The Lady of Linzited income. By the Author of "Mary
Powell." 2 vols. (Bentley.)—Whether the Author of "Mary Powell" writes with less care or leas freshness, or whether her miniature-painting pleases less when the scenes are modern than when they are antique, we cannot say, certain it is that no one will compare the Lady of Limited Income with "Mary Powell," or with "The Household of Sir Thomas More," both of them really charming books in their way. Yet the book before us has certainly its merits. If the characters are somewhat commonplace, the drawing of them is, at all events, perfectly natural. And if the allowance of incident to a two volume novel is of the scantiest,—the same may be said of the village life which it portrays, and in which, as is very well known, incidents are not common. At all events, there is no wicked- ness in the book ; about the worst thing that anybody does is the dinner- party which a curate's wife presumes to give.
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