organizes a school, more than half of the book, in fact, is
about this school and its work,--and seeks to introduce a
system of training which shall shape the whole character
of the child, a school in which truth and clean living shall
be inculcated with thoroughness and absolute sincerity, a school
which shall be the microcosm of the world outside, or rather
of what that world ought to be. Bjornson's interest in
education has been life-long; for many years it had gone
astray in a sort of Grundtvigian fog, but at the time when
this book came to be written, it had worked its way out into
the clear light of reason. If the future should cease to
care for this work as a piece of literature, it will still
look back to it as to a sort of nineteenth century "Emile,"
and take renewed heart from its inspiring message.

"In God's Ways," the second of the two great novels, is a
work of which it is difficult to speak in terms of measured
praise. With its delicate and vital delineations of character,
its rich sympathy and depth of tragic pathos, its plea for
the sacredness of human life, and its protest against the
religious and social prejudice by which life is so often
misshapen, this book is an epitome of all the ideas and
feelings that have gone to the making of the author's
personality, and have received such manifold expression in
his works. It is a simple story, concerned mainly with four
people, in no way outwardly conspicuous, yet here united
by the poet's art into a relationship from which issue
some of the deepest of social questions, and which
enforces in the most appealing terms the fundamental
teaching of all the work of his mature years. First of