Show Noted Novelist Dead London George George Meredith the i English novelist died May 18 the immediate immediate im im- im mediate cause of death bein being heart failure following an illness which began began began be be- gan several days day previous George Meredith was born in Hampshire February 12 1828 On the occasion of his eightieth birthday he was showered with congratulations from all parts of the world world and was visited by a deputation headed by Anthony Hope and presented with an address signed by Algernon Charles Swin Swin- burne Thomas Hardy John Morley 1 and mOte more than a hundred leaders Inart in inart inart art letters and scholarship Mr Merdith's Meredith's Merediths Merediths Meredith's Mer- Mer Mer Mer- edith's first poems appeared in 1851 J |