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OF FELICIA HEMANS.

THE POEMS OF

Complete in One Volume Large Octavo, with Portrait engraved by FINDEN, 21s.

Another Edition in Six Volumes Foolscap Octavo, 24s.

Another Edition, with Life, by her Sister, Seven Volumes, 358.

"Of no modern writer can it be affirmed, with less hesitation, that she has become an English Classic, nor, until human nature becomes very different from what it now is, can we imagine the least probability that the music of her lays will cease to soothe the ear, or the beauty of her sentiment to charm the gentle heart."-Blackwood's Magazine.

Twenty-second Edition, Foolscap Octavo, price 78. 6d.

THE COURSE OF TIME.

A POEM IN TEN BOOKS.

By Robert Pollok, A.M.

"Of deep and hallowed impress, full of noble thoughts and graphic conceptions-the production of a mind alive to the great relations of being, and the sublime simplicity of our religion."-Blackwood's Magazine.

LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS, AND OTHER POEMS.

By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun,

Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh.

Eighth Edition, Foolscap Octavo, 7s. 6d.

"Finer ballads than these, we are bold to say, are not to be found in the language." Times.

"Professor Aytoun's Scotland has yet a poet. now sinks in cadences sad

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers'-a volume of verse which shows that Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet noteand wild as the wail of a Highland dirge."-Quarterly Review.

Elegantly printed in Small Octavo, price 58.

FIRMILIAN; OR, THE STUDENT OF

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"Tumour of a kind most rare at all times, and especially in the present day, runs through every page, and passages of true poetry and delicious versification prevent the continual play of sarcasm from becoming tedious."-Literary Gazette.

But we must leave our readers to unravel this mystery for themselves. Enough has been said and sung to make them acquainted with the claims of Firmilian,' to be deemed the finest poem of the age.'"-Dublin University Magazine.

WORKS OF PROFESSOR WILSON.

THE

EDITED BY HIS SON-IN-LAW,

Professor Ferrier.

Vols. I. II. and III. of

NOCTES AMBROSIANÆ

Are now published, price 6s. each. To be completed in 4 vols.

WORKS OF SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L.

A Cheap Edition in 5 Vols., price 24s. bound in cloth, viz. :

VOL. I. DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN, 58. 6d.
VOLS. II. & III. TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR, 2 vols., 9s.
VOL. IV. NOW AND THEN, &c., 4s. 6d.

VOL. V. MISCELLANIES, 58.

THE

WORKS OF DR THOMAS M'CRIE.

A New and Uniform Edition,

Edited by his Son.

To be completed in Four Vols., Crown Octavo. Vol. I. is now published, containing

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INDEX TO THE FIRST FIFTY VOLUMES

OF BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

In One Volume Octavo, price 15s.

ESSAYS; HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND

MISCELLANEOUS.

By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., D.C.L.

Three Volumes Demy Octavo, 45s.

"They stamp him as one of the most learned, able, and accomplished writers of the age. His Essays are a splendid supplement to his History, and the two combined exhibit his intellect in all its breadth and beauty."-Dublin University Magazine.

Foolscap Octavo, 58.

LECTURES ON THE POETICAL LITERATURE OF THE PAST HALF-CENTURY.

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POETICAL WORKS OF D. M. MOIR

WITH PORTRAIT, AND MEMOIR BY THOMAS AIRD.

Two Volumes Foolscap Octavo, 14s.

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"These are volumes to be placed on the favourite shelf, in the familiar nook that holds the books we love, which we take up with pleasure and lay down with regret."—Edinburgh Courant.

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THE POEMS AND BALLADS OF SCHILLER.

Translated by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart.

"The translations are executed with consummate ability. The technical difficulties attending a task so great and intricate have been mastered or eluded with a power and patience quite extraordinary; and the public is put in possession of perhaps the best translation of a foreign poet which exists in our language. Indeed, we know of none so complete and faithful."-Morning Chronicle.

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Second Edition, in Foolscap Octavo, with Frontispiece and Vignette, 6s.

"A singularly characteristic Scottish story, most agreeable to read and pleasant to recollect. The charm lies in the faithful and life-like pictures it presents of Scottish character and customs, and manners, and modes of life."-Tait's Magazine.

THE

Second Edition, Post Octavo, price 10s. 6d.

QUIET

HEART.

By the Author of "Katie Stewart,"

"We cannot omit our emphatic tribute to 'The Quiet Heart,' a story which, with its deep clear insight, its gentle but strengthening sympathies, and its pictures so delicately drawn, has captivated numerous readers, and will confer on many a memory a good and pleasant influence."-Excelsior.

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"This beautiful and touching legacie."—Athenæum.

"A delightful monument of the piety and high feeling of a truly noble mother."-Morn

ing Advertiser.

A New Edition, in One Volume, price 5s. 6d.

THE DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN.

By Samuel Warren D.C.L., F.R.S.

"We know of no book in the English language so calculated to rivet the attention and awaken the purest and deepest sympathies of the heart. The man who has not read these tales has yet to learn a lesson in the mysteries of human nature." — Oxford and Cambridge Review.

TEN

A New Edition, 2 Vols., price 9s.

THOUSAND

A-YEAR.

By Samuel Warren, D.C.L., F.R.S.

"Ten Thousand a-Year' is perhaps destined in British literature to some such rank as 'Don Quixote' holds in Spain."—American Journal.

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A vindication, in beautiful prose, of the ways of God to Man.' A grander moral is not to be found than that which dwells upon the reader's mind when the book is closedconveyed, too, as it is, in language as masculine and eloquent as any the English tongue can furnish."-Times.

THE

A New Edition, price 2s.

LILY AND

THE

BEE.

By Samuel Warren, D.C.L., F.R.S:

"It is a great theme treated by a masculine intellect enriched with all the resources of varied knowledge, of profound thought, of a highly poetical temperament, and of solemn religious convictions, and enhanced by the graces and the terrors of a command of language absolutely inexhaustible, and in its combinations almost magical."—Dublin Warder.

Two Volumes, Post Octavo, price 24s.

MISCELLANIES: CRITICAL, IMAGINATIVE,

AND JURIDICAL.

By Samuel Warren, D.C.L., F.R.S.

"One of the most readable books we have met with for a long time, and deserves a prominent place in every selected library of modern authorship.”—Manchester Courier.

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