We Girls: a Some Story. By the Author of " The
Gayworthys." (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a story of American life, told in a lively, unaffected way, and sufficiently amusing, though its native collo- quialism—not in the least vulgar, it must be understood—sometimes makes it a little hard to understand. Among other things, in this book. and books like it, one gets a glimpse of social equality in the States,—how it works, how cultivated people like it. So we read, "Barbara delighted to make company of seamstress-week '; ' it was so nice,' she said, to entertain somebody who thought " chickings was 'evingly." ' " And elsewhere we have a discussion whether one Delia Waite, a seamstress,
is to dine with the family or with the help. They have not forgotten we are glad to find, on the other side of the Atlantic the old superstition of Halloween.
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