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PRINTED BY PUIJLl.SHED BY THE BURNS FEDERATION, J. MAXWELL & SON, KILMARNOCK. DUMFRIES. CONTENTS. PAGE. A Sketch of Scottish Literature from the Earliest Times -Wm. M'llwraith 5 Burns on Peace and War-Andrew M'Callum 33 The Home Life of Burns-John M. Murdoch 52 . Burns and " Tullochgorum "-J. M. Murdoch 58 Woman's Praise of Burns-A. C. White 67 The Politics of Burns-Edward Pinnington - 75 , I Burns and Boswell-H. J. S. 96 The Scottish Exhibition 103 Burns and Jamaica-J. R. - - 107 Reviews - 109 Club Notes - - 112 . Notes and Queries - 129 Annual Meeting of Federation - i.48 Club Directory - 157 PREFACE. THE increasing interest taken in the Chronicle by Burns Clubs everywhere is a great encouragement to all concerned in its publication~ While its circulation amongst the general public is still well maintained, it must ever be kept in view that its continued success depends primarily on the support it receives from those to whom it specially appeals as the only official organ of the Burns Cult in existence. To all who have assisted in this issu~ the Editor presents his most grateful thanks. lD. M'NAUGHT. BENRIG, KILl\iAURS, December 25th, 1911. A SKETCH OF SCOTTISH LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. CHAPTER VIII EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. HIS sketch of Scottish literature and Scottish writers T might have concluded with the preceding chapter, for, with the exception of Alexander Wilson and Carolina Qliphant, it contains no writer of any extraordinary merit. It certainly contains no epoch writer who has influenced the destinies of the national literature in any other direction than that in which the tendency had already been determined. By itself considered, the rise and growth of Scottish literatur0 is almost as remarkable a historical phenomenon as the rise and growth of Scottish philosophy, which has already been noticed in the course of this sketch. Like Scottish philo­ sophy, too, in the process of national development it has not been without influence on British literature in general. The principal distinction between the two, however, is that Scottish philosophy has made itself felt in a more marked degree beyond the confines of Great Britain; but without further generalisation I shall. proceed to deal with. the few remaining writers and poetasters who followed in the wake of Bums. One of the first names which. falls to be mentioned here is that of Gavin Turnbull. The exact date of his birth and death cannot be given, but he first became known to the 6 publi ~ as an author in 1788. He was the son of a dyester from Hawick, and .was born at Kilmarnock, where he was apprenticed to the trade of a carpet weaver. From want 0£ inclination rather than capacity he does not seem to have become p~oficient in his trade, and rather than exert himself to improve his position, he lived in the meanest fashion, without furniture or any domestic comforts, content to squat on a bed of straw. He was not naturally idle, for he had a large store of intellectual energy, but spent too much time in writing verses, and studying and reciting Shakespeare, which ultimately induced a passion for the stage. In course ., of time he moved with the rest of his family from Kilmarnock to Glasgow, where, in 1788, he published a volume of poetical 'I .essays, which has long disappeared past recall. , I If report is correct, the loss may be deemed a misfortune, 1 •' i for the work had the reputation of being of more than ordinary I• mE-rit. It is not certain whether Turnbull came to realise 11:,,,, I that a casual litterateur in anything but the first ranks was but a lean and hungry profession, but it ended by his going n 'i -0n the stage to disport himself behind the footlights.