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FAMOUS SONGS
ciently calm. Two hours later they returned to inquire for him. They found that his bed was empty and that he had gone out. A search was instituted which led to the discovery of the poet's coat at the side of the tunnel of a neigh-bouring brook. The rest needs no telling. He perished by his own hand ere he had reached the age of thirty-six. In the art of song-writing Tannahill, in his own particular line, has not been surpassed.
William Motherwell's " Jeannie Morrison" has the double charm of having a real personage for its heroine. The life of Motherwell is of singular interest. He was born in 1797, and died in 1835. It was as a child when he was sent to school in Edinburgh that he first met " Jeannie Morrison," a pretty girl of winning ways about his own age. She made a great impression on the susceptible boy of eleven, though they only knew each other for a short six months. It is presumed that he wrote his one really famous song when he was about eighteen.
Motherwell, who died at the early age of thirty-eight from apoplexy, was an industrious writer and editor of certain newspapers. He published a volume of Scottish songs, " Min-strelsy, Ancient and Modern," in 1827.
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