their own conclusions. Everybody
knows that it was not such a life as the women of England and
America are accustomed to live, and as the worst of men are glad to
have them live.... Whatever may be said against it, its result on
George Sand was not what it would have been upon an English or
American woman of genius."--_New York Mail and Express._

"This is a volume of the 'Famous Women Series,' which was begun so
well with George Eliot and Emily Bronte. The book is a review and
critical analysis of George Sand's life and work, by no means a
detailed biography. Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, the maiden, or
Mme. Dudevant, the married woman, is forgotten in the renown of the
pseudonym George Sand.

"Altogether, George Sand, with all her excesses and defects, is a
representative woman, one of the names of the nineteenth century.
She was great among the greatest, the friend and compeer of the
finest intellects, and Miss Thomas's essay will be a useful and
agreeable introduction to a more extended study of her life and
works."--_Knickerbocker._

"The biography of this famous woman, by Miss Thomas, is the only
one in existence. Those who have awaited it with pleasurable
anticipation, but with some trepidation as to the treatment of the
erratic side of her character, cannot fail to be pleased with the
skill by which it is done. It is the best production on George Sand
that has yet been published. The author modestly refers to it as a
sketch, which it undoubtedly is, but a sketch that gives a just and
discriminating analysis of George Sand's life, tastes, occupations,
and of the motives and impulses which prompted her unconventional
actions, that were misunderstood by a narrow public. The
difficulties encountered by the writer in describing this
remarkable character are shown in the first line of the opening
chapter, which says, 'In naming George Sand we name something more
exceptional than even a great genius.' That tells the whole story.
Misconstruction, condemnation, and isolation are the penalties
enforced upon the great leaders in the realm of advanced thought,
by the bigoted people of their time. The thinkers soar beyond the
common herd, whose soul-wings are not strong enough to fly aloft to
clearer atmospheres, and consequently they censure or