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NOTES AND QUERIES.

269

IFE

OF HENRY MAITLAND GEORGE GISSING.

(12 S. v. 151.)

the above reference MB. DE V. PAYEN- YNE says he would like to have a key to

Morley Roberts's 'Life of Henry Mait- d,' which is reputed to represent the life the late George Gissing. I can assure . PAYEN-PAYNE that that book does hfully represent the life of that unfor- ,ate man of genius, but as nearly all the

Name in ' The Private Life of Henry Maitland.'

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proper names in it are disguised under other names it is rather difficult to know who is meant in places. However, as no one has as yet supplied a key to the book I beg to suggest some twenty identifications for a start, and if any one can correct me or suggest other identifications I shall be very pleased. Any one familiar with publishing houses and publisher's readers could easily identify another dozen disguised names.

A mystery meets us on the title page, which reads : " The Private Life of Henry Maitland, a record dictated by J. H., revised and edited by Morley Roberts." Who is J. H. ? I take it the book is entirely written by Morley Roberts, and identify the following :

Reed Name

of. Henry Parker

he Exile '

e Rev. Mr. Wolff

hildren of the Dawn '

aternoster Row '

oughton

irold Edgeworth

asil' ... m

he Meditations of Mark Sumner

he Mob ' ...

hn Harley

lydon

he Underworld'

tmerton's

label '

H. Rivers

ubilee'

he Beat of All Things '

he Unchosen'

utside the Pale '

orge Hardy

ford

Ida Moon

ictorian Novelists '

Manchester.

Wakefield.

' The Whirlpool,' by G. G.

'A Life's Morning.' by G. G.

Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, F.R.S.

Prof. Carl Schorlemmer, F.R.S.

Prof. Joseph G. Greenwood, LL.D., Principal of Owen's College.

Thomas Parker, M.A., Professor of Mathematics.

(These four were at Owen's College, Manchester, in 1876.)

' Born in Exile,' by G. G.

Either the Rev. Wm. Gaskell, M.A., or the Rev. S. A. Steinthal, M.A., Ministers of Cross Street Unitarian Chapel at Man- chester in 1876.

4 New Grub Street,' by G. 'G.
 * Workers in the Dawn,' by G. G.

Whelpdale. (A Character in * New Grub Street.') Mr. Frederic Harrison.


 * Veranilda,' by G. G.

4 The Private Papers of Henry Ryecrof t,' by G. G.

' Demos,' by G. G.

Mr. John Morley.

Reardon. (A Character in ' New Grub Street.')

' The Nether World ' by G. G.

Remington & Co. Publishers.

4 Isabel Clarendon,' by G. G.

Mr. G. H. Wells.

4 In the Year of Jubilee,' by G. G.

The Crown of Life,' by G. G.

4 The Unclassed,' by G. G.

Ditto.

Godwin Peak. (A Character in ' Born in Exile.') Biffen. (A Character in ' New Grub Street.') Ida Starr. (A Character in 'The Unclassed.') ' Charles Dickens : a Critical Study,' by G. G.

Just one more point. In my copy of he Unclassed,' by George Gissing, pub- led by Sidgwick & Jackson, p. 145, the [oine, Ida Starr, washes herself pure of her s in the sea at midnight, or rather 1 A.M., Hastings. Now, in ' The Private Life Henry Maitland,' by Morley Roberts, it ,tes (p. 165) that George Meredith, who

was the reader for the publishers who first published * The Unclassed,' compelled Mait- land to eliminate that passage, and it is missing in the published book. There is evidently a discrepancy somewhere. Per- haps the passage was restored in a subsequent- edition.

G. A. P.