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Show Although Miss Spencer received only (l!onm$At frGm Mrs. Gates' critic:al pen" sin.ce 'b,come wrote a Mormon olas$ic, one one line of rather book, Add"d !Ion" whieh ha. teUed to es,ea,)e so easil.:r. rather long review of it, in which, although she a \dt.b. the book in the out so. luge ,e:ospeetive, unfavorable Mrs. Gates _s well pleued she allowed berself time to things which sbe theugbt below standard., point Her Qbservation. t uite a.ccura.te # In the d$taileci working out of the stGry, the author has laid himselt open to several adverse eritieimns. Th., incidents of th.e 11v.s of tbe hero and the heroin. are roather common. plaee, and the experienced novel reader een predict, with eon s14$rable cerb.int,7 the outcome or $"'fI!J'1' situation. The spice, the wonder aboui; what the _<1 will be, 1,$ consequently lacking J and th'e author is compelled to,depend too much tor continued. interelt • upon the merits of his descriptions and oharaQter ,ketching. A habit ot i4eal.ieaticn leads the author into :rheol'ical rall4cies. 'requ.ently; as the atory pgresses nioely, the tense is made pre-, s.n\, and an apOstrophe et a page or more 1$ indulged in. This tntica.t.t$ a poeti,w mind" a rieh imagination, n.ot tftiDed in the best _nner" and t,heretore net perl$ctly' flon'brolle4 by the owner. While we :reaJ.Ue that subject matter and style determine the standing ot .. book as a work $£ art, yet glaring gr8.l1lttUltic errors should not be _ae by one who wrihs for the publie.16 ., • By and la.rge. however, Mrs. Gates de·fended. the would. a.dd t,. t.h, mo;ral sta$ure of her readen. 1it.ra:ture the -... ;Qumal is uantiti$s sufficient _rld," attempt •• Or' tte, 1f - 1;,.0 reading of novels cru$ader for' gQOd MPs. Gate,s initiated was to be the Mormons WOUld h."e to write it t.h._ebes. geod JOl. I. Gates The from the £1%"$t story in the first number of the Journal: 16ftAdded that keep her "gals" away from things from the first to write such material in the excerpted IX. 4.'1. "good- :me@ing "moral" a by pu.tting into· praetiee ber idea tha\ if the.re literature in "o!. the the :mve:r At Upon" (r$view), Woman'. Jonml.l (Sept., 189$) following |
