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LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS.

Mostly by

THOMAS CARLYLE.







New York:
Delisser & Procter, 508 Broadway.
1859.




EDITOR'S PREFACE.


The readers of the "Household Library" will certainly welcome a Life of
Burns. That his soul was of the real heroic stamp, no one who is familiar
with his imperishable lyric poetry, will deny.

This Life of the great Scottish bard is composed of two parts. The