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Show Meredith and Lady Macbeth. Lady Butcher in her "Memories of George Meredith," recently published, gives the world not a little new information infor-mation about the novelist which is Doth significant and extremely entertaining. enter-taining. Here is one of the passages she quotes from her diary which shows his amazing power to paint with woi'dr, : "M. Meredith went with father and ine to see Irving and .Mrs. Crowe (nee Baterrwn) in 'Macbeth.' During sup-ptr sup-ptr hf explained the acting of the sleep-wf.lking scene to mother, and wishing to describe the way that Lady Macbeth pushed the palms of her hands from nose to eor, he said: 'My dear Mrs. Brandreth, Tinnsure you that she came through her hands like a corpse stricken with mania In the act of resurrection' 1" From "Book Gos- i sip." |