An Echo of Passion

An elaborate analysis of character is the leading feature of this novel. The attitude of these writers such as this is critical, but softened by a large sympathy with all things living.

Such an artist is George Meredith, who is most charming and most successful in the subtle dissection of an intellectual crisis. The groundwork of “The Egoist,” one of his most admired works, is the discovery by a young girl of the deep ingrained selfishness of the man to whom she is betrothed; her escape fro...