HURST AND BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY 

 OF CHEAP EDITIONS. 



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

 (continued). 



VOL. X.-THE OLD COURT SUBURB. BY LEIGH HUNT. 



"A delightful book, of which the charm begins at the first line on the first page, for full of 

 quaint and pleasant memories is the phrase that is its title, ' The Old Court Suburb.' Very full 

 too, both of quaint and pleasant memories is the line that designates the author. It is the 

 name of the most cheerful of chroniclers, the best of remembrancers of good things, the 

 most polished and entertaining of educated gossips 'The Old Court Suburb' is a work that 

 will be welcome to all readers, and most welcome to those who have a love for the best 

 kinds of reading." — Examiner. 



VOL. XL-MARGARET AND HER BRIDESMAIDS. 



"We may save ourselves the trouble of giving any lengthened review of this work, for 

 we recommend all who are in search of a fascinating novel to re*d it for themselves. They 

 will find it well worth their while. There are a freshness and originality about it quite 

 charming, and there is a certain nobleness in the treatment both of sentiment aud incident 

 which is not often found." — Atkenmuni. 



VOL. XIL-THE OLD JUDGE. BY SAM SLICK 



"The present work of Judge Haliburton is quite equal to the first. Every page is alive 

 with rapid, fresh sketches of character, droll, quaint, racy sayings, good-humoured practical 

 jokes, and capitally. told anecJotes." — Chronicle. 



"These popular sketches, in which the Author of ' Sam Slick' paints Nova Scotian life, 

 form the Tith Volume of Messrs Hurst aud Blackett's Standard Library of Modern Works. 

 The publications included in this Library have all been of good qu-ility; many give infor- 

 mation while they entertain, and of that class the book before us is a specimen. The 

 manner in which the Cheap Editions forming the series is produced deserves especial 

 mention. The paper and print are unexceptional; there is a steel engraving in each 

 volume, and the outsides of them will satisfy the purchaser who likes to see a regiment of 

 books in handsome uniform." — Examiner. 



VOL. XIIL-DARIEN. BY ELIOT WARBURTON. 



•This last production, from the pen of the author of ' The Crescent and the Cross,* 

 has the same elements of a very wide popularity. It will please its thousands." — Glohe. 



"This work will be read with peculiar interest as the last contribution to the literature 

 of his country of a man endowed with no ordinary gifts of intellect. We have seldom 

 met with any work in which the realities of history and the poetry of fiction were more 

 happily interwoven." — Illitstrated News 



VOL. XIV.-FAMILY ROMANCE ; OR, DOMESTIC ANNALS 

 OP THE ARISTOCRACY. 



BY SIR BERNARD BURKE, ulster king op arms. 

 " It were impossible to praise too highly as a work of amusement this most interesting 

 book, whether we should have regard to its excellent plan or its not less excellent exe- 

 cution. 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 poig- 

 nancy, 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 — aud the romance of reality far exceeds the romance of fiction." — Standard. 



VOL. XV.— THE LAIRD OF NORLAW. 



BY THE AUTHOR OF "MARGARET MAITLAND." 



"The author of this delightful work is favourably known to the reading public through 

 several other books of the same class, but the present is, in our judgment, by far the best 

 and most finished production of them all. Scottish life and character, in connection with 

 the fortunes of the house of Norlaw, are here delineated with truly artistic skill. The plot 

 cf the tale is simple, but the incidents with which it is interwoven are highly wrought and 

 dramatic in their etfect, and altogether there is a fascination about the work which holds 

 the attention spell-bound from the first page to the last." — Herald. 



