THE BYRON CENTENARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18771, 26 July 1924, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE BYRON CENTENARY.

STATESMEN'S j APPRECIATION. •]■■ -.''"Jta- a; speech iat to comment-' ; oriate the Byron Mr. Stanley ii Baldwin, ex-Prime wh() presided, ■•_"-■ said, that what appealed; to him most ■!j was the thought of Byron!|§,s.a great i arid j; pisrsisteht workman. - He jjworked at his ■■/ great profession of letterij as; an artist muiifc ;work if he were to (leave" hjsmark on doming generations,-•■.^|'■/■'';■.."' •* l| t Lord Birnlej; who as Mr. iPr£ithero edited : j&vwm's letters, brought another ex<Pririie r . . Minister to the appreciation of Byron. . ..Whieh Mr. Lloyd George had been asked .;'' ;;Jo be present he had siaid; \"I r think :|'l "srili- _ The. two poets of; whom I rend j ii most in my youth, were Milton arid .Byron. .Can you; explain] why ?''- The .; answer was obvious, and liJßsafd, "Milton appealed to thji; Puritanli in vou, and .;•. ; Byron to .the 0;lc{ : "tea," Mr. Lloyd George replied,\."th«|"o isisomething in that; I did read a, greoi deal more of ': Byron." ' ,' "-., ,i / '■ '. , The ..Greek Minister, alluding to the enthusiasm and gratitudej; of the Cireek people, said that to them IByron was not dead and would never, di'|. Indeed, a crowded congregation attended a Byron : ... memorial service; at the Gjreek Cafhedral V Church at Bayswater.--* if.;