4 JANUARY 1868, page 25

The Pretty Widow.*

A lively and neatly finished story of social life in a dull little French town, with central English figures to render the French character-painting more striking and piquant,......

Miss Dora Greenwell's Lacordaire.* We Have So Recently...

voluminous life of Lacordaire by Pere Chocarne, that we shall confine ourselves here to charac- terizing what Miss Greenwell has added in this interesting little volume to make......