Frank Carey : a Story of Victorian Life. By the
Author of 11 Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery." (Sampson Low and Co.)— There does not seem to have been any particular reason why the his- tory of Frank Carey should have boon written. Probably the author of "Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery" has a groat deal of leisure, and some ambition to shine in literature. He gives interesting descriptions of Australian scenery, and does his best to preserve the readers of Prank Carey from abiding under the delusion which he believes to be "popular,"—i.e., that "Sydney, Melbourne, and Ade- laide are in close vicinity to each other ; " but of the construction of a story, ho has only elementary notions, and when one has road the adventures of Frank Carey, from their beginning with "a rush" at Stony Creek and a father addicted to whiskey, to their conclusion, in the Legislative Assembly at Melbourne, whore Frank makes a great speech, one finds it difficult to remember what has happened through- out the three volumes, and to understand how the author has had patience to write them.
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