Show MUST KNOW HUMAN NATURE functions of the novelist are of the highest order according to sir gilbert parker although sir gilbert parker has enjoyed a popular vogue such euch as an la is almost never granted to a serious novelist there them are few writers in the world who take a loftier view ot of the writers functions unc tlona than does parker in a recent article at the time of ito issue of his new noyel you nev er know your luck parker observed that keen though the politicians eye must be it if he be Is to obtain popularity and manage men it to la as nothing compared with that of the writer who must observe the characteristics of human nature infinitely more acutely says sir gilbert lie ile must note not only the symptoms which may indicate a passing functional derangement ot of the moral and mental constitution he must go infinitely deeper it if he wants to know character ile he must bad out it may be the more or less leaa obscure thing the disease or corruption lying behind the many obvious symptoms and it is probable that bo ba will find his key in some small elusive thing which Is a danger signal to the trained mind to which Is given also the traer ed eye to a registering eye an ey which sees and photographs there cornos comes under stress of it the senses and the illumination which follows tol lowa a moving picture ot of innumerable things tn in their abel proper places the automatic au tornal alo memory ot the thousand visualized oweeta |