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Show The Author and Tils Wort. That the author is easily led to betray excessive interest in himself is a fact due in a great measure to tho peculiar conditions condi-tions upon which bis artistic snccess depends. de-pends. Every piece of his work is the product of a mind that should be, from first to last, completely absorbed in its creation. He cannot, like the painter or llie sculptor, summon and dismiss his model at wiV, with the certainty of recovering re-covering ata momenfn notice the desired pose. His models are continually on the move: each one, to be convincing, must not only shine with the light of varied circumstance, but must also show cause for existence by effect upon the others; Bince the interest of a story flags the instant in-stant its characters are at a standstill. As a natural consequence their creator carries them always with him, really most alert in their behalf when he seems to be most inactive. At home and abroad he is ever playing his game of chess "whereof the pawns are men," with no board to guide him but that mysterious one traced upon the table of his brain. All he sees and hears contributes its mite to the source of sng-gestion sng-gestion from which he draws, and by his skill in the drawing his power is deter-I deter-I mined. Intricate problems force themselves them-selves upon him. to be solved with the nicest di scrimination out of his own experience. ex-perience. With him eternal vigilance is tho price of victory. Point of View in Scribner's. |