Typing Master

The social and human element in a literary phenomenon is what gives general interest and includes it as part of the culture geschichte of a people. This interest is as far removed from that of the literary specialist taken up with questions of morphology and method; as it is from the unthinking rapture of the boarding-school Miss who finds a current book - perfectly lovely, and skips intrepidly to the last page to see how it is coming out. Thoughtful people are coming to feel that fiction is only frivolous when the reader brings a frivolous mind or makes a frivolous choice. While it will always be legitimate to turn to fiction for innocent amusement, since the peculiar property of all art is to give pleasure, the day has been reached when it is recognized as part of our culture to read good fiction, to realize the value and importance of the Novel in modern education; and conversely, to reprimand the older, narrow notion that the habit means self-indulgence and a waste of time.