A History of the Celebration of Robert Burns´
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Excerpt from A History of the Celebration of Robert Burns´: 110th Natal Day, at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York Convivial festivals are of frequent occurrence in the city of New York. Hitherto gentlemen only have attended them. At one recently held at Delmonico´s the propriety of the presence of ladies on such occasions came up for discussion at one of the tables, and but one gentleman was found gallant enough to advocate such an innovation. He urged his views, however, with a warmth and cogency that drove his old fogy adversaries to the wall, who finding I themselves whipped in a fair fight of facts, ordered forward, as cunning debaters always do, when they have to cover the retreat of repulsed logic, ridicule´s reserved corps and attempted to laugh him out of the field. His only rejoinder to this was a promise to teach them as early as occasion would permit a civilizing lesson in a practical form. Looking into the future he saw near at hand the natal day of Robert Burns, and seizing upon it by the dint of indefatigable energy soon obtained the consent of one hundred and fifty gentlemen to co-operate with him in the celebration of that event at the banquet board, at which the presence of ladies as guests, it was distinctly understood, was to be made a prominent feature. Gifted orators and poets were at once applied to, to respond in speeches and poems to toasts, and as the result will appear in this pamphlet, upon this brilliant chapter in the banquet´s history, all that is left to be said, is, that, flattering as the verdict of the reader is bound to be, it will amount to but faint praise when contrasted with the enthusiastic plaudits of the listeners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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