We suppose most of our readers are familiar with the name of Grace Greenwood.  For some half dozen of years she has been one of the most acceptable contributors to our American monthlies, and she possesses such liveliness and vivacity that it does one good to read her productions.  There is an ease and grace about her, too, that makes us feel acquainted with her, although we have never seen her.  The volume before us is filled with tales, sketches, letters, and poems.  We predict that every lady’s library will contain this volume.—­BOSTON ATLAS.

The name of Grace Greenwood has now become a household word in the popular literature of our country and our day.  Of the intellectual woman we are not called to say much, as her writings speak for themselves, and they have spoken widely.  They are eminently characteristic; they are strictly national; they are likewise decisively individual.  All true individuality is honestly social; and also, in Miss Clarke’s writings, nothing is sectional, and nothing sectarian.  There is much in them that is subjective, much that is drawn from personal experience, but nothing that is merely vain or selfish.  A genuine human being, she is at the same time a genuine American girl.  And the spirit of her country finds in her utterance a voice that must stir an earnest life in the brothers and sisters of her nation.  She is one of the spiritual products of the soil, which has of late given evidence of spiritual fertility; and she promises not to be the least healthy, as she is not the least choice among them; she is only putting out her spring buds; if no untimely frost shall nip them, when the summer suns are warm they will be splendid blossoms, and long before autumn begins to dim the sky with its mellow shootings they will be luxuriant fruit.—­HENRY GILES.

Alderbrook. A Collection of Fanny Forester’s Village Sketches, Poems, &c.  With a fine Mezzotinto Portrait of the Author, engraved by Sartain.  Ninth edition, enlarged.

2 vols. 12mo, $1.75; gilt $2.50; gilt extra $3.00.  The same in 1 vol. $1.62; gilt $2.25; gilt extra $2.75.

Who has not heard of Fanny Forester,—­’charming Fanny Forester,’ as she is deservedly called?  Her sketches have been more generally read and admired than those of almost any other periodical writer of our day.  There is a freshness, grace, sprightliness, purity, and actualness about them, which charms and invigorates; and we are glad to find them collected and published in a form both elegant and convenient.  Miss Chubbuck, it will be remembered, was married a few months ago to the Rev. Dr. Judson, and is now on her way, with that devoted missionary, to the scene of his former labors.  The dedicatory preface of these volumes, to her husband, is one of the most graceful and touching we have ever seen.  A beautifully engraved portrait of the lady, by Sartain, is prefixed to the first volume.