Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — The Prose Eplo. [ARTICLE]

The Prose Eplo.

No literary species has had a more nnexpected and a more unprecedented prosperity than the novel in prose, which In the nineteenth century became the most popular of forms, essayed by many a writer who possessed only a small share of the gift of story-telling. The novel is almost the only one of the literary species that the Greeks of the Golden Age did not develop 'and carry to a perfection which is the despair of all later men of letters. They seem to have cared little for prose fiction; and when they had a story to tell they set it forth in verse, inspired by the muse of epic poetry. Today that forsaken maiden can find work fit for her hands only by laying aside her singing robes and condescending to bare prose.— Brander Matthews.