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Project Gutenberg's My Contemporaries In Fiction, by David Christie Murray This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: My Contemporaries In Fiction Author: David Christie Murray Release Date: August 1, 2007 [EBook #22203] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY CONTEMPORARIES IN FICTION *** Produced by David Widger MY CONTEMPORARIES IN FICTION By David Christie Murray LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1897 CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY MY CONTEMPORARIES IN FICTION I.--FIRST, THE CRITICS, AND THEN A WORD ON DICKENS II.--CHARLES READE III.--ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IV.--LIVING MASTERS--MEREDITH AND HALL CAINE V.--LIVING MASTERS--RUDYARD KIPLING VI.--UNDER FRENCH ENCOURAGEMENT--THOMAS HARDY VII.--UNDER FRENCH ENCOURAGEMENT--GEORGE MOORE VIII.--MR. S. R. CROCKETT--IAN MACLAREN IX.--DR. MACDONALD AND MR. J. M. BARRIE X.--THE PROBLEM SEEKERS--SEA CAPTAIN AND LAND CAPTAIN XI.--MISS MARIE CORELLI XII.--THE AMERICANS XIII.--THE YOUNG ROMANCERS INTRODUCTORY When these essays were originally printed (they appeared simultaneously in many newspapers), I expected to make some enemies. So far, I have been most agreeably disappointed in that regard; but I can affirm that they have made me many friends, and that I have had encouragement enough from fellow craftsmen, from professional critics, and from casual readers at home, in the colonies, and the United States to bolster up the courage of the most timorous man that ever held a pen. As a set-off against all this, I have received one very noble and dignified rebuke from a Contemporary in Fiction, whom the world holds in high honour, who regrets that I am not engaged in creative work--in lieu of this--and pleads that 'authorship should be allowed the distinction of an exemption from rank and title.' With genuine respect I venture to urge that this is an impossible aspiration, and in spite of the lofty sanction which the writer's name must lend to his opinion, I have been unable to surrender the belief that the work done in these pages is alike honourable and useful. It is, as will be seen, in the nature of a crusade against puffery and hysteri
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