Notes and Events.
" Trilby !" Shocking, hope you have not read it ? It is the book that has been one of the wonders of the publishing season, in America. Author— George dv Mauri er. Mr Stead is puzzled at the book for " Trilby is one of those heroines whose position in real life would be dubious, to say the least. An artist's model who had been the mistress of two or three lovers is not exactly the kiud of lady over whose' fortunes we might expect to find Americans wax enthusiastic."
After uaing much extracts Mr
Stead concludes bis review of the book as follows '.—Whether we like it or dislike it» it is a siOry of undeniable power, a tale which fippcals directly to the hearts of men and women. It is the latest and most popular sermon preached on the great saying of Jesus of Nazareth, " Neither do I condeinfc thee, gd and sin no more.' 1 IVilby is not exactly a Mary Magdalene. But she has probably made thousands realise something of the significance of St. MaryMagdelene in the Catholic Church Trilby's life, her character, her fate, plead more eloquently than words for a little more tolerance, a little more charity, a little less draconic severity in stoning the woman whose frailty or whose eccentricity offends our sense of propriety or of virtue."
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Manawatu Herald, 4 January 1896, Page 3
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225Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 4 January 1896, Page 3
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