Poetical Works of Thomas Aird.

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"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.

The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village.

By Thomas Aird. 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.

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Interludes.

By Alfred Austin, Author of 'The Season,' 'The Golden Age, &c. Fcap. 8vo, 5s.

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Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems.

By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L., Professor of Rhetoric and BellesLettres in the University of Edinburgh. Twenty-second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 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.

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Quarto, printed on Toned Paper, bound in gilt cloth, 215.

"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.

By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 7s. 6d. "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. Fourth Edition. 2 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.

By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L. 3 vols. post 8vo, 31s. 6d.

Firmilian, or the Student of Badajos.

A SPASMODIC TRAGEDY. By T. Percy Jones (Professor Aytoun). In small 8vo, 5s.

"Humour 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.

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

Author of 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,' &c. By Theodore Martin.
With Portrait. Post 8vo, 125.

"This biography is quite a model in its way, and a delightful relief after much that has been done of late years in a similar line. Good taste, right feeling, and a generous but seldom excessive appreciation of the subject, mark the work."-Manchester Guardian.

Blackwood's Magazine,

FROM COMMENCEMENT IN 1817 TO DECEMBER 1872. Nos. I to 586, forming 112 Volumes. £30.

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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 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 Surveyors Tale. By Professor Ayton.-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.

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The Forester :

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