"This is, in appearance, an elegant volume, such a one as people
like to see on a drawing-room table; for there must be books for
show as well as for use, especially in the height of 'the season.'
The contents do not belie the promise of the exterior. We have a
number of prettily executed engravings, new and old, the subjects
as various as form the exhibition of the Royal Academy: on one
leaf a pageant of chivalry, by Stephanoff; on another a rural
solitude, by Creswick; on another a storm over a harvest-field, by
Westall; on others, a cottage girl by Gainsborough, portraits of
beauties by Uwins and Chalon, landscapes by Turner, and so on to
the concluding plate, from one of Collins's charming forest scenes,
with village children, whose very rags are picturesque, and whose
smiles are the ideal of rustic joy. Miss Toulmin has constructed
a pretty, feeling tale, which embraces all those subjects—a task
an author less ingenious might have given up in despair, but which
she has happily accomplished. The course of the story is varied
by romantic episodes and poetic legends. The object Miss Toulmin
proposed to herself she has effectively worked out, and connected
recollections of the romance of the past with a tale illustrative
of the incidents of the present."—_Britannia._
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