Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — All About George Eliot's Husband. [ARTICLE]

All About George Eliot's Husband.

Mr. John Cross is an excellent man of forty-two years, rich, and an old and devoted friend of the Howeses. Mr. Lewes was very fond of him. He lived cldse by the Leweses’ country place, and came in and out like an attached relation. He admired Mrs. Lewes profoundly, and always said he would do any thing in the world for her. He is not an intellectual companion, like Mr. Lewes, but a strong, solid, reliable man, who gives you at once a sense of confidence, a thorough, reliable, kind, upright, steadfast man—a thorough support; such a man as any woman would lie thankful to have near her as a constant and devoted friend. Nothing is more wise and more happy than that such an invaluable friend should be allowed to supply the daily care and affectionate companionship which his admiration and his affection both made him long to give. And Mrs. Lewes is not the woman, with her tendef and yielding nature (so unconsciously sketched in Maggie Tolliver and Dorothea), to resist the soothing support of such devoted affection.— Woman’s Journal.