Years Ago. By Mrs. Henry - Lynch. (Jerrold and Sons.)—This is
a story of West Indian domestie life in the year 1790. A young lady is advised by her father to keep a diary ; she does so, and relates with great fidelity the incidents of every-day home life, including the flirta- tions of herself and sisters. She throws in a certain amount of local colouring, and gives us now and then just a glimpse of out-door life. One of the members of the household is a maiden aunt, who having fixed her affections in early life upon a curate of Mr. Romaine's and lost him, indulges in a vein of placid piety, tinged with melancholy, suitable to the circumstances and the connection. She receives letters from that eminent Calvinistic divine and others of the same school, and the reading of these forms a great event in the family proceedings. No action, however, is taken upon their teaching, and the story pursues the even tenour of its way through the usual course of birth; deaths, and marriages ; the young-lady point of view is artistically adhered to, and altogether the perusal of the tale may bo recommended as a wholesOme occupation of time, even if we do not go so far as to call it an amuse- ment.
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