29 APRIL 1876, Page 23

One in a Crowd. By Isabella Walker. 2 vols. (Charing-Cross

Publishing Company.)—Those two volumes have the merit of being the very slenderest that we have ever seen. And as the volume, so the matter. We may apply Ovid's words, "Lapis exignus par sibi carmen habet." A young musician loves, and of course loves un- happily, a maiden of high birth. This story is told with some fine- writing, more fine indeed than correct :—" Even so is [sic] wrecked human longings, desires, strivings, aspirations after the impossible, the unattainable. When man, young, strong, confidant [sic] casts his frail erode, self, on the stream of life," dm.