Abstract

Impressions of Theophrastus Such

The article presents information on the book "Impressions of Theophrastus Such," by George Eliot. In her later work George Eliot has moralized at such length as to weary the best-natured of novel-readers, and make them wish sometimes that she had put her wise saws into an appendix, and so facilitated judicious skipping for those who do not care for such seasoning of their afternoon amusement. In this book she has dropped a pretence of a story, so those who care only for her narrative may go by on the other side with an easy conscience. The characters she describes, natural, lifelike as a party in any parlor, resemble, nevertheless, those mild-eyed, moving advertisements who, in obedience to American ingenuity, perambulate the thronged streets of New York. The characters she describes, natural, lifelike as a party in any parlor, resemble, nevertheless, those mild-eyed, moving advertisements who, in obedience to American ingenuity, perambulate the thronged streets of New York.