Books: Love as Blackmail

HANDS AS BANDS—C. T. Revere—Long & Smith ($2).

Even Old Testament students might not recognize Author Revere's grotesque title, ripped from a verse of Ecclesiastes: "And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bonds." Not so much a tract on marital infidelity as a diatribe against the grasping mistress, it may be of interest to U. S. husbands in the same pickle as Revere's hero.

Sherrill had risen from a poor Midwestern boyhood to a partnership in a big old Manhattan brokerage firm,...