9 JULY 1864, page 19

Lesley's Guardians.* Caen Home Has Dispelled A Fond...

had hitherto supposed that the law of England possessed, among its other transcendent merits, this pre-eminent one,—that by its glorious complexity, and especially by the beauty......

The Scot Abroad.*

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