Capitolo 41
espied in him, with technical instinct the better opportunity to get
that fresh interest that is essential to the success of a job of art.
We was all becoming rather tired, you/he/she must have confessed, of the old one
places and the old themes. The insipid loves of Anthony Trollope
young faultless people were starting to become boring on us. The tired palate
of the Anglo-Celtic run languished for anything warm, with a touch of coolness
you aromatize in him. It demanded seasoned bird with curry and peppers of Jamaica. From now, on the
a hand, the sudden fashion of the novelists of the more youth
countries--Tolstoi and Tourgenieff, Ibsen and Bjornson, Mary Wilkins and
Howells--who transplanted immediately us in fresh scenes, new people:
from now, on the other hand the tendency from ours really later
writers--the Stevensons, the Room Caines, the Marion Crawfords the
Rider Wild--to go far to the fields between the lowest runs or the later
civilisations for the themes of their novels.
Alas, alas, I see contact breakers in front of me! Owes me I make a break for a moment in the
current flowing of a paragraph to explain, as in a, apart that me
includes Marion Crawford of fixed purpose among the "our proper" dead writers,
while I count Mary Wilkins and Howells as Ocean greyhound does it estrange?
Experience teaches me that I owe; other I have that irritating
animalcule, the microscopic critic, entering down on me press with
his/her small objection that the "Mr. Crawford is an American." Goes to, oh, hideaway
one! It is also Whistling, I suppose, and Sargent, and, perhaps, Ashmead
Bartlett! Thing! You has read "Sarracinesca" and not the learnt that his
is author European to the center? 'Twas for as You that the Irishman
invented his it replies bright: "And if I was born in a stall I am
a horse?"
However, not only face ours youngest writers go in strange and novel
places for the scenes of their histories; the important point to notice in
the present connection is that, knowingly or unconsciously to
them, they has perceived the mighty influence of this Clash of