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RBWF Burns Chronicle 1972 Robert BurnsLimited World Federation Limited www.rbwf.org.uk 1972 The digital conversion of this Burns Chronicle was sponsored by RBWF Past President Mike Duguid for daughter Angharad The digital conversion service was provided by DDSR Document Scanning by permission of the Robert Burns World Federation Limited to whom all Copyright title belongs. www.DDSR.com BURNS CHRONICLE AND CLUB DIRECTORY INSTITUTED 1891 PUBLISHED ANNUALLY THIRD SERIES: VOLUME XXI THE BURNS FEDERATION KILMARNOCK 1972 Printed by William Hodg!I & Company Limited Glasgow ----------------------------------- LIST OF CONTENTS PAGE Junior Burns Chronicle James Currie's Robert Burns by Robert D. Thornton 15 The Haddin Licht. Poem by C. M. Macaskill .. I 43 ! ! Robert Burns. The Man and his Work by Hans Hecht. A Re-Appraisal by Alex. MacMillan . 44 Our Man in Japan. Toshio Namba by Jane Burgoyne . 49 Bracken and Brine. Poem by Iris Whittaker 52 Book Review by Jane Burgoyne 53 William Coull Anderson. Tribute by Charles C. Easton 55 Burns Sermon by Rev. T. Gemmell Campbell, M.A., F.S.A. 57 Auguste Angellier. Translation by Jane Burgoyne 63 The Burns Federation- (a) List of Hon. Presidents, Executive Committee, Office-bearers and District Representatives, Sub- committees, Auditors and Associate Members . 89 (b) List of Past Presidents 94 List of Places at which the Annual Conference of the Council has been held 95 (c) Constitution and Rules 96 (d) List of Districts 101 (e) Minutes of the Annual Conference, 1971, incor­ porating the Hon. Secretary's Report, Financial Statement, Burns Chronicle and Schools Compe- titions reports 109 (f) Club Reports 127 (g) Numerical List of Clubs on the Roll 168 (h) Alphabetical List of Clubs on the Roll .. 117 ILLUSTRATIONS Matthew McLauchlan, President, Burns Federation frontispiece Toshio Namba facing page 32 Hans Hecht facing page 64 i, EDITORIAL NOTE The Burns Federation does not accept responsibility for statements made or opinions expressed in the Burns Chronicle. Writers are responsible for articles signed by them: the Editor undertakes responsibility for the Junior Burns Chronicle and all unsigned matter. Manuscripts for publication should be addressed to the Editor and each must be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. The Editor cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage. JAMES VEITCH. NEWBIGGING, TWEEDSMUIR, BIGGAR, LANARKSHIRE. MA1THEW McLAUCHLAN President, Burns Federation JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE When you stop to gaze upon a lovely view, how does the scenery affect you? Do you find yourself lost in the breathless wonder of it all? Or do you admire it as a masterpiece of Nature whose every aspect will remain forever in your memory? In· this respect, Robert Bums, unlike William Henry Davies, the Super Tramp, did not have much time 'to stand and stare'. After his Border tour, for example, he spent a fortnight in Mauchline and then set off, on his mare, Jenny Geddes, for Glasgow and the West Highlands. From Arrochar on June 25, 1787 (presumably on his way home), he wrote to his friend Robert Ainslie: 'I write this on my tour through a country where savage streams tumble over savage moun­ tains, thinly overspread with savage flocks, which starvingly support as savage inhabitants. My last stage was Inverary-tomorrow night's stage, Dum­ barton .. .' He did not take kindly to the scenery, did he? He spent the next month in Mauchline and, in the first week of August, rode off once more to attend to business in Edinburgh. By the 25th of August, he was ready, with William Nicol, 'Kind, honest-hearted Willie,' to undertake his most ambitious tour. This expedition to the Central Highlands covered something like six hundred miles, Nicol evidently insisted that they should travel by chaise. - Burns informed Ainslie, 'Nicol thinks it more comfortable than horseback, to which I say, Amen; so Jenny Geddes goes back to Ayr­ shire.' . i Burns kept a Journal throughout; but for the . I most part it merely tells us where he had been and I i ~ A !" /: I' 11 I/ ~ 2 JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE the various people he met. Of Bannockburn, he notes; Come on to Bannockburn-shown the old house where James 3rd was murdered-the field of Bannockburn-the hole where glorious Bruce set his standard-Come to Stirling. Later, on 27th August perhaps, he wrote, 'I knelt at the tomb of Sir John the Graham, the gallant friend of the immortal Wallace; and ... said a fervent prayer for Old Caledonia over the hole in a blue whinstone where Robert de Bruce fixed his royal standard.' Burns's remarks on Bannockburn were not good enough for Sir Walter Scott's biographer, John Gibson Lockhart. When he wrote his 'Life of Robert Burns,' either he or his colleague, Allan Cunningham, ignored Burns's words and wrote something which they thought more in keeping with the occasion, Here no Scot can pass uninterested. I fancy to myself that I see my gallant countrymen coming over the hill, and down upon the plunderers of their country, the murderers of their fathers, noble revenge and just hate glowing in every vein, striding more and more eagerly as they approach the oppressive, insulting, blood-thirsty foe. I see them meet in glorious triumphant congratulation on the victorious field, exulting in their heroic royal leader, and rescued liberty and independence. For a biographer to interpolate his own words in this fashion is quite wrong. He ought always to stick to the truth. The fact remains, anyhow, that scenery in itself was not enough to set Burns's inspiration on fire, even though, remember, his tour lasted only twenty-two days and he had little opportunity to devote time to his Journal. JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE 3 I sometimes wonder how much we have missed by the fact that Burns did not have a Boswell. In his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., James Boswell quotes Dr. Johnson on the ruins of Iona. This is a famous passage long recognised as a 'purple patch' in literary history. We were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbar­ ians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Mara­ thon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona! * * * * Many other famous men of letters have written about Scotland. Can you guess the name of the great novelist who thus described Glencoe? All the way, the road had been among moors and mountains with huge masses of rock, which fell down God knows where, sprinkling the ground in every direction, and giving it the aspect of the burial place of a race of giants. Now and then we passed a hut or two, with neither window nor chimney, and the smoke of the peat fire rolling out at the door. But there were not 4 JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE six of these dwellings in a dozen miles; and anything so bleak and wild, and mighty in its loneliness, as the whole country, it is impossible to conceive. Glencoe itself is perfectly terrible. The pass is an awful place. It is shut in on each side by enormous rocks from which great torrents come rushing down in all directions. In amongst these rocks on one side of the pass (the left as we came) there are scores of glens, high up, which form such haunts as you might imagine yourself wandering in, in the very height and madness of a fever. They will live in my dreams for years-I was going to say as long as I live, and I seriously think so. The very recollec­ tion of them makes me shudder .. , Do you know the name of the author? To help you, it was not Sir Walter Scott! It was not a Scotsman at all! If you are tickled, you will find the answer on page 14. WEATHER FORECASTS After asking you who wrote the above descrip­ tion of Glencoe, I wonder who put the following weather omens into verse of a kind. If you know, I doubt if anyone else does! THE PIG AS WEATHER PROPHET Grumphie smells the weather, And Grumphie sees the wun; He kens when cluds will gether, And smoor the blinkin' sun; He to his den will gae: Grumphie is a prophet, bad weather we will hae. -- JUNIOR BURNS CHRONICLE 5 WIND WISDOM When the wind's in the north, Hail comes forth; When the wind's in the wast, Look for a wat blast; i When the wind's in the soud I The weather will be fresh and good; I When the wind's in the east, Cauld and snaw comes neist. ANOTHER WEATHER RHYME If Candlemas Day be fair and clear, The half o' winter's to gang an' mair. If Candlemas Day be dark and foul, The half o' Winter's past at Yule. Candlemas is the Scottish quarter-day, February 2nd. * * * * 'BONNY PRINCE CHARLIE' Oh, there were mony beating hearts, And mony a hope and fear, And mony were the prayers put up For the young Chevalier Oh, Charlie is my darling, My darling, my darling; Oh, Charlie is my darling, The young Chevalier.
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