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The death of Henry James
removed a very interesting figure
from a literary society that is ra
pioly disappearing. A novelist of
peris, considered by not a few one
of the greatest, James certainly is a
name which is not likely to become
a house hold word for all that.
Whatever may be his abiluy, he
outlived the mission of the novel
and its influential function in tro
cioty, and the readers who enjoy
and delight in his pages are con
fined to an even smaller class than
those who enjoy and delight In the
poetry of Browning.
Not having been at any time an
appreciative reader, the writer will
not presume to attempt a criticism
of this genius, except to remark that
he and his works arc given to a
world which has passed beyond In
fluence of the novel.
The Victorian era was the era
that in English literature, the novei
attained its greatest power and poss
ibly also its greatest development.
Today the novels are appraised fitly
enough in a “best seller” category,
and not so much the power, nervous
force or significance of the work is
the criterion that warrants criti
cism, but the fact that they dlrcu
late industriously and well.
it was not always thus. Mon like
Dickens, Thackeray, Hawthorne,
—best of other snd lesser tights
contribute as wen as to me uter-»
ture of their times to the progress
of social evolution also.
Probably the influence of Uncle
Tom s Cabin hu been excessively
not to say ridiculously over-rated,
but unquestionably its part in the
cause of abolition, even at that, was
a greater part in the current social
movement, than has been attainea
by any modern work.
And the important matter is that
the novel in the hands of the
masters in the Middle Ninetoentn
Century played such a part almost
always, and contributed not r. little
to the advancement of social legis
lation.
It was through the novel that
the muck raker in those days ope
rated; wielding hi-', rake it is true in
a highly cultivated and decorous
fashion, without any excessive use ot
denunciatory phrase.
A good many social reforms can |
be traced back to the writings ol j
/ Dickens, Reade and Elliot; a good1
many moral as well as social re
forms can, even at that, be distinct
ly traced to the cynicism of Thack
cray, the gentle satire of Jare Aus
tin or the vigorous sentimentalism
of the Brontes.
I IIU HU»Ci Iiunuivi -- *
l,y a number of literary artlcta who
found that they provided a hand-1
some means of living, as well as
secured for them considerable repu
tations as masters of style, deline
ators of character, portrayers of
life in ail the different social grades
for the instruction elevation and
amusement of the well-to-do, who
paid for this entortalnm-nt.
It io possible that this can ho de
scribed as art for art sake, but we
can be quite sure it was art for
money’s sake as well
The mr.n who wota novels that
would >iot sell uruilly acquired no
very great fame and was afforded
little opportunity of practicing his
talents. I
Ono cf the most o_toruining of.
the later novelists of the nineteenth
century and a Canadian v/l'h ex- j
exceedingly radical aod direct soci
alist notions was Grant All311. His
works wore popular and he used to
observe with some cynical amuse
ment that roally valuable scientific
writings that he had given the light
of day, were wholly ignored and un
read, while the flimsiest novel trash
that he poked together in his own
clever style, secured a very great
following of readers.
He hadn't much confidence in the
value of the novel from a social
point of view and from the literary
aspect and the scientific viewpoint
he thoroughly despised it.
Some have wondered how this is,
but thero is nothing to wonder
about the matter at all.
Day by day, week by week and
year by year ns the present system
of society prevails, the main incen
tive socially speaking becomes more
firmly set upon the shoulders of
society. That is the quest for pro
fits. Literary ability of any kind
does not amount to a row of pins
unless it can be coined into dollars
and cents, and the final determining
influence over novelist, essayist and
journalist is whether or not the
thing written will sell and pay well.
An exceedingly clever English
Australlan cartoonist became the ad
mired of two continents and was
sought by admirers from all over
the world in his home in London.
Phil May, that was his name, had
certainly a wonderful pencil and a
still more wonderful gift of humor.
In Australia he had been a machin
ist and was very glad to discover
that as a cartoonist he could make
more money then by lathe work or
mechanical drawing.
When at the height of his popu
larity, a well known American who
had somewhat a hankering for art
on the higher plane, and made po
pular a lot of gibberish about local
color etc., and was quite a believer
in art of art's sake, visited May
and May and he had a good time
together, and went around the clubs
and tlfe slums and theaters until
they finally supped togethor when
the American proceeded to discuss
art. May promptly cut him short
inviting him to “cut out this art
guff; we all know," said he, “that
it’s the money in art that gives it
its standing with the public as well
as with ourselves”.
It is not a very elevated way ot
regarding a gift that is not \ery
common, but it is a common sense
view and it is certainly the truo
one. Nor can mon liko May be
blamed. The Incentive that capital
ism furnishes is the money incen
tive. It onters into ovory social ac
tivity whether literaturo, music or
art.
It is what sells that counts, and
the Cohen who writes ragtime is al
ways a much more prosperous and
popular and happy man than the
Wagner who writes grand opera. It
is not the depraved taste of the
public; it is the depraved influence
of money that prevents any such
thing as good taste and apprecation
be lavished on the work of those
who are not carried away by this
mad incentive.
Just take up the average maga
zme or moniuiy auu uuvo »»•*»
tngs, its stories, articles and so
forth. Then turn to a radical
monthly like the Manses and ob
serving the superiority of the latter,
a strictly proletarian paper, brimful
of the genius of radicalism, spark
ling with wit, humor and good
sense, consider that the reason such
papers as the Masses are few and
far between, like an oasis in a
desert, is because there is no money
in such a paper to speak cf. The
Sunday Supplement with Happy
Hooligans secures dollars, the Mas
ses with its terrific ability socurca
hardly cents.
It is a fact therefore that the
genius of any age is found in the
revolutionary movoment. The great
est and most valuable work is the
work that moves ahead of its com
peers, that strikes out in new fields
and opens up new ideas. But it has
to be confessed that these do not
pay. Thoy are not popular for the
very simple reason that those who
control the situation and make the
ideas for the people, as the people
make the money for them to con
trol, look with scant favor upon uni
form of thought that changes the
system that has dono so well for |
iaaaaaa
them.
It Is a very great mistake to Ima
gine that we are in any way the ori
ginators of our own opinions our- j
selves. On the contrary, we are j
hide bound creatures of environ-1
ment, of convention, custom. And
the men who have, are they who
absolutely dictate that environment,
that convention and these customs
that rule us so absolutely.
Change, the only inevitable law of
human life and as positive as exist
ence itself, is the great enemy of
the present both in the abstract and
in the concrete supremacy of pre
sent time things, institutions, per
sons, systems. And present time
things, persons, institutions and
systems that control society inevit
ably direct all the pressure they can
force to the front to resist any
tendency may develop to efTect a
change and facilitate its inevitable
flow. Accordingly all books, ar- j
tides, pictures, music, song that are |
revolutionary are taboo. They are
denounced as wholly evil, and placed
by the foolish Partingtons who would
stop the tide with a broom, on their
little musty fusty old index expurga
torius so that the truth may be sup
pressed and the Troe of Knowledge
also become the Forbiddon Fruit
not a tree of good and evil, but a
tree all evil Itself.
Now James acquired considerable
money by his earlier popular writ
ings and acquired a following which
he educated up to his own standard
of what was literature and what
was style. It may be super-excell
ent, but it will not set the world
afire with thoughts that burn, and
he was favored by the critics always
with excessive adulation that indu
ced many and many a person to ven
ture on buying and reading who
would never otherwise buy and read
a single of his books.
But James was a cult like Ibsen
or Shaw or Browning or some of the
other high-browed ones that have
always their little coterie of de
voted imitators and disciples. What
ever can be said about him. certain
ly and obviously this can be said
with safety that he functioned as a
novelist long after the novel, even
with such brilliant exponents as
Meredith, Hardy and others, had
ceased to function with any import
ance in the social movement.
W* have really some difficulty in
awajE remembering that the live
things of yesterday are not of to
day; that the forces which Impelled
jrogress a century ago are the very
forces which withstand and resist,
progress today; t&at the radicalism
of yesterday is the conservatism of
today, and the ideas that were dy
namic and full of vitality but a
short while ago are today lifeless,
arid and inert today. The forces in
literature, music, art and science ,
that contributed to the progressive *
education of the people, that in- I
spired action and afforded the social i
impulse for an extension of popular ]
control over social things, ODly a j
short while ago, today are massed I
upon the side of reaction, but bereft |
of all their power save as reaction
ary encumbrances of a movement t
will ultimately sweep over them.
It is almost Impossible to reject ,
the theory that any age is fit to
dictate to a future age the ultimate
lengths to which progress may go,
and men have wasted enormous abil
ity in establishing ground laws,
constitutiono, codes, statutes to
erect limits would circumscribe the
area of social progress. Around
these limits they erected monuments
of past efforts, past forces, intellec
tual and artistic, and besought hu
manity to forget its vain imagin
ings of the beyond where lay a _
greater freedom, and to stop and ad
mire what had been great in the t
past and which was to be great in g
the future as in the present.
Accordingly we have clung to the I
same musical modes, the same reli-ji
gious ideas, the same social systems |
the same legal formulas, the same;!
literary fashion, the same concepts j |
of art, and theso who failed to do J
so were the social outcasts, hateful j
10 tne UOQ Ol iiuu aio
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