Frank Warrington. By the author of Rutledge. (Warne.) 1 voL-
" Mr. and Mrs. Thorndyke are entertaining a fashionable circle at'their town residence ; Mrs. Thorndyke is assisted in her arduous duties by her amiable family, and their accomplished governess, the charming Miss Warrington, whose fine features assume at times an expression of melancholy that has given rise to the most romantic conjectures. Cap- tain Thorndyke has brought with him from the camp on the Potomac a party of officers, and balls, tableaux, and excursions are the order of the day: already several matrimonial projects are talked of. We have the entree to this distingaisifed society, and we intend to plane before our readers full particulars of the sayings and doings of all its members." Such should have been the preface that would have given an accurate idea of the contents of this book. There is just so much of a story as this, that Miss Frank Warrington has two lovers, both of whom she con- trives to marry ; but all the real business is done in the last few pages, and the rest of the volume is taken up in the way we have described- If it is tree, as asserted in the prospectus, that this is one of a series of novels having a very extraordinary sale in the United States, we can only say that the Americans must swallow their literature, as they are said to do their meals, in any quantity, but with very little regard to flavour or digestion.
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