Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1914 — Robert Burns. [ARTICLE]

Robert Burns.

Robert Burns belongs in the very front rank of the world’s great men. Ab a song writer he stands along with Goethe, Heine and Beranger, and as a satirist be ranks well up with Juvenal and Pascal. Hlb “Coter’s Saturday Night,” his “‘Tam O’ Shanter” and his “Holy Fair” are simply inimitable, great in their line, as the most consummate masterpieces of the world’s greatest writnrs. Burns was original in the best sense of that word, and his. songs, satires, epistles and many of his more serious productions stand forth unique, and fresh, and powerful as the tints of Titian or 'the chiseling of Phidias.