The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-23
WAS. BARRISON.S VIEWS.
the Author Talks q Msdera Tendeasae
IN Fiction.


Mrs Burton Harrison. who now makes
Washington her home. - &C the Wolcott
and Will spend several weeks in New York
before sailing for Europe for her annual
rest over there.
Mrs Harrison vas just on the point Of
VISITING her publishers 70 discuss the
forthcominR publication OF her new book
yesterday when a SIN reporter called.
4 have just come from savannah.
where had a wonderful reception.
literary and otherwise she said. Now
{ am getting ready To 20 90 London for
the season. and whls here am arTAnR-
ing some details about what IL my latesi
literary work. II i a book Of recoIlec-
lions. hut u - not a. yet named. IL
was To have been published soon in book
form. bu; the Scr1bners want 20 publish
it seriaIly and think the first install
msnt will appear IN January. No the
hook ~ill - delayed.
DO see any great change in the fiction
Of the day. Why cannot keep up With
10. | arm beginning 90 think ! am d.
mode But my intereo, ~ the same
Still IN fiction and in the PLAYS OF the
day. especially the latter. cannot feel
quite az home.
-Of what sort 10 the change Well.
should charactsrzs IL a. q tsndsncy
toward exAeesration, particularly in
plays. positively would not know whsrs
TO go TO md q chserful play-ons that
would amuse and Isave one pleased with
IL and with life. In my opinion this has
q distinctly bad effect upon the young
people who go to $50 such dramas. and
am very sorry that the coming genera
ton 10 having such morbid views Of life
thrust upon IL.
As for the literature generally in
America. think the EnGlish tendency
toward morbid and erotic fiction Las
done ~ a great deal ~ harm. I do nor
like 10 pose ne a prophet oT a sage I like
to go With the times. but hope for some
thing better Ia come. As compared with
the English literature u the present
day Ne still have q monopoly in the short
story and In oleveT fiction IN this country
There ~ nothing in England that cOmnare~
with AHDeriCAn work in this line
Il find In Washington that there - a
tendency toward the development a.
Americana and American history This
- = very interesting evidence u the liter
AIRY spirit ia this country. aud " will
result most beneficialiy
Why - IL that the British public ,sill
not take - American fiction 20 any sresf
extentf' Mrs. Harrison was ASKED
We'll perhaps they think they have
got enough over there and they don't
want any more. We have taken their
land by storm hut ~ for Amarican
books not being popular in Ea1iand
there h a book 81 mine. 'Trannrlanted
Daukhters,' which was published 0yev
there last year and has not been pub
lished On this Aids a. yet witch has hepn
very SlcUeaaful And this has been the
CASE tho IN spite % the facs that the
nnlV nfoa Rirl IN IL n an AmRriaam ana
the only nice men In u are Americans
I was told N England that 10 was one Of
the best things I had ever done. The
book vas published over thsrs bsforo
it could Be brought out here
EDO I think TIE American man Nnak.a
better hero for q novel than the Eng
liah? Not af al. To depiot . bag ira.
man. no matter what re natianalitV
u the grsateat thing IN authnr aan do
! belts e9n men IL VI.