ge--Morality--Plagiarism and devilling--The
collaborators?--The positive value as fiction and as
literature of the books: the less worthy works--The
worthier: treatment of them not so much individually as
under heads--His attitude to plot--To character--To
description (and "style")--To conversation.

CHAPTER IX

THE FRENCH NOVEL IN 1850 343

The peculiarity of the moment--A political nadir--And almost
a literary zenith--The performance of the time in novel--The
_personnel_--The kinds: the historical novel--Appearance of
new classes: the historical--Other kinds and classes--The
Novel of Romanticism generally--The "ordinary"--Discussion
on a point of general novel criticism.

CHAPTER X

DUMAS THE YOUNGER 365

Division of future subjects--A confession--His general
character--_La Dame aux Camelias_--_Tristan le
Roux_--_Antonine_--_La Vie a Vingt Ans_--_Aventures de
Quatre Femmes_--_Trois Hommes Forts_--_Diane de
Lys_--Shorter stories: _Une Loge a Camille_--_Le Docteur
Servans_--_Le Roman d'une Femme_--The habit of quickening up
at the end--_Contes et
Nouvelles_--_Ilka_--_Revenants_--_Sophie
Printemps_--_Affaire Clemenceau_--Story of it--Criticism of
it and of its author's work generally--Note on Dumas _fils'_
drama, etc.--Reflections.

CHAPTER XI

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 397

The contrast of Flaubert and Dumas _fils_--Some former
dealings with him--His style--The books: _Madame
Bovary_--_Salammbo_--_L'Education Sentimentale_--_La
Tentation de Saint-Antoine_--_Trois Contes_--_Bouvard et
Pecuchet_--General considerations.

CHAPTER XII

THE OTHER "NON-NATURALS" OF THE SECOND EMPIRE 414

Feuillet--His novels generally--Brief notes on some: _Le
Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre_--_M. de Camors_--Other
books--_La Petite Comtesse_--_Julia de Trecoeur_--_Honneur
d'Artiste_--_La Morte_--Misters the assassins--Alphonse
Daudet and his curious position--His "personality"--His
books from this point of view and others--His
"plagiarisms"--His merits--About: _Le Roi des
Montagnes_--_Tolla_--_Germaine_--_Madelon_--_Maitre Pierre_,
etc.--Summing up--Ponson du Terrail and Gaboriau--The first:
his general character--The second--_L'Affaire
Lerouge_--Feydeau: _Sylvie_--_Fanny_--Others:
_Daniel_--Droz--_Mr., Mme. et Bebe_ and _Entre
Nous_--Cherbuliez--His general char