CHEAP LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINMENT.

Elegantly bound in Seventeen Volumes, price only 6s. each (any of which may be had separately), printed uniformly with Byron and Scott, and beautifully embellished with the Portraits of the Authors, and other Engravings, by the Findens and other eminent Artists,

COLBURN'S STANDARD NOVELS;

A Select Collection of the best Works of Fiction of the most Distinguished English Writers, which cannot be procured in any other

collection.

No composition of inferior or ephemeral character will be admitted into this collection: but those works alone which have received the stamp of unequivocal public approbation, and which may be read from time to time, with still recurring pleasure and profit, will constitute the Series.

Sir E. L. Bulwer's Pelham.
Sir E. L. Bulwer's Disowned.
Sir E. L. Bulwer's Devereux.
Mr. Ward's Tremaine.

Mr. Smith's Brambletye House.
Mr. Smith's Zillah.

Mr. Lister's Granby.
Lady Morgan's O'Donnell.

CONTENTS.

Lady Morgan's Florence Macarthy.
Lady Morgan's Wild Irish Girl.
Capt. Marryat's Frank Mildmay.
Mr. Hook's Gurney Married.
Mr. Hook's Sayings and Doings.

(First Series); comprising Danvers, The Friend of the Family, Merton, &c.

Mr. Hook's Sayings and Doings.
(Second Series); comprising

The Sutherlands, the Man of Many
Friends, Doubts and Fears, and Pas-
sion and Principle.

Mr. Hook's Sayings and Doings.

(Third Series); comprising Cousin William, and Gervase Skinner. Mr. James's Richelieu.

Mr. Gleig's Chelsea Pensioners.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"Colburn's Standard Novels' present a series of those works of fiction that have most tended, with the writings of Sir Walter Scott, to elevate this description of literature. This publication presents a cencentration of imaginative genius."-Globe.

"This collection continues to realise the most sanguine expectations of that large class of readers, who, with ourselves, were anxious to have all the best modern works of fiction brought out on the plan which Mr. Colburn bas so judiciously adopted, and in which elegance and economy are so happily combined."-Sunday Times.

"A truly popular undertaking. The series so got up and embellished, and so cheap, must extend the fame even of the author of 'Pelham.'"-Literary Gazette.

"We earnestly press this cheap and elegant publication of Mr. Colburn's on the notice of our readers, under a sincere conviction that we are doing them a service."-Scotsman.

Thousands, and tens of thousands, will patronise this undertaking."-Kidd's Journal.

"What an admiral opportunity is here presented to such as are about to form a select library of fiction!"-Sun.

Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street, London. Agents for Scotland, Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; for Ireland, Cumming and Furguson, Dublin. Orders received by all booksellers.

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