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Excerpt from The Universal Anthology, Vol. 25: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, With Biographical and Explanatory Notes
That phase in the evolution of the French novel which has become known more particularly as the phase of the Naturalist School is now doubtless yielding to yet another phase, as is only natural, for there is no finality in literature. While, however, some schools perish entirely, others transmit certain essential principles to their successors, and whatever precise form may here after predominate in the novel, I think that absolute fidelity to nature, to life, to reality - the principle on which the Naturalist School has most insistedmmust remain a preponderating element, which no writer will be able to disregard, since no reader will be satisfied unless he finds it present.
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