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Updated: June 18, 2025
I had to endure a long biographical sketch of him, what a society paper would call an "anecdotal photo," and each fresh anecdote seemed to me to exhibit the depraved malignity of the beast in a more glaring light, and render the doting admiration of the family more astounding than ever. "Did you tell Mr. No? Oh, I must tell him that; it'll make him laugh.
The two most interesting chapters, largely anecdotal but continuously illuminating, are entitled "The Vagaries of Genius," wherein one may find an infinitude of details concerning the manner in which Balzac worked, and "The Chase for Gold," but tucked in somewhere else is a charming digression about realism in fiction and the bibliography should still be of use to students.
As it would be an anecdotal work on a large canvas, each scene, each bead of this outline of the man's face, would be a punctilious and time consuming feat to render. He did not have a clue whether the motif was incandescent or prosaic and insipid. The only thing that he believed with some certainty was that if the painting was worth doing he was not the man to implement his ideas.
I meet men walking the London street, bearing the best reputation, men of anecdotal powers: I know such, who very likely will read this, and say, "Hang the fellow, he means ME!" And so I do.
Her calm, gentle, passionless face, crowned with its soft, silver hair I remember my first sight of the Matterhorn on a summer's evening; somehow it at once reminded me of her." "My dear," laughed the Old Maid, "your anecdotal method is becoming as jerky as a cinematograph." "I have noticed it myself," replied the Woman of the World; "I try to get in too much."
To realize this principle in work you must proceed scientifically, and, in this connection, we may notice that Flaubert's idea is that of Leconte de Lisle in the preface to his Poèmes Antiques, and of Taine in his lectures upon L'Idéal dans l'art. Romanticism had confounded the picturesque with the anecdotal; character with accident; colour with oddity.
The distant wayfarer familiar with ranch ways hearing this strident, discordant, thankful chorus far across the evening peace of the wide country, would thus have known this was Saturday night, and that to-morrow was the Sabbath, the day of rest! This must be mainly discursive and anecdotal, for no one really knows much more than externals concerning the Chinese.
Accordingly I once again searched the archives of my elastic memory, and there found all information readily accessible, so that in a few moments, by the aid of Bailer's Primer, I had explained that I was a stranger within their gates, wafted thither by circumstances extraordinarily auspicious, and had satisfied them concerning my parentage, birthplace, prospects and pursuits, with introspective anecdotal references to various deceased members of my family tree.
He began to write a play by borrowing the plot from somebody, and primarily all his pieces may be regarded as anecdotal, but, in the passage of the story through his mind to the pen, in some cases it became the vehicle for an idea, and, in all, the story grew to be of infinitely less importance than the characters. Take Othello.
Still more remarkable, the good short stories that I meet with in my reading are the trivial ones, the sketchy, the anecdotal, the merely adventurous or merely picturesque; as they mount toward literature they seem to increase in artificiality and constraint; when they propose to interpret life they become machines, and nothing more, for the discharge of sensation, sentiment, or romance.
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