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Thin MANS Wik An Entrancing Emotional Story, sy BERTHA M. CLAY. LI Tn TEST A ls SE No. | of fhe Primrose Edition of Copyright Novels. Price, Cloth, $1; Paper, 50 Cents. SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Messrs. Street & Smith, New York, begin anew series of novels—“The Primrose Library’—with ‘‘Anotzer Man’s Wife,” by Bertha M. Clay. The story has enough plet to keep one from faliing asleep over it, and it also in- dicates the stumbling-blocks and pitfalis which abound everywhere for young husbands and wives who think so much about having ‘a good time” that they have no time leit in which to think about reputation and character.—WN. Y. Herald, Sept. 10. Street & Smith publish the American copyright novel, ‘Another Man’s Wife.” by Bertha M. Clay. It deals with certain corrupting influences of fashionable society, and impressively warns of the dangers that sprin from them. Its plot is strong and dramatic, and is elaborated with allo the qualities of style that have made the author so popular. It is the first issue of the new Primrose Series.—Boston Globe, Sept. i6. ‘Another Man’s Wife,” by Bertha M. Clay, Street & Smith’s Primrose Series, is alaudable effort toward the repression of the growing evil of matrimonial disloyalty. The book is handsomely bound, witha holiday look about it.—Brooklyn Eagle, Sept. 15. Street & Smith of New York publish in cloth cover “Another Man’s Wife,” by Bertha M. Clay. The story is effective. It impressively depicts the results certain to attend the sins of deception. It teaches a lesson that Will not be Jost upon those thoughtiess men and women who, onty intent pee pleasure, little dream of the pitfall before them, and to which they are biind until exposure wrecks happiness.—Troy (N. Y.) Press. Street & Smith, New York, have brought out in book-form “Another Man’s Wife.” This is one of Bertha M. Clay’s most effective stories.— Cincinnali Enquirer. “Another Man’s Wife.” This is oneof Bertha M. Clay’s most effective ‘stories. It forcibly and impressibly portrays the evils certain to attend matrimonial deceit, clandestine interviews, and all the tricks and devices which imperil a wife’s honor. It has a novel and entrancingly HSE Se ae plot, and abounds in vivid and dramatic incidents. Itis the first iasne © treet & Smith’s Primrose Edition of Copyright Noveis, and will not appeas gisewhere -Frankiin Freeman. Eomicbooks.co