Twenty Years Ago. Edited by the Author of "John Halifax,
Gentleman." (Sampson Low and Co.)—This book is said to be "from the journal of a girl in her teens ;" and the editor tells us, nor will any reader find it difficult to believe, that it is litte else than a transcript from such a journal, actually kept and handed over to her without any idea of its being published. The subject of the autobiography goes to Paris to visit a sister, newly widowed, and still in her first youth. The time is the eve of the coup d'eat of 1851. Of that event, as it struck a young English girl of very strong prepossessions in favour of liberty, we have a remarkably graphic and interesting account ; and there are capital sketches of French life, both in Paris and in the provinces. Everything in the book has a very life-like aspect, and, we should add, a charm which the life-like does not always possess.
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