social clubhouse that existed in the Burns' attendances in the only village life of his, time, the tavern, have been made to obscure the truth that he was indeed as the average sober man of his class, and not at all in that aspect of social life ce be compared with the very inking gentry into whose company his genius brought hin Close study th facts of his life has made that the poet's song of Wine and. Whiskey cannot he be made to carry the record ord daily habit of his life.
a quart and equally cheap clare Homesbrowed alo, whitkey al 20 no rivals in ten f¥om 158. £0 905 pound, of coffee at 7a, Od, and weolate at Bs. Od., and these were little known and not much liked in the Scotland of Burns' day, certainly not with the peasantry' or' the plain folk of the towns, So Burns drank a8 did his neighbours and the definite testimony of those who knew him was that he was no hard drink ker.
Till manhood moving in the poorest and most secluded circles of country life in a land that knew no wealth, Burns had the faults of his surroundings and added to them the character belonging to a personality that abounded in the strongest feel ings and passions untamed by conventionality. That the record of his life shows many blots is but to say that every time the turbulent river of his manhood burst its banks the destruction and sorrow which fits overflow had caused was written down and placarded to all time.
man who has written the tale; of the thoughts and feelings of the human heart has there been dis played to all the world the blunders 8 of his own frailty as with missy We need make no apology Burns, but it is well worth our! chile that we should try to under: stand him. After his time triumph in Edinburgh, and his tours through Scotland, there came a technique won by the long hours of patient study. and work under the guidance of his spirit of genius, and the universality of his human sympathy—these have placed him in the foremost rank of the poet singers of the world. "On Burns'
as on the literature of un-cee, there are no two opin-he is, at his highest, perfection—a. perfection in its sublimity and sustained humanity: altogether unique in English literature," said Keith.
Dr. Patrick concluded:—"So let! us leave with all that was! Tittle in him forgotten in the greatness of his humanity, and happily cherishing an enduring memory of the man and the singer; Scotland dearest ani hest-—fimmortal Rat "Th Land 0° Cakes"
Div. Ranald G, MeDonald Pre: Jdent of St. Andrew's Society, fol.
th "the torist of "Th' Land lo' Cakes. from the sentiment of the evening, 'Mr. MeDonald substituted for a eulogy of his native land one of [Seotland's second favourite and effectively quoted John Drinkwaters nary of Burns' qui "Passionate love of country; gen Juine sympathy with all animate things; emotional response to nature in every mood and aspect; revolt against. anciently accepted bonds—igious, social, and political; fear-ess" independence; a clairvoyant' sense of all that is implied in racial sentiment; unaffected and masterly juse of the vernacular speech, and the power to combine the loftiest re-factions with true wit and humour. These ate the qualities in Bui thut put him first-among all er tive artists in the hearts of Scottish people."
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