DEATH OF GEORGE MACDONALD.
LONDON". September 10. Dr. Oorjrp Maedonald. the well-known ; novel iit. L« dead. f George Macdona-ld was well into the sc:ir and yellow leaf, having been bora no les-s than XI years ajro. For a brief period an Independent minister, he soon retired, and turned to the wrfitin<r of fiction. His novef> —«eh a,s "David Elgini oEit-t- pjpnlari. ""The. M.irqui- of Lorr-ie"' and "Sir Gibbic" — enjoyed a vojrne wiiich has somewhat declined in later years. That lesser and feebler -writers have achieved more popularity in thes*- last days has bwi duo to a certain Hterary eon«;ifntiousness in George Macdonald, which nevertheless was not enough to place him with the ; very tir?t even of his contemporaries. Dr. Macdonald was also the writer of some never bad. and never conspicuously good-, verse. J
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 225, 20 September 1905, Page 5
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