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racters from the popular romances of the day and bring them together in a sort of drama where each speaks for himself , and where the whole is a disgusting combination of folly , licentiousness , and extravagance , concluded by the following summary : —
" Thus , much of light literature in France is what I have pafyited it —a kind of phantasmagoria , not without talent , but without all that renders talent touching and respectable . "—p . 45 . And immediately afterwards by the following note : — " G . Sand — or , to drop a mask which nobody prt serves , Madame Dudevnnt is in all respects an extraordinary person , and ff she merit
the chastisement , wins the admiration of the critic . Her style is the most eloquent of the epoch ; and though on Borne occasions frjroUt by modern affectations , is at others tinged with that antique and sacred colouring Xthich Rome gave to her saints , and Judea to her prophets . As wholes , her works , it is true , are false and forced , but kh * rf contain parts * natural , eloquent , and true—passages rife with the ejttotitiia Bind the experience of their daring and beautiful authoress . "—* ji * 4 U 5 . .
Yfet from the works of Madame Dudevant the chief part ; of the disgusting * combination mentioned above is collected . This notice of ber works is by no means quoted as a just ^ criticism of them , or as evincing an appreciation of her , but only as proof from his own words that there is false and exaggerated colouring in the picture of French light literature- gWeti by Mr . Bulwer . The following description of the manners of Paris i » extrenyely good : —<
c < The easy and uncreuking manner in which the world moves ^ ouall its hinges , the facility with which you may see every thing thaV is to be seen , and go to everv place that is to be gone to ;—the noiefefess step with whic h ) you glide into the circle accustomed to receiver you * - . and to which you are ushered by no trumpet sound of invit » tiun- ; - ^> the carele&suebd with which you can slip from society into solitude , and from solitude iato society , without any question as to wlitre yog have been , or any effort to regain your dropped acquaintance ;—the familiarity and yet the variety which attends you . r steps as you drive from house to house in search of one that shall occupy you for the evening;—the happy way in which letters and science , and even politics and the arts are mingled together in happy and classical confusion ;
all this—bo different from the well-dressed drudgery with whic'h we toil to keep in * i ght of a monotonous < rowd —the |> err >«* tual effort and the perpetual failure to be amused—the miserable Morning Post notoriety which fi ^ tun ruers ujion a miserable race , us the substitute for reputations-hJjI tb } £ , which , concentrated , lvn »» a kind of fkin for soci ety * qnd , bieatlk ^ g upon it the hizzaroni feeling . of 4 'urelepa , volqptuou ^ ind-epepdejjt enjpynteat— n \\ thi »— -by the " orrtj * mi # ti ( f , und jaded Kn ^ Fi ^ hlwao— -accustomed to nothing of pj ^ abiue but the wearihonrtenes * of Us cT ^«<* e—is welcomed witli a grateful sei ) sr ol" . 9 .
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Bulrver * 8 France . 101
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/33/
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