Cinderella : a New Version of an Old Stcny. (Samuel
Tinsley.)— We have nothing but praise for this quiet little story, though the title, we must say, rather frightened us. The vein of applied fairy-tales, first so happily struck out by Miss Thackeray has, as Artemus Ward would have said, been " done too muchly." There is certainly a want of sen- sation in this little book, and those who like their literature strong had better seek it elsewhere. But there are others, we think, to whom this simply-told love-story will come quite refreshingly, after all the gushing immorality with which we are surfeited. Some of the characters, par- ticularly the family of the rich parvenu, are cleverly sketched, and there are one or two charming descriptions of scenery. There is one little thing we would warn the author against, and that is a rather too free use of foreign quotatioxa, a practice which, besides being affected, is apt to be dangerous, and we would also suggest that there is no such word for animalcules as " infuserii." We shall be pleased to hear again from our " American Cousin "—we guess the author to be a lady on the other side of the Atlantic—and having felt disappointment when the fairy prince at last turned up, should even like the next venture to be some- what longer.
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