Charles Dickens

“ The present age abounds in accounts of Voyages and Travels. They are works to which we bid welcome at all seasons, and to which we recur again and again with never-ending delight. Voyages and Travels, even when penned by inferior spirits, and avowedly fictitious, have always been popular reading ”

“ The encouragement which "The Standard Novels," now including the chefs-d'œuvre of almost everymodern master of fiction, has received from the public, has induced the Proprietor of that popular Series to undertake the present Collection, the purpose of which is to present, at the same very moderate price, a Library of rare entertainment in the departments of Historical Memoirs, popular Biography, Voyages and Travels, and works of a miscellaneous character, all of which have, been stamped by public approbation.
Modern literature is very rich in Historical Memoirs and general Biography. ”

“ They make us acquainted with humanity in all its various aspects, convince us that "there are livers out of Britain," and that we are not the only enlightened people on earth, for that others also are making rapid strides in civilization. ”