The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-02-02
Makers Of
English Fiction


Dawson, dissenting London minister widely known in Amer
lea, perhaps successful revvas To most people perhaps the
authorship of critical of high standard and real
Incompatible least unusual connection with abilities OF
Ggh order revast But it is said OF his powers evva
that they do depend tricks of speech ensaOnasn
novelty of method mannersm but whoesOmeness of
combined with sincerity Of that appeals the best order
OF minds and every sound moral fibre
the characteristics that give his their and
effectiveness They impress the sincere thought capable
OF sympathy and appreciation yet critical faculty
The capacity for appreciation shown the handling of the Of
authors of whom he There separabe Defoe
Richardson Fielding, Smoett Jane Walter Scott Thack-
cry Dickens the Bron George Eliot Charles Reade, Charles
Kingsley George Meredith Thomas Hardy and Robert us Steven
incidentally there much about many others Besides whole
chapter given Religion Fiction, which he discusses
George Macdonald T. H Shorhouse Mrs Humphrey Ward Olive
tive artists Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe
There concluding survey which is gracefully summarized
much of the cera by which he judges values though this chapter
re has probably not said anything which he has not said somewhere
in the body of his essays, said it better.
1t creative that he lays judging novess
clearly LUMINOSITY pointed out in what
creative imagination consists and in what differs which
transcript however powerful of the experience and observation
Of the writer, and that which is technique.
Without attempting to make abored demonstration OF it.
reduce the process law he points that there has been cou
tonay the development Of English fiction and that the
works of the masters show alike the different trends and develop
en OF this evolution and the change and development OF public
taste.
Perhaps nothing clearly distinction he makes
between creative imagination and the lower though still high
power OF presenting in artistic form the products intimate expert
cnce motive and observation than this.
The thing for much than the thing imagined
Any of highly sensitive of observation describe the
things but needs much order OF mind describe the
things imagined plng has his Muaney and his Orhers,
but Shakespeare Hamlet Dickens Mrs Camp
Ihacey Becky Sharp The former photographs the latter
traits 1t the visual eye however keen discover Ham
let Mrs Camp Becky Sharp they of the magn
on built up, indeed from much scattered material but combined
ny creative art into types of universal life"
AS principle by which contemporary fiction may
extent be tested the following glowing and luminous passage may be
quoted "Ihe history of fiction is full of personal tumphs of this
order uch Du Maurer Iby for nsance would be posi-
bic to mention of books by forgotten authors each of which
its kind may be compared voby with single works of the great
masters The critics who praised them wholly wrong their
judgment
As long the art Of fiction endures there will appear from time
TO time really admirable and brilliant books which achieve personal
triumph They we'll their triumph
products of intimate experience motive and observation But the
long the fame OF novelist upon much broader founda