Two on George Moore

31:4 Book Reviews scarcely have been greater. Combined with the continued proofing for the Mellstock edition during 1920, the preparation of Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) and Human Shows (1925), and the generosity with advice to those commentators with whom he chooses to bother (the letter to Madeleine Rolland glossing troublesome dialect words for her French translation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles runs to more than two printed pages, that to Samuel Chew suggesting changes for a revised edition of his book to more than three), the impression is not of declining or derivative energy. Since this is the penultimate volume of the letters and Volume VII, which will shortly appear, promises not only completion but also corrections, letters discovered too late for inclusion in the relevant volumes, and fuller indexes, this is not the point to consider the vast project, ten years in the making, as an editorial whole. It is sufficient to say that Volume VI lives up to the superb quality of its predecessors, and for the same reasons: meticulousness, elegance of annotative phrasing and typography, and easily carried authoritativeness . Hardy may not always have been one of the most provocative of correspondents, but he has inspired one of the most accomplished of editions. Keith Wilson University of Ottawa TWO ON GEORGE MOORE Edwin Gilcher. Supplement to A Bibliography of George Moore. Westport, CT: Meckler; Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1988. $29.95 Patrick Bridgwater. George Moore and German Pessimism. Durham, England: University of Durham [Durham Modem Language Series, GM 3], 1988. £4.95 Any scholar who has ever worked seriously with the complexity of Moore's oeuvre knows the incalculable gratitude we owe to Edwin Gilcher for his Bibliography of George Moore. Published in 1970, the book threads its way through the maze of Moore's many "editions," "revised editions," and "reissues" and presents the first detailed and comprehensive bibliography of an author as notorious for his revisions as for his editorial tinkering. The bibliography was based in large part on the private collection of Gilcher, a collection which was many years in the making and which has since been acquired by the Special Collections of the Arizona State University library. Gilcher has continued to keep track of information on Moore and now offers us his Supplement to A Bibliography of George Moore. Certainly all Moore scholars who rely heavily on the original bibliography will find this supplement useful in their endeavors. The Supplement is organized in the same way as the original bibliography, making use of the same order and the same typographical distinctions. Besides listing new titles that have come to light, the book also lists corrections for items listed in the first and third sections of the original bibliography. There have been no additions to the second section ("Contributions"). 471 31:4 Book Reviews The first section ("Books and Pamphlets") covers the main titles of Moore's canon. Only two completely new titles (In Minor Keys and George Moore's Correspondence with the Mysterious Countess) have been added, but for many of the titles new information, sometimes substantial, has been added as well as a list of errata where necessary. Much of this information is of interest only to the bibliophile, but all Moore students will find it convenient to have a complete description of the editions that have been published since 1970. "Periodical Appearances" is the third and longest section, covering new entries and corrections to old entries for the years 1879 to 1985. Gilcher has turned up over 150 new entries, some from very obscure newspapers and magazines. Few of these appear to be substantial articles by Moore; many are letters and interviews. Where appropriate, Gilcher provides a brief account of the content . Some of these items, it must be admitted, would be hard to come by. Many were found in a series of scrapbooks from the library of the American collector Charles Edward Neill. The scrapbooks, with hundreds of clippings from American and British periodicals dating from the 1890s to the 1920s, were given to the Arizona State University library by Neill's daughter, and Gilcher has evidently combed through the scrapbooks very thoroughly for those articles which contain...