The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07

| fate interfere with the man she loves
suspects her and does not return her
| love.
| Hagar sends for her sister Thatah and
the man fslls desperately in love with
her. which causes Hagar to turn on her
and abuse her and treat her shamefuiiy.
| All this transpires to make her very un-
| happy, OF course. and finally one day
when she has just about gotten to tho
end of her row--she cables Greenfield and
he joins her abroad and Hagar desolate
miderable, robbed by her sister of the
one man she adores-awaits Greenfield S
arrival
THE easiest way is then exemplified in
Hagars case where ease and luxury await
her with Greenfield, who is oblivious to
her badness her disloyalty. Her perfidy
and her treachery, and gives her his
| name and position and the rest we are
left to conjecture.
Mr.. Goodman wields his pen in depict
ing life's frailties and cruelties. In a
mastery manner and no more perfect
picture OF human weakness has ever been
, portrayed then In the character OF Hagar
who Is born weak, inherits weakness and
ana remains weak to the end.
While the story IL very broad. It is
never spurious. never unclean; It is more
ly bare and uncothed and reveals ply
sicai defects and physical demands, as
-" hVFcio VI iuiS Qay nave done.
Hagar Revelly IL regarded by the best
critics as one Of the important con-
tributions to literature of the dsy and II
is distinctly modern-distinctiy American
and distinctly human
THE WOMAN THOU GAvEsT Me-
"Befng tho Story of Mary oNeill." Nv
Hail Caine. ]. B. Lppfncott Co.. Pub
hshers, Philadelphia
II s~~r . book breathed the breath Of
Life that book b Tho Woman Thou Cav
est Ma. by Hall Caine- 1t is the story.
told tn autobfographical form, of a. beau
dful pure and exquisite woman VINO
goes through some of the nercest tasts
which the responsibilities of maria ge
prins into human life. Hall Caine tells
us IN MS preface that he has drawn
more largely and directly from fact than
is usually tho practice of the novelist"
ana no one after reading the tale will
venture to question the statement, for
many of the situations, strange and un-
likely a. they sometimes are, are only
what one has met with In actual life
either from personal experience or from
the experiences of others. With won
oerful and artistic skill they are de-
scribed and worked into the orderly
movement and development of the plot
Tho revelations of Mary ONeill, the
heroine. are more startling than anything
OF sifnaiir kind within recent years
Hall Gaines imaginative genius has ar
ranged them into a novel of live interest,
10 every thinking man and woman In
america 1t is the story of a great love
which every one will read with deep emo
ton. following with intensest interest the
unfolding of womans life In its most
human, most intimate, most poignant
nan MA Hnyt
ONeill is a real woman. but regardless
OF that there are Mary O'Neills In every
community. Hers Is the very heart of
every woman.
Hall Gaines novels have enjoyed re-
markable popularity, but we predict that
this new story will be more widely read
than anything he has ever done 1t is
UNIQUE stionabiy his masterpiece. But 1t Is
not for the story alone that people will
be demanding this book. Hall Caine who
has long been known as serious writer
on the problems relating to marriage
has presented here the greatest analysis
of the modern marriage ever written
Questions of love and marriage are the
staple material of many novels but few
writer's possess the skill with which Hall
Caine seizes the salient and essential
facts of a dramatic situation and CON-
pels the eager and arrested attention Of
his readers. There Is no obtrusive teach
ing or moralizing in its pages, but never
theless. The Woman Thou Gavest Me"
will become the center of controversy.
Hall Gaines conclusions drawn from a
close observation of real conditions are
grippingly convincing and will attract
wide attention and arouse universal and
perhaps heated discussion.
Hall Caine has long been known as
a serious writer on marriage and di-
vorce. In The Woman Thou Gavest
Me" he presents broad general, pic
ture of marriage as 1t exists in the
world today. We believe that ST Is a
novel which should lead to frank
discussion of the problems connected
with marriage and divorce and result
in better understanding OF there, vital
subjects
When "The Woman Thou Gavest Me"
WAS published in London 1t was the
cause OF one of the greatest sensa-
tions ever known In London literary
circles. The author boycotted all the
principal libraries which are the lead
ing book distributors in the kingdom
and on publication day they did not
have a single copy to sell or lend.
Early in the week the Libraries as
ISOLATION questioned the morality of the
novel. The association agreed TO sup
ply any private deman dior 1t, but de-
clared they would exclude 1t from the
lending libraries. Mr.. Caine held that
this was a libel on the morality of the
book and that IL 1t was not fit for