George Sand died at Nohant on the 8th of June 1876. To a youth and womanhood of storm and stress had succeeded an old age of serene activity and then of calm decay. Her nights were spent in writing, which seemed in her case a relaxation from the real business of the day, playing with her grandchildren, gardening, conversing with her visitors—it might be Balzac or Dumas, or Octave Feuillet or Matthew Arnold—or writing long letters to Sainte-Beuve and Flaubert. "Calme, toujours plus de calme," was her last prayer, and her dying words, "Ne detruisez pas la verdure." BIBLIOGRAPHY.-The collected edition of George Sand's works was published in Paris (1862-83) in 96 volumes, with supplement 109 volumes; the Histoire de ma vie appeared in 20 volumes in The Etude bibliographique sur les muvres de George Sand by the vicomte de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul (Brussels, 1868) gives the most complete bibliography. Of Vladimir Karenin's (pseudonym of Mme. Komarova) George Sand, the most complete life, the first two volumes (1899-1901) carry the life down to 1839. There is much new material in George Sand et sa fille, by S. Rocheblave (1905), Cor
respondance de G. Sand et d'Alfred de Musset (Brussels, 1904), Correspondance entre George Sand et Gustave Flaubert (1904), and Lettres a Alfred de Musset eat a Sainte-Beuve (1897). E. M. Caro's George Sand (1887) is rather a critique than a life. See studies by Sainte-Beuve in the Causeries du lundi and in Portraits contemporains; Jules Lemaitre in Les Contemporains, vol. iv.; E. Faguet, X/Xe Siecle; F. W. H. Myers, Essays Ancient and Modern (1883) ; Henry James in North American Review (April 1902) ; Matthew Arnold, Mixed Essays (1879). See also Rene Doumic's George Sand (19°9), which has been translated into English by Alys Hallard as George Sand: Some Aspects of her Life and Writings (Iwo) ; C. Maurras, Les Amants de Venise; George Sand et Musset (1916) ; L. Vincent, George Sand et le Berry (2 vols. 1919) ; E. A. A. L. Seilliere, George Sand (1920) ; E. W. Schermerhorn, The Seven Strings of the Lyre. The Life of George Sand (1804-76) (1928) ; and Eng. trans., by M. J. Howe, of her Journal Intime as The Intimate Journal of George Sand (1929).