Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-04
Eurn sahsrda Auuust Il 1900

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pens to be rich. when she elopes with
her papa's coachman.,
i am glad to see this kind now ex-
scluded from our leading public libraries,
such as the Boston and Philadelphia,
1 and IL am not mistaken. from the
4 public library at Dies Moines.
/ Novels are classified according to the
predominant purpose or phase of
Thought underlying them.
4 To the historical aud descriptive nov
lei belong SCOTS, Waverleys. Eli
\ OTIS 'Romola, Thaekeray's Henry Es'-
mond, Bulwer's Last Days of Pom
lpeii, Eber's "Uarda. Blacknores
Lorna Doone, "Hypatia' and QUO
1 Vadis," which Offset each other and
should be read in coniunction; many of
| Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales Irv-
ling's works and most of Hawthorne's:
also the recent fiction. such as" Richard
|.caivel,' When knighthood Was in
Flower, .sRed Rock Janice Mere.
\ dith, Hugh Wynne = ITO Have and to
Hold, . and Others.
largely historical-are Maria Edge
Il
tenants. and Mrs. Gaskells describing
the terrible sufferings among the en-
I3ployes Of the Manchester manufactor-l
l. les.
Dickens We're nearly all purpose now
els. Nicholas Nickleby. was protest
against the frightful abuses in the
| Yorkshire schools.
"Oliver TWIST lessened the horrors of
a he M IA n
Training of boys to crime.
Little Dorrit' struck a blow at i'm
prsonment for debt, while Bleak
HOUSE dealt With the criminal delays
of the English law courts.
Charles kingsleys ALTON Locke
woke England to the enormity of the
sweat shop evils.
Charles Reade's novels brought about
the investigation of the English insane
5asylums and exposed the injustice of
trades union toward union labor
| Captain Marryattfsnovels exposed the
abuses in the English navy.
! To Walter 13esant'a novels the peo-
pies Palace of London is lasting me-.
mortal.
| In this list we may also place Uncle
| Toms Cabin, Fools Errand," Bella
nig's novels Peter Sterling, Robert
/ Elsnere.s' :. African Farm" and the
whole list of religious and aoci2logic fic
! ton down To the latest Neign of
Law by James Lane Allen.
\ There is also the local or sectional
|novel whose writer's are--for New Eng
| Land, Mrs. stowe Sarah Anne Jewett
4 and Mary Wilkins; for New York, w.
| y. Howells: for the south, that irwin
scible quartet, Harris. Page. Allen and
] Mary Johnston: for the northwest,
/ Hamiin Giarland's woeful tales of farm
1 life, tho many regard him aa$tno pes,si-
nistic TO doSfull Justice to that class
flor the southwest, Octave Thanet; for
the western coast. Bret Harte.
We have also the psychologist novel.
| whose masters are Isalzac. Hugo,
\ Goethe. Tolstoi Ibsen, Thackeray and
4 George Eliot, Hawthorne and Steven
! son.
PMS classification is merely for con-
yenience sake There IL no rigid line
separating than. Many of the novels
mentioned may fall under any one or
tperhaps all of these classes.
A notable instance is Hawthorne's
psychologic masterpiece The Scarlet
i letter." also Iiugo's, Lies Misera bies g
with it's subtle analysis and evolution of
1.-THE cnnvict's soul in i,s upward struggle
Etnvard rse,e,n,,tian Naming moro vivid
.hand nov erf,,l in the worlds literature.
lit Is, pre-e,ninentiy purpose novel
4 showing the ,.es,onsibility of saciet,.
land human law II, the king of GRIM
finals, and the iinppaSibility Of the soul
IA, Il, {, vi,n,,n1en and regain its
1 former footing inSgt,,e community Th..
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