Kitty Costello. By Mrs. Alexander. (T. Fisher Unwin. Os.)— This,
we greatly regret to hear, is the last story that we are to have from Mrs. Alexander's pen. She died at an advanced age- seventy-seven—but she certainly had not exhausted her powers or outworn her welcome. This story shows, indeed, a quite remarkable vivacity. In it she took, for the first time in her literary career, an Irish subject,—her early life had been passed in Ireland. Kitty Costello is an Irish girl who comes over to England to visit her mother's sister, who many years before had married an English manufacturer. There is not much of a story, but we do not want anything more than has been provided for us. Kitty is a delightful creature, pictured by Mrs. Alexander with manifest pleasure. She has, of course, any number of admirers. "Divinely tall and most divinely fair," with that speciality, in eyes which belongs to Ireland, she makes conquests without end, and is conquered it last. Whether as victor or vanquished, she interests us vastly, and her conqueror is not unworthy of her.
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