LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
BURNS IN LONDON.
tro 'ME EDITOR -OT TEE "SPECTATOR.') Sra,—I am informed that Burns was offered £200 a year to write in a London newspaper. I have not MeScott Douglas's biography of him at hand, but I have no doubt that the story is true, and that he declined a sum whieh -must, to him, have seemed considerable. Probably he understood very,well that London was no place for him. But one might as well try to grow heather in the Strand as to plant him in London.
Perhaps you will allow me a corner, with a stool of re- pentance, wherein to confess mea maxima culpa, in having printed the wrong version of "Scots, wha hae." The mistake arose in a natural way, not necessary to be explained, escaped any reading of the proof-sheets of a collation, and has been corrected for a new edition.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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