PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
The heart-thought of this hook being the peculiar doctrine in Philip
Aylwin's _Veiled Queen_, and the effect of it upon the fortunes
of the hero and the other characters, the name 'The Renascence of
Wonder' was the first that came to my mind when confronting the
difficult question of finding a name for a book that is at once a
love-story and an expression of a creed. But eventually I decided,
and I think from the worldly point of view wisely, to give it simply
the name of the hero.
The important place in the story, however, taken by this creed did
not escape the most acute and painstaking of the critics. Madame
Galimberti, for instance, in the elaborate study of the book which
she made in the Rivista d' Italia, gave great attention to its
central idea: so did M. Maurice Muret, in the _Journal des
Debats_; so did M. Henri Jacottet in _La Semaine Litteraire_.
Mr. Baker, again, in his recently published work on fiction,
described _Aylwin_ as 'an imaginative romance of modern days,
the moral idea of which is man's attitude in face of the unknown,'
or, as the writer puts it, 'the renascence of wonder.
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