3 DECEMBER 1892, Page 11

Plower Folk. By Edith Carrington (Griffith, Ferran, and Co )

—Here we have three short stories, set to speak in quaintly fanciful surroundings, but tho omse!ves dealing with ordinary hu can beings and actual wants. The f trtunes of little Patey and her luckless fa her, .` Watercress Bill," are the subject of the first, entitled "A Cowslip Colloquy; ' while a. sweet little girl, C •lestina by name whom we are very sorry to have to part with, is the principal character in the second. The sorrows and joys of a Lsndou seamstress are told in the third, perhaps the most effective of them all. •