Now these differences in the way of treating the subject in different countries really indicate national differences of character.

Northern love stories and Northern poetry about love are very serious; and these authors are kept within fixed limits.

Certain subjects are generally forbidden.

For example, the English public wants novels about love, but the love must be the love of a girl who is to become somebody's wife.

The rule in the English novel is to describe the pains, fears, and struggles of the period before marriage--the contest in the world for the right of marriage.