And it is because the novelist amuses that he is thus influential.

The sermon too often has no such effect, because it is applied with the declared intention of having it.

The palpable and overt dose the child rejects; but that which is cunningly insinuated by the aid of jam or honey is accepted unconsciously, and goes on upon its curative mission.

So it is with the novel.

It is taken because of its jam and honey.