Scenes and Characters. By Charlotte M. Yonge. (Macmillan.)— This is
the twenty-fourth volume of the collected issue of Mid -Voiles novels and tales. It contains the second in chronological order of her productions, and is certainly interesting, both for its own sake—no book of Miss Tonga's could fail to be this—and as a contrast to the author's matarer work. It is curious to trace the influence of Miss Austen on her early style. Here is a sentence which, if we were to leave out the directly didactic words at the end, might very well have
been written by Miss Austen Of Emily there is little to say. She ate, drank, and slept, talked agreeably, read idle books, and looked nice in the drawing-room, wasting time, throwing away talents, weakening the powers of her mind, and laying up a store of sad reflections for herself against the time when she most awake from her selfish apathy." Of all the characters, Claude Mohnn is most like the author's later manner.
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