Louisa of Prussia, and other Sketches. By the Rev. John
Kelly. (Religious Tract Society.)—Mr. Kelly his devoted his volume to sketches of ladies connected with the Hohenzollern family. Only one of them, the Princess Charles of Hesse (a daughter of Prince William of Prussia), was herself a Hohenzollern,—what relation- ship, besides that of marriage, there may have been, we cannot pretend to say. The sketches are interesting, and not unworthy of their subjects, who, indeed, were women of unusual ability and excellence of character. The good Queen Louisa is a familiar figure ; but the Princess William and Princess Charles of Hesse are leas known. The last of the four sketches is that of "Carmen Sylva," the present Queen of Roumania, a woman of a very different type, though in her way not less worthy of description. The illustrations are unequal in merit ; some of the portraits are very good.
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