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MEETING

Continued froid Paks 1.J

To put him in his proper literary perspective It may be recorded that his earliest novel "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel," written when the he was thirty, appeared in same year as Dickens' "Tale of

Cities" Two

and Thackeray's "Virginians." "Evan Harrington." a year later, coincided with George Eliot's "Silas Marner" "The Amazing Marriage." Meredith's last novel appeared in 1895 and gives him an overinp with Joseph Con- rad and E. G. Wells

Mr. Priestley's recent monograph has made the amazing disclosure that more than 1

of hint "Meredith's own ancestry is to be found in the novel "Evan Harring- ton."

His father was, in fact, tallor. True he was 1 very superior kind of tator but did not the great Melchisedec Harrington himself ride to bounds? And did he not between death and burial

distinction enjoy the rate

of 2 kiss on the brow from a certain lady of title?

Moreover George Meredith ap- parently had three duals who married husbands not unlike the Army officer, the

prosperous brewer and the Spanish Count of

the novel.

Matrimonially Meredith started badly by marrying at the age of 21 and with no visible means of support a lady nine years, older than himself. The most satisfac tory thing that this lady did was, in fact, to elope with someone else after nine years of wedded misery and to d'e a year later. She gave Meredith a considerable number of children who died in infancy and one son who quarrelled violently with his father and died abroad. 40. unreconciled, before he was Meanwhile Meredith, three years

after his first widowhood. had found the right wife' in his 37th the ensuing year and lived for twenty years in domestic content ment.

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TARTAN TIME

New Designs For Coronation

a crack shot, being fatally wound-It seems certain that tartan will for feminine wear during this ed, like his prototype Lassalle, in be the most fashionable material the inevitable duei

Coronation year, states the “Glas-

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A leading tallor Let us clear the air a little fur-states that even tartan bathing

Been on ther. We And in the novels a few costumes will be

But women who might be classed as beaches "charmers." Possessors, that it to suy, of more than their proper share of what I believe is nowadays vulgarly called "It." Take Mar- and plaid.

who garet Lovell, for example,

Mits

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the the

fashionable tartan is not quite the same thing as that traditionally associated with the Scottish Filt

In various materials the tartan about the background of designs are being used as a back- "Rhoda Fleming." It was she, you ground for other shades and tints, will remember, who "left India to a typical example which save her complexion"—and no one shown being in the appropriately was ever quite certain as to the patriotic red, white, and blue with design as an exact significance of that famous the Black Watch

A modified ver- remark. It is of her that Meredith effective setting. says that "one duel on behalf of sion of the new Balmoral tartan a woman is a reputation for ite; of light grey and green, with dark two are a notoriety."

a white She wasgrey, black thread, and fatal alike to Young boys and to ever check, is expected to be par those grave owls who thronged, ticularly popular. The big London dashing at the apparition or ter- retailing firms are placing large rible splendour and she is sum-orders with Scottish firms for these med up as a "crucible woman. in Coronation tartan" designs. contact with whom you were re- duced to your component parts.”

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Mrs. Mount who consoled poor tween it and the history of that Richard Feverel for the duration Sheridan girl who, as Mrs. Norton, of a single chapter headed "Analled the headlines of those days Enchantress Hear him as ne when the spectacle of a Cabinet tries to defend her before the for- Minister as co-respondent was pro- Hildable Lady Blandish:-"Because bably more startling then it would I am married am I to give up the be to-day. However that may be society of women?” "O! women!" it will. I think, be generally con- she replied. "Isn't she a woman. ceded that, Diana Warwick is the

anished product of he asked. "Too much 20" sighed most the defender of her, sex. Mra. novelist's great imagination Mount's particular line of country

Reading the book I always get was the "Jolly good fellow" at the curious feeling that Meredith titude. "You're the only man", is not so much describing a ficti- she say to Richard. "I was ever tious character as letting his eyes alone with who don't talk to me feast on an adored object. There TAMÏ: of love and make me feel sick." must be many women in the world and this pleasing fantasy persists who can lay and light a fire. like When Diana does to the end of the chapter when a housemaid. her head, as might be anticipated, is buried in his shoulder.

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this, or rather when Meredith is watching her doing this, "the act Then there is the Countess Livia of service was beautifct and her in "The Amazing Marriage"; but simplicity touched it spiritually," she is less of the ordinary charmer Or take that tiny point about the It is not easy to compute how than an amazingly clever study of rather "scrupulous" way she had far George Meredith is to-day the psychology of gambling. Her of sounding the letter R Who but have no devotion to the green tables at a lover could pretend that to ar- popular novelist, and I intention of discussing his literary Baden was not because she got, rive twenty minutes late for a very

demerits and

as we should now say, a "kick" important dinner party could be length. Thank God," he said to-Quite the contrary. All she want- completely offset by the lovely way wards the end of his life, "Thanked was peace and quiet. But there she said that "she r-r-really fear- God I have never written to please are some people who can only ed she was a little late?"

And that heavenly laugh of hers.. the public": and, apart from his sleep well when, there is a storm mapilest weaknesses in narrative raging outside and who get rest-Of course it was ill-advised of her and construction. the ordinary lese when all around is calin. And to let it break in on a serious rub.... reader will always be repelled by such was Livia. "She could make ber of whist. I don't say that this "A excuses, the rude way in which her those crooked manneristas of his for herself," says Meredith. especially in his later works when quiet certre in the heart of the deplorable husband taught her IN He seems to have almost de-whirlwind; but the whirlwind was good eard-room mars. But is it not as an adoring lever that liberately tried to exasperate us. required." Consequently all Most

that Oscar satellites were gamblers, Captain Meredith goes on to describe the people know Wilde described him as the "prose Abrane the giant Guardsman of death of this lovely laugh-Nr. Browning" but actually the full the high-pitched vylee, a colossus Warwick "Ellled it; shot it dead"? epigram is leas 筵 criticism of active": Gir Meeson Corby, the And then came that terrible silence Meredith than

at tight buttoned little beau of forty "as of one striving to bring back

the throbs to a stain bird always at war with his tat; M. Browning.

I suppose It is a trutam to say de St. Ombre, the French cavalier; that Meredith has always been ac- the pragmatical Chumley Potts claimed as the outstanding and poor Ambrose Mallard, who feminist of the Victorians by those never had a chance. When Gower TWoodseer fret saw her there was who applaud feminism. think that the easiest way to know a semi-circle of men round her; what a man really stands for is "but," said he, "the world of men often to discover what are. his and women was mere timber and chief antipathics. And if there is leafage to this flower of her sex, one thing clear it is that Meredith glory of her kind. She was a abominated what may be called miracle of greyness, her eyes were the Turkish standpoint in the translucently grey; a dark-haired matter of women. Possibly this queen of the twilights" But of dates from those early days of course it must be remembered that ""The Shaving' of Shagpat: but Gower happened just then to be

rather in that sort of mood. always it keeps obtruding.

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One characteristic of Meredith's heroines is their capacity for de- voted friendship with other wO- men. I have mentioned that of vittoria (alias Emilia allas Sandra) for Laura Plavebi; and the sisterly Fleming the two bond between girls. Besides these one may no- tice Aminta and little Selina to carry her Collett who used loveletters school; there is Ottilia and Janet fichester; and there is Carinthia and her Rebecca Wythan. But the greatest of all 18 andoubtedly the wonderful friendship between Diana Warwick and 'Lady Dunstane which is in some waye the principal theme of. the novel.

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THE TRAGIC COMEDIANS Meredith knew how to write a love-story. Take for example ""The Clara Middleton in The Egoist" Tragic Comedians," one of his less we have already just met as Mrs.

I hope I have satisfied you that "dainty Jenkinson's he Mountuart famous novels, written when

psychologically. Cleorge Meredith was in his fifties The story is of rogue in porcelain." She is I sup-

ahead of all the other course based on the final episode pose one of the most universally was for In the life of the famous revolu- addred characters, in all fiction. Victorians and often enough far abead of this year of 1937. If I' tionary Ferdinand Lassalle. Mere-All sweet with the radiance of an

anti- dith almost admits that is his English soft-breathing day," she have done anything to persuade version of "Romeo and Juliet" and is described as possessing, "an non-Meredithians or even quotes the well-known line about equable shut mouth" and "an eye Meredithians to try him out may love at first sight. But here the that wavered only in humour." I just advise that the start should lovers are the high-born German But no catalogue of the features be made on one of the simpler aristocrat Clotilde nd the Jewish avails in describing one who, says novels such as Rhoda Fleming or Communist Alvan. Clotilde of Meredith, "came to have a keener Evan Harrington rather than on And course had socialistic tendencies; edge for the senses of men than any of the 'greater nges"

may I in conclusion say that most but even in those pre-Nazi days It sovereign beauty." And

thrall mercurial of the finer points in the novels in easy to see that the stage was find set for a drama on the lines of colonels, lean scholars, racy Irish cannot possibly be understood un- the... old Montagu and Capulet doctors and even ardent atoms of the second or even the third affair.

schoolboys. As a supplement to reading? Actually, it was not precisely a the porcelain epigram may be set rather enigmatic case of first sight, for each had Dr. Corney's heard a good deal about the other description"just the whini of an before they met, which is always Idea of a daughter of a peccadillo dangerous. Then they had nar Goddess."

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A discussion then followed, the William speakers included Bir Hornell Me 0. P. de Martin, Mr. rowly missed each other at Capri The novel largely centres round. M. Macfadyen and Prof. R. K.

M. Simpson. on one occasion-and when they her old father's taste for a good

The meeting concluded with a dld meet it was rather exciting to wine and it was too bad of Clara vote of thanks for the speaker and that they had both been to throw away his chance of an called by H E Bir Andrew Calde working out the Capri dates with eligible son-in-law with a well- greit predalon.

And then Clotilde must go and start the conversation by dis- say agreeing violently, not to rudely, with his interpretation of

stocked cellar and run off to

Among those present were:-Sir Switzerland with Vernon Whitford William Hornell, Mr. G. P. de Már- DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS, tin. Prol. R. K. M. Simpson, Hon. And lastly Diana of the Cross Dr. R. H. Rotewall and Mils Kote- something in Shakespeare (After ways. In a note at the beginning wall, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Lo, that the whole thing went like a of the novel Meredith tries hurd Hon. Mr. B. H. Dodwell, Rev. Fr. typhoon until it fizzled out in true to disclaim any connection be-G. Byrne and Rev. Fr. T. Ryon.

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