11 JANUARY 1834, Page 18

The execution of the Second Number of Social Eel's and

their Remedy is better than that of the First ; the story is more indif- ferent, with scarcely a beginning, certainly without a middle or an end. The Lady and the Lady's Maid is not the right name; it should have been "The Ladies and their Maids ;" for the princi- pal part of the tale is employed in painting the respective manners of a serious lady with a frivolous maid, and of a serious maid with a frivolous lady,—intermingled with some scenes in the house- keeper's room, where the servants get drunk through the negli- gence of their master, and at a French milliner'swhere they dance on Sunday. The book ends with the conversion of the gay sister by the grave; but Mrs. Vincent, the flighty maid, is left in her sins.