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FICTION
Hall Caine Points the Moral Way in
the Novel.
THE WRITER’S AIM THE GREAT TEST.
A. Pisa for the “Moral Nude In Fiction,”
Hugo, Tols'oi and Scott the Greatest
Novelists of This Country.
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.I Before the Nineteenth Century ciun,
in New York, the other evening, Hal]
* Caine, the novelist, delivered a literary
sermon. His subject was “Moral Re
sponsibility In the Novel and the
Drama,” and his treatment of it was a
plea for liberty of conscience in fiction.
The audience saw before them a man
apparently about 40 years old,of medium
height, rather slender and with some
thing of a stoop in the shoulders that
suggested years of sedentary occupation.
The tawny hair and beard were the first
i things noticed about the face; then the
tremendous domelike forehead asserted
its pre-eminence. So broad is the novel
ist’s forehead that the whole face seems
to slope away from it sharply. The eyes
are well set and expressive, and the face,
as a whole, one of extreme sensitiveness
and nervous power. This impression of
l nervousness is borne out by the hands,
P which are long, fine and instinct with
constant expressiveness, although mak-
HALL CAINE.
ing but few gestures. His voice was
low, but clear, eicept at the end of the
evening, when it became a trifle husky.
Mr. Caine read his address. He said in
part:
•‘There are writers who tell us that
such light forms of literature as the
novel and the drama ought to have no
moral responsibility whatever. These
writers are of two classes. First, there
are those who think of a novel as John
, son defined it in his dictoinary, ‘A
smooth tale, generally of love.’ The
J aacond class are those jvho think too
All the World is a Stage and This is Ours.
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meanly of all tortus or imaginative
writing to allow either novel or drama
a place among the works that have any
thing to do with serious thought or the
real facts of life. But there are other
writers who are so far from wanting the
novel and drama to be a sugar candy
kind of literature that they are forever
asking the remorseless German ques
tion, ‘To what end?’ Then there, are
those who say the duty of a story teller
is to tell stories, not to preach sermons.
The novel should be no more moral than
a story in ‘The Arabian Nights.’ Art
and morality have nothing to do with
each other. When the novelist or dram
atist presents his characters, he should
stand aside from them; he should disap
pear; he should annihilate himself.
This is the attitude of many of the
French authors at the present moment.
“The general practice of nearly all
the great masters is against this view.
Against the array of genius on the side
of conscious moral intention we can
mention two names only, but perhaps
they are the greatest names in literature
—Shakespeare and Scott. Taine calls
them ‘the great impartial artists,’
meaning that they are the two great
speakers who were unconscious of an
aim in speaking. And seeing this, that
our highest literary man of the sixteenth
century, as well as our highest literary
man of the nineteenth century, who
both immeasurably beyond all others
commanded the world’s ear, had either
nothing to say or preferred to be unin
cumbered by an ulterior aim, the greater
part of writers and readers have con
cluded that in a novel or drama it is
best to say nothing. Carlyle does not
take this view. The John Knox in Car
lyle sees only the Rob Roy in Scott, aud
Scott descends as a consequence from
the rank of a great man.
“But there is a greater thing in a
novel or drama than subject, or scene,
or character, and that is motive. It is
here that the master shows his highest
mastery.” Motive is to the novel or
drama what the text is to the sermon.
When I speak of motive, I do not mean
moral purpose. Motive is the silver
thread that holds in line the beads of
art. Modern novelists and dramatists
seem to find it hard to combine unity of
purpose with freedom of invention. The
author of ‘Notre Dame’ shows masterly
over motive, and so does the author of
‘Anna Karauina. ’ These two and these
alone seem to me to realize George
Eliot’s ideal of the intensest realism of
presentation with the highest idealism
of conception, and by virtue of this mas
tery, and not because of any special su
periority in delineating character or de
picting scene, I claim for Victor Hugo
and Count Tolstoi that, with Walter
Scott, they will in the time to come be
recognized as the three greatest novel
ists of the nineteenth century.
“I count him the greatest genius who
touches the magnetic and divine chord
in humanity which is always waiting to
vibrate to the sublime hope of recom-
TRADE EDITION—ROME TRIBUNE, DECEMBER. 1895.
pense. r count him the greatest man
who teaches men that the world is ruled
in righteousness.”—New York Sun.
SELLING A MINE.
A Western Man’s Great Luck In Disposing
of His Property.
“It is the easiest thing on earth to
sell a mine in London for almost any
price, provided you have anything to
show aa expert, ” said Major Frank Mc-
Laughlin. “There is also a right war
and a wronj way to go about it. Some
time ago I went to London to negotiate
the sale of some mining property. Os
course, the first thing I had to do was
to let capital know what I was there
for. Then, when inquiries commenced,
I simply said: ‘Gentlemen, I have min
ing property to sell. If you mean busi
ness and want to buy, send your expert
out to examine the property and make
a report on it. You will know then
what you are buying. ’
“A company was organized. The ex
pert examined the property and reported
favorably, and a meeting was held to
discuss terms.
“ ‘Now, major,’ said the spokesman,
‘we have found that the property may
be worth something. What is your
Drice?’
“ ‘Two hundred and fifty thousand, ’
mid I.
“ ‘That is more than we expected to
pay. We expected to pay about 200,-
000. There is not much difference be
tween 200,000 and 250,000. If you will
drop the 50,000 we will take it. ’
“I expected to get about SIOO,OOO for
the property, so with a show of reluc
tancy I agreed to accept their offer.
When the papers were made out, I was
surprised to learn that they had been
talking about pounds and I about dol
lars, but I was very careful not to let
my surprise leak, and that is the way I
got $1,000,000 for the mine. Great peo
ple to do business with. ” —San Fran
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That Consumption Cure.
Experiments with a new serum for the
cure of consumption are now being made
at the Italian hospital, New York, by
Dr. Francesco Carlucci, its visiting phy
sician, assisted by Professor Vincenzo
Gianturco of the University of Naples.
The serum is the discovery of Pro
fessor Maragliano of the University of
Genoa, and has been tested at the Clin
ical hospital in that city. It is claimed
that it will cure any case of consump
tion not so far advanced that the tissues
have been destroyed. In the hospital in
Genoa 83 out of 100 patients inoculated
recovered, and the others, it is said,
were beyond aid.
Professor Maragliano will make the
formula for the serum public in a month
in reply to attacks by French physicians.
The patients in New York will be
given a hypodermic injection of o»
cubic centimeter of the preparation ev
ery second day. The treatment in ordi
nary cases will last about a month.—
New York Herald.
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