[8] The book was "By and By: An Historical Romance of the Future," its object being to show a state of society in which the intuition is supreme, and individuals follow their own ideals. It represents a step in E.M.'s unfoldment, but not his final conclusions. In 1873 A.K., having read a review of this book in the _Examiner_ (which also contained a notice of one of her tales), communicated with E.M. (Life A.K. Vol. I. p. 27.) [9] This was not the first time that E.M. met A.K. He had met her once before, in January, 1874, in a picture gallery in London. "It was but for a short time, and during a single afternoon"; but it was "sufficient to convince" him of "the unusual character of the personality" with which he had come into contact. (Life A.K. Vol. I. p. 32.) [10] Her "very first published production" was a poem in a religious magazine, when she was "but nine years old." (Life A.K. Vol. I. p. 29.) [11] "Beatrice: A Tale of the Early Christians," was written by A.K. in 1859, for the _Churchman's Companion_, "but the publisher thought it worthy to make a separate volume, and offered to bring it out in that form, and to give her a present for it," which offer was accepted. (Life A.K. Vol. I. p. 4.) [12] The Story was "In my Lady's Chamber," and purported to be a "speculative romance touching a few questions of the day." It was afterwards published separately as by "Colossa." (Life A.K. Vol. I. pp. 21, 22.) [13] The first edition of "The Pilgrim and the Shrine" was published in 1867. [14] E.M. did not marry again. He had one child, Charles Bradley Maitland, and he died on the 16th February, 1901. [15] See p. 100 [16] E.M. says that "The Keys of the Creeds" brought his thought up to the extreme limits of a thought merely intellectual, to transcend which it would be necessary to penetrate the barrier between the worlds of sense and of spirit. (Life A.K. Vol. I. p. 54.) [17] Statement E.C.U. p. 80. CHAPTER II. THE INITIATION.