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Tom Jones was and is a popular book. Nevertheless he would have many readers among a large minority, just as Mr. Arnold Bennett has to-day readers who can appreciate a story which is direct, vivid, and mainly external in treatment. But the largest public is for writers like Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne or Mr. William Le Queux. These more nearly represent the popular ideal in a "novel of incident."
Old Park, for example, says he wants books you can chew; he is reading a cheap edition of 'The Origin of Species. He used to regard Florence Warden and William le Queux as the supreme delights of print. I wish you could send him Metchnikoff's 'Nature of Man' or Pearson's 'Ethics of Freethought. I feel I am building up his tender mind. Not for me though, Daddy. Nothing of that sort for me.
There were incidents in which action assumed the proportions of prodigy. There was vague sensation. In one of his novels I found an introduction by Lord Roberts warning Englishmen to prepare for the German invasion planned by Mr. Le Queux for 1910! History has not yet revealed the horror and devastation of that war; but this horror and devastation lent to Mr.
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