104 THROUGH LIURARY WINDOWS 



fhere are other lines of reading than fiction, 

 and yet many of the masterpieces of literature 

 are in the department of fiction, and it is hardly 

 necessary to add that there are many novels 

 which ought to be studied as one studies a play 

 of Shakespeare, or a poem of Browning. Igno- 

 rance of the best modern fiction involves ignor- 

 ance of a very large part of the very best litera- 

 ture; for in no other department of modern 

 thought, save that of criticism, has mind been 

 so active and so creative. 



