Word: fictions
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...however, to allow the novel to escape scot-free; and it is this very subservience to science that arouses modern criticism. Speaking at St. Mark's-in-the-Bouerie Dr. Brian Brown unconsciously voiced this disapproval by saying that "Psychology is the hero and heroine of every piece of fiction." It is apparently with the psychological and psycho-analytical novel and play that too many people, according to Dr. Guthrie, have "doped themselves...
...fought principally for the strategic reason of obtaining possession of the Dardanelles, the study of at least one of the dead languages may take on a certain flavor of romance which almost always attaches itself to the historical past, but which sometimes refuses to grace what is pure fiction. The legend of Roland, for instance, dying in the Roncesvalles, is far more appealing to the imagination than any wholly man made fairy tale. If one can believe, no matter how faintly, in what one reads and hears, interest increases to a surprising extent. While it is of course impossible...
...though Mr. Williams frankly admits that he has never been there. The episode of his hero's experience as a hard-working king in the South Seas, sandwiched in between the incidents at Yale and New York, is one of the most entertaining bits in the season's fiction...
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...interesting of the general public in the performance of scientists and practical applications of their discoveries is an increasingly important field, too often neglected, and too often made difficult by the inflexibility of the publisher's demands. In this field, then, rather than in the department of fiction, does standardization do real harm. An appreciation by the publishers that a greater profit might be derived from selling a hundred thousand copies at one dollar than from disposing of three thousand at three dollars and a half might assist materially in alleviating the present distress...