Heroines Of Fiction

The numerous class of novel readers who for a lifetime have wandered through the fields of fiction, not premeditatedly seeking mental or moral improvement, but with a mind chiefly on "pleasure bent," have a treat in store in ''Heroines of Fiction.'' Mr. Howells does not write of his own heroines of fiction — it is the creations of the English and American novelists of times long ago who have fille...