The Beaver-Trappers, and other Stories. (Tegg.)--The principal tale is one
of a somewhat sentimental and conventional sort about Indian life, taken from a German source, and certainly not good enough to leave "Rip van Winkle " following at its tail, which we find among the " other steries."—The Royal Merchant, by W. H. Kingston (Partridge), is the work of a well-known writer of boys, scarcely equal to what we have seen before from the same pen. Mr. Kingston, like other writers of the same class, seems always to us to be most successful when he is furthest away from home. We would sooner have a story of adventure upon the high seas among pirates than, as we have here, a tale of "events in the days of Sir Thomas Gresham." We are perpetually stumbling upon moot points of history and politics, which do not admit of being treated in the summary fashion in which the British tar cuts off the Spanish pirate's head.
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