GEORGE ELIOT. CHAPTER I, INTRODUCTORY. Speaking of the contributions made to literature by her own sex, George Eliot, in a charming1 essay written in r8S4, awards the palm of intellectual pre-eminence to the women of France. "They alone," says the great English author, "have had a vital influence on the development of literature. For in France alone the mind of woman fias passed, like an electric current, through the language, making crisp and definite what is elsewhere heavy and blurred; in France alone, if the writings of women were swept away, a serious gap would be made in the national history." The reason assigned by George Eliot for this literary superiority of Frenchwomen consists in their having had the courage of their sex. They thought and felt as women, and when they wrote, their books became the fullest expression of their womanhood. And by being true to themselves, by only' seeking inspiration from their own life-experience, instead of servilely copying that of Table of...

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