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Show MUST KNOW HUMAN NATURE Functions of the Novelist Are cf the Highest Order, According to Sir Gilbert Parker. Although Sir Gllbort I'arker has on-Joyed on-Joyed a popular voguo such ns Is almost al-most nover prauted to a serious nov-cltst, nov-cltst, thoro aro few writers In tm world who tcko a loftier view of the writer's functions than does I'arkor. In n rccen nrtlcli at tho tlmo of tlin Ishuo of U new novel, "You Nov- r Know Your Mick." I'arker observed that, keen though tho politician's oya must bo If he Is to obtain popularity and manage men, It Is as nothing compared com-pared with that of tho wrltor, who must obsorve tho characteristics of human nnturo Infinitely more acutely. Hays Sir Gilbert: "Ho must noto not only tho symptoms which may Indicate Indi-cate a passing functlonnl derangement of tho moral nnd montnl constitution, ho must go Infinitely deeper If ho wants to know chnracter. Ho must find out, It may bo, tho moro or lots obsi urn thing, tho dlscaso or corrup- SI tlou l)lng behind tho many obvious WSl symptoms, ai'd it Is probable that ho 91 will find his ftey In some small, olualvo BfW thing which Is n danger signal to tho Bfll trained mind to which Is givun also HH tho trained eyo. BB "To a registering eyo, tin oyo which flfl sees and photographs, thoro comes, BBI under stress of tho senses nnd tho IN 9 lumlnatlon which follows, a moving El plctuiu of liinumornhlo things In their BO proper places, tho automatic memory PH of the thousaud vUuallzcd obJooU." mWl |