A Chaperon's Cares. By Mary Catharine Jackson. 2 vols. (Smith,
Elder, and Co.)—The plan of the book is a not uningeuious method of introducing three love-stories, wo may even say four, for the chaperon does a little business on her own account. About the love-stories
themselves there is nothing remarkable. One of them deals in the horrible, in suggestions of murder and the like ; the others present US
with the ordinary vicissitudes which are supposed to disturb the current of affection. The book is sufficiently well written, but fails to leave anything like a distinct impression on the mind.—In a Minor Key. 2 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Here we have a really pretty and effective love-story. Tho blind girl, Nina, locos and is loved, but re- fuses to entertain the offer which is made to her, ber.ause she will not be an hindrance to the efforts of her lover, striving, as be is, to restore the wasted fortunes of his house. He does not comprehend the sacri- fice, and attributes the refusal to mere coquetry. The scene where the misapprehension is cleared away, and the hearts of the two are brought to understand each other, is very pathetic.
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