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The Ethical Tendency of the English Novel by Helen M. Harney, 1897

The Ethical Tendency of the English Novel by Helen M. Harney, 1897, Page 24

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If one sets against these distinctively purposive success, the success of such other writes as Rider Haggard, Anthony Hope, Stanley Weyman, Conan Doyle, it will be clear, I think, that the former class as a whole marks the taste of adult men and women, of the more thoughtful, of the moulders of the coming century: while the latter class as a whole marks the taste of the youth and casual reader, of the conservative as against the progressive element. I do not mean that Doyle and Weyman have not done admirable work of its kind; I merely mean that this work as a rule does not aim at the highest audience and even this is not true of Doyle's work in all cases. Books on the other hand like Hardy's "Tess" and "Jude" strike the keynote of our century. They are instinct with our hopes, our fears, our
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27312 If one sets against these distinctively purposive success, the success of such other writes as Rider Haggard, Anthony Hope, Stanley Weyman, Conan Doyle, it will be clear, I think, that the former class as a whole marks the taste of adult men and women, of the more thoughtful, of the moulders of the coming century: while the latter class as a whole marks the taste of the youth and casual reader, of the conservative as against the progressive element. I do not mean that Doyle and Weyman have not done admirable work of its kind; I merely mean that this work as a rule does not aim at the highest audience and even this is not true of Doyle's work in all cases. Books on the other hand like Hardy's "Tess" and "Jude" strike the keynote of our century. They are instinct with our hopes, our fears, our 21.