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diff --git a/42468-8.txt b/42468-8.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c8cf821..0000000 --- a/42468-8.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2369 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Catalogue of Messrs Blackwood and Sons' -Publications, by Various - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Catalogue of Messrs Blackwood and Sons' Publications - Published in 1868 as a Part of The Handy Horse-Book by - Maurice Hartland Mahon - -Author: Various - -Release Date: April 4, 2013 [EBook #42468] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATALOGUE OF BLACKWOOD PUBLICATIONS *** - - - - -Produced by Julia Miller, Nirupma and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - -Transcriber's Note: - -A book catalogue published in 1868 as a part of The Handy Horse-Book -by Maurice Hartland Mahon. The sections have been re-ordered to place -the main catalogue first. - - - - -CATALOGUE -OF -MESSRS BLACKWOOD AND SONS' -_PUBLICATIONS_. - - - _HISTORY OF EUROPE_, - From the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Battle - of Waterloo. BY SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. - - A NEW LIBRARY EDITION (being the Tenth), in 14 vols. demy 8vo, - with Portraits, and a copious Index, £10, 10s. - - ANOTHER EDITION, in Crown 8vo, 20 vols., £6. - - A PEOPLE'S EDITION, 12 vols., closely printed in double columns, - £2, 8s., and Index Volume, 3s. - -"An extraordinary work, which has earned for itself a lasting place in -the literature of the country, and within a few years found innumerable -readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats -so well of the period to the illustration of which Mr Alison's labours -have been devoted. It exhibits great knowledge, patient research, -indefatigable industry, and vast power."--_Times, Sept. 7, 1850._ - - - _CONTINUATION OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE_, - From the Fall of Napoleon to the Accession of Louis Napoleon. By SIR - ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. In 9 vols., £6, 7s. 6d. Uniform with - the Library Edition of the previous work. - - A PEOPLE'S EDITION, in 8 vols., closely printed in double - columns, £1, 14s. - - - _EPITOME OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE._ - For the Use of Schools and Young Persons. Fifteenth Edition, 7s. - 6d., bound. - - - _ATLAS TO ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE_; - Containing 109 Maps and Plans of Countries, Battles, Sieges, and - Sea-Fights. Constructed by A. KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E. With - Vocabulary of Military and Marine Terms. Demy 4to. Library Edition, - £3, 3s.; People's Edition, Crown 4to, £1, 11s. 6d. - - - _LIVES OF LORD CASTLEREAGH AND SIR CHARLES - STEWART_, Second and Third Marquesses of Londonderry. From the - Original Papers of the Family, and other sources. By SIR ARCHIBALD - ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. In 3 vols. 8vo, £2, 5s. - - - _ANNALS OF THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGNS._ - By CAPT. THOMAS HAMILTON. A New Edition. Edited by F. HARDMAN, Esq. - 8vo, 16s.; and Atlas of Maps to illustrate the Campaigns, 12s. - - - _A VISIT TO FLANDERS AND THE FIELD OF WATERLOO._ - By JAMES SIMPSON, Advocate. A Revised Edition. With Two Coloured - Plans of the Battle. Crown 8vo, 5s. - - - _WELLINGTON'S CAREER_: - A Military and Political Summary. By LIEUT.-COL. E. BRUCE HAMLEY, - Professor of Military History and Art at the Staff College. Crown - 8vo, 2s. - - - _THE STORY OF THE CAMPAIGN OF SEBASTOPOL._ - Written in the Camp. By LIEUT.-COL. E. BRUCE HAMLEY. With - Illustrations drawn in Camp by the Author. 8vo, 21s. - -"We strongly recommend this 'Story of the Campaign' to all who would -gain a just comprehension of this tremendous struggle. Of this we are -perfectly sure, it is a book unlikely to be ever superseded. Its truth -is of that simple and startling character which is sure of an immortal -existence; nor is it paying the gallant author too high a complement to -class this masterpiece of military history with the most precious of -those classic records which have been bequeathed to us by the great -writers of antiquity who took part in the wars they have -described."--_The Press._ - - - _THE INVASION OF THE CRIMEA_: - Its Origin, and Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord - Raglan. By ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE, M.P. Vols. I. and II., - bringing the Events down to the Close of the Battle of the Alma. - Fourth Edition. Price 32s. - - - _TEN YEARS OF IMPERIALISM IN FRANCE._ - Impressions of a "Flâneur." Second Edition. In 8vo, price 9s. - -"There has not been published for many a day a more remarkable book on -France than this, which professes to be the impressions of a Flaneur.... -It has all the liveliness and sparkle of a work written only for -amusement; it has all the solidity and weight of a State paper; and we -expect for it not a little political influence as a fair, full, and -masterly statement of the Imperial policy--the first and only good -account that has been given to Europe of the Napoleonic system now in -force."--_Times._ - - - _FLEETS AND NAVIES._ - By CAPTAIN CHARLES HAMLEY, R.M. Originally published in 'Blackwood's - Magazine.' Crown 8vo, 6s. - - - _HISTORY OF GREECE UNDER FOREIGN DOMINATION._ - By GEORGE FINLAY, LL.D., Athens--viz.: - - GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS. B.C. 146 to A.D. 717. A Historical View - of the Condition of the Greek Nation from its Conquest by the - Romans until the Extinction of the Roman Power in the East. - Second Edition, 16s. - - HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, A.D. 716 to 1204; and of the - Greek Empire of Nicĉa and Constantinople, A.D. 1204 to 1453. 2 - vols., £1, 7s. 6d. - - MEDIEVAL GREECE AND TREBIZOND. The History of Greece, from its - Conquest by the Crusaders to its Conquest by the Turks, A.D. 1204 - to 1566; and the History of the Empire of Trebizond, A.D. 1204 to - 1461. 12s. - - GREECE UNDER OTHOMAN AND VENETIAN DOMINATION. A.D. 1453 to 1821. - 10s. 6d. - - HISTORY OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION. 2 vols. 8vo, £1, 4s. - -"His book is worthy to take its place among the remarkable works on -Greek history, which form one of the chief glories of English -scholarship. The history of Greece is but half told without -it."--_London Guardian._ - - - _THE NATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE ATHENIANS._ - By JOHN BROWN PATTERSON. Edited from the Author's revision, by - PROFESSOR PILLANS, of the University of Edinburgh. With a Sketch of - his Life. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. - - - _STUDIES IN ROMAN LAW._ - With Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England, and Scotland. - By LORD MACKENZIE, one of the Judges of the Court of Session in - Scotland. 8vo, 12s. Second Edition. - -"We know not in the English language where else to look for a history of -the Roman law so clear, and, at the same time, so short.... More -improving reading, both for the general student and for the lawyer, we -cannot well imagine; and there are few, even among learned professional -men, who will not gather some novel information from Lord Mackenzie's -simple pages."--_London Review._ - - - _THE EIGHTEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES._ - By the REV. JAMES WHITE. Fourth Edition, with an Analytical Table of - Contents, and a Copious Index. Post 8vo, 7s. 6d. - - - _THE MONKS OF THE WEST_, - From St Benedict to St Bernard. By the COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT. - Authorised Translation. 5 vols. 8vo, £2 12s. 6d. - - - _HISTORY OF FRANCE_, - From the Earliest Period to the Year 1848. By the REV. JAMES WHITE, - Author of 'The Eighteen Christian Centuries.' School Edition. Post - 8vo, 6s. - -"An excellent and comprehensive compendium of French history, quite -above the standard of a school-book, and particularly well adapted for -the libraries of literary institutions."--_National Review._ - - - _LEADERS OF THE REFORMATION_: - LUTHER, CALVIN, LATIMER, and KNOX. By the REV. JOHN TULLOCH, D.D., - Principal, and Primarius Professor of Theology, St Mary's College, - St Andrews. Second Edition, Crown 8vo, 6s. 6d. - - - _ENGLISH PURITANISM AND ITS LEADERS_: - CROMWELL, MILTON, BAXTER, and BUNYAN. By the REV. JOHN TULLOCH, D.D. - Uniform with the 'Leaders of the Reformation.' 7s. 6d. - - - _HISTORY OF THE FRENCH PROTESTANT REFUGEES._ - By CHARLES WEISS, Professor of History at the Lycée Buonaparte. - Translated by F. HARDMAN, Esq. 8vo, 14s. - - - _HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND_, - From the Reformation to the Revolution Settlement. By the Very REV. - JOHN LEE, D.D., LL.D., Principal of the University of Edinburgh. - Edited by the Rev. WILLIAM LEE. 2 vols. 8vo, 21s. - - - _HISTORY OF SCOTLAND FROM THE REVOLUTION_ - To the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection, 1689-1748. By - JOHN HILL BURTON, Esq., Advocate. 2 vols. 8vo, reduced to 15s. - - - _LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF SCOTLAND_, - And English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great - Britain. By AGNES STRICKLAND. With Portraits and Historical - Vignettes. Post 8vo, £4, 4s. - -"Every step in Scotland is historical: the shades of the dead arise on -every side; the very rocks breathe. Miss Strickland's talents as a -writer, and turn of mind as an individual, in a peculiar manner fit her -for painting a historical gallery of the most illustrious or dignified -female characters in that land of chivalry and song."--_Blackwood's -Magazine._ - - - _MEMORIALS OF THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH._ - By JAMES GRANT, Esq. A New Edition. In Crown 8vo, with 12 - Engravings, 3s. 6d. - - - _MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM KIRKALDY OF GRANGE_, - Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh for Mary Queen of Scots. By - JAMES GRANT, Esq. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d. - - - _MEMOIRS OF SIR JOHN HEPBURN_, - Marshal of France under Louis XIII., &c. By JAMES GRANT, Esq. Post - 8vo, 8s. - - - _WORKS OF THE REV. THOMAS M'CRIE, D.D._ - A New and Uniform Edition. Edited by Professor M'CRIE. 4 vols. Crown - 8vo, 24s. Sold separately--viz.: - - LIFE OF JOHN KNOX. Containing Illustrations of the History of the - Reformation in Scotland. Crown 8vo, 6s. - - LIFE OF ANDREW MELVILLE. Containing Illustrations of the - Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth - and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s. - - HISTORY OF THE PROGRESS AND SUPPRESSION OF THE REFORMATION IN - ITALY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Crown 8vo, 4s. - - HISTORY OF THE PROGRESS AND SUPPRESSION OF THE REFORMATION IN - SPAIN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. - - - _THE BOSCOBEL TRACTS_; - Relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after the Battle of - Worcester, and his subsequent Adventures. Edited by J. HUGHES, Esq., - A.M. A New Edition, with additional Notes and Illustrations, - including Communications from the Rev. R. H. BARHAM, Author of the - 'Ingoldsby Legends.' In 8vo, with Engravings, 16s. - -"'The Boscobel Tracts' is a very curious book, and about as good an -example of single subject historical collections as may be found. -Originally undertaken, or at least completed, at the suggestion of the -late Bishop Copplestone, in 1827, it was carried out with a degree of -judgment and taste not always found in works of a similar -character."--_Spectator._ - - - _LIFE OF JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH._ - With some Account of his Contemporaries, and of the War of the - Succession. By SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. Third Edition. 2 - vols. 8vo, Portraits and Maps, 30s. - - - _THE NEW 'EXAMEN;'_ - Or, An Inquiry into the Evidence of certain Passages in 'Macaulay's - History of England' concerning--THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH--THE - MASSACRE OF GLENCOE--THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND--VISCOUNT - DUNDEE--WILLIAM PENN. By John Paget, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. In - Crown 8vo, 6s. - -"We certainly never saw a more damaging exposure, and it is something -worth notice that much of it appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine' during -the lifetime of Lord Macaulay, but he never attempted to make any reply. -The charges are so direct, and urged in such unmistakable language, that -no writer who valued his character for either accuracy of fact or -fairness in comment would let them remain unanswered if he had any -reason to give."--_Gentleman's Magazine._ - - - _AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE REV. DR CARLYLE_, - Minister of Inveresk. Containing Memorials of the Men and Events of - his Time. Edited by JOHN HILL BURTON. In 8vo. Third Edition, with - Portrait, 14s. - -"This book contains by far the most vivid picture of Scottish life and -manners that has been given to the public since the days of Sir Walter -Scott. In bestowing upon it this high praise, we make no exception, not -even in favour of Lord Cockburn's 'Memorials'--the book which resembles -it most, and which ranks next to it in interest."--_Edinburgh Review._ - - - _MEMOIR OF THE POLITICAL LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE._ - With Extracts from his Writings. By the REV. GEORGE CROLY, D.D. 2 - vols. post 8vo, 18s. - - - _CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES._ - By CHARLES PHILLIPS, Esq., A.B. A New Edition. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. - -"Certainly one of the most extraordinary pieces of biography ever -produced.... No library should be without it."--_Lord Brougham._ - -"Never, perhaps, was there a more curious collection of portraits -crowded before into the same canvass."--_Times._ - - - _MEMOIR OF MRS HEMANS._ - By her SISTER. With a Portrait. Fcap. 8vo, 5s. - - - _LIFE OF THE LATE REV. JAMES ROBERTSON, D.D., F.R.S.E._, - Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History in the University - of Edinburgh. By the REV. A. H. CHARTERIS, M.A., Minister of - Newabbey. With a Portrait. 8vo, price 10s. 6d. - - - _ESSAYS; HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS._ - By SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart. 3 vols. demy 8vo, 45s. - - - _ESSAYS IN HISTORY AND ART._ - By R. H. PATTERSON. Viz.: - - COLOUR IN NATURE AND ART--REAL AND IDEAL - BEAUTY--SCULPTURE--ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE--UTOPIAS--OUR INDIAN - EMPIRE--THE NATIONAL LIFE OF CHINA--AN IDEAL ART-CONGRESS--BATTLE - OF THE STYLES--GENIUS AND LIBERTY--YOUTH AND SUMMER--RECORDS OF - THE PAST: NINEVEH AND BABYLON--INDIA: ITS CASTES AND - CREEDS--"CHRISTOPHER NORTH:" IN MEMORIAM. In 1 vol. 8vo, 12s. - - - _NORMAN SINCLAIR._ - By W. E. AYTOUN, D.C.L., Author of 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,' - &c. In 3 vols. post 8vo, 31s. 6d. - - - _THE OLD BACHELOR IN THE OLD SCOTTISH VILLAGE._ - By THOMAS AIRD. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. - - - _SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S NOVELS._ - Library Edition. Printed from a large and readable type. In Volumes - of a convenient and handsome form. 8vo, 5s. each--viz.: - - THE CAXTON NOVELS, 10 Volumes: - The Caxton Family. 2 vols. - My Novel. 4 vols. - What will he do with it? 4 vols. - - HISTORICAL ROMANCES, 11 Volumes: - Devereux. 2 vols. - The Last Days of Pompeii. 2 vols. - Rienzi. 2 vols. - The Siege of Grenada. 1 vol. - The Last of the Barons. 2 vols. - Harold. 2 vols. - - ROMANCES, 5 Volumes: - The Pilgrims of the Rhine. 1 vol. - Eugene Aram. 2 vols. - Zanoni. 2 vols. - - NOVELS OF LIFE AND MANNERS, 15 Volumes: - Pelham. 2 vols. - The Disowned. 2 vols. - Paul Clifford. 2 vols. - Godolphin 1 vol. - Ernest Maltravers--First Part. 2 vols. - Ernest Maltravers--Second Part (_i.e._ Alice.) 2 vols. - Night and Morning. 2 vols. - Lucretia. 2 vols. - -"It is of the handiest of sizes; the paper is good; and the type, which -seems to be new, is very clear and beautiful. There are no pictures. The -whole charm of the presentment of the volume consists in its handiness, -and the tempting clearness and beauty of the type, which almost converts -into a pleasure the mere act of following the printer's lines, and -leaves the author's mind free to exert its unobstructed force upon the -reader."--_Examiner._ - -"Nothing could be better as to size, type, paper, and general -get-up."--_Athenĉum._ - - - _JESSIE CAMERON: A HIGHLAND STORY._ - By the LADY RACHEL BUTLER. Second Edition. Small 8vo, with a - Frontispiece, 2s. 6d. - - - _SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF ADAM BLAIR_, - And History of Matthew Wald. By the Author of 'Valerius.' Fcap. 8vo, - 4s. cloth. - - - _CAPTAIN CLUTTERBUCK'S CHAMPAGNE_: - A West Indian Reminiscence. Post 8vo, 12s. - - - _SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE._ - The Sad Fortunes of Amos Barton--Mr Gilfil's Love-Story--Janet's - Repentance. By GEORGE ELIOT. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo, 12s. - - - _ADAM BEDE._ - By GEORGE ELIOT. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo, 12s. - - - _THE MILL ON THE FLOSS._ - By GEORGE ELIOT. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo, 12s. - - - _SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE._ - By GEORGE ELIOT. Fcap. 8vo, 6s. - - - _THE NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT._ - Cheap Edition, complete in 3 vols., price 6s. each--viz.: - - ADAM BEDE. - THE MILL ON THE FLOSS. - SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, and SILAS MARNER. - - - _ANNALS OF THE PARISH, AND AYRSHIRE LEGATEES._ - By JOHN GALT. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. - - - _SIR ANDREW WYLIE._ - By JOHN GALT. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. - - - _THE PROVOST, AND OTHER TALES._ - By JOHN GALT. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. - - - _THE ENTAIL._ - By JOHN GALT. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. - - - _THE YOUTH AND MANHOOD OF CYRIL THORNTON._ - By CAPTAIN HAMILTON. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. - - - _LADY LEE'S WIDOWHOOD._ - By LIEUT.-COL. E. B. HAMLEY. Crown 8vo, with 13 Illustrations by the - Author. 6s. - - - _THE LIFE OF MANSIE WAUCH_, - Tailor in Dalkeith. By D. M. MOIR. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. - - - _NIGHTS AT MESS, SIR FRIZZLE PUMPKIN, AND OTHER TALES._ - Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. - - - _KATIE STEWART: A TRUE STORY._ - By MRS OLIPHANT. Fcap. 8vo, with Frontispiece and Vignette. 4s. - - - _PEN OWEN._ - Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. - - - _PENINSULAR SCENES AND SKETCHES._ - Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. - - - _REGINALD DALTON._ - By the Author of 'Valerius.' Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. - - - _LIFE IN THE FAR WEST._ - By G. F. RUXTON, Esq. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. - - - _TOM CRINGLE'S LOG._ - A New Edition. With Illustrations by STANFIELD, WEIR, SKELTON, - WALKER, &c., Engraved by WHYMPER. Crown 8vo, 6s. - -"Everybody who has failed to read 'Tom Cringle's Log' should do so at -once. The 'Quarterly Review' went so far as to say that the papers -composing it, when it first appeared in 'Blackwood,' were the most -brilliant series of the time, and that time one unrivalled for the -number of famous magazinists existing in it. Coleridge says, in his -'Table Talk,' that the 'Log' is most excellent; and these verdicts have -been ratified by generations of men and boys, and by the manifestation -of Continental approval which is shown by repeated translations. The -engravings illustrating the present issue are excellent."--_Standard._ - - - _TOM CRINGLE'S LOG._ - Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. - - - _THE CRUISE OF THE MIDGE._ - By the Author of 'Tom Cringle's Log.' Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. - - - _CHAPTERS ON CHURCHYARDS._ - By MRS SOUTHEY. Fcap. 8vo, 7s. 6d. - - - _THE SUBALTERN._ - By the Author of the 'The Chelsea Pensioners.' Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. - - - _CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD: SALEM CHAPEL._ - Second Edition. Complete in 1 vol., price 5s. - -"This story, so fresh, so powerfully written, and so tragic, stands out -from among its fellows like a piece of newly-coined gold in a handful of -dim commonplace shillings. Tales of pastoral experience and scenes from -clerical life we have had in plenty, but the sacred things of the -conventicle, the relative position of pastor and flock in a -Nonconforming 'connection,' were but guessed at by the world outside, -and terrible is the revelation."--_Westminster Review._ - - - _CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD: THE RECTOR, AND THE DOCTOR'S FAMILY._ - Post 8vo, price 4s. _THE PERPETUAL CURATE._ Complete in one vol. - 8vo, price 6s. - - - _TALES FROM BLACKWOOD._ - Complete in 12 vols., bound in cloth, 18s. The Volumes are sold - separately, 1s. 6d.; and may be had of most Booksellers, in Six - Volumes, handsomely half-bound in red morocco. - - CONTENTS. - - VOL. I. The Glenmutchkin Railway.--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 I 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. - - VOL. 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. - - VOL. V. Adventures in Texas.--How we got Possession of the - Tuileries.--Captain Paton's Lament.--The Village Doctor.--A - Singular Letter from Southern Africa. - - VOL. VI. My Friend the Dutchman.--My College Friends--No. - II.: Horace Leicester.--The Emerald Studs.--My College - Friends--No. III.: Mr W. Wellington Hurst.--Christine: A Dutch - Story.--The Man in the Bell. - - VOL. 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. - - VOL. 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.--The Vision - of Cagliostro.--The First and Last Kiss.--The Smuggler's - Leap.--The Haunted and the Haunters.--The Duellists. - - VOL. XI. The Natolian Story-Teller.--The First and Last - Crime.--John Rintoul.--Major Moss.--The Premier and his Wife. - - VOL. XII. Tickler among the Thieves!--The Bridegroom of - Barna.--The Involuntary Experimentalist.--Lebrun's Lawsuit.--The - Snowing-up of Strath Lugas.--A Few Words on Social Philosophy. - - - _THE WONDER-SEEKER_; - Or, The History of Charles Douglas. By M. FRASER TYTLER, Author of - 'Tales of the Great and Brave,' &c. A New Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. 6d. - - - _VALERIUS: A ROMAN STORY._ - Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. - - - _THE DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN._ - By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. 1 vol. Crown 8vo, 5s. 6d. - - - _TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR._ - By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. 2 vols. Crown 8vo, 9s. - - - _NOW AND THEN._ - By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. - - - _THE LILY AND THE BEE._ - By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. Crown 8vo, 2s. - - - _MISCELLANIES._ - By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. Crown 8vo, 5s. - - - _WORKS OF SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L._ - Uniform Edition. 5 vols. Crown 8vo, 24s. - - - _WORKS OF PROFESSOR WILSON._ - Edited by his Son-in-law, Professor FERRIER. In 12 vols. Crown 8vo, - £2, 8s. 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