observation. The book will not diminish the reputation of the
accomplished author.”--_Saturday Review._
XXIII.--GRANDMOTHER’S MONEY.
BY F. W. ROBINSON.
“We commend ‘Grandmother’s Money’ to readers in search of a good
novel. The characters are true to human nature, and the story is
interesting.”--_Athenæum._
XXIV.--A BOOK ABOUT DOCTORS.
BY JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON.
“A book to be read and re-read; fit for the study as well as the
drawing-room table and the circulating library.”--_Lancet._
“This is a pleasant book for the fireside season, and for the seaside
season. Mr. Jeaffreson has, out of hundreds of volumes, collected
thousands of good things, adding thereto much that appears in print for
the first time, and which, of course, gives increased value to this
very readable book.”--_Athenæum._
XXV.--NO CHURCH.
BY F. W. ROBINSON.
“We advise all who have the opportunity to read this book. It is well
worth the study.”--_Athenæum._
“A work of great originality, merit, and power.”--_Standard._
XXVI.--MISTRESS AND MAID.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.”
“A good wholesome book, gracefully written, and as pleasant to read as
it is instructive.”--_Athenæum._
“A charming tale, charmingly told.”--_Standard._
“All lovers of a good novel will hail with delight another of Mrs.
Craik’s charming stories.”--_John Bull._
XXVII.--LOST AND SAVED.
BY THE HON. MRS. NORTON.
“‘Lost and Saved’ will be read with eager interest by those who love a
touching story. It is a vigorous novel.”--_Times._
“This story is animated, full of exciting situations and stirring
incidents. The characters are delineated with great power. Above and
beyond these elements of a good novel, there is that indefinable charm
with which true genius invests all it touches.”--_Daily News._
XXVIII.--LES MISERABLES.
BY VICTOR HUGO.
_Authorised Copyright English Translation._
“The merits of ‘Les Miserables’ do not merely consist in the
conception of it as a whole; it abounds with details of unequalled
beauty. M. Victor Hugo has stamped upon every page the hall-mark of
genius.”--_Quarterly Review._
XXIX.--BARBARA’S HISTORY.
BY AMELIA B. EDWARDS.
“It is not often that we light upon a novel of so much merit and
interest as ‘Barbara’s History.’ It is a work conspicuous for taste
and literary culture. It is a very graceful and charming book, with a
well-managed story, clearly-cut characters, and sentiments expressed
with an exquisite elocution. The dialogues especially sparkle with
repartee. It is a book which the world will like. This is high praise
of a work of art and so we intend it.”--_The Times._
XXX.--LIFE OF THE REV. EDWARD IRVING.
BY MRS. OLIPHANT.
“A good book on a most interesting theme.”--_Times._
“A truly interesting and most affecting memoir. ‘Irving’s Life’
ought to have a niche in every gallery of religious biography. There
are few lives that will be fuller of instruction, interest, and
consolation.”--_Saturday Review._
XXXI.--ST. OLAVE’S.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JANITA’S CROSS.”
“This novel is the work of one who possesses a great talent for
writing, as well as experience and knowledge of the world. The whole
book is worth reading.”--_Athenæum._
“‘St Olave’s’ belongs to a lofty order of fiction. It is a good novel,
but it is something more. It is written with unflagging ability, and
it is as even as it is clever. The author has determined to do nothing
short of the best, and has succeeded.”--_Morning Post._
XXXII.--SAM SLICK’S TRAITS OF AMERICAN HUMOUR.
“Dip where you will into this lottery of fun, you are sure to draw out
a prize. These ‘Traits’ exhibit most successfully the broad national
features of American humour.”--_Post._
XXXIII.--CHRISTIAN’S MISTAKE.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.”
“A more charming story has rarely been written. It is a choice gift to
be able thus to render human nature so truly, to penetrate its depths
with such a searching sagacity, and to illuminate them with a radiance
so eminently the writer’s own.”--_Times._
XXXIV.--ALEC FORBES OF HOWGLEN.
BY GEORGE MAC DONALD, LL.D.
“No account of this story would give any idea of the profound interest
that pervades the work from the first page to the last.”--_Athenæum._
“A novel of uncommon merit. Sir Walter Scott said he would advise no
man to try to read ‘Clarissa Harlowe’ out loud in company if he wished
to keep his character for manly superiority to tears. We fancy a good
many hardened old novel-readers will feel a rising in the throat as
they follow the fortunes of Alec and Annie.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
XXXV.--AGNES.
BY MRS. OLIPHANT.
“‘Agnes’ is a novel superior to any of Mrs. Oliphant’s former
works.”--_Athenæum._
“Mrs. Oliphant is one of the most admirable of our novelists. In her
works there are always to be found high principle, good taste, sense,
and refinement. ‘Agnes’ is a story whose pathetic beauty will appeal
irresistibly to all readers.”--_Morning Post._
XXXVI.--A NOBLE LIFE.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.”
“Few men and no women will read ‘A Noble Life’ without feeling
themselves the better for the effort.”--_Spectator._
“A beautifully written and touching tale. It is a noble
book.”--_Morning Post._
“‘A Noble Life’ is remarkable for the high types of character it
presents, and the skill with which they are made to work out a story of
powerful and pathetic interest.”--_Daily News._
XXXVII.--NEW AMERICA.
BY W. HEPWORTH DIXON.
“A very interesting book. Mr. Dixon has written thoughtfully and
well.”--_Times._
“We recommend everyone who feels any interest in human nature to read
Mr. Dixon’s very interesting book.”--_Saturday Review._
XXXVIII.--ROBERT FALCONER.
BY GEORGE MAC DONALD, LL.D.
“‘Robert Falconer’ is a work brimful of life and humour and of the
deepest human interest. It is a book to be returned to again and again
for the deep and searching knowledge it evinces of human thoughts and
feelings.”--_Athenæum._
XXXIX.--THE WOMAN’S KINGDOM.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.”
“‘The Woman’s Kingdom’ sustains the author’s reputation as a writer of
the purest and noblest kind of domestic stories.”--_Athenæum._
“‘The Woman’s Kingdom’ is remarkable for its romantic interest. The
characters are masterpieces. Edna is worthy of the hand that drew John
Halifax.”--_Morning Post._
XL.--ANNALS OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE.
BY GEORGE WEBBE DASENT, D.C.L.
“A racy, well-written, and original novel. The interest never flags.
The whole work sparkles with wit and humour.”--_Quarterly Review._
XLI.--DAVID ELGINBROD.
BY GEORGE MAC DONALD, LL.D.
“A novel which is the work of a man of genius. It will attract the
highest class of readers.”--_Times._
XLII.--A BRAVE LADY.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.”
“We earnestly recommend this novel. It is a special and worthy specimen
of the author’s remarkable powers. The reader’s attention never for a
moment flags.”--_Post._
“‘A Brave Lady’ thoroughly rivets the unmingled sympathy of the
reader, and her history deserves to stand foremost among the author’s
works.”--_Daily Telegraph._
XLIII.--HANNAH.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.”
“A very pleasant, healthy story, well and artistically told. The book
is sure of a wide circle of readers. The character of Hannah is one of
rare beauty.”--_Standard._
“A powerful novel of social and domestic life. One of the most
successful efforts of a successful novelist.”--_Daily News._
XLIV.--SAM SLICK’S AMERICANS AT HOME.
“This is one of the most amusing books that we ever read.”--_Standard._
“‘The Americans at Home’ will not be less popular than any of Judge
Halliburton’s previous works.”--_Morning Post._
XLV.--THE UNKIND WORD.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.”
“These stories are gems of narrative. Indeed, some of them, in their
touching grace and simplicity, seem to us to possess a charm even
beyond the authoress’s most popular novels. Of none of them can this be
said more emphatically than of that which opens the series, ‘The Unkind
Word.’ It is wonderful to see the imaginative power displayed in the
few delicate touches by which this successful love-story is sketched
out.”--_The Echo._
XLVI.--A ROSE IN JUNE.
BY MRS. OLIPHANT.
“‘A Rose in June’ is as pretty as its title. The story is one of
the best and most touching which we owe to the industry and talent
of Mrs. Oliphant, and may hold its own with even ‘The Chronicles of
Carlingford.’”--_Times._
XLVII.--MY LITTLE LADY.
BY E. FRANCES POYNTER.
“This story presents a number of vivid and very charming pictures.
Indeed, the whole book is charming. It is interesting in both character
and story, and thoroughly good of its kind.”--_Saturday Review._
XLVIII.--PHŒBE, JUNIOR.
BY MRS. OLIPHANT.
“This last ‘Chronicle of Carlingford’ not merely takes rank fairly
beside the first which introduced us to ‘Salem Chapel,’ but surpasses
all the intermediate records. Phœbe, Junior, herself is admirably
drawn.”--_Academy._
XLIX.--LIFE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE.
BY PROFESSOR CHARLES DUKE YONGE.
“A work of remarkable merit and interest, which will, we
doubt not, become the most popular English history of Marie
Antoinette.”--_Spectator._
L.--SIR GIBBIE.
BY GEORGE MAC DONALD, LL.D.
“‘Sir Gibbie’ is a book of genius.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
“This book has power, pathos, and humour.”--_Athenæum._
LI.--YOUNG MRS. JARDINE.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.”
“‘Young Mrs. Jardine’ is a pretty story, written in pure
English.”--_The Times._
“There is much good feeling in this book. It is pleasant and
wholesome.”--_Athenæum._
LII.--LORD BRACKENBURY.
BY AMELIA B. EDWARDS.
“A very readable story. The author has well conceived the purpose
of high-class novel-writing, and succeeded in no small measure in
attaining it. There is plenty of variety, cheerful dialogue, and
general ‘verve’ in the book.”--_Athenæum._
LIII.--IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS.
BY MRS. OLIPHANT.
“In ‘It was a Lover and his Lass,’ we admire Mrs. Oliphant exceedingly.
It would be worth reading a second time, were it only for the sake of
one ancient Scottish spinster, who is nearly the counterpart of the
admirable Mrs. Margaret Maitland.”--_Times._
LIV.--THE REAL LORD BYRON--THE STORY OF THE POET’S LIFE.
BY JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON.
“Mr. Jeaffreson comes forward with a narrative which must take a
very important place in Byronic literature; and it may reasonably be
anticipated that this book will be regarded with deep interest by all
who are concerned in the works and the fame of this great English
poet.”--_The Times._
WORKS BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘SAM SLICK, THE CLOCKMAKER.’
_Each in One Volume, Frontispiece, and Uniformly Bound, Price 5s._
NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE.
“We enjoy our old friend’s company with unabated relish. This work is
a rattling miscellany of sharp sayings, stories, and hard hits. It is
full of fun and fancy.”--_Athenæum._
“Since Sam’s first work he has written nothing so fresh, racy, and
genuinely humorous as this. Every line of it tells in some way or
other--instructively, satirically, jocosely, or wittily. Admiration
of Sam’s mature talents, and laughter at his droll yarns, constantly
alternate as with unhalting avidity we peruse the work. The Clockmaker
proves himself the fastest time-killer a-going.”--_Observer._
WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES.
“This delightful book will be the most popular, as beyond doubt it is
the best, of all the author’s admirable works.”--_Standard._
“The book before us will be read and laughed over. Its quaint and
racy dialect will please some readers--its abundance of yarns
will amuse others. There is something to suit readers of every
humour.”--_Athenæum._
“The humour of Sam Slick is inexhaustible. He is ever and everywhere
a welcome visitor; smiles greet his approach, and wit and wisdom hang
upon his tongue. We promise our readers a great treat from the perusal
of these ‘Wise Saws,’ which contain a world of practical wisdom, and a
treasury of the richest fun.”--_Morning Post._
THE OLD JUDGE; OR, LIFE IN A COLONY.
“By common consent this work is regarded as one of the raciest, truest
to life, most humorous, and most interesting works which have proceeded
from the prolific pen of its author. We all know what shrewdness of
observation, what power of graphic description, what natural resources
of drollery, and what a happy method of hitting off the broader
characteristics of the life he reviews, belong to Judge Haliburton.
We have all those qualities here; but they are balanced by a serious
literary purpose, and are employed in the communication of information
respecting certain phases of colonial experience which impart to the
work an element of sober utility.”--_Sunday Times._
TRAITS OF AMERICAN HUMOUR.
“No man has done more than the facetious Judge Haliburton, through the
mouth of the inimitable ‘Sam,’ to make the old parent country recognise
and appreciate her queer transatlantic progeny. His present collection
of comic stories and laughable traits is a budget of fun, full of rich
specimens of American humour.”--_Globe._
“Yankeeism, portrayed in its raciest aspect, constitutes the contents
of these superlatively entertaining sketches. The work embraces the
most varied topics--political parties, religious eccentricities, the
flights of literature, and the absurdities of pretenders to learning,
all come in for their share of satire; while we have specimens of
genuine American exaggerations and graphic pictures of social and
domestic life as it is. The work will have a wide circulation.”--_John
Bull._
THE AMERICANS AT HOME.
“In this highly entertaining work we are treated to another cargo of
capital stories from the inexhaustible store of our Yankee friend.
In the volume before us he dishes up, with his accustomed humour and
terseness of style, a vast number of tales, none more entertaining
than another, and all of them graphically illustrative of the ways
and manners of brother Jonathan. The anomalies of American law, the
extraordinary adventures incident to life in the backwoods, and, above
all, the peculiarities of American society, are variously, powerfully,
and, for the most part, amusingly exemplified.”--_John Bull._
“In the picturesque delineation of character, and the felicitous
portraiture of national features, no writer equals Judge Haliburton,
and the subjects embraced in the present delightful book call forth, in
new and vigorous exercise, his peculiar powers. ‘The Americans at Home’
will not be less popular than any of his previous works.”--_Post._
LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS.
WORKS BY THE AUTHOR OF
JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.
_Each in One Volume, Frontispiece, and Uniformly Bound, price 5s._
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. This cheap and handsome new edition is worthy to pass freely
from hand to hand as a gift-book in many households.”--_Examiner._
“The 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._
“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 is full of graphic power and
true pathos. It is a book that few will read without becoming wiser and
better.”--_Scotsman._
A WOMAN’S THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN.
“A book of sound counsel. It is one of the most sensible works of its
kind, well written, true-hearted, and altogether practical. Whoever
wishes to give advice to a young lady may thank the author for means of
doing so.”--_Examiner._
“These thoughts are worthy of the earnest and enlightened mind, the
all-embracing charity, and the well-earned reputation of the author of
‘John Halifax.’”--_Standard._
“This excellent book is characterised by good sense, good taste, and
feeling, and is written in an earnest, philanthropic, as well as
practical spirit.”--_Post._
A LIFE FOR A LIFE.
“We are always glad to welcome this author. She writes from her own
convictions, and she has the power not only to conceive clearly what
it is that she wishes to say, but to express it in language effective
and vigorous. In ‘A Life for a Life’ she is fortunate in a good
subject, and she has produced a work of strong effect. The reader,
having read the book through for the story, will be apt (if he be of
our persuasion) to return and read again many pages and passages with
greater pleasure than on a first perusal. The whole book is replete
with a graceful, tender delicacy; and, in addition to its other merits,
it is written in good careful English.”--_Athenæum._
NOTHING NEW.
“‘Nothing New’ displays all those superior merits which have made ‘John
Halifax’ one of the most popular works of the day.”--_Post._
“The reader will find these narratives calculated to remind him of that
truth and energy of human portraiture, that spell over human affections
and emotions, which have stamped this author as one of the first
novelists of our day.”--_John Bull._
THE WOMAN’S KINGDOM.
“‘The Woman’s Kingdom’ sustains the author’s reputation as a writer of
the purest and noblest kind of domestic stories. The novelist’s lesson
is given with admirable force and sweetness.”--_Athenæum._
“‘The Woman’s Kingdom’ is remarkable for its romantic interest. The
characters are masterpieces. Edna is worthy of the hand that drew John
Halifax.”--_Post._
STUDIES FROM LIFE.
“These studies are truthful and vivid pictures of life, often earnest,
always full of right feeling, and occasionally lightened by touches of
quiet genial humour. The volume is remarkable for thought, sound sense,
shrewd observation, and kind and sympathetic feeling for all things
good and beautiful.”--_Post._
CHRISTIAN’S MISTAKE.
“A more charming story, to our taste, has rarely been written. Within
the compass of a single volume the writer has hit off a circle of
varied characters, all true to nature--some true to the highest
nature--and she has entangled them in a story which keeps us in
suspense till the knot is happily and gracefully resolved; while, at
the same time, a pathetic interest is sustained by an art of which it
would be difficult to analyse the secret. It is a choice gift to be
able thus to render human nature so truly, to penetrate its depths
with such a searching sagacity, and to illuminate them with a radiance
so eminently the writer’s own. Even if tried by the standard of the
Archbishop of York, we should expect that even he would pronounce
‘Christian’s Mistake’ a novel without a fault.”--_The Times._
“This is a story good to have from the circulating library, but better
to have from one’s bookseller, for it deserves a place in that little
collection of clever and wholesome stories which forms one of the
comforts of a well-appointed home.”--_Examiner._
MISTRESS AND MAID.
“A good, wholesome book, as pleasant to read as it is
instructive.”--_Athenæum._
“This book is written with the same true-hearted earnestness as ‘John
Halifax.’ The spirit of the whole work is excellent.”--_Examiner._
“A charming tale charmingly told.”--_Standard._
A NOBLE LIFE.
“This is one of those pleasant tales in which the author of ‘John
Halifax’ speaks out of a generous heart the purest truths of
life.”--_Examiner._
“Few men, and no women, will read ‘A Noble Life’ without finding
themselves the better.”--_Spectator._
“A story of powerful and pathetic interest.”--_Daily News._
A BRAVE LADY.
“A very good novel, showing a tender sympathy with human nature, and
permeated by a pure and noble spirit.”--_Examiner._
“A most charming story.”--_Standard._
“We earnestly recommend this novel. It is a special and worthy specimen
of the author’s remarkable powers. The reader’s attention never for a
moment flags.”--_Post._
HANNAH.
“A powerful novel of social and domestic life. One of the most
successful efforts of a successful novelist.”--_Daily News._
“A very pleasant, healthy story, well and artistically told. The book
is sure of a wide circle of readers. The character of Hannah is one of
rare beauty.”--_Standard._
THE UNKIND WORD.
“The author of ‘John Halifax’ has written many fascinating stories, but
we can call to mind nothing from her pen that has a more enduring charm
than the graceful sketches in this work. Such a character as Jessie
stands out from a crowd of heroines as the type of all that is truly
noble, pure, and womanly.”--_United Service Magazine._
YOUNG MRS. JARDINE.
“‘Young Mrs. Jardine’ is a pretty story, written in pure
English.”--_The Times._
“There is much good feeling in this book. It is pleasant and
wholesome.”--_Athenæum._
“A book that all should read. Whilst it is quite the equal of any of
its predecessors in elevation of thought and style, it is perhaps their
superior in interest of plot and dramatic intensity. The characters are
admirably delineated, and the dialogue is natural and clear.”--_Morning
Post._
WORKS BY
MRS. OLIPHANT.
_Each in One Volume, Frontispiece, and Uniformly Bound, Price 5s._
ADAM GRAEME OF MOSSGRAY.
“‘Adam Graeme’ is a story awakening genuine emotions of interest and
delight by its admirable pictures of Scottish life and scenery. The
plot is cleverly complicated, and there is great vitality in the
dialogue, and remarkable brilliancy in the descriptive passages, as
who that has read ‘Margaret Maitland’ would not be prepared to expect?
But the story has a ‘mightier magnet still,’ in the healthy tone which
pervades it, in its feminine delicacy of thought and diction, and in
the truly womanly tenderness of its sentiments. The eloquent author
sets before us the essential attributes of Christian virtue, their deep
and silent workings in the heart, and their beautiful manifestations
in the life, with a delicacy, a power, and a truth which can hardly be
surpassed.”--_Morning Post._
THE LAIRD OF NORLAW.
“We have had frequent opportunities of commending Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett’s Standard Library. For neatness, elegance, and distinctness
the volumes in this series surpass anything with which we are familiar.
‘The Laird of Norlaw’ will fully sustain the author’s high reputation.
The reader is carried on from first to last with an energy of sympathy
that never flags.”--_Sunday Times._
“‘The Laird of Norlaw’ is worthy of the author’s reputation. It is one
of the most exquisite of modern novels.”--_Observer._
IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS.
“In ‘It was a Lover and his Lass,’ we admire Mrs. Oliphant exceedingly.
Her story is a very pretty one. It would be worth reading a second
time, were it only for the sake of one ancient Scottish spinster,
who is nearly the counterpart of the admirable Mrs. Margaret
Maitland.”--_Times._
AGNES.
“‘Agnes’ Is a novel superior to any of Mrs. Oliphant’s former
works.”--_Athenæum._
“Mrs. Oliphant is one of the most admirable of our novelists. In her
works there are always to be found high principle, good taste, sense,
and refinement. ‘Agnes’ is a story whose pathetic beauty will appeal
irresistibly to all readers.”--_Morning Post._
A ROSE IN JUNE.
“‘A Rose in June’ is as pretty as its title. The story is one of
the best and most touching which we owe to the industry and talent
of Mrs. Oliphant, and may hold its own with even ‘The Chronicles of
Carlingford.’”--_Times._
PHŒBE, JUNIOR.
“This last ‘Chronicle of Carlingford’ not merely takes rank fairly
beside the first which introduced us to ‘Salem Chapel,’ but surpasses
all the intermediate records. Phœbe, Junior, herself is admirably
drawn.”--_Academy._