17 NOVEMBER 1900, Page 38

Eros and Psyche. Retold after Apuleias by Paul Carus, (Kegan

Paul, Trench, and Co. 6s. net.)—This is a pleasing adapta- tion of the Roman romance, though told without any special distinction of style. The writer in his preface expresses an opinion that the tale "bears all the marks of a genuine Miirclasn." Here we differ from him. To us it has a most distinct appear- ance of a latter-day romance. The personification of the soul in the lovely Psyche is as unlike as possible to all that we know or can conjecture about the conceptions of the prehistoric ages. The illustrations, by Paul Thumann, are curiously unequal. The frontispiece is charming, even striking, but we should not recognise the same figure on p. 23.