GRILL fern Literature in F erio of Transition;. New Works To Come OUR IDEA OF KODAK PICTU . gilled Porterhouse Steaks '3o a.m.. to 1:30. pm. :*o p.m. to8 p.m. Huron St. Upstairs I_" in Stationover Rae Theatre a (By Stewart T. Deach) Among students of the 'preent-day fiction, there is perhaps no more in- teresting question than that which, concerns itself with the trend which literature is taking at the present time, and search as one may, it seems almost impossible to state any set rule or to Wiake any definite statement which shall have a concrete basis. One critic may say with perfect im- punity that it is a movement decidely in favor of realism and may cite -ex- amples to substantiate his claim; an- other may refute 414 claim in Mfvor of romanticism, and find just as many fictional works to prove his own claim. Still another may affirm that it is neithex of these, but a third- perhaps a combination of the two, and e tmples which he may bring for- ward will show that he may have good grounds for his statement, Proves Compromise Which of these, then, is correct? What direction is modern fiction tak- ing today? The question, must iemain unanswered, for the evidence seems not to rest with any set school of style, but rather, it appears to lean to this thirde.school which is in a measure a compromises between the two, but .which nevertheless, also seems to present problemswhich are not included in any of these other groups. Taking up the first of these schools, that of realism, it must appeal that there is a' great deal of evidence to be brought- up in its t favor, perhaps largely due to the war, andcthe social and moral crises which have arisen as its complements. Russia continues to give us those surprisingly pessimistip and realistic novels of internal revo- lution and strife. France, tottering in uncertainty between vivid and unques- tioned realism and heroic romanti- cism, seems to have a preference,, nevertheless, ando a distinct leaning towards the former, while English literature, passing from a period of spontaneous, war-inspired fiction, ap- pears to be reverting in a great meas-. ure to nineteenth century realism, and yet it is in the literature of our own language that we hear the whis- perings of changes and transitions to come. It is apparent that a transition is in progress, though whether or not it will bring with it the ennobling aspect which the British'Ndramatist foretells, remains to be seen. John Drinkwater, we may count in this movement. His poems and plays distinctly present the aspect of a new thought whicht is creeping into the works of contem- porary English writers, and it seems that it is to England that we must look for the settlement of this still ,undefined thought upon a more con- crpte basis. Not General '--True it is, that not all British writ- ers have caught the trend of this new movement. There is Hugh Walpole's "Jeremy" wrich distinctly belies Dun- sany's words, in its purely realistic tale of the life of the lad whose name forms its title, and the works of Stephen McKenna, too, mark almost a renaissance of the style of the last Century. In fact, it seems that we must look to some few of the English dramatists, to glive form to thi 'plea for a more artistic fiction.. But does it not seem apparent that conditions and the trend of modern thought must do much in shaping the style of contemporary fiction, ar'd-that we must not reckon without the pres- ent* universal interest in psychology when we attempt to predict the turn which matters are apt to take? As yet, it has appeared in but a few fic- tional efforts, notably those of the "short-story" length, but with some of the greatest minds of our day consid- ering the problem, and attempting to find in it a solution of the various' "spiritual" phenomena which have also been occupying our Attention, we may confidently expect its influence to be felt on future worts of fiction. Maurice Maeterlinck, the noted Bel- gian writer, who recently paid a visit to our country, has becowle one of the interested investigators of psychic phenomena, and from his pen, it seems that soon we shall have something wich shall bear along this line. In Transltion. After even the mnost superficial con- sideration of he problem, it appears that we are in the midst of a period of transition and that something defi- nite and concrete must appear F within the next few years. 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