A NOVELIST'S DEATH.
'(Press .Asan.-^By Tfelegraph-^jopyright) i " LONDON, May 18. ■ .George .Meredith, they navelif-t, is dead, i ' j ; (Received May 19, 8.40 a.m.) .. Mr Meredith died Ht Boxliill. He was ill lot threo days from jjl chill. resiiH i n j» irr heart failure. He died' in tho presence of his son and x daugliterl Mr George Meredith was />ver 79 years oi .age, and has been clescribed nfs the most cryptic/ brilliant* and epigrammatic of modern novelists. Ho was president .of the Society 0% . Authors, and was venerated by ajl litterateur?. Ho 'published his % s fir*t booltv of poelns 54 " years ago (find his most- famous novel, "The Ordeal of Richav<L Feverel," m 1858. -■ ■ ::■,-'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11854, 19 May 1909, Page 5
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115A NOVELIST'S DEATH. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11854, 19 May 1909, Page 5
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