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For those who read them aright they possess the faculty of educating in its highest sense, of invigorating the intellect, giving a healthy tone to the taste, appealing to the nobler feelings of the heart, training its impulses aright, and awakening or developing in every mind the consciousness of a craving for something higher than the pleasures and rewards of that life which only the senses realize, the belief in a destiny of a nobler nature than can be grasped by experience or demonstrated by argument. In reading them we seem to be raised above the low grounds where the atmosphere is heavy and tainted, and the sunlight has to struggle through blinding veils of mist, and to be set upon the higher ranges where the air is fresh and bracing, where the sky is bright and clear, and where earth seems of less account than before and heaven more near at home. And as, by those who really feel the grandeur of mountain solitudes, a voice is heard speaking to the heart, which hushes the whispers in which vanity, and meanness, and self-interest are wont to make their petty suggestions; and as for them the paltry purposes of a brief and fitful life lose their significance in the presence of the mighty types of steadfastness and eternity by which they are surrounded; so, on those readers who are able to appreciate a lofty independence of thought, a rare nobility of feeling, and an exquisite sympathy with the joys and sorrows of human nature," George Eliot's" writings can not fail to exert an invigorating and purifying influence, the good effects of which leaves behind it a lasting impression. Worcester Palladium. "George Eliot," or whoever he or she may be, has a wonderful power in giving an air of intense reality to whatever scene is presented, whatever character is portrayed. Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. She resembles Shakspeare in her power of delineation. It is from this characteristic action on the part of each of the members of the dramatis personæ that we feel not only an interest, even and consistent throughout, but also an admiration for "George Elot" above all other writers. Boston Transcript. Few women-no living woman indeed-have so much strength as "George Eliot," and, more than that, she never allows it to degenerate into coarseness. With all her so-called "masculine" vigor, she has a feminine tenderness, which is nowhere shown more plainly than in her descriptions of children. Saturday Review. She looks out upon the world with the most entire enjoyment of all the good that there is in it to enjoy, and with an enlarged compassion for all the ill that there is in it to pity. But she never either whimpers over the sorrowful lot of man, or snarls and chuckles over his follies and littlenesses and impotence. Macmillan's Magazine. 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"It is impossible to read 'Sylvia's Lovers' (as it is impossible to read Mr. Tennyson's poem upon the more or less similar subject of Enoch Arden') without the greatest admiration for the powers the book displays. It is as full of vivid and changeful passion, of swift and forcible incident, of carefully-woven plot, of human character in the full strength of youth and manhood acted upon by the absorbing motives of ordinary human life, as the special circle of 'Cranford' is remote from all these things."-Saturday Review. That tender pathos, which could sink so deep-that gen- Her works of fiction all retain their hold on the reading tle humor, which could soar so lightly-that delicate per-public..... She could paint English life in its truest colception, which nothing could escape that wide sympa-ors; and it is this, however fashion may change, that will thy, which ranged so far those sweet moralities, which rang so true: it is indeed hard and sad to feel that these must be silent for us henceforth forever. Let us be grateful, however, that we have still those writings of hers which England will not willingly let die, and that she has given us no less an example 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. 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