Catalina, Art - Student. By L. T. Meade. (W. and R. Chambers.)
—Admirers of Mrs. Meade's work in fiction—which is often very excellent—may be somewhat disappointed with this new story, because there is in it no story to speak of. Catalina is an indus- trious and imaginative art-student, who has, however, a rival in the person of a certain spiteful Rhoda. Rhoda conspires against Catalina, and very nearly succeeds in getting her expelled from the art-school. The bulk of this book is, indeed, taken up with Catalina's getting into this difficulty and out of it. By far the best character in the book is Catalina's father, a most learned, industrious, loving, but altogether unpractical, scholar. Catalina's little conspiracy on his behalf, when he is stricken down with ill- ness—to enlist the practical sympathy of her wealthy, but some- what curmudgeonish, maternal uncle —which meets with success, is one of those pretty by-plots in constructing which Mrs. Meade surpasses most of her contemporaries. Catalina is very prettily illustrated.
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