6 DECEMBER 1902, Page 37

The Beautiful Mrs. Moulton. By Nathaniel Stevenson. (John Lane. 6s.)—John

Moulton is an American millionaire, the husband of the beautiful Mrs. Moulton. In this story the hunger for money and the feverish love of work for work's sake so common to-day in America are well depicted. John Moulton wears himself out by hard, responsible, exciting work. With him energy stands for right and idleness for wrong. His wife is a sentimental woman who affects to despise money while revelling in all that money can bring. Romantic by nature, and alienated by her husband's preoccupation, she philanders harmlessly with a clever and highly cultivated but completely worthless young man. Whether the husband and wife ever come together again, and what becomes of their fortune, it is quite worth the novel-reader's while to find out.