Excerpt from Hypatia or New Foes With an Old Face

Except to scholars, the fifth century - which saw the downfall of the Roman Empire and of the old pagan beliefs and the rise of the Christian Church and of the Gothic nations to power in the world - was almost a sealed book till, in 1851-2, Hypatia appeared in Fraser"s Magazine, and told the story in burning words of the most striking period of that great world-struggle.

Though possibly Charles Kingsley may be more widely known as the author of Westward Ho! - a romance which especially appeals to the modern English-speaking people, - his place among the authors of the Victorian Age will be largely determined by the more highly-finished novel of Hypatia.

"You have succeeded," wrote Chevalier Bunsen shortly after it appeared, "in epicizing, poetically and philosophically, one of the most interesting and eventful epochs of the world, clothing the spirits of the age in the most attractive fable; you resuscitate the real history of the time and its leading characters so poetically that we forget that instruction is being conferred upon us in every page."

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