Contents.
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- Preface, pp.5-6.
- The Bard’s Boyhood or Burns & Jenny Wilson, p.13.
- The Poet’s Youth, p.14.
- Burns and his Brother Gilbert, p.14.
- A Father’s Prophecy, p.15.
- A Schoolboy’s Toast, p.15.
- Mr. Murdoch’s Opinion of his Pupils, p.16.
- Skill in Debate, pp.16-17.
- Burns and his Books, pp.17-18.
- Burns’s Tenderness of Heart, pp.18-19.
- His First Song, pp.19-20.
- Burns and Nature, p.20.
- Burns and his Passions, p.20.
- Burns Escapes Correction from his Father, p.21.
- “Ae Road to Heaven,” pp.21-22.
- Tarbolton Club Rule, pp.22-23.
- Burns’s Dancing Master, p.23.
- Burns at Irvine, pp.23-24.
- First Meeting of Burns and Jean Armour, p.24.
- Burns and Bonnie Jean, pp.24-25.
- Burns at a Knitting Class, pp.25-26.
- Burns as a Musician, p.26.
- Burns at his Father’s Death-bed, pp.26-27.
- Gallantry of Burns, pp.27-28.
- Sillar’s Description of the Poet, pp.28-29.
- A Monsieur de Trop, p.29.
- “Death and Dr. Hornbook,” pp.30-31.
- Burns as a Carter, pp.31-32.
- Indiscriminate Courtship, pp.32-33.
- A Mauchline Merchant, p.33.
- The Awfu’est Body, pp.33-34.
- Robert and Gilbert, p.34.
- A Compliment, p.35.
- “Man was Made to Mourn,” pp.35-36.
- Burns’s Home at Mossgiel, p.37.
- The Origin of Tam o’ Shanter, pp.37-38.
- A Contemporary of Burns, p.38.
- The Auld Licht and the New Licht, p.39.
- Burns and McNab the Fiddler, pp.39-40.
- Burns and the Clergy, p.40.
- Singing versus Preaching, p.40.
- Popularity of his Poems, p.41.
- Reading Burns on the Sabbath, p.41.
- Burns as a Story Teller, pp.41-42.
- Burns at Nance Tannock’s, pp.42-43.
- Two Point of Observation, p.44.
- Song or Sermon, pp.44-45.
- A Bright One, pp.45-46.
- Burns as a Volunteer, p.46.
- Burns as a Theologian, p.46.
- Burying the Deil, pp.46-47.
- Parting with Highland Mary, pp.47-48.
- His Gude and Ill, p.48.
- Burns at Glenconner, pp.48-49.
- “Praying all Night,” p.49.
- The Minister’s Man, pp.49-50.
- Burns amongst the Printers, pp.50-51.
- Burns’s Stool, pp.51-52.
- Burns and the Minister, pp.52-53.
- Burns as Spunkie, p.53.
- Love of Praise, p.53.
- The Best Judge, pp.53-54.
- At Covington Mains, pp.54-55.
- “Stop an’ Haud the Stirrup,” pp.55-56.
- Burns and the Currie Schoolmaster, pp.56-57.
- Scott and Burns, pp.57-58.
- Guilty Sinners, p.58.
- Wine and Wit, pp.58-59.
- Burns on True Manhood, p.59.
- An Injudicious Reply, pp.59-60.
- A Single Word, pp.60-61.
- A Profound Blockhead, p.61.
- The Learned Pig, pp.61-62.
- Hearing the Evidence, p.62.
- Outside and Inside, pp.62-63.
- Carried off her Feet, p.63.
- Burns on the Aristocracy, pp.63-64.
- The Beautiful Miss Burnet, p.64.
- Weft and Woof, p.64.
- A Braying Ass, p.65.
- Look! Look!, p.65.
- Cottar’s Saturday Night, pp.65-66.
- Burns and the Bishop, pp.66-68.
- First Book, like a First Bairn, p.68.
- Love for his Native Country, p.69.
- Burns at Brownhill Inn, pp.69-70.
- Burns at Roslin, p.70.
- Burns at Lochmaben Manse, pp.70-71.
- Burns’s Contempt for Ostentatious Display, pp.71-72.
- Admiration, p.72.
- Burns Priest-ridden for Once, p.73.
- Sarcasm of Burns, p.73.
- Burns Cut by a Doctor, p.74.
- Burns and the French Language, pp.74-75.
- The Home-coming to Ellisland, p.75.
- Howlet Face, p.76.
- Sir Egerton Brydges Interviews Burns, pp.77-78.
- To Mary in Heaven, p.78.
- Praying versus Fitches, p.79.
- The Blacksmith of Roads, p.79.
- The Sacrifice of the Tappit-Hen, p.80.
- Burns’s Aptness in Quoting Scripture, pp.80-81.
- Burns and Miss Deborah Davies, p.81.
- The Waiter and his Sweetheart, pp.81-82.
- Strength and Activity of Burns, pp.82-83.
- Burns’s Habit of Reading, p.83.
- Burns in Dumfries, p.83.
- Burns’s House in Dumfries, p.84.
- Burns Amongst his Family, p.84.
- Burns and the Education of his Children, p.85.
- Burns and the Dumfries Library, p.86.
- Burns and the Soldier, pp.86-87.
- Humanity of Burns, p.87.
- The Threading of the Needle, pp.87-88.
- Burns and the Astrologer, pp.88-89.
- A Black Character, pp.89-90.
- The Solemn League and Covenant, p.90.
- Tipplin’ Jamie Quin, pp.90-91.
- Thoughtful for Others, p.91.
- The Muckle Black Kist, p.92.
- “Kate are you Mad?”, pp.92-93.
- Kindly Consideration, p.93.
- Burns’s Dislike of Soldiers, p.94.
- The Poet Pentitent, pp.94-95.
- A Contrite Heart; or Burns a Praying Man, p.95.
- Burns at Ryedale; Death in the Cup, p.96.
- Road to Ruin, p.96.
- An Epitaph, p.97.
- A Nine Hours’ Sitting, pp.97-98.
- The Shady Side of the Street, pp.98-99.
- The Poet’s Pride, p.99.
- Burns and the Paraphrases, pp.99-100.
- “A Slice of his Constitution,” p.100.
- “Watty and Meg,” pp.100-101.
- Burns and Punning, p.101.
- Coat and Waistcoat, p.101.
- The Deil in his Pouch, p.102.
- Nearing the End, pp.102-103.
- The Grave of Burns, p.103.
- Emerson on Burns, pp.104-105.
- A Relic, pp.105-106.
- Hew Ainslie and “Bonnie Jean,” pp.106-107.
- “Bonnie Jean,” pp.108.
- Grave of Burns’s Father in Alloway Kirkyard, pp.109.
- Clarinda, pp.109-110.
- “Lassie wi’ the Lint White Locks,” pp.110-111.
- Burns’s Blue-eyed Lassie, p.111.
- Miss Annie Stewart Cunningham, pp.112-113.
- Rev. John Russell – “Black Jock,” p.113.
- The Heroine of Willie Wastle, p.114.
- Lines to a Mountain Daisy, pp.114-115.
- Wee Bobby Burns, p.115.
- Burns at the Plough, p.116.
- A Clergyman’s Story, pp.116-117.
- Burns and the Hindoos, p.117.
- Who’s “Wah Hay?,” pp.117-118.
- “An’ then he Made the Lasses, O!,” p.118.
- A Snuff-box, pp.118-119.
- Pate McPhun at the Festival, pp.119-120.
- He did not Know Burns, pp.120-121.
- Charles Lamb and Burns, p.121.
- Burns and Fergusson, pp.121-122.
- David Sillar, p.122.
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