Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . f reserve, the themeitself rambling on inconsequently. Thereaders are mere spectators, except asthey may be literally styled an audi-ence, since they can almost hear the in-cessant detonations of the fireworks. Speaking of reserve, there are a fewwriters who, like Henry Seton Merri-man, have it to such an extreme that theaverage reader is discouraged, feelinghimself shut out from the authors inti-macies, defrauded because of withheldconfidences. It is good art, whatever sac-rifice of popularity it may entail, but itlacks the
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . f reserve, the themeitself rambling on inconsequently. Thereaders are mere spectators, except asthey may be literally styled an audi-ence, since they can almost hear the in-cessant detonations of the fireworks. Speaking of reserve, there are a fewwriters who, like Henry Seton Merri-man, have it to such an extreme that theaverage reader is discouraged, feelinghimself shut out from the authors inti-macies, defrauded because of withheldconfidences. It is good art, whatever sac-rifice of popularity it may entail, but itlacks the charm of affability which en-deared Thackeray and his late follower,du Maurier, to their readers. The writer who has in great measureof fulness the culture upon which wehave laid so much stress, and the skillto which such culture readily prompts,will succeed in reaching the hearts andminds of intelligent readers; and his workwill endure. No invention the most fer-tile, and no trick of style the most dex-trous, will supply the lack of these essen-tial
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