Novel 340: Mrs. Wilfrid Ward, One Poor Scruple (1899)

 

Marcus Stone, An Offer of Marriage

 

A worldly woman struggles to reject her Catholic upbringing.

Josephine Mary Ward (1864-1932), a granddaughter of the Duchess of Norfolk, wrote some eleven novels between 1899 and 1932, of which this was the first.

“The description of an old Romanist county family is excellent. . . . ; a distinctly able book.” Athenaeum, April 8, 1899

“Mrs. Wilfrid Ward is in a position to write of Catholic society from the inside, and she has done so in a remarkable novel with a candour that will render her work attractive to thoughtful persons beyond the pale. . . .  it is excellently written and every character is well drawn. Notable too is its absolute fairness, which leaves the reader to weigh the heroine’s scruple for himself, aided but not biassed by the author. . . .  as a whole . . . a book that should make its mark.” Saturday Review, April 8, 1899

Download this fortnight’s novel:

https://archive.org/details/onepoorscruplese00ward/page/n7/mode/2up

Crossword 335: Is That a Dog I Hear?

 

John Collier, Love Me, Love My Dog

 

I used to have a dog.  I loved him, and he loved me.  But since he left this sad world, I’ve found dogs annoying:  the little yappy dogs next door yapping their little yaps all the yappy day, the muscle-y dogs lunging at me on the sidewalks, the sweatered and bootee-ed stroller dogs that complicate my efforts to regard their owners with the respect I try to confer on all humankind—they annoy me.  Now, my old dog had his bad habits.  He would leave his scent everywhere. He would shed all the time.  He would try to kill the plumber.  But he had a deep, rich voice, respected pedestrians, would have scorned to wear bootees—was, in short, just a better dog than the dogs of other people nowadays. This puzzle is dedicated to his memory.

Download this fortnight’s crossword:

335-Is-That-a-Dog-I-Hear?.puz

335-Is-That-a-Dog-I-Hear?.pdf

Solve this fortnight’s crossword online:

335 Is That a Dog I Hear?