The Disintegrator. By Arthur Morgan and Charles R. Brown. (Digby
and Long.)—This " romance of modern science " can hardly be called scientific. Mr. Foden Flint learns some curious secrets from an Eastern "occulist "—surely "occultist" is the right form—and when Henry Francis, his friend, disappears, con- jectures that there is a reason more mysterious than the vulgar suggestion of murder or suicide. And so it turns out. Mr. Francis had brought himself into something of the same condition in which Cornelius Agrippa's famous apprentice was found. He meddled with Mr. Flint's disintegrator, and became a "shapeless mass," and luckily for his friend, who would otherwise have been himself in an awkward position, vanished entirely. However, his spirit appeared to a young lady, and Mr. Flint was able to integrate it again. We venture to think that this is more than usually nonsensical.
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