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HURST & BLACKETT’S
 
STANDARD LIBRARY.
(1895)
To be had at all Booksellers and Railway Book-stalls.
LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT, LIMITED,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
HURST & BLACKETT’S STANDARD LIBRARY
OF NEW EDITIONS OF
POPULAR MODERN WORKS.
ILLUSTRATED BY
Sir J. É. Millais, Sir J. Gilbert, Holman Hunt, Birket Foster,
John Leech, John Tenniel, Laslett J. Pott, ETC.
Each in a Single Volume, with Frontispiece, price 5s.
I.—SAM SLICK’S NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE.
“The first volume of Messrs. Hurst and Blackett’s Standard Library of Cheap Editionsforms 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 itspresent convenient and cheap shape. The volume combines with the great recommendationsof a clear, bold type and good paper, the lesser, but attractive merits of being wellillustrated and elegantly bound.”—Morning Post.
II.—JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.
“The new and cheaper edition of this interesting work will doubtless meet with greatsuccess. John Halifax, the hero of this most beautiful story, is no ordinary hero, andno ordinary book. It is a full-length portrait of a true gentleman, oneof 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 truepathos. It is a book that few will read without becoming wiser and better.”—Scotsman.
“This story is very interesting. The attachment between John Halifax and his wife isbeautifully painted, as are the pictures of their domestic life, and the growing up of theirchildren; and the conclusion of the book is beautiful and touching.”—Athenæum.
III.—THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS.
BY ELIOT WARBURTON.
“Independent of its value as an original narrative, and its useful and interestinginformation, this work is remarkable for the colouring power and play of fancy withwhich its descriptions are enlivened. Among its greatest and most lasting charms is itsreverent and serious spirit.”—Quarterly Review.
“Mr. Warburton has fulfilled the promise of his title                        
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