An Emancipated Spirit.

Otago Witness, Issue 1915, 3 August 1888, Page 31

An Emancipated Spirit.

was now complete. But when he sat down in his house at Haifa to write, something prevented his utterance. His mind was full, but he could find no means of expression. An impulse seized him to leave that house at the foot of th% hill, and go up the mountain to the little summer cottage, built as a refuge from the heat, in which she had died. He carried his materials high up into those solitudes, and shut himself up in the sacred room from which her spirit had ascended. And then the words came in a flood, and he wrote down almost without pause what was revealed to him.

This reads like a romance or an allegory ; but to the consciousness of the chief actor it is neither. It is the simple narrative — the latter part repeated from his lips — of incidents which took place a little while ago to the assured and certain belief of one of the most shrewd and intelligent of men, To us the story, and the theoriesithat grow out of it, are wild and strange beyond expression ; but yet it is the story of a man of the world, for whose accomplishments and acquirements in the ordinary meaning of the words, .and for whose sound sense and keen perceptions in ordinary matters, a hundred witnesses may be had. At all events, the circumstances under^ which the book above mentioned, and which is about to be published, has been produced are curious enough to warrant the telling of them. — St. James' Gazette.