CONTENTS 



Page 

 Pre^ace^, 9 



ChronoIvOGy, 13 



Chapte^r I — Scotland in the Eightee^nth 



Century, 17 



II — Wilson's Early Years in 



Scotland, 39 



III — New Life in a New Land, ... 53 

 IV — The Making of an American, 63 

 V — Wilson and Contemporary 



Americans, 74 



VI — The Completion of the Orni- 

 thology, 92 



VII — Wilson, the Man, 117 



VIII — Wilson's Literary Writings, 128 



Bibliography, 151 



Selected Poems— 



The American Blue-bird, 157 



The Osprey, 159 



The Invitation, 161 



The Solitary Tutor, 166 



Watty AND Meg, 172 



