New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-12

facts GU: of multitude ard two authors with ,,s
different end in yew could deal INHERENT Story
So consistent with the trgest realism to sting
novel with II good blot Ep s ss w seaa out
pure and honest love as the handspring OF acton
with the PTInG ,l characters and ending happily
Many people object to taking their religion and
ah bo, hnr ns NOT brng the teachings of Ten
Commandments into society. II is not good fo orr
their morality in that way; but these same people
object to having fierce are pG so
many beautiful things in the world that are e. ~
real ard many onsnes and 5 our
selves with lovely scenes and noble iiVes II we
would only try to seek them.
DEGENERATION OF TASTE.
"Ruskin says that in choice of books we are
like persons who could always have the society Oh
kings and queens. and we deliberately choose 10
associate with the housemaid and the stable boy
Books which five years ago were thought to be un-
healthy and to create about them an atmosphere
INCOMPATIBLE with pure thoughts and righteous
living are now looked uron a. harmless ana
tame compared with the daring innovations
brought TO us between covers bearing the I'M
print Of we!l-known authors and publishers, =. In
fact the time has come wher the name arlNeu
r. - hook gives us no idea OF what may be await
Ing 80 many pco anh ocpu haEe '"er "
'%i Perhaps it is the New Woman who reads and
broad in her views, to get away from any narrow
ness in her judgment. she has gone 10 the other
from the good old moral standard set up on Mount
Sinai when the decalogue was written on tao.
Iate of stone she will her Do the best
we can we cannot always have the compSnionshp
we crave. The distinctions of society. the duties
Of life its kindness and its courtesies make II
impossible IL our activities TO choose only the
cultivated, the intellectual and those OF the great
est moral worth. In our solitude when tne tacu!-
ties are all alert when the stronsest ,a fo,
OF choice and there Is always great company
waiting 10 entertain and instruct us as long as
we choose to give them audience
THE OLD. OLD STORY.
stronger In It's influence than the great and stir
ring events of history or the example of true self
sacrificing lives as we learn of them in biography
is the story Of love, mat great motive power OF
the world as told to us by the novelist Our imagi-
nations and our affections are strong reality,
and our actions are often determined by these ideal
issues more than by prudence or logic We would ,
be quite unwilling TO bring into our homes IN Vsl-
Bile form some OF the characters tnat are JUST nov
entertaining us in our hooks, and would nave
serious heartache II son or daughter snould
ADVOCATE the line Of conduct are tacitly up
holding BY defence OF the so-called realistic
novels Of to-day" ,,,
Miss Brenton concluded in a more optimistic
vein: :. .a,,,os COURAGE - cav
that fhe healthy novel OF romance would return,
hut there is in every life craving for pure sweet
psychological studies and the gauging Of the rela-
tive forces that enter into a few Individual hves
The longing is for the touch OF nature that makes
The whole world kin and that comes only from INC
beart The good old-fashioned love story VIII come
mack whenever the women demand II. There are
few upon the book table out they S can Thny
are. however, winning place IN popular favor. anu
when this place is won there Will come a new err
In literature and one which the nineteenth century
woman may be proud to have given TO the world
This is not inconsistent with the truest CROWN
and highest development. for we have this e'ernal
truth. Now abideth faith. hope and love. but the
greatest of these IL love-.