WOEKS OF 



FICTION 



Tales from " Blackwood." Complete in Twelve Yolumes, 



Bound in cloth, ISs. The Volumes are sold separately, Is. 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.— TheOld 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 Oiie-Horse Chay. 



Vol. V. Adventures in Texas.— How we got possession of the Tuileries.— Captain Patons 

 Lament. — The Village Doctor. — A Singular Letter from Southern Africa. 



Vol. VI. My Friend the Dutchman.— My College Friends— No. 11. : 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.— Tlie 

 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 Bol- 

 ton's Curacy.- Tlie 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. TheNatolian Story-Teller.— The First and LastCrime.— John Rintoul.— Major Moss. 

 — The Premier and his Wife. 



Vol. XII. Tickler among the Thieves ! — The Bridegroom of Barna.- The Involuntary Experi- 

 mentalist — Lebrun's Lawsuit. — The Snowing-up of Strath Lugas.— A Few Words on Social 

 Philosophy. 



Jessie Cameron : A HigUand Story. By the Lady Racliel 



Butler. Second Edition. Small Octavo, with a Frontispiece, 2s. 6d. 



The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Tillage. By Thomas 



AiRD. Foolscap Octavo, 4s. 



" It is simply a series of village sketches of character, manners, and scenery, but 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." — 3Ian- 

 chester Advertiser. 



Tara : A Mahratta Tale. By Captain Meadows Taylor. 



3 vols.. Post Octavo, £1, lis. 6d. 



" A picture of Indian life which it is impossible not to admire. We bave no hesitation in 

 saying, that a more perfect knowledge of India is to be acquired from an attentive perusal and 

 study of this work, than could be gleaned from a whole library. "—Press. 



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