TALES FROM "BLACKWOOD.” 12 Volumes. Sewed, 12s. Bound in cloth, 18s. The volumes are sold separately, 1s. and 1s. 6d., and may be had of most Booksellers in Six volumes, handsomely half-bound in red morocco, 28s. 12 volumes in 6, half Roxburghe, 21s. 12 volumes, halfcalf, richly gilt, 30s. 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. 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