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The Course of Time: A Poem. In Ten Books. By Robert
P ollok, A.M. Twenty-third Edition, Foolscap Octavo, 5s.
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Poems and Ballads of Schiller. Translated hy Sir Edward
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St Stephens; Or, Illustrations of Parliamentary Oratory.
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Illustrations of the Lyric Poetry and Music of Scotland.
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The Birthday, and other Poems. By Mrs Southey. Second
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Poems and Songs. ; By David Wingate. In Ecap. Octavo.
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WORKS OF F I C T ION
Tales from “ Blackwood.” Complete in Twelve Yolumes,
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CONTENTS.
V o l . I. The Glenmutchkin flail way.—Vanderdecken’s Message Home.—The Floating Beacon.
—Colonna the Painter.—Napoleon.—A Legend of Gibraltar.—The Iron Shroud.
Vol. II. Lazaro’s Legacy.—A Story without a Tail.—Faustus and Queen Elizabeth.—How l
became a Yeoman.—Devereux Hall.—The Metempsychosis.—College Theatricals.
Vol. III. A Reading Party in the Long Vacation.—Father Tom and the Pope.—La Petite
Madelaine. — Bob Burke’s Duel with Ensign Brady. — The Headsman: A Tale of Doom.—
The Wearyful Woman.
V o l . IV. How I stood for the Dreepdaily Burghs.—First and Last.—The Duke’s Dilemma: A
Chronicle of Niesenstein.—The Old Gentleman’s Teetotum.—“ Woe to us when we lose the
Watery Wall.”—My College Friends: Charles Russell, the Gentleman Commoner.—The
Magic Lay of the One-Horse Chay.
V o l . V. Adventures in Texas.—How we got possession of the Tuileries.—Captain Paton*s
Lament.—The Village Doctor.—A Singular Letter from Southern Africa.
V o l. VI. My Friend the Dutchman.—My College Friends—No. I I . : Horace Leicester.—The
Emerald Studs.—My College Friends—No. I I I . : Mr W. Wellington Hurst.—Christine: A
Dutch Story.—The Man in the Bell.
V o l . VII. My English Acquaintance. — The Murderer’s Last Night.—Narration of Certain
Uncommon Things that did formerly happen to Me, Herbert Willis, B.D.—The Wags.—The
Wet Wooing: A Narrative of ’98.-—Ben-na-Groich.
V o l . VIII. The Surveyor’s Tale. By Professor Aytoun.—The Forrest-Race Romance.—Di
Vasari: A Tale of Florence.—Sigismund Fatello.—The Boxes.
Vol. IX. Rosaura: A Tale of Madrid.—Adventure in the North-West Territory.—Harry Bolton’s
Curacy.—The Florida Pirate.—The Pandour and his Princess.—The Beauty Draught.
Vol. X. Antonio di Carara.—The Fatal Repast.—1The Vision of Cagliostro.—The First and Last
Kiss.—The Smuggler’s Leap.—The Haunted and the Haunters.—The Duellists.
V o l . XI. The Natolian Story-Teller.—The First and Last Crime.—John Rintoul.—Major MossT
—The Premier and his Wife.
V o l . XII. Tickler amojig the Thieves!—Thg Bridegrooin of Barna.—The Involuntary Experim
en ta list— Leljpn’sLawsmt.—TheSnowing-up of Strath Lugas.—A Few Words on Social
PhUo&qphy.
Jessie Cameron: A Highland Story. By the lady Rachel
B ut ler. Second Edition. Small Octavo, with a Frontispiece, 2s. 6d.
The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. By Thomas
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Tara: A Mahratta Tale. By Captain Meadows Taylor.
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