MARIE CORELU'S FIRST NOVEL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 January 1909, Page 3

MARIE CORELU'S FIRST NOVEL.

■S It' is; twentyrtwo ycars.isirico jMiss CorelJi -published.her first :book,v-a "Romance'of Two : ,\Vorlds".". ! Vlt':'-;was. : '.\vritteii,-'as'''she herself landidly confesses in,"My.,First.Bobk,' ! ;as the'result:of a' singularjpsychical experience, ■witti; "no' soft : ;of,.literary-. pride, and .certainly no hahkenng'af tor; fame ."The nianiisscript,; was.vsubmitted; to". Messrs.' ;-Bentley, whose, four readers' /one after the; other j. gave :judgment '.against it.'i ■ But-' after, reading" itr for': hiirisclf, ..Mr.' Bentley decided diffprentljv He resolved to- publish'.'it j and eo -Miss; Corellj's, modest: first-book .became' print. .Its reception -.- after, publication; was. at first uri-; encpnraging.: .Only' four papers gave it; reviews, and those were' all uniformly adverse; 1 one in: particular beingvof:the: curtest order.; ■ This; : circumstariceV: it'.perhaps .may be ; was, the .''occasion - .of., arousing Miss V Corolli's; ..avowed antipathy critics..;. TJnlike. other.authors, she sends out no copies :for ; :review; her appeal is entirely. arid directly ,;to the public: Arid here she lias not \ been; disap.pointed;;l ■■■:'*'■; ;>-«:':'- ; V:'' V;, ';;■' .f '"■■'•::' : ''-' :

, ; '; : (LOVE ~i ■; ; ';A strange story comes, from /Alabama.. A ivell-known.'judge, returning from a visit to .Honolulu,'* met, pn;his"own piazza, a comely lady- of a smiling countenance,' to'.whom, he. said , swoet '. nothings. ''..The. lady.' . was* not exactly .coyj- .fhey even .kissed: Theri ; he, an- eye on the front door; * "Why, you. silly old -.silly 1" smiled • tho damei'. "Don't you know your own 1 Maria? Have T become.as charming as all that?" i Hβ said he i had kpowiv her all the time, being:fluent , -in-..hisr.contempt; for veracity. But he* went indoors much puzzled. .'ln her room ho found a jar ofValaze. Hβ undevsfeod.! 1 .':.'*. : :*';.N;:'i :■'.. y':.::' : . ■'."., '.',';. ■,--: z :^r"