Show I i Mr Zangwihl On the N vcl I New York Evnlng Po b Israel Zangwm and amln Garland dlsusseq The Novel before the Nine teeth Century Club at Delmonicos last evening Mr Znngwi said tifilt he British Brit-Ish novelist was underrated by the critics and overrated bytho income txix assessors asses-sors Those dw r 1 kI upon ftxe novelist asa parvenu pastry cOOk he contInued must be disconcerted to find a olstol preaching In the wilderness or a Zola like some Old Testament prophet chal longing an entire nation Fiction which deals with the full acts of life Is truer than scienco or hitory or anything else ohh n1e aqt concrete It swallows up the lesser truths and dIscards the irrelevant ones Thero Is a certain falseness in fiction hIch is truer than truth I am speaking of great novels hero The average novel 15 only worthy to be dramatized by the average dramatists Behind the great noel lies all tie bralnwork whIch makes the historian and essayist pIus the magic work of creation The historian deals wIth people who happened to have got knowl The novelist deals ih the name less myrinds 1115 characters are the shorthand or humanity Fiction Is not only the fullest but the hIghest truth The noriist Is not only a scientist but tse au artist He has tostimulate the sense of beauty Humoris a true way of red log life Humor ithe smile In the eies ofisdom Without hmorhold that tiereca be no rat novel or lf |