INTERESTING PAPERS

ON AN INTERESTING SUBJECT

EDITED BY

JOHN D. ROSS

Author of "Scottish Poets in America,"
And Editor of

"Celebrated Songs of Scotland," "Round Burns' Grave,'
"Burnsiana," etc., etc.

"She died. He too is dead,
Of all her girlish graces

Perhaps one nameless lock remains ;
The rest stern time effaces.
Dust lost in dust. Not so, a bloom
Is her's which ne'er can wither;
And in that lay which lives for aye,
The twain live on together."

ALEXANDER GARDNER
Publisher to Her Majesty the Queen

PAISLEY; AND 26 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

MAR 13 1941

Dexter Fund

"She has entered on an immortality more beautiful than Beatrice's or Laura's, in which respect neither complaint as against Burns, nor sorrow as for her should ever be obtruded on the world. It is enough for Mary and for mankind that Burns once loved her."-Rev. Dr. Hately Waddell.

Dedicated to

DUNCAN MACGREGOR CRERAR, ESQ.,

OF NEW YORK,

A NATIVE OF AMULREE, BREADALBANE, PERTHSHIRE ;

A POET OF TRUE MERIT;

AND WHO WAS THE EFFICIENT AND HIGHLY ESTEEMED SECRETARY

OF THE

NEW YORK BURNS SOCIETY,

FOR NEARLY A QUARTER OF A CENTURY.