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Show The Seaion'a Novellat Heroes. The London Speaker has been making a study of the heroes who have been introduced to the public in the novels of the recent summer, and has found that the great majority of these men is composed com-posed of good, tall men, every one of whom is over six feet high, broad in proportion, and of course magnificently knit and gloriously strong. Doubtless this is as it should be, when a novelist is not bent on making merely a psychological psycholog-ical study, and it is also in accord with the present turn for . athletics, long shanks, velocipede compelling, and well grieved in somber or bright lined hose. and, in short, with all the long array of things that enable the shapely young man to show himself to advantage. -There was a time when black visaged. surly and soured men, rather under than over the average height, and rather ngly than fine of countenance men like Mr. Rochester, in "Jane Eyre," for example were the predominant type of novelists' novel-ists' heroes; but it seems that during the past summer all this sort of thing was swept aside, and the tall and comely hero, bright as the fair god Balder, aud at least an inch and a half longer than Lord Chesterfield's standard gentleman, stepped in and made his bow to the world of novel readers. |