SIMPLE CHARACTER.
Much more might have been said, Mr. Fisher continued, and perhaps much more should have been said, of this simple, direct, and most lovable character, for the innumerable readers of Galsworthy's plays and novels could seldom have stopped short of affection for the man whose own rare gifts of sympathy and' compassion shone so, strongly through all his works,' Professor Gilbert Murray said Galsworthy Was a lifelong friend for whose art and character he had a profound admiration.' ■ . The Poet Laureate, Mr. John Masefield, in unveiling the tablet,- said he had neve* known tenderness for the penniless .and distressed and heartbroken in so marked a degree in any other human . being.1 He recalled the change1 which came over Galsworthy when at the age of twenty-four' or twenty-five he ceased to care for ;the killing of animals for pleasure. A college porter, who met him afterwards, said: "Mr. Galsworthy, I should have known you anywhere except for your waistcoats, which are not what they were."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 26
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166SIMPLE CHARACTER. Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 26
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