. George Meredith in aneddote and criticity . mish entità ostile, o organisedbody di entità simili. Così quando, dopo un intervallo di silenzio, ha prodotto l'egoista, e le unità di accumulo della nuova generazione, le menti più nuove, apprezzavano la novità del problemand la soluzione così in generale per rendere il libro il successo di itsyear, era inteso essere cinico sopra la lode data ad un lavoro che era nella sua opinione inferiore ai suoi predecessori. La nuova generazione da allora ha proceduto a leggere quei lavori precedenti; butMR. Meredith aveva fissato le sue abitudini psicologiche, e nessun senso di

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. George Meredith in anecdote and criticism . mpish hostile entity, or organisedbody of similar entities. Thus when, after an interval of silence, he produced The Egoist, and the accumulating units of the newgeneration, the newer minds, appreciated the novelty of the problemand the solution so generally as to make the book the success of itsyear, he was understood to be cynical over the praise given to a workwhich was in his opinion inferior to its predecessors. The newgeneration has since proceeded to read those earlier works; butMr. Meredith had fixed his psychological habits, and no sense ofcommunity with his generation could now avail to make him treatlanguage as a common possession, which any one may rightlyimprove, but which no one may fitly seek to turn into impenetrablejungle for his own pleasure. Ill health may have had something todo with Mr. Merediths aesthetic deviation from the general deedof man ; and his contemporaries have their share of responsibility;but we must recognise in him what we have recognised behind all. i^k ivLw YORKPLBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND LITERARY CHARACTERISTICS 185 forms of preciosity—a specific limitation or one-sidedness, a failureto develop equally and in healthy relation to all the forces of theintellectual life. . What he long- ago confessed of himself in Beauchamps Career —that he had acquired the habit of listeningtoo much to his own voice—is now too obvious to need confessing.It all goes to produce, not only that defect of relation to currentlife which we see in his unhappy style, but that further defect whichconsists in his lapses into unreality as a novelist. But after the worst has been said, and every fault laid bare, itmust be confessed there remains some subtle magic in Meredithsstyle that cannot be defined so easily as his mannerisms and theirexcesses can be defined; that charms us almost against our betterjudgment; that makes us feel, when we have applied all possibletests of criticism, that criticism does

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