started The Gentlemen and Ladies' Magazine, which he soon abandoned for The Weekly Review. He now left the Abbey, and began to write for the booksellers. He edited The Weekly Mirror; wrote A System of Geography; A History of Edinburgh; A Geographical, Historical, and Com of Dr Aitken's Theory of Inflammation; Remarks on Pinkerton's History of Scotland; A Poetical Translation of Virgil's Eclogues; A General Index to the Scots Magazine; and A System of Chemistry. He also assisted in the preparation of Bell's Anatomy; contributed to the medical and other periodicals; and third editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica, for which he also acted as reader. this eccentric genius almost as much as his contemporaries, for his name does not appear in the chief records of literary history, where many to whom literature is less indebted have a place. The following additional particulars regarding him are contracted from Cromek's Select Scotish Songs:James Tytler was the son of a clergy-mercial Grammar, in 2 vols. ; A Review man in the Presbytery of Brechin. He was instructed by his father in Greek and Latin, and divinity. Having finished his education, he was apprenticed to a surgeon in Forfar, and he afterwards attended the medical classes in Edinburgh University, where he studied chemistry and controversial theology with equal assiduity. Having and was principal editor of the second argued away his Calvinistic orthodoxy, | he joined the Glassites, married into the sect, and set up in Leith as an apothecary, where, not being patronised by his co-religionists, as he seemed to think he should have been, he separated from his wife and his sect at the same time. Having got into debt, he removed to Berwick, and afterwards to Newcastle. In 1772, he returned to Edinburgh in great poverty; and, on account of his previous indebtedness, had to seek the shelter of the Holyrood Sanctuary, where he solaced himself by writing "The Pleasures of the Abbey," his first poem. In this retreat he also composed Essays on Natural and Revealed Religion, setting them in type instead of committing them to writing, and printing them on a press of his own construction. Before finishing his essays, he attacked the sect called the Bereans, in a “Letter to Mr John Barclay on the Doctrine of Assurance." He next Besides these herculean literary labours, he was constantly experimenting in chemistry, electricity, and mechanics. He invented a process for manufacturing magnesia, and was the first in Scotland who ventured up in a balloon. He was also a musician, and solaced himself with playing upon the Irish bagpipe, accompanying the music with songs of his own composition. He at last took to politics, and wrote A Handbill addressed to the People, for which he incurred the displeasure of the Government, who issued a warrant for his apprehension. He therefore left the country, and went to America. Having taken up his residence in Salem, Massachusetts, he established a newspaper in conjunction with a printer, and continued in connection with it till his death in 1805. Cromek acknowledges his indebtedness to Dr Anderson, the editor of the British Poets, for information regarding Tytler. THE BONNIE BRUCKET LASSIE. The bonnie brucket lassie, She's blue beneath the een; She was the fairest lassie That danced on the green, A lad he lo'ed her dearly; She did his love return: But he his vows has broken, And left her for to mourn. My shape, she says, was handsome, My person it was comely; My shape, they said, was neat ; O could I live in darkness, Her lover heard her mourning, I HAE LAID A HERRING IN SAUT I hae laid a herring in saut Lass, gin ye lo'e me, tell me now; I hae brew'd a forpit o' maut, And I canna come ilka day to woo : I hae a calf that will soon be a cow- I hae a stook, and I'll soon hae a mowe, I hae a house upon yon moor Lass, gin ye lo'e me, tell me now; Three sparrows may dance upon the floor, And I canna come ilka day to woo : I hae a but, and I hae a ben- Lass, gin ye lo'e me, tell me now : A penny to keep, and a penny to spen', And I canna come ilka day to woo : I hae a hen wi' a happitie-leg Lass, gin ye lo'e me, tell me now; That ilka day lays me an egg, And I canna come ilka day to woo : I hae a cheese upon my shelf Lass, gin ye lo'e me, tell me nowAnd soon wi' mites t'will rin itself, And I canna come ilka day to woo. LADY ANNE BARNAR D. 1750-1825. LADY ANNE LINDSAY (for that was Lady Barnard's name for more than twenty years after she wrote the beautiful ballad song of “Auld Robin Gray") was the eldest daughter of the fifth Earl of Balcarras. She was born on the 8th December 1750, at Balcarras, in Fifeshire. Her education was in keeping with her social position, and her talents maintained the character of the family to which she belonged. Her father died in 1768, and she soon after left Balcarras to reside in Edinburgh with her mother, where she mixed in the literary society for which the northern capital was then so distinguished. She afterwards joined her sister Lady Fordyce, in London, and became acquainted with many of the leading literary and political men of the time,-Burke, Sheridan, Dundas, and Wyndham, being among the number of her acquaintances. In 1793, she married Andrew Barnard, Esquire, son of the Bishop of Limerick, whom she accompanied to the Cape of Good Hope, on his appointment as secretary under Lord Macartney, governor of that colony. Mr Barnard died at the Cape in 1807, and Lady Barnard returned to London, and again took up her residence with her sister. In 1812, the latter re-married, and Lady Barnard continued to reside in Berkeley Square, where she died on the 6th May 1825. Her authorship of "Auld Robin Gray," though it was written in her twenty-first year, she kept a secret till within two years of her death, when she informed Sir Walter Scott of the circumstances out of which it arose. She was passionately fond of the old Scottish air, "The Bridegroom greits when the sun gaes down," the words of which were indelicate; so she determined to compose something more worthy of her favourite melody. Robin Gray was the name of an old shepherd at Balcarras, with whom she and the rest ofthe family were familiar when they were children. When in the act of writing it, a younger sister came into her room, and she informed her that she was writing a ballad, at the same time enumerating the four misfortunes to which she subjected the heroine, and asking her to suggest a fifth. "Steal the cow, Anne," said Elizabeth; and this was at once done. It was long sung to the old Scottish air for which it was composed; but the present beautiful melody, to which it is set, was composed by the Rev. William Leeves, an English clergyman. Lady Barnard wrote a considerable number of other pieces, of which it was at one time thought to publish a selection; but the idea was abandoned. Some sketches of her youthful'friends and surroundings are included in Lord Lindsay's Lives of the Lindsays. AULD ROBIN GRAY. PART I. My faither urged me sair, my mither didna speak, But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break; When the sheep are in the fauld and the They gied him my hand-my heart was kye's a' at hame, And a' the warld to rest are gane, The woes o' my heart fa' in showers frae my ee, in the sea; And so Robin Gray he was gudeman to me. Unkent by my gudeman, wha sleeps I hadna been his wife a week but only sound by me. But saving a crown, he had naething else beside; To make the crown a pound, my Jamie Till he said, "I'm come hame, love, to gaed to sea, And the crown and the pound, they were baith for me. marry thee." Oh! sair, sair did we greet, and mickle say of a'; awa'; He hadna been gane a twelvemonth and I gied him a kiss, and bade him gang a day, When my faither brake his arm, and the I wished that I were dead, but I'm nae like to dee: cow was stown away; My mither she fell sick-my Jamie at the For tho' my heart is broken, I'm young, Or why am I spared to cry, Wae is For wae looks the sun when he shines upon |