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ful," and "Mr. Midshipman Easy" are perhaps unsurpassed in their sphere. (7) The _psychologic novel_ is concerned chiefly with mental analysis. It traces the workings of the soul under different circumstances and different influences. It follows the character in its ascent to higher goodness or in its descent to lower degradation. Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," for example, is a powerful exhibition of the duality--the brute and the divinity--in human nature. Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," while in one sense a historical novel, is an incomparable study of the human soul under the weight of guilt and remorse. Throughout George Eliot's novels there is a constant portrayal of mental and moral conditions that give to her works an unusual depth and power. Her method has been justly called psychologic realism. Under this head we may place what has been called the "art and culture novel," the object of which is to exhibit the gradual development of individual character by means of a changing environment. The type of this sort of fiction is Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister." The short story, which our magazines have rendered so popular in recent years, is a novel in miniature. It paints on a small canvas but with exceeding delicacy. Like the novel or the romance, it may find its materials in any age or in any class of society; and in its general method it conforms to the laws of fiction in general. REVIEW QUESTIONS 68. What is fiction? How does it resemble the drama? What is said of dramatized novels? Define _novel_ and _romance_. Give examples of each. 69. What is _romanticism_? When did it manifest itself? In what two particulars? 70. What is _realism_? Whence did it spring? What are its merits? What tendency of realistic writers is noted? What is the danger of realism? What is meant by the _new romanticism_? Mention some of its representative writers. 71. What is the aim of _idealism_? How does it do this? What two great novelists show idealistic tendencies? 72. What six things are to be noted in every novel? What two groups are distinguished among them? On what does the excellence of a novel depend? What is said of the characters? Whence may they be drawn? How are great writers distinguished? What characterizes profound novels? What is meant by incidents? What is said of their variety? How should they be arranged? What is meant by environment? What environments may be used? How may they be brought before us? What s
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