sense. and to be declared wanting. Her work was crippled by her philosophy, or if not crippled, then it was made less strong of limb and vigorous of body by that same philosophy. It is true of her as of Wordsworth, that she grew prosy because she tried to be philosophical. It is true of her as it is not true of him, that her work lacks in the breadth which a large view of the world gives. His was no provincial conception of nature or of man. Hers was so in a most emphatic The philosophy she adopted is not and cannot become the philosophy of more than a small number of persons. In the nature of the case it is doomed to be the faith of a few students and cultured people. It can stir no common life, develop no historic movements, inaugurate no reforms, nor give to life a diviner meaning. Whether it be true or not, and this need not here be asked, this social and moral limitation of its power is enough to condemn it for the purposes of literature. In so far as George Eliot's work is artistic, poetic, moral and human, it is very great, and no word too strong can be said in its praise. It is not too excessive enthusiasm to call her, on the whole, the equal of any novelist. Her genius is commanding and elemental. She has originality, strength of purpose, and a profound insight into character. Yet her work is weakened by its attachment to a narrow theory of life. Her philosophy is transitory in its nature. It cannot hold its own, as developed by her, for any great length of time. It has the elements of its own destruction in itself. The curious may read her for her speculations; the many will read her for her realism, her humanity and her genius. In truth, then, it would have been better if her work had been inspired by great spiritual aims and convictions. XXI. BIBLIOGRAPHY. wish to may carry S an aid to those who further the preceding study of George Eliot, the following bibliography and lists of references have been compiled. In their preparation constant use has been made of Poole's Index of Periodical Literature, the bibliography contained in The Manchester Literary Club Papers for 1881, and a list of references published in The Literary World (Boston) for February 24, 1883. Numerous additions have been made to these bibliographies, while the references have been verified as far as possible. An occasional reference given in these lists has not been discoverable, as that of the Manchester Club to the London Quarterly Review for January, 1874, for an article on "George Eliot and Comtism," and Poole's reference to the same article in the London Quarterly, 47: 446. This will be found in the number for January 1877, volume ninety-four. 1. WRITINGS. 1846. The Life of Jesus, by Strauss. Translated from the fourth German edition, 3 vols. Chapman Brothers, London. 1852-3. Assistant editor of the Westminster Review. 1852. The Westminster Review for January contained her notice of Carlyle's Life of John Sterling. 1854. In the July number appeared her article on The Lady Novelists. Translated from The Essence of Christianity, by Feuerbach. She wrote, it is supposed, occasionally for The Leader newspaper, of which journal Lewes was the literary editor None of her contributions have been identified.' 1855. Westminster Review, October, Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming. 1856. Westminster Review, January, German Wit: Heinrich Heine. July, The Natural History of German Life. October, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists. 1857. Westminster Review, January, Worldliness and other-Worldliness: the Poet Young. In Blackwood's Magazine for January and February appeared The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton; in March, April, May and June, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story; from July to December, Janet's Repentance. In December these stories were published in two volumes under the title of Scenes of Clerical Life, by George Eliot. Edinburgh, Blackwood & Sons. Reprinted in Living Age from April to December, 1857. 1859. In February, Adam Bede appeared in three volumes, Blackwoods. Blackwood's Magazine for July contained The Lifted Veil. 1860. In April, The Mill on the Floss was published in three volumes, Blackwoods. 1861. Silas Marner in March, one volume, Blackwoods. 1863. Romola appeared in the Cornhill Magazine from July, 1862, to July, 1863, and was illustrated. It was published in three volumes in July; Smith, Elder & Co., London. 1864. The Cornhill Magazine for July contained Brother Jacob, with illustrations. 1865. The Fortnightly Review for May 15 contained The Influence of Rationalism, and a review of Owen Jones's Grammar of Ornament. 1866. In June, Felix Holt was issued in three volumes, Blackwoods. 1868. Blackwood's Magazine, January, contained an Address to Workingmen, by Felix Holt. In June, The Spanish Gypsy was published by Blackwoods. 1869. Blackwood's Magazine for May printed How Lisa Loved the King. The Atlantic Monthly for August contained Agatha. 1870. In Macmillan's Magazine for May, The Legend of Jubal. 1871. Macmillan's Magazine for July, Armgart. 1874. Middlemarch was issued in twelve monthly numbers, beginning with December, by Blackwoods. The Legend of Jubal and other Poems was published by 1 There is a nearly complete set of The Leader in the Boston Athenæum Li. rary. Armgart, How Lisa Loved the King, A Minor Prophet, Brother and Sister, Stradivarius, Two Lovers, Arion, O May I Join the Choir Invisible. 1876. Daniel Deronda was issued in eight monthly parts, beginning in February, by Blackwoods. 1878. Macmillan's Magazine for July, A College Breakfast Party. The Impressions of Theophrastus Such was published in June by Blackwoods. 1879. The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, Old and New, was issued by Blackwoods, containing, in addition to those in the first edition, A College Breakfast Party, Self and Life, Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love, The Death of Moses. In Blackwood's cabinet edition of George Eliot's complete works, The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob are reprinted with Silas Marner. After the death of Lewes she edited his Study of Psychology and his Mind as a Function of the Organism. 1881. The Pall Mall Gazette of January 6 contained her letter to Sara Hennell concerning the origin of Adam Bede. Three letters to Professor David Kaufmann appeared in the Athenæum of November 26, 1881. The following articles also contain sayings of George Eliot's, or extracts from her letters: In the Contemporary Review, by "One who knew her," on the Moral Influence of George Eliot; C. Kegan Paul in Harper's Magazine; F. W. H. Myers in The Century; W. M. W. Call in the Westminster Review, and a nephew of William Blackwood in Blackwood's Magazine. 1882. In Harper's Magazine for March, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps published numerous extracts from George Eliot's letters under the title of Last Words from George Eliot. 1883. George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind, London, W. H. Allen, and Boston, Roberts Brothers, contains extracts from sev eral letters. The Essays of George Eliot, collected by Nathan Sheppard,New York, Funk & Wagnalls, -contains Carlyle's Life of Sterling, Woman in France, Evangelical Teaching, German Wit, Natural History of German Life, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, Worldliness and other-Worldliness, The Influence of Rationalism, The Grammar of Ornament, Felix Holt's Address to Workingmen. The Complete Essays of George Eliot, Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1883, in addition to the above, contains The Lady Novelists, George Foster, the German Naturalist, Weimar and its Celebrities. 2. SELECTIONS, TRANSLATIONS AND PORTRAITS. Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse, Selected by Alexander Main. Blackwoods, 1872. Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1878; enlarged and with a biographical memoir prefixed, 1881. George Eliot Birthday Book. Blackwoods, 1878. George Eliot: Fragments et Pensées, extraits et traduits des ses Œuvres, par Ch. Ritter. Genève, Georges, 1879. Character Readings from George Eliot, selected and arranged by Nathan Sheppard. New York, Harpers, 1882. The following translations have been published: French. Adam Bede, by A. Durade; Mill on the Floss, by A. Durade; Silas Marner, by Durade; Romola, by Durade; Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, by E. Pasquet; Dorlcote Mill, by E. D. Forques in Revue des Deux Mondes, June 15, 1860; The Lifted Veil, in Revue des Deux Mondes, September, 1880. Dutch. Felix Holt, by Merv. Van Westrheeve, 1867, and by P. Bruyn, 1873; Middlemarch, by Merv. Van Westrheeve, 1873; Adam Bede, by P. Bruyn, 1870; Mill on the Floss, by P. Bruyn, 1870; Romola, by P. Bruyn, 1870, and by J. C. Van Deventer, 1864; Novelettes, by P. Bruyn, 1870. German.-Adam Bede, by J. Frese; Silas Marner, by J. Frese, 1861; Mill on the Floss, by J. Frese, 1861; Romola, by A. v. Metzsch, 1864; Middlemarch, by E. Lehmann, 1872-3;. Daniel Deronda, by Strodtmann, 1876; Felix Holt (no translator's name given), 1867. Der Gelüftche Schleier, Bruder Jakob, by Lehmann. The portrait of George Eliot appearing as the frontispiece to this volume is from that published in The Century for November, 1881. Accompanying it was the following account of it and of other portraits :— "We have the pleasure of presenting to our readers an authentic portrait of George Eliot, the only one by which it is likely that she will be known to posterity. We are indebted for this privilege, as we shall presently explain, to the kindness and courtesy of her husband, Mr. J. W. Cross, who has allowed us to be the first to usher this beautiful work of art to the world. In doing so, we believe it will interest readers of The Century Magazine to learn, for the first time, the exact truth regarding the portraits of George Eliot, and we have therefore obtained from the three artists to whom, at different times in her life, she sat, some particulars of those occasions. "Miss Evans passed the winter of 1849-50 at Geneva, in the house of M. F. d'Aldert Durade, the well-known Swiss water-color painter, who is also the translator of the authorized French version of her works. At that time she had, however, written nothing original, and had attracted no general interest. While she stayed with M. Durade and his wife, the Swiss painter amused himself by making a small portrait of her in oils -- a head and shoulders. This painting remains in the possession of M. Durade, who has not merely refused to sell it, but will not allow it to be photographed or reproduced in any form. He has, however, we understand, consented to make a replica of it for Mr. Cross. 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