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Aet. 37, to an American novelist whose latest was Basil Morton’s Transgression (1890). In “Literature and Art” (Hawk. 7 January 1890) George Moore reviewed books by Gertrude Atherton, Clara Lanza and Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy. His vignette, “The End of Marie Pellegrin”, would soon appear under the generic title of “Notes and Sensations” (Hawk, 11 March 1890) and under its own title as Chapter 4 of Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906). Years earlier, George’s friend Paul Alexis published a novel La Fin de Lucie Pellegrin (1880), which was dramatized in the 1890s by the Independent Theater Society in London, where George was a member. Marie and Lucie were the same person. George’s “new book” (in progress) was Vain Fortune (1891). He recently vented his frustration with English hypocrisy in “There Are Many Roads to Rome” (Hawk, 5 December 1889). Edward Heron-Allen published his “Social America. From a British Point of View” (Hawk, 21 January-25 February 1890) under the pseudonym of “D. o’D.”