“ In her books her choice of quotations was judicious, and, without being herself an authority, she exhibited a much more reliable sense of the comparative trustworthiness of her sources than in common in popular biographers. her books were sustained throughout be a genuine interest which she communicated to her readers, and her sympathies even when ardent were never entirely uncritical. She had the conscience as well as the tastes of a historian. These qualities are shown in her "Life of Balzac" and her "George Sand," two themes full of pitfalls for the enthusiastic biographer. ”

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