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BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCCLXVIII.      OCTOBER, 1854.      Vol. LXXVI.

CONTENTS.

Speculators among the Stars.—Part II.,[371]
King Otho and his Classic Kingdom,[403]
Student Life in Scotland.—Part II.,[422]
Civilisation.—The Census,[435]
A Russian Reminiscence,[452]
Records of the Past.—Nineveh and Babylon,[458]
The Opening of the Ganges Canal,[475]
The Uses of Beauty,[476]
Spanish Politics and Cuban Perils,[477]

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