The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-05-09
WILKIE COLLINS NEW BOOK.

THE CROSSED PATH; Story of Modern
Life and Manners. By Wilkie Collins, author of
"Woman in White" "The Dead Secret" etc., and
far superior to either of them. One vol, limo,
CLOTH S1.25; in two vols, paper cover, for One
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Neacs says of it.:
ct B. Peterson & Brothers have given to the
public, in an acceptable form, one of the most
remarkable works of fiction that has ever been
issued from the press. The Crossed Path a
Story of Modern Life and Manners, exhibits in
apre-eminent degree, the power possessed by
Mr.. Wilkie Collins, of sustaining the interest of
a story which in other hands would probably
prove tedious. The two controlling agencies of
the plot are love and revenge, which are made in
turn to work upon each other. The hero has the
misfortune to have father who is very tenacious
of ancestral honors, and who is DESTROYS that he
should ally himself by marriage to q family
equally as ancient as his own. As is often the
case in such instances, the young man falls in
love with O woman who is inferior in social posi-
tion, tradesmans daughter, and to escape the
consequences of his fathers wrath, marries her
secretly. Here the revengeful individual ap-
pears upon the scene, in the shape of the linen
Diapers confidential clerk, who has been de-
prived by the hero, of the woman he was desir-
Gus of marrying. In addition to this ground for
hatred. his father was hung for forgery through
the evidence of the hero's father.
"To avert all suspicion, the hero agrees not to
claim his wife, or demand any of the privil-
eyes of husband for the space of year, This
interval is improved by Mannion, who gains the
affections of his wife aud consummates his dis
grace on the night before the expiration OF the
year. To this the hero is witness, and proceeds
to wreak his vengeance upon the head of Man
Mon, leaving him apparently lifeless in the
street. He, however, survives, and after having
unconsciously caused the death of the unfortu-
nate woman, still pursues the hero with his hate.
Having alienated him from his father, he perse-
cutes him in various WAYS, until he at last falls
victim to his own impetuosity, and is dashed to
pieces over precipice. The prosecuted victim
is then restored to his family wiser, though
perhaps, not happier man. The story is told
very skifully, and the more Objectionable fea-
lures of the plot are handled with great delcacy.
We would advise all our readers to get the book
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