Popular Literature.
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In the first and the second sections of thisarticle we attempted to indicate our notions of'popular literature' with reference to some of themost important 'popular' books regarded as classics 'in English Literature.' The authors of most of those works were not distinguished either by their birth or by their learning. Bunyan 'mingled with those imaginative scenes of his own the familiar scripture imagery and the still more familiar incidents of English village life and told his story of the 'Pilgrim's Progress' in his own familiar language, though the contemporary men of letters despised the author and his work'. 'It surely could he but a little time before the precision of his imagination and the force and charm of his simple and idiomatic English would be felt and then imitated;' Bunyan the tinker is immortalized by his book The aim of every writer is to reach the heart of his reader and his words never draw to themselves the attention which is to be directed to the ideas underlying them: the medium of communication is perfectly transparent. The novel, which has developed out of Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, according to Clar Reeve, "gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day
