It is needless to say that the determined author has hit upon a tolerably effectual means of securing a few lady readers. As for the work itself, it is, with more eccentricity of thought and less familiarity with composition than we should anticipate in a bad one. It is bold, rather sensational, involving a high-pressure murder and the somewhat _connu_ father-in-difficulties with a daughter, but interesting, and on the whole likely enough--in New York, where any amount of anything may be supposed to take place at any time without in the slightest degree violating the conditions of probability. For his _bete noir_ or grand villain, the Singular Man seems to have studied very carefully the gentleman who is said to have _posed_ for 'DENS-DEATH' in 'Cecil Dreeme,' and has to our mind approached him more closely even than WINTHROP has done. Among the characters one--'Charles Tewphunny'--strikes us as a reality; a vigorous, earnest, cheerful nature, clear and fine even through the obscurity and occasional crudity of his word-painter. We like Charles--_he_ should have been the favored one by love, as he is in being the true hero of the tale. The work is in fact crude, as though hastily written and had not been at all reviewed--at least by an experienced writer. On the other hand, its author is evidently a gentleman, one widely familiar with life--even a town life in many details--and is most unmistakably a scholar of rare ripeness. So manifest is his ability, and so remarkable the varied learning and experience which gleam (unknown to the author himself) through many unconscious allusions, that we wonder at finding such peculiar gifts turned to illustrate a tale, above all one so carelessly constructed as this is. We find fault with the names: 'Malfaire,' 'Tewphunny,' 'Mrs. Kairfull,' are not well devised; and yet again we at once regret all harsher judgment in some truly human, refined, and delicate passage, which is as creditable to the author's taste as heart. Taking it altogether, 'Inside Out' is, according to promise, a very curious book indeed. In justice to the publishers, we must say a word in favor of its neat binding and very attractive typography. COUNTRY LIVING AND COUNTRY THINKING. By GAIL HAMILTON. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1862.