ridicule what
they are powerless to reach. George Sand, even to a greater extent
than her contemporary, George Eliot, was a victim to ignorant
social prejudices, but even the conservative world was forced to
recognize the matchless genius of these two extraordinary women,
each widely different in her character and method of thought and
writing.... She has told much that is good which has been untold,
and just what will interest the reader, and no more, in the same
easy, entertaining style that characterizes all of these
unpretentious biographies."--_Hartford Times._

Famous Women Series.

GEORGE ELIOT.

BY MATHILDE BLIND.

One vol. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.

"Messrs. Roberts Brothers begin a series of Biographies of Famous
Women with a life of George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind. The idea of
the series is an excellent one, and the reputation of its
publishers is a guarantee for its adequate execution. This book
contains about three hundred pages in open type, and not only
collects and condenses the main facts that are known in regard to
the history of George Eliot, but supplies other material from
personal research. It is agreeably written, and with a good idea of
proportion in a memoir of its size. The critical study of its
subject's works, which is made in the order of their appearance, is
particularly well done. In fact, good taste and good judgment
pervade the memoir throughout."--_Saturday Evening Gazette._

"Miss Blind's little book is written with admirable good taste and
judgment, and with notable self-restraint. It does not weary the
reader with critical discursiveness, nor with attempts to search
out high-flown meanings and recondite oracles in the plain 'yea'
and 'nay' of life. It is a graceful and unpretentious little
biography, and tells all that need be told concerning one of the
greatest writers of the time. It is a deeply interesting if not
fascinating woman whom Miss Blind presents," says the New York
_Tribune_.

"Miss Blind's little biographical study of George Eliot is written
with sympathy and good taste, and is very welcome. It gives us a
graphic if not elaborate sketch of the personality and development
of the great novelist, is particularly full and authentic
concerning her earlier years, tells enough of the lead