"THE TALE OP TRIONA. "

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 1 April 1923, Page 70

"THE TALE OP TRIONA. "

William Locke

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This book by a very popular writer is exceedingly interesting, although one cannot help regretting that the hero should be such a thorough paced fraud. Alexis Triona, really "John Briggs," is a man who achieved fame by writing a novel of war, adventure, and thrilling experiences, and claiming the story as his own. Olivia Gale meets this author with the halo of renown surrounding him. After living a quiet retired life in the country after her mother's death, she has gone to London to try what living in the great world means. They marry, and are for a short time very happy, but events disclose the true identity of Triona, and it

is only after disillusionment and disappointment that Olivia decides to forget and forgive all and John Briggs, retaining his nom de plume of Triona, and she are reunited. The part played in the story by Myra, the maid and devoted attendant of' Olivia, is pathetic. While many of William Locke's books are more pleasing than this, "The Tale of Triona" is well worth reading.