原文 (英語)

p. 1I STUART HARLEY: REALIST “—if a word could save me, and that word were not the Truth, nay, if it did but swerve a hair’s-breadth from the Truth, I would not say it!” —Longfellow. Stuart Harley, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist.  He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, and he insisted always that he saw life as it was. p. 2“The mission of the novelist, my dear Professor