Lotus : a Psychological Romance. By the Author of "A
Now Marguerite." (George Redway.)—This is a provoking story. A good deal of it—the country-house life, the love-making, and even the ghost-hunting—is not only intelligible to, but may be enjoyed by, ordinary readers and lovers of romance. Yet the unravelling of its secret is for modern Buddhists ot hoc genus omne. They alone can, or will feel inclined to, follow the lotus-flower into the ramifications of its influence upon the fortunes of Edmund Thallorton, till on his marriage- day he dies—at least for Violet—but lives (after a fashion), for Meta ; or, in other words, he is "gone where his love went with him, gone where his love would guard him, gone with her who had watched and waited, till now her waiting time was o'er." Theosophy and Buddhism apart, however, there is a good deal in Lotus of the literary grace, though not of the pathos, displayed in "A New Marguerite."
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