Aet. 39, to his mother. In the Athenaeum (25 July 1891), the leading article concluded: “Any critic who, recognizing Mr. George Moore’s talent, and believing that his intellectual shortcomings are due to carelessness, not inability, and will disappear, anticipates a noteworthy future for him [and] must needs wish that he should put away all that is less than worthy of an eminent career.” George was now working on his novel Esther Waters (1894), arguably his greatest achievement. His brother Maurice Moore returned after four years military service in India late in 1891 and was then stationed in Boyle until May 1897.
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