One Golden Summer. By Mrs. Mackenzie Daniel. 3 vols. (Hurst
and Blackett.)—On the one hundred-and-seventy-eighth page of the third volume of this book we find a chapter, entitled," Beginning of my Golden Summer." Surely this is trifling with the reader. Even the author who began with the "double egg" probably got to the Siege of Troy before reaching the eleventh out of his twelve books. Who can be expected to maintain an interest in a subject which he is never allowed to hear anything about for so long ? The truth is, that the subject of the story is of the very slenderest kind. The heroine has an early attachment, and returns to it in the end ; the episode of another love intervenes, and the time of the episode is "the golden summer," which we read, or rather do not read about. The first chapter, telling us how she made her first acquaintance with the hero, and the last, which stirs an expiring interest into something like energy, are fairly good. The rest are without offence, but they are woven out of as slight staff as we have ever seen so employed.
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