The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-26 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

est.
7he Poetical Works of Burns. Edited by the v
--09.
Robert Aris Wilmott. One Vol., pp. 2"

George Routledge and Sons. knolf
Numerous as are the editions of Burns, We - 4.1,0
of no more beautiful little pocket-edition than 0
one recently published (at a ridiculously small Prie
by the Messrs. Routledge. It is at once a 13°ni,
Lci
and a bijou—a casket of literary pearls, Pril3o
in ruby type. Turning over these lovely °it
familiar songs and ballads of Robin Burns-313' a
true-born National Poet if ever there was one re
Poet who must ever be for Scotland what INl°°for
will be perennially for Ireland, and Beranger is
France, and Schiller for Germany—we look in .1,0,
for what we certainly had imagined to be Dines
and none other than Burns's, that world-faillto
love ditty (whose else can it be ?) in which ocv
those perfectly well-known lines—

And braid with gems her hair :
And she shall walk in silk attire,
And siller hae to spare. t
but
A line sounding almost like an echo of the las
one—

" And ye shall gang in rich attire,
Weel busket up fu' gaudy," &c.,
roolig
we certainly do light upon here, at p. 246, a 06
the Songs of Burns (it is in the one entitled
Collier Laddie"), but the actual line it is not, aD
that line with its fellow—

" And she shall walk in silk attire,
And siller hae to spare," hat i's 7
we are still in search of—so far as relates, t
to their authorship.

Lost and Found. A Pastoral. By Crawford
One Vol., pp. 114. William Freeman. ear
Mr. Crawford Wilson has sensibility, ll"titeo
for music, and many of the subtler attrib
(instincts, we are almost tempted to call here
of the poetic temperament. He is ho /33ile
manufacturer of harmonious versification., big
can think and what is more—think 'll4OOO,
heart. And, to his varied musings and eni°";iog,
he has the rare gift or faculty of iroPnr-pi-
whenever he lists, suitable utterance• ail
dente of his possession of this gift or f 36
he has already afforded the reading ribileold'
" Elsie" and " Gitanilla," in " Jonathan toot
ham" and " Flights to Fairyland." Here
,yd
in this charming little pastoral of " 1)°4000t
Found," is the latest, and not the least mo'o of
of these metrical utterances of his—as specira.c
n
to
' easy 'writing," that for once is not, accordi cued
Sheridan's intolerant dictum (as a rule) rc itteo
hard reading." Fluently and elegantly~ya viNo.ora
throughout, we turn these pages of Mr. ptis'
Wilson's " Lost and Found" with unwearie•tbeilis
faction until in fact we turn the very last hit /10
finding, then, to our unaffected regret,
measure of the whole pastoral is finished.

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THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. ---A privy ca
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have
n dent writes from Adon on date of July 12 , tp°
heard, I suppose, that Theodore will net '/lic"hte(/'
prisonersfrom to go until he gets four workmen from
who 1)g
are to be paid by our Government." 000 g
WHAT DO YOUNG MEN MARRY ?—Solue Y- tile
men marry dimples ; some ears ; some 1300 ;ci tile
hair. contest,
however, generally lies between the ewes and in
the j3,jt
no The mouth, too, is occasionally married
tso often. Poor partners, these, you will 01/11. Oa
young men do marry all these, and many other bioo tv
of a wife, instead of the true thing. SucilLfe 1
scrapsluar'
wifertage is, such is the after-life. He that would -ox
must marry a woman. If he can meet with °ll.tioa,
equald social position, like education, similar disPes'' let
him
marry. But let him beware marrying a,, ' iarov
however swan-like, or a voice, however raelodiolls•3 ffelil
ladies do also make some queer matches, and unite
selves to whiskers.—American paper.