The Chdteau de Vesinet. By the Author of " Cinderella:
a New Version of an Old Story." (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a romantic story of the fortunes of a young lady who begins life by being left in a basket at the door of a kind doctor, who brings her up, and would have provided for her at his death, but for a piece of negligence which we must say is quite inconsistent with his character. She finds, however, first, a very good friend, and then her own kindred. Meanwhile, a love-affair has been going on, which, after a brief cloud has passed away, ends as it should with a heroine so fair and amiable. The tale is read- able enough, though the incidents are worn thread-bare by use. The time is of the Crimean war. The anther has a better memory than ours, if she is right when she speaks of a review of French and English troops having taken place atParis. But she certainly is very mush out when she describes a sketching-party in Sherwood Forest in the middle of March. Those of us who are old enough to recollect the winter of 1854-5 will shudder at the idea, which, indeed, does not seem a happy one, let the winter be what it may.
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