TALES OF A BRIDE.*
WE did not like the Mummy.: it was an extravagant invention, and 'indicated but feeble powers. The Tales of a Bride, which might as l• yell be called Tales of a Fiddlestick, are not so absurd, but they are not greatly superior in grain. They are formed pretty much after the ode] of the Hungarian Tales, and are indeed Tales of Hungary. lie author has a certain slender talent at production; and it may de- Ceive a great number of idle readers. The order of the thing is not .dissimilar from fictions of real power ; the subject matter is pretty nearly the same ; and there is an alternation of dialogue, description, nd remark, which goes to make up the semblance of an entertaining volume. For our parts, we are not to be deceived by forms : the spirit is wanting, and the task of reading is heavy.
* Tales of a Bride, by the Author of " The Mummy." London, 1829. Colburn and
Bentley.
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