The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-02-27
Magazine " HaSh."

&Aka&tDO naSh,
 Miss Carrie McAyeal, literary editor 0; the Des MolAes ,SahSyGay haiI writes as follows concerning certAia class oi fiction:
 1t is q matter of fact, no matter how de piorable, that inaue and lauehably weak ebullitons of genius ind their way into even the four-dcllara-yeaEm magazines oc- caaionally, and because they shine out 1 from betwe@u the covers ot RaStsrs or the Ctsfs Y they are not always pearls and diamonds of the very first water During the past ten months there have been copies oi our two great mag aStnes that, like the courbyman's papesS. might have been purchased tor their sole merit ot htt,ng the pantry shelves" Hut some highly imaginative and BostoniAn sort ot houssw,ta nigAt even have feared to usa them for such . purposc, lest the aAslves and theiT coutents should "ebb slowly away" AAd leave ouly a memory as fantastic asd cruelty unreal AS some of Vereaa's everyday nodouA upon which however, this startliag aud remarkable young creature seemed se ,hTlve. Fer hAps her thriving depended upou the tact that "she was made foT love" and no amount of Qaixctic Ideas, thoaghtful nights AAd much bulldortnr by her dear Olive csHld detrAct hom the charm ei her willowy grace, her wellitiuous voice, or her scintillating intallect.
 Gas It be possible that two great Amer. ican minAs like those possessed by How ells Asd James cAn have eoen iutex lcAted by tho lavish praise bestowed upoa thc@a evcS since they began caresEtnG," and now they have un hosomed themselves in their latest effusions. they SO tar outroach the ordinary human mental capacity thai the whole country from shore to shore groaned at each new installation of" Inn. ogcue and "VcrcnA2'
 Holmes tails us of hts remorse over the fate of . poor fellow to whom he handed a poem for his publishers, and ends has plAint by saying, "S Since then. ] nevs' dare to write as funny as can" Surely fl Howells and James, jt., iu this c!imaS ol thelr career, only knew with what SAd patience thelr frlsads cut the leaves o their magazines from month to mouth they would never again cram so much genius into one story as they have beer doing oi late.
 Why tho editors of CeSfH,y aud /fav tsr should feel IL ,he,r duty to bore ths public to death with milk-and water nevels Is a query l. Is doubtful if evct the man in the moon could answer.
 The people are lck ot Bos,onlans anc diletAnu novelsts who serve them IT everything they wTita. Bot suppOsinl the dms to be 9 Assod for btowtag sp ths writers, indignation Is at least aae sh. editors who still cram the abomtnabl. rubbish down tho throats et the,r patrons
 Howells and James ssen uttesly unabl' to have tho plo. of a stsry elsewhere th ar h Boston. For instance, "A Woman' ReAson," Boston "A Modcsn Ias,ance. Boston SLAs LApham," Bostou The Bostonians." (ugh } Boston now aao,hei ose by Howells. Boston and anothe' lot of Boston balderdash by James, tr And all this deluge ot lhlnncss 10 spite o criticisms and prstesta,ions from suffer ing public. Ho wells turns up his nos1 3, Dickens and Scc.t and all thoss grand old fellows, while he poses msjcstieall, and modesuy as tho originator of | superior schoolt' fl somebody dared size up Howells and James regardless they would turn out pretty small potatoes
 rhe counuy is crying from soalfu depths of weariness toE rest" Anc would that answer might come like the Frenchman's reply when some ono ln hii Aadleuce, tired of h,s lecture, cried ou "Cive us . ssss," and he said, "i canno give you 70 rest, for Tis is all"