GEORGE MOORE.
George Moore, in a preface to a newly issued novel (a new version of Ms first and unsuccessful one), says : "It is the. story that counts. Style, the selection of the words, even the presentation of character, are secondary gifts, of a sort that may be acquired or developed. But the storyteller comes into the world fully equipped _ almost from the first, finding stories wherever he goes almost as instinctively as the reaper in the cornfield discovers melodies that the professor of counterpoint and harmony strives after vainly in the university.-' In writing' this latest story, he says "The composition flowed on steadily and easily, guided by the anecdote; descriptions and dialogue rolled themselves into my secretary's notebook like a siimmer sea over which a long white strand with here and there a rock around which the tide swirled day afted days of fifteen luindred. two thousand, sometimes two thousand five hundred words in the day."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16227, 24 March 1917, Page 3
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158GEORGE MOORE. Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16227, 24 March 1917, Page 3
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