Show BURNS J AXI A January twenty fifth Is 18 the anut anul- of ot Robert Burnss Burns's S 'S birth The day will HI be celebrated or celebrated or has hns already already al al- al ready toady beon been celebrated all celebrated all over O tho thE w world orld Not ol alone though t they hey never tall fall but men and women o oC of f every oVery nation and of nearly every r race aco Join In paying tho tiLe tribute of or a 1 thought hought t or a word ord or an un act to th the 1 f tame fame ame of ot Bobble Burns He lIc ha line hns 1 b been bean dead een a hundred and thirteen y ears years He lie lived only to tho ago age o of It 1 t thirty Ho died a Youn young man C Compared with Uh many others he lie didot did die i n not ot write a great deal Burns Burns' poems p oems taken talen In bulk bulle will wm equal equa a about bout one of ot Charles DIckens's novels Byron Bron wrote four times as much a as 38 did Burns Few of ot tb the tho great poets poel have havo left so in quantity To Tot not one ono has hns laid hold on on the heart o ot of tho he t world as CJ has line this famous Scotch Scotch- man Why Just why Is Ta It bc because o an art active championship champion champlon- ship by Insures attention Is It because he ho Is provided an ox ox- committee with every returning re returning re- re turning January That hardly seems seem the case for the poems of Burns Duma so sell all the year ear around and around and to over every overy class and condition of or men Let ono one compare him with Byron who has Just jut been mentioned B Byron Byrons rons writings are aro far greater ealer In ha volume volume- even oven remembering that his lila Memoirs probably half as a much a as the entire published publish cd work worl was utterly destroyed by tho the publisher Murray lurra No ono ca casay canay can say fay ay the power and beauty of ot Byron I Is to that of ot Burns Durns No Xo one wm will L I claim that the tho variety and versatility I and extended Hold field of oC Burns equals equal that of n Byron ron Burns never nover left tho the British Isles and rarely lived out of Scotland Byron TOn traveled abroad extensively cx- cx ex el was a cosmopolitan In his 11 life Co and proved it in his writings Burnss Burns's public service consists of a period as excl somewhat In Involved In- In voWed ol In lu trouble with government go Byron Dyron served in parliament and gave years calS of ot life and great sums of money to tho the liberation of Greece Grecco And while that 1 work seemed disappointing at tho the time It doubtless was the one ono Influence In in- in fluence which Greece Grecco needed to rise from rom Its long IonS abasement to lo the did height for which Its Its' history commended corn com mended It it and which It so admirably retains Tho The morals of ot tho the two men were much alike Both left Jart the strata strain of or unconventional 1 view In their writ writ- ings Both forced on the attention I of ot tho world orl Incidents and consequences cease conse which tho world would gladly forget And ono one was little If It any bettor than the other othel i Yet wo we have no B Byron ron days Jays There I are no national festivals for Byron Somo Sonio of or his Hebrew Melodies Melodies' ar are sung sunS In churches by people who would woul I recoil In horror If It tho they know tho thc authors author's life ills His Destruction of ol Is one of tho two or three examples of perfect versification I found Coune in the whole English language I Nothing in all the tho writings of Burns Durns I compares with those these sacred poems In pure puro religious sentiment ane and In- In In In- fluence u S Why is there a Burns cult cult and and I none for tor Byron |