George Moore: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him Supplement I

34. GEORGE MOORE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS ABOUT HIM SUPPLEMENT I Compiled and edited by Helmut E. Gerber Annotated by Charles Burkhart (Temple University), Milton Chaikin (Georgia Institute of Technology),vH.E. Gerber (Purdue University), Charles Green (Purdue University), and^illiam A. Perkins (San Diego State College). This bibliography supplements the basic one published in EFT, 11,2, Parts I SIl (Summer-Fall 1959), 1-91. For some items on this list as well as other assistance I am grateful to Edwin Gilcher, whose knowledge of bibliographical matters concerning George Moore is wide and thorough. The items annotated here by no means deplete our backlog, for we have not yet located all the reviews and articles for which we have references and some we have been unable to prepare in time for this issue. In the meantime, a number of recently published articles on Moore have been called to our attention. Thus, in the Fall or in early 1961 we shall list another group of items from this backlog. Ruth Temple, Lynn Bartlett, Charles Green, and I have already begun work on what will be the second supplement to our original Moore bibliography. A., L. F. "The Book and Its Story," SKETCH, III (30 Aug 1893), 250. A review of MODERN PAINTING, GM is "an art critic who knows exactly what he means and says it with exemplary lucidity." Among other achievements, he rightly points out that the artist must discover the touch of beauty even in the center of the ugly. Adams, J. Donald. "Speaking of Books," NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, 30 July 1944, p. 2. Approves of GM's definitions (in AVOWALS) of "romantic" and "classic": the romantic (Homer) is "art emerging out of folk"; the classic (Sophocles) springs from "culture." Sees moderns as trying to recapture the folk element (Steinbeck's paisanos, TOBACCO ROAD). Aynard, Joseph. "George Moore, 1852-1933," JOURNAL DES DEBATS, XL, Part 1 (3 Feb 1933), 196-97. A brief and useless obituary. B., E. "1G.M.' and Artistic Education," SPEAKER, V (20 Feb 1892), 232. A letter to the editor. In an article called "More About Artistic Education" in SPEAKER, V (6 Feb 1892), 165-166, GM attacked the methods of art teaching at the Kensington School of Art; "E.B.'s" letter defends the methods of instruction and the quality of its pupils and its staff. a Beerbohm, Max. A SURVEY. Lond: Heinemann, 1921. Caricature No. 28 captioned A LACUNA: Mr. Edmund Gosse (to his interlocutor in "Avowals"): "But my dear Moore, of course you will—of course they shall. Only, you don't tell us when your seventieth birthday j_si" In the drawing Gosse is peering into a copy of WHO'S VJHO and a diminutive GM is looking up wistfully at a bust on a pedestal (presumably of hirfvself). 35. .......... CARICATURES OF TWENTY-FIVE GENTLEMEN. With intro by L. Raven-Hill. Lond: L. Smithers, 1896. P. 22. Caricature of GM. "The Best Living Writer of Prose," CURRENT OPINION, LXXVI (Mar 1924), 293-95. "The predominantly erotic note that distinguishes the writing of George Moore has been for him a source of both strength and weakness. There is something faun-like and pagan in his nature." Bi My, Andre. "Le Centenaire de George Moore," LE FIGARO LITTERAIRE, 31 May 1952 p. 2, cols 4-6. A brief report on GM's talk about naturalists, symbolists, and certain English writers, by a man who met the elderly GM two or three times at Dujardin's VaI Changis. Usual word-picture of GM at the end of his life ("avait l'air d'un baby anglais, rose at souriant") and usual report of his cantankerousness: his envy of Kipling, Hardy, and Conrad, his dislike of being interrupted or contradicted, etc. Bishop, G.W. "George Moore and His Work," SUNDAY TIMES (Lond), 8 Jan 1933, p. 5. GM recounts to Bishop the contents of the forthcoming A COMMUNICATION TO MY FRIENDS; discusses briefly the subject of his new novel (MADELINE DE LISLE, which remained unfinished); and praises the style of Pater and Sterne. .......... "George Moore: His Life and His Work. A Last Interview," SUNDAY TIMES (Lond), 22 Jan 1933, p. 7. See...