Niccolo Marini ; or, the JIystery Solved. Two Volumes. (Parker,
Son, and Bourn.)-This is a pleasantly written and fairly interesting story, the scene of which is laid in Naples, in 1848. The unsuccessful attempt at an Italian revolution which was made in that year is, of course, em- ployed as a part of the machinery of the tale ; but it is not, we are glad to say, at all a prominent feature in the book. Niccolo Marini himself is a wicked and needy Italian count, who attempts to entrap into marriage an English widow, who is handsome, rich, thoughtless, and young ; and the main interest of the story turns upon the manner in which his schemes are ultimately thwarted. The first volume is, in our opinion, decidedly the better of the two, the catastrophe in the second being melo- dramatic to an unnecessary and rather unpleasant degree.
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