Show STUDENT LIFE same service for the different regions of the South notably Messrs Cable Page Harris and Miss Murfrees for the Middle West as d Mr Hamlin Garland in his Roads for Canada as Sir Gilbert Parker in Pierre and His People or Laurence Mott in Main-Travelle- Jules of the Great Heart Jack London portrays the white horrors of Alaska James Lane Allen the dreamy langor of Kentucky Irvcomfortable ing the existence of the earlv Dutch sett- lers Hawthorne the wondrous socialistic life of the spirit Poe the horrors of the morbidly mysterious and so on indefinitely —not omitting H C Bunner and T B Aldrich Stockton and VanDyke In England two writers rank as masters of this particular form of literature: Stevenson and Kipling s exhaustRead their ively not neglecting the Scotch stores cf J M Barrie and Ian Maclaren nor the Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison and the Sherlock Holmes stories by Conon Doyle There are a few sparodic tales by Scott Pickens and Thackeray and at least one by Defoe The Apparition of Mrs easy-goin- g mf short-storie- Veal which no student can afford to overlook The French probably lead the world in the production of highly artistic short-storie- s and among them three writers are Maupassant Merimee and Daudet Others are Coppee and Balzrac with his Passion in the Desert Among the Germans the short story has not become indigenous yet one should read Hoffmann’s 11 eird Tales at least seme cf them Auerbach’s Village Tales also deserve notice Among the Norwegians Bjornson with his powerful realistic peasant tales Lie and Kielland occupy first rank The Russians are very well represented by Tolstoi and Turgeneff See especially the latter’s 4 Sier of the Steppes Two other Slavic nationalities the Bohemians and the Hungarians have each contributed some charming though as yet almost unknown examples of this literary genure Finally the romance nations Italy and Spain have also done their share A discussion of “comfortable novels” must be deferred until a later issue C L — ’Off pre-emine- nt |