Joanna's Inheritance. By Emma Marshall. (Seeleys.) — We are introduced
here to a household such as Miss Yonge delights to depict. The head of it is a widowed doctor, kind, sensible, but from overwork rather apt to let things go ; then, there is a foolish maiden aunt, who manages or mismanages things ; a pair of sisters, one very correct, but rather selfish, the other somewhat wild, but of a finer nature; two boys, who represent, with a difference, the industrious and the idle appentice; and two little girls, who may be called supernumeraries. To this family is introduced Joanna, the heiress, a shy girl, brought up in the utmost seclusion, and it may almost be said ignorance. Out of the=e materials a very pretty and interesting story is made, which few readers will be able to got through siccis oculis, but which will leave, when it is finished, a pleasant and it may be hoped a good impression on the mind. We have ne fault to find either with the plot or execu- tion, for Barely we cannot seriously object if Mrs. Marshall writes in too loving a spirit to be able to leave even her worst characters in hopeless alienation from the light.
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