Word: fictions
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...FICTION...
...might be believed that this is to be another palace for a pauper. Yet consideration by the critical mind discredits this. The stage must be set before the actors can come. And the actors in this case are real literary characters who, unlike the usual puppets of modern fiction, live not alone on their own pages but in the memories of those who read the pages...
...through study of current fiction in America reveals more and more those moments of reality. As the individual writer learns to see beneath his scene into reality, into that play of forces from which springs character, a stride is made toward the Promised Land of a real American literature...
Supercilious, smart-Alex fiction writers have taken occasion from time to time to throw jibes at the department store of the U. S. They have tried to make dry-goods men, furniture men, carpet men, glass, china and home-fixture men look funny. But last week they had their answer. "Where would the American home be without the dry-goods industry?" was asked, and well and fitly answered at the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan...
...FICTION...