The novel should more often show how many people save, so as by fire, the dreams of youth in rescue of their married life from threatening ills.

Such portrayal would not be against a realistic ideal of art, but a more perfect and balanced use of realism.

The rise of people on "stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things" is quite as dramatic as the succession of falls that land them in the pit of despair.

The struggles that succeed are quite as capable of exciting emotional response as are those that fail.
Real life shows a larger measure of successful achievement than of bitter failure, else would life not go on.

Marriage at its highest is yet to be used in any adequate measure as the theme of the artist and the stimulant of response to art.
The day will come when "Main Street" will reveal its best and not its worst; its richest, and not its poorest products, for the satisfaction of universal sentiment.
QUESTIONS ON HUSBANDS AND WIVES 1.