...so ridiculous as to evade resentment. " The art of fiction," he confidently asserts, "has, in fact, become a finer art in our day than it was with Dickens...not suffer the confidential attitude of the latter, nor the mannerism of the former, any more than we could endure the prolixity of Richardson or the coarseness...

...so ridiculous as to evade resentment. "The art of fiction," he confidently asserts, "has, in fact, become a finer art in our day than it was with Dickens and Thackeray. We could not sufier the confidential attitude of the latter, nor the mannerism of the former, any more than we could...

...so ridiculous as to evade resentment. "The art of fiction," he confidently asserts, "has, in fact, become a finer art in our day than it was with Dickens and Thackeray. AVe could not suffer the confidential attitude of the latter, nor the mannerism of the former, any...

...fiction, of which craft he assures us Mr. James is at present the head. " The art of fiction has in fact become a finer art in our day than it was with Dickens...mannerism of the former, any more than we could endure the prolixitjr of Richardson or the coarseness of Fielding. These great men are of the past, they and their...

...superior to Dickens and Thackeray. ' The art of fiction,' Mr. Howells gravely tells us, ' has in fact become a finer art in our day than it was with Dickens...of the latter now, nor the mannerism of the former. . . . These great men are of the past — they and their methods and interests.' The ' school which...

...fiction, of which craft he assures us Mr James is at present the head. " The art of fiction has in fact become a finer art in our day than it was with Dickens and Thackeray. We could not sutler the confidential attitude of the latter now, nor the mannerism of the former, any more than...

...THE MODEST SPREAD-EAGLE. ["The art of Fiction," lays Mr. HOWELLS, an American novelist, " has in fact become a finer art in our day than it was with DICKENS and THACKE u AY ; " and another American says they cannot understand " the English dialect."] HARE I The...

...art of fiction," says Mr. Howells. In his startling little article on Mr. Henry James, " has In fact become a finer art in our day than it was with Dickens and Thackeray, and we could not now suffer the confidential attitude of the latter, nor the mannerism of the former,...

...was in Mr. Howells' mind, no doubt, when he wrote the sentence : " The art of fiction has, in fact, become a finer art in our day than it was with Dickens and Thackeray." In different ways Hardy and James have exemplified the new form of art in fiction, but I can not think...

...Hawthorne. 1870. HENRY JAMES, JB. 184У-. '•A FIXER ART IN OUR DAT." The art of fiction has, in fact, become a finer art in our day than it was with Dickens...prolixity of Richardson or the coarseness of Fielding. — Sketch uf Henry James, Jr., in the "Century ЗГнуиzine," November, 1882. WILLIAM D KÄS HOWELLS....