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Middlemarch: A Study of English Provincial Life.

By George Eliot. A New Edition. 4 vols. fcap. 8vo, 21s.

Mysie's Pardon.

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From Patmos to Paradise;

Or, Light on the Past, the Present, and the Future. By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D., F.R.S.E., Minister of the Scotch National Church, Crown Court, Covent Garden, London. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d.

A Handbook of Weather Folk-Lore:

Being a Collection of Proverbial Sayings, in various Languages, relating to the Weather, with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes. By the Rev. C. SWAINSON, M.A., Vicar of High Hurst Wood. Fcap. 8vo, Roxburghe binding; 6s. 6d.

The History of Scotland;

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The Coming Race.

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Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary Biography.

By LAURENCE OLIPHANT. With Eight Illustrations by Richard Doyle. Fourth Edition, 6s.

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