OCR Text |
Show A PROBLEM NOVEL. llo That Enlcth Bread With Mo. By IF. A. Mitchell Keays. Published by Mc-Clurc, Mc-Clurc, Phillips & Co., Now York. A heart-to-heart novel. In deepest protest pro-test against divorce. It undertakes to show tho awful horror that a divorce is to ) a loving, faithful wife, who believes fully In tho great sacrament of oiarriage, and whoso husband has been stolen from her I by another woman, with whom ho lias become be-come Infatuated. In this story thoro does not seem to havo been any reason at all for thn divorce, save only that tho man wanted tho other woman, and had, as ho suppose"!, ceased to care for his wife. And tho other woman was of a decidedly Inferior type to lho wlfo he wus leaving, savo only that sho was very beautiful. And she had a husband, too; so that both had to get divorces before thoy could wed. The son of tho first marriage of tho man was a link that kept him In mind of the old Ilfo even In tho delirium of tho new, and ho complicated matters unconsciously in such a way that very serious results ensued. en-sued. Tho deserted wife (we don't hear a word about tho husband whom the beautiful beauti-ful syren and temptress got rid of) is a woman of a very high type, and her sufferings suf-ferings under the problem presented to her are very keen and long-continued. She makes friends, and a noble offer of marriage cumes to Ut, which sho re jects as pollution, still holding herself to be tho wlfo of tho man who has deserted her. The situations whero tho divorced husband hus-band and wifo moet aro strikingly drawn, and the woman comes near to letting her nffccllon carry her to tho depths, but Is mercifully saved by tlie candor and strong common-sens of a bright, audacious young girl relative who Is staying with hor and who is accorded n. very tendor and enjoyable roaianco of her own. Tho conflict con-flict In tho soul of tho man when he finds that his lovo for his discarded wlfo Is kindled anew, und that the woman for whom ho has discarded her Is not worthy to loosen her choc, is strongly portrayed, yet there Is no relief, his first wlfo being steadfast In holding him to his now duty. Tho solution Is ghastly, and the lcff6on of It all Is obvious. |