A Modern Instance

But this, even in most degraded sybarites, would be only a part of their actual activity.

I believe that a modern instance is just as true to life as Bel Ami.

It would really be a misfortune if Mrs. Atherton could have her way, for then American novelists would copy the faults of European writers instead of their virtues.

The reason why French plays and French novels are generally superior to American is not because they are indecent and we shall never raise our standard merely by copying foreign immorality.

As Professor Beers has remarked, if Mr. Howells knows his countrymen no more intimately than does Henry James, at least he loves them better.

This charming novel was rapidly followed in the next few years by a succession of books that are at once good to read and of permanent value as reflections of American life, manners and morals.

These were A Modern Instance, A Woman's Reason, The Rise of Silas Lapham and Indian Summer, making a literary harvest of which not only their author but all Americans have reason to be justly proud.

Somewhere along in the 80s, Mr. Howells came fully within the grasp of the mighty influence of Tolstoy, an influence which, no matter how beneficial in certain ways, has not been an unmixed blessing on his foreign disciples.

But this, even in most degraded sybarites, would be only a part of their actual activity.

I believe that a modern instance is just as true to life as Bel Ami.

It would really be a misfortune if Mrs. Atherton could have her way, for then American novelists would copy the faults of European writers instead of their virtues.

The reason why French plays and French novels are generally superior to American is not because they are indecent and we shall never raise our standard merely by copying foreign immorality.

As Professor Beers has remarked, if Mr. Howells knows his countrymen no more intimately than does Henry James, at least he loves them better.

This charming novel was rapidly followed in the next few years by a succession of books that are at once good to read and of permanent value as reflections of American life, manners, and morals.

These were A Modern Instance, A Woman's Reason, The Rise of Silas Lapham, and Indian Summer, making a literary harvest of which not only their author but all Americans have reason to be justly proud.

Somewhere along in the 80s, Mr. Howells came fully within the grasp of the mighty influence of Tolstoy, an influence which, no matter how beneficial in certain ways, has not been an unmixed blessing on his foreign disciples.