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Robert Fergusson. By A. B. Grosart. (oliphant, Anderson,...

L'dinnurgh.)—Dr. Grosart means well by his hero in the monograph which he has added to the popular and inter- esting "Famous Scots" series, and, as a previous work from his pen......

The Story Of Australia. By Flora L. Shaw. (horace Marshall

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The Rubdiyat Of Omar Khayyam. (h. S. Nichols. 108. 6d.

net.)— This scholarly and elaborate work consists of a facsimile of the manuscript in the Bodleian, a transcript into modern Persian characters, a translation into English......

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