Show I 4 The Fantastic Novel Chicago Chronicle Dr Hirsch thInks the rending reading pub public lie lic has wasted valuable time on Dumas Monte Cristo and he urges that in Inthe the selection of novels on one should have an dye ye to those which bring something of the higher life He considers the constant conflict within a man to be bethe bethe the theme of oC the die or of fiction If Dr Hirsch ts to Clis Cis Clisto Cisto to as an individual book on n which It Itis is 16 no worth hile to waste time there ate are plenty of people who will endorse him for with the exception or of the opening part the novel Is not Worthy of the master But If under the name MOnte onte Cristo Dr Hirsch buld de den n flounce clever cleer in generala general a k kud ud protest would be made and with ga cause T r li lis s its l ll a ak fh n Or th thIS senho I S Th 1 ii It t to tos be ed edan an amount of free rec as well weB as the IS bod body Pure Lull n pure fancy ancy a joyous gambol ot of the imagination is a healthy sort of th that t might be In Indulged I In to a tar nr greater extent than it is and with We are arc a p given to tremendous earn earnestness estness ess and are likely to forget that there Is such a thing as play We Te have havethe the reputation 0 or not hU how w to toI I enjoy a holiday when we have it itI I I The value alue of the advice adice about read I big those novels in which the theme them themIs Is the conflict of man over himself and andr andI r I over circumstances depends largely on the character of the person to whom it is iven A lackadaisical individual miS or might not profit by such ad advice advice vice It might be of worth to a person perplexed and confused in the midst of multifarious duties to know what others have done In similar circum circumstances circumstances stances It would be of advantage to j those who want ant broader views of life wider sympathies and a better under understanding understanding standing ot of human There are cases however where tIme the J purely ur ly work Is to be coin book that shall take one wholly out of the realm of the real I workaday world that shall have noth nothIng lag Ing In It ot of conflict that Is not easily overcome Such a book Is often worth or it lightness over ld hd over It puts one in ia good mood takes away the th fret that comes from too much friction and makes one bet better better ter fitted to cope with the real world when the necessity comes Too much of such read in to much 0 of any one kind ot of reading may not be but a moderate amount or of It Is to be commended |