23 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 25

Katherine's Keys By Sarah Doudney. (Nisbet and Co.)— Katherine Penn

sets her heart on a young man whom she believes to be attached to her. She finds that this attachment is a fancy, for he announces to her, without any kind of misgiving, the fact of his engagement. At first she is in despair; her fortune iv gone; the door is shut against her How she is reconciled to her lot, and more than reconciled, is told very well in Miss Doudney's story. Miss Dondney has the art of talking seriously, without assuming the air of a preacher.