Modern Frenchmen: Five Biographies

Modern Frenchmen: Five Biographies

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878

HathiTrust

1878

George Henry Lewes to Philip Gilbert Hamerton, [Witley, [18?] July 1878]. "We left London before your book arrived, but I sent for it, and Mrs. Lewes has been reading it aloud to me the last few evenings. It has charmed us both, and we regret that so good a scheme, so well carried out, should in the nature of case be one doomed to meet with small public response. No reader worth having can read it without interest and profit, but il s'agit de trouver des lecteurs. My son writes in great delight with it, and I have recommended it to the one person we have seen in our solitude, but I fear you will find the deaf adder of a public deafer than usual to your charming. A volume of biographies of well-known Frenchmen would have but a slender chance of success -- and a volume on the unknown would need to be spiced with religion or politics -- et fortement épicé -- to attract more than a reader here and there." GEL 9: 234

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, Modern Frenchmen: Five Biographies, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57337

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