DECREE NISI BY ARTHUR B. R. FOOKES, Author of " In the Flesh and the Spirit," Etc.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 265, 19 May 1888, Page 3

DECREE NISI BY ARTHUR B. R. FOOKES, Author of " In the Flesh and the Spirit," Etc.

TO THE KKADUK. 1> this .story I have avoided a niinulo analysis ot character throughout, bciiijr contident, from lon^ obsoivation, that readcisof fiction generally do nob eaie to follow id detail tho many little peculiarities that, \icwrd as a whole, form the ehaiaeter of the individual. A leader oi only ordinary intelligence is nblo, without any dilliculty, to form ;i tino estimate of the chaiaetcr.*, of ))crsons ot whom he reads— with acts words and thoughts before him. lv many works ot fiction it would appear that the anatomical traits that; are so drawn out. and expatiated upon, arc used as '.shilling' to season an otherwise insipid story; but c\cn stulliu^ in excess i.s un- \\ liolcsome and nan^cou;-. 1 have niiido my chaptei^— with a few cveeptions — short-cr than ii (nistom.iry ; but, a.s L have adhered to my stoiy instead ot Mi-viking oil into branch channel 1 -, losing my way, and apologising lav di^ies^-ion, I \entuie to hope tli.it tliey may bo found none the less interest ing by icason oi their bie\ity. Tin: Ai tiiok.