SOME RECENT FICTION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 138, 6 March 1920, Page 11

SOME RECENT FICTION

"Fetters." ' Neglected by his father, brought up by an aunt who regards him as a nuisance,

Dick Clmtnicr, the hero of 11 r, C. S. Goldingham's novel, "Fetters" (George Allen and (Jnwin), hns a hard time of it ill-his boyhood. Ho wishes to lie an artist, hut family pressuro sends him into tiie nrniv. He serves in tho Sudan and is reported deiul, receiving h posthumous V.C. for his gallantry. [lis wife, a beautiful, strong charactered woman, believes him dead, but remains faithful to. his memory. A' rascally nrtist named Ileyjjate, once Dick's friend, but whom C'hamier had discovered to be 'dishonourable in small things, '.'oines into possession of a medal belonging to his old friend, but conceals the "fact from his wife, although he knows that through the coin the supposedly dead man might be traced, hoping to secure Dick's property for his own son. Eventually, however, the hero, who has been a- pr soner in the desert for five years, succeeds in escaping and reaches Tangier,' where,, a blind and broken man, lie is recognised by an old comrade: Ho is taken to England, regains his sight, and' is restored to his faithful-hearted w:fe, the heartless behaviour of Heygate being exposed aiid punished. Mr. Goldinghani has written a very fine story iii "Fett-jrs."

"His Wife's Job." . When Anne Henderson, a pretty and rather spoiled young wife, moving in New York society, sees her husband go off to France she soon finds, that her income and her expenditure won't meet. So, in partnership with another and rather more worldly wise lady she starts .an art curio shop. The enterprise l is ,a failure and she then settles down to real hard work in a good, but hard job, and "makes good." Then her husband cqmes home a. wounded man, and Anne is-bsset by the problem: shnll she give up lipr job and resume her old frivolous life, or keep her position and still bo a real wife and helpmato to her husband? How the problem arises and howit is solved is set forth by Grace Snrtfrell Mason in a story entitled "His Wfo's .TnV' (]). Appleton and Co., New York, Whitcombe and Tombs).