Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Doumic lectured yesterday afternoon on George Sand and the love-novel. A translation of M. Doumic's summary of the lecture follows...
...centuries the novel had been seeking to make a place for itself in France and had succeeded only now and then by a happy accident. It was George Sand who gave the novel the start it needed. Since then it has become one of the principal forms of French literature...
...novels in her earlier style,- "Indiana," "Valentine," "Lelia," and "Jacques,"- belong distinctly to the history of romanticism. They met with an extraordinary success, which was due to their conformity to the state of the contemporary mind, to their eloquence, an unusual quality in the novel,- and finally to the fact that these books approached questions of universal interest and of vital importance to the very existence of society...
Soon, however, George Sand gave up this style. The goodness of heart which made her sympathize with the sufferings of the people, and her love of nature widened the scope of her inspiration. She is the personification of the idealistic novel...
Professor Robert Herrick, Harvard '90, who occupies the chair of English Literature in the University of Chicago, has written a novel which is to be published shortly by The Macmillan Company under the title of "The Gospel of Freedom...