Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by E. P. DUTTON & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. In sending forth another book belonging to the class known as religious novels, the author is moved to say a word to the critics who received a former one with so pleasant a mixture of praise and deprecation. As one of them frankly explained, "they like a pill none the better for being sugar-coated." It is not necessary to remind them that there may be younger (and possibly older) people who do. It is more to the point to state that persons to whom religion is a pill--a bitter, nauseous compound, to be bolted in sickness, and kept out of sight in …
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