Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-20

The phrase society novel; va- invented
u ,He United State. Wm, represents
v.- COS some time. under .aa.r.. name. o.
literary institution 300 England lu Funtc
tne novel called Rumn d. M1.ur-' i-
rather socia. study Han mele .-oyi.ty
move. Lady u.a--ul,ou Mrs Gore. Miss
E.-riar. and tine mo-t Important Miss
Elg-votlt. wrote no, ..og.c.y novels
but tales ol fashionable life" When we
mention tine society novel" w. mean a
tale of lle more ar less fashionable. The
more fashionable tH. mar.a. 3d. '-oe..ty
novel tits Tor instance. Robert Grant
.In.eaveuad Bread Is s0e.a' study hut
hardly society novel while 1,.-. Burton
Hrrrt-aus "AugIouauac- t- essentially %
society novel. l- i- Har ~wag, Bells Out ol
Tune Mrs Uadg-an Hgrucus Through
ON. Administration aud Maurice Low
Supreme Surr.ulsr. and NIr- Gertrude
Atrer,ou'- Senator N0rth' are novels oi
society iu Washington.
In tlg beginning of the nineteenth c.u-
tury. tales of fashionable life A0ur-hsd.
and their tone was usually the same
London. Bath, Brighton and Tunhudgg
Wells were the scenes iu which Belinda.
Lady Dglcour Miss Nouteuero and the
Ladies Olivia and Helen suffered tainted.
turned pale. showed "scu-ibiity tried 90
catch husbands. and g0ssiped about their
prospective husbands estates and incomes.
Trlc-uave cabinets. routs, court birthdays.
performance of N0ltaire's "Tl,re,' and
The Maid of the village. RaneleiEh
NauNhall and Italian concerts. where the
rakes say "damme" and gld' and the
best people speak mougrcl French, I'LL
pages which, so far as Miss Edgeworth is
concerned, still have interest
The morals of Miss Edgeworth's heroines
are always unimpeachab,es nevertheless
their regulations must always be carefully
guarded English society In I-So-ISI7 was
evidently ready on all occasions 20 think
the worst II is different now-the heroine
Of the society novel may outrage all the con-
ventionalities, but nobody is ever allowed
to think the worst. Thackeray set the ex-
ample In the case Of Becky Sharp. Who
shall dare TO throw a stone at her because
she took the diamonds of the kind Marquis
of Steyne2 There is no novelist Of to-day
tone iu regard to his men and their wives.
In "Leouora," for instauce-iu which one
lives ia the best society the country house
of a daughter of duchess could afford
Lady Olivia, spoiled by the Parisiau tone
makes love to Leouora's husband out
rageously. IL Is true Leouora faiuts once,
but afterward she endeavors to conceal her
sen-ibility Leouora eudures an, encour-
al. .aN d.
kind of motheriu-aw until Mr.. T. sets up
an establishment with Lady Olivia, who is
"vir,l0us' after the manner of Nine. DE
GeulS. Leouora weeps silently and when
her husband discovers that Lady Olivia has
been making fun of him she receives him
with JOY. Severa. terrible struggles. not
conceivable 90 the modern author of tales of
fashionable life, occur on the subject of
digorce-uotably the sacrifice of one of the
young gentlemen Ia Patronage who
gives up a most charming young lady be.
cause her mother Is a divorcce.
Society boo America in the early days had
neither traditions, nor the fixed forms. nor
the settled classes that make for the arti-
dc.aI product, the society novel; The ways
of old New York were homely When
George Washington led Sally Fairfax ont
90 dance the miuuet in the Carlyle House.
at Alexandria all fashionable gossip COM
ceru-d itself with London. And even Boo
polite philadclpha-iu which travelling
Freuchmeu found the only possible society
iu the country eTythiug was rather
h8mespun until Major Andre entertained all
the Tory bellies with his decorations for The
Ma--hiauza. After the revolution society
iu each important city began 90 form Iu
the lifetime of Dolly Madison h1rde- of
hungry Democrats be-iegcd theWh.ta House
for meals but still -here was The beginning
u. . republican court Tine Philadelphia
assembly was founded. AleNln5m had
already become The center o. Virginia
fashion. aud tH. outer material for the
"-oe..tr novel wa- forming
H..u-. tHe war Nr- Anna Cora NowHt,
aud ~ b. Willis began t1 see it- naa-ibI.
.t.e- though Z believe Mrs Mova.rs chef
d'aeurre wa- "a comedy. Fashion no, %
move. Tine rich merchants figured BOO tha
novels 0f th. day. against trade, and ner-uu4
1E foreign utI. sven. H- rule represented a-
tmra-ters lu-. Caroline lee Hauz Law.
pictures 0f high ... .n 40. South. and SOME
what later Marion H.raud di1 the sam.
..r- The man soul must Dee dead whl
can recall lena. ar tr. Young Pilot of Oh.
Belle Creole" and Alone" without
emotion.
. S Arthur made domestic tales. tine
m... with such fashion obtained 100 th,
household of opu.eut m.rhaur-. bu, how
...- proud the first families al tfe SowI
fnt.rt ne. or however exclusive the iam,He
of H. Earth might try Co be "high Hf.
ra- uata phrase 90 Doe inli-cre,sIy used a
for .a. West IFS families then were al fins
mmGa- without the court without tH
A.magk- without the opera, without th
rivalry o. social -pirauou--without art.
hc.aHty Zoo tac,-the Eugiish society move
could NOT have existed. The artificial con
dtuon- necessary for the formation of SD
ciaty-with capital 's"-beglu 20 form
The Prince dc Io.nyille. the Prince of Vale.
the Grand Duke Nezis. coming 100 turn
each had his effect in crystalllug soci.
aspirations With the growth of enormou
fortunes and the destruction of the south
ern aristocratiC system social life took nc'
phases White Sulphur Springs for a tim
was almost erased from the map. Saratog
ceased To- be fashionable. Newport aros,
The International marriage and ircqucf
English intercourse added new qualiuc
and the element of all American socie,
novels. Mrs Burton Hawisous "Augl,
4,aDiacgu was the result Before this Nav