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Title: The Essays of "George Eliot"
Complete

Author: George Eliot

Editor: Nathan Sheppard

Release Date: March 9, 2009 [eBook #28289]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ESSAYS OF "GEORGE ELIOT"***

Transcribed from the 1883 Funk & Wagnalls edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

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THE ESSAYS
OF
"GEORGE ELIOT."

COMPLETE.

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION
ON HER "ANALYSIS OF MOTIVES,"

BY
NATHAN SHEPPARD,

EDITOR OF "CHARACTER READINGS FROM GEORGE ELIOT," AND "THE DICKENS
READER;" AND AUTHOR OF "SHUT UP IN PARIS."

* * * * *

NEW YORK:
FUNK & WAGNALLS, PUBLISHERS,
10 AND 12 DEY STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by
FUNK & WAGNALLS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE, 5
"GEORGE ELIOT'S" ANALYSIS OF MOTIVES, 7
I.--CARLYLE'S LIFE OF STERLING, 25
II.--WOMAN IN FRANCE, 31
III.--EVANGELICAL TEACHING, 64
IV.--GERMAN WIT, 99
V.--NATURAL HISTORY OF GERMAN LIFE, 141
VI.--SILLY NOVELS BY LADY NOVELISTS, 178
VII.--WORLDLINESS AND OTHER-WORLDLINESS, 205
VIII.--THE INFLUENCE OF RATIONALISM, 257
IX.--THE GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT, 272
X.--FELIX HOLT'S ADDRESS TO WORKINGMEN, 275

PREFACE.

Since the death of George Eliot much public curiosity has been excited by
the repeated allusions to, and qu