New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-29

LfTERARY SCHOOLS.
ANp THE LITERATURE OF THE FUTURE


r4errc Lott In THE Forum
made as'T tale P & pla passing S1 mat n
uIatm which i alraGy sSp 0sS Young writer takes
upon himself az bis first duty to rally 20 mus that he
ay%v % o. b e neS AND then about regs"Sns
That this is TO be the pncpi: OF ee me the honor
great nmDer ut % 'eSiewssome OF which are very
curious and some full Of hne in this way
pages too n suSressveT informed that the literature
q, he future is TO be confined to psycho9gy' 20 We'll
sss o sd 20 10 magnc and even nt to SboIe
srumepsm donbssS pass sm DV Baptized With the
noss az scH and such writer Of more or S o,S U
c1eS acknowledge that some Oh ' discouTareS
@ rh.rous 10 me- and have rather e,c
teem srjns TO discover what their real me,s
may s Se too that ha 9ssen NOT pans 70
we IT, what connection there could be OeIwes
he works labeled in such an ODD way ana ' @or
. uo and I very quickly abandoned "v e amd
asa,n more satisfactory knowledge Of one Sna
ali It wonld be difficult for "e ,nexaetness-
s sud shall moi undertake the task aso Iemo have
eli claim to knowing which class OF wl eres months
on sriIl have In their turn vogue OF several 20
or of several years dispense with oD
these things the more checrfulE s slnso r'A"'
''0ff an man Believes thai he has some talent for Wr ~
Ing It is indeed strange that he can ALLOW scboo
@ arected by master by the rule oil any sehv ,
po msfter how great the master may be or how SKI,
fully devised the rule may seem hi |, w law ca ONES
s sSt snytSins else In the FIRST place Is It possible
Tor a writer no matter how much he may Wis W ~,
ieve It, 10 belong TO any particular sIhGUn m.n heinz
wbotever his quality may be, Is, upon Close EXAMINE, v
lion seen 10 be very mysterious ana very cohP ~
creature compared with which even the most suoos
ideas are only very sghtvery simple ana very aped
then to subject ones own nature even 70 te iams
OF aesthetics which claimed TO be inc prn, 1t,I
aiine nart OF one's own individuality imagine VIA,
viii happen these rules are petty narrow anu u''
have said that very fortunateE the subjugation
-, ora's self in This way Is difficult and more
rare than II Is supposed to lie. For the very rasU
,hat the mind is only limited and an imperlecuy
developed force it s mpGsioc ITr az" ab I to sun
press or control the more manifold pioiouit sa a
iusive forces that constitute personality: Al best
few secOnd-rate writers nave some', .ho =" hehaif
of which they beat the big dram ana iy 20 oromt n
the noise OF the neighboring booth II NE ldes cTc
up and stop for moment TO listen 10 ,ne rieap Iamd
in their house you will see them actually appmmua
inc these idlers or perhaps hailing them ana ther
ambition extends no farther than to see thensei'es
spplauded in the way. But OF what adyan,sS 10
than any kind Of glory, to hamper themselves WIFE
bonds when even these bonds are CRITICAL?
II seems to that In the lien times wren i
was at colegeif my recollection of half heard Lectures
on literary history serve melt was not the fashion
TO make so many distinctions and writers were cssseo
simply as good or bad authors Mistakes may some
too were often partial but In the end this clasiaca
zion was the more Just. and. indeed il Is The OILY
one that can have significance Of any value. 10
classify ones self according to school IS equivalent
10 binding ones self TO support all those that ella TO
fight under the same banner. no matter now lhsig
nifcant they may be. and. at the same time. 20
being always exposed to the FISK OF dong
Therefore, even knew the exact lst OF an the
literary sects appealing to the public should not
predict success for any Of them