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LIFELONG SECRET OF
MEREDITH LEAKS OUT
Vain Novelist Wrapped His
Ancestry In Veil Of Mys
tery—Story Told.
From Donjon Correspondence of the New
York World.
The mystery of George Mere
dith's origin has long tantalized
the world. The reticence of the great
novelist himself on that subject helped
to beget various fantastic rumors—one
being that his birth was shadowed by
the bar sinister. Not only has no one
attempted his biography, through lack
of authentic information as to his be
ginnings, but all have been held back
by superstition such as has prevented
those confronted with the inscription in
Stratford church from disturbing
Shakespeare’s bones.
"I will horribly haunt any one who
attempts iny biography!” was the dying
exclamation of tlje author of "The
Egoist” to a friend, who in spite of his
intimacy never succeeded in extracting
th' slightest clew as to from whom or
whence Meredith sprung. The first
clew to the mystery was given in The
World at the time of the novelist’s
death, but now the secret is out; and
the world hardly knows whether to
laugh at or sympathize with the false
pride which was the cause of the
writer’s life-long silence.
The Son of a Tailor.
George Meredith was the son of a
Portsmouth tailor, and the early years
over which he drew so determined a
veil were associated with the memory
of his father seated with thread and
needle in his hand.
A relative, S. M. Ellis, defying the
indignant shade of Genius, has revealed
the fact in order that he may tardily
bask in the glory of kinship with one
who rejected the destiny of the tail
ors’ goose for the Immortality of the
pen. By one stroke of his own matter
of-fact quill, this writer, in the current
number of the Fortnightly, has dis
posed of the romantic figment of high
born Illegitimacy that Meredith pre
ferred to allow to live; notwithstanding
the reflection upon his mother, rather
than have the truth proclaimed, so
sensitive was the spirit of the author
to "Snippets” and other opprobious
names bestowed by snobbery on a call
ing which his rugged rival, Carlyle,
devoted his best talents to potheosiz
ing in "Sartor Kesatus!”
Yet if Meredith was a snob at soul
—and the greatest of writers have had
their Infirmities—he excoriated the
• failing in himself after an immortal
manner. In "Evan Harrington,” one'
of his most brilliant novels, he has be
queathed to posterity a biting analysis
of this same weakness, pillorying the
agonies of his own false shame in the
person of the hero. "Evan Harrington,"
as we learn from Mr. Ellis, is a con
science-tormented exploitation of his
great relative's family history, the fact
of which was only lightly juggled with
in responce to the demands of romance.
The Great Mel of its pages, the flower
of Tailordom, the Beau Brummel of
the town, the boon companion of local
aristocrats, was no other than George
Meredith’s grandfather, from whom his
grandson drew his own love of titled
society; while those other characters,
called the “Daughters of the Shearers,"
almost equally the delight of the reader,
were his great aunts.
Thus did the artist in Meredith mock
the man, and passion for masterly ma
terial triumph over the pangs of pri
vate vanity in giving to the world a
chef d'oeuvre, the existence of which is
a shining example of the inconsistency
of human nature.
Molchizedok Meredith.
It was from the Great Mel of his
novel, who In real life was Melchlzedek
Meredith, an eccentric Portsmouth
tailor, that the author inherited his
classic, high-bred looks, as well as his
social aspirations. Handsome, gallant,
with the finished manners of a gentle
man, Melchlzedek, by his extravagances
and hobnobbing with local swells,
brought his family to financial ruin.
To the neglect of his trade, he hunted
with his own horses; was an officer in
Portsmouth Yeoman cavalry—no small
luxury in those days—displaying his
patriotism in the threatened Invasion
of England by Napoleon; and as
POET TRAMPS MILES
TO EASE CONSCIENCE
From the Washington fftar.
As everybody knows, the left bank of
the Seine, in Paris, is the home of the
Bohemians of that gay capital. The
Latin quarter is on the left bank, or'
"rive gauche," as they call It, and no
words are strong enough to express the
disdain of its artistic denizens for the
"rive droit,” or opposite bank, where
the business and social worlds of Paris
have their abiding places.
Few of the dwellers on Montparnasse,
however, carry their prejudice as far
as does a versifier who was pointed out
to the writer recently at the “Closerie
des Lilacs,” the literary cafe where
Paul Fort, the newly elected Prince of
Poets, thrones it nightly. The writer
In question, whose name Is Paul Roin
ard, and who Is fairly renowed, boasts
that for 10 years on end he never has
set foot on the despised right bank of
the Seine. That bank, he says, stands
to him for everything that Is material,
plutocratic, commercial, philistine, and
for the sake of avoiding it M. Roinard
has gone in for a lot of unnecessary ex
ercise.
He has walked, In all probability,
thousands of miles In order to give
a wide berth. He lives in the suburb
of Courbevote, and every Tuesday he
walks to the “Closerie des Lilacs" In
order to take part In the weekly artistic
gathering there. Now the Seine, Just
at Courbevoie, takes a wide bend, and
M. Roinard, by making straight to his
destination, would have a constitutional
of only four miles. But this would
mean that he must cross the Seine and
for quite half of his Jurney tread the
accursed right bank, and tne poet will
not so compromise with his conscience.
Accordingly he follows the left bank
of the river where It makes Its loop, and
so at least trebles the length of his
weekly pilgrimage. They say In Mont
parnasse that he starts at 7 in the
morning in order that lie may accupy
his favorite seat at the "Closerie des
Lilacs” at 8:30 at night. And yet this
is supposed to be a materialistic age!
Doris Couldn’t Draw It.
From the Ladles Home Journal.
As a slight diversion the teacher sug
gested that each child in the class draw a
picture from which she could guess what
the child wanted to be when grown. All
sorts of articles were Illustrated: books
for bookkeepers, hats for milliners, etc
One little girl, however, had a blank
sheet.
"Why. Doris, don't you want to be any
thing when you are grown?"
"Yessum," said Doris; •'£ want to be
married, but 1 don't know how to draw
it."
The sponging industry of Cuba Is
dwindling because fishermen gather in
the Uttie sponges before their time.
church warden of his parish church of
St. Thomas was part donor of a.hand
some set of sliver offertory plates,
which still are In use In the church,
with his name engraved thereon.
It was in pursuance of these out
side Interests that the Great Mel’s
shop, that supplied uniforms to the
famous sailors of the day, perhaps In
cluding Nelson, lost its prestige, re
ferred to by Captain Marryat in "Peter
Simple”—"We called at Meredith's the
tailor, and he promised that by next
morning we should be fitted complete.”
Melchlzedek showed his taste In wed
ding while still a young man, a woman
of stately marriage, who bore him a
large family of exceptionally fine chil
dren, including a son, Augustus, the
novelist’s father, who inherited the
business. The four daughters, ail beau
tiful girls, married well. One, Louisa,
who appears in the story as the Coun
tess Silva, married a consul general for
the Azores, decorated by the Emperor
of Brazil and the King of Portugal.
Another, Harriet, became the wife of
a wealthy brewer, sketched by the nov
elist’s pen under the name of Andrew
Cogfllesby. A third was the wife of a
lieutenant of the royal marines—the
"Carry” of the book and the mother
of Mr. Ellis.
George, who was the only son of Au
gustus Meredith, was born at the fam
ily home in Portsmouth—already famed
as the birthplace of Charles Dickens—
in 1S2S. His father, who seems to have
been a “muddler,” soon after emigrat
ed, and the management of the busi
ness was assumed, as related In "Evan
Harrington,” by Mrs. Meredith until
her decease, some few years later.
Reared By His Aunts.
The novelist, then only but 5 years
old, was looked after by his paternal
aunts. He was sent to school, of which
his "chief remembrance," as he vaguely
stated to Mr. Clodd, was "three dreary
services on Sundays, the giving out of
the text being signal to me for Invent
ing tales of the Saint George and
dragon type. I was fond of "The Ara
bian Nights,' and this doubtless fed an
Imagination which took shape in 'The
Shaving of Sagpat.' I learned very
little at school, until I was sent to
Neuweid."
This German finish to his education,
which was drawn from the meager for
tune left by his father, who had mean
while returned hofne from South Africa
and died, was thfe end of the writer’s
connection with his native place. He
was 15 at the time, and it appears
that thereafter the young man delib
erately cut himself off from all Inter
course with his relations.
"That there was a quarrel,” Mr. Ellis
remarks, "seems evident from the pun
gent manner in which he dealt with
his family history in 'Evan Harring
ton.’ ”
The estrangement, whatever the
cause, did not. however, prevent the
novelist from later doing a member of
his family a good turn. Sir Samuel El
lis, his uncle by marriage, had written
a collection of West African stories,
which were sent by him to a London
publisher. Meredith happened to be a
reader of the concern, and the house
accepted the work on his recommenda
tion. It chanced, however, that the
book caused the publisher much trou
ble, as a certain James Pinnook
sued for libel on the ground that he was
maligned in one of the characters 'In
troduced in the sketches. George Mere
dith was called, with other witnesses,
and when asked if he knew Mr. Pin
nock, replied: “Not since the days of
my youth, when I learned his cate
chism.”
The plaintiff won his suit and was
awarded $1,000 damages. The Times
treated the verdict to a leading article,
and Meredith’s testimony was tra
vestied in Punch In a cartoon entitled
“Ay George." No one was a wire at the
time of Meredith's family connection
with the author of the libelous'book.
Spare as are the accounts furnished
by Mr. Ellis of George Meredith’s long
concealed ancestry, they furnish an
other Instance of genius applying the
time honored advice of ‘’Look into
thine own soul and write.” Meredith
had the courage to look, and In looking
dissect with the merciless scalpel of
his art the "Oemogorgon,” as he called
it, of his own false shame of bloqd.
Although he never succeeded in cast
ing out the devouring devil, the tor
ment of a lifetime, he had the nobility
to recognize his weakness and in an
immortalizing work call it by its true
name. That is the moral of “Evan Har
rington,” with its Ruy Blas-llke hero.
A moral that haunts the reader of it,
as one trusts Mr. Ellis will not be
haunted by the shade of its author."
FAMOUS HOPE DIAMOND—
THE JEWEL OF ILL OMEN
(Indianapolis News.)
One of the London papers has viewed
the death of Mrs. J. R. McLean in a su
perstitious light. Mrs. McLean, as is
well known, was the possessor of the
famous Hope diamond, valued at nearly
$200,000, which has a history black with
death and suffering. Tradition has at
tached to this stone a baneful Influence,
hence Mrs. McLean’s death from pneu
monia has, in the English eye, o par
ticular Interest.
The Hope diamond was taken to Eng
land from the east in 1888 by the great
traveler Tavernier, whose affairs at
once took a turn for the bad. At the
age of 81 he set out on a fresh voyage to
retrieve his fortunes, and died of fever
abroad. Louis XIV bought the jewel,
and gave it in turn to Madame Main
tenon and Marie Lepezlnska, and each
of them soon lost favor. Marie Antoin
ette preferred It to all her Jewels, and
perished on the scaffold. It was stolen
in the French revolution, and when It
reappeared it had been cut down to
nearly half its original size by the Jew
eler Fals, of Amsterdam. His son stole
the diamond, rtjjned his father, and
tblhmlHed Suicide. Before dying he
gave the stone to a Frenchman named
Beaulieu, who died of want without be
ing able to sell It.
In 1830 Lord Hope bought it for $90,
000,and was the only owner to whom It
seems to have brought no harm. He sold
It to a Russian princess, who was shot
the first time she wore it. The next own
er went wan, and the succeeding one
fell with his wife down a precipice and
was killed. It was then bought by tlfe
ex-sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, who
sold it to a rich Persian merchant called
Habib, who was drowned In a ship
wreck off Singapore.
Last January Mr. McLean, the Eng
lish press lias it, bought it for $180,000,
on condition that if anybody of his
household died within six months the
diamond should be exchanged for Jewels
of equal value. But two of his servants
having died, and his mother having fall
en seriously ill, Mr. McLean refused to
pay the first Installment of $40,000, and
a lawsuit was begun.
Not Her Fault.
From Judge.
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The liners to be built for the White
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It is predicted that the Canadian
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“We do not expect that the $5,000
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ness in that route will be nothing com
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velop and become bigger in the years
to come, but at the present we are
most concerned with the tremendous
tide of Immigration that is being di
verted from the United States to the
Dominion.
“The farm land of the vast North
West is the attraction, and while this
flood of immigration is at its height,
the Canadian Government exercises a
strict censorship over the class of im
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are drawing their future citizens from
the Northern countries and have
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In the Day of the Billionaire.
A brilliant New York lawyer said
at a dinner at the Lotus club apropos
of certain trust magnates:
“Thanks to watered stock—and wa
tered stock is criminal abroad—these
men are Indeed rich beyond the
dreams of avarice.
“If the watering of stock is allowed
to keep on we’ll hear our billionaires
talking like this some day:
“ ‘Hullo! There goes Jones in his
300 horsepower car. Do you know
him?”
‘“Do I know him! Do I know
Jones! Why, man alive, Jones and I
were struggling young millionaires to
gether!’”—New York Times.
Awful Blow.
"Yes,” said Slithers, “Mickey was
my dearest friend, and I shall never
cease to mourn his death. It was a
terrible blow from which I shall never
recover.”
“Why, I thought you married hiB
widow,” said Jepson.
i “Why—er—ahem!—why, yes, I did!
but—”
Here Slithers subsided into a deep
and uncomfortable silence.—Harper’s
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