Burns Club Atlanta Burns Club of Atlanta is fifty-third in seniority among several hundred organizations recognized by the Scottish-based World Burns Federation. Officially organized on January 25, 1896, the centennial year of Robert Burns’ birth, the Burns Club of Atlanta is quite possibly the city’s oldest surviving cultural and literary society. As early as the 1870s, Burns admirers in Atlanta had been meeting in private homes and hotels to celebrate the birthday of the Scottish poet. Shortly after the club’s formation, plans were made to construct for a clubhouse an exact replica of Robert Burns' birthplace in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. Situated in the
The Month figures in English Catholicism, including John Henry Newman, whose "Dream of Gerontius" was first published in "The Month". The publisher throughout these years was Simpkin, Marshall & Co. In 1874 the "Catholic Review" was incorporated, and the title became "The Month and Catholic Review". The years 1881-1882 saw the arrival of a new editor, Richard Frederick Clarke; a new publisher, Burns & Oates (until 1912); and the simplification of the title to "The Month". The review languished somewhat in the first half of the 20th century, and publication was reduced to bimonthly in the years 1941-1946, but it revived under