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Stokoe REVIEWS: Maturity and Immaturity Far Eastern Politics ... 1217 1219 1219 ... 1219 1220 1221 1222 1223 The Bounties of Bacchus, by George Saintsbury 1224 ... to a friend that the talk ofthe soldiers in " Wallensteins Lager" was "just what it would be." To the faint response "I snppose it is" she returned, "No, you do not suppose we know these things"; and then gave a specimen of what might be a navvy's talk"The sort of thing such people say is, 'I'll break off your arm and bloody your face with the stump.' Though she wrote religious verse she was not a scribbling young woman: it was not until she was 38 that, pressed for money and encouraged SCIENCE: by G. H. Lewes, she discovered with trembling diffidence that she might FINE ARTS: Yet an intelligent be an artist. recipient of the above remarks might have guessed it. They are a hint that she had two of the faculties that are essential to the artist: instinctive knowledge of what he wants to express and that sort of receptiveness COMMUNICATIONS: which organizes the floating motes of experience. These qualities are A Matter of Evidence ... ... 1225 1226 1226 1227 1228 1228 1228 1229, 1230 scenes. everyone can like and blames what everyone dislikes. It allows for full, or almost full appreciation of the comic force, the tenderness, the raciness, the shrewdness of her rustic It need not deny that Mrs. Poyser's dairy, the mill and farmyard of Maggie Tulliver's childhood, the bar-parlour logic of the sleepy market-town, are reproduced with such loving fidelity of memory that all the vanished life of the Midland country-side the hierarchy of beast and labourer, farmer, parson and squire in their setting of quietly elm-bordered undulating fields, faintly stirred by encroachments of hollow-cheeked dissent and broken by squalid little towns where handlooms shake the stale air-is preserved in her pages, motionless in a kind of golden haze. It can even insist on this side of her; for it is part of the theory not merely that her strength lay here, but that it lay here precisely because her natural bent was towards reproduction rather than towards inventive creation. "She forgets nothing," said Lewes, 'which ever comes within the curl of her eyelash." What a pity then that, instead of working this exquisite feminine vein to its utmost, she braced herself to explore the world of intellectual abstractions which is properly reserved for males, and, with Lewes, inveterate popularizer of science and metaphysics, to lead her on, plunged ever deeper into moral and cosmic speculations, into botany, divinity, phrenology, psychology and what not! For the theory we are considering makes Lewes the villain of the piece; he was responsible for her misdirection (how could he not have been, Victorian journalist that he was?), though its germs were latent in her from the beginning, and the girl who was a serious Evangelical in her teens, teasing her brother's simple pleasures with religious scruples, must always have been what schoolboys used to call "pi." It is perhaps a little disturbing to the theory to find that she had a solid so obvious in her novels that any unbiased reader whom the approach of her 100th birthday has stimulated to dip into them again must wonder why it is that, of all the major Victorian reputations, hers is the most faded. Her humorous rustic dialogues may still delight girls' schools and charity entertainments. But why is she not generally admired by the enlightened? Why is there not even a George Eliot cult as there is a Trollope cult? The easiest answer is that she has the reputation she deserves. An admirable pastoral writer, says Mr. Gosse, summing up the general voice, but sunk by excess of erudition; a charming artist doubled and spoiled by a schoolmistress. Deserting her rustics in an evil hour, she tried to found the psychological novel and failed. Our grandfathers, æsthetically naive and enamoured of "moral uplift" in literature, did not mind her didactic strain; on the contrary, it made them set her on a pedestal; but we, who have learned that art has nothing to do with ethics and have acquired a subtlety in the dissection of the human 1238 1239 1240-1243 fund of common sense, and could make damson jam are stiff with history when the struggle with the Moors was attaining The But her best book was still to come. In "Middlemarch" she put forth her full power for the first and last time. It does not matter that, her sensitiveness shielded from the world by the devoted Lewes, she lives on books and reflection now, and that life no longer comes within the curl of her eyelash; she is still a hive of memories stored from the age of fresh, direct observation, and by an effort they can be drawn out and forced into a last creative act by her reflections on good and evil, on life and death and human destiny. The act is performed, but hardly, and as by a miracle: the three interwoven dramas which make up " Middlemarch" are alive and solid indeed, but they move heavily, clogged with moralizing and damped with melancholy. Though the figures are true tragic creations, in real relations to one another and to the mixed world of sin and goodness which is their stage, we are aware that somewhere in the background is a sad old prophetess just spoiling everything by too obtrusive a manipulation of the strings. This prophetess enormously impressed her contemporaries, except of course the æsthetes like D. G. Rossetti, who thought her work "vulgarity personified." They flocked on Sunday afternoons to the shrine in Regent's Park where Lewes swung the censer with infinite tact and cheerfulness, and they acclaimed her undisputed queen of British fiction. But that is no reason why we should be impressed. She is a Victorian myth, and her prose is only saved from being dead as mutton by the happy accident that, even at her most oracular, there was a play of remembered experience beneath the crust. After that she took a bad turn. Mrs. Poyser no longer satisfying her yearning for action" at once rational and ardent," she must try for something higher; she must represent, with all the depth of analysis which an intensive study of abstract morality ought to have made possible, a spiritual struggle in the grand manner. theme is characteristic-the ordeal through which a loftier nature has to pass when brought into collision with baser characters; and, that no test of difficulty may be wanting, the scene shall be Florence at the Renaissance, with all the cramming of dates and facts and local colour which "ploughed into her " The result as none of her previous work had done. is notorious: "Romola" cannot be read. In "Felix Holt" the misdirection is almost as bad; her preoccupation is now with social reform, and here again she fails to get near reality; her radical of the 30's is a layfigure, essentially the figment of a schoolgirl's dream. It required a diversion to poetry to purge these peccant humours and clear the way for her The "Spanish Gypsy" is an greatest book. frigid abstraction, because absurdity, a structed to fit a theory: "A maiden, full of young hope and about to share in the ordinary lot of womanhood, is suddenly made aware that she is to fulfil a great destiny, and to have a terribly different experience"; and, by the same kink of mind as produced "Romola," so odd in one who began her career by insisting that commonplace people, con whose conversation is more or less bald and disjointed," yet bear a conscience and feel "the sublime prompting to do the painful right," she could think of no epoch in which to place her but "the moment of Spanish Certainly there is a myth, but our business should be to disengage the reality. The flaw in this account is that, missing the deeper elements in her character, it obscures the one thing that matters to the critic. If we substitute for the priggish superiority of the myth a nature deeply affectionate and dependent on supporting affection (this explains her union first with Lewes and then with Mr. Cross), and a soul whose dim aspirations were early crystallized by Rousseau's confessions and by the broad humanity of Scott's novels (before that, when she was thirteen, the amiability of the atheist in Bulwer's "Devereux had almost persuaded her that " religion was not a requisite to moral excellence")-if in short we take the trouble to understand her, the one thing that matters in her work at once becomes clear. We see that the life which animates not only her admittedly successful figures, like Adam Bede or Maggie, but the wholes which these figures form in combination with one another, with other figures which may be failures, and with the world their background, is drawn not from any sentimental romantic dream, but from an emotional apprehension of the universe, which is their organizing principle. Whenever she succeeds in expressing this emotion adequately in a particular shape or episode, her work ranks with the highe signif exper unev capi in " Meth cruel but Dina reas by emo pro as abs gen the Ca sh lif to CO to th V W t |