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Aet. 39, to an American novelist. Gleeson White wrote of George Moore’s Impressions and Opinions (1891): ’’One regards you as an important force in English letters today, and one destined to be taken seriously in the near future, if not in fiction, at least in critical exegesis; for among those who write on art topics today, there are few if any who are so sane and lucid in their utterance” (Letters to Eminent Hands: To Wit…., 1892, page 29). Max Beerbohm wrote: “No one but Ruskin has written more vividly than he, more lovingly and seeingly, about the art of painting; and no one has ever written more inspiringly than he, with a more infectious enthusiasm, about those writers whom he understood and loved, or more amusingly against those whom he neither understood nor liked” (“George Moore”, Atlantic Monthly, 1 December 1950). John W. Lovell (1851-1932) was a New York mass-market publisher; Scribner’s became the American publisher of Impressions and Opinions (1891).