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To Balzac it can be forgiven, not only because in his better mood he gave us such biographies as 'Eugenie Grandet, but because he wrote at a time when fiction was just beginning to verify the externals of life, to portray faithfully the outside of men and things.
The difference between the last stage and the first is that the artist has learned to see. To write is nothing to know what to write is much. To paint is nothing to see and know the object you are attempting to portray is everything. "Shall I paint the thing just as I see it?" asked the ingenue of the great artist. "Why, yes," was the answer, "provided you do not see the thing as you paint it."
She sprang back into the middle of the room, and, striking a serio-comic attitude, continued: "Here I am in no end of trouble for me. There is a grief preying on my vitals that would make a poet's hair stand on end should he attempt to portray it. Were there a lover around the corner, sighing like a furnace, I would say to him 'Avaunt!
Nor do they make any attempt to cloak their atrocities. For they perpetuate them by photographs, many of which have fallen into our hands; and from these one sees a tendency to gloat over the ghastly exhibits. The pictures portray gallows with a large number of natives hanging side by side.
Enough has been said to portray the tribulations which, for so long a time, overwhelmed the Founders of so preeminent a Revelation, and which the world has so disastrously ignored.
Madge had been chosen to play the secretary, Flora Harris the daughter. Tom Curtis was to portray the role of the stern father, while Lillian Seldon played a pert maid and Alfred Thornton an inquisitive footman. Flora Harris was secretly chagrined when she discovered that the role of heroine had fallen to Madge.
Let the teacher tell of its ravages; let the minister proclaim its curses; let the poet sing it; the painter paint it; the editor report it; the novelist portray it; the scientist describe it; the philosopher decry it; the sisters and wives and mothers denounce it until all shall unite in smiting it to its death! We should study the drink evil in its relation to disease.
In romance, several attempts have been made by French Canadians, but without any marked success, except in two instances. M. de Gaspe, when in his seventieth year, described in simple, natural language, in 'Les Anciens Canadiens, the old life of his compatriots. M. Gerin Lajoie attempted, in 'Jean Rivard, to portray the trials and difficulties of the Canadian pioneer in the backwoods.
We shall not attempt to portray the meeting between Mrs. Arnot and one whom she had learned to look upon as a son, and who loved her with an affection that had its basis in the deepest gratitude. Our story is substantially ended.
Conscience is God's avenger. Open all the master books, and they portray the same truth. Three of the seven greatest novels deal with conscience. Seven of the world's greatest dramas are studies of conscience and of duty.
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