Part 11 (1/2)

The poeht between two shi+ps, the French shi+p, _Telish shi+p was destroyed by fire; Farmer, the captain, was killed, and the officers take prisoners:

They dealt with us as brethren, they mourned for Farmer dead, And as the wounded captives passed each Breton bowed the head

Then spoke the French lieutenant: ”'Twas the fire that won, not we

You never struck your flag to _us_; You'll go to England free”[41]

'Twas the sixth day of October, seventeen hundred seventy-nine, A year when nations ventured against us to combine, _Quebec_ was burned and Farmer slain, by us remembered not; But thanks be to the French book wherein they're not forgot

And you, if you've got to fight the French,Louis so chivalrous and kind; Think of the Breton gentlemen who took our lads to Brest, And treat souest

But in all our stories, in order to produce desired effects we hs says, ”a brief for either side,”

and we ed by their deeds and leave the decision of the children free in this y” in the _Acadee which refers as ical novelist girds up his loins and sets himself to write little essays on each of his characters If he have the gift of the thing he may analyze motives with a subtlety which isthrough therotations If he be a novice, he is reduced to mere crude invention--the result in both cases is quite beyond the true purpose of Art Art--when all is said and done--a suggestion, and it refuses to be explained Make it obvious, unfold it in detail, and you reduce it to a dead letter”

Again, there is a sentence by Schopenhauer applied to novels which would apply equally well to stories:

”Skill consists in setting the inner life in motion with the smallest possible array of circumstances, for it is this inner life that excites our interest”

In order to produce an encouraging and lasting effect by means of our stories, we should be careful to introduce a certain number from fiction where virtue is rewarded and vice punished, because to appreciate the fact that ”virtue is its oard” it takes a developed and philosophic mind, or a born saint, of who nor fact, on the whole, as the norrande da of an exciting story froht which passed through the children But when the story was finished, she said: ”But _oh!_ what a pity the story was not taken from actual history!”

Now, not only was this comment quite beside the mark, but the lady in question did not realize that pure fiction has one quality which history cannot have The historian, bound by fact and accuracy, rief The poet (or, in this case we may call him, in the Greek sense, the ”maker” of stories) strives to show _ideal_ justice

What encouragement to virtue, except for the abnor to grief, such as we find Miltiades, Phocion, Socrates, Severus, Cicero, Cato and Caesar?

Sir Philip Sydney says in his ”Defence of Poesy”:

”Only the poet declining to be held by the liraician, the physician, the ination; doth grow in effect into another nature in eth forth or quite anew, as the Heroes, Deoeth hand- in-hand with Nature, not inclosed in the narrow range of her gifts but freely ranging within the Zodiac of his own art--_her_ world is brazen; the poet only delivers a golden one”

The effect of the story need not stop at the negative task of correcting evil tendencies There is the positive effect of translating the abstract ideal of the story into concrete action

I was told by Lady Henry Somerset that when the first set of children caht's holiday in the country, she was aist, Lady Henry wisely refrained fro any direct oody'

eleed the whole at medieval tales without any coht the activities had all changed The boys were perforirls were allowing theeons” Now, if these deeds of chivalry appear so changed the whole ata a little e, and boys will ers eons, if they have once perforer and self-sacrifice for themselves

And noe come to the question as to how these effects are to be er of introducing the dogmatic and direct appeal into the story, it is evident that the avoidance of this ele the story in all its artistic force in the memory of the child We must be careful, as I point out in the chapter on Questions, not to interfere by comment or question with the atmosphere we have made round the story, or else, in the future, that story will become blurred and overlaid with the remembrance, not of the artistic whole, as presented by the teller of the story, but by some unimportant small side issue raised by an irrelevant question or a superfluous comment

Many people think that the dramatization of the story by the children themselves helps to maintain the effect produced Personally, I fear there is the saer as in the immediate reproduction of the story, but by some unimportant small side issue raised by an irrelevant question or a superfluous comment

Many people think that the dramatization of the story by the children themselves helps to maintain the effect produced Personally, I fear there is the saer as in the ieneral dramatic effect may be weakened

If, however, there is to be dramatize on the subject), I think it should be confined to facts and not fancies, and this is why I realize the futility of the dramatization of fairy tales