Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — Choosing One’s Fiction. [ARTICLE]

Choosing One’s Fiction.

Fine fiction, like fine friendship, is a personal affair. Tour friend is not to be of another’s choosing. He is yours to elect; yours to have and to hold, or to lore and lose, as the inner laws decree. Whether he be of your social or Intellectual caste is a secondary matter; he must be of your soul’s kin—or you must believe that he is till you learn betters—and his quality to you is as individual as your taste in fruit or wines, in sunsets or marine painting.—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Century.