20 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 10

The Wheel of Fate. By Mrs. Bagot }lade. (W. H.

Addison.) —Two young ladies are left behind at a pension, with a clergyman and his wife as unwilling guardians. The situation becomes interesting when two young men arrive, who fall in love as a matter of course. Afterwards one of the lovers is compelled to marry some one else ; but things right themselves with the excep- tion of this and of a trial for forgery of one of the young ladies. The humour of the situation at the beginning of the narrative is well expressed by Mrs. Harte. The interest of the story never flags: We must point out that the evidence, which is on the point of

convicting an innocent woman on the recognition of a dress alone, when there is a disagreement as to the personality, would be too flimsy for a Court of Law.