The story of an actress, an artist and a very sweet girl. The scenes
are laid in Chicago, London, and Paris; in theatres, studios, and
bachelor apartments. It is the history of an infatuation--with moral
interludes.
Mr. H. C. Chatfield-Taylor, whom Paul Bourget has named as the most
promising novelist of American social life, has given us a clever story
in "Two Women and a Fool." The tale is retrospective; one hears it
from the lips of Guy, an artist; and it concerns his love for two
women, a very naughty and an extremely nice one, Moira and Dorothy
respectively. Moira, who becomes a soubrette, leads Guy, who becomes a
successful artist, a tremendous pace, wearying him at length, but still
holding the power to revive him with her look that allures. The
romance leaps from Chicago to London and Paris and back to the Windy
City again. It is steadily entertaining, and its dialogue, which is
always witty, is often brilliant. C. D. Gibson's pictures are really
illustrative.--_Philadelphia Press_.
18mo. Cloth. With frontispiece by C. D. Gibson. Ninth thousand.
$0.75.