New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
A STORY OF DIVORCE.
SALVAGE. (No Name Series) Boston. RobERle
RROTuFEs. 1880.

ties if not impossiblities, unequal in literary
execution and vet sufficiently ENTERTAINING IL DE-
gins in the middle of night in june or rather III
the very earliest hours of the morning as the writer
is careful to inform MS upon the steps OF mousse III
Eaton Square, London-a handsome house-anu w
fact, the domice of the American Minister lh's
residence fixes the chronology. Ii must have been
in Mr.. Abbot Lawrence's ume for TINS American
Minister we are told, was a gentleman whose
private means fortunately were sufficient to make
no the deficiencies of Republican hberality, anu on
able him TO extend to all corners that hospitality
which the American considers his due from MS
couptrv,s representatives abroad, wherever found"
We are at once introduced TO Colonel Wocott. the
hero OF the novel, who is tall and dark, Win
superb full beard" This handsome gentleman Is an
old Confederate officer, who has been travelling III
the East and who has published book OF travels
which has achieved great success and made Lon
don Ion of him. The Colonel had married years
before a rich young woman of New-York. the daugh-
ter Of a millionaire, sir. Peter Enges. The couple
of course did not get together, and when seces-
sion came the Colonel was much rritated by the
Northern sentiments of his father-in-law ana MS
motber-in-law and of his wife. He had also sense
of money dependence which was CALLING 10 his SOUL
So " be brooded over the news frem the South, ana
ended by leaving his wife E" to join his own peo-
plv After the utter ruin OF the Confederate cause
Portable to remain the United States, goes to the
other extreme. and being seized with ambition
'to explore the unknown interior of ASIA" does SO.
He goes through various risks and dangers
and at one time subjected 10 a
fierce detention IN the mountain fortress
of a tribe of Afghans," where he wisely occupies
himself in writing out the narrative OF MS
perls and discoveries" He is released by British
influence aud finds himself in London with his Ms
Here he determines TO secure divorce IN the easy
going courts of Indiana but is much astonished TO
learn by letter from his lawyer that he is father
aud that Mrs Wolcott will not oppose the action
provided she is permitted TO retain the child lie
Immediately exclams, "ChIld! my child what
child! the father of child! l never heard of any
childi Why did she never send word | had a
child?" He sits up all night to think over the mat
ter and is discovered by the maid III the morning
"sill in evening toilet, with twilight struggling
with the yellow flicker of the lamp on the table.
He calls the landady he settles his bill; he gives
up a breakfast at winch he was to meet Muir
Gibson, Layard, KInglake and the rest" though ne
admits that he will never have such chance
again. He goes to an Office to bay ticket. He
wilbgo in the Crmea, which sails next. He Will
not wait for a Cunarder
Colonel Wnlcott takes the next train for Liverpool.
Now vho does The reader suppose upon this very
train 4? Why Mrs. WolcOtt. the COlODeFs de-
serted wife, and this identical child whom he Is
going in such hot haste TO New-fork TO seize ana
possess Could it be Adea?" 1t was! " Could
that be-his boy'' IL was. He knew her ty
"the little ears whose beauty was accented
by a tiny Jewell" He knew her by the letters A.
T.. W." upon her "embroidered satche" He knew
her also by a paper label on the bottom of the
satclel inscribed: Mrs. Wolcot passenger by the
Crmea." Tue child he knew. of course, by Undue
ton or intuition, aud when that child, being
taken up and csressed by the Colonel saws that he
has been taught every night to say God bless
papa" the wandering husbands heart begins to
grow softer aud he rather sorry that he absconded
Here was situation!
Conversation ensues and goes on pleasantly until
the train of tae track, few miles out OF Man
chester, and then in the confusion Adela recognizes
her husband. She knew him by his brow his eyes.
his hands. She knew him by ornament on his
watch-chain. She knew him by green seal mig on
one of his fingers! Here was worse danger than
aralway smash" The Colonel might claim the
boy
Things continually get more and complica-
ted. A Mrs. Tontine. now widow, with whom the
Colonel was love before he married Adela, ID, by
n singular chance going az passenger on the
Crlmea Mrs Wolcott determines TO leave the boy
behind in England. She will not submit him TO the
chances of American Jurisprudence. So she sails
TO end in another catastrophe. But VIC will not an
t;cipate We ought to mention. however, that the
Colonel voyaged as Joseph Dobson. that being tue
name Of person whose ticket ne procured at pinch
In the Liverpool Office. Dobson chances to be dis
reputable character, which subjects the Colonel to
some suspicion 4Ie is regarded rather as adven-
tmrer than man of adventure and gentleman.
AT Queenstown Mrs. Wolcott expects to receive a
telegram about her child instead of which there
comes telling her that Colonel Wocott is going
Oh the Crmea, that she had better land, go to
hotel aud take the next steamer. This is delivered
by accident TO the Colonel who pockets it and SAYS
nothing about If. They embark together, and the
matter of the telegram, the ColonePs sharp trick
having been discovered, brings them INTO converse
ton in which their relations as man and wife are
freely discussed. The result is that great alice
ton springs up between them, and 1t becomes evil
dent that if they are divorced they will be married
again upon the first opportunity. But new and
startling events arc at hand. most tremendous
storm arises the gallant steamer proves to be
entirely unseaworthy, and her shaft being
broken she becomes uDinanageable This is a
book IN which everything which can happen
does happen. \ friendly vessel takes of
most of the passengers. but Mr.. and Mrs. Wocott
are lcf, upon the wreck the widow insisting upon
being saved instead of the wife. Such situation
naturally gives rise too great deal OF tenderness. and
the new affection Of these two who were about TO be
divorced, increases apiece Nothing can part us
now Lancclo.f" "Nothing. wife, forever and
forever and forever!r Then there were fresh
kisses" Aud even upon that shattered hull there
were other little refnements and eegaEcies. The
Colonel gets into his state-roOm and from his trunk
takes " an Indian shawl-such a shawl as seldom
finds its way into the lands of sunset. 1t the
gift OF Rajah who had bestowed it on his FrankIsh
guest As an Offering of hospitality" The Colonel
"sprcad his mantle of the East over her from head TO
foot. Even at such II moment she was too truly a