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 16 LIST OF BOOKS A Rectorial Address delivered before the Students of Aberdeen University, in the Music Hall at Aberdeen, on Nov. o, 1S80 By The Eakl of Rosebeey. 6d. A Rectorial Address delivered before the Students of the University of Edinburgh, Xov. i, 1SS2. By The Earl of Rosebery. 6d. Aberdour and Inchcolme. Being Historical Notices of the I'arish and Monastery, in Twelve Lectures. By the Rev. William Rcss, LL D.. Autlior of "Burgh Life in Dunfermline in the Olden Time." Crown Svo, 6s. "If anyone would know what Aberdour has been, or, indeed, what to some extent has been the liistory of many another parish in Scotland, he cannot do better than read these Lectures. He will find the taska pleasant one." —Satur dan Review. " " We know no book which within so small a compass contains so varied so accurate, and so vivid a description of the past life of the Scottish people whether ecclesiastical or social, as Dr. Ross's ' Aberdour and Inchcolme ' "— Scottish Review. " It seems a pity that so good a thing should have been so long withheld from a wider audience; but better late than never."~Scotsman. Notes and Sketches from the Wild Coasts of Nipon. With Chapters on Cruising after Pirates in Cliinese Waters. By Hen-ry C St JoHX, Captain R.N. Small demy Svo, with Maps and Illustrations, V2>,. "One of the most charming books of travel that has been published for some time." — Scotsman. "There is a great deal more in the book than Natural History. . . . His pictures of life and manners are quaint and effective, and the more so from the witing being natural and free from effort."— Athenceum. "He writes with a simplicity.'and directness, and not seldom with a degree of graphic power, which, even apart troni the freslmess of the matter, renders his book delightful reading. Nothing could be better of its kind tlian the description of the Inland Sea."— Daily News. Natural History and Sport in Moray. By the late Charles St. John, Author of "Wild Sports in the Highlands" Second Edition. In 1 vol. royal Svo, with 40 page Illustrations of Scenery and Animal Life, engraved by A. Duraxd after sketches made by Geoege Reid, R.S.A., and J. Wvcliffe Taylor; also, 30 Pen-and-ink Drawings by the Author in facsimile. 50s. " This is a new edition of the work brought out by the friends of the late Mr. St. John in 1S63; but it is so handsomely and nobly printed, and enriched with such charming illustrations, that we may consider it a new book."— Sf. James's Gazette. " Charles St. John was not an artist, but he had the habit of roughly sketchino- animals m positions which interested him, and the present reprint is adorned by a great number of these, facsimiled from the author's original pen and ink. Some of these, as for instance the studies of the golden eagle swooping on its prey, and that of the otter swimming with a salmon in its mouth, are very interestiii<^,' and full of that charm that comes from the exact transcription of 'unusual observa- tion."— PaZZ Mall Gazette. A Tour in Sutherlandshire, with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. By the late Charles St John, Author of " Wild Sports and Natural History in the Highlands." Second Edition, with an Appendix on the Fauna of Sutherland, by J. A. Harvie-Browk and T. E. Buckley. Illustrated with the original Wood Engravings, and additional V ignettes from the Author's sketch-books. In 2 vols, small demy Svo, 21s. " Every page is full of interest."— T^e Field. _ " There is not a wild creature in the Highlands, from the great stag to the tiny hre-crested wren, of which he has not something pleasant to say."— Pall Mall Gazette. Life of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. By Professor Schierx, Copenhagen. Translated from the Danish by the Rev. David Berry, F.S.A. Scot. Demy Svo, IGs.