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CONTENTS.
The Scot Abroad—The Man of Diplomacy.
She' dies on t e Way to St'ckholm.
The Athelhigs ; or, The Three (Tuts.—Part IV.
Sea Side Studics.—Part 11.
A Chapter on Penln.ular Dogs.
Oldtower: a Brookside DialNue.
The Poetry of Christian Art.
Macaulay.'
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A Month in the Crimea, after the Pall of Sevastopol. By a Cavalry
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Madame Vestris.
The Joint-stock Banker. A Ta'e of the Day. By Dudley Costello.
Chaps. XVII., XVIII., and XIX.
Charles Reade's " It is never to late to mend."
The Spendthrift. By W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq.
Aytoun's Bothwell.
The Euphrates Valley Railway and Indo-European Telegraph.
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