Produced by deaurider, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) 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 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 recommendations of a clear, bold type and good paper, the lesser, but attractive merits of being well illustrated and elegantly bound.”—_Morning Post._ ------------------ II.—JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. “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 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._ “This 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.”—_Athenæum._ ------------------ III.—THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. BY ELIOT WARBURTON.