1 MAY 1897, Page 24

Cot and Cradle Stories. By Catharine Parr Traill. Edited by

Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mrs. Trail] was the fourth of the five Strickland sisters, of whom Agnes, the historian of the "Queens of England," is the most celebrated. She still lives, having accomplished a " record " in the province of literary production. Her first story—it is included in this volume—was written in 1818; her latest dates from 1895. To have gone on writing for seventy-eight years is an achievement probably standing by itself in the history of authorship.