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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 26

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He had his ideas, true, his rebellions, his fancies, and these may often be read. Yet, I regard Stevenson as a survivor of the nineteenth century, than as a precursor and herald of the twentieth century. He was a semi-barbaric Scandinavian-Celt of the Western Islands, at home at Skerryvore among the foam of the Atlantic. His boyishness with its concomitant in love of adventure is one of is most charming and loveable characteristics and the childish side on him endeared him to all of us. But I can not help thinking the adult and civilized temperament of Meredith, the adult and civilized temperament of Hardy, is higher and deeper than the boyishness and delicious waywardness of the hermit of Samoa. Kipling is undoubtedly a great force in our literature, a typical embodiment 23
 
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