The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-06
"E.vc'- second Husband"

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Ewes Second IIusband."
By Cora Harris. Henry .tltcmus
Company, Of Philadelphia. $3.50
\ book that made a marked impress
sion Immediately after its publication
in 1910 was the predecessor OF Ewes
Second Husband" entitled IA Circuit
Riders Wife"
T y clear perception of background
conditions. and humorous insight
into the characters OF men and women
who form its class types together
with crisp incisiveness OF expression
that Won for ~ Circuit Riders Wife"
the most favorable recognition, are
also the predominating characteristics
OF Ewes Second Husband which is
however. a moro finished work than
the first novel OF Cora Harris
Perhaps it is misnomer TO call
either book novel. III neither is
there plot They owe the fact OF
their being cndlessly entertaining TO
the frank, outspoken manner in which
writer in the first person discioses
the history of her personality aud tho
relations which others bear to it; 10
the shrewd tolerance with which she
looks upon the weaknesses and faults
Of men and women and to philosophy
which enables her 10 get the best Of
life under ali circumstances.
There are some songs, bits OF Which
are continually strsying into memory,
wherever occasion calls forth the
sentiment they express. Ewes Sec
ond Husband much as the songs DO.
incines a reader to reminlscence.
flashes OF it's Keen. sword-like wit nut
ting into words q consciousness that
has hitherto lain dormant for lack Of
courage. or honesty in self-analysis.
The title Of the hook is wholly IL
Illuminating. 1t is throughout what a
W fn n To nrI t,o
comes her second choice In marriage
What this man says and does, how he
conducts himself In private and rub.
lfc life. how he meets and discharges
his responsibilities as husband. father.
congressman and Governor or Tonnes
see. fill all OF the pages she has 10
write. And 1t is not Mt all what the
wife writes. but how she writes IL
that infuses into her work It's value
and interest
she gives as her opinion that at is
especially important for the wife OF a
public man to efface herself not to tho
public but TO him. Hc needs. She
considers. al! the room there IS in ma
trmony, which is always more or less
crampinE;->tO expand his personality.
that aura Of tho mountebani1. preach
CT and politician
And this Is her way OF dcscribine
an episode during a political cam
paign Of her husband adam had been
making speeches here and there, and
had returned home once or twice
dangerously near intoxication. Late
one afternoon he found me In tho
garden. We were sitting uporna bench
near Towering pink Grape tree. I
! held trowel In one hand and the folds
of my white muslin skirt In The
other. This left no hand for Adam.
Eve he said. as he sat beside nc
looking a! he early spring garden In
full bloom. 'nowera arc the dust Of all
the women that have died and been
rcsurrccted Tho roses over there
come from the ashes or tho red hearts
Of beautiful ladies WHO rode long ago
IN the kings rageants And those yell
low jasmines. they spring from the
bitter poisoned dust OF women that
stnned and died damned And these
little white ones that stand so low to
the ground. with bowed blossoms like
novitlates at prayer, they come up
out or the dust OF sad, good woman