There has come to few literary men the good fortune that was Robert Burns's at the beginning of that "crowded hour of glorious life," his visit to Edinburgh in the winter of 1786-87. Of that good fortune the crowning point undoubtedly was his introduction. to the Ear] of Glencairn, who thenceforth displayed in his behalf an interest, of the most practical kind, Therefore has the Burns Federation provided the mural tablet. which has st been dedicated at Falmouth. No one who knows his Surns wij] deny that that memorial is quite due to this good Cunningham. The only fault that anay be found with it is that it was not erected years ago; but Land's Exd is far away fom the hub of the Burns world. Much' in the way of providing memorials of places and of persons associated with Burng has been done im recent years.. The houses at Alloway and Dumfries—the birth-place and the death-place' of the poet—are secure for all times as nationa] shrines; so also is that, very interesting building at Mauch-Jine in which Burns and his wife began married life together, and which is now the property of the Glasgow Association of Burns Clubs. But what of Bilisland, the choice of a post, if not of a farmer? Is it safe from the gentleman with the almighty dollar?
The burial place of Robert Aiken, the poet's earliest patron, is being cared for by the Burns Club at Ayr; that of Gavin Hamilton, to whom was dedicated the Kilmarnock edition of the "Poems," has recentily been pointed with lime by the Partick Burns Club; and the restoration' of the stone erected many years ago to the memory of the Findlater family—including _the Supervisor of Excise at Dumfries
at present under consideration by While Burns was gauger thei'e—is another Glasgow society. ''Chloris" and "Highland - Mary" is over-and "Clarinda" are commemorated;
commemorated.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.