these songs embody human emotion in
its most condensed and sweetest essence. They appeal to all ranks,
they touch all ages, they cheer toil-worn men under every clime.
Wherever the English tongue is heard, beneath the suns of India, amid
African deserts, on the western prairies of America, among the
squatters of Australia, whenever men of British blood would give vent
to their deepest, kindliest, most genial feelings, it is to the songs
of Burns they spontaneously turn, and find in them at once a perfect
utterance, and a fresh tie of brotherhood. It is this which forms
Burns's most enduring claim on the world's gratitude.

INDEX (p. 209)

Adair, Dr., 76.
Addington, Mr., 69-70, 144, 171.
_Address to the Deil_, 23.
_Address to the Unco Guid_, 58, 199.
Aiken, Robert, 29.
Ainslie, Mr., 60, 72, 91.
Aird, Thomas, 194.
Alison, Rev. A., 128-129.
Alloway Kirk, 121;
Kirkyard, 16.
Alloway Mill, school at, 5.
_A Man's a Man for a' that_, 167.
Armour, Jean, 26-27, 62-63, 83-84, 85-88, 141, 160.
Armour, Mr., 26, 33, 83-84, 96.
Athole, Duchess of, 65.
Athole, Duke of, 67.
_Auld Lang Syne_, 206.
Auld Lights, The, 18.
Ayr, river, 27.

_Banks o' Doon_, 123-124, 161, 205.
_Bard's Epitaph_, the, 190.
Begbie, Ellison, 12.
Begg, Mrs. (Burns's sister), 25, 62.
Belches of Invermay, The, 75.
_Birks of Invermay, The_, 75.
Blacklock, Dr., 38, 48-49, 104.
Blair Castle, 65, 67.
Blair, Dr. H., 38, 44, 48, 50-51, 56-57.
_Bonnie Peggie Alison_, 12.
_Brigs of Ayr_, 58.
Brow, 179, 184.
Brown, Agnes (Burns's mother), 3.
_Bruar Water, Humble Petition of_, 66-67.
Bruce, Mrs., of Clackmannan, 77-78.
Bruce, Robert, 78, 157.
Burnes, James (Burns's cousin), 183.
Burness (or Burnes), William (Burns's father), 2-3, 6-7, 14-15.
Burns, Gilbert, 5, 9-12, 26, 36, 85, 99-100.
Burns, Mrs. _See_ Armour, Jean.
Burns, Robert, biographies of, 1;
birth, 2;
parentage, 2-3, 6-7, 14-15;
successive homes:
Mount Oliphant, 4-9,
Lochlea, 9-15,
Mossgiel, 15, 20, 22, 24;
school-days, 5-7;
household reading, 6-7;
early love affairs, 8-10, 12, 26-30;
youthful dissipation, 10, 13-15;
Burns as a farmer, 15-16, 20-21, 95, 98-99, 132-133;
religious controversy, 17-20;
poetic aspirations, 21;
two prolific years, 22-26;
Jean Armour, 26, 27;