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Show I FAVORS LIMITED MARRIAGE fll I I Gcorgo Meredith, tho English novelist, who (),Hi "Tyi? has just celobrated his eightieth birthday, is ono Jfi m. of tll 1)081 oxnn,nlos of pertinacity. Early in life I "4Ks."V no dotormlned to becomo a llternry man, nnd ho was onI" 23 wnon 1,0 Published his first volumo of Jv sJW' J P00"18, T,,y nttrnctod practically no nttontlon, "qtj. . but tho nuthor kept on, turning out both poetry JJ) nnd proso unt"' a,tor raoro t,ma 30 years ,lartl work, the public was forced to recognlzo his fl -J JWto 11 wns 11,8 novo1 "Dlana f tho Crosswnys," '' I miV that mado nlm 'al"0UB. It was published In 188D, ln '8t 34 ycr,rs nftor "Is first book. Then peoplo rf(raKvi ll csan to roni1 n'8 ear"r woiks, of which thoro iV JmmwtS woro slnco tnon Meredith has been turning 'f.'u.-- rAWv" out about ono book a yoar until 1897, when he " ' . , , dropped his work almost cntlroly. On his soventieth anniversary hq' Was presented with a lottor of appreciation signed W . . by 30 of tho leading l(torary"inen and women of tho United Kingdom. On his eightieth birthday thoro wero over 100. signatures to tho lettor Bont him. It was In book form, handaomoly bound, nnd tho novelists, poots nnd scholar! . whoso, names werp not attached to it did not bolong to tho first class, It was a tribute from his fellow workers Buch us Is soldora paid to nn nuthor. Meredith scandalized tho world n llttlo ovor threo years ago by declar-. declar-. ing in favor of limited marrlago. In a sensational intorvlow ho predicted n stato of society permitting mnrrlngos for certain llmltod porlods, tho state enforcing en-forcing a provision of inonoy during that period to provldo for and educato children, tho government possibly taking chnrgo of this fund. Mr. Meredith is a widower and hns a son and a daughter. Ho Is a great reador, especially of French lltorature. Ho used to bo fond of long walks. Ho lives at Iloxhlll, Surrey. Hlu studio is a two-roomed chalot In tho higher part of tho grounds surtoundlng his houso. f. . . |