Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-23

Amelia no longer existed. Nor would
the glorifed printer. who made the
ladies' OF his own day shed oceans OF
tears over the woes OF Clarissn Har-
lowe. find himself at home In the Eng
land OF today. Richardson may have
been tedious, but he was born story
teller and, II he had 'fads,' he never
forgot that a novellst's first duty is TO
write a clear and Ineligible narra-
tive, and not to preach or moralize or
indulge In hysterlcal TRADE" The
mere cOntroversiallst who, borrowing
the forms OF fiction. gives US series
OF discussions Instead OF story, IL
not novelist at all. Byron called
Fielding the prose Homer of human
nature And what is Fielding Only
a story teller; but all the same. In
spite OF the fllppant criticisms Of Sarah
Grants EVadne, he sun remains one
OF the greatest writers of fiction. Bat
Zac, the great French novelist, who
NJ. Zola. perhaps wrongly, claims as
a naturalist. was above all and beyond
all a story teller The philosophy OF
LA Coincide Humane" is never OBJ
truded on the reader. Let our novclists
take the lesson to heart Let them
learn how to tell story perfectly.
! One English writer of fiction Of our
| time, whose recent death ere his powers
/ had reached their full maturity must
/ be sincerely regretted. could certainly
| spin a good yarn, but his books are
/ all lop-sided Mr. Stevenson under
1 stood what narrative meant but he
apparently forgot that women consti-
| tute at least half the human race. The
result is that even his best efforts are
| tales for men and boys-not novels.
| Let us hope that controversial fiction
| will soon disappear. 1t IL a bore and
a tyranny. Such books should be rele-
gated to the region of tracts. Let 1t
be remembered that the novelists tunc.
ton is simply this,--to write natural
story of human life. There Is only one
living English novelist who never for
gets his true vocatlon-Mr. Thomas
Hardy.
Max Muller is said TO know eighteen
dlfferent languages to the extent of be-
Inc able 10 speak or write In any one,
ana considerable number in addi-
ton less perfectly.
The late NJ. Duroy was Sardou's
schoolmaster, and It appears that the
dramatis-to-be was a refractory pupil.
Once. when his teacher chlded him for
NOT taking an interest in Egyptian MS,
iorv, sardou answered; AS pupil
/ think l ought to know what suits me
best and what does not"
George salntsbury, in late number
OF Mncmlllan's Magazine. makes a
rather curious observation, that "es-
torn is about the most fatal sentiment
that can be accorded TO poetry. ne
says that southeys poems are "es-
tcemed" bv those who read them
and the number may be said TO De rev
in our day Surely no man esteems
,.trudlbras:" yet there are great mum
nor Of PEOPLE who take no inconsider'
shin delight In Buffers pages, inc
ss,ne may be said Of other much reao
poetry in the language
The amount OF labor required In writ
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Ion an each epoch Is scattered throusi
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