Kitty. By Adele. Frances Mount. (S.P.C.K. 2s.)—Kitty is a child
of the slums, whose mother dies after a terrible struggle against increasing poverty and the vicious tendencies of a weak husband. Curtis joins a travelling caravan after his wife's death, which occurs while he is serving a sentence, and falls into evil ways again; and Kitty, a pathetic, earnest, and courageous girl, finally brings about his reformation. The crisis is dramatic ; she follows her father to where he and the gipsy are stupefying pheasants. Her father breaks with his companion, a fight follows, and Curtis accidentally half-kills his daughter in the struge, A keeper turns up and a brighter page opens for father an daughter. It is a pretty story with a simple plot, but with much pathos, and Kitty should make other and happier girls more merciful, mere considerate, and more thoughtful for those whose lines are laid in hard places. Kitty will touch all tender hearts.
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