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He may have tried. He never could succeed. He lacked the sympathy, the sex. He lacked the sex. Ah, well Schwamm drueber, as the Norwegians say. Ouida, for all her femininity, was more than this feline and gelatinous New Englander. Rome The railway station at Rome has put on a new face. Blown to the winds is that old dignity and sense of leisure.
She gave parties which were really romantic, which had a flavour, as someone had said, of the novels of Ouida brought thoroughly up to date. Lady Sellingworth had been to some of them, and had not forgotten them. And it had occurred to her that if anyone she knew was acquainted with the brown man, that person might be Caroline Briggs.
In speaking of novels I am led on to mention an authoress whose fame was concurrent with Whyte Melville's, and whose visions of modern society were not altogether unlike his own visions of Babylonia. This authoress was "Ouida."
Ouida has called attention to this fact somewhere. If a general wins an important battle, if a poet writes an immortal epic, if a Columbus discovers a new world, or if a God becomes incarnate we eat! Yet there be sentimentalists who say that soul and stomach are not synonymous!
In this field, those are the best books which have longest kept their hold upon the public mind. Ouida and Trilby may endure for a day, but Thackeray and Walter Scott are perennial. It is better to read a fine old book through three times, than to read three new books through once.
"A clever story of English high life as it is represented to-day." "A decided story-interest and some clever character drawing." The Outlook. "Katherine Massarene is drawn with a skill that makes her one of the best female characters that 'Ouida' has given us." Public Opinion. 12mo, cloth, $1.25 Author of "Chamber Over the Gate," Etc., Etc. "Will be read with interest." Chicago Record.
It is much more easy to predict whether a novel will pay or not than to prophecy about a drama. He should not, if he has decently sound reasons for self-confidence, be disheartened by two or three refusals. One man's taste might be averse to "John Inglesant," another's might turn against Ouida, a third might fail to see the merit of "Vice Versa."
Oliphant would never have dared to discover, either in heaven or hell, such a thing as a hairbrush with its back encrusted with diamonds. But though Ouida was violent and weak where Mrs. Oliphant might have been mild and strong, her own triumphs were her own.
Comte had not read Ouida, who once wrote that when God said, "I will make a helpmeet for him," He was speaking ironically. Comte had associated but very little with women he had theories about them. Small men, with midget minds, know femininity much better than do the great ones. Traveling salesmen, with checkered vests, gauge women as Herbert Spencer never could.
Thus, as one of her entertainers "Violet Fane" told me, Ouida was sitting after dinner between Mrs. , the mistress of one of the greatest houses in London, and a vulgar little Irish peeress who was only present on sufferance. Ouida treated the former with the coldest and most condescending inattention, and devoted every smile in her possession to an intimate worship of the latter.
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