29 OCTOBER 1927, Page 47

A PASSIONATE REBEL. By Pamela Wynne. (Philip Allan. 7s. 6d.)-Miss

Wynne is not very successful in her modern version of The Taming of the Shrew. In fact, the criticism which was once applied to one of Disraeli's novels that it was written by the Prime Minister and his footman would be equally true of this story, which reads as if it had been written by the author and a nursery-maid. The heaven of the nursery-maid is populated with passionate strong men Me the hero, and the beautiful rebellious heroine is his fit mate. An attractive Canon of the Established Church is a more life-like figure, but, alas, he gives way far too frequently to sentimental tears. The book should be popular with the audience for whom it was designed.