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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 31

Russian literature. This movement is also found in France with Guy de Maupassant. It is not even a significant landmark in the same direction that England has read with deep attention Miss Mary Wilkins' "New England Tales" and Mr. Harold Frederic's "Illuminations" - in which forcible story we are transported on a carpet of fiction to a village in Northern New York, where mention of Europe is not, yet where the self same problems of faith and life meet the local minister which meet every thinker in the world? It is the purpose which makes such localized work universally interesting. 
If we take Europe as a whole, i do not think we can doubt the constant progress of its literature in purposiveness during the past half century. From first to last, the nineteenth century has constantly demanded, and has constantly
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Russian literature. This movement is also found in France with Guy de Maupassant. It is not even a significant landmark in the same direction that England has read with deep attention Miss Mary Wilkins' "New England Tales" and Mr. Harold Frederic's "Illuminations" - in which forcible story we are transported on a carpet of fiction to a village in Northern New York, where mention of Europe is not, yet where the self same problems of faith and life meet the local minister which meet every thinker in the world? It is the purpose which makes such localized work universally interesting. If we take Europe as a whole, i do not think we can doubt the constant progress of its literature in purposiveness during the past half century. From first to last, the nineteenth century has constantly demanded, and has constantly 28.