THE ETERNAL LOVE LETTERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11620, 6 April 1901, Page 3

THE ETERNAL LOVE LETTERS.

We cannot refrain from taking a hand in the controversy as to what it -was that caused the, break between the "Englishwoman" and the man to whom her letters were addressed. . Why did he give her up, and end their beautifully didactic idyll? This question is doing more to give the book a circulation than any amount of ordinary advertising could secure for it, for the general discussion of it goes on interminably both in private conversation and; in print. ; One writer has almost proved that the man gave the " Englishwoman" up because he came to, learn that they were both too nearly related for their marriage to be legal. .A psychic friend ef ours declares that the man was jealous of the " Englishwoman's" foster-brother, with whom she proposes, in Letter XXXV., to go off to Verona " alone for a couple of greedy days." But Ave have a simpler theory than either of these, and one whose perfect commonsense is so obvious (after we have set ;it forth) as to be absolutely convincing. The real reason why the man at last gave up the "." Englishwoman" was because he couldn't possibly stand any more of her preposterous letters. You have f only to read the book to see that this is just as plain as any pikestaff. It simply must be so. Bookman (U.S.A.).