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8 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems. By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L. Professor of Ehetoric and Belles- Lettres in the University of Edinburgh. Twelfth Edition, price 7s. 6d. " Mr Aytoun's Laps are truly beautiful, and are perfect poems of their class, pregnant with fire, with patriotic ardour, with loyal zeal, with exquisite pathos, with noble passion. Who can hear the opening lines descriptive of Edinburgh after the great battle of Flodden, and not feel that the minstrel's soul has caught the genuine inspiration ? " — Morning Post.

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