WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS, WITH AN Account of his Life, CRITICISM ON HIS WRITINGS, &c. &c. PRINTED FOR WILLIAM ALLASON, NO.31, NEW BOND STREET, AND J. MAYNARD, PANTON STREET, HAYMARKET, LONDON; AND W. BLAIR, EDINBURGH. · 1819. PREFACE. THE first and principal part of the ensuing volume, consists of the correspondence between Mr Burns and Mr Thomson, on the subject of the beautiful work projected and executed by the latter, the nature of which is explained in the first number of the following series*. The undertaking of Mr. Thomson is one on which the public may be congratulated in various points of view; not merely *This work is entitled, "A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice; to which are added, introductory and concluding Symphonies and Accompaniments for the Piano Forte and Violin, by Pleyel and Kozeluch. With select and characteristic Verses by the most admired Scottish Poets, &c."-London, Printed and Sold by PRESTON, No. 97, Strand. -(1800.) |