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 *ter-Christian" served somewhat to bedim the lustre of her former writings, but in many hearts the moving history of the sweet and unsophisticated Norwegian maid will always cause "Thelma" to hold chief sway.

"Barabbas," at once the most scriptural and devotional of its author's long list of publications, has won almost as great a popularity as "The Sorrows of Satan," being now in its thirty-seventh edition. "The Mighty Atom," of which nearly a hundred thousand copies have been sold, is regarded by the public with singular affection, many children, as Mr. Arthur Lawrence has told us in ''The Strand Magazine'', sending Miss Corelli "all sorts of loving and kindly greetings" as a token of their sympathy with little Lionel and Jessamine. The turbulent and stormy progress of "A Romance of Two Worlds" through the sea of criticism has made this book more familiar to the ear than some of its successors, though its sale has not equaled that of half a dozen of its fellow-works.

Miss Corelli's average book is about as long as two novels of the ordinary six-shilling size put together; but she has published some comparatively short stories—notably "Boy," "Ziska," and "The Mighty Atom," as well as some brochures; to wit, "Jane," a society sketch; "Cameos;" and her