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PROFESSOR AYTOUN.

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems.

Twenty-fifth Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 7s. 6d.

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"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.

An Illustrated Edition of the Lays. From de

signs by Sir J. Noel Paton and W. H. Paton, R.S.A. Engraved by John Thomson, 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 have 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 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. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo,

7s. 6d.

The Ballads of Scotland.

Edited by Professor

Aytoun. Fourth Edition. 2 vols., fcap. 8vo, 12s.

vols., fcap. 8vo, 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 desiredwhich 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.

Norman Sinclair. A Novel. 3 vols., 31s. 6d.

Firmilian; or, the Student of Badajos. A Spas

MODIO TRAGEDY. By T. Percy Jones (Professor Aytoun). In small 8vo, 58.

Memoir of William E. Aytoun, D.C.L. Author

of 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,' &c. By Theodore Martin. With Portrait. Post 8vo, 12s.

PROFESSOR AYTOUN and THEODORE MARTIN.

The Book of Ballads. Edited by Bon Gaultier.

Twelfth Edition, with numerous Illustrations by DOYLE, LEECH, and CROWQUILL. Gilt edges, post 8vo, 8s. 6d.

The Late THOMAS AIRD.

Poetical Works. Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 6s. The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village.

Fcap. 8vo, 4s.

"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.

ANCIENT CLASSICS

For English Readers. By Various Authors.

Edited by Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. 20 vols. fcap. 8vo, 2s. 6d. each.

Supplementary Series of Ancient Classics for

ENGLISH READERS, now in course of publication. To be completed in 8 or 10 vols., price 2s. 6d. each.

AUTHOR OF THE BATTLE OF DORKING.

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The Dilemma. By the Author of The Battle

of Dorking.' Cheap Edition. In one vol. crown 8vo, 6s. "When the author of the Battle of Dorking' writes on war, he is very sure to command attention, and his literary talent can weave his military knowledge into fiction that is fascinating as well as instructive.

We can only repeat that there is at least as much sensation, although of a different kind, in the closing chapters as in those which describe the Mutiny; and if the story swings along briskly throughout, it certainly does not hang at the finish."-Times.

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Battle of Dorking. Reminiscences of a Volunteer.

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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 Metempsy-
chosis.-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.-Narra-
tion of Certain Uncommon Things that did formerly happen to Me, Her-
bert 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 Terri-
tory.-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 Rin-
toul.-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.

M. E. CUMMING BRUCE.

Family Records of the Bruces and the Cumyns.

With an Historical Introduction and Appendix from authentic Public and Private Documents. Quarto, cloth, £2, 10s. Large-paper Edition, medium quarto, cloth, £3, 10s.

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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.

HENRY LORD BROUGHAM.

Memoirs of the Life and Times of Henry Lord

BROUGHAM. Written by Himself. 3 vols. 8vo, £2, 8s. The volumes are sold separately, 16s. each.

JAMES BROWN, Forester.

The Forester: A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General Management of Forest-trees. Fourth Edition. Royal 8vo, with Engravings, £1, 11s. 6d.

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R. E. BROWN

The Book of the Landed Estate: Containing

Directions for the Management and Development of the Resources of Landed Property; detailing the Duties of the Landlord, Factor, Tenant, Forester, and Labourer. With numerous Engravings. Half-bound, 218.

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The Maid of Sker. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo,

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