Jenny. By Mrs. E. Cartwright. (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)— The
situation of the little girl, with a good deal of quicksilver in her limbs, going to stay with some precise old relatives is a familiar one. Mrs. Cartwright makes something fresh and in- teresting out of it, which young readers will find pleasant and, it is to be hoped, improving.
Messrs. Bliss and Sands publish an illustrated edition of Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey. The illustrations, which number nearly a hundred, reckoning all sorts and sizes, are by Mr. T. H. Robinson. The frontispiece is a photogravure from Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait of the author. There is, to our mind, a very nauseous taste about the Sentimental Journey, but it is an accepted classic, and beyond criticism. This edition is in good taste, though the colour of the binding might have been a little less sombre ; the illustrations are of variable quality. The " merriest kitchen since the flood" is one of the least admir- able; some of the single figures, on the other hand, are very good.
From the same publishers we have also received an illustrated edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, with eight illus- trations by the same artist.
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