6 OCTOBER 1888, Page 24

Frau Withelmine. Translated from the German of Dr. Julius Stinde

by Harriett F. Powell. (Bell and Son.)—This volume concludes those admirable " Sketches of Berlin Life " which have delighted so many readers under the title of " The Buchholz Family." A lady of the present writer's acquaintance remarked, after reading this volume, as she might have remarked of its pre- decessors,—" One cannot help fitting on the cap again and again." Dr. Stinde is, in truth, a curiously keen observer ; and though the surroundings of his sketches are of Berlin, there is a "great deal of human nature " in them. It is difficult to select for notice where all is so good ; but perhaps the " lady-helps " give one the most entertainment. The translation is remarkably racy and spirited.