21 NOVEMBER 1868, Page 27

The Chronicles of St. Mary's. By S. D. N. (Masters.)—If

there are good things in this book. Father Neville 's discourse on natural affections addroaaed to one of the sister's exaggerated notions about self-denial, ttc., is particularly sensible. If S. D. N. would strike out her ridiculous caricatures of Protestant clergymen, and magistrates, and church- wardens, things so foolish that it is difficult to believe the whole book written by the same person, she would reduce her volume to a more moderato size and vastly improved it otherwise.