11 JUNE 1870, Page 21

An Old - Fashioned Girl. By Louisa M. Alcott, author of "Little

Women." (Sampson Low and Co.)—We are glad to see that Miss Alcott is becoming naturalized among us as a writer, and cannot help congratulating ourselves on having done something to bring about the result. The author of " Little Women " is so manifestly on the side of all that is "lovely, pure, and of good report" in the life of women, and writes with such genuine power and humour, and with such a tender charity and sympathy, that we hail her books with no common pleasure. An Old-Fashioned Girl is a protest from the other side of the Atlantic against the manners of the creature which we know on this by the name of "the Girl of the Period ;" but the attack is delivered with delicacy as well as force. We may mention also a collection of tales, humorous and pathetic, frequently turning on incidents of the civil war, by the samo author, called Camp and Fireside Stories. (Sampson Low and Co.)