+ N. Y. Times. 11: 561. S. 15, ’06. 2230w.
Forman, Justus Miles. Buchanan’s wife. †$1.50. Harper.
Beatrix Buchanan, for two years married to a man whom she does not love, finds her lot unbearable. The “droop to her mouth” reveals the state of her mind and incidentally betrays the fact that she had not made the way all sunshine for her husband. Grown cynical and harsh, with the “desperately shy sweetness” entirely crushed having nothing to nourish it, Buchanan disappears one night from the world. The day of Beatrix’ happiness must dawn. She tricks the man she loves by purposely lying when called to identify a body resembling her husband. After her marriage a little “gray tramp” steps into her rose garden with mind as well as lungs gone. It is the pitiable shadow of her husband and in her misery she ministers to him till death. The story is one of a woman’s will dramatically expressed.
“A preposterous yarn, which has little power to arouse sympathy, and which depends for its effects upon trickiness and crude melodrama.” Wm. M. Payne.
– Dial. 41: 242. O. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Really a most remarkable tale, told in a forked lightning literary style, that is very shocking to the reader’s nerves.”
– – Ind. 61: 939. O. 18, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Forman’s new novel has a rather sensational flavor.”
– + Lit. D. 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 400w.