HURST &BLACKETTS STANDARD LIBRARY 



OF CHEAP EDITIONS OP 



POPULAR MODERN WORKS. 



ILLUSTRATED BY 



SIR J. E. MILLAIS, SIR J. GILBERT, HOLMAN HUNT, BIRKET FOSTER, 



JOHN LEECH, JOHN TENNIEL, J. LASLETT POTT, ETC. 

 Each in a Single Volume, with Frontispiece, price 5s. 



I. SAM SLICK'S NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE. 



"The flrst volume of Messrs. Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library of Cheap Editions 

 forms a very good beginning to what will doubtless be a very successful undertaking. 

 'Nature and Human Nature ' is one of the best of Sam Slick's witty and humorous pro- 

 ductions, and well entitled to the large circulation which it cannot fail to obtain in its 

 present convenient and cheap shape. The volume combines with the great recommenda- 

 tions of a clear, bold type and good paper, the lesser, but attractive merits of being well 

 illustrated and elegantly bound." Morning Post, 



II. JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. 



"The new and cheaper edition of this interesting work will doubtless meet with great 

 success. John Halifax, the hero of this most beautiful story, is no ordinary hero, and 

 this his history is no ordinary book. It is a full-length portrait of a true gentleman, one 

 of nature's own nobility. It is also the history of a home, and a thoroughly English one . 

 The work abounds in incident, and many of the scenes are full of graphic power and true 

 pathos. It is a book that few will read without becoming wiser and better." Scotsman. 



" This story is very interesting. The attachment between John Halifax and his wife is 

 beautifully painted, as are the pictures of their domestic life, and the growing up of their 

 children; and the conclusion of the book is beautiful and touching." Athen&um. 



III. THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. 



BY ELIOT WARBURTON. 



"Independent of its value as an original narrative, and its useful and interesting 

 information, this work is remarkable for the colouring power and play of fancy with 

 which its descriptions are enlivened. Among its greatest and most lasting charms is its 

 reverent and serious spirit" Quarterly Review. 



" Mr. Warburton has fulfilled the promise of his title-page. The ' Realities of Eastern 

 Travel' are described with a vividness which invests them with deep and abiding inter- 

 est; while the 'Romantic' adventures which the enterprising tourist met with in his 

 course are narrated with a spirit which shows how much he enjoyed these reliefs from 

 the ennui of e very-day life."- Globe. 



IV. NATHALIE. 



BY JULIA KAVANAGH. 



" Nathalie' is Miss Kavanagh's best imaginative effort. Its manner is gracious and 

 attractive. Its matter is good. A sentiment, a tenderness, are commanded by her which 

 are as individual as they are elegant We should not soon come to an end were we tu 

 specify all the delicate touches and attractive pictures which place ' Nathalie ' high amon& 

 books of its class." Atfienceum. 



V. A WOMAN'S THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN. 



BY THE AUTHOR OF "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." 



"These thoughts are good and humane. They are thoughts we would wish womem to 

 think : they are much more to the purpose than the treatises upon the women and daugh- 

 ters of England, which were fashionable some years ago, and these thoughts mark the 

 progress of opinion, and indicate a, higher tone of character, and a juster estimate of 

 woman's position." Athenaeum. 



41 This excellent book is characterised by good sense, good taste, and f eeling, aad i.t 

 written in an earnest, philanthropic, as well as practical spirit" Mommy Pest. 



