Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1914 — Flattens Them Out. [ARTICLE]

Flattens Them Out.

William Dean Howells, at his country house in York Harbor, was admonishing a young novelist who, after ■writing a successful novel, had written only slight things. Mr. Howells couched his admonition in terms of delicate originality. "Two critics,’’ he said to the young man, "were discussing a certain author.” "‘His laurels,’ said the first critic, ‘already seem faded and bedraggled.' - "‘That,’-the other critics agreed, Ts because he has been resting on them.’ ” —Washington Post.