BALZAC

BY

FREDERICK LAWTON




DEDICATED,

In remembrance of many pleasant and instructive
hours spent in his society, to the sculptor

AUGUSTE RODIN,

whose statue of Balzac, with its fine, synthetic
portraiture, first tempted the author to write
this book.

PASSY, PARIS, 1910.




PREFACE



Excusing himself for not undertaking to write a life of Balzac,