Word: realism
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...telescopic eye of the Sheff. note editor has been unable to discover why the chimneys of "my aunt's" house should be "comfortably smoking" while Mollie is at the same time "shading her eyes from the hot sun." Smoking with reflected heat, probably. The essay on "Modern Realism" is partly true and a little untrue in places. The writer shows a trifle of feminine mawkishness in speaking of French realism - perhaps he is thinking of Zola - though we don't believe in displaying the under side of art, as Dumas has said, any more than anybody else does. - Tale Courant...
...editorials, exceptionally strong and much to the point. A very amusing story, "Aloft on the Dorothy Bell," comes next, and then a selection of Daily Themes. "At Night-Time" is a somewhat dog gerel rendering of a German poem. Next is an essay on "Count Tolstoi and Modern Realism," in which the writer, after saying that Balzac tried to crush the life out of French prose - Balzac, the one man to me who can understand and describe the emotions of a woman - that the French revolution "overthrew in one vast ruin Church, State and literature," in which latter word seems...
...city for the last five hundred years; and it certainly succeeded in bringing back those past epochs with startling vividness. There came a sudden clatter of mounted police, then a snarling of antique trumpets, and Lo! the hands on the dial of time swept suddenly back, all the harsh realism of the nineteenth century vanished, and the age of romance was with us once more. The year of grace, 1386, is drawing toward a close, and his Royal Highness, Ruprecht I, is celebrating the founding of his new university by a grand procession through the streets of Heidelberg. Here comes...
...like strung fearls, without system and without connection. On the other hand, the Americans believe that there are things to be known, to be prized and secured, and will never look approvingly on an agnesticism which declares that knowledge is unattainable. The American philosophy will therefore be a realism, opposed to idalism on the one hand, and to agnasticism on the other...
...which Americans should have is the true religion, not the one that least applies to them, so it is with a philosophy. We must not become realists, if we are to become so at all, because it seems to be the natural philosophy for Americans; but because we consider realism to be the truth. We must not discard idealism because it is not consistent with American ideas, but because we believe its principles to be unfounded. A philosophy founded to coincide with customs and traits of character, rests on the most flimsy of structures, and cannot survive the lives...