A Whirl Asunder. By Gertrude Atherton. (Cassell and Co.)— Helena
Belmont is a Californian heiress, a woman who, to use Miss Gertrude Atherton's expressive phrase, takes "her will between her teeth." Her will is to win away a certain English. man named Clive from the girl to whom he is engaged. Her methods are about as outrageous as anything that we have read of. Clive goes in for being a man of honour, though his belief is ex- pressed in the sentence that " there is one woman in every man's life that he never forgets, and that woman is, worse luck, rarely his wife." We must say that the book seems to us a very un- wholesome one. It is quite idle to address any remonstrance to the author; but we should like to put this question to the publishers : Would they have ventured to print this tale in any one of the admirable magazines which they issue ? These magazines reach an immensely large circle of decent people who would be grievously affronted by having such a story as this given to them. Is there, then, quite another circle for whom these wares are provided?
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