Mona Caird

"... come over from France on purpose to bc present, and in answer to Mrs. L, T. mead's of the Queen, played an excellently composed piece. Among present were Mrs. Mona Caird, of Is Marriage a Failure fame, Mrs. Frank Leslie, the only publisher present, Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, who responded to thc toast of American literature, and Miss G. Middle- Apropos ..."

"... it. The controversy on ^ Is Marriage a Failure 1' is still going on in the columns of the Daily Telegraph. .Among the numerous letters is one from Mrs. Mona Caird, who wrote the cele brated article on the subject in the Westminster Review. Sho writes to protest against tho misunderstandings andmisstatements of what she really' Wrote. One correspondent suggests thfe1 ..."

"... law, is not ruarria. but bondage: that marriage, as regulated by law. is n wicked jHTVersion of .the divine purpose, thero is no doubt." So the question rained by Mona Caird is decided, Marriagu is not only a failure. but, according to this woman, "a wicked perversion of the divine purpose." By this she means, judging from her own conduct, that ..."

"... much of the year on the Continent, and has lately been to Egypt in search of material for a new took. ' Among her intimate friends she counts Mrs. Mona Caird and Mrs. W. 3L Clifford. The few receptions whioh she gives during the London season are crowded with a strangely heterogeneous crowd o# celebrities, and her briUant conversation makea her ..."