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THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM M'COMB.

“I ne'er forget the little flower

That first awoke my lay.
It was in sunshine and in shower

A fragment of memory.
Flower of my lyre, I owe to thee
The heart's first throb of poesy."- Page 398.

London : HAMILTON, ADAMS, & Co. 1864. Contains-To Robert Burns, Esq., eldest son of the Poet, on the occasion of his visit to Belfast, September 4th, 1844 (page 290); Burns's seal, on receiving from his granddaughter an impression of the Poet's seal (page 242). THE POETICAL WORKS of the late Hugh Macdonald, author of

“Rambles round Glasgow,” “Days at the Coast,” etc., etc., with a Memoir of the Author.

Glasgow: ROBERT FORRESTER. 1865. Contains—The Works of Burns ; The Anniversary of Burns; To Mrs. John Thomson, (Elizabeth Burns) Daughter of Robert Burns, 25th January, 1853. (page 163). LYRICAL LAYS By Hugh M-Kenzie.

“ Weep not over Poet's wrong,

Mourn not his mischances,
Sorrow is the source of song,
And of gentle fancies."--Hedderwick.

Kilmarnock: JOHN GUTHRIE. 1866.
Contains-Burns Centenary Prize Song ; Second Poem for the Kilmarnock
Prize Medal.
MORAL PIECES, in Rhyme, Blank Verse, and Prose. By James

Strachan, Surgeon, author of "A Voyage to the Arctic Regions," “Prize Poems," etc. New and Revised Edition.

Airdrie: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1866. Contains--Acrostic on Burns, “Tam o' Shanter.' MEN OF HISTORY. By Eminent Writers. All history is but the biographies of great men.”-Carlyle.

Edinburgh: WILLIAM P. NIMMO. 1866. Contains-Kings and Conquerors, Statesmen and Orators, Philosophers and men of Science, Poets, and Dramatists, &c. “Burns,” by Carlyle. A WORKING MAN'S BYE-HOURS. Consisting of Essays, Lectures, Poems, etc. By Alexander Macansh.

Dunfermline : WILLIAM CLARK. 1866. Contains-Lines written on a blank leaf of “Currie's Life of Burns ;

A Paper on the Character of Burns, extending to 37 pages. A HAND-BOOK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Prose, Dramatic

Writers, and Poets. By William George Larkins, Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society; Fellow of the Statistical Society ;
Secretary of the Metropolitan Association for Promoting the Edu-
cation of Adults. In Two Volumes bound in one.

London : GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & Sons. 1867. Contains-Robert Burns (page 110) Second Volume. “Burns is most known by his Songs.

“The Twa Dogs,' • The Jolly Beggars,'. 'Tam o' Shanter,' and Hallowe'en,' are among the best specimens of his humorous and descriptive Poetry; and in serious composition, The Cottar's Saturday Night' is a beautiful picture of rustic home life.' A THOUSAND AND ONE GEMS OF ENGLISH POETRY.

Selected and arranged by Charles Mackay, LL.D., editor of “Gems of English Prose," Illustrated by J. E. Millais, R.A., Sir John Gilbert, A.R.A., and Birket Foster,

London : GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & Sons. 1867. Contains-Twenty-four Pieces selected from the Works of Burns—"The Muse of Scotland to Robert Burns,” etc., etc. POEMS. By John Hutcheson Millar.

Paisley : ALEX. GARDNER. 1867. Contains-Burns—“When thou did'st leave this undeserving world,

The Doric harp was laid upon thy grave.”

MONTAGUE: A DRAMA, AND OTHER POEMS. By Robert

Gemmell, author of “Sketches from Life, with occasional thoughts and Poems."

London : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co. 1868. Contains-To Robert Burns (page 130).

GLOAMIN' HOURS. By Robert Cathcart.

“ And for these words, thus woven into song,
It may be that they are a harmless wile-
The colouring of the scenes which fleet along,
Which I would seize, in passing, to beguile
My breast, or that of others, for a while.
Fame is the thirst of youth-but I am not
So young as to regard men's frown or smile
As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot,
I stood and stand alone-remembered or forgot."

Paisley : Printed at the Paisley Herald Office. 1868. Contains, The Land of our Burns (page 68). The Daughter of Burns (page 120). THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE, Volume 17. January to June, 1868.

London : SMITH, ELDER & Co. 1868. Contains—The Three Lyrists, Horace, Burns, Beranger (page 150). A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF EMINENT SCOTSMEN.

Originally edited by Robert Chambers. New Edition. Revised throughout, and continued by the Rev. Thos. Thomson, editor of

Comprehensive History of England,” &c. Illustrated by numerous authentic portraits on steel. Volume I.

Edinburgh : BLACKIE & Sons. 1868. Contains-Life of Robert Burns, and Nasmyth's Portrait of Burns, engraved by Robinson. POEMS BY THE PEOPLE, being one hundred and thirty pieces

selected from four hundred and twenty, entered in Competition for Twelve Prizes offered by the Publishers of the People's Journal, Christmas, 1868.

Edinburgh : JOHN MENZIES & Co. 1868. Contains—“Rabbie Burns,” by John Jas. Christie, 50 Rigby Street, St. Helens, Lancashire. THREE HOUSEHOLD POETS, viz., MILTON, COWPER, BURNS, with an introduction on Poetry and Song. By John Tomlinson.

London: WILLIAM FREEMAN. 1869.

CHAMBERS'S MISCELLANY OF INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING TRACTS. New and Revised Edition. Vol. I. [8vo.]

“He that runs may read.”

London and Edinburgh: W. & R. CHAMBERS. 1869. Contains-Select Poems on the Domestic Affections. “The Cottar's Saturday Night.” (Woodcut illustration.]

CHAMBERS'S MISCELLANY OF INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING TRACTS. New and Revised Edition. Vol. II. [8vo.]

“He that runs may read."

London and Edinburgh: W. & R. CHAMBERS. 1869. Contains-Select Poems on Love of Flowers. “To a Mountain Daisy," on turning one down with the plough in April, 1786.

POEMS AND SONGS, WITH LECTURES ON THE GENIUS AND

WORKS OF BURNS, and the Rev. George Gilfillan, and Letters on Dr. Dick, the Christian Philosopher, and Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions. By Peter Livingston, Dundee. Tenth Edition.

“ A wish-I mind it's power-
A wish that to my latest hour

Shall strongly heave my breast:
That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake,
Some usefu' plan or book could make,
Or sing a sang at least."

Edinburgh : MOULD & Tod. 1870. POEMS AND SONGS. By David H. Morrison, Caldervale, by Airdrie.

“Scotland : the land of all I love,

The land of all who love me,
Land whose green sod my feet have trod,
Whose sod shall lie above me."--Robert Chambers.

Airdrie : BAIRD & HAMILTON. 1870.
Contains-Poem on Burns (page 10).
LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS AND THE ENGLISH

COMIC WRITERS. By William Hazlitt, Author of “Table Talk, or Essays on Men and Manners ;' Essays on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth ;” “Characters of Shakespeare," etc., etc. A new edition. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt.

London : BELL & DALDY. 1870. Contains-Lecture 7th on Burns (page 171). POEMS, BY MATTHIAS BARR. Revised and enlarged edition.

London : CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN. 1870. Contains-A poem on Burns (pages 89 to 93). CHAMBERS'S MISCELLANY OF INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING TRACTS. New and Revised Edition. Vol. IV. [8vo.]

“He that runs may read.”

London & Edinburgh: W. & R. CHAMBERS. 1870. Contains-Select poems on kindness to animals ; “To a Mouse, on turning one up in her nest with the plough." LILIAS LEE AND OTHER POEMS. By James Ballantine, author

of The Gaberlunzie's Wallet; the Miller of Deanhaugh; Poems; Songs, &c.

Edinburgh : WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & Sons. 1871.
Contains--Ode for the Birthday of Robert Burns (page 267).
A SOLDIER'S THOUGHTS IN PROSE AND VERSE. By Thomas

Johnstone, late of the 79th Highlanders With prefatory note by
Rev. James M‘Naught, Maitland Free Church, Glasgow.

Edinburgh and Glasgow : JOHN MENZIES & Co. 1871.
Contains-Poem on Burns Centenary (page 26).
VERSES, by Ebenezer Smith.

Ayr: HENRY & GRANT. 1871. Contains-Lines on the unexpected death of Burns's sister while the public were preparing to celebrate the Bard's Centenary. POEMS AND SONGS, by Andrew Glass, Ayr. Third Edition.

Ayr: HENRY & GRANT. 1871. Contains-Musing on Burns; Burns Anniversary; and Burns Lodge, Tarbolton (pages 145, 179, 219). BALMORAL: LAYS OF THE HIGHLANDS AND OTHER POEMS. By Alex. M'Lagan.

London : BLACKIE & Son. 1871.
Contains—The Harp of Burns (page 172).
THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, with
Life of the Author.

Not without distinction did he live,
Beloved and honoured-far as he was known,
And some small portion of his eloquent speech,
And something that may serve to set in view
The feeling pleasures of his loneliness,
His observations, and the thoughts his mind
Had dealt with–I will here record.”

London: T. NELSON & Sons. 1871.
Contains-Several poems on Burns.
THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND. Chronologically arranged, with in-
troduction and notes. Second Edition.

Glasgow : ALISON & Ross. 1872. Contains-Part 3rd, Biographical Sketch of Robert Burns ; Burns's Song (pages.. 195 to 260.

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CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS; collected and re

published (first time, 1839; final, 1869). By Thomas Carlyle. In seven volumes. Vol. II. [8vo.]

London : CHAPMAN & HALL. 1872. Contains-Burns (pages 1-53). Reprinted from the Edinburgh Review, No. 96.The Life of Robert Burns, by J. G. Lockhart, LL.B., Edinburgh. 1828. LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS, with specimens of their writings.

Edinburgh: WILLIAM P. NIMMO. 1873. Contains-Portrait of Burns; Illustrations from “The Cottar's Saturday Night;” “The Poor and Honest Sodger;" Life of Burns (pages 229 to 320); Extracts from the Writings of Burns; “To a Mountain Daisy." VERSES. By Ebenezer Smith, Ayr.

Glasgow : Dunn & WRIGHT. 1874. Contains-Verses written for the Anniversary of Robert Burns. POEMS AND SONGS. By Alexander MacLachlan, with Portrait.

Toronto : HUNTER, ROSE, & Co. 1874. Contains-Poem on Robert Burns (page 38). THE RUSTIC HARP: A Collection of Poems and Songs, etc. English and Scotch. By Hugh Wilson (Cowper Spearpoint).

Bournemouth : WILSON & PARDY. 1874. Contains-Anniversary Tribute to Scotia's Bard-in-Chief (page 71). CENTENARY EDITION:COMPLETE SONGS AND POEMS of

Robert Tannahill, with Life and Notes ; also a History of the Tannahill Club, with an Account of the Celebration on 3rd June, 1874.

Paisley : WILLIAM Wilson. 1874. Contains-Vignette Portrait of Tannahill, The House where he was born. Ode written for and read at the Celebration of Robert Burns's Birthday, by the Paisley Burns Club, 1805. Ode-Celebration Burns Birthday. Ode-Celebration Burns Birthday, 1810. THE BALLADS AND SONGS OF SCOTLAND. In view of their

influence on the character of the People. By John Clark Murray,
LL.D., Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in M‘Gill
College, Montreal. Author of "An Outline of Sir William Hamil-
ton's Philosophy

Songs of my native land to me how dear,
Songs of my infancy, sweet to my ear,
Entwined with my youthful days,
Wi' the bonny banks and braes, where the
Winding burnie strays, murmuring near.

-The Baroness Nairne.

London : MACMILLAN & Co. 1874. TROON AND DUNDONALD, WITH THEIR SURROUNDINGS ; LOCAL AND HISTORICAL. By the Rev. J. Kirkwood, Troon.

Kilmarnock: M‘KIE & DRENNAN. 1875. Contains-Memories of Burns (page 69), Burns Monument (page 9-34), Burns quoted (pages 40, 49, 50, 61). EMINENT ENGLISH WRITERS, with a brief account of their Works. By William Lowson, St. Mark's College, Chelsea, S.W.

Edinburgh : WILLIAM COLLINS, Sons, & COMPANY. 1875.
Contains-Biographical Sketch of Robert Burns (pages 137 to 144).
THE PRINTERS' CARNIVAL AND OTHER POEMS. By James
Kelly.

“Some rhyme a neighbour's name to lash,
Some rhyme (vain thought) for needfu' cash,
Some rhyme to court the country clash,

And raise a din;
For me, an aim I never fash-
I rhyme for fun.”- Burns.

Airdrie : LOVE & DUNCAN. 1875.
Contains-Poem : Burns (page 115).
THE POETICAL AND PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WELSH.
A Peeblesshire Cottar; a New and Enlarged Edition.

Edinburgh : Mould & Tod. 1875. Contains-Centenary Anniversary of Robert Burns (page 111).

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POEMS AND BALLADS. By James R. Ferguson.

Edinburgh and London : WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & Sons. 1876. Contains-Lines suggested by Burns's Epistle to the Guidwife of Wauchope House (page 94). On looking at a Picture of Tam o' Shanter, by Cooper (page 97). Song on thc Centenary of Robert Burns, 25th January, 1859 (page 100). Another Song on the same. SCOTLAND AND THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE. An Address delivered

in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's Day, 1875. By the Hon. Jefferson Davis.

Glasgow : ANDERSON & MACKAY. 1876. MEN WHO HAVE MADE THEMSELVES. Whence they started, How they journeyed, What they reached. With illustrations.

London : JAMES BLACKWOOD & Co. 1876. Contains—Robert Burns, the Poet of the World. PATERSON'S GUIDE TO GLASGOW, THE CLYDE, AND THE LAND OF BURNS.

Edinburgh : WILLIAM PATERSON. 1876. ENGLISH SCHOOL CLASSICS. Poems selected from the Works of

Robert Burns. Edited, with Life of the Author, Notes and
Glossary, by Alexander M. Bell, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford.

London : RIVINGTONS. 1876. Contains—Bust of Burns on cover and title-page; Wood-cut illustrations ; Burns's Cottage; Alloway Kirk; The Auld Brig o' Doon. Places Noticed :-Kilmarnock, Mauchline, Dalrymple, Tarbolton, Sanquhar, Ellisland, Dumfries. POEMS AND SONGS, by Wm. M‘Hutchison, Airdrie. Enlarged Edition.

Airdrie : BAIRD & HAMILTON, Advertiser Office. 1877. Contains-Burns, Scotland's Bard (page 204). THE BORDER PULPIT, being a series of Sketches of a number of

sters of various denominations in Border Counties of past and present times, with an introduction on the church of the future. By David Walker, author of “The Celebrities of the Fife Pulpit.”

Edinburgh : PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1877. Contains-Sketch of the Rev. Thomas Blacklock, D.D., the friend of Robert Burns. THE COURTSHIP AND WEDDING O' JOCK O' THE KNOWE. By Robert W. Thom. [8vo.] Price ls.

Glasgow: W. PORTEOUS & Co. 1877. Contains-Forty-two lines on Burns (pp. 57-58). MACMILLAN'S READING BOOKS. Book VI. (Standard VI. and higher classes.) [12mo.]

London : MACMILLAN & Co. 1878.
Contains-Selections in prose and verse from Burns's Works (pages 209-222).
The character of Burns, by Thomas Carlyle (pages 342-346).
BOOK OF SCOTTISH POEMS, Ancient and Modern. Edited, with
Memoirs of the Authors, by J. Ross.

“O deem not, midst this worldly strife,
An idle art the poet brings;
Let high philosophy control
And sages calm the stream of life,
"Tis he refines its fountain springs
The nobler passions of the soul.”—Campbell.

Edinburgh : THE EDINBURGH PUBLISHING Co. ,1878. Contains-Memoir of Robert Burns, with Selections from his Poems and Songs ; The Twa Dogs; The Jolly Beggars; To a Haggis ; A Winter Night; Epistle to James Smith; Address to the Deil; Afton Water; The Birks of Aberfeldy; Wandering Willie ; A'e Fond Kiss. POEMS AND SONGS. By Andrew Glass, Ayr. Author of “Tales and Traditions of Scotland."

Ayr: Hugh HENRY. 1878. Contains—Músings on Burns; Burns's Anniversary; Burns' Lodge, Tarbolton (pages 139-166, and 204).