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...verse of the number is unusually good: the fragment by C. M. Stearns is finely imaginative; and "Sea Burial," by H.W. Holmes is remarkable for its deep feeling and sure sense for phrasing...
...yielding that is Sin, and not the temptation to which we yield. But no matter what the difficulty or temptation; there is always a hand to help us, a rock on which we may get support. This is found in Jesus Christ. The deep power and significance of His personality is that He puts Himself along with men in their doubt and scepticism, feeling for their weaknesses and sins and sympathizing as one who had himself been tempted. It is He who knows us. He is here to liberate no matter what our burdens. He comes to transform the life...
There are also many qualities that the short story does not demand. To write one does not require a sustained imagination, nor broadness and sanity in point of view. We do not require that the short story writer should have a philosophy of life or be a particularly deep thinker. The novelist deals with a whole, but the short story writer with a fragment, a mere sketch...
...works Hawthorne put the stamp of his own individuality. They mirror the delicacy and airiness of his genius, and are tinged with the deep moral problems and convictions that entered into his life...
...Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does not lie in its rich and beautiful style, nor in the strength of its plot, nor in the accuracy of its historical description, but rather in the deep and tender sympathy and comprehension of human nature that Thackeray has so marvelously expressed. In "Henry Esmond," in "Pendennis" and "The Newcomes" Thackeray showed that power which has placed him high among English writers--the power of creating in fiction, by his sincerity, by the brilliancy of his humor...