The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22
George Sand.

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woman-b brain France had up to that time
given to the world, died in Paris. in
1917, young girl of thirteen was just
entering conventual school in the same
city, sent thither partly to be educated
and partly to escape the coarse wrang-
ling of grandmother who was the left
handed descendant of kings, and moth
er who had risen from the dregs of So
ciety. For three or four years this
young girl found peace and limited
diet of knowledge in her seclusion, and
the imprisoned dreams born of her
awakened religious feeling never allowed
her to imagine that crown, richer and
more resplendent than that of the great
woman who had passed away, was wait
ing for her own brow.
Now, as she lies dead in the castle of
| Nohant, there will be few to deny that
in George Sand France has lost a greater
than Madame de Stael. The works of
| the the two women are as dissimilar as
| their fortunes; in character and tenn
| they coincide. The latter not only pos
sessed, but cultivated masculine tone
in all she said and wrote; the former is
! distinctly feminine, even in her highest
| intellectual expression. That is, she
illustrates the completeness of the form
to which genius may rise when it works
through a woman's BRAIN. Madame de
Stael was an observer, a critic, diplo-
matist. George Sand was a creative
arrist. In her conscience, her devotion
to lofty literary ideal, her untiring ac-
QUESTIONS in every department of know
/ ledge, she was only equaled by Balzac;
but out of feeling and passion and i'm
! agination she distilled Il style as pure
and nobly sustained as he achieved by
colder study and labor. Even when she
deals with such subjects as the monastic
| life, communism, or social problems
! springing from the relations OF the sexes,
and is compelled to express her ideas
chiefly through male characters, the
reader never forgets that it is large
natured, clear Drained, great woman who
speaks-the original equal, not the copy,
of great man.
AS we trace her achievements back to
their timld and painful beginnings, it is
| impossible to withhold from her the re-
nown of being one of the four or five
greatest feminine brains the race has
ever produced. In literature she is per-
haps the greatest. Her style is as supe
rior to that of Madame de Stael as beau
tifuI breathing life is to sculptured
marble. Herein she surpasses the only
living woman worthy to be placed be-
side her-George Eliot. The latter also
resembles her in lofty aspiration and
cheerful obedience to the laws of toll.
Both are embodied lessons, which am
bilious women-and men no less-would
do we'll to study. Genius is but as
steam blown from an open vessel, SO
long as it is not accompanied by intelli-
gent and unremitting effort. George
Sand first learned what her work must
be; then she learned how to do it, and
gave the best of her life to the deed.
In spite of political disability she rose to
power 80 which political rights could
have added nothing. In the field of in
tellectual exertion and achievement she
did mans task, and her legacy to the
world is ali the more valuable because
she did it in woman's way.-NeaO
York Tribune.