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nearly forty years sojourn in Burnley and neighbourhood, was 
one of a good evolutionary kind. Other influences were brought 
about through connection with the Literary Institute, and the 
Atheneum Club held there. The latter was promoted by our 
friend and many of the younger literati of our town. 
I have left but little time to go into the genesis of our local 
poet’s work. Suffice it to say that he was full of the subject 
and became enthusiastic to a fault. The upraising of 
his craft and the uplifting of the craftsmen sent him, with his 
ardent feelings and warm imagination, into passionate and almost 
temporaneous verse. For six years this went on, a Canto for 
each year; describing with the glamour given by writers who 
have seen ‘“‘ the vision,’’ the remarkable places visited, parti- 
cularly those scenes consecrated for ever as the homes and 
haunts of the poets. Hach Canto was made up of about four 
thousand five hundred words. 
Our friend’s work was called for in America, and he visited the 
great Convention of the Craft in Washington, spending a most 
delightful week there, and among other excitements being 
received by President McKinley, in the famous Hast Room of 
the White House.” 
[His evolution went on at a rapid rate, and is still progressing, 
so that more may yet be heard from him.—Ep.] 
