Limitations--_Han d'Islande_--_Bug-Jargal_--_Le Dernier Jour
d'un Condamne_--_Claude Gueux_--_Notre-Dame de Paris_--The
story easy to anticipate--Importance of the actual
_title_--The working out of the one under the other--The
story recovers itself latterly--But the characters?--The
thirty years' interval--_Les Miserables_--_Les Travailleurs
de la Mer_--The _genius loci_--Guernsey at the
time--_L'Homme Qui Rit_--_Quatre-Vingt-Treize_--Final
remarks.

CHAPTER IV

BEYLE AND BALZAC 133

Beyle: his peculiarity--_Armance_--_La Chartreuse de
Parme_--The Waterloo episode--The subject and general
colour--_L'Abbesse de Castro_, etc.--_Le Rouge et le
Noir_--Beyle's masterpiece, and why--Julien Sorel and
Mathilde de la Mole--The resuscitated work: _Lamiel_--The
_Nouvelles Inedites_--_Le Chasseur Vert_--Beyle's place in
the story--Balzac: conditions of the present
dealing--Limitations of subject--And of Balzac
himself--Balzac's "general ideas"--Abstinence from
abstract--The _Oeuvres de Jeunesse_--_Les Chouans_--_La Peau
de Chagrin_--The short stories--The _Contes
Drolatiques_--Notes on select larger books: _Eugenie
Grandet_--_Le Pere Goriot_ and _Les Parents
Pauvres_--Others: the general "scenic"
division--"Balzacity": its constitution--Its effect on
successors--And its own character--The "occult" element--Its
action and reaction--Peculiarity of the conversation--And of
the "story" interest.

CHAPTER V

GEORGE SAND 176

George Sand: generalities about her--Note on _Elle et
Lui_, etc., and on _Un Hiver a Majorque_--Phases of her
work--_Indiana_--_Valentine_--_Lelia_--The moral of the
group and its tragi-comedy--_Consuelo_--Much better in
parts--The degeneration--Recovery; but not maintained quite
to the end--_La Comtesse de Rudolstadt_--The "making good"
of _Lucrezia Floriani_--The story--Its balance of power--The
"Idylls": _La Petite Fadette_--_La Mare au
Diable_--_Francois le Champi_--Others: _Mauprat_--_La
Daniella_--_Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Dore_--_Le Marquis
de Villemer_--_Mlle. La Quintinie_--_Flamarande_--Summary
and judgment--Style--Conversation and description.

CHAPTER VI

THE NOVEL OF STYLE--GAUTIER, MERIMEE, GERARD DE NERVAL,
MUSSET, VIGNY 208

Gautier: his burden of "style"--Abstract (with translations)
of _La Morte Amoureuse_--Cri