Aunt Judy's Magazine, for April. (George Bell and Son.)—" Aunt
Judy's" readers will rejoice to find that Mrs. Ewing has resumed her story. The scene between the old Irishwoman of the coffee-stall and the hero, is full of the humour of the Irish nation, and of the feeling of the
large family—confined to no one part of the world, thank God !—of the humane. Mrs. Ewing's liveliness brightens immensely the usually too sombre tone and lightens the too weighty matter of Aunt Judy It is curious, and not, perhaps, well, that nearly the whole of five ou t of the six pieces in this number—prose and poetry—are written in the first person—Lady Lamb's tender and interesting little memoir of poor Cowper being the exception. "Mother Molly" deepens steadily in interest ; the verses are an immense improvement on recent Aunt- Judy poetry ; and the dog-anecdotes are very good, but not all new, are they ?—at least, we seem to remember some of them.
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