Chequer-Work.

The article focuses on the book "Chequer-Work," by Thomas G. Appleton. Appleton's volume is of the kind which one identifies sufficiently in saving that it affects unpretentiousness. A collection of trifles, having no closer relations to each other than beads strung on a string each bodying forth some light or pensive mood of the author's mind, or recording some slight adventure, or photographing some memory, and each polished to the degree of refined elegance, is the description which the preface it lacks would have given of it, one may fancy.