PUT ASUNDER. By Mrs. W. L. George. (Chapman and Hall.
7s. 6d.)—This is a sober and earnest novel, raising problems for which the writer wisely offers no universal solution. The story is very readable, and is the more con- vincing because there is no attempt at brilliance. Mrs. George has obviously lived with her characters, and quite naturally she makes us share their emotions and anxieties. Monica Wellburn finds her greatest joy in service for her husband, Christopher, and tries to reform him of rakish habits. He rebels against her " interference," and urges her to divorce him. Reluctantly, but goaded beyond endur- ance, she at last consents, and later marries the gentle and long-suffering Hubert Bracknell. Complications ensue, how- ever, when Christopher meets with an accident, and Monica Ands that she cannot forget him in his hour of need. Is it true, Mrs. George seems to ask us, that a woman always remains loyal to her first lover ; and may Monica's type of unselfishnest be more harmful to society at large than the apparent heartlessness" of Barbara, her sister ? Different readers will answer -these questions differently. But Put Asunder will at least prove engrossing and provocative of thought.
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