Life — October 3, 1907 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Mr. Ade ends by remark- ing: ‘I think a little reading on the side would not hurt under any conditions, and, when a man is writing plays, it will help him to read from good modern plays every day in order to remind himself of the i portance of keeping dialogue boiled down Owen Wister, on the other hand, ridi- cules the whole idea and contents himself with remarking that the question in itself is so humorous he can give it no adequate answer. C'est tout! Robert W. Chambers says: ‘“ While reading no doubt aids one to understand the technique of writing, it is not usually the source of ideas. This is merely my opinion.” John Kendrick Bangs is explicit and illustrative in his exposition of the subject: ‘Thisis what he has to ‘Just as human intercourse with a large variety of men is beneficial to a man’s mind, so do I think reading is a great help to a writer, provided he reads the stimulating authors and does not waste his time on drivel. Association with men of high ideals is strengthening to character, and equally intellectual associa- tion through their bocks with great au- thors cannot help having an invigorating influence upon one’s own literary style. To one who devotes himself to the literary life, reading, in my judgment, is necessary. ‘To the many writers of one book growing out of their own experience, who write just for the fun of it, it is not necessary. In re- cent years a fair example of a book which fell short of the highest excellence in fiction because its author had not read enough of other people’s work is Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower. It was a story with a certain amount of grip, full of action, and teeming with human interest, and if it had been written by one who had been careful to acquaint himself with the manner of specch of the time it was pre- sumed to paint it would have had a more permanent value. As it stands, it is a tale of the timc of the Tudors presented in the very best Indianapolese, which, however vigor- ous and forceful and useful it may be in the expression of modern ideas, is hardly as adequate as English for the limning of a convincing picture of the days of Mary ‘Tudor. A few years’ devotion to the study of Thackeray by Mr. Major would have given to the novel an instrinsic worth com- mensurate to its popular success.” And finally Tudor Jenks winds up the symposium with the following: “I should a SSS For Old Age In the evening of life, when age is full of beauty, precaution should be taken tokeep the forces of life at their best. Without the vigor and active recuperative powers of youth, we must ward of those little ai ments that with impaired age are often forerunners of serious sickness, Nature to an extent should be aided and the system fortified by a nourishment that will en- tich the blood, strengthen the nerves and revitalize the entire body. 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