Review of Louisa May Alcott's new edition of Hospital Sketches 

HOSPITAL SKETCHES, BY L.M. ALCOTT. Boston: James Redpath. pp. 103

  This little book scarcely needs an introduction to our readers, who have already, laughed and wept over those portion of it which have been printed in our columns. It now appears in a neat volume, and will find as many readers, we trust, in its new form as in its old. Besides the two additional chapters, we notice that Miss Alcott has added a page here and there, where the fitness of things or the correction of some misunderstanding required it. She dedicates the book to that faithful friend and loyal lady—herself a nurse, MISS HANNAH STEVENSON of this city.

  If this number of our paper had proved to be the last, as we feared, from our Publisher’s account it must be, we were reconciled to the passing away of the Commonwealth, by this among other things, that we have introduced to the great public a book so full of wit, sense and sympathy, as this of Miss Alcott’s.