Waiting for the Prince. By Lady Constance Howard. 3 vole.
(F. V. White.)—The plot of this novel may be briefly put in this way, —the hero is married by a bad woman, and afterwards marries a good one. In the meanwhile, till the bad wife dies, there is the usual agony, da. The best thing in the three volumes is the abundance of quotations of good poetry. Lady Constance Howard has evidently a considerable amount at her command, and knows how to select, though she can scarcely be complimented on her powers of original writing. As we are speaking of quotations, we may take the occasion to protest rennet the morality of a quotation from Mrs. Campbell Pined Marriage has both its exoteric and esoteric meanings. The wife and mother may fulfil her material obligations to the letter, and yet be wedded in seal to another." Very pretty teaching ! Pot it in practice, and you get something very like a cicisbeo. When Lady Constance says, " Mrs. Freed is right, emphatically right," we can only remark, Arcades ambo I
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