A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction

It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the opposite quarter. It is so divinable, if not so perceptible, that its presence may usually be recog-nized as a beginning of the turn in every tide which is sure, sooner or later, to come. In reform, it is the men-ace of reaction; in reaction, it is the promise of reform; we may take heart as we must lose heart from it. A few years ago, when a movement which carried fic...