BA : and-By. By Edward Maitland. (Richard Bentley and Son.)— ha
author of the "Pilgrim and the Shrine "—a story which we noticed t
b uop a:tilt i'ears ago—ha; in this new work, completed the
u1 #fielitee talelit'iti which he has, not hastily, and with much power, 511iiinlii&difttredliAribibit the evolution of religion and morals out of the 43lifteetookhe world with' the human consciousness." But to tell the -LotinlIbidwe'-ere tired of theiashion of leaping far „ahead of Old Time, and ciaring'the scene °La story-in the, very- distant future ; and the one &lbikre.ualis an extreme .case of this prophetic style,. and deals in so ,:gthany,seterunlieg:ohapgee that we cannot follow it at all. The success ouf eyery.new idea, mgrolianical or social, can only follow such searching aehr,e l'ataluto the large proportion, so that pictures of a Utopia of ,oariirdr4710ArtisLithont charm to any except the very young: The hero altAffhpi4 ofcagifil in purity and gentleness, with a Jewish origin, and immense we 'He was found in a most extraordinary manner, in a jobilloon in. a bole in an iceberg, by a party • of Americans similarly ifilliaed'; Ike "iiicliiiteated by these'wise people, and kept in ignorance of his vast wealtliiifl he is of age. He afterwards uses it to let in the sea on the waste of the great African desert, and to establish there a people knid a government on 'principles of his own. We will only add
• that be &arid also tell easily what the angels were talking about, having
• "-si Subtle apprehension possible to the purest minds; and that the creatures of this happy future, who will never know sea-sickness, could step into their iiIingmachines, and guide them in any weather any- vyhere, so that America and Sahara were only separated by a few hours ;
and then wo will leave our readers to study this clever, but very strange book for themselves, and learn what they can from it, and decide whether the benefit derived cancels the undeniable weariness produced by its perusal.
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