This is one of those charming books which well deserves a place in every family library, and which has already won a place in thousands of hearts.  The Sketches comprised in these beautiful volumes are so full of grace and tenderness, so pure in their style and so elevated in their tone, that none can read them without delight and profit.  We hazard little in saying that the touching story of “Grace Linden,” which properly leads the collection, is scarcely surpassed in beauty by any thing in the works of Maria Edgeworth, or Mary Russell Mitford.  There are a great many other Sketches, in the volumes, that deserve special praise; but we will not deal in particulars when all are so admirable.

The authoress of “Alderbrook” is now a self-denying, zealous missionary of the Cross, in Asia, and, as Mrs. Judson, has written many very charming things.  She is best known, however, under her nomme de plume; and however honored may be the revered name she now bears, that of Fanny Forester will be cherished with pride and pleasure by her friends and readers.—­So.  LIT.  GAZETTE.