The Young Englishwoman. Vol. I. December, 1864, June, 1865. (Beaton.)—We
suppose that, as one of the subscribers to this periodical writes to inquire where Nice is, and -another is informed that there is no impropriety in stopping out on the lawn till nine o'clock with a lady friend who brings a brother with her, whilst a third is told to send her carte to the editor, that it is generally taken in by the families of small shopkeepers and domestic servants. There is nothing in the letter- press that is at variance with this conclusion; the type is miserably small, and the matter of the stories is taken from the French without acknowledgment, or expanded from the popular melodrama of the day. But in that case for whom are the very handsome plates of the fashions intended ? They are meant for a class that they do not reach, and they reach a class that simply travesties them in the grotesque finery with which " sarvantgalism " delights to adorn itself.
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