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Show 81 but the,. remain flaws. _8. Gat",s alS:C She and was· a gGOd e$$qist tive habits good end bad __ ,,,maps c.a1'ried ..... 'too much purpose and toe little art. not capabl$ of use of her She wrote for aceephd Seriptnl"'. knowledge and OVer some freely ilftto understanding unlees they Mrs. Gat.es enet in her GVee:m:phad.ed it; as were over_lained..8 and of her argumenta- novels" giviftg persons thm too who she felt were 1;$1« d.irectly'. &00€1. a:rgum.nt and generallY was but, she made three anachronistic neh in£o$ation al>out Mrs. Gatea' liteJraey' gods, belt erltie.l and htl" love of llt'er&ture ia eltpNs$,e4 in the tollowing pa,$$6Ie irl4 a by 'its "'. hom$1y aI_1d. ,e, parauel betw&en lit.rat.ure and. In.1.1k, an oU wbieh sours a little from. too much churning: RAt this tim.e when the gems ,of English literature ue publisbed in such a en.? torm, it certainly 1s a waste of one fa opportunities to read tra.shy novels ........ pla$e oli>seX'Ve the a.djeotive, tor the 1s 1.$ much difference in ntJvels as there is in milk. The $tutt that appears in som.e or in what are eaU,d the "Railroad 'levels" 1» • eheap weekl,. papers I .uld. ehu&ct.riee as milk sold to the ;pQOl' in 1a1',$ e!tie.; halt water, and full 0t disease ger.M$ that only .wait favQrable soil to inCre&$$ rapidlr theori$$f wbiC.l. Very. eQD.stl'ac.t1o,.n • • hide.s .,,'.ah. $. • .. Md spread the contagion of frivolity J unheal:t:.hy' sentilnent. and disusipation. There is the skim milk trom whieh the cream has all been taken, th1$ is very nice to drink on a warm summer day and will harm no ene, i shall call. such novels Q.S Mrs. M, J. Home fs, Marion Harland 'e, Augusta 11irans Wilson 'e, and. WiUiam. Dean Howells'. pure skim milk; I", tor one, do net oat-a for $kim milk. Tben, there i$ tne good, rieh :milk, with all. the e!'eam in it. one ge-'hs . a .farm house ••• the mD,at healt.q diet one coUld wish to depen.d t • • til e ua.Uty could b$ upon. novels, to ltLiot t s, Charles Mckane t I ThaokeraY'$ t Balzac te, George Iber fa [s·, 0 and our to eeiall.,y tor the own.dear Hawthorne'S; alof and m,or$ Louisa May Aloott's novels; "Ben Hurrft 'b7 Lew Wallace, Fenimore (1: oop.:r ttl novels) and. "Etbies of the l)u."t J" by John R'u.skin. The pure ream of all, to my mind. is not the novel; it is the highest and noblest t in of a bGm thEiJ brain ma.n the of Whieh are those th.ought tne m&$&7, of .eron, the writinae of Ruskin, of Ca:rlyls. of Mae_ul$Y, of Oliver Holm\t$ ,anti Waahington Irving> the plays of 8hakespe4lre ,the Wendal poems at Milton, of Goethe, of Dante, and of Homer. The philosophies, the cla$sict$ of tche world, whether in prose or verse, are the cream of "'literature. 'ront "Book Reviews," Woman's Journel (Feb., 1896) VII, 212....13." • • Thi. q. .... . appl.1td to" Scot. '1.· [i!!J !,ss. .or,' . yaung,., • .. • I [$i9 J Mrs. Gates' relegation of'" the novl to a position of .inferiority _y The ......._.._ or Ur and have had much to do with ber lapses of perception in --.. Prinee ,.,.,....., elsewhere. - |
