THE ART OF NARRATIVE. “I am practically paralysed by the enoripou s number of clever novels which are being published at the present- time, and it seems that it is the ' easiest possible thing to write a novel. The general average of ability and intelligence is extraordinary, and; I feel that the position is becoming more acute than ever,” sakl Air Hugh AValpole, the novelist, in a- speech reported : in tlie “Oxford Times.” “To a persons like myself, who lias seen the chainges which have taken place during the last 2-5 years, it seems that the novelist of the future should attempt to recapture the art of writing narrative—a progressive method of action—and endeavour at the same time to create character. Many modern novels are extremely clever, hut there is no purpose in them, and what I want to see is the union of the old virtue with the many things which have been discovered in recent years.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1931, Page 6
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