Aet. 36, to his brother. George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man was reviewed by William Sharp in the Academy (17 March 1888); he disliked Chapter 9. Serialization of George’s novel Spring Days began on 3 April 1888 in the Evening News. “The Squire” was Harry Bridger, father of George’s friend Colvill in Freshcombe Lodge. “The World’s Amusements” would eventually be published as Mike Fletcher (1889). Various country houses that turned up in George’s fiction around this time were inspired by Harry Bridger’s Buckingham House. Augustus Moore filed for divorce from his first wife in June 1888. James Davis committed a series of libels in the Bat that drove him into bankruptcy and exile. The Bat finally collapsed on 28 February 1888; its successor the Hawk launched on 7 February 1888 with many of the same contributers. Maurice Moore’s biography of George Henry Moore was published in 1913.
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