MRS. BRAY'S HISTORICAL NOVELS—DE FOIX.
MRS. BRAY, formerly Mrs. C. STOTHARD, is known to the world for her antiquarian taste, her admiration of FROISSA.RT and chivalry, and her acquaintance with the manners and customs of the middle ages. Her Letters from Normandy and Brittany, illustrated by the talents of Mrs. STOTHARD, first excited the public attention. Her Historical Romances established her character as a skilful antiquarian, a rather tasteful descriptive writer, and a respectable novelist of a somewhat heavy manner, who made her story a vehicle for diffusing her knowledge. In the course of five years, she published five tates, in fifteen volumes. Yet, notwithstanding this appearance of success, it is probable that the works of our fair authoress were more praised than purchased, and that sundry copies have remained on hand. Her publishers, therefore, like skil- ful men of business, have taken advantage of the serial mania, to reissue (as we gather from some professional signs), with new titlepages and a new preface, the whole of her novels ; and the earliest, De Foix, is selected to commence the series. We wish the undertaking success; and if cheapness can insure it, the speculation must succeed. A modern novel, in three octavo volumes, neatly "half-bound and lettered," for twelve shillings, is, we think, unrivalled in this cheap age.
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