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The ouop CORRESPONDENCE, OR THE Ar1oRHEy. By


JOHN QUoD. In volumes. john Allen, l59 Nassau


street


We have frequently expressed our opinion OF
the merits of this interesting novel during it. pas
sage. in monthly parts, through the pages of the
KsloKERBocKER, for xtirh it was originally
written 1t is tale Of crime, developing its in
ception, progress, consummation and reward with
considerable power and thrilag interest. Ii is
evidently attempt to tread in the footsteps OF
DicKEEs, and when compared with the best
works of that author, as almost every reader of
both will naturally compare it, of course it falls
far below them in strength and in marks of the
highest genius. Still it is written with great
ability, and will be eagerly read by all admirers OF
this department of literature. The scene is laid
In own city, and the incidents are such as
might, without any unwarrantable exaggeration.
be supposed TO have occurred among US. 1t
paints the dark side Of human nature in most
vivid and repulsive colos; but no searchel of the
human heart, no one familiar with the rivers of
gull, and wo which have their fountain there, no
one who has looked upon man and society in the
light not Of hope and of faith in the future but Of
fact and reality, will believe it overcharged.