WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS, WITH AN Account of his Life, CRITICISM ON HIS WRITINGS, &c. &c. AS EDITED BY JAMES CURRIE, M. D. A NEW EDITION, IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOLUME SECOND. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM Allason, No.31, NEW BOnd street, AND J. MAYNARD, panton STREET, HAYMARKET, LONDON; AND W. BLAIR, EDINBURGH. 1819. ADVERTISEMENT. IT T is impossible to dismiss this volume of the correspondence of our Bard, without some anxiety as to the reception it may meet with. The experiment we are making has not often been tried; perhaps on no occasion, has so large a portion of the recent and unpremeditated effusions of a man of genius been committed to the press. Of the following letters of Burns, a considerable number were transmitted for publication, by the individuals to whom they are addressed; but very few have been printed entire. It will easily be believed, that in a series of letters, written |