1899 Periodical Publications

Table of Contents

25 January 1899

27 January 1899

1 February 1899

17 March 1899

1 May 1899

12 May 1899

20 September 1899

25 January 1899

Daily Chronicle

“Mr. George Moore Replies”

Long letter defending Yeats’s The Countess Cathleen and Martyn’s The Heather Field as well as answering William Archer’s 20 January 1899 article, “Mr. George Moore as a Drama Critic.” Archer replied 26 January 1899 and Yeats entered the controversy 30 January 1899 with a letter, “Mr. Moore, Mr. Archer and the Literary Theatre.”

27 January 1899

Daily Chronicle

“A Valediction”

Letter in reply to Archer’s 26 January 1899 letter..

1 February 1899

Mercure de France

“Les Conditions actuelles de I’Art Dramatique en Angleterre”

Translation by H.D. Davray of GM’s “Introduction” to The Heather Field and Maeve (B8).

17 March 1899

The Phoenix

“On the Difficulty of Buying Pictures”

1 May 1899

Beltaine

“The Heather Field”

Three paragraphs of GM’s “Introduction” to The Heather Field and Maeve (B8).

12 May 1899

Daily Express (Dublin)

“Irish Literary Theatre — Dinner at the Shelbourne Hotel — Interesting Speeches”

Full account of dinner given by the Express’s editor, T.P. Gill, including GM’s enthusiastic and extended remarks. An extract from the talk reprinted in The Irish Literary Theatre 1899 – 1901 edited by Robert Hogan and James Kilroy, Dublin, and Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 1975. A summary of the talk was given by GM in section IV of Ave (A3l:l-a).

30 September 1899

Daily Express (Dublin)

“Vers. Pour le Portrait de Helene Froment par Rubens”

Verse, dated “The Hague, 1899”. Reprinted, untitled, in chapter IX of first edition only of The Lake (A27 a); and later as “Pour un Tableau de Rubens” in the fourth (second Brentano Uniform) and subsequent editions of Confessions of a Young Man (AI2-d et seq).