When Gwendolen was cast down in utter dejection, all of joy and delight the world had afforded her gone, and she felt the greatest need of something to comfort and sustain her in her distrust of self and the world, Deronda said to her, "The refuge you are needing from personal trouble is the higher, the religious life, which holds an enthusiasm for something more than our own appetites and vanities.

Grandcourt is a type of pure egotism; Gwendolen is a creature who lives for self and with no law outside of her own happiness.

Living for self, the life of Gwendolen is blasted, her hopes crushed, and she finds no peace or promise except in the steadfast spiritual strength yielded her by Deronda.

A comparison of the spiritual histories of Gwendolen and Deronda will show how earnest was this purpose of the author.

Gwendolen is a type of those souls who have no spiritual anchorage in the religious life and traditions of their people.

At the opening of chapter third we are told she had no home memories, that "this blessed persistence in which affection can take root had been wanting in Gwendolen's life."

Gwendolen is one of the results of these processes, an example of that impoverished life which is so common, arising from religious rebellion and egotism.

Though Deronda was educated amidst surroundings almost identical with those which helped to form Gwendolen's character, yet a very different result was produced in him because of his inherited tendencies of mind.

" This inherited sense of a larger life made Deronda what he was, and developed in him qualities absent in Gwendolen.

A magnetic power of influence drew Gwendolen to him from the first time they met, he shamed her narrow life by his silent presence, and he quickened to life in her a desire for a purer and nobler existence.

With equal or even greater justice can it be said that Gwendolen Harleth is one of the most powerful and grandly conceived of imaginary creations in all literature.

Gwendolen B. Penniman (C); 12Apr60; R256538.

SEE Penn, Arthur A. PENNIMAN, GWENDOLEN B. Hoover and his times.

By John C. Ranney, Gwendolen M. Carter & Benjamin F. Wright.

Neil J. Ranney (E of John C. Ranney) & Gwendolen M. Carter (A); 15Apr76; R636329.

Lady Gwendolen Herbert (W); 4Nov77; R682437.

John Langdon-Davies (A); 18Mar59; R233559. LANGLET, ELLA GWENDOLEN.

Ella Gwendolen Langlet (A); 30Jan59; R229919.

SEE Penn, Arthur A. PENNIMAN, GWENDOLEN B. Hoover and his times.

By Gwendolen Lampshire Hayden & Pearl Clements Gischler.

The three sisters, Mary, Gwendolen and Alice, daughters of James Cartaret, the Vicar of Garth, were sitting there in the dining-room behind the yellow blind, doing nothing.

Gwendolen, the second sister, sat leaning over the table with her arms flung out on it as they had tossed from her the book she had been reading.

He was a man of middle height and squarish build, dark, pale-skinned and blue-eyed like his daughter Gwendolen.

Strictly speaking, it was his first wife, Mary Gwendolen, the one the children called Mother, who had begun it.

" Gwenda kissed the four children; Jimmy, and Gwendolen Alice, and