. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. tly. I have already alluded to the love and devotionMeredith showered upon his little son Arthur in theyears immediately following the separation fromthe wife and mother and the death of that mostunhappy of women. This supreme affection of thethen lonely father for his lonely child is the mostpathetic episode in the life of Meredith ; baffled loveand sorrow and retributive tragedy are enshrined inthe story, which in its most appealing features onlycovers a few years. It was, in a way, a repetitionof family history. Remembering hi
. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. tly. I have already alluded to the love and devotionMeredith showered upon his little son Arthur in theyears immediately following the separation fromthe wife and mother and the death of that mostunhappy of women. This supreme affection of thethen lonely father for his lonely child is the mostpathetic episode in the life of Meredith ; baffled loveand sorrow and retributive tragedy are enshrined inthe story, which in its most appealing features onlycovers a few years. It was, in a way, a repetitionof family history. Remembering his own lonely—perchance loveless—boyhood (for his father,Augustus Meredith, as I have related, though in-dulgent and anxious to win his sons affections andsympathies, never succeeded in reaching that remoteand sensitive heart), George Meredith made affectingefforts to recover the mistakes of the past and winthe love of his own son—the only thing in the worldhe then loved ; the handsome boy, ill-fated inheritorof a double portion of warring temperament and. Janet Duff Gorduv ( Ross) in kvan harrington, ILCHESTER, IK HaRRY KiCHMONDFrom the portrait by G. F. IVattSy The OF Rose AND, PARTLY, OF J AN El ARTHUR MEREDITH 143 talent, was of curious psychology; he was rathercold and unresponsive to his father ; his sympathies,in turn, were never won, and eventually came longestrangement between these two acutely sensitivenatures so much alike, each with a power of wound-ing the other most pitiful. George Meredith had tosuffer the same regrets and pangs which had beenthe portion of his father before him in relation tohis own personality. As he sorrowfully wrote fromexperience in Richard Feverel, he was contendingwith Fate for the boy. In both the cases of George and Arthur Merediththe boys were spoilt and brought up in an ill-advisedand uncertain manner; both in the position of anonly child, they each lacked the society of otherchildren and were too much
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