Aet. 46, to an American heiress, now a British aristocrat. Edmund Gosse’s article “Turgenev and Tolstoy” appeared in the North American Review (New York, Volume 168, Number 507, February 1899, pages 158–168) including a letter by Turgenev about War and Peace.
George Moore read Constance Garnett’s recent translation of Turgenev’s novel On the Eve (London: William Heinemann, 1898). His conversation with Gosse about Turgenev was reprised in Chapters 5-7 of Avowals (1919).
At the Leeds Festival on Thursday, 6 October 1898, George watched
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford conduct Cherubini’s Anacreon Overture and Palestrina’s Sabat Mater (in Liszt’s orchestral arrangement).
The previous night Edward Elgar attended the premiere of his cantata Caractacus; George recalled in Chapter 6 of Salve (1912) that this event formed his first impression of the English composer.
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