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Balls and Assemblies (John Lane, 3s. 6d.) contains extracts from

the work- of Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Maria Edge- worth, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, and Mary Mitford. It provides excellent fare for those of weak literary digeitiOri, who prefer to take their classics in small doses. Mr. Brimley Johnson writes the introduction and traces the careers of Fanny Burney (the pioneer woman novelist) and of her contemporaries and followers. Fanny Burney was the first novelist to " drop the moral." She wrote half a page of Evelina a day, and tried to crown her first success by imitating the stately periods of Dr. Johnson:

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