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CONTINUATION OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE
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THE MONKS OF THE WEST,
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LIFE OF JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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POEMS AND BALLADS OF GOETHE.
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THE BOOK OF BALLADS.
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FIRMILIAN; OR, THE STUDENT OF BADAJOS.
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POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS AIRD.
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POEMS.
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THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER.
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ST STEPHEN'S;
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POEMS AND SONGS.
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THE PHYSICAL ATLAS OF NATURAL PHENOMENA.
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THE PHYSICAL ATLAS.
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A GEOLOGICAL MAP OF EUROPE.
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GEOLOGICAL MAP OF SCOTLAND.
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INTRODUCTORY TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
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HANDBOOK OF GEOLOGICAL TERMS, GEOLOGY, AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
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THE PAST AND PRESENT LIFE OF THE GLOBE:
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THE GEOLOGICAL EXAMINATOR:
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THE GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA:
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PHYSIOLOGY OF COMMON LIFE.
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CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE.
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NOMENCLATURE OF COLOURS,
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NARRATIVE OF THE EARL OF ELGIN'S MISSION TO CHINA AND JAPAN.
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RUSSIAN SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA:
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NOTES ON NORTH AMERICA:
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A FAMILY TOUR ROUND THE COASTS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
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THE ROYAL ATLAS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY.
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INDEX GEOGRAPHICUS:
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A NEW MAP OF EUROPE.
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ATLAS OF SCOTLAND.
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