18 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 12

A Cathedral Courtship, and Penelope's English Experience. By Kate Douglas

Wiggin. (Gay and Bird.) —Here we have two prettily-written tales, or what our American kinsmen are pleased to call tales, narratives wholly free from incident. To American readers, their chief attraction will presumably he that they describe England ; to English, that they see a picture of themselves drawn by a friendly hand.