Deephaven. By Sarah 0. Jewett. (Osgood and Co., Boston, U.S.)—
Deephaven is a New England fishing-village, somewhat decayed,—they are beginning to have decayed things over there. Thither go one summer Kate Lancaster (whose mother has inherited some property in the place) and her friend, and in this volume we have the record of what they did and saw, how they made acquaintance with the fisher- men and inhabitants generally, how they fished, and boated, and amused themselves,—spent, in fact, a very happy summer. There is no story and—dolightful variety on the common run of little volumes— no love-making. Not a single young man appears on the scone, and the book is amazingly improved by the omission. In fact, it is very charming. If Now England has many such young women as Kate Lancaster and her friend, and has also such very pleasant writers to describe them to us, it is very much to be congratulated.
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