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views attest, she had herself expended 

 on that object before venturing upon 

 that form of compos 1 tion which Fielding 

 termed the modern epic." 

 EX A MINER, New York : 



"These essays ought to be read by 

 any one who would understand this 

 part of George Eliot's career ; and, in- 

 deed, they furnish the key to all her 

 subsequent literary achievements." 

 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE: 



"It is rather suprising that these es- 

 says have not been collected and pub- 

 lished before, and it is a matter of con- 

 gratulation that they are now issued." 

 CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, New 

 York : 



" They show the versatility of the great 

 novelist. One on E van <.',! :cal Teaching 

 is especially interesting." 

 INDIANAPOLIS SENTIfiEL: 



"Nathan Shepherd's introduction to 

 these essays is worth many times the 

 price of the volume." 

 EPISCOPAL METHODIST, Bal- 

 timore : 



"Everybody of culture wants to read 

 all George Eliot wrote." 



NORTHERN CHRISTIAN AD' 



YOG ATE, Syracuse : 

 "The compiler of this collection has 

 done a unique and a useful work." 



METHODIST PROTESTANT, 



Baltimore : 



" They comprise some of the best at 

 the author's writings." 



ZION'S HERALD, Boston : 



"As remarkable illustrations of her 

 masculine metaphysical ability as is evi- 

 denced in her strongest fictions." 

 CHURCH UNION, New York : 



"Nathan Sheppard, the collector of 

 the ten essays in this form, has written a 

 highly laudatory but critical introduction 

 to the book, on her 'Analysis of Mo- 

 tives,' arid after reading it, it seems to 

 us that every one who would read her 

 works profitably and truly, should first 

 have read it." 



HARTFORD EVENING POST: 



"They are admirable pieces of literary 

 workmanship, but they are much more 

 than that. . . . These essays are triumphs 

 of critical analysis combined with epi- 

 grammatic pungency, subtle irony, and 

 a wit that never seems strained." 



IX. 



Charlotte Bronte. 



DAILY ADVERTISER, Newark, 



N. J. : 



" There was but one Charlotte Bronte, 

 as there was but one William Shake- 

 speare. To write her life acceptably one 

 must have made it the study of years ; 

 have studied it in the integrity of all its 

 relations, and considered it from the 

 broadest as well as from the narrowest 

 aspect. This is what Mrs. llolloway 

 Las done." 

 ZION'S HERALD, Boston : 



" This well-written sketch, with selec- 

 tions from her writing?, will be appre- 

 ciated and give a clear idea of the re- 

 markable intellectual ability of this 

 gifted but heavily-burdened woman." 



NEW YORK HERALD: 



" There are, at times, nights of elo- 

 quence that rise to grandeur." 

 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE: 



" Managed with the rare ekill we might 

 expect at the hands of a fuir-minOed 

 woman dealing with the traits ol'charac- 

 ttr and the actual career of one who, 

 amid extraordinary circumstances of 

 adversity, plodded her way to fame 

 within the span of a brief lifetime." 

 SOUTHERN CHURCHMAN, 

 Richmond, Va. : 



"There are few memoirs more sad 

 than those of this gifted woman and her 

 Bisters. An interesting vorame at the 

 cheap price of fifteen cents." 



