Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from University Gazette, Vol. 12: January 11, 1889
Ou leaving the old woman he opened his book, when behold, what should it be but an odd volume of the Spectator! The number which he chanced to open was The Vision of Mirza, ' which so caught his attention that he could not take it off until he got through. As Franklin was born in 1706, and as this incident took place while he was 13 years old, it happened in 1719, the very year of Addison's death. Burns died six years after Franklin (who lived to the age of but was born 53 years after him, dying at the early age of 37. We must not forget what Dr. Johnson wrote in his Life of Addison Who ever wished to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the study of Addison. The ghost of Addison must surely be pleased, if it has ever learnt that The Vision of Mirza was the favourite composition of 'two men so eminent, and yet so different, as Benjamin Franklin and Robert Burns.
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