George Moore: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him

45. GEORGE MOORE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS ABOUT HIM Compiled and edited by Helmut E. Gerber Annotated by Lynn C. Bartlett (Vassar College), Charles Burkhart (Temple University), Jfilton Chaikin (Georgia Institute of Technology), fî.E» Gerber (Purdue University), Charles Green (Purdue University), William A. Perkins (San Diego State College), and Ruth Z. Temple (Brooklyn College)» PART TWO Huneker, James G. "Three Disagreeable Girls," IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS* NY: Scribner's, 1915. Pp. 311-28, espec 318-23. Rptd from FORUM, LII (1914)i espec pp. 769-72. Mildred Lawson, of CELIBATES, is one of the three most disagreeable girls in modern fiction, the other two being Hedda Gabler and Undine Spragg, Mildred belongs to the selfish, mean-spirited, cruel band of women so popular with writers in modern fiction. .............."The Reformation of George Moore," UNICORNS, NY: Scribner's, 1921. Pp. 261-76. Impressionistic reviews of VALE and THE BROOK KERITH. VALE (expurgated for American consumption) is largely a book of capricious insults, written by "dear naughty George Moore." Our grandchildren will chuckle over GM's unconscious humor and Pepys-like chronicling of smallbeer . The best part of the book deals with his early Parisian experiences: the essential GM is to be found only in Paris. Beautifully written, THE BROOK KERITH will offend the faithful and not convince the heterodox. Tragic irony suffuses every page, and of course the image GM has created is not godlike. ............. "The Recantations of George Moore," VARIATIONS. NY: Scribner's, 1921. Pp. 20-29. An impression of AVOWALS. GM was always changing his opinions., and his recantations became numerous with the passage of years. In AVOWALS GM repudiates his Flaubert worship and admiration of Tolstoy. He is still faithful to Pater and continues to think little qf Henry James and Whistler. Hutchinson, Mary. "An Impression of George Moore," THE NEW STATESMAN AND NATION, XII (17 Oct 1936), 585-6; also see LONDON MERCURY (Nov 1936), 74. Sympathetic analysis of GM's character—"irreparably aesthetic," as GM "once said of himself," True to himself, having real integrity, GM loved sensations of the moment as a French Impressionist might, was thoroughly natural and un-selfconscious with best friends, spontaneous. He had a sense of reality which often permitted him to perceive and maintain artistic relationships with other people. His vulgarity, pettiness, lapses have been too heavily underlined and produce an out-of-focus picture. Hone's biography, Hutchinson says, is very good. Irving, Laurence. HENRY IRVING: THE ACTOR AND HIS WORLD. Lond: Faber, 1951. Pp, 496-98, 611. Irving, resenting statements made by GM and Quilter criticizing the theatre, said, "I would certainly not have bothered about either Moore or Quilter...had not statements of these...pundits heen copied all over the country and had not the columns of THE TIMES and THE STANDARD been open to them." Quilter had employed GM to write an article ("Mummer Worship") for the UNIVERSAL REVIEJ disparaging acting as art and profession, which GM—whose MARTIN LUTHER play had once been refused by Irving—was delighted to do,, Irving replied in a speech 46 (cornerstone laying of a new theatre in Balton) which was favorably reported. Reports that Mrs. Aria was a young girl "educated by the conversation of Labby, Wilde, George Moore, and their satellites." Jackson, Holbrook. THE PRINTING OF BOOKS. Lond: Cassell, 1938. Pp. 109-19. GM's earlier books show little interest on his part in their making, but, after exposure to Elizabeth C. Yeats' Dun Emer and Cuala Press publications and Jack B. Yeats' decorations, GM took more interest in the printing of his books. GM's typographical awakening came about 1915, initially due to the influence of books of 18th-century England and France. The first fruit of his new interest is BROOK IiERITH (Riverside Press ed). Cites Francis Meynell's description of the stages of GM's text for ULICK AND SORACHa. Illustrations of title pages from GM's books and discussion of GM's preferences in typography. .............. THE EIGHTEEN-NINETIES. Lond: Richards, 1913; Lond: Cape, 1931; Penguin (OP). See index. GM was a "typical realist of the Nineties" but "devoid of deliberate social purpose." ESTHER WATERS is a "vivid piece of realism." CSVI "far...