GEORGE MEREDITH A STUDY BY HANNAH LYNCH

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<p class=""MsoNormal"" style=""margin: 6.1pt 0in 5.9pt; text-align: justify;""><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-variant: small-caps;""> couple</span><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""> of months ago I was asked to give a lecture in Paris on a

modern English writer, and I naturally selected my favourite, the subject of

this little book. It was afterwards suggested to me that the lecture would bear

expansion, a task I the more readily undertook because I was happy enough to

learn that my humble effort had sent at least three intellectual foreigners to

the fountainhead to study for themselves the novels of Mr. Meredith, curious to

see if I had not overrated his merits, as is the habit of enthusiastic

disciples, and greatly astonished to find their expectations disappointed, and

my estimate unexaggerated.<p></p></span></p>



<p class=""MsoNormal"" style=""margin: 6.1pt 0in 5.9pt; text-align: justify;""><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"">While still engaged upon this work I received from London Mr. Le

Gallienne’s book, ‘George Meredith,’ and not having by me copies of ‘Modern

Love’ or the other poems of Mr. Meredith, I availed myself of his quotations of

the famous sonnet and ‘A Meeting.’ I have also taken from Mr. Lane’s

Bibliography, added to Mr. Le Gallienne’s book, the dates of the appearance of

each of the novels, as my own copies all belong to the recent uniform editions

published by Messrs. Chapman and Hall.<p></p></span></p>



<span style=""font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""><div style=""text-align: right;""><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"">HANNAH LYNCH</span></div></span></div>"