This purpose, however, though common to the three fictions, is worked out in each of them by a different method. âThe Coming Raceâ is a work of pure fancy, and the satire of it is vague and sportive. The outlines of a definite purpose are more distinctly drawn in âChillingly,â--a romance which has the source of its effect in a highly wrought imagination. The humour and pathos of âChillinglyâ are of a kind incompatible with the design of âThe Parisians,â which is a work of dramatized observation. âChillinglyâ is a romance; âThe Parisiansâ is a novel