26 JANUARY 1867, page 16

Books.

NEW AMERICA.* Tins is a most readable book, perhaps the most readable published this year. We do not agree with all Mr. Hepworth Dixon's opinions, and his style in its unbroken......

A Winter Among The Swallows.* If Any One Would Weigh

a hollow and ambitious book against one full of matter and beauty, let him wade through Lady Her- bert's pretentious volume on Spain, and then let him read Miss Edwards' Winter......