JOURNAL OF THE HEART.
THIS volume is a collection of tales, poems, criticisms, and other varieties, set in a sort of framework; which has nothing of no- velty, inasmuch as it is merely the old story of a party assembled at an inn weather-bound, and telling stories to while away the time. The Journal which suffices to introduce this incident, is supposed to be kept by a lady of rank ; who is so diplomatically mysterious that she even substitutes dashes for dates, and is so sentimentally wretched that every day is a day of elegant repin- ing, though we have been unable to discover the cause of her misery. The composition throughout makes approaches to ele- gance: there are touches of sentiment, and clever bits of reflec- tion and description in the Journal ; there is a slight kind of interest attaching to the Tales; and plenty of quotations in the vaview of the Earl of Essex. As a whole, the book is reudable, but exhibits a good deal more of fancy than reality.
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