Word: novels
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Henry Bourland: The Passing of the Cavalier," a novel by Albert E> Hancock, Ph.D., '97, will be issued during the coming spring by the Macmillan Company. The book deals with the life of the Southern aristocracy, during the reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. The hero, a young Virginia planter of Bourbon stock, enlists in the Confederate army, and after the surrender at Appomattox returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents...
...back we go in ancient tales and traditions, we find all of the characteristics of the short story given in unrivalled perfection. The modern short story writers, however, stand for a new movement because of their attempt to accomplish a certain end by taking a certain attitude. The ordinary novel is objectionable, as Poe says, because it cannot be read at one sitting, but the combination of brevity and unity in the short story is its greatest charm. Every work of fiction depends for its success on its characters, its plot, or its action and circumstances. In character delineation alone...
...illumine any great human problem. In this way many readers take up Mrs. Wilkins for New England scenes, J. M. Barrie for Scotch peasant life or Stephen Crane for the field of battle. On the whole the short story offers greater opportunities for a young writer than the novel. In the short story one may be didactic and yet not wearisome, and then the short story can pose problems and leave them unanswered. Now the novelists George Sand Dickens and Thackeray not only stated problems, but also answered them. The modern method of the short story, however, is to treat...
...aside from these advantages, the art of telling short stories is dependent on several great laws. It calls for a visual power of a high order and demands certain selective power. In the novel the writer has many opportunities to make his characters vivid, but the short story writer has but one chance. Lastly, the writer of short stories must combine with a vivid imagination, beauty and clearness of expression...
...Incarnation; during and after the Crucifixion; and on the Judgment Day before dawn. Its story is mainly one of supernatural beings: Raphael's journey to earth is described, and also the effect of the Crucifixion on the Heavenly Hosts. The description of the celestial beings is very even and novel, while in form it is beautifully musical...