26 JANUARY 1895, Page 12

The Visionary. Translated from the Norwegian of Jonas Lie by

Jessie Muir. (Hodder Brothers.)—There are some things in this volume which can be read with unmixed pleasure,—the interesting memoir of the author, for instance, and the chapter so full of patriotic eloquence. in which the grandeur of Norwegian scenery and the variety of Norwegian life are described. The story itself is deeply tinged with that melancholy which seems so common an element in the Scandinavian temper. The sense of an overpowering fate is as strong among them as it was among the Greeks.