Little Women. Part II. By Louisa M. Alcott. (Boston, United
States, Roberts ; London, Sampson Low.)—This is a continuation of a pleasant little book which some of our readers may remember to have been praised in these columns a few months ago. Our young friends, ex- cepting one whose early death is told with a very true and simple pathos, grow up and are married, and have children. Being of a certain age and condition, we do not care so much to read about love-making as. about the ways of children and youngsters; but then many readers are of a quite different way of thinking ; and certainly the love-making is very pretty and natural of its kind, and there is no failure of freshness in the writing. The spruce young American, Laurie, is not much to our taste ; but the German Professor is a fine character, and our old friend Jo is consistently delightful to the end. And then there are the chil- dren in the second generation, especially a pair of twins,—such is the alarming beginning which one of our horoines-makes,—who are among the most delightful inhabitants that it has ever been our fortune to meet of the baby province of the great world of fiction.
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