3 JUNE 1893, Page 26

A Wild Wooing. By Florence Warden. (F. V. White.)—Freda Mulgrave,

bereaved of her mother at the age of two, is brought up in a French convent till she is eighteen. Then, summoned away by her father, who does not approve of her desire to become a nun, she goes home to encounter a number of very strange adventures. Stranger, however, than the adventures, is this convent-bred girl's extraordinary aptitude for an existence full of exciting incidents. Had she been bred up on melodrama, she could

not have taken to the curious conditions which she finds in her father's house more readily. The story is somewhat confused, but wholly unobjectionable.