15 AUGUST 1868, Page 23

Diary of a Sister of Mercy. By C. M. Brame.

(Burns.)—This is a collection of about as melancholy a set of little tales as we ever saw. The character of the writer is, we suppose, assumed, nor is it supported with more than a moderate amount of skill. There is far too much of such writing as this,—" the bravery and chivalry of their men was only equalled by the beauty and virtue of their women." But tho book is not offensive, and displays no special bitterness against Protestants. It contains some curious expressions of the "Devotion to Mary." The Romanist theologians must find it difficult to keep the women in order in this matter.