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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.'
orhampton
efields
e Vortex'
)rning '
- Henry Bissell
horstein
of. Little
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.
- Workers in the Dawn,' by G. G.
4 New Grub Street,' 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.
