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The World We Live In. By Algernon Cecil. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—This comedy of modern manners is written to demonstrate the irrevocability from the Roman Catholic point of view of the sacrament of marriage. The unfortunate Lady Betty—née Bolsover, secondly Stock, and thirdly Poole—is left at the end of the book in a sad state of doubt as to her duty to her present and her divorced husband. The reader is led to suppose that she will illegally return to Mr. Stock, and shrewdly suspects that, in spite of the mortal illness with which he is stricken, Lady Betty will once more be as unhappy with him as during the legal period of her marriage. Mr. Stock is a Labour leader of idealist moral views. He, however, finds no difficulty from his own standpoint in providing the evidence which enables his wife to get her decree. There is some life- like portraiture of Society, which the author has the advantage of knowing and understanding.
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