The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-04

year or two later. One of his mt ooh
was his "Recollections of Rossefdr xkirA
was followed by various esnH IA
literary criticisms, including Cob
webs of Criticism" ''Sonness II
Three Centuries" and .sLife q
Coleridge." While producing these ear
works. Mr.. Hall-Caine was reviewing on
the Athensups and Academy and writing
letters daily in the Liverpool Hrcxr,
whose editor, the late John Lowell, frss
manager of the Press Association. was biz
personal friend.
His first novel. "The Shadow Of
Crime" was written when he was 30, and
published year later. 1t began nes
career for him. "a Son of Hagar" fol
lowed without so much success Git Is not
usually considered proper to its authors
natural talent), and then cine "Ths
Deemster." to which the "Bondsman" sue.
ceeded. The illustrated London Neus has
Just begun publication of a NTH novel Of
this author entitled 1.-THE Scapegoat"
Hali-Caine is known as a dramatiss
being joint author of two plays, of which
the better known is "Ben-ma-Chre thu
dramatized version of the "Deemster. r
written i'll collaboration with Wilson Bar.
rett. 1t has been performed nearly 4
thousand times in London, the English
provinces and the United States.
Another play, "Mahomet," written to
T.
theater, was virtually suppressed by the
storm of Indignation which arose among
the Indian Mussulmen in the Mahom-
medan Journals.
In 1889 HalI-Caine visited Iceland and
in 1891 he visited Morocco. He lives near
Keswick in lonely little place overlook
ing Derwentwater, and close to the houses
made sacred by the literary associations
of the lake country. At present be Is COM
PEELED TO rest from all kinds of work, hsv-
ing been much out of health since his re-
turn from Tangier. His most recent book
is ''The Little Manx Nation" volume Of
his lectures at the royal institution, which
Mir. Gladstone has recently favorahly
noticed.
GEORGE MEREDITH.
George Meredith was born in Hamp
shire in 1928, and is, therefore, 63 years Of
age. He has been honored by the discern
ing few for many years. Il is only within
the last three or four, that he has been
accepted by many. He has been mar
ried three times and has two children.
girl and boy. Down in Dorking, in Sur.
reg, he has a pleasant house with pretty
grounds. in which he has built himself
little chalet, where the greater part Of his
literary work is done. A lovely little
place it is, backed by wooded hill, and
quite away from the riot and roar of ths
crowd. This estate he has earned by the
money he has made by his writing. h
novels and poems have not always broughs
him as much wealth as their rare genius
entitled him TO, but his work on the
F0rtnightiy Reriew was always weh paid
for. and when John Morley, the editor Of
that famous periodical was sick. George
Meredith took his place for long time. IL
IS characteristic of the man that be de-
clined TO have his name puth forth IS cd
itor, and insisted on Moriey's name being
continued. This fact at one glimpse opens
to view his strange shyness, his utter UNI
seltshness and his pronounced sense OF
what constitutes real friendship Do you
remember the boy friends, by the by, IN
Harry Richmond pa book that mas
charm OF its own, TO some extent apan
from anything else George Meredith a.
written.
Robert Browning thought Modem
Love" the best poem Meredith ever No:4
Perhaps so, but in 1851 he issued an -
ton of 100 copies of volume of posgA
and has since been trying to suppress ms
issue. IN that little volume, l think, ~
contained truer outbursts of beartisn
poetry than in all his other four volumes
They are well worth reading, il one can
afford it. The edition was published q
shillings. A collecting publisher of raritles
says that. with great difficulty, ne POI
sessed himself of five copies in the thre
last years. Two of these he foolishly -
go at guineas. the other three at 10 gun
cas-, and he feels sorry he did not hon
them for year longer, when he thinng
might have got 20 or more. When todd
this George Meredith simply said: "fne1
the people are bigger asses than even
thought them"
With all his eccentricities, and his e.
treme desire to isolate himself. Mr. MeFe
dith is not unpopular where he lives, ans
ordinary men have only one great obiet
ton to him. he will always wear red tses