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Constantia Carew, by Emma Marshall (Seeley, Jackson, and Halli- day),

is an autobiography in one volume, which deserves a word of commendation, as being much superior to ordinary religions fiction. It is a simple, every-day story of lay life, tinged with clericality ; reality and activity are its notes. Mrs. Marshall's sensibility has a tendency to degenerate into "gush," but the fault is feminine, and not incurable. Constantia Carew and her lover, Cuth-- bert, are rather common-place, though Mrs. Marshall intends them to) be the reverse ; but Hincholiffe, a vigorous old rebel against the con- ventional proprieties, recalls, though ever so slightly, the manner of. Charlotte Brontë.