Show Noted Novelist Dead < t London George Meredith the English novelist died May 18 the lam mediate cause of death being heart failure following an Illness which beg be-g n several days preyjous I George Meredith was born In Hampshire February 12 1S28 On the occasion I of his eightieth birthday he was showered with congratulations from all parts of the world and was visited by a deputation headed by Anthony Hope and presented with an address signed by Algernon Charles Swln Jburne Thomas Hardy John Morley and more than a hundred leaders In art letters and scholarship Mr Mar ediths first poems appeared In 1851 |