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Excerpt from Chats About Books: Poets and Novelists
A comparison of George Eliot with Balzac might not occur to those who classify writers by their spiritual in ?uence, yet it is pertinent, and the points of concord are not less suggestive than the points of contrast. Thus, in Balzac's ripest performances each incident serves not merely to project or unfold character, but is seen immediately, or subsequently, to be one of the piv ots of the story. A like economy of materials is notice able in Scenes of Clerical Life, as well as in George Eliot's later books. Again, her actors, like those of the French novelist, are introduced in much the same way as they are made known to us in actual life, with cursory outward observations sufficient to frame a provisional judgment which further acquaintance will complete or modify. Neither are lay figures common on her stage, even subordinate persons as a rule being presented in clean, firm outline. The range of character which she thus interprets is too wide to have been gained by the study of living representatives, and implies the possess ion of that species of divining-rod which is one of the least common of human gifts. Finally we seem to dis cover in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.
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