Asceline's Ladder. By Ellen Louisa Davis. (Religious Tract Society.)—This story
is written with ability and with moderation. Still, we are inclined to think that Miss Davis's views of life are not broad enough. Her hero is a clever man who gives society entertainments, quite blameless, and affording, we are expressly told, genuine relief to overworked people ; but he finds them in- consistent with a Christian life, and retires from the profession to become the manager of a Young Men's Christian Association. What would Miss Davis say to the lady-acrobat, mentioned not long since in these columns, whose piety is pronounced by those should know to be exemplary ? And what to " vocations" generally ? There are people who seem to be as plainly born to do many things—dancing, conjuring, &c.—which do not come Into Miss Davis's scheme of life.
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