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THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND. Illustrated by
ROBERT WILLIAM BILLINGS and WILLIAM BURN, Architects. To be completed in
Sixty Parts, of which Forty are published; each containing Four large
Engravings on Steel, by J. H. LE KEUX and other Artists, and One or more
Woodcuts, with Descriptive Letterpress; Price, in medium quarto, 2s. 6d.
each.

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first work which, either in point of extent or of style, has any claim
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Scotland."--_Quarterly Review._

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MEMORIALS OF THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. BY JAMES GRANT, Author of "Memoirs of
Kirkaldy of Grange", &c. &c. With Twelve Illustrations, engraved on Wood by
BRANSTON. In crown octavo, Price 7s. 6d.

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do not remember one that has equalled Mr. Grant's 'Memorials of the
Castle of Edinburgh.'"--_The Spectator._

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MEMOIRS AND ADVENTURES OF SIR WILLIAM KIRKALDY OF GRANGE, Knight, Commander
of French Horse, Lord of the Secret Council, and Governor of the Castle of
Edinburgh for Mary Queen of Scots. In One Vol., post octavo, Price 10s. 6d.

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once vigorous, perspicuous, and picturesque. The author's heart is
thoroughly with his subject; and he exhibits, ever and anon, flashes of
the old Scottish spirit, which we are glad to believe has not decayed
from the land."--_Blackwood's Magazine._

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LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS, AND OTHER POEMS. By WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE
AYTOUN, Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh. Third
Edition. With an APPENDIX, containing Examination of Statements in
MACAULAY'S "HISTORY OF ENGLAND," relative to GRAHAME of Claverhouse. In
fcp. octavo, Price 9s.

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Review._

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