The Dowerless Damsel: an Autobiography. By A. Dorset. (Reming- ton.)—The
"Dowerless Damsel" goes oat to Alexandria as governess to a Pasha's daughter, goes thence to study art in Rome, and finally takes leave of her readers in Venice with a hint that, in spite of being dower- less, she has found a husband, as indeed she had had many suitors. The sketches of life and scenery are sufficiently spirited, and show some faculty of observation. The style is not always very correct. Such an expression as "in some places the Nile, by its short turns, shuts the river in," would be hard to understand, did we not know that the Nile is the only river in Egypt, and a governess ought to have known that a steamer could hardly have put into Yarmouth Roads (doos she perhaps mean Yarmouth, Isle of Wight ?) after leaving Southampton on the way to the Mediterranean.
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