counsel of perfection which can ever really mean much to the artist. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES The essays contained in this book are not intended to give information. They are concerned with ideas rather than with facts; each is a study of a problem, only in part a literary one, in which I have endeavoured to consider writers as personalities under the action of spiritual forces, or as themselves so many forces. But it has seemed to me that readers have a right to demand information in regard to writers who are so often likely to be unfamiliar to them. I have, therefore, given a bibliography of the works of each writer with whom I have dealt, and I have added a number of notes, giving various particulars which I think are likely to be useful in fixing more definitely the personal characteristics of these writers. HONORÉ DE BALZAC (1799-1850) La Comédie Humaine _Scènes de la Vie Privée_ _Préface. La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote,_ 1829; _Le Bal de Sceaux,_ 1829; _Mémoires de deux jeunes Mariées,_ 1841; _La Bourse,_ 1832; _Modeste Mignon,_ 1844; _Un Début dans la vie,_ 1842; _Albert Savarus,_ 1842; _La Vendetta,_ 1830; _La Paix du ménage,_ 1829; _Madame Firmiani,_ 1832; _Étude de femme,_ 1830; _La Fausse maîtresse,_ 1842; _Une Fille d'Eve,_ 1838; _Le Message,_ 1832; _La Grenadière,_ 1832; _La Femme abandonnée,_ 1832; _Honorine,_ 1843; _Beatrix,_ 1838; _Gobseck,_ 1830; _La Femme de trente ans,_ 1834; _La Père Goriot,_ 1834; _Le Colonel Chabert,_ 1832; _La Messe de l'Athée,_ 1836; _L'Interdiction,_ 1836; Le _Contrat de mariage,_ 1835; Autre _étude de femme,_ 1839; La _Grande Bretêche,_ 1832. _Scènes de la vie de Province_ _Ursule Mirouët,_ 1841; _Eugénie Grandet,_ 1833; _Le Lys dans la vallée_, 1835; _Pierrette,_ 1839; _Le Curé de Tours_, 1832; _La Ménage d'un garçon,_ 1842; _L'illustre Gaudissart,_ 1833; _La Muse du département,_ 1843; _Le Vieille fille_, 1836; _Le Cabinet des Antiques,_ 1837; _Les Illusions Perdues,_ 1836. _Scènes de la Vie Parisienne_ _Ferragus,_ 1833; _Là Duchesse de Langeais,_ 1834; _La Fille aux yeux d'or,_ 1834; _La Grandeur et la Décadence de César Birotteau,_ 1837; _La Maison Nucingen,_ 1837; _Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes,_ 1838; _Les Secrets de la Princesse de Cadignan,_ 1839; _Facino Cane,_ 1836; _Sarrasine,_ 1830; _Pierre Grassou,_ 1839; _La Cousine Bette,_ 1846; _Le Cousin Pons,_ 1847; _Un Prince de la Bohème,_ 1839; _Gaudissart II,_ 1844; _Les Employés,_ 1836; _Les Comédiens sans le savoir,_ 1845; _Les Petits Bourgeois,_ 1845. _Scènes de la Vie Militaire_ _Les Chouans,_ 1827; _Une Passion dans le désert,_ 1830. _Scènes de la Vie Politique_ _Un Épisode sous la Terreur,_ 1831; _Une Ténébreuse Affaire,_ 1841; _Z. Marcos,_ 1840; _L'Envers de l'Histoire contemporaine,_ 1847; _Le Député d'Arcis._ _Scènes de la Vie de Campagne_ _Le Médecin de campagne,_ 1832; _Le Curé de village,_ 1837; _Les Paysans,_ 1845. _Études Philosophiques_