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The most abiding impression produced by the novels of Flaubert is that of solidity. This is particularly the case with his historical books. The bric-
For I have undertaken a work of great scope, which will require a lot of time, a prospect that pleases me. Ever since a month ago, I have been expecting Tourgueneff from week to week. The gout is delaying him still. CCXL. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 22 November, 1872 I don't think that I shall go to Paris before February.
If the Republic returned they would bless the liberty poles out of policy and believing that measure strong. When shall I see you? I plan to be in Paris from Easter to the end of May, This spring I shall go to see you at Nohant, I swear it. CV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 11 February, 1869
The smile of the children was reward for a good deal of inconvenience. "Mrs. Carville, you mustn't put it that way. We shall always be glad to have them, out of business hours. And to-night is holy to children everywhere. They shall light the candles on our tree. You know what Flaubert once said of children 'a little thing like that in the house is the only thing that matters."
Flaubert looked forward to a time in art when there should be no subjects at all, when art should aspire to the condition of music, and express the intangible." "I confess," said Musgrave, laughing, "that that statement conveys nothing to me. A painter, on that line, would depict nothing, but simply produce a sort of harmony of colour. A picture would become simply a texture of colour-vibrations.
And when Gustave Flaubert said to him: "But, Monsieur de Lamartine, do you know that I have been indicted and summoned to a court of correction for an offense against public morals and religion for having made a book like that?"
Flaubert, for instance, the honest citizen of Rouen, neither saw, heard, nor tasted anything else in the end; it was his mode of self-torment and refined cruelty.
Even of late the Latin races have seemed perhaps a little less susceptible to this appeal than the Teutonic or the Slavonic, and the impassive contempt of Flaubert and of Maupassant toward the creatures of their imaginative observation is more characteristic of the French attitude than the genial compassion of Daudet.
He had thus within his reach the works by which he strengthened his doctrine of intransitive intellectuality; they were Goethe's Memoirs; a volume of George Sand's correspondence, in which were the letters to Flaubert; the 'Discours de la Methode' by Descartes, and the essay by Burckhart on the Renaissance.
The quality may be manifested primarily through the intellect, as with Meredith; through the senses, as with Swinburne; through the perceptions, as with Turgeniev, Flaubert and Joseph Conrad; or through intellect and perceptions acutely balanced, as with Mr.
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