WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 85, 19 July 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MODERN FICTION. "The n»\v force in fiction is woman," says an -English critic. "Most of our novels are written by women, or for women by men. Few' men read novels. The seminal forces in our fiction a.v nemini-t. Wells anil Galsworthy, for example, are feminist pionecrists and they aiv smashing the Kn u lisli novels to s!iiiniere»ns. They are painting life as it is. The old school of amorists ami glumorists is dead. The defect of the vrw chnol is that it lacks imagination a-;, humor. It is photographically hard and harsh and brutal, like the daily paper snapshots. But sooner or later it will throw up a man of genius, who can fuse sympathy with sincerity and tenderness with truth. Wells' and Galsworthy are the men to watch, for they j are the 'outstanding changes' in the EagI lish novel," WHEN WOMEN GET THEIR RIGHTS, The Rev. A. J. Waldron, vicar of Brixton (England), remarked:— Women want their rights. When :' -v get them I shall emigrate. I will not say that you can understand everything in religion, but put it into practice and it works out all right. London's -weakness is its desire for pleasure. When a boy, it was a treat for me to go to a place of amusement; but now, with the growth of skating rinks, music-halls and electric palaces, the hoy says, "I don't want to go to that show. I went three times last week; it's rotten!" A woman without a temper! She hasn't been found yet! Hospital Sunday will he here soon, and you men will have to give up smoking and bring the money you save to us. When I was ill I was not allowed to smote. It was the most wretched week I have ever spent. I could have smaked everything, even if I picked it up in the road. When the doctor told me i could smoke, I said: "Thank God." And I did smoke!