The New School - Ma'ain. (A, Loring, Boston, U.S.)—American stories, unless they
are really humorous, are generally very dull indeed ; and they have a tendency to puzzle us, which is, perhaps, our owe fault, because wo fail to make out the "who's who" of them This, which is the case to a certain extent, with stories of life in-l■Tew York or the other large American cities, is still more observable ilk stories of American country life, such as The New School-Ma'am, in Which a young heiress disguises herself and accepts the position of a " school- ma'am," in order to investigate the conduct and principles of persons with whom, in such a position in England, she would never have a chance of being brought in contact. The story is not an unskilful one/ nor is it, from the American point of view, violently improbable ; but there is not anything of remarkable merit in it, and it has oven more than most of its kind the rootless character of the modern Transatlantic fiction.
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