4 DECEMBER 1897, Page 10

Wild Kitty. By L. T. Meade. (W. and R. Chambers.)—This

is one of the romantic stories which Mrs. L. T. Meade delights to tell you. Kitty Malone is the prettiest, the most audacious, and the most charming creature that ever fluttered the dovecote of a girls' school. There is no knowing what might happen if so very strange a being were to be introduced into these decorous precincts—the thing is quite beyond the range of experience— but it must be allowed that the course which events took in Middleton School and out of it was very curious indeed. Not- withstanding this, the book is eminently readable. All that we find fault with is the conclusion, which seems to us somewhat hurried and incomplete.