Opinions from the past:

Messrs Hurst and Blackett [Publishers] have very fitly inaugurated their Standard Library ot Popular Modem "Works with this admirable volume. With regard to this we can truly say:—"Who can tire of the genuine sallies, the deep wisdom wrapped up in merry guise, and the side-splitting outbursts of genuine wit, in the pages of Haliburton? 'Nature and Human Nature' is particularly full of all these qualities; and to those who love a good laugh, when they can enjoy it accompanied by good matter for reflection, and who have not yet read this production of Sam Slick, we can heartily recommend this elegant Edition."— Critic.

"The first volume of Messrs Hurst and Blaekett'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 largo circulation which it cannot fail to obtain in its present convenient and cheap shape. Tho 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."—Post.