4 APRIL 1868, Page 19

Climbing the Hill. By the Author of A Trap to

Catch a Sunbeam. (Groombridge.)—When we have copied out the description of the author of this story, and have stated that the subject of her new book is the happy beginning of a happy married life, we have done all that is either necessary or possible. Such books as these ought not to be read with a view to criticism. They are like a fine day, about which nothing is to be said beyond the truism that rises spontaneously and simultaneously to all lips, but which is to be enjoyed. We have enjoyed Climbing the Hill; it is now our readers' turn to do likewise.