►The
art of fiction has, in fact, become a finer art in our day than it
was with Dickens and Thackeray . . . . These great men are of the
past.
►The
new school derives from Hawthorne and George Eliot rather than
any others . . . . This school, which is so largely of the future
as well as the present, finds its chief exemplar in Mr. James.