Transcriber’s note: The Table of Contents was added by the Transcriber andplaced into the Public Domain.
Contents
- Fiction
- Makers of Modern American Fiction
- Booth Tarkington
- Robert W. Chambers
- Richard Harding Davis
- Jack London
- Rex Beach
- Stewart Edward White
- Makers of Modern American Fiction
- Norris’ Realism and McCutcheon’s Romanticism
- John Fox and Harold McGrath
- A Group of Popular Story-Tellers
- Dreiser and Dixon
- Harrison and Bacheller
- Fiction Notes in Varied Keys
- Fiction of Adventure
- Each Holds a Place of His Own
- Supplementary Reading
- The Open Letter
- The Couriers of the Postal Service
- The Mentor in the Desert
- Transcriber’s Notes
LEARN ONE THING
EVERY DAY
THE
MENTOR
MAKERS OF MODERN
AMERICAN FICTION
(MEN)
By
ARTHUR B. MAURICE
LITERATURE
NUMBER 14
TWENTY CENTS A COPY
FICTION
There is a popular notion that anyone can write a story. A good novel is easyreading, and it seems, on that account, to be easy writing. Many a reader, in thecomfortable enjoyment of good fiction, misses the genius of it altogether. He is like theskeptical young man who could see nothing difficult in the art of sculpture. “All you needto do,” he said, “is to get a block of marble, then take a hammer and chisel, and knock offthe parts you don’t want.” So stated, sculpture does seem very simple. But, after all,there is some importance in knowing what parts of the marble to knock off.