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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery, by J. Holland and J. Everett
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery by J Holland and J Everett Author:John Holland General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Longman Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select ... more »from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. XCII. 1844. Btjbnb Commemoration Festival. -- Montgomery's Letter To The Committee. -- Rival Gas-light Parties. -- Jocular Epitaph. -- Pitman's Phonography. -- Longfellow. -- Lectures At Wake- Field AND RETFORD. -- INDIAN JUGGLERY. -- PUFFING AND QUACKERY. THE " HINDOO CONVERT." CONVERSATION. -- LETTER TO JAMES EVERETT. NIEBUHH. -- MORAVIAN FESTIVAL. -- LECTURES AT LIVERPOOL. LETTERS TO MRS. BYROM. TO JOHN HOLLAND. -- TO DR. RAFFLES. M. ZULA MR. CONOREVE "GIVING OUT " HYMNS. MEMORIAL OF BISHOP HOLMES. At the beginning of this year a project was set on foot for a grand national commemoration of the genius of Robert Burns at the place of his birth. The fete was suggested by the arrival of the poet's son, Colonel Burns, in Scotland, after an absence of nearly thirty years in India. At the outset it was intended merely as an entertainment of welcome to the gallant officer, by the good people of Ayrshire : but as the affair became farther and better known, hints were received from various quarters to the effect that, as all the surviving sons of the poet happened just then to be in the kingdom, it was desirable to embrace the opportunity of getting up a more comprehensive demonstration. The adoption of this view of the festival, not only superseded its local character, but imparted to it somewhat of the appearance, if not the reality, of a national jubilee in honour of the ploughman-bard, As well as a complimentary congratulation of his living representatives. Ac- BURNS' COMMEMORATION FESTIVAL. 199 cordingly, letters of invitation were addressed to all the great li...« less