To Stevenson, and to his successor Mr.Kipling, whose "discovery" of India is one of the salient facts of modern English letters, and to Mr.Conrad belongs the credit of teaching novelists to draw on experience for the scenes they seek to present.

A fourth element in the equipment of modern romanticism--that which draws its effects from the "miracles" of modern science, has been added since by Mr.H.G.Wells, in whose latest work the realistic and romantic schools seem to have united..