20 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 22

Sylvia's Lovers. By Mrs. Gaskell. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Lost and

Saved. By the Hon. Mrs. Norton. (Hurst and Blackett.)—We have so recently criticized these novels at length (see Spectator for 1863, pages 1699 and 20391 that it will now be sufficient to call atten- tion to the fact that their admirers may now obtain them in a portable single volume. Mrs. Gaskell's book is, moreover, adorned with illustra- tions, which do not seem to us of any great merit, and Mrs. Norton is strengthened by a frontispiece from the pencil of Mr. Millais; but why the mother and babe whom it depicts should represent Mrs. Norton's heroine more than any other mother and babe we do not pretend to know.