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_COMPLETION OF THE COPYRIGHT EDITION OF_
WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS.
EDITED BY ALEXANDER LEIGHTON,
One of the Original Editors and Contributors.
In announcing the completion of the Copyright Edition of the BORDER
TALES, the Publisher does not consider it necessary to say anything
in recommendation of a work which has stood the test of a general
competition, and which has increased in public favour with its years.
Equally suited to all classes of readers, it has been received with
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village reading-room. Many of the Tales have been publicly read. The
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The new Copyright Edition will contain four additional Volumes, now
first published, which will complete the work. It will be issued in
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Demy 8vo, cloth, price 10s. 6d.,
JAMIESON'S
SCOTTISH DICTIONARY.
Abridged from the Dictionary and Supplement (in 4 vols. 4to), by JOHN
JOHNSTONE. An entirely new Edition, Revised and Enlarged, by JOHN
LONGMUIR, A.M., LL.D., formerly Lecturer in King's College and
University, Aberdeen.
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I.
THE EARTH'S CRUST.
A Handy Outline of Geology. With numerous Illustrations. Third Edition.
By DAVID PAGE, LL.D., F.R.S.E., F.G.S.,
Author of 'Text-Books of Geology and Physical Geography,' etc.
'Such a work as this was much wanted,--a work giving in clear and
intelligible outline the leading facts of the science, without
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II.
POULTRY AS A MEAT SUPPLY:
Being Hints to Henwives how to Rear and Manage Poultry Economically and
Profitably. Fourth Edition. By the Author of 'The Poultry Kalendar.'
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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