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THE NOVEL OF TO-DAY.

THE SECRET OF DICKENS.

"The "Trend of the Modern Novel" was the subject of an address to "To-lag" Literary Society on April 8th at Caxton Hall by Mrs. Beatrice Kean Seymour, novelist. Mr. Eugene Mason was in the chair,

The Lecturer said that what was wrong about the Retion of the age was that we i nearly lost the art of telling a govi W11 finished work by 45stry. When

Dickens, Thackeray, or the Broutes, the 43 characters lived on in our memory, but is WIL not so with the moderia novel. Dickens was a minister of characterisation

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it was one of the secrets of his immortality as a writer of fiction, coupled with the purpose he had in mind for each work.

It was a great pity to witness clesgr writers devoting their attention to works which contained little but the sexual silo of life, and the real reading public were getting tired of the

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in church: now they began in church, and ended in the divore court.

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