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"The Possibilities of the Novel" was the subject of the address by Mr. Gibert Cannan before the Liberal Club last evening.
"Story telling, he said, "is a vital job, and the author is not a person who invents stories, but an artist, sensitive enough to feed the concepts of his mind and leave them into a form of beauty". He explained further that the novelist is bound by the tradition of his profession and by the knowledge of his technique. And this technique names from such a love of his material that he does not dare to hurt it".
Mr. Cannan traced the history of the European novel from Don Quixote through the Picaresque novel. Richanism fielding and Dickens to the modern workers, and concluded that at present "there is a big, unconscious, temperamental revolution giving on, what, when it becomes conscious will force the masses to read with unprecedented eagerness."
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