Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications. 



FAMOUS WOMEN SERIES. 



GEORGE SAND. 



'By bertha THOMAS. 

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



" Miss Thomas has accomplished a difficult task with as much good sense as 

 good feeling. She presents the main facts of George Sand's life, extenuating 

 notliing, and setting naught down in malice, but wisely leaving her readers to 

 form their own conclusions. Everybody knows that it was not such a life as the 

 women of England and America are accustomed to live, and as the worst of men 

 are glad to have them live. . . . Whatever may be said against it, its result on 

 George Sand was not what it would have been upon an English or American 

 woman of genius." — Neiv York Mail and Express. 



*' This is a volume of the ' Famous Women Series,' which was begun so well 

 with George Eliot and Emily Bronte. The book is a review and critical analysis 

 of George Sand's life and work, by no means a detailed biography. Amantine 

 Lucile Aurore Dupin, the maiden, or Mme. Dudevant, the married woman, is 

 forgotten in the renown of the pseudonym George Sand. 



*' Altogether, George Sand, with all her excesses and defects, is a representative 

 woman, one of the names of the nineteenth century. She was great among the 

 greatest, the friend and compeer of the finest intellects, and Miss Thomas's essay 

 will be a useful and agreeable introduction to a more extended study of her life 

 and works," — Knickerbocker. 



" The biography of this famous woman, by Miss Thomas, is the only one in 

 existence. Those who have awaited it with pleasurable anticipation, but with 

 some trepidation as to the treatment of the erratic side of her character, cannot 

 fail to be pleased with the skill by which it is done. It is the best production on 

 George Sand that has yet been published. The author modestly refers to it as a 

 sketch, which it undoubtedly is, but a sketch that gives a just and discriminating 

 analysis of George Sand's life, tastes, occupations, and of the motives and impulses 

 which prompted her unconventional actions, that were misunderstood by a narrow 

 public. The difficulties encountered by the writer in describing this remarkable 

 character are shown in the first line of the opening chapter, which says, 'In nam- 

 ing George Sand we name something more exceptional than even a great genius.' 

 That tells the whole story. Misconstruction, condemnation, and isolation are the 

 penalties enforced upon the great leaders in the realm of advanced thought, by 

 the bigoted people of their time. The thinkers soar beyond the common herd, 

 whose soul-wings are not strong enough to fly aloft to clearer atmos]iheres, and 

 consequently they censure or ridicule what they are powerless to reach. George 

 Sand, even to a greater extent than her contemporar}-, George Eliot, was a victim 

 to ignorant social prejudices, but even the conservative world was forced to recog- 

 nize the matchless genius of these two extraordinary women, each widely different 

 in her character and method of thought and writing. . . . She has told much that 

 is good which has been imtold,and just what will interest the reader, and no more, 

 '"x» the same easy, entertaining style that characterizes all of these unpretentious 

 Jiographies." — Hartford Times. 



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