Blackwood. January, 1872. (Blackwood and Son.)—The third
article on "French Home Life," called "Furniture," is not equal to the other two, the writer passing away too often from description to disqui- sition, and believing a little too strongly in the moral effect of well- selected furniture. " Wooden furniture is provocative of lofty princi- ples, and of what we should call in England Low-Church tendencies ; while padded sofas and their adjuncts may be said to conduce to worldly views, and to no Church tendencies at all." That is epigrammatic, but it is scarcely true, or the British labourer, whose furniture is all wood, would bo a different kind of man from what he is. The "Maid of Sker " goes on as original and readable as ever, and there is very full, sensible, and humorous account of the loss of the Mega3ra, but the remaining papers of the number are to us of little interest.
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