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LITERARY FINISH
I had two literary men staying with me a week ago, both of them
accomplished writers, and interested in their art, not
professionally and technically only, but ardently and
enthusiastically. I here label them respectively Musgrave and
Herries. Musgrave is a veteran writer, a man of fifty, who makes a
considerable income by writing, and has succeeded in many
departments--biography, criticism, poetry, essay-writing; he lacks,
however, the creative and imaginative gift; his observation is
acute, and his humour considerable; but he cannot infer and deduce;
he cannot carry a situation further than he can see it. Herries on
the other hand is a much younger man, with an interest in human
beings that is emotional rather than spectacular; while Musgrave is
interested mainly in the present, Herries lives in the past or the
future. Musgrave sees what people do and how they behave, while
Herries is for ever thinking how they must have behaved to produce
their present conditions, or how they would be likely to act under
different conditions.
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