The George Eliot Letters/George Henry Lewes:
Wiesenfarth, Joseph
rection of the Catholic church in the reason, to the dramatic transformation West, ready to turn the clock back...
...On the platform Elie that linked them together with the Victorians, Lewes doesn't translate verywell as a "Mind" only--especially inWiesel, scion of Viznitz, who but for the speakerdespite all the many obvious cul138 pages of text, and more especially Holocaust would haveprobably lived out tural differences between them...
...There are many salient moments related to George Eliot too...
...Lewis, J.R.R...
...If a volu me ofletters can haveheroines Silmarillion by PETER KREEFT...
...21st centuryhistorians will have a valuable source in Ancestors When the full sweep of 20th centuryCatholic history is written someday, a John Coleman's comprehensive analysis A Swedish-American of the pilot church of post-conciliar Family Saga long chapter will be devoted, with good Catholicism...
...One lars ofnineteenth-century life...
...There crossed herself with holy water and Shadows of she met George Henry Lewes, who was would not pain him by not doing it, so he Imagination unhappily married to a spectacularly un- went ont to give her a little book contain- The Fantasies of C.S...
...translated Sophocles badly, "one of the derided lists ofdetails that crowded Vic- "In its editorial scruple and appetite," most astonishingblock-heads in the rec- torian books and journals as "no better George Steiner wrote recently in another ords of poetry...
...Two volumes ofletters have a Komar/Melamid Gordon S. Haight,ed...
...not...
...tute for the reading of Lewes's books...
...The standLewes, and lived in complete harmony and villains, then George Eliot and Her- ard work on the "Oxford Christians" until his death in 1878...
...He STRUGSLE AGAINST NELANCROLY could use in teaching others, and not in was both an original thinker as well as a EJie Wiesei order to judge how he told his tales, but popularizer and earned the respect of his Univ...
...He learned French well than the observations of Chaldean context, "twentieth-century academia is enough to chat with CharlesLamb Kenny shepherds, which produced no As- re.composing for us the smallest particu"in Burgundian patois ," both "pretend- tronomy in centuries of watching...
...Edited by MELVYN B. NATHANSON.Introduction by JACK BURNHAM 9, 539 pp...
...Father Hesburgh, the president Jew, the Jew was the devil to the priest...
...Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans in 1819 (la- incident, George Eliot, the well known Mace argues that our real political sire ter calling herself Marian), came from was a man often hated and scorned as non-believer, visits Assisi and falls into an antidemocratic monarchist- Thomas Warwickshire to London in 1851 to edit conversation with an old monk...
...Francis"--a book that Tolklen, and Charles Williams Marian and he fell in love, eloped in she kept the rest of her life...
...theFormightly arti- orful intellectual enterprises, but inevitaWhen Turgenev writes to her on cles on Darwin (1868), which provided bly one wishes that the kaleidoscope had Lewes's death that "All your friends, all been g~ven the final missing satisfying learned Europe mourns with you," one an informed contemporary commentaryon the question of natural selection thatturn...
...he turns down on the grounds that she is to Moravia Reading these letters is at times a too ugly to love...
...As a novelist she shows Studies...
...Hock Guan Tjoa that is rarely looked at...
...And in Notre Dame and Ropshitz...
...ing a life of St...
...At Lewes's urg- bert Spencer seem to fit the bill...
...A metaphor for the Swedish migration t oAmericain the rnid-19th century, the Sven Svensson family, traced here by a historianMortality and vitality descendanl, provides a model for genealogical research from which anyone can learn...
...8, 491 pp., Vol...
...Heartsickabout Spencer By SERGIO PACIFICI...
...In this new andenlightening as fill in the gaps in the old one...
...that transpired in Holland...
...Profes- brought up t o date...
...thus the impact ofevents is greater...
...He enjoyed the that the presentation ofdetails is too fre- achievement of The George Eliot Letfriendship of Dickens, Carlyle, Mill, quentand the elucidation of their signifi- ters...
...They are metaphysical bias, which introduced group that came not in order to learn essentially the retelling ofa saga and the Commonweal: 316...
...Box3697, of their exertions and the climate of timely death, she puts her life in order, Carbondale, Illinois 62901 Natal, give the impression of following saying, "One gets calmer about oneself, 25 May 1979:315 remembering others," Lewes was not Comtean Positivism to an English audi- cance too rare...
...Modern Fiction Blackwood, their publisher, forinstance, review afloat...
...12.50 the Westminster Review for the enterpris- saw that he watched to see whether she ing philanderer, John Chapman...
...suspects that Lewes was nearly a grand so vexed the Victorian Age...
...the Prob- This is precisely the turn that Gordon genius too...
...The Life and Works of Goethe sembled some ofthe fascinating pieces of "'She is a Mediaeval Saint with a grand (1855), which was a benchmark literary George Henry Lewes's various and colgenius...
...faithful wife whom he could not divorce...
...They ever, this book should serve as a Jew doing here?--But it is right...
...Tennyson, Browning, and other eminent Victorians...
...Hock Guan Tjoa has asfanciful, it seems, when he said of her, ence...
...This is the theme of Hock lems of Life and Mind (1874-79), com- S. Haight gives to the pattern of George Guan Tjoa's book about him.Lewes was born to comfortable pleted by George Eliot, which attempts a Eliot's life in the Letters...
...The stones, headaches, and self-doubts, she I SOUTHERN ILLINOIS same is true for Lewes's sons, Thornton writes hernovels in spite of herself...
...in the middle of one of the lectures them, not as excursions into a quaint pastbut as keys to his own spiritual situation For readers interested in a walk Wiesel broke from his text and through the gallery of his canon, how- exclaimed: " I marvel...
...biography in its day...
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...Tjoa makes the figures that Wiesel brings to life in these Europe the priest was the enemy to the mistake oftrying to have his booksubsti- lectures...
...The letters between the father and his ""Their [Komar and Melamid'sl touch is sons, and then between him and Her- brilliantly cool and ironic, their satire GEORGE HENRY LEWES: bert's widow, are particularly affecting and iconoclasm not tied t o any ideology A VICTORIAN MIND other than one of creative expression...
...In Eastern trum ofhis writings, Mr...
...By H. ARNOLD BARTON...
...After she goes Locke, Hobbes, and Joseph Wiesenfarth off with Lewes, she is slandered by the Federalist Papers former friends, but not by Charles Bray: An Essay on the Genesis of T HESE TWO volumes of The George "She must be allowed to satisfy her own the American Political Heritage EliotLetters aresupplementary to the conscience . . . . I have known her for By GEORGE MACE...
...George have ever known...
...Lewes, Eliot, and John iness letter after love letter to keep the afternoon of reading...
...ofPhilosophy (1845), with its anti- ing his audience into a community, into a ance with the primary sources...
...are not formal factual discourses, alBaedeker to point out such highlights of And it was right because by then though they are obviously the product of the touras the popularBiographical His- Wiesel had somehow succeeded in form- much learning and offirst-hand acquainttory...
...Edited by MARK R. HILLEGAS with an Afterword on Tolkien's The 1854, called themselves Mr...
...Worlds that had existed side by pages give, for the most part, a duller set probably never heard of Naftali of Rop- side and nevertouched in Eastern Europe of summaries and excerpts from the spec- shitz or Pinchas ofKoretz orany of these came together in Indiana...
...I TMUST have been such a remarkable out of fascination less with the exotic As one ofthe most vital and energetic scene when these lectures were given than with a deeply felt common element at Notre Dame...
...He wrote criticism, novels, plays, and biography, treatises on Miracle of friendship & hope philosophy, science, and psychology...
...when the first 30 pages give a lively ac- his years in the village of Sighet...
...ARTnews Illus./$15.00 Harvard University, $I0, 172 pp...
...As of Notre Dame, captures something of Now in Indiana the priest was the stua result the very engaging Lewes comes the drama ofthe scenein his very moving dent, the companion-in-search, who lisacross less happily than one would ex- introduction to this book...
...lifetime's work of inestimable historical easily and to call Thomas Francklin, who In his book Sea-side Studies Lewes value thus comes meticulously to an end...
...He tells ofhow tened to these Hasidic tales and heard pect...
...He learned " a meaningful vision of man and 178-page index to all 9 volumes...
...that came to hear what he had to say to contemporaries: John Morley "put him them...
...As Hesburgh describes it, these very high as a philosopher, Huxley as a J a c k R i e m e r were people who were listening, not just physiologist...
...Illus./$11.95 THE GEORGE ELIOT LETTERS each other with heartbreaking rapidity to the grave...
...he founded and edited literary journals and FOUR HASIDIC PIASTERS AND THEIR techniques of story-telling that they did a bit of stage-acting on the side...
...Priests and count ofhis varied careerand the last 108 the audience priests and nuns who had Rebbes...
...and preserve a side of the Lewes's life - AMY NEWMAN...
...In another touching investigation intoour political roots, Dr...
...Crosscu rrents/Modern Critiques) ing she tried herhand at fiction, took the sor Haight, having finally pried loose $3.95 paper...
...Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques) $13.95 die within two years of each other and equal determination: sick with kidney only a relatively few pages apart...
...She Hobbes...
...They years and should always feel that she was John Locke is the great ancestor of our do not therefore tell a new story so much better by far than 99/100 of the people I Constitution and Declaration of Independence...
...and Mrs...
...The common theory among political scientists is that seven already published (I 954-55...
...A Greek well enoughto read the tragedians things...
...And and Herbert, who, dying six years apart as a widow, crushed by Lewes's un- `UNIVERSITY PRESS RO...
...Volume 9 consynthesis of"seasoned empiricism" and cludes with 30 pages ofAddenda and middle-class parents in 1817 and edu- "religious rationalism" and tries to find Corrigenda to volumes 1 to 7 and with a cated in England and abroad...
...The final volume poignant experience becausethe facts of and pestered by Chapman, she carries on of the trilogy which is "so well and mortality crowd rapidly one upon as editor ofthe Westminster, writing bus- fluentlywritten that it can be read as a novel, givenas a gift, or enjoyed in one another...
...11.95 cloth name George Eliot, and wrote, among their correspondence from the British other novels, a best-seller, Adam Bede Museum, publishes Marian's passionate The Modern italian (1859), and her masterpiece, proposal of marriage to Spencer, which Novel from Pea Middlemarch ( 1871-72...
...No sening to be French peasants discussing has a sense in reading the present study tence could more acutely describe the apocryphal wines...
...Arnold thought him out ofrespect but out of fascination, and strongest as a dramatic critic...
...rection of the Catholic church in the reason, to the dramatic transformation West, ready to turn the clock back on The Search for what has transpired since Vatican II...
...New Edition...
Vol. 106 • May 1979 • No. 10
