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HUGH MILLER'S WORKS.

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1. My Schools and Schoolmasters; or, The

Story of my Education. Twenty-Sixth Edition.

2. The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed. Profusely Illustrated. Forty-Fourth Thousand.

3. The Cruise of the Betsey; or, A Summer Ramble among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist; or, Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland. Eleventh Edition.

4. Sketch Book of Popular Geology.

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Eighth Edition.

5. First Impressions of England and its

PEOPLE. Fifteenth Edition.

6. Scenes and Legends of the North of SCOTLAND; or, The Traditional History of Cromarty. Fourteenth Edition.

7. The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks in an Old Field. Profusely Illustrated. Twentieth Edition. 8. The Headship of Christ and the Rights of the Christian People. With Preface by PETER BAYNE, A. M. Edition.

Eighth

9. Footprints of the Creator; or, The Asterolepis of Stromness. With Preface and Notes by Mrs. MILler, and a Biographical Sketch by Professor AGASSIZ. Profusely Illustrated. Nineteenth Edition.

Io. Tales and Sketches.

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11. Essays: Historical and

Edited, with a Preface,

Biographical, Political

and Social, Literary and Scientific. Seventh Edition.

12. Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood,

Geological and Historical. With the GEOLOGY OF THE BASS ROCK.
Sixth Edition.

13. Leading Articles on Various Subjects.

Edited by his Son-in-law, the Rev. JOHN DAVIDSON. With a Characteristic Portrait of the Author, fac-simile from a Photograph, by D. O. HILL, R.S.A. Sixth Edition.

** Hugh Miller's Works may also be had in complete sets of 13 Volumes, bound in half-calf with extra bands, price £4, 17s. 6d., or elegantly bound in roxburgh style, gilt top, price £3, 18s., or in cloth extra, gold and black printing, new style, gilt top, price £3, 5s.

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1. Longfellow's Poetical Works.

2. Scott's Poetical Works.
3. Byron's Poetical Works.

4. Moore's Poetical Works.

5. Wordsworth's Poetical Works. 6. Cowper's Poetical Works. 7. Milton's Poetical Works. 8. Thomson's Poetical Works. 9. Goldsmith's Choice Works. 10. Pope's Poetical Works. 11. Burns' Poetical Works. 12. The Casquet of Gems. the Poets.

Choice Selections from

13. The Book of Humorous Poetry.

14. Ballads: Scottish and English.

15. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Holy War. 16. Lives of the British Poets.

17. The Prose Works of Robert Burns.

18. Poems, Songs, and Ballads of the Sea,

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a Biographical Sketch by MARY COWDEN CLARKE, a Copious Glossary, and numerous Illustrations.

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Containing

also his Remarks on Scottish Song, General Correspondence, Letters to Clarinda, and Correspondence with George Thomson. With Life and Variorum Notes, and full-page Illustrations by eminent Artists.

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10. The Canterbury Tales and Faerie

QUEENE: With other Poems of CHAUCER and SPENSER. Edited for
Popular Perusal, with current Illustrative and Explanatory Notes. With
Lives of the Authors.
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LIAM COWPER; including his Letters, Poems, and Private Corre-
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Dr. MIDDLETON; Letters to his friends, translated by WM. MELMOTH;
Letters to Atticus, translated by Dr. HEBERDen. With Portrait, etc.
The Complete

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Works of Xenophon. Translated into English by ASHLEY, SPELMAN, SMITH, FIELDING, and others. A New Edition. With Portrait, etc. 21. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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22. The English Essayists: A Compre

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With Portrait of Sir Richard Steele, Notes, etc.

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Specimens of brilliant Orations by the most eminent Statesmen,
Divines, etc., of Great Britain, of the last Four Centuries.
Biographical Notices, Critical Notes, etc.

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The Book of Adventure and Peril: A Record of Heroism and Endurance on Sea and Land. Compiled and Edited by CHARLES BRUCE, Editor of Sea Songs and Ballads,' The Birthday Book of Proverbs,' etc. Illustrated.

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The Great Triumphs of Great Men.

MASON. Illustrated.

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Edited by James

Great Historical Mutinies, comprising the Story of the
Mutiny of the Bounty,' the Mutiny at Spithead, the Mutiny at the Nore,
Mutinies in Highland Regiments, and the Indian Mutiny. By DAVID
HERBERT, M.A.

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Famous Historical Scenes from Three Centuries. Pictures of celebrated events from the Reformation to the end of the French Revolu tion. Selected from the works of Standard Authors by A. R. HOPE

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