Six of the best of Mr. Hibbard's magazine stories are included in
this volume. Mr. Howells, in _Harper's_, refers to Mr. Hibbard's
work as having a "certain felicity of execution and a certain ideal
of performance which are not common. The wish to deal with poetic
material in the region of physical conjecture is curiously blended
with the desire of portraying the life of the society world."
_E. T. W. Hoffmann._