GLASGOW and SOUTH-WESTERN and MIDLAND RAILWAYS

From GLASGOW (St. Enoch),

Greenock, Ardrossan, Paisley, Ayr, Kilmarnock, Dumfries, &c., &c.,

To LONDON (St. Pancras),

DINING CARS.

And the Principal English Towns.

CORRIDOR CARRIAGES. SLEEPING CARS.

DIRECT SERVICE TO THE .

CLYDE WATERING PLACES.

THE ROUTE to the LAND O' BURNS.

The "Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon" and all the other places
made Famous in his Life's Story.

THE GOODS TRAIN SERVICE

BETWEEN

SCOTLAND and ENGLAND

Serves Newcastle, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester,
Liverpool. Birmingham, London, and England generally.

Glasgow, 1918.

DAVID COOPER,

General Manager.

CONTENTS.

Addenda to " Mrs Dunlop: Burns's Candid Friend'

Burns's Marriage in the Light of Up-to-date Evidence

Page.

5

7

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42

48

Lockhart on Crabbe and Burns-William Findlay

Death of "George Umber," the late Dr Wm. Findlay

Alexander Reid, Painter of the Burns Miniature-

John Syme and the "Cinder Libel "-Editor...

The Late Principal Denney on Burns ...

Death of Mr William White

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...

Death of a Great-Granddaughter of Robert Burns... 105

PREFACE.

ANOTHER year has passed, and still the horrors of Hun warfare afflict the civilised world. The Revolution in Russia has clouded the promising portents of the immediate past, and a further call has been made upon the patience and grim determination of Britain and her Allies to keep the flag of liberty flying till the United States of America launch their forces against the common foe to secure that lasting victory, which, though postponed, is as certain as ever.

We are glad to observe that the units of the Federation still keep moving in face of the consequent difficulties, and this has greatly heartened us in the preparation of the present issue of the Chronicle, which, we trust, will be found both interesting and instructive.

BENRIG, KILMAURS,

January 1st, 1918.

D. M'NAUGHT,