Excerpt from Burns Centenary 21st July 1896: Great Demonstration at Dumfries (With Illustrations); Speeches by Lord Roseberry at Dumfries and Glasgow Errors incidental to unavoidable haste have been cor rected where observed 'and the record thus revised has been extended by the inclusion of the magnificent speech 'which Lord Rosebery delivered in Glasgow under the aus pioes of the Burns Exhibition Committee. Additional illus trations have also been introduced. Among these are a view of the impressive ceremony at the Mausoleum, and a very effective impression of Turnerelli's sculpture of the Muse of Poetry finding Burns at the plough. The former was photo graphed by Mr Moryson; the latter by Mr Mackechnie, Dumfries. To both gentlemen we have to express our indebtedness for permission to use the prints. Numerous photographs of the procession have been secured by various artists, and are on sale at the bookshops. These we have not sought to embody for excellent though most of them are, it is impossible to make a selection which would convey any adequate idea of the length and pictur esqueness of the unique parade. One remark is suggested by them. They reveal no dense crowding at any point of the route. The reason is, that the windows of shops and houses were packed with spectators, and the people in the streets kept position while the march went past. An immense number of strangers visited the town and but for panic alarums which had been raised of the possibilities of accident from swaying multitudes in narrow thorou ghfares - an ambulance corps was a part of theadvertised precautionary measu res - the number would per haps have been doubled or trebled. Even then there would have been space sufiicient for the procession to pass in perfect order. 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.