...ame George Sand, we had better stretch the terms of our art a little. For the book proved to be, as its author had hoped, a living dramatic reality. Topsy, Chloe, Sam and Andy, Miss Ophelia and Legree are alive. Mrs. St. Clare might have been one of Balzac's indolent, sensuous women. Uncle Tom himself is a bit too good to be true, and readers no longer weep over the death of little Eva-nor, fo...