The sun., 1910-06-12
IlI

~ tuH aAe ul NuNNE NeoiMe G@uu wan
narrating tiresomely long stories 10 her
mother. Later on she had an immense
power d vigualiEing people and scenes
when any one was reading aloud 10 her
I In q degree amOuntin ng 10 hallucinatiOn.
She talks to NJ of an inner world eman-
mating from her own fancy, the rsaec-
ton oi her own imagination. the echo
Of her own heart really herself BalEac.
on tho contrary. h a novelist Of the Objec-
tive school. who comes out Of himself
oeases 20 he himself and bscomes another
person His novels are impenOnal. hers
were personal Her first novel was written
in collaboration with Jules Sandean
In 1891 and bors the signature of jules
Sand In fact she wrote nearly all the
book. a. oan easily be detected Il was
In reality a -mOnstrOsity.- a. she had
announced 10 her mother in advance
that Il would be Oddly enough her
mother had prldish tastes in literature
and was very severe on the book. though
II enjoyed a certain sucoeSs with the
public Her next book was Indiana. =
and this. written quite alone. she signed
-George Sand Il appeared IN isR2 and
was followed 10y Valentine in IssS and
by Jacques in Isss
In theas three books SAYS Our author.
4 should like tO show our pres mt femin-
ism. already armed. introduced 20 No ac-
cordinE 90 George sands early ideas
Indiana was the 'misunderstOOd- young
woman Who was one u the favOrits types
% women in literature for the next twenty
years. the pale. fragile creature who is
subject 20 fainting Up TO page 81 Indiana
has tainted thrr. times. says " Doumic
in hts witty analysis q the book A. that
point he ceased counting Il was the
fashion With women Nhos' grandmothsEs
had walked hrtnly "a the scafold and
whoss mothers had listened bravely 10 the
firing of cannon under the Empire
} Indiana's husband was an honorable. up
right man: the only trouble with him was
that he vas a husband so she affected
a mos, irritating gsntieness and exaSp-S
ating submiasiveness You can quite
agrer with the author that when she pat
on her aipsrior resigned airs it vas
enough 20 unhinge an angel He slyly
s,Eggests that we ought 10 question the
husbands Who married wives belonging TO
the race u Misunderstood women brought
into vogue by INDIANA George Sand
utilized here the blow which her husband
had dealt her Indiana asserts thai her
husband has left hIs mark on her face
Valentine 10 also the story u a woman
unhappily married bat this time the typi-
cal frenzied lover created by the romantic
school plays the chief part And nov We
have two fresh persOnages for novels: the
misunderstood woman and the frenxied
lover 1t II pity comments N. Dou-
mic. that they do not marry each other
and 80 nd Ne u them Jacques" IL the
history of a man unhappily married. tho
wife also Icing unhappy. No self-re-
speciing married couple dared be happy
in those days. a. the peril of being hope
lessly unintsrrsting Jacques is a down
right fool. and after doing everything pos
stbls 70 rum his home life he anathema-
tins the institution u marriage. btIt never
dreams ~ blaming himself George sand
had been somewhat vague about this IN
her former novels. but she nON defines
her theory clearly through the mouth oi
Jaoauss Marriage Ia a barharous insti-
tuition. II will no doubt he abolished
when the human species makes progress IN
the direction Of reason and justice. Her
essential objection 20 marriage u that it
letters the liberty Of two beings.
A few years later. however. in her in
tsrcourss with Lamennais. In her famous
-Lettres a Marcie. Writtsn for Ls Monde.
she advises her imaginary correspondent
in quite a different sense. She no longer
believes that IL 10 compatible with human
dignity to have the liberty Of changing
She says: Women are crying out that
they are slaves: vt them wait until men
are free They ought 10 lay
claim 10 a greater participation in knowl-
edge and 20 more respect. interest ana
esteem from men This future. though.
il in their own hands II would bs i'm
possible 20 put IL more clearly than she
does in this whole passage. or tO warn
danger for their cause would be the tri-
umph of what IL called by the ironical
term -feminism What NJ DOumic aims
10 show by this piquant proof of the au-
thOreaa = scontTadictions and striking para
do1es IL that in these first novels by George
sand w. have about ths whole oi the
feminist programme q to-day All that
our feminiats u to-day. French. English
or Norwegian authors. ~ theoreticians
like Ellen Key. with her book On Love
and Marriage. have done IL 90 take up
Oncs more these theories Oi isa7 and sst
them forth with less lyricism and more
cyniciam. George sand took her own
privats matrimonial miahap. magnified
and eEagEsFated IL. put something Of her
sslf into each of her hsroines. and the pas
sion she introduced into the exposition
was Contagious The women who read
recognized their own cause and the cause
0iaIl women. This was the novelty in her
way Of presenting feminist grievances.
for she had not invented them. They
were already contained In Madame De
stasl's books, but In order 20 bs pitisd by
Madame Dc Stael Il vas absolutely necea-
aary that a woman should hs q genius
like Delphins NJ Corinne: while n he de-
Tended BY George Sand h was only neoaa-
sary hat she should not 1--we her husband,