21 FEBRUARY 1835, Page 20

Few people read Novels, or talk of them, in these

serious times; and those recently issued from the "fashionable" manufactories have been of a very indifferent quality. Miss PARDOE'S Maidens and Daventrys is the newest on our list ; but we have only read enough to be able to say that "Time Maidens" is one story and "The Daventrys " another.