Stray leaves from the portfolios of Alisander the seer, Andrew Whaup, and Humphrey Henkeckle

the author’s life. xiii.
add a few words regarding Mr Rodger’s family. He has
been the father of eight sons and three daughters. Of
the sons, four of them are now married,—one of the four
being in America. Two of them are still unmarried; and
two of them are dead,—the one having died when an infant,
and the other, the child already mentioned, died at four
years of age, being the youngest of all the family. Of the
three daughters only one is now alive.
POSTSCRIPT.
After the above notice was prepared, the Committee
were fortunate enough to obtain the following extract from
one of a course of lectures on Literature, delivered by Mr
Robert Burns Hardy, to the Gorbals Popular Institution.
Mr Hardy occupies an eminent position in the walks of
literature; and his opinions, as a critic, are therefore en¬
titled to the highest respect. The following passage
occurred in a lecture on the Poets of Glasgow and the
West of Scotland;—
“ Alexander Rodger has spent the better part of his life
in Glasgow or its immediate neighbourhood. He has long
been known to the admirers of song as the author of a great
number of lyrical compositions that have for years been
deservedly popular all over Scotland, and they are likely
to continue popular as long as humour and simple pathos
are admired. Independent of his songs, and a poem of
considerable length, entitled c Peter Cornclips’—which
latter was published a number of years ago—Mr Rodger
was suspected as the author of certain political satires of