Mortimer Delmar, and Highfield Tower, are the titles of two
tales, written in a slipslop style, by the author of "Conrad Blr- sington." Mortimer Delmar is a story of adultery, only differing from similar occurrences common in high life, in being heightened by a touch of' horror that will disgust all readers of healthy feel- ing, and can only interest those whose taste has become vitiated by a course of fashionable novels. Highfield Tower, on the con- trary, boasts of' no more exciting incident than an ordinary m- trigue, and consequently may be voted tame by the same clau of persons : to us it appears unsufferably stupid and mawkish.
Mrs. Wilberforce, or the Widow and her Orphans, is a eircuta- stantial narrative—as barren in its minuteness as a lawyer
incidents so revolting, that their very improbability would be a relief, if there were sufficient art in the fiction to make then appear like reality. The plotters against the happiness of "the Widow and her Orphans," are monsters of villany ; and their scheme is ludicrously absurd. The vulgarity of this pretnous production is equal to its inanity : yet the writer has got the an! tion of the Queen Dowager, the decorous AnuLAItni. "to when It is dedicated!
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