WANDERINGS OF A BEAUTY: A Tale of the Real and Ideal. By
MRS. EDWIN JAMES. New York: Carleton. 1863.
An entertaining little romance, which will be specially acceptable to
the 'regular English novel' devourers--a by no means inconsiderable
proportion of the public. Its heroine--a beauty--moves in English
society, is presented to the Queen, is victimized by a rascally husband
or two, and visits America, where she ends her adventures--_a la Marble
Faun_--rather more obscurely than we could have wished, by 'enduring and
suffering,' but on the whole happily, so far as sentiment is concerned.
As the story contains to perfection every element of the most popular
English novels of the day, yet in a more highly concentrated form than
they usually present, we have no doubt that its sale will be very great.
The volume contains a very beautifully engraved portrait-vignette,
'after a miniature by Thorburn,' which is worth the price of the book,
and is neatly bound. Gentlemen wishing to make an acceptable gift to
novel-reading friends will find the 'Wanderings of a Beauty' well suited
to the purpose.
THE PRISONER OF STATE. By D. H. MAHONEY. New York:
Carleton. 1863.
We may well ask 'what sustains the hopes of the rebels?' when such a
mass of treason as this wretched volume contains is suffered to be
freely published and circulated.
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