PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
Evenings Abroad, by the author of "Sketches of Corfu," is a .charming little volume,—a eery agreeable mixture of prose and verse, description and reflection, narrative, incident, and history. Its subject, or rather its origin, is a Continental tour by a party, Who, to while away the ennui attendant upon bad days in bad lodgings, form a portfolio, into which any one puts what it pleases him or her to write; its contents are read ut leisure-hours; and the book professes to be a selection from these amateur offer- ings, introduced and connected by a series of letters. The dis- tinctive quality of the writer's mind is elegant sentiment ; inter- mingled with which. there is a vein of melancholy, too superficial, we trust, to be very genuine. The style of the prose is easy and graceful ; that of the poetry terse and flowing. It is only to be regretted that a person who is so clever in clothing her thoughts in welds, should not have bestowed more time and labour upon the thoughts themselves.
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