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 "Well, sir," said miss rising, making a curtsey, "How do you approve of my work?" "It is like yourself, lovely and charming." "Would you have the goodness, sir, to write a review of it?" "I can refuse nothing to so fair an applicant, I could be the Carolino myself to such an Athalia." He now thought he heard some one on the outside of the door, and did not doubt but female curiosity in the person of the maid might be listening to what was going forward; he accordingly suspended some part of his remarks, and made an appointment for the evening, by which time, he said, he should do full justice to the subject; and after again very closely reviewing her lips, he asked if she would not see his mother and sister, and they parted. Our hero accordingly set about the review, which he executed to the following purport. "It was avowedly and evidently