xample of conscientious work and careful pains, by which we
all alike may profit. For Mrs. Gaskell had not only genius of a high
order, but she had also the true feeling of the artist, that grows
impatient at whatever is unfinished or imperfect. Whether describing
with touching skill the charities of poor to poor, or painting, with
an art which Miss Austin might have envied, the daily round of common
life, or merely telling, in her graphic way, some wild or simple tale:
whatever the work, she did it with all her power, sparing nothing,
scarcely sparing herself enough, if only the work were well and
completely done.

_From the New York Evening Post._

It is said that George Sand remarked to an English friend: "Mrs.
Gaskell has done what neither I nor other female writers in France can
accomplish--she has written novels which excite the deepest interest
in men of the world, and which every girl will be the better for
reading."

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the paying of a fee. If alternate spelling of proper nouns could not
be established, it has been made consistent within the text. The
spelling of other words and phrases in languages other than English
has been preserved as printed.

Illustrations have been moved if necessary so that they were not in
the middle of a paragraph.

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