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Show The Heroines of V'oung Writers. A woman with a turn for literary work who notices that she is distanced, t as far as success and admiration goes, by rivals inferior in mental capacity to hersolf , flies eagerly to the society of her own fancies and makes her pen her greatest friend. It is the lot of many , girls to pass their childhood or yonth in a somewhat monotonous round of domestic do-mestic duties, and frequently in a narrow domestio circle with which they may have no great intellectual sympathy. It is a delightful consolation consola-tion for the shortcomings of the social life around them to build up an imaginary imagin-ary picture of social life as it might ba full of romantic adventures and pleasant pleas-ant conquests. In manufacturing her heroine the young recluse puts on paper what she would herself like to be, and what she thinks she might be if only she had golden hair and a wider sphere of action, or if men were wiser and more discerning. In the slights offered to her favorite ideal she paints the slights that might be or have been offered to herself, and she glories in imagining the triumphant way in which (under more auspicious circumstances) she would turn upon her enemies and trample them under foot. The vexations and annoyances she is usually able to describe with spirit and accuracy. The triumph, being the representation rep-resentation of her own delicious dreams, is apt to be a little too spectacular; it is , too complete; rivals and enemies are too effectually crushed; the world looks on and applauds with rather unnecessary vehemence; the underrated martyr of the first portion of the book has somewhat too magnificent an apotheosis at its close. Illustrated Amorican. |