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Copyright, 1884.
By EDGAR EVERTSON SALTUS.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| The Vagaries of Genius | 5 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Comédie Humaine | 39 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Buskin and the Sock | 69 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Chase for Gold | 108 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Thinker | 140 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Bibliography | 165 |
5
BALZAC.
CHAPTER I.
THE VAGARIES OF GENIUS.
“Great minds are bravely eccentric; they scorn the beaten track.”—Goldsmith.
In the city of Tours, in whose gabled streetsthere lingers still some memory of la belleImpéria, Honoré de Balzac was born on the20th of May, 1799.
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