Lives of the Princesses of Wales. By Barbara Clay Finch.
(Remington.)—We have here three closely-printed volumes, giving the lives of Joan of Kent, Anne of Warwick, Katharine of Amgen, Caroline of Anspach, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and Caroline of Bruns- wick. The preparation of them has been essentially a piece of book. making, but it is conscientious, of its kind. It is, indeed, too con• scientious. Miss Finch has loaded her volumes, especially the two last, with quotations from all sorts of authorities, historical, poetical, end gossipy. She would have done better if she had spared her readers at least nine.tentlis of them, and her biographies would have been very much more readable. The misery, so long-drawn-out, of poor Queen Caroline's story especially might have been kept within narrower limits. Miss Finch's style is rather Hepworth•Dixonian. But she quotes so much from other writers, that she scarcely does her own powers justice.
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