing in Scottish ears. when he wrote: should have been doubly cautious "Oh wad some power the giftle

gie us,

as ithers see To see oursels He had no foolish notions about himself. It is this characteristic that makes his work appen to the mass of men who soc embodied in

The Immortal Memory,”

tion on

I should have remembered that a year ago there stand in my place to perform the same funetica, orm of my colleagues at the

Univer.

i

UA.

He

etty.

I should have asked myself: "is there

a danger? Will it not be rumoured abroad that this is it their own real selves. scheme to introduce the cold and dry atmosphere of the lecture room into the warni and

xenial humidig of these Kathering Rut professrs are only human, and in the Bilt of Burns' verse, their academie trappings Fall Fromm them. The Scottish people rightly suspicious of academic at- templa to

appraise the. Burts. Burns was a man who in

Lnd of the Village. While he was still in Aryshire village he entered as leader into the activities of the countryside,

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critic.

In the

Our National l'oct. Burns is the poet of Scotland. He is our National poet. There a copy of his works in every Scottish household. We find him quoted on divers

occasions. We bear his songs sung.

The late Cant. Schoop was a man of about 50 years of age and And spen

service on the Asintic Stution on several occasions, but it was only towards the end of Inst year that he was in command of the South Chinn Patrol of the United States Navy. He was a married man laut, it is understood," children. Much he sympathy will be extended to the widow in her bereavement.

has 110

The body is being taken to America on board the s.s. Pro- sident Jackson which sails to-day, for interment at Arlington, the National Cemetery, in Washing- tun. D.C.

At the end of the 18th century it was who re-started, the Burns movement towards the Scottish na tion. I do not mean to say that had Burns been alive to-day he would have been a member of the Scot- tish Nationalist Party. I do not think he would have viewed that movement with much tolerence. Burns had too proud a view to allow himself to be unveigled into

No, they take a car to Repulse the narrowness of vision which Bay and dance to the strains of would separate Scotland more allen muste, to which,no better

last 200 years.

I give you the toast "The Im- mortal Memory of Robert Barna.'

"The Lasales”

Giving the tonsi "The Lassies,” Dr. J. W. Anderson said:

taneity of Burns? Are they in the habit of walking 10 or 20 miles at night to keep a tryst as hei and his cronies did?

and the remem-

Ways A source of inspiration to his poetic themes. One who loved: with such Intensity could not but and meet with disappointments, rebuffs. Fickleness he had his full share of, but he was never bitter,

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It is not surprising that Burns true sense of the term we can any

When Scotsmen meet together the man appealed to all classes of that Burns was one of the lads of Scotsmen they cannot forget wamen of his time. Not only in the village. By that simply mean that it was to him and his his name. He, followed by Scott, his native Aryshire but in Edin- his life appeared rather to refer life, that those who knew himayed perhaps the Scottish na burch and the country houses he to man with all his impulses and looked for leadership, and the him Auld Scotland was more than Scotland, he made ronny

tional spirit from oblivion. For visite on his travels throughout friends feelings and man's understand geniality and conversation, with- hugs than to the literary theout which life in the countryside me; it was a proud heritage, whose letters Bat literary erities and moral pre- would have been dull and mono- and he more than any other man,brance of whose charms were al- cisions must stand silent before tono

ved has contributed towards the con- tonous. Wherever life was

tinuance and strengthening of the the intensity of the human ten-freely and boldly there perament as displayed in his werk. wished to be. Edinburgh chilled Scottish National spirit. it wonderful achievement

him, but it could not freeze out which Burns has made in that he the vitality that was in him. Al san call us here once a year--he though the rich outpourings of ean call Scotsmen together once a Mosgiel were stemmed after tha year, all over the world to do Edinburgh interlude some of his homage to his memory,

most lively work, including Tam

Sale and Repairing wi Loid and Silver Gods. The relations of our national O'Shanter, belongs to his Inter

He has given us an inimitable | Any kind of Watebe, Chronometers, Crane- life. He died at 37, but he had bard with the inssies were many pleture of the country, lassies of raphs, Repeaters, Speedometer, Tywitam It would be interesting to see crowded into that short span aand varied. It is customary for his day-of their Industry, their All orders executed promptly at moderate how Burns would have viewed full and crowded life. He may be thone who seek to decry Robert misfortune and their undaunted as Buch A

gathering as this. He and to have thrown himself at Burna to point out that his pri- cheerfulness. They in their day would have probably been sur-life regardless of the consente life was not all that it might had not the advantages of their prised by the strangeness of his quences.

have been and that many of his present day daughters. They had surroundings, but I am sure

that

It is this man, who gifted with love songs drew their inspiration not the opportunities to travel to he would have very avon have the highest powers of poetry ex- from women of rather doubtful bronten, their minds and enrich made himself the leader of this presses in verse the primitive and character. Many people cannot their leisure. Their Rathering. He was a man whose therefore the fundamental agen- see the wood for the trees and it always at the grindstone.

No other poet has dealt with the conversation and social gifts made tinla of human existence. As he is by taking the long view that him quickly the leading spirit entered freely into life so we find we get Burns and his life in pro-lassics so faithfully or extolled

that illuminates convivial gathering. In him something

truer in any

their virtues in perspective. think that he might or might not every occasion. Raised through As his

and admirer, Mrs. than Burns. Sentimental he may have welcomed the Haggis. He the force of his genius, Burns, Riddle sild: "It is only on the be, but never sloppy.

Gentlemen, certainly would have welcomed born and bred a peasant, saw more gem that we are disturbed to sec

the toast Ľ give you that Scottish drink of which he of life than is permitted to most the dust;, the pebble may be soil- of the lassies: The Mothers wrote so effectively, that it seems peasants. Ilia poetry ranges over ed but we disregard it." I would that bore us: the Jasaies we love." churlish evar to refuse another a wider field than if he had been ask you one question. Are there In a short bright response Mr. glass. I do not think he would morely a ploughman poet. It is any of our modern gallants who W. Handyalde declared that Burna have viewed with very great true, however, that some of his can produce songs to their ladies was a man's man; and therefore equanimity the idea of having a best known and best loved works with even a fraction of the spon- a woman's man."

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