The best sellers of the novel counter are often warmed over into successful theater plays, and no society play with a long run on Broadway escapes its transformation into a serial novel for the newspapers.

But where literature is at its height, the deep difference can be felt distinctly.

The epic art, including the novel, traces the experiences and the development of a character, while the drama is dependent upon the conflict of character.

Mere adventures of a personality are never sufficient for a good drama and are not less unsatisfactory for the plot of a photoplay.

In the novel the opposing characters are only a part of the social background which is needed to show the life story of the hero or heroine.