HURST & BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY 



XI. MARGARET AND HER BRIDESMAIDS. 



BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE VALLEY OF A HUNDRED FIRES," 



" We recommend all who are in search of a fascinating novel to read this work for 

 themselves. They will find it well worth their while. There are a freshness and origin- 

 ality about it quite charming, and there is a certain nobleness in the treatment both of 

 sentiment and incident which is not often found." Athenaeum. 



XIL THE OLD JUDGE; OR, LIFE IN A COLONY. 



BY SAM SLICK. 



" A peculiar interest attaches to sketches of colonial life, and readers could not have a 

 safer guide than the talented author of this work, who, by a residence of half a century, 

 has practically grasped the habits, manners, and social conditions of the colonists he de- 

 scribes. All who wish to form a fair idea of the difficulties and pleasures of life in a new 

 country, unlike England in some respects, yet like it in many, should read this book." 

 John Bull. 



XIIL DARIEN; OR, THE MERCHANT PRINJE. 



BY ELIOT WARBURTON. 



" This last production of the author of ' The Crescent and the Cross ' has the 

 elements of a very wide popularity. It will please its thousands." Globe. 



" Eliot Warburton's active and productive genius is amply exemplified in the present 

 book. We have seldom met with any work in which the realities of history and the 

 poetry of fiction were more happily interwoven." Illustrated Newt. 



XIV. FAMILY ROMANCE ; OR, DOMESTIC ANNALS 

 OF THE ARISTOCRACY. 



BY SIR BERNARD BURKE, ULSTER KING OF ARMS. 



" It were impossible to praise too highly this most interesting book, whether we should 

 have regard to its excellent plan or its not less excellent execution. It ought to be found 

 on every drawing-room table. Here you have nearly fifty captivating romances with the 

 pith of all their interest preserved in undiminished poignancy, and any one may be read 

 in half an hour. It is not the least of their merits that the romances are founded on fact 

 or what, at least, has been handed down for truth by long tradition and the romance 

 of reality far exceeds the romance of fiction." Standard. 



XV. THE LAIRD OF NORLAW. 



BY MRS. OLIPHANT. 



"We have had frequent opportunities of commending Messrs. Hurst and Blackett'e 

 Standard Library. For neatness, elegance, and distinctness the volumes in this seriei 

 surpass anything with which we are familiar. 'The Laird of Norlaw' will fully sustain 

 the author's high reputation. The reader is carried on from first to last with an energy 

 of sympathy that never flags." Sunday Times. 



"'The Laird of Norlaw' is worthy of the author's reputation. It is one of the mosi 

 exquisite of modern novels." Observer. 



XVL THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN ITALY. 

 BY MRS. G. GRETTON. 



"Mrs. Gretton had opportunities which rarely fall to the lot of strangers of becoming 

 acquainted with the inner life and habits of a part of the Italian peninsula which is the 

 very centre of the national crisis. We can praise her performance as interesting, unexag 

 gerated, and full of opportune instruction." T'ie Times. 



"Mrs. Gretton' s book is timely, life-iike, and tor every reason to be recommended It 

 is impossible to close the book without liking the writer as well as the subject The work 

 is eupaging, because real. 1 ' Atficnxunu 



