" "There is no question of the material that Fairlands has to offer, Mr. King," returned the novelist, in his grim, sarcastic humor.

"Do you really read my poor serial up here, and do me the honor to like it?" asked the novelist, both flattered and amused, for his work was of the aesthetic sort, microscopic studies of character, and careful pictures of modern life.

The neighbour, who was a man of family, was so exasperated, that Sacchetti the novelist says it was the principal cause of Dante's expatriation.

"But I never degraded her," exclaimed the novelist in despair.

As the party greeted the novelist and he returned their salutation, the artist turned away to find again the chair, where, an hour before, the strange character who was to play so large a part in his life and work had found him.

" But Sophie did all the next day, being delightfully gay at the dinner, and devoting herself to the young minister who was invited to meet the distinguished novelist, and evidently being afraid of him, gladly basked in the smiles of his charming neighbor.

since the beginning there have been, till the end of time there shall be Cabaners; and they shall live miserably and they shall die miserable, and shall be forgotten; and there shall never arise a novelist great enough to make live in art that eternal spirit of devotion, disinterestedness, and aspiration, which in each generation incarnates itself in one heroic soul.

Mr. Hardy and Mr. Blackmore I read because I had heard that they were distinguished novelists; neither touched me, I might just as well have bought a daily paper; neither like nor dislike, a shrug of the shouldersthat is all.

"I'll be damned if I am," retorted the novelist, with no profane intent but with meaning quite literal; and, seizing a book, he bolted through the kitchennearly upsetting the startled Yee Kee.

"That red-faced, bull-necked brute, is James Rutlidge, the son and heir of old Jim Rutlidge," continued the novelist.

"Look at it!" cried the novelist.

"I am determined to make a success as a reporter and a correspondent, and after I have achieved something in that line I may look to an editorial position; and who knows but my fertile imagination, coupled with the experiences sure to come to me, may develop the great American novelist the world is waiting?

My theory is alsoon the matters which divide novelists into realists and idealiststhat the highest form of art is produced by the artist who is so far an idealist that he wants to say something and so far a realist that he copies nature as closely as he can in saying it.

Scarcely a letter drips from his penas a modern novelist used to express itwithout some touch of the Pomfrets.

"By George!" ejaculated the novelist, "he acts like he knew where he was going.

When he had passed from the room, she faced the novelist, with"Don't you think Edward is really very much worse, Mr. Lagrange?

, by Fielding the novelist (1730), altered by O'Hara, author of Midas (1778).

In fact, it was the story that gave me my start in yellow journalism, from which I graduated the novelist of your acquaintance.

" "Not unless he's a bigger fool than I think," growled the novelist.

The letter was from an address in Judd Street, Euston Road, written on good paper and in a fair round hand such as one might imagine a novelist using.

The scientific spirit of the age impelled the greatest novelists to try to paint actual life as it impressed them.

"Without giving a minute account of all my guests, I may say generally, that they include novelists, dramatists, actors, and musicians.

But why should I grudge this youth his preferment, since after all, it is sense, firmness, and gallantry, which have put him in possession of wealth, rank, and beauty!" Rob Roy The title of "Rob Roy" was suggested by Constable, the publisher, who one day informed the novelist that the name of the hero would be the best possible name for the book.

This brief survey of the Gissing country is designed to enable the reader to judge the novelist by eight or nine of his best books.

I do not know any novelist who brings to her work a greater sympathy with or a finer feeling for South Africa than Miss YOUNG, and if her moderate methods do not find favour the reason can only be that for the moment moderation is a rather unpopular quality.