NOW IN COURSE OF POnLIOATIOX. 



HUHST AKD BLACKETT'S STANDAED 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. 



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

 of Popular Modern Works 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 recommendations of a clear, bold type, and good paper, the lesser, but 

 still attractive merits, of being well illustrated and elegantly hound."— Murni7ig Post. 



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

 all lovers of wit and humour. Mr. Justice Haliburton's writings are so well knowu to 

 the English public 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 

 pi'oject will be eminently successful." — Sun. 



VOL. II.-JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. 



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

 from boyhood to age 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, better than any former work, we think, of its deservedly successful 

 author. 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 true 

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



VOL. Ill.-THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. 



BY ELIOT WAIIBURTON. 



"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 

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

 reverent and serious spirit." — Quarterly Review 



"A book calculated to prove more practically useful was never penned than 'The 

 Crescent ai\d the Cross' — a work which surpasses all others in its homage for the sub- 

 lime and its love for the beautiful in those famous regions consecrated to everlasting 

 immortality in the annals of the prophets, and which no other writer has ever depicted 

 with a pencil at once so reverent and so picturesque." — Su}i. 



VOL. 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 to 

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

 books of its class." — Athenceum. 



" A tale of untiring interest, full of deep touches of human nature. We have no hesi- 

 tation in predicting for this delightful tale a lasting popularity, and a place in the foremost 

 ranks of that most instructive kind of fiction— the moral novel." — John Bull. 



"A more judicious selection than 'Nathalie' could not have been made for Messrs. 

 Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library. The series as it advances realises our first im- 

 piession, that it will be one of lasting celebrity." — Literary Gazette. 



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