28 MAY 1864, Page 25

My First Season. By the author of "Charles Auchester." (Smith,

Elder, and Co.)—None of the later novels of this writer equal the first. The enthusiasm of "Charles Auchester " is missing, and the little affectations which disfigured even that work remain. In this particular book the story is unsatisfactory—the heroine is never married—and it is not possible to be blind to the fact that the last thing which Poles who wish to avoid notice would do would be to call themselves by so thoroughly English a surname as Henry. Edward Lord Ailye, the nar- row-minded but pure and pious evangelical poor, and Lady Barres, with her unfathomable yet passionless falsehood and treachery, are both admirable sketches.