THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER. By Ellen Louise Chandler. With Illustrations. Boston, Phillips, Sampson, & Co. New York: J. C. Derby 1854.

  Female authors are multiplying so rapidly in our country, that the lady who has written a book, bids fair soon to be less distinguished, than she who has not written one. Yet, with few exceptions, we have reason to be proud of the literary productions of American women. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" would not disgrace an intellect of the sterner sex. "The Wide Wide World," and "Queechy," were pronounced by the critics very creditable volumes, even though they did come from a female pen. Everybody buys Fern Leaves, big Ferns and Little Ferns, and what is more to our present purpose, everybody reads, and everybody laughs and cries over it. Mrs. Stowe and Fanny Fern have made themselves rich by their brain labor, which is more than Milton did by his. And now, beside a host of lesser lights, all of whom are more or less worthy of attention, Ellen Louise Chandler steps forward, from we don't know where, and making a curtesy to the public, modestly offers herself and This, That, and The Other for a notice and criticism. The public receives her graciously, if one may judge from the fact that her book has already reached the seventh thousand. And we believe this is not simply because she is a woman, but because there is something in the book worth reading. The style is easy, graceful, sometimes almost brilliant. A little more practice in writing will enable the author to trim off redundances, and give vigor where hitherto she has only sought to impart grace. The imitations of Fanny Fern are failures, as imitations generally are. The book, for a first effort, is a creditable one. We hope the fair writer will try again.