Excerpt from Select Scotish Songs, Ancient and Modern: With Critical Observation and Biographical Notices, by Robert Burns This gentleman has written an excellent Essay on Sootish Song, which originally appeared in the second volume of The Bee, p. 201, under the signature of J. Bancale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.