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Scottish Rite Temple Burnsiana
Is Largest in Western World
BY JESSIE FANTS EVANS.
ONE hundred and seventy-eight
years after his birthi on Janu
ary 25, such lines as these
fi*om the poems of Robert
Bums, first poet laureate of Free
masonry as he was the first, poet of
the common people, have made them
selves a place in our every-day speech:
•The best laid schemes o' mice
and men
Gang aft a-gley.”
“Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands
mourn."
“Oh wad some power the giftie
gle us
So see ourse's as others see us!”
“The rank is but the guinea's
stamp.
The man's the gowd for a’ that.”
These love songs of this Scottish
bard of the people. “My Luv'a Like a
Red, Red Rose," "Highland Mary" and
“Bonnie Doon" have likewise endured
with increasing fame. They, too, be
long to the world at large because of
the universality of their sweetness and
the tenderness of their appeal.
Appropriately, one of the largest
and most complete collections extant
of the works of Bobbie Burns is housed
here in the city which is the seat of
one of the world's great democracies—
in a shrine of Masonry—the Temple
of the Supreme Council of the Thirty
third and Last Degree of Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
for the Southern jurisdiction of the
United States on Sixteenth street at S.
In a room especially set apart for
their custody and care are 5,300 vol
umes containing practically all of the
editions of Robert Burns’ poems pub
lished throughout the world with the
exception of the original 1786 Kilmar
nock edition, published in Scotland.
Hew Morrison, librarian of the Car
negie Public Library of Edinburgh,
and his associate, William Thompson,
who came to the United States with
him, especially to make a catalogue of
this Washington collection have said,
*Tt. is almost without a rival. We are
Impressed by the number and rarity
of its editions which are beyond what
Is in the British Museum and exceeded
only by the Mitchell Library collection
In Glasgow.”
Collection a Monument.
This collection in its entirety is a
monument in itself to its collector and
donor. William R. Smith. 32d degree
Mason of Washington, who for many
years prior to his death, was superin
tendent of the United States Botanic
Gardens when they were located
directly below- the Capitol on Penn
sylvania avenue.
Born a Scotchman, he was a great
lover of Bums, his interest in all that
pertained to him. becoming the com
pelling avocation of his life.
One of the volumes in the collection,
contains this significant inscription;
•'This book belongs to a literary cairn
of Robert Burns collected by W. R.
6mith, whose mission in life was to
•Honor him whose mission on earth
*as to preserve the dignity of man
With sou! erect.' ”
Another carries this bit upon its fly
leaf, "Inspired by thee, the gardener'
poor
"All soul degrading meanness
■purns; '
"Our teacher, savior, saint are
thou.
"Immortal Robert Burns.”
An interesting portrait of the donor
of this collections show-s him with a
strong, forceful face and keen eye,
from which look forth a spirit of kind
liness and a kinship with his fellows,
yet one senses a forthrightness which
would go to the heart of any sham
and the zealotry of your true Scotch
man who would serve a chosen cause
relentlessly.
Of him a distinguished fellow- Ma
sonic brother said at the time shortly
after his death that the Supreme
Council took over his Bums collec
tion, “He was a lover of Washington,
a beloved member of the Oldest In
habitants Association, and a man who
grappled friends to his soul with hoops
of steel.”
Endowed with a practical nature
and of Inherently rugged force, Rob
ert Burns was the sentimental en
thusiasm of the life of William R.
Smith. His supreme wish is carried
out in that the collection which was
of his existence a thing apart, is
today and forever "preserved Intact
and freely accessible to the public at
large."
This was made possible through
the co-operation of the Supreme
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Council of 33rd Degree Masons of
the Southern Jurisdiction with the
trustees of the will of Mr. 8mtth.
With Andrew Carnegie as chairman,
this latter group Included Theodore
W. Noyes. Blair Lee, James Wilson,
Champ Clark. David Hutchinson,
Thomas Nelson Page, Albert Douglas,
Oliver O. Rlcketson, Charles C. Mar
bury and John Barrett.
Proper Housing Quest.
It was undoubtedly the hope of Mr.
Smith that his fellow, Scotch-born
friend. Andrew Carnegie, might see fit
to house his Burns collection intact,
but this Mr. Carnegie felt indisposed
to do. Neither did the Library of
Congress nor the Public Library feel
that either institution was in a posi
tion to take over the collection, ex
tremely rare and valuable as it is,
in such a manner as would coincide
with the plainly stated intention of
its donor that it should neither be
merged nor shelved with other groups
of books.
Finally the members of the Supreme
Council, acting in unison with the
trustees appointed under Mr. Smith's
will and George H. Lamar, attorney
for the estate, unanimously agreed
aftet many conferences and delibera
tions that the collection should be
! housed and set apart in the long
room of the south hall of its temple
i in Washington.
Subsequently, the collection in its 1
l entirety was delivered in 191# to
'■ John H. Cowles, grand commander of
the Supreme Council, as custodian of
the temple. In 1919 the collection,
intact, in fulfillment of its late
owner's wish was made freely avail- j
able to the general public.
Over the doorway to the room which
houses it is this inscription: "Robert
Burns, First Poet Laureate of rree
Masonry. The Smith Collection of
Burnslana Collected and Donated bv
William R. Smith, 32 Degree, of Wash
ington, D. C.”
In the sancity of the mellow room
set apart by Masonry to house the
poems it is now possible under the
guidance of William L. Boyden, who
has for 43 years been the librarian
of the Supreme Council, to leave be
hind all thought of the world with
out and commune with the spirit of
Bums, most human of all the world's
great writers.
The books are arranged chronologi
cally by editions in so far as possible,
then by undated editions, for as is
well known, many of the rare and
well-known editions are without date,
and then by the place of their publi
cation.
i Boyden is Washington born and bred I
| and knew Mr. Smith and his famous |
| Burnsiana collection long before it j
i came to be housed under his jurisdic- j
tion. So, with him steering me from j
' one fascinating volume to another and
j elaborating upon its background or
calling my attention to the various
j interesting and rare engTavings.
photographs and facsimilies which are
also a part of the collection, time ap
j parently ceased to function for me.
I When I finally left the world of Burns
j behind me it was to discover to my
embarrassment that my visit had not
only prolonged itself far beyond what
; it should have in Boyden's day. but
undoubtedly absorbed his luncheon
: period as well.
#4-Page Dated Editions.
The dated editions occupy 84 pages
in the collection's printed catologue,
I and the undated no less than 17.
These editions are of all eiaes and
j shapes printed upon all types of
paper and bound in all sorts of ways.
Evidently they wefe also in all
j manner of degree of preservation '■
when they first came into Mr. Sjnith's
j hands. From the pages of some
: volumes there even yet continues to
flutter out, as there did the day of
my visit, a hitherto undiscovered re
ceipted bill rendered Mr. Smith for
the repair of certain books in the eol
j lection. This latest one to come to
light was from the Gibson Bros., lo
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The range of bindings is from
Beautifully tooled calf leather, ex
emplifying the finest workmanship of
he bookbinders art to frugally set
jp paper-backed volumes. An exctp
ionally beautiful example of “tree"
:alf binding is that on the cover
>f a volume of Burns' poems of the
year 180* printed in Olasgow by W.
D. McKenzie.
A valuable volume in the collection
Is one printed in Edinburgh in 1788
for T. Cadell and W. Davies of London
and William Creech of Edinburgh.
An edition printed in Dublin April
4. 1787. from that of William Gilbert.
Great George’s Street, uses fa for s’s
as do many of these old volumes.
The names with which many of
theae prized editions are Inscribed
as well as the book-plates of their
one-time owners adds much to their
value and interest.
Additional books of the Burns era
containing the works of prominent
authors of the time that Bums might
possibly have known about and
perused, also make an Interesting
supplementation In themselves to the
collection proper.
Busts of Burns and his contem
poraries as well as numerous pictures
and engravings likewise add to the
general interest.
The engravings in every instance
tell a graphic story. One after the
painting by Stewart Watson shows
Burns as a member of the Canongate
Kilwining Lodge of Edinburgh just
after he was made the poet of Free
masonry in the year 1787. It is of
particular Interest and value too be
cause In each case the figures are
actual historical likenesses of lodge
members.
Shown in Masonic Apron.
Burns, engagingly young and slen
der. is shown with the high, frilled
neckpiece of the time in knee breeches,
wearing his Masonic apron tied over
the line of his white westcoat. He
holds a rolled scroll, evidently his
Masonic laureation. in his righ hand.
Other lodge members appear In either
attitudes of great interest or of half
concealed amazement that this youth
ful associate of. theirs should be so
honored.
Another engraving nr absorbing in
terest is that depicting Burns in Edin
burgh in this same notable year. 1787,
reading his “The Winter's Night,” be
fore a literary gathering at the Duch
ess of Gordon's.
Still another steel engraving in the
collection which compels attention, is
that showing the meeting of the two
great Scotish authors. Bums and
Scott. In Sciennes House. Edinburgh,
the residence of Prof. Adam Ferguson.
Scott, a timid lad of 15, eagerly wist
ful. loots admiringly at a responsive
Burns, in the heyday of his fame.
Years later, Scott wrote of Bums in
connection with this encounter, “I
never saw such another eye in a hu
man head, though I have seen most of
the distinguished men in my time.”
As a true lover of Americana, Mr.
Boyden brought to my attention sev
eral rare and very valuable American
editions of Burns’ poems. Among
them is a quaint Philadelphia one,
thus inscribed, “printed for and sold
by Peter Stewart and George Hyde,
the west side of Second street, the
ninth door above Chestnut street.
Philadelphia 1788 Though there
were no street numbers, as is evident,
in the Philadelphia of that time, Peter
Stewart and George Hyde had no idea
of not being specific as to their place
of business.
A small, compact little volume of
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Burns' poems, just the slse that would
enable a book-lover to slip Into his
coat pocket, and whose binding still
has that smooth patina which only
comes from loved and reverent han
dling. bears this Inscription: "The
poetical works of Robert Burns, a new
edition with sketch of the author's
life. Printed by John A. Stewart,
Alexandria, Va., 1813."
Baltimore Shares Fame.
Our nearby City of Baltimore also
shares fame with Philadelphia and
Alexandria in this famous collection,
for one of the treasures, with a fine
steel engraving of Burns for a frontis
piece, Is a collection of four volumes
of an almost encyclopedic nature, pub
lished by "F. Lucas Jun and J. Cush
ing. G. Palmer, printer, Baltimore,
1815." This collection, we learned,
Justified the ambitions of Its publish
ers by Its successful sale far beyond
the confines of even their native 8tate.
In addition to Bums' poems It In
cludes “an account of his life and a
criticism on his writing to which are
prefixed some observations on the
character and condition of the Scot
tish peasantry.”
A little undated volume, considered
one of the very rarest In this world
famous collection of editions, was dear
to the heart of its collector and donor,
Mr. Smith, because of the fact that It
had been presented to him by Mrs.
Mary Cathcart Ransdell, the youngest
child of Andrew Cathcart and Ellen
Weir, who lived in Ayres hire at Al
loway, Scotland, where Bums first
saw the light of day. Oddly enough,
Mrs. Ransdell came across this copy
of her fellow Scot's poem In a little
out-of-the-way shop in Dresden, Ger
many, and without full awareness of
Its value, thought immediately of It
as giving pleasure to Mr. Smith.
The tiniest edition in the collection
is exactly 1V2 inches by one-half inch. |
In the little case in which it reposes,
there is also fitted a powerful minia- j
ture reading glass for those who de
sire to peruse it.
Necessarily an article of this type
can only graze the surface concerning |
the contents of this, one of the moat
famous and complete collections of
Burnsiana In all the world. But In |
this, the natal month of Burns, be you
book antiquarian, lover of the un
usual, or simply an eager Washing
ton visitor limited to a quick glance j
at its famous treasures, slip in to the
Temple of the Scottish Rite Supreme 1
Council. Here you may see first-hand,
as nowhere else on this continent, cer-1
tain editions of Robert Bums, who 1
wrote "Tam O’ Shanter" In a single
day and of whom It has been Justly !
said, "he was the poet of homely hu
man nature, not half so homely or
prosaic as it seems."
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MR. JESSEL YATES
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of Music, Inc.
laia Conn. Are. Dtrstnr AAAI
elusive, »nd in the Lew Behool from
January 18 to 30, inclusive.
Roosevelt High School.
ALL 8irl* at Roosevelt High School
gathered for their first 1937 as
sembly Tuesday morning to hear Mrs.
Donald Robert* talk on the ad
vantage of a college education. Mrs.
Roberts represented the Wellesley
Club of Washington and presented
many beautiful films showing the
activities of campus life.
A popular course for non-college
students at Roosevelt has been intro
duced by Mr*. Cornelia Yeomans.
Students majoring in bookkeeping or
stenographic courses are given a
semester's work in actual selling. The
effort Is made to have the members
of the class come in actual contact
with downtown business men. and
investigate the business and the
products each member has chosen for
his line of work. Then, using the
class as possible buyers, the etudent
delivers his sales talk.
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Last Afternoon Class—Opening Monday, February 1st.
Six O'clock Class—Opening Monday, February 8th.
Eight O'clock Class—Opening Monday, February 15th.
These classes start at the beginning cl the course, and there is no speed
ing up of work or curtailment of class sessions. Midyear entering students
hare advantages of those starting in the fall.
Registration for Advanced Classes also being received.
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For all vocations in which the spoken word is significant
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Principles of Spoken Exchange.
Spoken English. Poise. Educa
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at 8 p.m.
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Spoken English Tone Train
• ing. Diction. Platform Poise.
Correction of Common Errors.
Vocabulary Building. Thursdays
at 3 or 5 p.m.
Vocal Technique
Enunciation. Tone-placement.
Mellowness. Resonance. Cultural
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Tuesday*, 8 p.m.
Public Address
Impromptu and Extemporane
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for special occasions. Approach
of various vocations. Thursdays
at 8 p.m.
English Fundomentols
Fundamental technique. Gram
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Common errors. Vocabulary.
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Mondays at 8 p.m.
Individual Psychology
Personality Reconstruction. Re
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Inferiority Complex. Find and
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Two thousand men and Women from 30 vocations have increased
their efficiency with these courses which meet once weekly for two hours.
Visitors welcome. Class or private instruction. Ask for further details.
Registration hours: 4 to 7 p.m. Register now.
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Amateur Code Op.
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Combustion Engines
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