The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-14

Temporal er.Vritten by Marie Coreili
Published by Dodd, Meade and Co..
New York. For sale by the Bell, Book
and Stationary Company, and by
Huner and Company
Marie Corelli has long occupied a unique
ihsiiion in literature. She is a woman
who is totally independent of critics and
reviewers and who has succeeded, in
spite of having attracted universal at
teation and excited sharp comment from
both classes. She moves to-day a ia
rniliar figure in her English home. among
the surroundings which from association.
MAKE Up a section known as Shakes
peaie's England and she does SO in Sc
rc11e Inconsistencies of the fact that her
detractors have pronounced her style Of
wanting in true artistic merit. Her popu-
larity seems in no whit affected by the
very evident nappreciativeness. with
which most of her efforts have beer
g. eted among a, select coterie of fictional
censors. Her books are immensely liked
by The Anglo Saxon reading public in both
England and America and go. consequent
ly, into many editions. II as seems in
creaSingly probable success is a standard
by which wares, intellectual and other
wise, are now gagged, Marie Corelii can
}ooh out upon the world from the height
to which she has attained by her own
unaided efforts, and enjoy her achieve
tnents all the more because she has her
self alone ito thank for them
Issued in the United States by Dodd
Mead and Company, q New York firm OF
publishers, whose name alone is a guar
antee, Miss Corelli's last effort Tenn
paral Power" both from its motif and
co"i!ng Will instantly take rank as
work OF no ordinary conception and eX-
preston. The title is made clear in the
f3ct that European royalty. its personali-
", its surroundings. its limitations its re-
sponsbilitieS. its burdens its anxieties
It's public and domestic relations are il
iust atively presented and wildly So with
III" daring frankness which characterizes
all that eliminates from the pen of this
celebrated author.
The first question arising in the minds
of MISS Corelii's readers on opening the
pages of her novel will relate to the
IDENTITY of the King, the Queen and the
othel members and personages of the
regal household, around whom In it her
interest and her cleverness centers. The
dGilneauon of character and incident in
every Instance Will be scanned and evil
dence Will be sought to establish the
links connecting these with Edward VII.
Alexandra and the Prince of Wales: the
House of Hanover and the throne of Eng
la,,d naturally being suggested as en-
lodying what Miss Corelii's imagination
would probably seize upon and idealize.
Many reasons will be advanced to show
the likeness between the heroes. heroines.
and minor factors in Temporal Power
aud those who stand within the circle of
the fierce light hat beats upon The rulers
Of the British Empire in the twentieth
century. Miss Corellfs conception. on the
either hand. will be searched through for
Jo+,, ,j~ r.
several royal individualities and the popu-
isr and universal idea which exists con-
corning ts-rr English opponents in the
world at large. A number will be found
no doubt who will pooh-pooh the notion
that anything more than a general and
imaginary characterization has been at
tempted, while others still will consider
that reference is made 20 a renoter reign
ing European line. rather than That with
Which Miss Corelli has been most closely
associated for many years.
The story has not to do alone, how
ever with the annals of governmental
and imperial representatives. vIsal
side OF it deals with socialism and revo-
lutionists as each of these phases OF
nature and humanity exist in the mind
Of its originator. She undertakes, with
the audacty which more than anything
else evinces her unworldly tendency and
her woInanliness, TO champion the cease
of the People. In SO doing. she dis
ocses finally and to her own satisfac-
son of the troubles of unjust taxs.icr
md oppression by bringing the People
and the Peoples Head into en+,.e mu-
tual comprehension and large harmony
and this by the way of confound;rS all
evil doors and to the extinction of all
wrong doing and uncharitahleress
Should Edward VII. ever attain to the