must necessarily cover much that awaits a higher development.

His clearness of vision and power of analysis are masterly. He draws with a firm, strong hand the large lines that present the eternal pattern, while he lacks none of the suggestiveness that supplies the delicate shadings necessary for completeness. He depicts no less vividly the limitations of the species, portraying the details involved in the patter or genus and the relatively between them so forcibly as to make his characters and incidents well-night objective facts to ourselves.

The three books under consideration illustrate the natural order of the development of the soul, the self, of Primal Man, according to the law of being. In "The Magic Skin" we have the lower human soul which includes the animal soul; in Louis Lambert," the higher human which is becoming detached from the lower; and in "Seraphita," the divine soul whose home is above the things of sense to which it is almost a stranger. This division or qualification of the soul according to the genus, these three souls in one soul, does not originate with Balzac, but is discerned and followed by him, not as an outcome of his philosophy, but as the fixed point from and according to which that philosophy is evolved. Nowhere is the keen insight which makes him a seer more clearly shown; and with this discovery one is prepared for the intuition which finds and hands down to others