The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-06
LOVERS in FICTION.
UooINo SCENES PAINTED BY WELL
KNOWN NOvELISTS.

Some Lovers kneel ana Some 'GamDoi
Like Tigers"-Maxing Love by Intimida-
tion In Feminine Fiction simple and
Poetic Scene In "John March,"
The love scene occupies q prominent
place In fiction. and there are many which
are cited as proof of their authors deli
cate skill. Literary fashions may wax
and wane, but the love story still remains
the prime favorite with 1.-THE general"
So enslaved are we by the nursery tradi-
ton that we feel we have been cheated
out of something II the novel does not end
with some version Of the old fairy tale for
mula, $50 they were married and lived
happy ever after" although We have learn
cd by our own experience or that Of others
that matrimony Is not always the gateway
to Elysium.
Love scenes In fiction are Of many
kinds. Howells once described some spar
rows In garden as "squabbling like the
| lovers In lady's novel" and 1t Is q fact
| that the average feminine novelist makes
| her turtledoves peck each other with great
frequency and vigor. They bicker and
pout, squabble and part forever several
times week until finally they kiss and
make friends as prelude to matrimony.
/ Olbtn bntIo oIo q par Va h6ho Sc"SNy
lovers to balance those whose passion as
sumes tragic cast.
1t is our tradition to believe that the
greater ardor is felt by the man, but even
as Samantha, In those long gone days,
invoked the moon and twirled her brazen
wheel, chanting the while, my magic
wheel, draw home to me the man love,
there have always been women who wove
spells to lure toward them the fckle or
timid love- 1t has been said, when he
who loves Is dumb, she who Is loved Is
deaf" yet there are heroines OF fiction
who 90 considerably more than half way
to win the hero from his naughty silence.
So we find 1t In the case of Charlotte
Bronte's Shirley, who, in her proud, i'm
perious way, let's the poor tutor 500 q
glimpse of her heart, as IL feeling that
her beauty and fortune permit her to ex-
ercise the right of a queen. The wild love
scenes beween Emily Bronte's Heathclih
, and Catherine are like the fierce gambol-
ines of pair of tigers whose claws are
seldom sheathed even In play. In feminine
fiction the gentleman often pays his adj
dresses In manner that savors OF intimi-
dation. He seems to fancy that he can
hector the lady into an ardent affection
: for himself and is usually successful In sc
doing.
But this is not the ideal lovemaking
We imagine that there should be tender
\ reverence on the mans part, for, as Thack
: cray says: men serve women kneeling
3 When they get on their feet, they wall
e away" The lover who does not believ'
s his sweetheart an angel has want o
idealism that will make marriage appea
to him very dull, sordid thing, lacking
| oh lxcf irrpHi
ates tho commonplaces.
% The walk of Ruth Pinch and Johl
Westlock in the Temple garden Is usuall
e ranked among the famous love scenes Q
IL fiction, and there is another garden cpl
i sode-that between Give and Ethel New
l. come-which is as sincere in sentimen
10 and touched by far finer literary art.
Is is not always easy for novelist to preser
4 to the mind the charming childishness {
lovers without making them seem Sill
and mawkish, but this Charles Reade
Peg Wellington and Christie tombstone
es has succeeded In doing. There are pa
ne sages in the courtship OF Victor Hugo
of Marius and Cosette which have wonde
full grace and prettiness and likewise q
uo artlessness that does not always belong
r. lovemaking in French fiction.
Ia The figures of Tito and Romola, whe
the dark and bright curls mingle in the
first embrace. stand out with a colorf
~. | picturesqueness against the rlcn pac
Wy oround of old romance which Is wantiI
p| in modern tales but though more impres
IT. i've i'm certain sense, these old wor
De lovers are not more actual than Clym We
mt bright and Eustaca wye as they wa
TN hand in hand through the furze and fe
of Egdon heath. Still more vivid is q
ed aurora militaris which the sword play
ay Sergeant Troy created about Bathshe
Everdene, ending with that sudden X
as which startled her rebel heart awake.
a OF late years the river scene In " hlc
ard Feverel' has often been mentloneu
ar, an example of all that is idyllic, but a
lat writer who is stirred to emulation W
re- find it difficult model. 1t is SO easy
the work ones self up into the calculate
his mood. Given plenty OF INK ana pap
there IL no reason why one should I
;. continue indefinitely to reel off such Sc
"a fences as Pipe, happy sheep boy, Lo
'e Irradiated angels, unfold your winds
- lift your voices. Pipe, happy love, pl
on to these dear innocents.
,ne A real idyl, not loss simple than poet
'hi' Ia to be found in Cables John Marc
Southerner" The time Is spring.
wv tardy spring of the north-and the m
and maid are straying through the gree
on ing meadows and oopses apart and ca
ical one dreaming of the others nearness. !
or girl hears afar the springtime cry OF
lied the quail, 1.-TWO clear glad notes OF
lures voice" and mimics 1t In memory
at her days of childhood. The YOUTH
c. had idly uttered the note, fancies him'
a. answered by bird, and so they go
calling and recalling, following the sol
tied until they come face to face startled
in wondering, all their unconfessed
,ich shining in their eyea-New Orie
100 Times Democrat.