The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-26

.~rf@r-Er fr~n@nxss - deliver judgment.
| but I XIV that fne frs named =
often referred - By EngiA~1 crit@
z= mastery @ce Bat Eae other novel
uauttQZe1 x original II ~t-tA-nE I
sas a long tfue before n @a@ ~cz
alz-1 1s . great novelist 3 rnan -
z@zE1z II wz more ta2n q g~A.t@T
Il e. century oet4re ~ came - Ms
5Eu- %eW thousands l- E4s o&1 4n-
aud the United ~1a-@ eU1ox many -
Ms be- productions and place HIM a.
TIE head y The column ~ living novel
s-s ~ / have written myself = -
taan ouec ne has o4t 91e pos s--
I rival. Thomas Har1g- -n ! hal
: read THE Eg0fSt- E-@aucEafap- Ia
( reer. RloIa Fleming and one ~
/ before he published Richard Feverel
I il 1853. 1t ~ MT generally weIl re-
/ cezveL however much admired now
| His Diana 0f the C~au@Eays did not
appear Unit 1855. twenty seven years
I later. I adLet 10 his reputation. but
really i not equal ~ the other. ia M
Ioan Judgment. His fame continued
e. extend. and high praise was be-
i zr0u-a1 which ns1 been I4n. WITH
/ held IN 1907. exalted estimate are
I placed upon him. s3r1e exazgerared ~
! course. hen he Is proclaimed by some
/ critics to b. the e-t 81 all English
r0veIi,ts from scott until now. \
! Z cd editorial discussion OF Meredith
II The New YOrk saturday Review
/ some tfrne ago. has this. and IL * sane
and approprFare and I am glad 10
| give il:
His fame has been increasing many
years ana nobodv can say how far i
| wfT orov- o. ,vbar roSfa-frv ain think
of him He has none # the meteor
| Ike quality. he aevcr woke up II
! he morning to find himself famous.
= When his ar-r novel was about
| forty wears old Meredith had become
! CALI ear7ors AMI tba ado~atfrr ~ =
I cuE- v-7ioh ra~haus ala sor-e-hfn- ~
| ~urevenr his fame from d-evafopfnr into
~noDurarifx Tna ha-t ,vay
- understand Meredith i 10 read him
ana his hooks are uof bar9 r, raaH
] only they must be read, YOU cannot
skip them His sentences are packed
full Of meaning The story IS always
| worth while. but the III of its
/ telling Is more than half It's charm
3seredith's Wit has been likenei 10
COngreVe'S. 1t Is as sCiItilI1nt and
1rIgfna[. but it is rarely cruel. His best
books are fun Of the love Of humanity
.FeVeTeI. 50 far from being his master
work. is one Of the least of them all IN
this respect. There + a rich back
ground Of earning in all he writes.
r have not changed my view Of
Richard FevereI" since 7 read il some
twenty years ago. It * a strong novel
fresh. rich. very striking in deecrlp-
ton. and in thought and expression
most Impressive and original. Strange
% say, after thirty years or 50 Of com
pdFatIEe ne9Iect ne has become the
most ~inffuentIal Of EnSIl<n noyellsts
q inc IaSt twenty years IL Il ITaita-
led ana eTnulated a. mlcn TT ms own
country. and perhaps. IN 7 OWN. ~
BaiZac is IN France and has been for
2 EaIf century Mr. Tai n Londoa
Literature IN ls9s discussed with
HIS u-Ldi OEclItL ana DEE1L%IDA LEEr
ihf5uence OF Meredith upon Whaf ne
-tL4+d me initiative nero n ~dS
stIe more AMBITIOUS Young writers III
the last cfsht years know the value 81
Sief@dItH - q Standard IoE LaeII- II
says
They are intimately convinced tha
the Meredithiau manner Of narration
and description. the MeFedItnian mould
Of thought, the Neredithian structure
Of the sentence are the models to
which they should strive in all these
various particulars to conf I'm. r
All of them ndOubtingI assured that
obscurity of syntax means proximity
Of thought. that efIipsiS Is epigram.
tina a pIatftude NAV be converted into
a subtIetv nv affected nhraSing and
that q sentence acquires new and IL
Illuminating Significance by being turned
upside down. y few Of these salf-de-
Iuded writer's are old acduaintanceS
but the numbers of the procession have
quite alaFmingIy increa~ sod within the
last few years
The article * not ar+fc,,Iar1 ,,,4
iatory Or svmDathotfc hI,t ratLnr 80
izeS the axtraordinar, na-C,l1{aritfa- ~
the Nerodnhfan stvla rhat II r.aII-
OMEN tn tbo ehar, criticte,,
/ gent writer's who dislike tha ro,nr-r
and stvIe Of the great rovelis. M
Trail hit hard the in,itatorr No c-rv
the had QUALITIES ana 80 49, r1ITs
e~xcauencfec ~ the ranrIf,ar rrr
liz na,-a1f3t n - o!uliiaIS Lbs
that the ir,,ftatrrs ~af-o - -
ters evcbanoe ..4nar.ba+ s.r+Dnce.
win each ofhar - r. a.nar
! N~eraditbian di-f,m,o r,bfia +hai- -.
~. - etI1 -
- tIitif dct7' NOUS aLd
the N-eredftbia1 Ito cammantag
81, p,oraffzas - ~ I.a-oi =
he read = - ctarfs+fc - - -.
1.-THE wit and wisdom the naetrv and