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

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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
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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.

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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

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