Yet, in'her manner, she deserves it as well as any of them. And though her characters may be obscure people, she contrives to make the men and women who cross her horizon as living and interesting as those who strut across the more resplendent scenes to which we have lately become accustomed. The middle classes, also, are entitled to their meed of attention. Mr. Galsworthy and Mr. Tbsen have shown us once and for all that humble lives have sir struggles, humble people their passions: that to write a powerful drama Shakespeare's principalities and powers are not necessary: that wherever two or three men are gathered together there may be found all the human virtues and vices, and especially the vices, 3 All the qualities that make the most suecessfu] autobiographies of our time so memorable, the daring revelations, the thumb-nail sketches, the inaccuracies, the personal confessions, the accurate minutia are to be found here in plenty. Yet the nature of its material and the anonymity of its author may prevent it from getting its due—a place with our classic. memories, side by side with My. Begg-Pardon's "I and Other People" and Lord Cesspool's "Things I Ought Not to Have Done."
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