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However far back we go in ancient tales and traditions, we find all of the characteristics of the short story given in unrivalled perfection. The modern short story writers, however, stand for a new movement because of their attempt to accomplish a certain end by taking a certain attitude. The ordinary novel is objectionable, as Poe says, because it cannot be read at one sitting, but the combination of brevity and unity in the short story is its greatest charm. Every work of fiction depends for its success on its characters, its plot, or its action and circumstances. In character...
...aside from these advantages, the art of telling short stories is dependent on several great laws. It calls for a visual power of a high order and demands certain selective power. In the novel the writer has many opportunities to make his characters vivid, but the short story writer has but one chance. Lastly, the writer of short stories must combine with a vivid imagination, beauty and clearness of expression...
...natural poses and gestures the character of a person is often interpreted more clearly and accurately than through any other means; for emotions and feelings, which are to subtle for expression in words, may be shown in changes in the face and in the involuntary movements of the body. Certain poses and certain expressions are universally understood to interpret certain definite emotions, and, while the theory of the interpretation of character by pose is a subject, rather of philosophy than of art, it is nevertheless necessary that the artist and one who is to understand the work of the artist...
...Jews and Christians, Catholics and Protestants, Liherlists and Conservatives, certain fundamental truths are universally accepted. All churches recognize in common that there is a physical order in its material universe and that there is a moral order that reveals itself in the world of men. They believe that the fundamental principles of this moral order were first represented in the ten commandments and were revealed in the life of Jesus, the one perfect man--whether they believe this man to have been a divinely inspired mortal or Christ, the son and substance of the Father. These universal principles of morality...
Three elements enter Turner's works in a marked way. First, his works are rythmatic. This is shown in the repetition of a certain set of lines at various points throughout a picture--a line in a castle echoing a line in a cottage; one on a bridge, another in a fence. These rhythms afford the observer pleasure in echoing or reinforcing some important idea. Secondly, Turner shows love for human interest. Everywhere he enlivens his already intensely charming landscapes by appropriately placed and logically related human figures. And thus his landscape with human interest has an unusual power *sthetically...