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Show VITALITY OF QURN3' FAME. It Is One of the Great Facto of Our Literature. "Tho Inquest" on Robert Burns was concluded long ago, but from tlmo to tlmo tho findings are reviewed by critical crit-ical writers, as In a recont symposium, says Colllor's. A curious result thus chances. From ovcry suoa Inquisition tho poet emerges tho moro radiant and triumphal the critics aro lost In tho splendor thoy have evoked It Is ono thing to mako lltoraturo; It Is another and qutto difforont thing to write about Utcraturo and tho makors thoreof. This Is a truism, and yet tho distinction Is I often confused, especially by the writ-1 (crs of criticism. Burns has survived! h sterol fci-iinr&Uoiy ofv critics, many 'of whom mado a Tain bid for romom-branco romom-branco by their pralso or dispraise of him. Tho vitality of his famo Is ono of tho great facts of our literature |