A. Romance of Two Worlds. By Marie Corelli. 2 vole.
(Bentley.) —These volumes are written with a certain eloquence ; but their subject is so remote from ordinary experience and sympathy, that they can hardly meet with the success which their literary merit might deserve. There is a general feeling against novels with a purpose, which the author acknowledges when she writes of her story :—" I have no wish to persuade others of the central truth con- tained in it,—namely, the existence of powerful electric organs in every human being which, with proper cultivation, are capable of marvellous spiritual force." "The time," she says, " is not yet ripe for this fact to be accepted." But is not a story based on something that nobody will believe, a little before its time also
Among the prettiest of the light new editions, in very clear print, is that by Messrs. Macmillan of Mr. Henry James's novel, The Por- trait of a Lady (3 vole.) Each volume is so small as to be carried easily in the pocket, and yet the print is singularly clear.
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