The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15

hope II Is not tAe conventional criticism
tnaI SUMMONS hiat before IL ia this place.
indeed. | nope 1t Is d sympathy keeG .nd
eager VITA ~ VIM are trylnS 10 utter Lille
IN any iorn. myself would not have
CHOSEN MIR. cranes TORN because 1t Is 50
near foimiesSness, and because l would
rather live in house of the accepted
structure than In hut OF logs and
boughs. But do not pronounce my pref
erence In this as law or expect any one
TO abide by II. not even MIR. Crane, whom
40 nol expec, 10 SO on dwelling in huts.
either. For once he has done a certain
sort OF thing, but il he We're to do that
sort OF thing again IL would be less novel
in effect than the sort OF thing tnat other
men have always been doing
"Nym Crinkle, in a recent review OF
Thomas Hardy's book, Judge the On
scure. drew parallel between l!aruy
and fvette GuiiDert which Is apt. He
said: Just at this moment the lasclviouS
pleasings OF this literary lutte come to
us nnEgliEg with the piplngs OF a Parisian
siren. Hardy and lvetle Guilbert, though
they do not make the same score, Use the
same symbols. The carbon that Is spread
out in one case over vast coaihelds flashes
IN the other case from the bosom OF a
more concentrated hypocrisy. Both o.
them sit under the same excuse: This is
, art, never mind about the truth.
'Tne young lady who reads Jude the
Obscure because a recreant genius has
lent II the credentials of literature viii so
to hear Yvctte Guilbert because she sin ss
at Sherry's. Ii she sang at the Alhamora
or the wclhala she would be vulgar. Thus
is conscience itself 'lightning-change
artist with the curled dariings who get
their morality through the straw of their
desires from the pages OF their paaders.
Mr.. Handy appears to have blown
whatever was best in himself all out in
Far from the AIadding Crowd He no
longer stands erect like a man, resolutcly
looking for the light: rather is he prone
and cropping. like q man at a conhaSra
ton trying to avoid the smoke of his
own burning"
Speaking of Msclaren's "A Doctor of
the Old school, the Chicago Journal says:
The Scotch dialect may initiate against
him with some people just as 1t will en-
hance the value OF his writings with 9TH
ers who delight In It's peculiarly express
sive terms. But although the Scotticsms
are essential TO these pictures of Scotch
life such story as y Dactar of the Old
School does not stand or fail with them.
1t Is because 1t is 4 faithful study of the
human heart told with apparent simplici-
ty but most painstaking art. In which ev-
cry detail Is followed out with scrupu--
lOus care, that It's fame has gone beyond
the narrow confines of old Scotia to the
uttermost parts Of the earth. To read II
after squandering time upon the 'Dodos'
and yellow Asters' Is like taking dip
In q clear highland stream after the dissi-
pations Of the city. II brings us face to
face with men and women instead OF mere
artificial figures whose resemblance TO
humanity extends not much beyond the
vices OF the slums. Our only criticism
would be that the author orfends some
what by, the inevitable sadness OF his
writings On this account they would
hardly do for steady reading. we can
not have too much Of the happy side OF
litarafure