_Domi mansit, lanam fecit:_ "He remained at home and wrote," is the first thing that should be said of Gustave Flaubert. This trait, which he shares with many of the writers of his generation,--Renan, Taine, Leconte de Lisle and Dumas _fils_,--distinguishes them and distinguishes him from those of the preceding generation, who voluntarily sought inspiration in disorder and agitation,--Balzac and George Sand, for instance (to speak only of romance writers), and the elder Dumas or Eugène Sue. Flaubert, indeed, had no "outward life;" he lived only for his art. A second trait of his character, and of his genius as a writer, is that of seeing in his art only the art itself--and art alone, withou…
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