Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by William Orpen, Stanhope Forbes and Spencer Gore. A clergyman writes a book proving the Bible mostly legend, London society takes him up as a celebrity, and two women — one clever, one clever about men — arrange the consequences. Moore was a Belfast journalist who wrote some sixty books and married the sister of Bram Stoker's wife; this 1895 comedy is a period piece about the exact moment when doubt became fashionable, and it is much funnier than that sounds. Fifty-seven plates of painting, from Tissot to Lavery, catch the teas, dinners and gaslight evenings of the society the clergyman sets alight.
