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Lately Published,

INDEX

TO

THE FIRST FIFTY VOLUMES

OF

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

In Octavo, pp. 588. Price 15s.

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. DXX.

FEBRUARY 1859.

VOL. LXXXV.

CONTENTS.

CARLYLE.-MIRAGE PHILOSOPHY.-HISTORY OF FREDERICK,

127

HOW WE WENT TO SKYE,

155

OBJECTIONABLE BOOKS,

164

POPULAR LITERATURE. PART II. THE PERIODICAL PRESS,

180

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