Ninette: An Idyll ofProvence

A story by the author of Vera would naturally give rise to great expectations among the lovers of good fiction; the more so as an interval of ten years has elapsed since that popular writer produced her last novel. In these days of rapid succession of events and inventions, either of the head or hand, it is no small compliment to the author that "Vera" should still be so 'freshly remembered;' but so long as Englishmen are Englishmen the story in which the fortunes of a Crimean hero are made...