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LI—NOTICES OF BOOKS;
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¦ ^* Reprin Sail ts . . B Mrs y Acton . ...
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R V 338 )
r v 338 )
Li—Notices Of Books;
LI—NOTICES OF BOOKS ;
¦ ^* Reprin Sail Ts . . B Mrs Y Acton . ...
¦ _^* _Reprin Sail ts . . B Mrs Acton . GaskelFs Bell Life ( Miss of Ana Charlotte Bronte Bronte ) . Smith ' and , and The Elder Tenan . t of Wild felt
Cheap editions y _oiJane EyreShirley f and Wuthering Heights , etc . , THE THREE SISTERS .
always ic I had those grea on t p whose leasure Yiixette sty in le reading or sentimen a few t the "books writer , but ' s not individual many : n preferring ature was
plainly _starred . "— . Much h lias b been laid written do about and enera objectivity llreceived In fiction that , so this much objectivity that a
_. great is canon tlie instance distinguishing as een adduced 1 w mark . He of was g hig not hes y t the genius inan . Shakespeare Shakespeare ; is hut the a
now certain a Hamlet machine . Or producing , i f not men a m — achine now , an then Othello _^ god , -like now , a FalstafF crea t tor , ,
geniuses to crea this ting great men of these p not attern after days , critics ; his . how own tell they us image put of p . rocesses themselves So , lik done ening into and les the su ser ff interior ered wrier by s
out of oth of their men , " own descr personality ibing them , : from becoming the inside other ; " how than they themselves are rapt . has heen
will g overlaid There enius include , is the b certainl y greater exaggeration in its y a circumference will truth be ; in the the thi silver radius s much objectivit is of that tarnished Ms y mind is theory objective . , and , The but so to it greater this minds mind the of
lesser other selves radius within . The him genius . He does neve not r loses go out Ms personality of himself , . but He he exists finds him and
in his works , and is to be found there _Tby such as know have To the those gift who of recognising read fiction . with a view to more than momentary
excitement leasant stud , this y . tracing To distin of guish the the writer real in from his the writing imag " is inary a most , the
heart p -utterances from the lip-utterances , the confessions from the prodown pervading fessions throug ; ' to the h mark the whole medium the , g individualism leaming of rose out -colored unshadowed of character convention and here alit , temperament there y ; to toned trace
effects to their causes in education or circumstance or predisposition ; to to watch note the the hasty ripening guesses of theories or the patient into princi working ples out and of the life mellowing problems ;
, p change leasant s wroug and useful ht by too increasing . But to writers age do this and strive experience is seldom their — possible utmost all thi . to s is In be very tlie not
first themselves place * , the ; 'they mass sham of fiction the thoughts and feelings and sentiments of varia
other people , and are afraid to be original ; they merely play -
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/50/
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