Adair, Dr., 76. Addington, Mr., 69-70, 144, 171. _Address to the Deil_, 23. _Address to the Unco Guid_, 58, 199. Aiken, Robert, 29. Ainslie, Mr., 60, 72, 91. Aird, Thomas, 194. Alison, Rev. A., 128-129. Alloway Kirk, 121; Kirkyard, 16. Alloway Mill, school at, 5. _A Man's a Man for a' that_, 167. Armour, Jean, 26-27, 62-63, 83-84, 85-88, 141, 160. Armour, Mr., 26, 33, 83-84, 96. Athole, Duchess of, 65. Athole, Duke of, 67. _Auld Lang Syne_, 206. Auld Lights, The, 18. Ayr, river, 27. _Banks o' Doon_, 123-124, 161, 205. _Bard's Epitaph_, the, 190. Begbie, Ellison, 12. Begg, Mrs. (Burns's sister), 25, 62. Belches of Invermay, The, 75. _Birks of Invermay, The_, 75. Blacklock, Dr., 38, 48-49, 104. Blair Castle, 65, 67. Blair, Dr. H., 38, 44, 48, 50-51, 56-57. _Bonnie Peggie Alison_, 12. _Brigs of Ayr_, 58. Brow, 179, 184. Brown, Agnes (Burns's mother), 3. _Bruar Water, Humble Petition of_, 66-67. Bruce, Mrs., of Clackmannan, 77-78. Bruce, Robert, 78, 157. Burnes, James (Burns's cousin), 183. Burness (or Burnes), William (Burns's father), 2-3, 6-7, 14-15. Burns, Gilbert, 5, 9-12, 26, 36, 85, 99-100. Burns, Mrs. _See_ Armour, Jean. Burns, Robert, biographies of, 1; birth, 2; parentage, 2-3, 6-7, 14-15; successive homes: Mount Oliphant, 4-9, Lochlea, 9-15, Mossgiel, 15, 20, 22, 24; school-days, 5-7; household reading, 6-7; early love affairs, 8-10, 12, 26-30; youthful dissipation, 10, 13-15; Burns as a farmer, 15-16, 20-21, 95, 98-99, 132-133; religious controversy, 17-20; poetic aspirations, 21; two prolific years, 22-26; Jean Armour, 26, 27; resolves to emigrate, 27, 30, 32, 34; Kilmarnock edition of the poems published, 30-34; literary earnings, 32, 58-59, 85, 152; immediate popularity, 33-34, 37, 39; his manners, 36; first winter in Edinburgh, 42-59; literary and legal lights, 44-46; the lion of the season, 48-57; his appearance, 49-50, 118, 170; tavern life, 57-58; second edition of the poems, 58-59; Border and Highland tours, 60, 63-78; Burns's descriptions of scenery, 71-72; disappointing poetic fruits, 73; knighted by Mrs. Bruce, 78; second winter in Edinburgh, 79-93; reasons for his stay, 79; hypochondria and despondency, 81; Mrs. M'Lehose, 82-84; appointment in the excise, 84; marriage, 85-88; change in the attitude of Edinburgh society, 89-90; some reasons for it, 90-92; life at Ellisland, 94-134; Burns's farm, 95; discomfort and despondency, 96-97; happiest period of his life, 99, 102; house at Ellisland, 101-102; as an exciseman, 105-106; restlessness and discontent, 113, 115-116; _Tam o' Shanter_, 120-122; dramatic aspirations, 126; gives up his farm, 133; migration to Dumfries, 135; downward course, 138, 162, 164, 172; social discredit, 139, 173;