MESSES. EOBEETS BEOTHEES' PUBLIOATIONS. 



JFamous SUomen ^tms. 

 GEORGE ELIOT. 



By MATHILDE BLIND. 



One vol. i6mo. Cloth. Price, $i.oo. 



" Messrs.- Roberts Brothers begin a series of Biographies of Famous 

 Women with a life of George Elio^, by Mathilde Blind. The idea of the 

 series is an excellent one, and the reputation of its publishers is a guarantee 

 for its adequate execution. This book contains about three hundred pages in 

 open tj-pe, and not only collects and condenses the main facts that are known 

 in regard to the history of George Eliot, but supplies otlier material from 

 personal research. It is agreeably written, and %vith a good idea of propor- 

 tion in a memoir of its size. The critical study of its subject's works, which 

 is made in the order of their appearance, is particularly well done- In fact, 

 good taste and good judgment pervade the memoir throughout." — Saturday 

 Eve?iing Gazette. 



" Miss Blind's little book is written with admirable good taste and judg- 

 ment, and with notable self-restraint. It does not weary the reader with 

 critical discursiveness, nor with attempts to search out high-flov%'n meanings 

 and recondite oracles in the plain 'yea' and ' nay ' of life. It is a graceful 

 and unpretentious little biography, and tells all that need be told concerning 

 one of the greatest writers of the time. It is a deeply interesting if not 

 fascinating woman whom Miss Blind presents," says the New York 

 Trib^ine. 



" Miss Blind's little biographical study of George Eliot is wTitten with 

 s>Tnpathy and good taste, and is very welcome. It gives us a graphic if not 

 elaborate sketch of the personality and development of the great novelist, is 

 particularly full and authentic concerning her earlier years, tells enough of 

 the leading motives in her work to give the general reader a lucid idea of the 

 trae drift and purpose of her art, and analyzes carefully her various writings, 

 with no attempt at profound criticism or fine writing, but with appreciation, 

 insight, and a clear grasp of those underlpng psychological principles which 

 are so closely interwoven in every production that came from her pen." — 

 Traveller. 



" The hves of few great writers have attracted more curiosity and specula- 

 tion than that of George Eliot. Had she only lived earlier in the century 

 she might easily have become the centre of a mythos. As it is, many of the 

 anecdotes commonly repeated about her are made up largely of fable. It is, 

 therefore, well, before it is too late, to reduce the true story of her career to 

 the lowest terms, and this service has beeu well done by the author of the 

 present volume." — Philadelphia Press. 



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