The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-14

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George Sand.
This remarkable woman, interesting by
her genius as we'll as by her strange his
tory, died two days ago at her chateau,
She was conscious to the last, but unable
to speak for some time before her death.
She has not Of late years produced any
grea, work; but she leaves behind her
the fruits of rich literary life.
George Sand had strange ancestry.
Auguste T., of Poland, the giant king,
, had natural son, Maurice, afterwsrd
known as Marshal SAKE, who, like his
father, was of immense physical strength
and courage-a man of heroic type He
had natural daughter, Mario Aurore,
who became the wife of Bernard de Horn.
Their son, Maurice Dupin, was the faith
er Of George Sand. She thus had strong
and lawIess blood in her veins. She was
married to good man of agricultural
tastes, many years older than herself;
and she found his companionship insup-
portable. She, therefore, left fortune,
home and good name behind her and
went TO share the mausard OF Jules San
desu. They were miserably poor; but
they worked cheerfully together at liter
airy labors. Years after, aid after she
had cast of Jules Sandesu, she spoke Of
him with such tenderness and described
him rs character so lovsble that it was
strange she would have cast him of. But
she had outgrown him. She was in
everyway stronger that he. She had alb
sorbed ard sssimilsted all his mental
force and originality, and she sought q
fresh and original mind. Alfred de
Musset, the poet of his era, then in all the
charm of his youth and grace, was her
lover For while they were very hap
py, but she fed her genius upon his, alb
sorbed him also, and left him wreck,
but loving her to the last. After she
had broken his heart she took the world
into her confidence in her story. Ette ct
Lui," a cruel book that called forth q
strong feeling against her. Chopin, the
poet OF the piano, was another of her fan
cies; and she chung to him for eight
wears and nursed him tenderly in long
illness, and even exiled herself TO the
ISLANDS OF the Mediterranean that she
might bring him back to health. At
last, however, she threw him of also, and
he too, died heart. broken. She had alb.
sorbed his life wholly, and tor years he
never played for any body but her.
These we're some OF the loves of George
Sand, and her power over such men ms
these sufficiently proves the wonderful
fascination OF her personality. Among
her intimate and devoted friends may be
numbered Meyerbeer, Berlioz, List and
many other artists and men OF letters.
From these she gathered that deep love
Of art and Knowledge OF it that character
ize all her writings. Her love OF nature
WAS almost passion, ard her descriptions
of natural scenery have all the force of
Ruskin or Wordsworth, with sensuous
richness greater than either. She had also
a deep knowledge of the human heart, and
II large and strange experience to draw
upon. These gave her writings fascl-
nation that was like the fascination Of the
woman herself. She put her own adven-
lures into her books, under the thinnest
DISCUSSES, and often no disguise. Eliza
eth Barrett Browning speaks of her as
that "large-brained women and large
hearted man, selt-styled George Sand,
whose soul amid the lions OF her own
tumultuous senses, means defiance"
Thackeray said of her: "Her style is
noble and beautifully rich and pure.
She has an exhubersnt imagination, and
with it very chaste style OF ex.
preston. She meyer scarcely INDUCES
IN defamation, and yet her sentences
are exquisitely melodious and full. She
leaves vol at the end of one of her brief,
rich, melancholy sentences, with plenty
of food for future cogita.ion. can
express to you the charm of them; they
seem to me like the sound OF country
bells falling sweetly and sadly upon the
ear"
John Stuart Mill declared that "As a
specimen of purely artistic excellence,
there is not in all modern literature any
thing superior to thepr6se OF Nine. Sand,
whose style acts upon the nervous sys,
tenn like symphony OF Hydn or Mos
art"
The German poet Heine wrote: 'She
has naturalness, taste, 3 strong love OF
truth. enthusiasm, and all these qualities
are linked together by the most severe
as also the most perfect harmony. The
genius of Madame George Sand has an
aptitude exquisitely beautiful. What
ever she feels or thinks bresthes grace,
and make you dream of immense aeeps
Her style is q revelation OF pure and
melodious FORM" These tributes Ito her
marvellous genius, coming from such
'scources, sufficiently show how great IS
the loss to.,French literature in the death
oil liaorre Sand