Beyle: his peculiarity--_Armance_--_La Chartreuse de Parme_--The Waterloo episode--The subject and general colour--_L'Abbesse de Castro_, etc.--_Le Rouge et le Noir_--Beyle's masterpiece, and why--Julien Sorel and Mathilde de la Mole--The resuscitated work: _Lamiel_--The _Nouvelles Inedites_--_Le Chasseur Vert_--Beyle's place in the story--Balzac: conditions of the present dealing--Limitations of subject--And of Balzac himself--Balzac's "general ideas"--Abstinence from abstract--The _Oeuvres de Jeunesse_--_Les Chouans_--_La Peau de Chagrin_--The short stories--The _Contes Drolatiques_--Notes on select larger books: _Eugenie Grandet_--_Le Pere Goriot_ and _Les Parents Pauvres_--Others: the general "scenic" division--"Balzacity": its constitution--Its effect on successors--And its own character--The "occult" element--Its action and reaction--Peculiarity of the conversation--And of the "story" interest. CHAPTER V GEORGE SAND 176 George Sand: generalities about her--Note on _Elle et Lui_, etc., and on _Un Hiver a Majorque_--Phases of her work--_Indiana_--_Valentine_--_Lelia_--The moral of the group and its tragi-comedy--_Consuelo_--Much better in parts--The degeneration--Recovery; but not maintained quite to the end--_La Comtesse de Rudolstadt_--The "making good" of _Lucrezia Floriani_--The story--Its balance of power--The "Idylls": _La Petite Fadette_--_La Mare au Diable_--_Francois le Champi_--Others: _Mauprat_--_La Daniella_--_Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Dore_--_Le Marquis de Villemer_--_Mlle. La Quintinie_--_Flamarande_--Summary and judgment--Style--Conversation and description. CHAPTER VI THE NOVEL OF STYLE--GAUTIER, MERIMEE, GERARD DE NERVAL, MUSSET, VIGNY 208