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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, L10, 10s.

       ANOTHER EDITION, in Crown 8vo, 20 vols., L6.

       A PEOPLE'S EDITION, 12 vols., closely printed in double columns,
       L2, 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., L6, 7s. 6d. Uniform with
    the Library Edition of the previous work.

       A PEOPLE'S EDITION, in 8 vols., closely printed in double
       columns, L1, 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,
    L3, 3s.; People's Edition, Crown 4to, L1, 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, L2, 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 "Flaneur." 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 Nicaea and Constantinople, A.D. 1204 to 1453. 2
       vols., L1, 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, L1, 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, L2 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 Lycee 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, L4, 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."--_Athenaeum._


 _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,
    L2, 8s. Illustrated with Portraits on Steel.


 _RECREATIONS OF CHRISTOPHER NORTH._
    By PROFESSOR WILSON. In 2 vols. Crown 8vo, 8s.


 _THE NOCTES AMBROSIANAE._
    By PROFESSOR WILSON. With Notes and a Glossary. In 4 vols. Crown
    8vo, 16s.


 _LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SCOTTISH LIFE._
    By PROFESSOR WILSON. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth.


 _THE TRIALS OF MARGARET LYNDSAY._
    By PROFESSOR WILSON. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth.


 _THE FORESTERS._
    By PROFESSOR WILSON. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth.


 _TALES._
    By PROFESSOR WILSON. Comprising 'The Lights and Shadows of Scottish
    Life;' 'The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay;' and 'The Foresters.' In 1
    vol. Crown 8vo, 4s. cloth.


 _ESSAYS, CRITICAL AND IMAGINATIVE._
    By PROFESSOR WILSON. 4 vols. Crown 8vo, 16s.


 _TONY BUTLER._
    Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine.' 3 vols. post 8vo,
    L1, 11s. 6d.


 _THE BOOK-HUNTER, ETC._
    By JOHN HILL BURTON. New Edition. In Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d.

"A book pleasant to look at and pleasant to read--pleasant from its rich
store of anecdote, its geniality, and its humour, even to persons who
care little for the subjects of which it treats, but beyond measure
delightful to those who are in any degree members of the above-mentioned
fraternity."--_Saturday Review._

"We have not been more amused for a long time: and every reader who
takes interest in typography and its consequences will say the same, if
he will begin to read; beginning, he will finish, and be sorry when it
is over."--_Athenaeum._

"Mr Burton has now given us a pleasant book, full of quaint anecdote,
and of a lively bookish talk. There is a quiet humour in it which is
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