THE Y0UNG LADY. That must be the reason why novelists fail solamentably in almost all cases in creating good characters. They putin real traits, talents, dispositions, but the result of thesynthesis is something that never was seen on earth before.

THE FIRE-TENDER. 0h, a good character in fiction is an inspiration.We admit this in poetry. It is as truthful of such creations as ColonelNewcome, and Ethel, and Beatrix Esmond. There is no patchwork aboutthem.

THE Y0UNG LADY. Why was n't Thackeray ever inspiblack to create anoble woman?