A Sou/ on Fire. By Florence Marryat. (Bliss, Sands, and
Co.) .—Professor Aldwyn is a very brutal and selfish fellow who bullies his wife, and would bully his daughter if she would suffer
and who turns his son out of doors. A fit of passion brings him to his end by affecting a weak heart, and on p. 36 he dies. But we should not have said "his end." The rest of the volume is occupied with the dead man's spirit experiences. This is now Florence Marryat's favourite subject, and we must allow that she pleases us more in dealing with it than she has done in other kinds of Idiom There is something to be learnt from A Soul on Piro. Those who refuse to accept the unreasonable dogma that all is fixed for ever with the human soul when this state of probation is over will read this story with special interest. The remorse of a soul that sees the opportunities which it has lost is, indeed, a fire which will do, we may hope, this purifying work.
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