Miscellaneous Prose

Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith gathers an introduction to W. M. Thackeray's The Four Georges, A Pause in the Strife, Concession to the Celt, Leslie Stephen, and letters written from the seat of war in Italy. The introduction says William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray.

A piece on politics says that to this extent Mr. Gladstone has not been defeated, and that the question set on fire by him will never be extinguished until the combustible matter has gone to ashes. One report calls five divisions the avant garde of the main body of the Italian army and says that, contrary to all expectations, Angioletti's division was allowed to enter and occupy Castellucchio without firing a shot. A report dated Marseilles, July 24, says that after almost hourly bulletins of the progress of hostilities in Italy it is a trying condition to be suddenly debarred of all intelligence.