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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 28

himself, on one side of his work, the laureate of the resulting strife and intermixture. In this direction, many other writers of the day may be classed with him - Stevenson in his Pacific Stories; Rider Haggard in his wild South African tales, Hall Caine in his Morocco romance. I am not classing these writers together, as regards literary merit; I am merely grouping them into the same rough category as exponents, each on his own plane, of the ideas necessarily engendered by an age of rapid expansion. For making us group in its totality the vast and varied world is surely in itself an adequate purpose.
Closely allied with this group of quasi-purposive authors whose vogue shows the interest felt by the general reading public. I would place the other, and partially coincident group of authors who deal with outlying factors or minor elements
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himself, on one side of his work, the laureate of the resulting strife and intermixture. In this direction, many other writers of the day may be classed with him - Stevenson in his Pacific Stories; Rider Haggard in his wild South African tales, Hall Caine in his Morocco romance. I am not classing these writers together, as regards literary merit; I am merely grouping them into the same rough category as exponents, each on his own plane, of the ideas necessarily engendered by an age of rapid expansion. For making us group in its totality the vast and varied world is surely in itself an adequate purpose. Closely allied with this group of quasi-purposive authors whose vogue shows the interest felt by the general reading public. I would place the other, and partially coincident group of authors who deal with outlying factors or minor elements 25