Mr. William Margrie has written a very odd book about
a superman, called The Story 'of 1 Great Experiment. If Messrs. Watts had published it in deiny qUarto, on vellum, at several guineas; with suitable pictUreS and Press publicity, this book might have caused a stir. But as a diminutive novel, prided at half-a-drown, "with little to guide us about Mr ifargrie'is qualifications except the opinion of kindly Mr. Shaw—" You remind me of Hogarth and Fielding "- it is merely perplexing. The story is quite unlike anything we ever read or tried to read. It neither convinces nor entertains. Yet there is something about the style that makes one want to go on. "Well done, Donald Fraser," says the author to his hero, "you have given the world a new hope, a new inspiration, a new faith." And Mr. Margrie has written a new sort of book, with many ideas in it, but no system.
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