The Washington times., 1902-01-02

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| fact that he is part of great people.
..You see bottle Of claret on YOU
| table with a two-cent stamp on 1t. whicf
means a war tax. and with this come.
| the realization that war really exists. Il
has touched the pocketbook: it has af.
| fected every home. You yourselves fount
I, the Spanish war such a unifying infiu-
ence. The impact of world-forces upor
| the Empire has drawn all Englishmer
| together.
And then, the Queens jubiiee-the two
iubilees. in 1887 and 1S9T-had great eff
feet. Men from all parts of the earth
| met and learned to know each other
II was wonderful object lesson not only
to England, but to the rest of the world
The personality of the Queen was an
other thing which helped to develop and
TO unite the Empire. In mcnarchical
government the monarch furnishes visi-
bic head an influence above all shifting
of parties or policies.
Influence of the Queen.
IN the nature of things the ruling
power can have no politics, and when. as
was the case with Queen Victoria, that
ruling power is OF absolute integrity and
exceptional knowledge of affairs, it fur
nishes conservative influence which is
like reverence for family name and tradi-
tions-reverence for an ideal embodied,
let us say, in the head of the family"
Reverting to a previous point in the
conversation, the reporter cautiously en-
quired whether Mr.. Parker considered
that a man was made by his environment.
This large problem he wisely declined to
settle in brief interview. but in talking
around ii some interesting points were
made.
n. 4,
embodiment Of great forces. He may be
in advance OF his age or abreast of it, but
he must in some way express its spirit.
the forces that are working through IL.
He must not try to subyert these forces
to his private ends.
Lincoln never did this. He seemed to
recognize that he WAS but the instrument
he. When Napoleon failed OF this recog
milton he ceased TO be great.
Man "a Mere Instrument.
"A man is an instrument. He is great
when his ideas take hold of him. and he
gives himself up to them. The force which
works through him-you may call it di-
vinity-or We may call it humanity. But
all that he can do is 10 present clear
medium through which whatever light
may come to him will shine
Realism for the salre of realism would
have no place in such a philosophy OF
fction?"
No; Photographic fiction isl won't
say criminal: that would be too strong a
word-but ii can only be good when there
is an ideal TO which the realism is made
suiservient The writer must work out
that ideal People say that my work is
romantic. or that it is realistic, or what
they viii. | do not know whether it is or
not. Wherever realistic detail is needed
to express the ideal there it should be
used; but never merely for its own sake"
Va Portraits in Fiction.
Then an author doesn't take char
acter from real life and put it bodily into
a book?'
The author may not know where he
got the conception" replied Mr.. Parker
1t is the result OF his ex-
perience and observation. whatever these
may have been. but ii is not an exact por-
trait. 1t cannot be and be art
And this seems to dispose of the allega-
tion that the heroine and other char
acters in The Right of Way" are pOr-
traits OF persons known to Mr.. Parker.