But I venture to believe that to some Americans, a sincere and truthful portrait of a typical Englishwoman of a certain class may prove attractive, as to us are the studies of a "David Harum," or others whose characteristics interest becauseand not in spite oftheir strangeness and unfamiliarity.

The needful thing is to find stories in which the heroes have the characteristics boys so much admireunquenchable courage, immense resourcefulness, absolute fidelity, conspicuous greatness.