The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28
BURNS, ANNIVERSARY.
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 Scots who hae wi Wallace bled,"
 he has given us one of the finest martial odes in the language.
 l He loved his home. It was humble;- a little mud-bedaubed cottage with matched roof and one-eyed window; but, oh, the devotion within. It in- spired "The Cotter's Saturday Night, and this is immortal.
 | He loved his friends. This made him entirely the best companion on all occa- sions, whether at a meeting of the peas- ants or at the table of lord, and he we'll understood that
 "The rank is but the guinea stamp. The mans the gowd for a that"
 He loved the lassies This was his speciality. Every bright-eyed, red l checked lassle that crossed his path pierced his heart; and do not blame, for who would they not? And on all occa- | sions his love seemed absolutely sincere. So varied was his experience that he has given expression to almost every phase of sweet and tender affection. In the love songs of Burns any young man can find Q vocabulary with which to carry on successful courtship. If he wishes to express true regard, what is more apropos than,
 | 70, my loves like red, red rose" | If heshould have to be separated from his beloved for awhile what sweeter consolation could he give her than: "A fond kiss and then we sever"
 If he wishes to assure her of complete devotion, let him recite with proper in tonation:
 o, vert thou in the cauld blast
 On wonder lea, on wonder lea,
 My plaidie to the angry airt, I'd shelter thee; I'd shelter thee"
 And if cruel fate should blast forever the hope of the realization of his fondest desires, he can pour forth the truest and saddest feelings of his soul in ITO Mary in Heaven"
 Burns might have been satirist, but this would have won him few warm friends. Judging from his insight into the workings of the heart and his abli- ty to delineate characters and make them act natural part, he might have been dramatist. But here he would have had many rivals, and it is doubtful work to try to compete with Shakes peare. But he had all the qualities insight, sympathy, pity and love-to make him great singer, and this he was. He stands without peer in the English language. Under his delicate touch every chord of the human heart gave forth it's sweetest music. Robert Burns is not only the bard of Scotland who pourned into the old forms of Scot tish verse new, delicious wine and aroused the national spirit and inspired national literature, but he has left the world richer and happier, Eyes he is for us to enable us to see in the common things of life's dream visions of beauty. Ears he is to enable us to hear in the murmur of daily toll "wonderful melo- dies" Voice he is to enable us to give expression to many of our finer feelings And wherever English-speaking men, after a long separation, meet, in memory Of all that is sweetest in life, they
 Take cup O kindness yet,
 For auld lang syne"
 in silent honor of Robert Burns,
 Madame Grey resumed by taking her audience to Edinburgh with the poet. describing his fears and prospects. The frst edition of the works, his acauaint ance with Clarinda and his marriage with Jean Armour. At this juncture Madame Grey sang her masterpiece My Nannie's Ava " and to say more than that the song was perfectly ren dered would be superfluous. The poets life at this time as farmer and excise man, his contributions to Thomson's f,
 Scotch airs, and his humorous poems were happily and entertainngly de- scribed. The song 70, a the Airts' was treated to a fine elocutionary rem dering of Tam O Shanter" It is to be regretted that time alone prevented Mamade Grey from reciting the poem in its entirety.
 The remaining years of the poets life, the lights and shadows, hopes and fears, joys and sorrows were all capa- bly, and sympathetically described The two songs Duncan Gray" and "Tne Devils Ava wi the Exciseman" were very humorously rendered, and in con- cusion Madame Grey requested the au- dience to join with her in singing "Auld | Lang Syne'' This was heartily re- sponded to, and brought a most sue cessful entertainment to a close. In the dance which followed Chief Mcintosh accompanied by Madame Grey and MT. Hall with Mrs Ogilvy Grey led the grand march. Dancing was kept up with great spirit till an early hour this morning.