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There may be novel-readers who do not smoke at the game, but surely they cannot be quite earnest or honest you had better put in writing all business agreements with this sort. No boy can ever hope to become a really great or celebrated novel-reader who does not begin his apprenticeship under the age of fourteen, and, as I said before, stick to it as long as he lives.
Contentment is to be sought for by great masculine minds only with the purpose of being sure never quite to find it. For all practical purposes, therefore except perhaps as object lessons of "the incorrect method" in reading novels women, as novel-readers, must be considered as not existing. And, of course, no offense is intended.
A writer of more ability, whose name is still remembered by novel-readers, is Mrs. Inchbald. She was overcome in early life by an enthusiasm for the stage; ran away from home to find theatrical employment, and remained for many years a popular London actress.
Too many brilliant young novel-readers and lovers of poetry, excused by their admirers for their shortcomings on the strength of their supposed birthright of "genius," have ended where they began; flattered into the vain belief that they were men at eighteen or twenty, and finding out at fifty that they were and always had been nothing more than boys.
By the universal acknowledgment of novel-readers, Clarissa is one of the most sympathetic, as she is one of the most lifelike, of all the women in literature, and Richardson has conducted her story with so much art and tact that her very faults canonize her, and her weakness crowns the triumph of her chastity.
"You see, Isabella, notwithstanding the danger of forfeiting your good opinion, I have dared to ask for a novel." "Well, I always understood, I am sure," replied Isabella, disdainfully, "that none but trifling, silly people were novel-readers."
Habitual novel-readers often catch themselves mistaking the echo of some passage in a good story for the trace left by an actual event.
Too many brilliant young novel-readers and lovers of poetry, excused by their admirers for their shortcomings on the strength of their supposed birthright of "genius," have ended where they began; flattered into the vain belief that they were men at eighteen or twenty, and finding out at fifty that they were and always had been nothing more than boys.
There were growls of disapprobation from novel-readers, that Hester Prynne and the Rev. Mr.
Herr Schopenhauer certainly had the courage to speak with philosophical asperity of the gentle sex. It may be because he was never married. And then his mother wrote novels! I have been surprised that he was not accused of prejudice. But if all these everyday obstacles were absent there would yet remain insurmountable reasons why women can never be novel-readers in the sense that men are.
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