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Shaw, George Bernard. [Irrational knot.] $1.50. Brentano’s.
Mr. Shaw has given matrimonial orders and filled them out of the ordinary. There is an American-Irish electrician for the hero who views marriage calmly and impersonally, but determinedly pursues the woman he loves as he would the forces to be checked and chained for a new electrical machine. After marriage the atmosphere provided for the wife’s heart development is stifling and she seeks fancied happiness with a former lover. The machine philosophy of the wronged husband operates thus: “I can divorce you if I please ... You are free too. You have burnt your boats, are rid of fashionable society, of your position, your family, your principles ... and if you can frankly give a sigh of relief, and respect yourself for breaking loose from what is called duty, you are the very woman I want for my wife.”