The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-07


 "The Other Mans Wife," by Frank
 Richardson CMtchell Kennerley)
 He doesn't know how other people are going to accept "The Other Mans Wife the book he means-but this reviewer be- lieves that MT. Frank Richardson's new book is just about the best piece of up- to-the-minute literature, sparkling, bright and really charming, that has appeared for some time.
 The title may frighten off lot of would be- good-but-are-not, that Is to say they won't buy it from the dealers while other people are standing around but
 if this department is anything of a judge the talk of this book will be so general and praiseworthy pretty soon that it will be necessary to read 'The Other Mans Wife" like 1t is now to have appendicitis to get into ''sassiety" If that fact be- comes known, that is the requirement. as to "sassiety' standing, the book will be read all right, all right. Nobody would believe that anyone would be so anxious to stand we'll in "sassety" that they would put themselves under a surgeons knife, but it is true, surely it is true, who dis putes 1t?
 The scene of "The Other Mans Wife is in London. beautiful woman mar red to a hyprochondriac, loves the other fellow who is struggling to be a great lawyer The other mans wife helps the lover to win success, and in the end when it is necessary for the lover to turn his sweetheart down in order to take silk, which means become a Kings counsel" (whatever that may mean) the lover by | chemical or otherwise combustion is con- verted instantly or slowly, just as the reader may individually think, into cad. That is the nutshell of the plot. From 1t you can see that the lovers who defed, so to speak, the conventions of society," not sassiety Con the contrary), received their punishment where the chicken is supposed to least protect itself. So that the would-be goods Out aren'D can read this book for the "moral' or the "style.' as the case may be. They will read 1t for some reason; you just watch 'em. The author, MT. Richardson, Is called the "wittiest man in London" He is con | nected with the London Daily News, and
 has written a number of books. two of which have been reviewed by this depart l ment to-wit: ''2S35 Mayfair and Love and All About It.
 This new book is a gem, that's all. You don't have to approve of anything MT. Richardson puts in this latest book to enjoy 1t; you can say "it serves 'em right and then slap yourself on the shoulder, repeating slowly Good boy, T." For the book sparkles all the way through you want to and do go back and re-read a page, to get that all in, owithout the knife; it is all so pleasing.
 And when the dear pretty wife who was in a gilded cage and lived her life Git was her very own, so to speak,, she saw it, when she dies cast off by the very man whom she had pushed up to the position he then occupied-well, you want to read the book, you better-than- thous, if only to approve of fate getting busy and pnnishing the wrongdoers.
 Some people will say that this Is an- other specimen of the fleshy school of fic- ton; may be it is. Most life is of the fesh whatever we maintain to the con- trary So that when theme which in the hands of an author less capable than MT Richardson would prove more than distasteful, is so delightfully."- manipulated that 1t does not leave anything but the best of impressions in ene's mind, be we good or real wicked, it's a great treat to read 1t. isn't 1t so? Sure!
 Such Is "The Other Mans Wife" Don't let the title frighten you; the book won't do you any harm, unless you are anxious to be pushed or showed, and If you are we'll then nothing will hurt you, one way or the other. But in any event, don't miss the new, bright, sparkling volume.
 Jesus All Good" by. Father Alexander
 Gallerani, s. J., translated and Edited
 by F. Loughnan CP J. Remedy & Sons,
 Publishers to the Holy Apostolic See)
 lHe opJecl ol this Htte pook IS to dls- pei a certain amount of gloomy mist darkening the mind of man in regard to the Adorable Person of Our Blessed Lord.
 The author says in the preface:
 Many Christians, even devout and re- ligious souls, are unable to conceive a filial and tender trust in Jesus. They are full of trembling reverence and fear and stand in His Presence with hearts con strained and i'll at ease. These lowly feelings are not to be altogether blamed they are justly due to the majesty of so great a Lord. But they are too often