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Title: The complete works of Robert Burns (self-interpreting)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 Smith, Alexander, 1830-1867 Gebbie, George Hunter, James
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Gebbie & Co.
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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Willie brewed a peck 0 Maut; Whatcan a Young Lassie do wi? an Auld Man ? Aefond kiss, and thenwe sever; Ye Banks and Braes o bonny Doon; Flow gentlysweet Afton; Comin through the Rye; My Peggy s face, my Peggysform; Duncan Grey; A mans a man for a1 that; Scots wha haewi Wallace bled; The Lass 0 Ballochmyle; Logan Braes; Con-tented wi little; My Love shes but a lassie yet, Sec, &c, &c. ;indeed they are all gems. Besides those songs which he gaveaway, he had on hand, Poems, The folly Beggars; The Lin-cluden Vision and Song of Liberty ; Holy Willies Prayer; Na-tures Law; The Twa Herds; The Kirks Alarm; Elegy onMiss Burnett; Address to Beelzebub; Epistles to High Parkerandf. Lapraik ; Mary Morison ; Address to the Toothache ; Cale-donia, &c, and Songs, Epistles, Epigrams, and Epitaphs ingreat abundance ; and yet, with all this literary wealth onhand, he made not an effort, neither did his friends counselhim, to turn it to commercial account. * See page 297, Vol. IV. \s o> $
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THE LITERARY FAME OF BURNS. 313 In the days of Burns, the copyright law gave the authorprotection, on exclusive profits on his works, for onty fourteenyears, which, compared with the law in our times, which givesforty-two years, makes the consideration of value to Burnsless worth looking at in his time than it would be now; buthe could certainly have published two volumes of new pieces,double the bulk of what had already appeared ; and, had hetried, he no doubt could have found a liberal publisher. But he died so young, and so unexpectedly,* that we haveonly to proceed to notice the principal editions of his workspublished after his decease. (6.) Dr. George Gilfillan says: Dr. Currie.f who undertook,for the benefit of the poets family, the editorship of hisworks, deserves the praise and the gratitude of all lovers ofour bard. Curries Life of Burns is admirable. He wentfrom Liverpool, where he resided, to Dumfries, immediatelyafter the poets death, and amid all sorts of contradictory a

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