7/6), Edward Austin tells an entertaining and amusing tale of an elderly, -to-do bachelor. who, advised By. his doctor to take a rest cure, dgtides {o holiday in Sweden: By accident he is accompanied by Thoruna, a fashionable, pleasure-loving young woman, whose. trustee he is. Arriving in Sweden, he finds himself continually embarrassed and compromised by Thoruna's modern "smart set" manners, but neverthe-leis enjoys her company so much that he eventually discovers that he is jealous of the attentions paid her by younger men. Returning to his staid, bachelor habits in London, he begins to appreciate that the hectic hours spent with Thoruna in Sweden have been a far better tonic to his jaded system than the cure ordered by his Own medical man. Intriguing, laughable, piquant, "Thoruna" is unreserved ly recommended as a pleasing story which carries a moral for all its readers—rA1
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