Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...heroine of this story and these two men, Freshman and Senior, meet while camping out in the Adirondacks. There is always, of course, more or less difficulty for the novelist to find a suitable time for his hero to declare his passion for his heroine. Hughes, however, did a good deed for a multitude of these lesser writers, when he had Tom Brown carry home Mary after she sprained her ankle. Since then it has been the misfortune of many fictitious belles to suffer the same accident, and Bessie Kendall was not exempted from the usual...
...this country, and will carry for many years the impressions his Readings left upon them; but in Illinois they think "all that he left was the Dickens Scarf and the Dickens Collar, which he, after all, had not the honor to invent." An honor, surely, if the great novelist had invented them. We also learn that "Dickens was a self-conceited Englishman; Tyndall is a cosmopolitan, as is the case with every true scientist." But enough of this. It is sufficient to say that the rest of the article is in the same senseless style. The great question...
...novelist that Bulwer is really famous, although as a dramatist, a poet, and an essayist he will compare favorably with many of his contemporaries. Of his novels those best known are "Pelham," which he wrote while quite young, and which first made him a reputation; "My Novel," "The Caxtons," "What will he do with it?" and "The Last of the Barons." "Eugene Aram," a book severely censured at the time of its publication because the characters were "taken from Newgate," is well worth the perusal, and, though it represents an uncommon phase of character, it has nothing peculiarly extravagant...
...style of thinking, but we must do so in order to justly estimate the book. Almost everything that George Eliot says of men and women, or makes men and women say, is true, and for that reason interesting; but she is deficient in the crowning quality of the novelist, - ability to throw a dramatic interest over all the characters, and make the reader feel that he is learning the story of real men and women. We know that the characters of "Middlemarch" are natural, that they might exist, but we think of them merely as the clever creations of George...