Finally, it must be insisted again, in that aspect in which he is most nearly supreme, the writing of songs, he is musician as well as poet. Though he made no tunes, he saved hundreds; saved them not merely for the antiquary and the connoisseur but for the great mass of lovers of sweet and simple melody; saved them by marrying them to fit and immortal words. It is for this most of all that Scotland and the world love Burns.
_A Man's a Man for a' That_, quoted 158, 317.
_Address to the Deil_, 38, 86, 281, quoted 282.
_Address to the Unco Guid_, 38, quoted 176, 189.
Armour, Jean, 35-39, 50, 55, 93, 110, 122, 172.
_Bessy and Her Spinnin'-Wheel_, quoted 145.
Burns, Robert, his career: autobiographical letter, 1-2; parentage and early life, 3-23; schooling, 5-8, 15, 17; reading, 6-8, 18-19; study of French, 16; folk-lore, 18; overwork, 19; first song, 20; flax-dressing, 23; early love-affairs, 22, 27; Mossgiel, 31-44; Elizabeth Paton, 32-35; Jean Armour, 35-36; Mary Campbell (Highland Mary), 36-37; West Indian project, 37-39; Elizabeth Miller, 37; Kilmarnock edition, 37-38; disciplined by the church, 38-39; Edinburgh, 44-56; early reviews, 46; Edinburgh edition, 46-50; southern tour, 50; Highland tours, 50-51; Mrs. McLehose, 52-58; marriage, 55; Ellisland, 53-62; Excise, 61-65; Dumfries, 62-68; politics, 63-65; work for Johnson and Thomson, 65-66, 91-98; whisky, 66-67, 313; illness and death, 66-67.
Burns's method of composition, 87, 92, 111-112.
Campbell, Mary, 36-37, 76, 112. See Highland Mary.
_Come Boat Me O'er to Charlie_, quoted 163.
_Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie_, 80, 82.
_Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson_, quoted 298.
_Epistle to a Young Friend_, 199, quoted 200.
Fergusson, Robert, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 316.
_Go Fetch to me a Pint o' Wine_, quoted 88.
_Halloween_, 38, 208, quoted 209, 217, 218, 223, 270, 282.
_Handsome Nell_: quoted 20; criticized by Burns, 21-22, 103.
_I'm Owre Young to Marry Yet_, quoted 143.
_It Was a' for our Rightfu' King_, quoted 162.
_Lassie wi' the Lint-white Locks_, quoted 119.
Moore, Dr. John: 5; letter to, 1-2, 18, 83.
_My Heart's in the Highlands_, quoted 140.
_My Love She's but a Lassie Yet_, 141, quoted 144.
_My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose_, 101, quoted 102.