I hear that the Two Noble Englishmen have parted no sooner than they set foot on German earth; but I have not heard the reason,possibly to give novelists a handle to exclaim, "Ah me, what things are perfect!"

All these eager poets, novelists, and essayists, questing over so many different ways, are equally intent on discovering the truth of life.

The novelists tell a story which pictures human life, and at the same time call us to the work Of social reform, or drive home a moral lesson.

(2) The tendency of literature is strongly ethical; all the great poets, novelists, and essayists of the age are moral teachers.

On the whole, we are inclined to call this an idealistic age fundamentally, since love, truth, justice, brotherhoodall great idealsare emphasized as the chief ends of life, not only by its poets but also by its novelists and essayists.

(2) The Novelists; the life and works of Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot; and the chief works of Charles Reade, Anthony Trollope, Charlotte Brontë, Bulwer-Lytton, Kingsley, Mrs. Gaskell, Blackmore, George Meredith, Hardy, and Stevenson.

Criticism: Essays, by L. Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by Gates, in Studies and Appreciations; by Harrison, in Early Victorian Literature; by G.B. Smith, in Poets and Novelists.

Economic conditions, in Age of Romanticism Edgeworth, Maria Edward II Egoist, The Eighteenth-Century Literature: history of the period, literary characteristics, the Classic Age, Augustan writers, romantic revival, the first novelists, summary, selections for reading, bibliography, questions, chronology, Eikon Basilike ([=i]'kon b[)a]-sil'[)i]-k[=e])

See Anglo-Norman Normans; union with Saxons; literature of North, Christopher (John Wilson) North, Thomas Northanger Abbey (north'[=a]n-jer) Northern Antiquities Northumbrian literature; decline of; how saved Novel, meaning and history; precursors of; discovery of modern Novelists, the first English.

These poets and novelists, who have little or no connection with classicism, belong chronologically to the period we are studying.

The Bulgarians, in short, are simple, and what the Rumanians would call "serieux"you must abandon all notion of finding here anything like the little comic-opera kingdoms invented by some of our novelists.

We are safe in assigning to Mr. Trowbridge a rank quite above that of our legion of washy novelists; he seems to have a definite purpose and an ambition for literary as well as popular success, and we hope that by study and observation he will be true to a very decided and peculiar talent.

Novelists and authors delight in dwelling on his good qualities.

NORRIS The Pit Frank Norris, one of the most brilliant of contemporary American novelists, was born at Chicago in 1870.

The Ironmaster Georges Ohnet, one of the most prolific and popular of French novelists and playwrights, was born in Paris on April 3, 1848.

All genuine novelists have drawn their materials from the life about them, and they could not attain success otherwise.

As in the case of the big gains made by patent pill merchants, and bad novelists, it is the public, which is so fond of grumbling because other people make fortunes out of it, that is really responsible for their doing so, by reason of its own greed and stupidity.

" Morgan regrets that his remarks "may perhaps divest the mind of some pleasing impressions" created by novelists and poets concerning the attachments which spring up in the bosom of Indian society; but these, he adds, are "entirely inconsistent with the marriage institution as it existed among them, and with the facts of their social history."

The Romantic Love of the poets and novelists was of late birth; the savage and many civilisations knew it not, and philosophers explain that it could not be developed till Roman Law had developed the conception of Marriage as a Contract.

Roughly speaking, I should say it would spring up here and there among all classes of the population, except poets and novelists.

In the presence of the philosophers, and sages, and historians, and novelists, and poets, and wits, the men of genius of the past, chroniclers of the loss of empires, grave men who taught the vanity of life, and funny men who taught the same lesson in a different way, Marcus felt his pack of sorrows considerably lightening.

I get what the novelists call flippant when I am feeling most solemn.

But here it is:"The stuff that is palmed off upon a hapless public by aspiring idiots, who are vain enough to imagine that they are novelists, is astounding.

Novelists, however, have not as yet received a prize of any sort, at least as novelists.

Novelists, however, have not as yet received a prize of any sort, at least as novelists.