The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-29
SOME NEW BOOKS.


Is the professional writer of novels a
qualified critic OF other mems novels?
ease" in point might be built from
HENRY JAMEs's Notes on NoU,Nsts, Nth
Some other Notes tScribncrs). Crea-
ton and criticism are the fruit Of facul-
ties entirely distinct. Is there any
reason, thcorctic or empire. why they
should not bc mindfellows? Probably
not; but such duality Of subjective and
objective is not a part of the worlds
familiar experience.
But a certain critical function is a
part or all creation. The artists
criticism of his own work. approving
this stroke and rejecting that. is an
exercise utterly different from the critl-
cal appraisal of the works Of others.
Self criticism Is perhaps the finest part
~ the artists work. the part that most
merely clever craftsman. It IL The thing
actually indicated in the pregnant
phrase dcfinitive Of genius. capacity for
taking infinite pains"
Greater than tho doing or tho thing done
+. tho d,cr Tho rc,Jcr ~ J,p,os o,, c.
vensor Zolo Lr,uhor, E,tz,c ,:onr,,e
Sand D'Annurzio NatiIdc Sor,o NJ
mas "thc youngerr and some n, tho
,noderus has moro ,,,ri,si,y aho,,,
James than anon, tbc o,bors I'D
learns ncrh,ns moro ,l,ou, him ,ha,
,hout Thorn What lanes lil,os ana
WHY he lIkes II IL, bcirc bi,nsot, , co,-
tain of our pennen. mat is tho irtor.
est II il ovcn n ",.bar,n" -, tb,.o
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tion Of iniimacics.,. ",o, ,l,,, ,,t. ..,,'.,.
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romanfir and I, tho ,.o.,. -. -.
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nrcscuta,inn Of ,b,, o,or,o,, -
and thrills" lilo was nch,or .,,,t,h
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also with "a beau.if,,l s,virc so,,,,..,
Is there not here inst , slight comm
sion Of two admjratiors ono fo, ~,
man and ono for his work, 7. is ,r,o
that Stevenson surnassos NAVY ., ,i,o
worlds great literary vorl,rcr a., 80.
possession of "A personality anart ,roy,
his printed page. His own stor,. rna,r.
as much To his fellow mon norb,ns a.
the stories he inceninus,v wrote
life IS not true 10 l,,e-o+urs osoo
cially in matters " sex" For al ,ba
Anglo Saxon "rlgor Of convention" an,
presumption or the "innocorco" ~,
literature people of flesh and LIoo, ,,a
much less formal in ,hair mora, ,,,,so.
than are tho folk Of papcr and MI
Continental literature has had ~, s,,op
spiracy Of silence" in tho face ~ ,boso
great facts" of life whose difsarap.t,
ton is phvsiological ~ tho ,,oI,
Saxon silence is 10 he hrolxep I, 4, 20
rrcttahlc that the "comnronisc', ,s 20
ne engineered by tho "sex" tbo, doos
not know logic. MOI ALI ou- u.riti,,c
ladies write "sey" nctiop M, 49,
"seX" fiction We have docs cor,o t,o,,,
me writing ladies II is No, orr,,,h
N say that "man's ror,tinr. -
me pistol. The nitrate ,ro IL
Tho wild and tho tonc ho,s, ava w..
thc gentlemen have rivo, ne" o.. NV
giants OF our l,torature tnvo dooi, ,,.,,,,
nc relations az man Win u,o,,,a,,
adequately. The difference ha,woo, "a,
standards and Tho noyv "frocdo,,.. L. 49,.
art OF what not ia say ~ elo,,ror, ,,,,,.
deceptivo) silence rrorcb s,,o,.
rows of asterjsks arc a ii,tie 700 oio
uuent T. not Madame Do,,or,.., :,
take tho thing NJ IT, loot ,r,,o =. a..
premises based unop rro,,iso.
rowlv specinco N N5urgor,s "pn,,a
rnIaus" woro bohemian di-,ir,, .n,
tho mass Tifo * mn, true -, ,i,on,.',.'
h.caueo ITO ro,,nr oa,,.,o,,..., -
literature ",oacbos., :. sh,,,i,
single limo Sow &c oro - i, l.n
determinant r,ctors in ,ho in,,,.I,,,a,..
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whom il is tho do,,,nort fa,tor T., {. ~.