12 OCTOBER 1895, Page 13

The Wee Widato's Cruise in Quiet Waters. By Mrs. Edith

E. Cuthell. (Ward and Downey.)—Mrs. Cuthell, having, it would seem, some knowledge of yachting, and of the geography of such places as Poole Harbour and the like, makes it available for a story of courtship. A pleasant story it is, though with nothing remarkably striking in it. Anyhow, it is a welcome change from the dismal things with which the new fiction abounds. Mrs. Cuthell ought to quote correctly ; the reader " droned from the pulpit," "the legend of good St. Guthlac," not of "good St. Dunstan," as we have it here. Guthlac, brigand, hermit, and saint, was a very different person from the statesman-Archbishop.