The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-11-27
TaESaR1ayo a6E LIVING NOV ELrs1.
George Eliot Her Life, Her Works sna
Habit1,

George Eliot Her Life, Her Works ana M8lt
Habits.
LLondon Correspondence San francisco cRIen
icle.l
1t seems to be generally undqrss
indeed, those in a position to b6 fall in-
formed state it is positive fact Mo-
Marian C. Evans, better knowras
Eliot, has published her last booA.
has, 80 far as the public is corcerna
actually withdrawn from literary life.--
If this be true it is very important lit
erary event, for she is incontestably the :
greatest living writer of fiction in this or
probably in any country. Sha s'en
spoken of as the most gifted n aeiA
novelsis, which is more than
it is absusd since there is no wd d "a
comparssNith her, and since geni has
never been and never should be ansid-
cred sexually. She is a master Haa q
mightYpne. Her novels are totally airr
like novels generally in spirit, alEl,
character and scope. To mention til
in connection with the fctions of Nor
Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, "Ouid&
Mrs BeeCher Stowe, Mrs. RebecCa Hard
ing Davis, or any other English or Ames
lean feminine author, is little less than
grotesque. They have no kindred with
the high colored, morbidly sentimental
feversh stories of De Sael and George
Sand, two of the most eminent women
of literary France. In no sense are they
romances. They are signally philosoph-
iC; they are studies of and from life
extracts, as it were, from the soul of hui
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of mind to mind
They are in the same vein as Balsac and
Thackeray, and yet very different, They
are in some sense uniqne, and seem deS&l
tined to long continued fame. If GsNG.
Eliot's novels do not live, whatM W
in literature? They aIewaG
of thought, pictures, ,aAN
els of nervous epiR
ries. ~ VI =.
lix Hope, ..
six times as 1INgrAS
EIiot's poetry-she has%
umes has not been liked, S,SS
deserve to be liked in any measd%
her novels Still she prefers her IN
and would rather be ranked as a p0SN
than n fcionist, Her entire earnings
have been about $3.50 600 and she could
make contract any day for new story
) for which she would he guaranteed S4O,'
600. Her money making power is not
excelled by that of any writer in Great
Britain. In her case genius has been re-
warded George Eliot is one Of the naost
learned authors of hertime. The amount
of her requirement is wonderful. She
, is mistress of French, German, Italian
+ Spanish, Dntch, has tOlerabe acqlaint
+. ance with Romaic and Russian, is mp in
It all sciences, is a critical Latin and Greek
G scholar, an admirable historian, an arch
h cologist, understands music, pantingant
statuary, and is brilliant conversation
$ alist. Beauty she has not, and nothing
d like it. Some persons count her yer!
e plain, even homely; others hold tRa
:. she has very interesting face. To M
d she is in NJ wise remarkable in appear
g ance. She Goes not look bit Iik
OIL genius; geniuses seldom do. She Ina
d gray eyes, rather large features abund
'e ant hair, streaked with white, a medium
figure, neither stout nor slender, and
= pleasant well modulated voice. She ma
been extremely industrious in her pre-
fession. She compOsas rapidly offer
but corrects with great care, and fire
olently Injuries her healsh-not robuS
by any means7-by her excessive appl
cation. Sac is a pronounced rationale
in her belief; in most respects wonder
ful woman, and surely prodigior
infallaTt