Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1915 — Novels In Class. [ARTICLE]

Novels In Class.

The novel falls Into one of four classes, as It deals with romance, with life, with ideals, or as, lastly, it takes the shape of a work of art pure and simple. Of the great novelists of the last century, Scott, Thackeray and George Eliot stand for the first three types. For the fourth we look in vain in that period. Mr. Hardy, who embodies it as to the manner born, is of our own generation; and here the name which at once occurs to us for romance is that of Robert Louis Stevenson, for life that of George Meredith, and for ideas that of Mrs. Humphrey Ward. The divisions, of course, overlap.