Chapter XVII: Shifting Currents of Fiction (2)

He presents his material with skill: he is a story-teller; his plots move strongly and always by means not of explanations but of the self-development of his characters. Even his most minor figures form a distinct part of the movement. His style has more of distinction than has any other of the later romancers. He brought to his work the older ideals of literary form and expression, and he wrought not with the haste of the journalist and special correspondent, but with the leisure of the deliberate man of letters. Without question he is as large a figure in his period as Dr. Holmes was in his, and there are those who would rank him as the greater of the two. That he has not been given a more commanding place is due undoubtedly to his great fame as a medical expert. The physician has overshadowed the author.

VII

The enormous quantity and richness of the fiction of the period make impossible extended criticism of any save those who were leaders or innovators. Many did most excellent work, work indeed in some cases that seems to point to permanence, yet since they brought nothing new either in material or in method we need not dwell long upon them.

No type of fiction, for instance, was more abundant all through the period than that which we have called the E. P. Roe type, and the most voluminous producer of it undoubtedly was Captain, later General, Charles King, who created no fewer than fifty-five novels of the half-sensational, half-sentimental type which we associate with the name of Roe. With his wide knowledge of army life, especially as lived in the frontier camps of the West after the Civil War, he was able to give his work a verisimilitude that added greatly to their popularity. The love story was skilfully blended with what seemed to be real history. The frontier stories of Mary Hallock Foote, wife of a civil engineer whose work called him into the mining camps of Colorado and Idaho, have the same characteristics. Their author, a clever illustrator, was able to extend her art to her descriptions of the primitive regions and savage humanity of the frontier, and for a time she was compared even with Bret Harte. But not for long. Her books, save for their novelty of setting, have no characteristics that are not conventional. Better is the work of Clara Louise Burnham. There is in her fiction more of imaginative power and more command of the subtleties of style, but even her best efforts fall far short of distinction.

Of the romancers of the period the leader for a time unquestionably was Julian Hawthorne, only son of the greatest of American romancers. In his earlier days he devoted himself to themes worthy of the Hawthorne name and treated them in what fairly may be called the Hawthorne manner. His novels, like _Bressant_ and _Archibald Malmaison_, were hailed everywhere as remarkably promising work and there were many who predicted for him a place second only to his father's. But the man lacked seriousness, conscience, depth of life, knowledge of the human heart. After a short period of worthy endeavor he turned to the sensational and the trivial, and became a yellow journalist. No literary career seemingly so promising has ever failed more dismally.

Stronger romancers by far have been Blanche Willis Howard, Frederick J. Stimson, and Arthur Sherburne Hardy. Few American women have been more brilliant than Miss Howard. Her _One Summer_ has a sprightliness and a humor about it that are perennial, and her Breton romance _Guenn_ is among the greatest romances of the period in either England or America. The spirit of true romance breathes from it; and it came alive from its creator's heart and life. So far does it surpass all her other work that she is rated more and more now as a single-work artist. She passed her last years away from America in Stuttgart, where her husband, Herr von Teuffel, was acting as court physician to the king of Würtemberg. Hardy also was a romancer, a stylist of the French type, brilliant, finished. Few have ever brought to fiction a mind more keenly alert and more analytical. He was a mathematician of note, a writer of treatises on least squares and quarternions. But he was a poet as well and a romancer. His _But yet a Woman_ has an atmosphere about it that is rarely found in literature in English. His _Passe Rose_ is the most idealistic of all the historical romances: it moves like a prose poem. Stimson too had artistic imagination, grace of style of the old type joined to the freshness and vigor of the new period. It is to be regretted that he chose to devote himself to the law and write legal treatises that are everywhere recognized as authoritative rather than to do highly distinctive work in the more creative field of prose romance. None of these writers may be said to have added anything really new to the province in which they worked and so may be dismissed with a brief comment. They worked in old material with old methods and largely with old ideals, and though they worked often with surpassing skill, they were followers rather than leaders.

Several novels made much stir in the day of their first appearance, Bellamy's _Looking Backward_, for instance, John Hay's _The Bread-Winners_ (1884), and Fuller's _The Cliff Dwellers_, that picture of Chicago life that for a time was thought to be as promising as Frank Norris's realistic work. Robert Grant's humorous and sprightly studies of society and life were also at various times much discussed, but all of them are seen now to have been written for their own generation alone. With every decade almost there comes a newness that for a time is supposed to put into eclipse even the fixed stars. A quarter of a century, however, tells the story. The Norwegian scholar and poet and novelist Boyesen, who did what Howells really did not do, take Tolstoy as his master, was thought for two decades to be of highest rank, but to-day his work, save for certain sections of his critical studies, is no longer read.

Even F. Hopkinson Smith is too near just at present for us to prophesy with confidence, yet it is hard to believe that his Colonel Carter is to be forgotten, and there are other parts of his work, like _Tom Grogan_ and _Caleb West_, books that centered about his profession of lighthouse architect, that seem now like permanent additions to American fiction. There was a breeziness about his style, a cosmopolitanism, a sense of knowledge and authority that is most convincing. Some of his short stories, like those for instance in _At Close Range_--"A Night Out," to be still more specific--have a picturing power, a perfect naturalness, an accuracy of diction, that mark them as triumphs of realism in its best sense. Like Dr. Mitchell, he came late to literature, but when he did come he came strongly, laden with a wealth of materials, and he has left behind him a handful at least of novels and studies that bid fair to endure long.

VIII

Of the younger group of novelists, those writers born in the sixties and early seventies and publishing their first novels during the first decade of the new century, we shall say little. The new spirit of nationality that came in the seventies did not furnish the impulse that produced the work of this second generation of the period. It is a school of novelists distinct and by itself. We may only call the roll of its leaders, arranging it, perhaps, in the order of seniority: Gertrude Franklin Atherton (1859----), Bliss Perry (1860----), Owen Wister (1860----), John Fox, Jr. (1863----), Holman F. Day (1865----), Robert W. Chambers (1865----), Meredith Nicholson (1866----), David Graham Philips (1867-1911), Robert Herrick (1868----), Newton Booth Tarkington (1869----), Mary Johnston (1870----), Edith Wharton (----), Alice Hegan Rice (1870----), Winston Churchill (1871----), Stewart Edward White (1873----), Ellen Anderson Glasgow (1874----), Jack London (1876-1916). The earlier work of some of these writers falls under classifications which we have already discussed, as for instance Churchill's _Richard Carvel_, Mary Johnston's _Prisoners of Hope_, Chambers's _Cardigan_, and Wister's _The Virginian_. Of the great mass of the fiction of the group, however, and of a still younger group we shall say nothing. It was not inspired by the impulse that in the sixties and the seventies produced the National Period.

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MARGARETTA WADE DELAND. (1857----.) _The Old Garden and Other
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STEPHEN CRANE. (1871-1900.) _The Black Riders and Other Lines_,
1895; _The Red Badge of Courage: Episode of the American Civil
War_, 1895; _Maggie: a Girl of the Streets_, 1896; _George's
Mother_, 1896; _The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the
American Civil War_, 1896; _The Third Violet_, 1897; _The Open
Boat, and Other Tales of Adventure_, 1898; _The Monster and Other
Stories_, 1899; _Active Service: a Novel_, 1899; _War Is Kind_,
1899; _Whilomville Stories_, 1900; _Great Battles of the World_,
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FRANK NORRIS. (1870-1902.) _Moran of "The Lady Letty,"_ 1898;
_Blix_, 1899; _McTeague: a Story of San Francisco_, 1899; _A
Man's Woman_, 1900; _The Octopus: a Story of California_, 1901;
_The Pit: a Story of Chicago_, 1902; _A Deal in Wheat, and Other
Stories_, 1903; _Complete Works. Golden Gate Edition. Seven
Volumes_, 1903; _Responsibilities of the Novelist and Other
Literary Essays_, 1903; _Vandover and the Brute_.

HAROLD FREDERIC. (1856-1898.) _Seth's Brother's Wife: a Study of
Life in the Greater New York_, 1887; _The Lawton Girl_, 1890; _In
the Valley_, 1891; _Young Emperor William II. of Germany_, 1891;
_The New Exodus: a Study of Israel in Russia_, 1892; _The Return
of O'Mahony_, 1892; _The Copperhead_, 1893; _Marsena, and Other
Stories of the War Time_, 1894; _Mrs. Albert Grundy: Observations
in Philistia_, 1896; _The Damnation of Theron Ware_, 1896; _March
Hares_, 1896; _The Deserter and Other Stories: a Book of Two
Wars_, 1898; _Gloria Mundi_, 1899; _The Market-Place_, 1899.

PAUL LEICESTER FORD. (1865-1902.) _Who Was the Mother of
Franklin's Son?_ 1889; _The Honorable Peter Stirling and What
People Thought of Him_, 1894; _The True George Washington_, 1896;
_The Great K. and A. Robbery_, 1897; _The Story of an Untold
Love_, 1897; _Tattle Tales of Cupid_, 1898; _Janice Meredith:
a Story of the American Revolution_, 1899; _The Many-sided
Franklin_, 1899; _Wanted: a Match-maker_, 1900; _A House Party_,
1901; _Wanted: a Chaperon_, 1902; _A Checked Love Affair; and
the Cortelyou Feud_, 1903; _Love Finds a Way_, 1904; _Thomas
Jefferson_, 1904. His bibliographies and edited work not listed.

SILAS WEIR MITCHELL. (1829-1914.) _Hephzibah Guiness_, 1880;
_Thee and You_, 1880; _A Draft on the Bank of Spain_, 1880; _In
War Time_, 1882; _The Hill of Stones and Other Poems_, 1883;
_Roland Blake_, 1886; _Far in the Forest_, 1889; _The Cup of
Youth and Other Poems_, 1889; _The Psalm of Death and Other
Poems_, 1890; _Characteristics_, 1892; _Francis Blake: a Tragedy
of the Sea_, 1892; _The Mother and Other Poems_, 1892; _Mr. Kris
Kringle: a Christmas Tale_, 1893; _Philip Vernon: a Tale in
Prose and Verse_, 1895; _When All the Woods Are Green: a Novel_,
1894; _Madeira's Party_, 1895; _Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker_, 1897;
_Adventures of Francois, Foundling, Thief, Juggler, and Fencing
Master, During the French Revolution_, 1898; _Autobiography of
a Quack_, 1900; _Dr. North and His Friends_, 1900; _The Wager
and Other Poems_, 1900; _Circumstance_, 1901; _A Comedy of
Conscience_, 1903; _Little Stories_, 1903; _New Samaria and The
Summer of St. Martin_, 1904; _The Youth of Washington_, 1904;
_Constance Trescott_, 1905; _A Diplomatic Adventure_, 1905; _The
Red City: a Novel of the Second Administration of President
Washington_, 1907; _John Sherwood, Ironmaster_, 1910; _The
Guillotine Club and Other Stories_, 1910; _Westways_, 1913. His
many medical works not listed.

CHARLES KING. (1844----.) _The Colonel's Daughter; or, Winning
His Spurs_, 1883; _Marion's Faith_, 1886; _The Deserter_, 1887;
_From the Ranks_, 1887; _A War-Time Wooing_, 1888; _Between
the Lines_, 1889; _Sunset Pass_, 1889; _Laramie; or, the Queen
of Bedlam: a Story of the Sioux War of 1876_, 1889; _Starlight
Ranch, and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier_, 1890;
_The Colonel's Christmas Dinner_, 1890; _Campaigning with Crook
and Stories of Army Life_, 1890; _Trials of a Staff Officer_,
1891; _Two Soldiers_, 1891; _Dunraven Ranch_, 1891; _Captain
Blake_, 1891; _Foes in Ambush_, 1893; _A Soldier's Secret: a
Story of the Sioux War of 1890_, 1893; _Waring's Peril_, 1894;
_Initial Experience and Other Stories_, 1894; _Cadet Days: a
Story of West Point_, 1894; _Under Fire_, 1895; _Story of Fort
Frayne_, 1895; _Rancho del Muerlo_, 1895; _Captain Close_, 1895;
_Sergeant Croesus_, 1895; _An Army Wife_, 1896; _A Garrison
Tangle_, 1896; _A Tame Surrender: a Story of the Chicago Strike_,
1896; _Trooper Ross_, 1896; _Trumpeter Fred: a Story of the
Plains_, 1896; _Warrior Gap: a Story of the Sioux Outbreak of
1868_, 1897; _Ray's Recruit_, 1898; _The General's Double: a
Story of the Army of the Potomac_, 1898; _A Wounded Name_, 1898;
_Trooper Galahad_, 1899; _From School to Battlefield_, 1899; _In
Spite of Foes_, 1901; _From the Ranks_, 1901; _Norman Holt: a
Story of the Army of the Cumberland_, 1901; _Ray's Daughter: a
Story of Manila_, 1901; _Conquering Corps Badge and Other Stories
of the Philippines_, 1902; _The Iron Brigade_, 1902; _Way Out
West_, 1902; _An Apache Princess_, 1903; _A Daughter of the
Sioux_, 1903; _Comrades in Arms_, 1904; _A Knight of Columbia_,
1904; _A Medal of Honor_, 1905; _Famous and Decisive Battles of
the World_, 1905; _A Soldier's Trial: an Episode of the Canteen
Crusade_, 1905; _Farther Story of Lieutenant Sandy Ray_, 1906;
_Tonio, Son of the Sierras_, 1906; _Captured: a Story of Sandy
Bay_, 1907; _The Rock of Chicamauga_, 1907; _To the Front_, 1908;
_Lanier of the Cavalry_, 1909; _The True Ulysses S. Grant_, 1914.

MARY HALLOCK FOOTE. (1847----.) _The Led-Horse Claim: Romance of
a Mining Camp_, 1883; _John Bodewin's Testimony_, 1885; _The Last
Assembly Ball_, 1886; _The Chosen Valley_, 1892; _Coeur d'Alene_,
1894; _In Exile and Other Stories_, 1894; _The Cup of Trembling
and Other Stories_, 1895; _Little Fig-tree Stories_, 1899; _The
Prodigal_, 1900; _The Desert and The Sown_, 1902; _A Touch of
Sin and Other Stories_, 1903; _Royal Americans_, 1910; _Picked
Company: a Novel_, 1912.

CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM. (1854----.) _No Gentleman_, 1881; _A Sane
Lunatic_, 1882; _Dearly Bought_, 1884; _Next Door_, 1886; _Young
Maids and Old_, 1888; _The Mistress of Beech Knoll_, 1890; _Miss
Bragg's Secretary_, 1892; _Dr. Latimer_, 1893; _Sweet Clover_,
1894; _The Wise Woman_, 1895; _Miss Archer Archer_, 1897; _A
Great Love_, 1898; _A West Point Wooing_, 1899; _Miss Prichard's
Wedding Trip_, 1901; _The Right Princess_, 1902; _Jewel_, 1903;
_Jewel's Story Book_, 1904; _The Opened Shutters_, 1906; _The
Leaven of Love_, 1908; _Clever Betsey_, 1910; _The Inner Flame_,
1912.

JULIAN HAWTHORNE. (1846----.) _Bressant_, 1873; _Idolatry_,
1874; _Saxon Studies_, 1875; _Garth_, 1877; _Mrs. Gainsborough's
Diamonds_, 1878; _Archibald Malmaison_, 1879; _Sebastian
Strome_, 1880; _Fortune's Fool_, 1883; _Dust: a Novel_, 1883;
_Beatrix Randolph_, 1883; _Prince Saroni's Wife_, 1884; _Noble
Blood_, 1884; _Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: a Biography_,
1885; _Love--or a Name_, 1885; _Sinfire_, 1886; _The Trial of
Gideon_, 1886; _John Parmelee's Curse_, 1886; _Confessions and
Criticisms_, 1887; five novels from the Diary of Inspector
Byrnes: _The Tragic Mystery_, _The Great Bank Robbery_, _An
American Penman_, _Section 558_, 1887, and _Another's Crime_,
1888; _The Professor's Sister: a Romance_; _A Miser of Second
Avenue_, 1888; _A Dream and a Forgetting_, 1888; _David
Poindexter's Disappearance_, 1888; _Kildhurin's Oak_, 1889;
_Constance_, 1889; _Pauline_, 1890; _A Stage Friend_, 1890;
_American Literature: an Elementary Textbook_ [with Leonard
Lemmon], 1891; _Humors of the Fair_, 1893; _Six Cent Sam's_,
1893; _The Golden Fleece: a Romance_, 1896; _A Fool of Nature_,
1896; _Love Is a Spirit_, 1896; _A History of the United States_,
1898; _Hawthorne and His Circle_, 1903; _The Secret of Solomon_,
1909; _Lovers in Heaven_, 1910; _The Subterranean Brotherhood_,
1914.

BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD, Mrs. von Teuffel. (1847-1898.) _One
Summer_, 1877; _One Year Abroad_, 1877; _Aunt Serena_, 1881;
_Guenn: a Wave of the Breton Coast_, 1884; _The Open Door_, 1891;
_A Fellowe and His Wife_ [with W. Sharp], 1892; _A Battle and a
Boy_, 1892; _No Heroes_, 1893; _Seven on the Highways_, 1897;
_Dionysius, the Weaver's Heart's Dearest_, 1899; _The Garden of
Eden_, 1900.

EDWARD BELLAMY. (1850-1898.) _Six to One: a Nantucket Idyl_,
1878; _Dr. Heidenhoff's Process_, 1880; _Miss Luddington's
Sister: a Romance of Immortality_, 1884; _Looking Backward,
2000-1881_, 1888; _Equality_, 1897; _A Blindman's World, and
Other Stories_, 1898; _The Duke of Stockbridge: a Romance of
Shay's Rebellion_, 1900.

HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN. (1848-1895.) _Gunnar_, 1874; _A
Norseman's Pilgrimage_, 1875; _Tales from Two Hemispheres_,
1876; _Falconberg_, 1879; _Goethe and Schiller: Their Lives and
Works_, 1879; _Queen Titania_, 1881; _Ilka on the Hill-Top_,
1881; _Idyls of Norway and Other Poems_, 1882; _A Daughter
of the Philistines_, 1883; _The Story of Norway_, 1886; _The
Modern Vikings_, 1887; _Vagabond Tales_, 1889; _The Light of
Her Countenance_, 1889; _The Mammon of Unrighteousness_, 1891;
_Essays on German Literature_, 1892; _Boyhood in Norway_, 1892;
_The Golden Calf: a Novel_, 1892; _Social Strugglers_, 1893;
_Commentary on the Writings of Henrik Ibsen_, 1894; _Literary and
Social Silhouettes_, 1894; _Essays on Scandinavian Literature_,
1895.

ARTHUR SHERBURNE HARDY. (1847----.) _Francesca of Rimini: a
Poem_, 1878; _But Yet a Woman_, 1883; _The Wind of Destiny_,
1886; _Passe Rose_, 1889; _Life and Letters of Joseph Hardy
Neesima_, 1891; _Songs of Two_, 1900; _His Daughter First_, 1903;
_Aurélie_, 1912; _Diane and Her Friends_, 1914. His mathematical
works not listed.

ROBERT GRANT. (1852----.) _The Little Tin Gods-on-Wheels; or,
Society in Our Modern Athens_, 1879; _The Confessions of a
Frivolous Girl_, 1880; _The Lambs: a Tragedy_, 1882; _An Average
Man_, 1884; _Face to Face_, 1886; _The Knave of Hearts: a Fairy
Story_, 1886; _A Romantic Young Lady_, 1886; _Jack Hall_, 1887;
_Jack in the Bush; or, a Summer on a Salmon River_, 1888; _The
Carletons_, 1891; _Mrs. Harold Stagg_, 1891; _The Reflections of
a Married Man_, 1892; _The Opinions of a Philosopher_, 1893; _The
Art of Living_, 1895; _A Bachelor's Christmas_, 1895; _The North
Shore of Massachusetts_, 1896; _Search-Light Letters_, 1899;
_Unleavened Bread_, 1900; _The Undercurrent_, 1904; _The Orchid_,
1905; _Law-breakers and Other Stories_, 1906; _The Chippendales_,
1909; _Confessions of a Grandfather_, 1912.

FREDERICK JESUP STIMSON, "J. S. of Dale." (1855----.) _Rollo's
Journey to Cambridge_, 1879; _Guerndale, an Old Story_, 1882;
_The Crime of Henry Vane_, 1884; _The Sentimental Calendar_,
1886; _First Harvests_, 1888; _Mrs. Knollys and Other Stories_,
1894; _Pirate Gold_, 1896; _King Noanett: a Story of Old Virginia
and Massachusetts Bay_, 1896; _Jethro Bacon of Sandwich_, 1902;
_In Cure of Her Soul_, 1906. His law publications not listed.

HENRY BLAKE FULLER. (1857----.) _The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani_,
1891; _The Chatelaine of La Trinité_, 1892; _The Cliff-Dwellers_,
1893; _With the Procession_, 1895; _The Puppet-Booth: Twelve
Plays_, 1896; _From the Other Side: Stories of Transatlantic
Travel_, 1898; _The Last Refuge: a Sicilian Romance_, 1900;
_Under the Skylights_, 1901; _Waldo Trench and Others: Stories of
Americans in Italy_, 1908.

FRANCIS HOPKINSON SMITH. (1838-1915.) _Old Lines in New Black
and White_, 1885; _Well-Worn Roads_, 1886; _A White Umbrella in
Mexico_, 1889; _A Book of the Tile Club_, 1890; _Col. Carter
of Cartersville_, 1891; _A Day at Laguerre's_, 1892; _American
Illustrators_, 1892; _A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others_,
1895; _Tom Grogan_, 1896; _Gondola Days_, 1897; _Venice of
To-day_, 1897; _Caleb West_, 1898; _The Other Fellow_, 1899; _The
Fortunes of Oliver Horn_, 1902; _The Under Dog_, 1903; _Col.
Carter's Christmas_, 1904; _At Close Range_, 1905; _The Wood Fire
in Number 3_, 1905; _The Tides of Barnegat_, 1906; _The Veiled
Lady_, 1907; _The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman_, 1907;
_Peter_, 1908; _Forty Minutes Late_, 1909; _Kennedy Square_,
1911; _The Arm-Chair at the Inn_, 1912; _In Thackeray's London_,
1913; _In Dickens's London_, 1914.