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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 Octavo, 6s. 6d.

"We are not acquainted with any work in which so much solid information upon the leading aspects of the great Reformation is presented in so well-packed and pleasing a form."-Witness. "The style is admirable in force and in pathos, and the book one to be altogether recommended, both for the merits of those of whom it treats, and for that which the writer unconsciously reveals of his own character."-Globe.

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.

"His biographic delineations are not collections of vague generalities, but well-selected features combining to a likeness And, while always self-possessed and calm, he is never cold. A steady glow of imaginative fire and radiance follows his pen, and it is evident that he has legitimately acquired the right to interest and move others, by having first been moved himself."-Dial.

"It is a book which, from its style-firm and interesting, dispassionate and impartial, but yet warm with admiration-will be hailed for fireside reading in the families of the descendants of those Puritan men and their times."-Eclectic Review.

History of the French Protestant Refugees. By Charles

WEISS, Professor of History at the Lycée Buonaparté. Translated by F. HARDMAN, Esq. Octavo, 14s.

The Eighteen Christian Centuries.

By the Rev. James

WHITE. Fourth Edition, with Analytical Table of Contents, and a Copious Index. Post Octavo, 7s. 6d.

"He goes to work upon the only true principle, and produces a picture that at once satisfies truth, arrests the memory, and fills the imagination. When they (Index and Analytical Contents) are supplied, it will be difficult to lay hands on any book of the kind more useful and more entertaining."-Times, Review of first edition.

"Mr White comes to the assistance of those who would know something of the history of the Eighteen Christian Centuries; and those who want to know still more than he gives them, will find that he has perfected a plan which catches the attention, and fixes the distinctive feature of each century in the memory."-Wesleyan Times.

History of France, from the Earliest Period to the Year

1848. By the Rev. JAMES WHITE, Author of the "Eighteen Christian Centuries." Second Edition. Post Octavo, 9s.

"Mr White's History of France,' in a single volume of some 600 pages, contains every leading incident worth the telling, and abounds in word-painting whereof a paragraph has often as much active life in it as one of those inch-square etchings of the great Callot, in which may be clearly seen the whole armies contending in bloody arbitrament, and as many incidents of battle as may be gazed at in the miles of canvass in the military picture-galleries at Versailles."— Athenæum.

"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.

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems. By

W. EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN, D.C.L., Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres in the University of Edinburgh. Fourteenth Edition, Foolscap Octavo, 7s. 6d. "Mr Aytoun's 'Lays' are truly beautiful, and are perfect poems of their class, pregnant with fire, with patriotic ardour, with loyal zeal, with exquisite pathos, with noble passion. Who can hear the opening lines descriptive of Edinburgh after the great battle of Flodden, and not feel that the minstrel's soul has caught the genuine inspiration?"-Morning Post.

"Professor Aytoun's 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers'-a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note-now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge."-Quarterly Review.

Aytoun's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. An Illustrated

Edition. From Designs by J. NOEL PATON and W. H. PATON, A.R.S.A. Engraved by John Thompson, W. J. Linton, W. Thomas, Whymper, Cooper, Green, Dalziels, Evans, &c. In Small Quarto, printed on Toned Paper, bound in gilt cloth, 21s.

"The artists nave excelled themselves in the engravings which they have furnished. Seizing the spirit of Mr Aytoun's Ballads' as perhaps none but Scotchmen could have seized it, they have thrown their whole strength into the work with a heartiness which others would do well to imitate. Whoever there may be that does not already know these 'Lays' we recommend at once to make their acquaintance in this edition, wherein author and artist illustrate each other as kindred spirits should."-Standard.

Bothwell: A Poem. By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L.,

Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres in the University of Edinburgh.
Edition. Foolscap Octavo, 7s. 6d.

Third

"A noble poem, healthy in tone and purely English in language, and closely linked to the historical traditions of his native country."-John Bull.

"Professor Aytoun has produced a fine poem and an able argument, and 'Bothwell' will assuredly take its stand among the classics of Scottish literature."-The Press.

The Ballads of Scotland. Edited by Professor Aytoun.

Second Edition. Two Volumes, Foolscap Octavo, 12s.

"No country can boast of a richer collection of Ballads than Scotland, and no Editor for these Ballads could be found more accomplished than Professor Aytoun. He has sent forth two beautiful volumes which range with Percy's 'Reliques'—which, for completeness and accuracy, leave little to be desired-which must henceforth be considered as the standard edition of the Scottish Ballads, and which we commend as a model to any among ourselves who may think of doing like service to the English Ballads."-The Times.

Poems and Ballads of Goethe. Translated by Professor

AYTOUN and THEODORE MARTIN. Second Edition, Foolscap Octavo, 6s. "There is no doubt that these are the best translations of Goethe's marvellously-cut gems which have yet been published."-The Times.

The Book of Ballads. Edited by Bon Gaultier.

Eighth

Edition, with numerous Illustrations, by DOYLE, LEECH, and CROWQUILL. Gilt Edges, Post Octavo, 8s. 6d.

Firmilian, or the Student of Badajoz. A Spasmodic

Tragedy. By T. PERCY JONES. In Small Octavo, 5s.

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

PUBLISHED BY W. BLACKWOOD AND SONS,

Poetical Works of Thomas Aird. Complete Edition, in

One Volume, Foolscap Octavo, 6s.

"Mr Aird is a poet of a very high class, and in that class he occupies no mean or middling place. His imagination is lofty, his invention fertile, his sentiments heroic, and his language generally clear and forcible."-Scotsman.

Poems. By the Lady Flora Hastings. Edited by her

SISTER. Second Edition, with a Portrait. Foolscap, 7s. 6d.

The Poems of Felicia Hemans. Complete in one Volume,

Royal Octavo, with Portrait by Finden, Cheap Edition, 12s. 6d. with MEMOIR by her SISTER, Seven Volumes, Foolscap, 35s. in Six Volumes, cloth, gilt edges, 24s.

Another Edition,
Another Edition,

"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.

The following Works of Mrs HEMANS are sold separately, bound in cloth, gilt edges, 4s. each:

RECORDS OF WOMAN.

FOREST SANCTUARY.

SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS.

DRAMATIC WORKS.

TALES AND HISTORIC SCENES.
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS POEMS.

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated into English Verse in

the Spenserian Stanza.

By PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY, M.A., Scholar of

Corpus Christi College. Two Volumes, Crown Octavo, 18s.

Poems and Translations. By P. S. Worsley, M.A.,

Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Foolscap Octavo, 5s.

Poetical Works of D. M. Moir (Delta). With Portrait, and

Memoir by THOMAS AIRD. Second Edition. Two Volumes, Foolscap Octavo, 12s.

Translations by Theodore Martin :

Goethe's Faust. Second Edition, Crown Octavo, 6s.

The Odes of Horace. With Life and Notes.
Post 8vo, 9s.

Second Edition,

Catullus. With Life and Notes. Post 8vo, 6s. 6d.

The Vita Nuova of Dante. With an Introduction and Notes.

Square 8vo, 7s. 6d.

Aladdin A Dramatic Poem. By Adam Oehlenschlaeger.
Foolscap Octavo, 5s.

Correggio: A Tragedy. By Oehlenschlaeger. With Notes.
Foolscap Octavo, 3s.

King Rene's Daughter: A Danish Lyrical Drama. By
HENRIK HERTZ. Second Edition, Foolscap, 2s. 6d.

The Course of Time: A Poem. In Ten Books. By Robert

POLLOK, A.M. Twenty-third Edition, Foolscap Octavo, 5s.

"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.

An Illustrated Edition of the Course of Time. In Large

Octavo, bound in cloth, richly gilt, 21s.

"There has been no modern poem in the English language, of the class to which the 'Course of Time' belongs, since Milton wrote, that can be compared to it. In the present instance the artistic talents of Messrs FoSTER, CLAYTON, TENNIEL, EVANS, DALZIEL, GREEN, and WOODS, have been employed in giving expression to the sublimity of the language, by equally exquisite illustrations, all of which are of the highest class."-Bell's Messenger.

Poems and Ballads of Schiller. Translated by Sir Edward

BULWER LYTTON, Bart. Second Edition, Octavo, 10s. 6d.

"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.

St Stephens; Or, Illustrations of Parliamentary Oratory.

A Poem. Comprising-Pym-Vane-Strafford-Halifax-Shaftesbury-St John -Sir R. Walpole - Chesterfield - Carteret - Chatham - Pitt-Fox-BurkeSheridan - Wilberforce - Wyndham - Conway-Castlereagh - William Lamb (Lord Melbourne)-Tierney-Lord Grey-O'Connell-Plunkett-Shiel-Follett— Macaulay-Peel. Second Edition. Crown Octavo, 5s.

Illustrations of the Lyric Poetry and Music of Scotland.

By WILLIAM STENHOUSE. Originally compiled to accompany the "Scots Musical Museum," and now published separately, with Additional Notes and Illustrations. Octavo, 7s. 6d.

The Birthday, and other Poems. By Mrs Southey. Second

Edition, 58.

Professor Wilson's Poems.

Containing the "Isle of

Palms," the "City of the Plague," "Unimore," and other Poems. Complete
Edition, Crown Octavo, 6s.

Poems and Songs. By David Wingate. In Fcap. Octavo.

5s.

"It contains genuine poetic ore, poems which win for their author a place among Scotland's true sons of song, and such as any man in any country might rejoice to have written."-London

Review.

"We are delighted to welcome into the brotherhood of real poets a countryman of Burns, and whose verse will go far to render the rougher Border Scottish a classic dialect in our literature." -John Bull.

PUBLISHED BY W. BLACKWOOD AND SONS,

Tales from "Blackwood." Complete in Twelve Volumes,

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.

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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.

Jessie Cameron: A Highland Story. By the Lady Rachel

BUTLER. Second Edition. Small Octavo, with a Frontispiece, 2s. 6d.

The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. By Thomas

AIRD. Foolscap Octavo, 4s.

"It is simply a series of village sketches of character, manners, and scenery, but the book is full of a quiet sustained humour, genuine pathos, simple unaffected poetry, and displays not only fine imaginative power, but a hearty sympathy with nature in all her aspects, and with the simple tastes and pleasures of rustic life. A more delightful book we cannot imagine."-Manchester Advertiser.

Tara: A Mahratta Tale. By Captain Meadows Taylor.

3 vols., Post Octavo, £1, 11s. 6d.

"A picture of Indian life which it is impossible not to admire. We have no hesitation in saying, that a more perfect knowledge of India is to be acquired from an attentive perusal and study of this work, than could be gleaned from a whole library."-Press.

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