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Show Novelists and the Public. - Surprises in the novel reading line are a! way pleasant. Readers are so apt nowadays to label a novelist, to ay or assume that such an such a style, such and such it treatment, such and such characters, are his or hers by right of Invention, or of adoption, or of anything else. And who can answer that writers do not readily agree tOj the fancy, or tho whim, or the taste, or the Judgment of the public? With might and main they try to live up to the label, making, ma-king, as a rule, little or no effort lo change the brand. "You ask for a .rertaln thing; here It Is for you." they seem to say. "There are other .draughts as good to be got from the vintage of my examination; but fearing your disapproval, I shall not attempt to provide them." Naho Walker In London T. P.'s Weekly. |