GEORGE HARVEY'S AITLD LANG SYNE.
Burns's ballad has been rendered in five illustrations by George Harvey, and they have been engraved in line by Lumb Stocks, and issued to sub- scribers of the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, making a very handsome volume. The several plates represent the two boys running about the brae, plucking gowans; one of the couple sitting footsore in a distant land gazing upon a daisy; the two again playing in the brook; the other one aloft in a ship at sea ; and the two, in later life, drinking their "cup of kindness yet.," in the heartiest fashion of Scotland. There is, indeed, so much Scotch character, so much natural truth in the scenes, and so good an artistic effect in the composition—well conveyed by the engraver—that we are not surprised at the popularity of the volume in Scotland.
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