The sun., 1919-04-27


he will be hanged in e1igy along with the puppets
he has put Oh paper.
This is the reason why every one should write a
Aovel. There IL only one thing comparable with
it as means of self immolation That, of course is
tenure Of public Office And as there are not
nearly enough public Offices to serve the need Of
individual discipline novelizing should be encour
aged, fomented-we had almost said, made compul-
sorry Compulsion, however, defeats its own ends.
Let us elect to public Offices as we would choose to
fill scholarships, those who cannot, through some
misfortune write novels and let us induce all the
other people the world that we can to put pen to
paper-not that they may enrich the. world with
immortal stories, not that they may make money.
become famous come to know themselves but
solely that we may know them for what they are.
If ALBERT BURLEsoN had been induced to write
a novel would we have made him Congressman and
would President WILSON have made him Postmaster
General9 If WILLIAM sometime of Germany, had
written novel would the Germans have acquieSced
in his theory of Divine Right? GEORGES CLEMEN.
CEAU wrote novels and was chosen of the people to
lead them. HALL GAME and MARIE CoREIII and
RIDER HAGGARn and ARNOLD BENNETT have written
novels which enable us TO gauge them pretty &c
curately-and rot one of them has yet been in
'vited to help run the League of Nations. The
son is simple: We know them too we'll
Some Modern Instances. ... 9.
All privacy is scandalous THOMAS Dixon says
1t is positively immoral that the world should
run on without knowing the depths TO which | can
sink. / must write The Way Of Man and make
the world properly contemptuous of me-" IONA
GALE reflects to herself: After all, with nothing
but these few romanceS and these Friendship Village
stories, people have true insight into my real
tastes afnitieS, predictions, qualities OF mind.
will write about fruit and pickle salesman, in
effectual sort of person who becomes, almost in
voluntarily, paperhanger That will give them
the idea of me they lack. ="
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, without consciously
thinking anything of the kind, is dimly aware that
people generally have right to know him big
hearted man who makes some mistakes but whose
sympathy is with the individual man and woman
and whose passion is for social progress. The best
way to make people generally acquainted with
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE is TO write novel-say,
In the Heart Of a Fool, which they will read.
The hest way TO get to know anybody is
to get him to talking about somebody else. Talk
about one s self is little too self-conscious.,
Truth at. the Bottom of Wells.
Anu lntTe you nave I'll. II Is eXacllL because
such writer as H.. G. WELLS is in reality pretty
nearly always talking about himself that we find it
difficult to appraise him rightly the basis Of
his novels circumstances is never absent from
Wells book. 1t is this acute self-conSciousness
that makes 50 much of HENRYJAMEs valueleSs to the
great majority of readers. They cannot get past it,
or behind it. The great test fails. Mr.. JAMES is
dead, and the only way left TO get at the truth of
Mr.. WELLS will be to make him Chancellor of the
Exehequer or, in socialized British republic, Sec
rotary of Un-War.
Dare TO be a DANIEL CARSON GOODMAN. Write
That Novel Don't procrastinate, don't temporze
Do II Now, reserving all rights of translation of
words into action in all countries including the
Full detailed instructions TO the
actual writing will shortly follow
THE GOAD
BY Garrett Laidaw Eskew.