politics, 139, 142-149, 161, 168-169, 171; friendship with the Liddels, 140, 162, 179-180; Mrs. M'Lehose reappears, 140-141; relations with Johnson and Thomson, 150-154, 159; excursion into Galloway, 156-157; an unhappy time, 161-164; declining health, 165, 174; joins the volunteers, 169-170; last illness, 176-179; poverty and anxiety, 180-184; death, 185; Burns's grave, 186-187; character, 188, 189. As a poet: satires, 19-20, 31-32, epistles, 23, pure landscape not his forte, 71, 72, at his best in the Scottish dialect, 73, 151, tenderness towards animals, 106-108, 179, Bacchanalian songs, 110-112, Burns in the hour of inspiration, 121-122, elegies, 123, circumstance and mental habits forbade long poems, 126, love songs, 140-141, 160-161, in the act of composition, 159-160, piercing insight and large sympathy, 192, truthfulness of nature, 193, caustic wit, 193, the interpreter of Scotland's peasantry, 196, the restorer of her nationality, 196-197, catholicity, 197-198, intense love of nature, 200, Burns as a song-writer, 202-206. Campbell, Mary. _See_ Highland Mary. Carlyle, Thomas, 17, 54, 129, 131-132, 156-157, 169, 202. Cathcart, Miss, 66. Chalmers, Margaret, 80-81, 84, 87, 183. Chambers, Dr., 11, 27, 39 _et passim_. Clarinda. _See_ M'Lehose, Mrs. Clark, William, 117-118. Commonplace Book, Burns's, 55-56, 115. _Cotter's Saturday Night, The_, 20, 23, 25, 37, 70, 195. Cowper, 47, 48. Craig, Mrs., 184. Creech, Mr., 56-59, 79, 85, 153. Crochallan Club, The, 58, 61, 63, 91. Cruikshank, Mr., 78. Cunningham, Alexander, 163. Cunningham, Allan, 75, 89, 96, 97, 125, 133 _et passim_. Currie, Dr., 174. Daer, Lord, 35, 156. Dalrymple, Mr., 46. Dalswinton, 94. Davidson, John (Souter Johnnie), 122. _Death and Dr. Hornbook_, 23, 58, 70. _Death of Poor Mailie, The_, 9. _Deil's awa' wi' the Exciseman, The_, 145. _Despondency, Ode to_, 31. Don, Lady Harriet, 127. Doon, Brig of, 2, 3, 4. Dumfries, Burns's life at, 135-154; social condition of, 136. Dundas, Mr. Henry, 67, 92, 143, 171. Dunlop, Mrs., 34, 36-37, 96; letters to, 54, 86, 89, 96, 100, 109, 113, 114, 149, 165, 169, 174, 175, 183. Ecclefechan, 168-169. Edinburgh, Burns's first winter in, 42-59; tavern life in, 57-58; second winter in, 79-93. Eglinton, Lord, 58. Ellisland, 56, 61, 80, 85, 89, 94-134. Epistles, Burns's, 23-24. Erskine, H., 45-46. Erskine of Mar, Mr., 148. _Essay on Taste_, Alison's, 128-129. _Farmer's Address to his Mare_, 23, 108, 195. Ferguson, Dr. Adam, 48, 53. Fergusson, the poet, 44, 191. French Revolution, Burns's sympathy with, 144-146, 157.