Review of reviews and world's work . career,—wasprinted in this maga-zine in February oflast year, apropos ofthe novelists attain-ment of his eightiethbirthday. To this werefer our readers forthe details of his ht-crary all, George Mere-dith published abouttwenty-five books inprose and verse, andin these he has takensuch a grip on thelife of his time asfew authors in anv. GEORGE MEREDITH AT SIXTY. prose. But it shouldbe said with equalfrankness that he de-mands of his read-ers an alertness, nim-bleness, and swift-ness of intelligencethat will at leastmeet half-way hisown prodigi
Review of reviews and world's work . career,—wasprinted in this maga-zine in February oflast year, apropos ofthe novelists attain-ment of his eightiethbirthday. To this werefer our readers forthe details of his ht-crary all, George Mere-dith published abouttwenty-five books inprose and verse, andin these he has takensuch a grip on thelife of his time asfew authors in anv. GEORGE MEREDITH AT SIXTY. prose. But it shouldbe said with equalfrankness that he de-mands of his read-ers an alertness, nim-bleness, and swift-ness of intelligencethat will at leastmeet half-way hisown prodigious agil-ity; and for thesethe reward is im-mediate and abund-ant. His sentences,like Mrs. Mount-Stuart Jenkinsons,are flung out to beapprehended, not dis-sected. The art ofthe pen, he makesDiana say, is torouse the inwardvision, instead of la-boring with a drop-scene brush, as if itwere to the eye. . that is whythe poets, who springimagination with aword or phrase, paintlasting pictures. Mr. Merediths firstbook was a volume ofIt did not cause anv age have been able to do. It was Merediths poems, published in 1851prime distinction that he was able to blend so great stir in the literary world, and he seemsperfectly the activities of the artist and the seer, to have abandoned verse for a time thereafter,Characterizing his literary temper and style. Mr. for it was eleven years be
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