Notices of Harper's Libraries of Standard Works. 



THE FAMILY LIBRARY. 



" The Family Library — A title which, from the valuable and entertaining matter 

 the collection contains, as well as from the careful style of its execution, it well de- 

 i serves. No family, indeed, in which there are children to be brought up, ought to 

 be without this Library, as it furnishes the readiest resources for that education which 

 ought to accompany or succeed that of the boarding-school or the academy, and is 

 infinitely more conducive than either to the cultivation of the intellect." — Monthly 

 Review. 



" We have repeatedly borne testimony to the utility of this work. It is one of the 

 best that has ever been issued from the American press, and should be in the library 

 of every family desirous of treasuring up useful knowledge." — Boston Statesrnan. 



" The Family Library presents, in a compendious and convenient form, well- 

 written histories of popular men, kingdoms, sciences, &c., arranged and edited by 

 able writers, and drawn entirely from the most correct and accredited authorities." — 

 Charleston Gazette. 



FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. 



" The Family Classical Library is another of those cheap, useful, and elegant works 

 which we lately spoke of as forming an era in our publishing history." — Spectator. 



"This work, pubhshed at a low price, is beautifully got up. Though to profess to 

 be content with translations of the Classics has been denounced as ' the thin disguise 

 of indolence,' there are thousands who have no leisure for studying the dead lan- 

 guages, who would yet like to know what was thought and said by the sages and 

 poets of antiquity. To them this work will be a treasure." — Sunday Times. 



" We see no reason why this work should not find its way into the boudoir of the 

 lady, as well as into the library of the learned. It is cheap, portable, and altogether 

 a work which may safely be placed in the hands of persons of both sexes." — Weekly 

 Free Press. 



This work cannot fail to be acceptable to youth of both sexes, as well as to a large 

 portion of the reading community, who have not had the benefit of a learned educa- 

 tion." — Gentleman's Magazine. 



BOY'S AND GIRL'S LIBRARY. 



This course of publications will m.ore especially embrace such works as are 

 adapted, not to the extremes of early childhood or of advanced youth, but to that 

 intermediate space which lies between childhood and the opening of maturity, 

 when the trifles of the nursery and the simple lessons of the school-room have 

 ceased to exercise their beneficial influence, but before the taste for a higher order 

 j of mental pleasure has established a fixed ascendency in their stead. In the selec- 

 tion of works intended for the rising generation in this plastic period of their exist- 

 ence, when the elements of future character are receiving their moulding impiess, 

 the publishers pledge themselves that the utmost care and scrupulosity shall be ex- 

 ercised. They are fixed in their determination thai nothing of a questionable tend- 

 ency on the score of sentiment shall find admission into pages consecrated to the holy 

 purpose of instructing the thoughts, regulating the passions, and settling the princi- 

 ples of the young. Several interesting numbers of this Library are now before the 

 public. 



LIBRARY OF SELECT NOVELS. 



Fictitious composition is now admitted to form an extensive and important por- 

 tion of literature. Well-wrought novels take their rank by the side of real narratives, 

 and are appealed to as evidence in all questions concerning man. In them the cus- 

 toms of countries, the transitions and sha-tes of character, and even the very pecu- 

 liarities of costume and dialect are curiously preserved. 



This " Library of Select Novels" will embrace none but such as have received the 

 impress of general approbation, or have been written by authors of established char- 

 acter ; and the publishers hope to receive such encouragement from the public 

 patronage as will enable them in the course of time to produce a series of works of 

 uniform appearance, and including most of the really valuable novels and romances 

 that have been or shall be issued from the modern English and American press. 



Sixteen works, by emhient authors, have already been published in this Library, 

 which are sold separately or in complete sets. — For the titles see the Catalogue. 



