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Books and Authors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches
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Authors; Literature -- Anecdotes
The following Works are comprised in the Series:--
Vols.
WYATT, 1
SPENSER, 5
SHAKESPEARE & SURREY, 1
HERBERT, 1
WALLER & DENHAM, 1
MILTON, 2
BUTLER, 2
DRYDEN, 2
PRIOR, 1
THOMSON, 1
JOHNSON, PARNELL, GRAY & SMOLLETT, 1
POPE, 2
SHENSTONE, 1
AKENSIDE, 1
GOLDSMITH, COLLINS & T. WARTON, 1
ARMSTRONG, DYER, & GREEN, 1
CHURCHILL, 1
BEATTIE, BLAIR & FALCONER, 1
BURNS, 2
COWPER, 2
BOWLES, 2
SCOTT, 3
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES, 3
CRAWSHAW & QUARLES' EMBLEMS, 1
ADDISON, GAY'S FABLES & SOMERVILLE'S CHASE, 1
YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS, 1
PERCY'S RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY, 3
SPECIMENS, WITH LIVES OF THE LESS KNOWN BRITISH POETS, 3
H. K. WHITE AND J. GRAHAME'S POETICAL WORKS, 1
_Any of the Works may be had separately, price 4s. each Volume._
HUGH MILLER'S WORKS.
CHEAP POPULAR EDITIONS,
_In crown 8vo, cloth extra, price 5s. each._
I.
Thirteenth Edition.
My Schools and Schoolmasters; or, The Story of my Education.
'A story which we have read with pleasure, and shall treasure up in
memory for the sake of the manly career narrated, and the glances at
old-world manners and distant scenes afforded us by the
way.'--_Athenæum._
A cheaper edition of 'My Schools and Schoolmasters' is also
published, bound in limp cloth, price 2s. 6d.
II.
Thirty-fourth Thousand.
The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology
in its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed.
_Profusely Illustrated._
'The most remarkable work of perhaps the most remarkable man of the
age.... A magnificent epic, and the Principia of Geology.'--_British and
Foreign Evangelical Review._
III.
Ninth Edition.
The Cruise of the Betsey; or, A Summer Ramble among the Fossiliferous
Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist; or Ten Thousand
Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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