Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign. (Hurst and 13Iackett.) —It
was a happy thought of the publishers to collect this " book of appreciations." Seventeen "women novelists" who have flourished during the last sixty years (the choice is restricted to the deceased) are here estimated by competent judges. Mrs. Oliphant, now, alas ! to be numbered among those qualified for " appreciation," writes about " The Sisters Bronti;; " Mrs. Lynn Linton on George Eliot ; Edna Lyall on Mrs. Gaskell ; Miss Adeline Sergeant on Mrs. Crowe, Mrs. Archer Clive, and Mrs. Henry Wood ; Miss C. M. Yonge on Lady Georgians, Fullerton, Mrs. Stratton, and Anne Manning (author of " The Household of Sir Thomas More ") ; Mrs. Parr on Miss Mulock ; Mrs. Macquoid on Miss Julia Kavanagh and Miss A. B. Edwards ; Mrs. Alexander on Mrs. Norton ; and Mrs. Marshall on " A. L. 0. E." and Mrs. Ewing. But where is Mrs. Trollope ? She had, it is true, passed middle age in 1837, but her literary life began very late, and some of her best known books—" The Widow Barnaby," e.g.—fall within the reign.
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