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Identifier: georgemeredithin00hamm (find matches)
Title: George Meredith in anecdote and criticism
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir, 1871-1949
Subjects: Meredith, George, 1828-1909
Publisher: London, G. Richards New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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touch with the master who sought to give
a fictive setting to the fantastic love-story of Lassalle and Helena
von Doënniges, for he writes thus in ' Views and Reviews ':
Opinions differ, and there are those, I believe, to whom Alvan
and Clotilde von Rüdiger— ' acrobats of the affections ' they have
been called—are pleasant companions, and the story of those feats
in the gymnastics of sentimentalism in which they lived to shine
is the prettiest reading imaginable. But others not so fortunate,
or, to be plain, more honestly obtuse, persist in finding that story
tedious, and the bewildering appearances it deals with, not human
beings—not of the stock of Rose Jocelyn and Sir Everard Romfrey,
of Dahlia Fleming and Lucy Feverel and Richmond Roy—but
creatures of gossamer and rainbow, phantasms of spiritual romance,
abstractions of remote, dispiriting points in sexual philosophy.

Mr. W. L. Courtney, in the Fortnightly, was even more em-
phatic; but it is curious to note how a book that leaves one critic

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DR. ALVAN
(Ferdinand Lassalle)
The unhappy love story of the famous Jewish leader of German
Liberalism and Helena von Doënniges, is the theme of ' The
Tragic Comuedians,' where Lassalle figures as Dr. Alvan.

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