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on English officials. Of that, one is glad;
e's quarrel with Mr. Galsworthy is that
I never think anything out. He inveighs
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to do; but he does not offer any sub-
solution, which would be an even better
to do. He sentimentalizes over dead
nts and dead everything; but he gives
O suggestions as to what kind of laws
s. He objects to existing divorce laws,
does not come out into the open and
st what divorce laws, if any, he would
se to enact. It is not, apparently, either
dice or expediency on his part; it is
inability to think constructively in any
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may seem to speak bitterly. I co I feel some bitterness. For I adm Man of Property exceedingly, and Mr. Galsworthy to carry on a great of fiction. Instead of which, he has backing, backing-farther and fart from the Presence. Some people, I k him up with The Patrician because, it was straight Mrs. Humphry Wa him up forever with The Freeland it was bad Mrs. Humphrey Ward; in Coryston Family was much better.

Now we come to our syndicate. W shall we begin? It is hard to choos can you deal with them separately outstanding fact is that they all w that they deal in the same characters backgrounds, and the same situat that they have the same point of v are like the Pléïade or the seven N ists. Only they do not know it. At

write of Jacob Stahl, and that Mr. Mace, not Mr. W. L. George, shall deal Michael Fane? And does Mr. Walpole off o' nights to Mr. Beresford and offer some Jacob Stahl if Mr. Beresford take a few chapters of Fortitude off _nds? Does Mr. Mackenzie write a page Prelude to Adventure while Mr. Waltakes a turn at Sinister Street? Who the murders? Is it Mr. Walpole or Mr. s? Which one of them has been aped to frequent the Empire? Does Mr. e investigate female psychology for the ? And what (but this I cannot even O does Mr. D. H. Lawrence "cover"? is may seem to be mere petulance, but ot. The chief value of fiction is, I take provide us with vicarious experience. A novelist who sticks to the truth is, above forming. We enlarge our own world by g him. No one, in his own person, can gate all social milieux in all civilized and the big novels and the big plays ext-books to the humanist. How much

bethans, the scholars would still be gling over problems of their collaboraTheir novels would be like the Beaumonther-Middleton-Rowley plays.

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