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This story of a London poet has been favorably compared by competent authorities with the work of Thackeray, George Eliot, and Meredith.

"From any point of view it is an unusual novel, as much better than ome of the 'best sellers' as a painting is better than a chromo."—World's Work.

"Certain it is that in all our new fiction I have found nothing worthy to compare with 'The Divine Fire,' nothing even remotely approaching the same class."—Mary Moss in The Atlantic Monthly. "The biggest surprise of the whole season's fiction. . . . You simply read right on, deaf to everything and everybody outside of the compelling magic of its pages."—New York Globe.

"I find her book the most remarkable that I have read for many years."—Author:Owen Seaman|Owen Seaman]] in Punch, London.

A celebrated German professor dies leaving an unfinished work on corals and his daughter as a legacy to a young Englishman, his assistant. In a fit of disappointment because her girlhood love for a German musician is not returned, the heroine marries her always devoted guardian, whom she does not love. The picture of German university and English country life, and the difficulties of the young, untrained wife in maintaining her position are often humorous and always well drawn.