24 APRIL 1897, Page 11

mania of a husband for the newly suggested game of

golf, and his consequent neglect of his wife, would not hold out as the subject of a volume which had to run to the conventional three hundred pages. Matter thus falling short, there was of course only one resource. Either husband or wife must either fail, or appear to fail, in matrimonial faith. The golf trouble is ex- cessively tiresome, and ludicrously exaggerated, but the diversion is worse.