Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

VARIATIONS OF PUBLIC OPINION. 45
right. But, curiously enough, the book does not seem
to have been successful—so little so indeed that the
correspondence in respect to ' Destiny,' her third work,
was much cooler in tone ; and this book was not pub-
lished by Mr Blackwood. It was, in fact, much less
able than the others.
Miss Terrier lived to old age, and became, we are
told, so completely occupied with religious questions
as to dislike and disapprove of the delightful works
of her earlier days, which is an unfortunate circum-
stance. She has retained a high and quite individual
place in fiction, one of a band of three women who
form a sort of representative group in their way of
the three countries, which, it is to be hoped, no un-
propitious fate will ever sunder or make to be other
than one.