HENRY JAMES WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS THOMAS NELSON PAGE JAMES LANE ALLEN WINSTON CHURCHILL OWEN WISTER This group of distinguished novelists may be divided into four smaller groups, not only in time, but in selection and treatment of subjects. Mr. James and Mr. Howells are now the senior members of the literary fraternity in this country, and have not only American but European reputations. Only three novelists before them attained this distinction. The earliest of these, Cooper, is still read in many parts of the world, and in little German villages boys call themselves “Cooper Indians,” and play at oldtime savage warfare. The author of the “Leatherstocking Tales” wrote the first original Amer…
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