er parents, leaving behind her an unreproachful, fond, and most
touching letter of farewell. Poor girl! sad as it was for her, what
else could she do? It was the best course under the circumstances; for
although her heart broke over it, she at least kept her love for him,
and that by remaining she might have lost. After a while she dies, and
he after a long time betrothes himself to another woman, who loves him,
and to whose love he responds with such a feeling as beauty and
sweetness and devotion might raise in the breast of a man whose heart
is really in the grave of his dead wife. He dies before a second
marriage from injuries received in a dispute with his brother-in-law.
It will be seen that this simple story of humble life presented
temptations to treatment in the most literal and realistic way. But in
Auerbach's hands it is ideal. Its likeness in certain respects to the
story of "A Princess of Thule" will strike all the readers of William
Black's most charming novel. But the treatment is as unlike as the
incidents and the localities. Auerbach's little novel is essentially
German in thought, in feeling, in purpose, in treatment. We have never
read a more thoroughly German book. This character is given to it, and
its ideality is very much enhanced by the character of the
collaborator, who is constantly looking upon every incident of life
from a lofty philosophic point of view; serious generally, sometimes
humorous, often serio-comic. "Wilhelm Meister" itself is not a more
thoroughly characteristic production of the German mind. But it is
nevertheless a sweet, simple, touching story, the sentiment diffused
through which has a peculiar charm. It forms one of Mr. Henry Holt's
well selected "Leisure Hour Series." The translation is marked by
idiomatic vigor and a very skilful adaptation of the rustic phraseology
of one language to that of the other.

[3] "_Lorley and Reinhard._" By BERTHOLD AUERBACH. Translated by
Charles T. Brooks. 16mo, pp. 377. New York: Henry Holt.

--As unlike to this as can be is a novel by an author whose name is
entirely new to us, but whose work bears the traces of some literary
experience.[4] Its double title is very well chosen. In it a number of
people, young and middle-aged, are gathered together for the summer in
the beautiful Connecticut country house of one of them--a wealthy young
bachelor. There they all fall in love. We can hardly say that everybody
falls in love with ev