Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-13

writers, so that now, as n matter of fact, if William wants a real good boaG to read and enjoy, he has to go to work and write it himself
 Of course MT. Howells aud MT. Dick ems belong to two different schools of literature Mir. Dickens belonged to what might have been termed the active and earnest school, while MT. Howells rather leans toward the dry goods and notion schools.
 It is fair that I should say this, for I am not literary, and therefore am i'm partial belong to the Authors club, which proves that I am not literary, and therefore I know MT. Howells will forgive me if I speak briefly on this subject.
 MT. HOwells cannot laugh any more over 'Pickwick' or Sam Weller, or weep over Little Nell or Paul Dombey." |" His early life was not very discriminat ing and so he liked some of Dickens which now he cannot endure That may be true Our tastes do not always i'm prove with years, and surely it is not good taste to get S25 per column for running down Charles Dickens or any other standard author just because our tastes have changed
 Dickens gave Us very often a descrip- tiOn of the remains and allowed us tc take his word for it or go and analyze it ourselves, while Mir. HOwells disSects and analyZcS aS he goes along and | doesn't leave any intermission during | which the audience may get up and go out if 1t prefers tn do so.
 Mir. Hnwclls says that the English man iS always an inadequate observer, and that iS true So is the American. Dickens Martin ChuZzlcwit," how l ever, Mr. Towels says, is roughly true. And We are pretty rough on ourselves lately too. It shows growth. It is the | jimSOn weed town alone that is sensi- two when We say its stOckyards ought to be farther away from its high school.
 Mir. Howclls and Mir. Lowell were very great admirers of each other, and in the eye he would go and get the oth. er one to tie it up with a chicken cro- l quette over il. This was lovely, yet who can with genuine joy read A1r. Lowell $ 'Biglow Papers" now, and has not even NIT. Howells something i'll his old scrapbook that he wishes to goodness sake he hadn't ever written?
 No.
 We'll, mc>t everybody else has. Even Charles Dickens had. And so have I.
 But i'll 70 years from now let us ask the timid little touChmenot who sells books on the trains how William and Charles are standing as to sales ot books.
 In 90 years proud will that man b who, as m American author, can ever depend upon a regular semiannual criti cism from such a gentleman and scholar as Mir. HOwellS, and therefore I say again that Dickers must h1ve been z great genius, CT long ere this Mir. Howell: would have dropped him and made ar attack on me.
 We should all of us avoid too close criticism Of what We have grown wear, of. used to be very fond of the Lit tie Neck clam, MT. Howells, but once, - few years ago. Twas almost snatched b, the rude hand of Death from the grea field of letters Ey the triSkct Of smal ,lam no larger than West Shore divi iend. Yet do not say that the clam i 10 all men utterly unwholesome, poison ous and fatal
 . To me he is paris green, powdere' glass and rough on rats, while with tn E majority of humanity he goes we'll il most any furm. Of course there is II law that will stop MT. Howells iron raking over the works of Charles Dick ems, if he wishes to. Perhaps the lonI experience MT. Howells has had il monkeying with literature, if I may h permitted to use strong but rathe crude word, has shown him how litera ture Is made, and because he can nov see the stitches where Sam Weller sewed together he wants to kick dow the whole structure and bust the tea |. lank wRich goes with Paul DOmbey an = Little Nell Don't do it, MT. Howell
 Why want to push over Mir. Dicken
 tear tank because it is larger than your
 Moreover. in tearing down the Dickel
 structure you are allowing the publ
 to look in and see the shayings wi
 which you stuff your own heroine al l. the little monkey wrench with whi
 you turn on the sad yourself. V
 writers, Mir. Howells, owe it to ea }, other to avoid any falling out where
 We may allow the people to discov
 how We spread on our pathos, for t :. public does not really want to know. to Mir. Dickens was an author of soI
 considerable merit, and cannot ss
 after travelling over some of his grou
 in the great city where he worked, W - every word of his stories may not ha , been absolutely true.
 J, If MT. Howells can no longer we
 over Paul Dombey. he ought to go
 an oculist and have his glands look
 over. That's what I'd do the first thiI
 QUERIES AND ANSWERS. ?. Miss Blodgett of Rome. N. Y., asl
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