Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-01

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wrote the book. he did have some vague
memory that description OF little Ger
man town which he had read long before
was of a little service TO him in makinS
his picture OF the capital of Ruritania.
| Otherwise the story had lust comef TO
| him. He was cautious about agreeing
| or was he Indifferent with statement
to the effect that "zenda" gave the i'm
petus to that renascence of romantic fic-
| tlon which desolated the closing years OF
the nineteenth century and had not spent
its fury until ha.f the first decade of the
new century had passed.
II had great predecessors" he said
Thackeray, Meredith and Stevenson. to
name name no others, though in Mr. Mere
uitns Harry Richmond the note we are
speaking of Is Incidental. stevenson's
rr,nce Otto has always impressed me
s as being more like Meredith than 1t was
IKE stevenson himself-I mean as to the
style and treatment"
a mint that he talk to the text of my
masters IN Romantic Fiction" only drew
one" though when he spoke OF sterns ID
was easy TO see that he had lovingly
studied, II he had not followed. that ex-
quisite stylist. Indeed l think can sea
In the fragile prettiness and the delicate
allusiveness as well as ilusiveness of THE
~ ;na,ano s u 80 very evident traces of
t,ons are managed is osee, y q eV sts,I
best maner.
81 am very fond of Sterne," he said
He was great master Of dialogue and
the inventor. so far as L know. Of that
admirable device-the breaking up of a
! description' He ouotad .orv,a 49, =.
| ilIustrata ,ba ,oin+ ea.sse. ~, .s- 1 ~
reaching home found IN Isss tha, s;ss
| linee ~ "Tristrar sbard,,,s~ .t 81
canitaI Instances of the irtart.ats'S A.,
| scriptive clause:
! "Chi boin said Sion caetirr
undue freedom in susannab,s 90 e -
aac,i,,ad ~ oe4,ca. .ttan 49,. aaIe' az shs
Won. madame. !" .sYou know M s,ri., n a.,sI
Susannah fastidious1v and with az.
| her head IeveIed .videntlv not a+Th,s 80
fess,on but AT the doctor himself w
know metn cried susannah arain
.of course, it is only a trick. said An
| tnony t1ope' shiiihs anu houuins IN a sud
den access OF professional interest, but.
1t Is avery useiul one. It's the equiv
alent OF what you get by business on the
stage. You nave little picture along
with the IDEA that the words OF the dia-
| rogue convey whereas II you nau only
the dialogue you would have had only
the idea. And In Sterne haw charming
those little pictures are!
|
He spoke of Dumas pere with enthus-
iasm as great master of character as
we'll as of incident" and said that he
preferred 1.-THE vicomte de Bragelonrep
/ to all his other books. Asked why, he
answered, Because It's got the finest
things in it, which was decisive If not
| Illuminating. Later he made it clear that
| 1t was in Dumas strong and lovong
analysis of the old D'Artagnan's char
acter that the charm of the book lay for
him, though he granted the great public
undoubtedly preferred 1.-THE Three Mus
keteers" and Twenty Years After"
He thought that almost from the in
ception OF The Three Musketeers" OAR
ltagnan had run away with Dumas and
| that the author, falling in love with his
| Gascon, had changed the scheme of the
| romance materially, allowing D'Artag-
nan to dominate what it seemed had been
intended to be mora strictly the story
Of Athos, Porthos ana Anah ro'Ar-
| tagnan took possession OF VI pen ara
Athos ultimately recedeo IAT,h tne pc
ture. He said that tne percy opsious
difference between the romahlic scnool o.
Scott or OF Dumas ana lhe oan .so
school of today lay IN the use OF Inc