NOW IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION, 



HURST AND BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY 



OF CHEAP EDITIONS OF 



POPULAR MODERN WORKS. 



Each in a single volume, elegantly printed, bound, and illustrated, price 5s. 

 A volume to appear every two months. The following are now ready. 



VOL. I. SAM SLICK'S NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE 

 ILLUSTRATED BY LEECH 



Messrs Hurst and Blackett have very fitly inaugurated their Standard Library of 

 Popular Modem Works \vith this admirable volume. With regard to this we can truly 

 say : Who can tire of the genuine sallies, the deep wisdom wrapped up in merry guise, 

 and the side-splitting outbursts of genuine wit, in the pages of Haliburton? 'Nature 

 and Human Nature is particularly full of all these qualities ; and to those who love a 

 good laugh, when they can enjoy it accompanied by good matter for reflection, and who 

 have not yet read this production of Sam Slick, we can heartily recommend this elegant 

 Edition." Critic. 



" The first 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 

 productions, 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 recom- 

 mendations of a clear, bold type, and good paper, the lesser, but attractive merits, of 

 being well illustrated and elegantly bound." Post. 



" This new and cheap edition of Sam Slick's popular work will be an acquisition to all 

 lovers of wit and humoiir. Mr Justice Haliburton's writings are so well known that no 

 commendation is needed. The volume is very handsomely bound and illustrated, and the 

 paper and type are excellent. It is in every way suited for a library edition, and as the 

 names of Messrs Hurst and Blackett warrant the character of the works to be produced in 

 their Standard Library, we have no doubt the project will be eminently successful." Sun. 



YOL. II. JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. 



"This is a very good and a very interesting work. It is designed to trace the career 

 from boyhood to ao;e of a perfect man a Christian gentleman, and it abounds in incident 

 both well and highly wrought. Throughout it is conceived in a high spirit, and written 

 with great ability. This cheap and handsome new edition is worthy to pass freely from 

 hand to hand as a gift book in many households." Examiner. 



" 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 truo 

 pathos. It is a book that few will read without becoming wiser and better. Scntmna n. 



" ' John Halifax' is more than worthy of the author's reputation. We consider, in- 

 deed, that it is her best work. There are in it many passages of beautiful writing. 

 The closing scenes are deeply pathetic, and few will lay down the book without tearful 

 eyes. 'John Halifax' is a picture, drawn with a masterly hand, of one of nature's 

 gentlemen. Everybody who ever reads a novel should read this one." Critic. 



" The 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." Atltc-neeum. 



" John Halifax is one of the noblest stories among modern works of fiction. Tho 

 interest of the story is enthralling, the characters admirably sustained, and the moral 

 excellent. "Press. 



"In 'John Halifax' every character is consistently conceived and very truthfully 

 delineated. The incidents, the scenes, the ' still life/ are painted with a power that 

 sustains the attention of the reader." Spectator. 



" If the delineation of the grand in character, the glorious in action, the tender in 

 feeling, the pure in heart, can bestow eminence on a production, this work must take 

 its place among the standard and the excellent." Sun. 



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