edited by Robert Chambers, 4 vols., Edinburgh, 1851-52"; Library edition, Edinburgh, 1856-57 ; new edition revised by William Wallace, 4 vols., Edinburgh, 1896 [the poems and letters are interspersed in the narrative of the life]; "The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, edited by Alexander Smith, 2 vols., London, 1865”; “Life and Works of Robert Burns, edited by P. Hately Waddell, Glasgow, 1867"; "The Works of Robert Burns, edited by W. Scott Douglas, Edinburgh, 1877-79"; "The National Burns, edited by Rev. George Gilfillan, 1879-80"; "The Poems of Robert Burns, edited by Andrew Lang, assisted by W. A. Craigie, London, 1896"; "The Poetry of Robert Burns, edited by W. E. Henley and T. F. Henderson [eclectic text with various readings, notes on origins, metres, etc.], Edinburgh, 1896-97"; "Songs of Robert Burns, edited by James C. Dick, 1903." BIOGRAPHIES, ESSAYS, CRITICISMS, ETC., OF SPECIAL INTEREST Mrs. Maria Riddell's account of Burns, written shortly after his death, and included in most of the later editions of the poet's works; Robert Heron's Memoir of Burns, Edinburgh, 1797 [founded partly on personal knowledge]; Currie's account, in his edition of The Works of Robert Burns, 1800, and the further particulars by Gilbert Burns in the eighth edition, 1820; Josiah Walker's Account [partly from personal knowledge] in Works of Robert Burns, 1811; Wordsworth's Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns, 1816; Hazlitt's Lecture in Lectures on the English Poets, 1818; J. Gibson Lockhart's Life of Burns, Edinburgh, 1828; The review of Lockhart's Life of Burns, by Thomas Carlyle in the Edinburgh Review, reprinted in Carlyle's Essays; Carlyle's Lecture on the Hero as Man of Letters, published in his Heroes and Hero-Worship; Alexander Cunningham's Life in his Works of Robert Burns, 1834; Robert Chambers' statements in his Works of Robert Burns, and especially the summary of his career in the concluding chapter, with which may be compared the Essay by William Wallace in the later edition; Professor Nichol's Short Summary of his Career and Genius, Edinburgh, 1882; Andrew Lang's Letter in his Letters to Dead Authors; Matthew Arnold's Criticism in Essays and Criticism, second series; R. L. Stevenson's Essay in Familiar Studies of Men and Books; Leslie Stephen's Life in the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. vii.; Essays by James Logie Robertson in In Scottish Fields, Edinburgh, 1890, and Furth in Field, Edinburgh, 1894; Auguste Angellier's Robert Burns: La Vie et les Œuvres, Paris, 1893; Professor William Minto's Criticism in Literature of the Georgian Era, Edinburgh, 1894; Burns in the " English Men of Letters" series by J. Campbell Shairp, in the "Great Writers series by John Stuart Blackie, and in the "Famous Scots" series by Gabriel Setoun; Lord Rosebery's Robert Burns: Two Addresses, etc., Edinburgh, 1896; Robert Burns [by George Douglas Brown] in Blackwood's Magazine for August 1896; W. E. Henley's "Burns: his Life, Genius, and Achievement," in vol. iv. of the Poetry of Robert Burns, Edinburgh, 1897, and published separately, Edinburgh, 1898; Max Mayerfeld's Robert Burns: Studien Su seiner dichterischen Entwicklung, Berlin, 1899; and Otto Ritter's Quellenstudien zu Robert Burns, 1773-91, Berlin, 1901. and mer INDEX "Address to the De'il," 15, 63. to the Unco' Guid," 116. Aiken, Robert, mutilates the "paper," 75; assistance in Alloway, 8. Armour, Jean, the poet's courtship of, 69; irregular marr- Arnot, John, letter to, 75. Auld, Rev. William, and marriage, 74; treatment of Burns, Begbie, Elison, 32. Begg, Mrs., sister of Burns, quoted, 22, 69. Bibliography, 191. "Birks of Aberfeldy," the, 123. Blacklock, Dr., 96, 97. Blair, Dr. Hugh, Burns on, 101; on Burns, 169. Brice, David, letter to, 82, 85. Broun, Agnes, mother of the poet, 2, 3. Brown, Richard, influence on Burns, 36. Burnes, William, the poet's father, settles in Ayrshire, 5; Burns, Gilbert, the poet's brother, quoted, 4, 12, 25, 58, |