THE TWO WIVES;

OR, LOST AND WON.

BY T. S. ARTHUR.

PHILADELPHIA:

1851.






PREFACE.





THE story of the "Two Wives; or, Lost and Won," is intended to show
the power of tender, earnest, self-forgetting love, in winning back
from the path of danger a husband whose steps have strayed, and who
has approached the very brink of ruin; and, by contrast, to exhibit
the sad consequences flowing from a want of these virtues under like
circumstances.

This book is the third in the Series of "ARTHUR'S LIBRARY FOR THE
HOUSEHOLD." The fourth, which is nearly ready, will be called "THE