Six peasants carried the bier from the house to the church, a few paces distant. The village priest came, preceded by three chorister-boys and the venerable singing-clerk of the parish, to perform the ceremony. A portion of the little churchyard, railed off from the rest and planted with evergreen-trees, contains the graves of her grandmother, her father, and the two little grandchildren she had lost. A plain granite tomb in their midst now marks the spot where George Sand was laid, literally buried in flowers. A great spirit was gone from the world; and a good spirit, it will be generally acknowledged: an artist in whose work the genuine desire to leave those she worked for better than she found them, is one inspiring motive. Such endeavor may seem to fail, and she affirmed: "A hundred times it does fail in its immediate results. But it helps, notwithstanding, to preserve that tradition of good desires and of good deeds, without which all would perish." * * * * * FOOTNOTES: [A] The biography of Alfred De Musset, by Paul De Musset, translated from the French by Harriet W. Preston. Boston, Roberts Brothers. [B] Mauprat, translated by Miss Vaughan. Boston, Roberts Brothers. [C] The Miller of Angibault. Translated by M. E. Dewey. Boston, Roberts Brothers. [D] The "Snow Man," translated by Virginia Vaughan. Boston: Roberts Brothers. * * * * * GEORGE SAND'S NOVELS. I. MAUPRAT. Translated by VIRGINIA VAUGHAN. II. ANTONIA. Translated by VIRGINIA VAUGHAN. III. MONSIEUR SYLVESTRE. Translated by FRANCIS GEORGE SHAW. IV. THE SNOW MAN. Translated by VIRGINIA VAUGHAN. V. THE MILLER OF ANGIBAULT. Translated by MARY E. DEWEY. VI. MY SISTER JEANNIE. Translated by S. R. CROCKER. _A standard Library Edition, uniformly bound, in neat 16mo volumes. Each volume sold separately. Price $1.50._ SOME NOTICES OF "MAUPRAT." "An admirable translation. As to 'Mauprat,' with which novel Roberts Brothers introduce the first of French novelists to the American public, if there were any doubts as to George Sand's power, it would for ever set them at rest.... The object of the story is to show how, by her (Edmee's) noble nature, he (Mauprat) is subsequently transformed from a brute to a man; his sensual passion to a pure and holy love."--_Harper's Monthly._