land, and Spain respectively. The first, which bears the title
" Unequally Yoked," is chiefly occupied with the sorrows of two young women who marry natives of Egypt. Miss Jane Whately, than whom there could scarcely be a better authority on the subject, tells us in her preface that "such mixed unions are much commoner than is generally supposed." We doubt whether anything in the way of a book would act as a preventive against such marriages. The silly girls who make them do not read books, and if they did, would imagine that their case would be the one exception to the general rule. Apart from this, we have a graphic picture of Egyptian life. The two other stories are of inferior interest, the first being an ordinary didactic tale, which the writer might have placed in any country, just as well as in Switzerland ; the second, a story of the Protestant movement in Spain, wherein we see the truth forcing its way into the mind of a young divinity student. In one point of view, this story would have been better without the intro- duction of the beautiful Aurora, who is sure to have, however unde- servedly, some of the credit of Don Diego's conversion, but then, we suppose, readers, even of the more serious class, will not be content without something of a love-story.
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