6 APRIL 1872, page 22

Essays, By The Author Of " Vera."* Pleasant And Successful

writers of fiction are not always, indeed are not often, good essayists. They are too much used to com- manding apace, and being discursive or concise just as they please, to......

Without Kith Or Kin.*

Miss CRAM'S story should either have ended with the seventh or begun with the eighth chapter of the first volume. It is, indeed, two stories in one,—very different in subject......