MACMILLAN'S POCKET CLASSICS AUTHOR FRONTISPIECE Edited with introduction and notes by Edward L. Gulick A. M. (Harvard) Master of English in the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N. J. "A child, more than all others gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." Wordsworth "When George Eliot published Silas Marner in 1861 she was at the height of her powers as a novelist and was writing in a period of remarkable intellectual and literary achievement. She herself described the novel as 'legendary' and yet 'realistic.' Its realism is unmistakably clear, and the book offers a beautiful microcosm of English village life in the early nineteenth century. One especially interesting aspect of the realism here is the picture of traditional English Congregationalism, with its plainness, frugality, and severe, homely piety which have an important part in the whole complex of English provincial culture. The book is notable too for the character of the girl Eppie and for unlettered Dolly Winthrop's influence on the weaver's sad early years and his mellowing later life." RG4 Near fine brown stamped cloth. Gilt titles. Slight wear, previous owner name inside. 1928, (First Published June 1899), 16mo, xxvi, 216pp.

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