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TO TOURISTS IN SWITZERLAND.

In a neat Portable Volume, price 38. 6d.

THE TOUR OF MONT BLANC AND OF MONTE ROSA;

BEING A PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

BY JAMES D. FORBES, D.C.L., F.R.S., SEC. R.S. EDIN. Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, and of other Academies, and Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.

By the same Author,

In demy 8vo, with Ten Plates and Twenty-nine Wood Engravings,
Price 10s. 6d.,

OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON THE THEORY
OF GLACIERS,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED.

WITH A PREFATORY NOTE ON THE RECENT PROGRESS AND
PRESENT ASPECT OF THE THEORY.

In Royal 8vo, cloth, price 21s.

NORWAY AND ITS GLACIERS

VISITED IN 1851.

FOLLOWED BY JOURNALS OF EXCURSIONS IN THE HIGH ALPS
OF DAUPHINÉ, BERNE, AND SAVOY.

With Two Maps, Ten Lithographic Views printed in colours by Day and Son,
and Twenty-two Wood Engravings,

"This is one of those books which we need not blush to present to foreign philosophers and men of learning as a specimen of the literature of science in England."-Examiner.

EDINBURGH; ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.

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"For fiction, read Scott alone, all novels after his are worthless."Charlotte Bronte, New Edition, p. 106.

EVERY LIBRARY SHOULD CONTAIN & COMPLETE SET of the

WAVERLEY NOVELS, which can now be had in every desirable shape,

and at the most available prices, as noted below :

1, for £2: 28., THE PEOPLE'S EDITION, in 5 large Volumes, with five Illustrations in Wood, and the famous Portrait of Scott by Raeburn, Engraved on Steel. It is printed in double columns, and is well suited for a Library where space is a desideratum.

2, for £3: 158., The Cabinet EDITION, in 25 small Volumes, with a beautiful Woodcut for each volume, and an Engraving of the Author from GREENSHIELD'S Statue. Each Volume contains an entire Novel, which renders this Edition perhaps the most convenient for ordinary pur

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3, for £7: 4s., THE RE-ISSUE EDITION, in 48 handy Volumes, printed in large legible type, and containing as many as 96 Engravings on Wood and Steel, As this is uniform with the entire Series of Scott's Works, it has always been held as the Favourite Edition.

4, for £13:2: 6., THE LIBRARY EDITION, in 25 Octavo Volumes, bound in rich extra cloth, and profusely illustrated with 204 Splendid Steel Engravings, by the most eminent Artists of their time, including Vandyke, Zucherro, Le Tocque, Wilkie, Turner, Roberts, Landseer, Stanfield, Frith, Pickersgill, Phillips, Faed, &c., &c. Each Volume contains an entire Novel, printed in large excellent type. This Edition, whether in point of execution or sterling value, is unequalled by any Work of the kind in our Language, and should certainly find a place in every “ Gentleman's Library.”

EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK;

AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

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NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS.

On the 2d of May will be published the First Volume of
A NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF

THE AUTHOR'S FAVOURITE EDITION

Of the Waverley Novels,

In 48 Volumes fcap. 8vo, price 4s. 6d. each, cloth,

Illustrated with 96 Steel Engravings, and upwards of 1000

Woodcuts.

PRINTED FROM A NEW TYPE, AND IN THE BEST STYLE, BY R. AND R. CLARK, EDINBURGH.

Volumes will be published Monthly, but the printing will be ted that parties desiring to complete their Sets will have unity of doing so in Eighteen Months.

EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.

MEMENTOS OF THE LAND OF SCOTT.

Beautifully Illustrated Editions of the

LADY OF THE LAKE. LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL.

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LORD OF THE ISLES.
MARMION.

With Steel Engravings from TURNER, and Woodcuts by FOSTER and GILBERT,
In post 8vo, cloth, price 18s. in extra cloth gilt, or 25s. in morocco.

EDINBURGH: A. & C. BLACK.

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Just published, Third Edition, in One Vol. Foolscap 8vo, price 3s. 6d.,

THE PRACTICAL ANGLER,

OR,

THE ART OF TROUT-FISHING

MORE PARTICULARLY APPLIED TO CLEAR WATER.

BY W. C. STEWART.

out hesitation we pronounce this little treatise the best we have ever agling for trout with the artificial fly, worm, minnow, and other baits." Life in London.

EDINBURGH: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK.

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