From Friend to Friend. By Lady Ritchie. Edited by Miss
Emily Ritchie. (Murray. Os. net.)—This charming little book contains half-a-dozen of Lady Ritchie's articles on her father and on some of the friends in the Thackeray circle—the Tenny- sons, Mrs. Cameron the amateur photographer, Mrs. Sartoris the singer, Mrs. Fanny Kemble, and the Brownings. We have read most of them before, but are glad to see them again. Lady -Ritchie had a gift for-recalling the happy memories of her youth and of the many clever and pleasant people whom she had known. Two letters from Thackeray to the artist, Frank Stone, dated 1835 and 1837, remind us of the novelist's early efforts to become a painter and of his struggles as an ill-paid journalist in Paris. The volume includes also a sketch of a French village and a short story in the author's finished style.
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