LOVE IN BOHEMIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 78

LOVE IN BOHEMIA.

“Mad Marriage.” Bv George Gibbs. (Cloth, iss 6d net.) Melbourne: Robertson and Limited. George Gibbs, net only a novelist, but also a painter of repute, is well acquainted with modern artistic life, both pseudo and real. In the novel he employs it as a background for a singularly interesting story. His loading character is Peter

Randle, a young landscape painter, endowed with a sincerity and idealism that prove useful factors tn his encounters with the quicksands of “Bohemianism.” With him are two girls, and a battle ensues between Peter s loyalty to the selfish, unworthy girl to whom he finds himself tied, and his love for the other, who jj i willing to devote her life to him. "Tommy” Keith, the girl whom Peter really loves, is a fascinating character-good-looking, kind-hearted, irresponsible perhaps, living ror pleasure, but underneath it all having those characteristics of judgment and practical senso which have been left out of Peter’s make-up. "Mad Marriage” is a novel that seizes the attention with its portrayal of the artist’s way of life, and grips it with a dramatic, absorbing story.