16 APRIL 1836, Page 19

Anecdotes of the Family Circle, is the First Number of

an in- tended series of ana, which the editor appears to hope may derive some novelty from a classification, if they possess none in them- selves. The contents of the volume before us relate, as the title implies, to family matters ; commencing with Courtship, and ending with Breaches, the last section of which division relates to the great breacher death. The anecdotes themselves are not, of course, new, but the compilers seem to have drawn from the latest sources of gossip. The volume is of a convenient size, and neatly got-up.