The Man of No Sorrows. By Coulson Kernahan. (Cassell and
Co. Is. net.)—There is a groat meaning in the apologue which Mr. Kornahan has given us hero. Some one sees in a dream is groat revolution effected in the spiritual world. A new Messiah, accredited with power of working miracles even to the raising of the dead, preaches a new Gospel. It is the Gospel of joy and peace. The central figure of the old Gospel was the Man of Sorrows ; the central doctrine was that only through sorrow can perfection come ; the characteristic symbol was the embodiment of all pain, humiliation, and shame—the Cross. An this the now corner was to change : ho was himself wholly joyous and happy; he would regenerate mankind by a message of congenial diameter. But the new Gospel is not effective. It does not tend to prompts the conduct which must be tho ultimate test of all systems which aim at regenerating the world. Men become not better but worse, more selfish and cruel, by adopting the new belief. All this is worked out in some very effective scenes.
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